Sentences with phrase «odd feature films»

He did it time after time, across 50 - odd feature films and with a consistent presence on the New York...

Not exact matches

With choppy editing, and odd camera movements, this feels more like a hyperkinetic Music Video rather than a feature film.

Though Charlie Kaufman's own 2013 feature project (the odd Hollywood - set musical Frank or Francis) is delayed indefinitely, his frequent collaborators Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry each have films due this year.

The real value of the documentary from Douglas McGrath lies in charting Nichols» creative trajectory from the staging and improvisation lessons learned with comedy partner Elaine May, through collaborations with playwright Neil Simon on «Barefoot in the Park» and «The Odd Couple,» and the director's first two feature films, both legendary — «Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?»

Extras include the Original Theatrical Trailer featured on the DVD, but the nearly 10 - minutes - long vintage featurette on the making of the film with Crichton being interviewed and the pilot episode of the ill - fated and odd Beyond Westworld TV series are the new extras.

The film is Anderson's best live - action feature — his best feature, period — since Rushmore, in part because, like that film, it takes as its primary subject matter odd, precocious children, rather than the damaged and dissatisfied adults they will one day become.

Released in 1995, mere months after the fan favorite In The Mouth Of Madness, Village Of The Damned is an odd duck, a bad film that never comes close to working as horror, but which features enough unusual touches and flourishes of staging to put it several notches above dismissible.

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

On the other hand, almost all of his 50 - odd suspense films feature the same consistent excellence.

What I find odd is that the special features are in full 1080p, when the film is only 1080i.

In the 1960s, his feature film debut, he plays the haunted and pale Boo Radley in To Kill A Mocking Bird; in the 1970s he immortalized his love for the smell of napalm in the morning as a general who like to surf and plays Wagner when going into battle; in the 1980s he plays a quiet, down - on - his - luck country singer who does odd jobs for room and board while trying to put his life back together; and in the 1990s his turn as the bombastic Apostle E.F. might just be the best single performance of that decade.

He also had the good fortune to work with some of the best film composers in the business, ranging from John Barry to Jerry Goldsmith to Ennio Morricone... to Maurice Jarre, for his 1971 western Red Sun, which features the somewhat odd story of a Japenese ambassador who has his priceless samurai sword stolen and so much enlist the help of a gunman - Charles Bronson - to recover it.

Heterosexual entanglements are followed by homosexual ones (featuring Sting), and the film becomes an odd dither of seductions and secret flings.

In the feature commentary, he does occasionally mention the odd production fact (including the controversy surrounding the various adjustments they had to do to their pristine location), but for the most part he addresses general thematic issues in the film — issues that are quite obvious and don't necessarily need to be pointed out.

Mathieu Amalric, Jodie Foster, James Franco and Guillaume Canet are among the actors - turned - directors who've had films featured at the festival in recent years, and it could be that their ranks are joined this time around by Ryan Gosling — the star, who featured at the festival in «Drive» and «Only God Forgives,» has stepped behind the camera for odd fable «How To Catch A Monster,» and it could well be a dark horse to feature somewhere in the lineup.

Other films that we admire, but didn't quite make the cut included Alison Mclean «s «Jesus» Son» featuring awesome performances by Billy Crudup and Samatha Morton as drug - addict adult - lescents in the 1970s, Stephen Daldry «s celebratory boyhood - meets - ballet drama, «Billy Elliot,» Lars Von Trier's comedic docu - like dogme film «Idioterne» («The Idiots,» made in 1998 but only released in the U.S. in 2000), Steven Soderbergh «s economic and no - nonsense «Erin Brockovich,» Stephen Frears «manchild, record store - centered love story, «High Fidelity,» Terence Davies ««The House of Mirth» featuring an excellent Gillian Anderson turn, and perhaps Neil LaBute «s best film, tellingly one he didn't write, the dreamy and odd, «Nurse Betty.»

There's an odd sense of deja vu to Bruce LaBruce's latest provocation, recalling not just some of his own prior joints (notably 2004's «The Raspberry Reich») but tongue - in - cheek fantasies of much earlier films featuring the overthrow of patriarchy — the nearly half - century - old likes of John Waters» «Desperate Living» and the Warhol - Morrissey «Women in Revolt,» in -LSB-...]

There's an odd sense of deja vu to Bruce LaBruce's latest provocation, recalling not just some of his own prior joints (notably 2004's «The Raspberry Reich») but tongue - in - cheek fantasies of much earlier films featuring the overthrow of patriarchy — the nearly half - century - old likes of John Waters» «Desperate Living» and the Warhol - Morrissey «Women in Revolt,» in particular.

Extras include an illustrated paper foldout on the film including informative text and an essay by novelist Megan Abbott, New interviews with Coppola, DP Ed Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson, The Making of «The Virgin Suicides» (1998 documentary directed by Eleanor Coppola) featuring Sofia Coppola; Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola; actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods; Eugenides; and more, Lick the Star, a 1998 short film by Coppola, the official (and odd) music video for Air's soundtrack song «Playground Love,» directed and shot by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola and an Original Theatrical Trailer.

It's an angst - ridden, sometimes contrived film, but it features Paul Reiser on a motorcycle, a full - blown meltdown from Mary Steenburgen, and the odd pairing of Bell and Ed Helms as husband and wife.

Think of it as a mix between «Starsky and Hutch» and «The Odd Couple», except it's raunchier and features some exciting car - chase scenes, staged with skill by Shepard himself, who also wrote and directed the film.

Not to disappoint, this film also features such time - honored classic clichés like the killer that seemingly is able to keep pace with someone running full speed while he is merely walking briskly (just once I'd like to see a psychopath who drives everywhere), the scared teen bumping into someone they think is the killer when it clearly is a coat rack, the killer that insists on using some odd instrument of death when a gun would do the job ten times more efficiently, and the ending that sets up the sequel should this one prove a financial success.

Basic Instinct 2 walks the odd fine line of being a sequel — it features a character from a previous film — and yet also wishing to be a stand - alone movie.

The third feature film from the director of Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre looks every bit as quirky and odd as his previous flicks... maybe even moreso.

Whiplash is only the second feature film by director Damien Chazelle, and therefore isn't perfectly polished with a few odd moments and a weak subplot involving a girl Andrew is pursuing.

This is a shame since the film features a meaty, ambitious plot, colorful (if overly odd) characters, and breathtaking animation.