Sentences with phrase «odd years my films»

Not exact matches

Eklund, on the heels of a controversial, year - long stint in California as an adult film star under the name Tag Eriksson, got to work taking odd jobs and hawking paninis outside the set of David Letterman's Late Show.

This year, the creative, controversial filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino took home an Oscar for best foreign film (for his very odd but very beautiful La Grande Bellezza) and now he's setting his sights on the small screen.

There's also the priest, who had an affair years ago and fathered a bastard child whom Jack meets, but the secret really serves no purpose save for making the priest a man who understands the psychological trauma in harboring dark secrets — a clichéd archetype in better films such as Odd Man Out (1947), or rendered more interminable in clunkers like Prayer for the Dying (1987).

The urgency might seem odd for a film about events of almost 50 years ago, but for the parallels with today's tussle over history in all its drafts, first, second and final.

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.

Overall, the mix is well done and breathes new life into this near 30 year - old film, but it's still odd that the original mono track wasn't thrown in for good measure.

This is one of many sequences of visual ambition and tone in Under The Skin, the most excitingly odd film to arrive this year.

One of the oddest, most thoughtful and certainly ambitious film screening at this year's Toronto Film Festival is certainly Jaco van Dormael's Mr. Nobody.

The sort - of superpower helps him get together with Mary (Rachel McAdams), an American with an odd obsession with Kate Moss, and the film takes us a few years into their relationship — with some bumps to negotiate, naturally.

We started with one of this year's Razzie firsts, THE EMOJI MOVIE being the first animated film to vie for the worst picture award before moving on to the industry's love - hate relationship with Rotten Tomatoes; Adam Sandler's opinion of his fans; how Wilson has dealt with a steady diet of bad films for the last 38 years; the odd timing of FIFTY SHADES FREED's release; and who the Razzies consider to be fair game.

Despite all the famous character actor faces in The Odd Life of Timothy Green (Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, Diane Wiest, M. Emmet Walsh, David Morse, Common...), the true star of the film is, perhaps not surprisingly, the titular twelve - year - old boy...

The story, with its opposing elements of character drama and action, is blended so well that, as I said before, it feels like an old Hollywood film from some 60 - odd years ago.

Between Refn's direction and Ryan Gosling's performance in the lead, it is one of the oddest good films of the year.

Charlie Kaufman, the writer of «Being John Malkovich» and «Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,» made his directorial debut with the thorny «Synecdoche, New York» seven years ago, and his second film (a collaboration with Duke Johnson) is a stop - motion animation production that sounds just as odd and intriguing as his past work.

Unfortunately this means that there's only fifteen minutes or so at the end to deal with the forty - odd year career in film, which means that masterpieces like «Shock Corridor» and «The Naked Kiss» are mostly passed over, with only his opus «The Big Red One» getting a fair shake.

The Odd Life of Timothy Green must rank among last year's most publically recommended films, but I can not in good faith add my voice to the chorus of admirers.

It's an odd gambit to release both of these films in the same year, especially when the original, The Lego Movie, was famously snubbed in this category.

For a film that covers 20 years so hastily, it's odd how enervated One Day is.

This year there were very films that I would consider average which is beyond odd.

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.

Aliens — It's an odd year indeed when Top Gun isn't even the best action film of the year, but that's the case this year when the competition is perhaps the single greatest action movie of all - time.

Or just another set of odd and interesting Globes films this year?

Although not quite as sharp and clever as the aforementioned Heckerling vehicle, Clueless, I Could Never Be Your Woman (its rather odd choice for a title is derived from a lyric to the 1997 White Town song, «Your Woman», covered by Tyler James in 2005, the same year this was filmed), is actually quite inventive in its own fashion, with Heckerling drawing upon her own experience in being an older woman working in a youth - oriented industry, making entertainment meant to appeal to people about 30 years her junior.

One of the stranger films of a year of strange films, Personal Shopper is a ghost story mystery by way of Olivier Assayas, an odd combination on the face of things that turns out something akin to magical.

For years, Ken Russell made a name for himself as a journeyman director on British television, but in an odd twist, James Bond co-producer Harry Saltzman signed him for his theatrical film directorial debut.

The choice of football as a theme (this is the claymation equivalent of One Million Years B.C. meets Escape to Victory) was obviously designed to appeal to children and general audiences alike, although its European flavour perhaps explains the film's underperformance in North America, and does give Early Man a very odd balance of elements.

However, that's an odd bauble for a major Oscar player to secure; the only two films in the festival's 73 - year history to win the Golden Lion and go on to a best picture nomination are Louis Malle's «Atlantic City» and Ang Lee's «Brokeback Mountain.»

6:00 pm — TCM — The Odd Couple Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau have made a lot of movies together over the years, and this mismatched buddy film (written by Neil Simon) remains one of the best, as neatnik Felix (Lemmon) and slob Oscar (Matthau) become roommates and try not to drive each other nuts.

Does it strike anyone as especially odd that nearly all of the films released this year by Paramount Pictures have dealt with encounters with alien life form with potentially catastrophic results for mankind as a whole?

A modestly odd year in film has begotten an odder - still awards season.

I wasn't expecting a last - minute twist of the sort that he painted himself into a corner with years ago, but in fact the film concludes with something decidedly odder — a throwaway coda in which a former Shyamalan star ruefully turns up to acknowledge an allusion to one of MNS's earlier movies.

Paramount Pictures just released the latest movie trailer for the upcoming film «The Fighter» by director David O. Russell (I Heart Huckabees, Three Kings) and starring Christian Bale (The Dark Knight, Terminator Salvation), Mark Wahlberg (The Odd Life of Timothy Green, The Other Guys) and Amy Adams (Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can, Leap Year).

In one of those odd confluences of timing, McQueen's movie opens after two other films this year — Fruitvale Station and Lee Daniels» The Butler — that examine race in America from numerous angles, measuring strides taken and distances to be covered.

Director George Miller, who helmed the original Mad Max back in 1979, has a short but strangely eclectic mix of credits that range from a trio of Max films to the heartfelt Lorenzo's Oil and the 2009 animated kid - romp Happy Feet, has managed to resurrect his creation 30 - some - odd years later.

In the 15 - odd years since he started acting — on a whim after seeing a flyer for a sketch comedy group while walking across his college campus — he's starred in a long - running, much - beloved network sitcom, landed supporting roles alongside some of Hollywood's heaviest hitters, become a bona fide leading man in an action film, and donned both a writer's and director's hat.

Additionally, even with the gender roles reversed from the 1987 original, it seems like an odd comedy to be remade, especially in 2018; this has been a year of discussions around consent and rape culture and other weighty topics that it's hard not to notice this icky cloud hanging over everything as the film progresses.

Offering films from around the world and at home, from indie and cult to classic favs and the odd new (ish) release as well as hosting gala events throughout the year, there is always something to see that you may not otherwise see at your regular picture house.

Practically since its inception in 2001, this category has been an odd hodgepodge of family fare and more serious films that just happen to be drawn — and this year looks to be no exception.

Written and directed by Bryan Poyser, the film starts with an odd scene with a middle - aged white guy, Rudy (Chris Doubek), washing himself with a hose as his wife of 12 years, Diana (Heather Kafka) has thrown him out of the house, and he is living in his Ford Escort in Austin.

I find the decision to release the game more than half a year before the final film odd, since it's essentially an incomplete game that you won't be able to finish until the film trilogy concludes.