Sentences with phrase «of early film»

«I wanted to recall some of them because I think they're the foundation of early film.

Those festival guests who missed the Capellani films missed, in my opinion, the rewriting of early film history.

As one of the early film awards events of the season — and a venue where attendees already know they've won — the New York Film Critics Circle awards is a fine opportunity to see leading Oscar contenders try out their speech material.

For fans of early film comedy, this discovery is roughly the equivalent of Moby Dick swimming ashore carrying the Holy Grail.»

Otto Preminger's Where The Sidewalk Ends (Twilight Time, Blu - ray) reunites the stars from his breakthrough film Laura (1944), the most elegant of early film noirs, for a more streetwise cop drama with a bare - knuckle attitude.

What makes After Midnight more than just another ménage à trois (in homage to Truffaut) is the way Ferrario, who also writes about movies, weaves the allure of early film into a contemporary story, shot with the latest high - definition technology.

The best of his early film assignments was in the title role of The Little Minister (1934), in which his easily outraged Scottish piety didn't stand a chance opposite hoydenish Katharine Hepburn.

James Mitchell Crowe writes about the somewhat exciting decay of celluloid materials, mentioning the spontaneous ignition of early film tapes...

And many of these early films reflected the values that I cared deeply about, and I still do.

I had seen a number of his earlier films at Paris Cinematheque and was very curious to get to know a real - live Soviet artist.

Remember the innocence of those early films, when the plot could pirouette on who would win the end - of - term match of airborne racquetball?

After a detour into lighter and more compassionate fare with Nurse Betty and Possession, Neil LaBute returns to the themes of his earlier films with this dark and corrosive look at male - female relationships.

Shoplifters is a return to the family - centered drama of those earlier films after a dip into genre with The Third Murder.

Listen to how he describes better framing for one of his earlier films or the seductive, slow buildup of information in the famous CARRIE prom scene and you'll find yourself in the presence of a man who has earned his unmistakable hubris.

Inactive in films from 1941 to 1952, Ernest Vajda returned with his screenplay for Fox's The Stars and Stripes Forever, which, though entertaining, was far removed from the worldly sophistication of his earlier films.

Frankenheimer looked to the paintings of Andrew Wyeth for inspiration, and the hard edges and muscular camerawork of his earlier films gave way to tableaus of unadorned Americana.

Saddled as she is with Rushdie's hazy historical signposting, there's little excuse for Mehta's flat visual style, particularly given the sensory vividness of her earlier films.

In lieu of the earlier film's dreamlike expressive effects, Disobedience puts an uncommon faith in concisions of acting and editing (including a wordless, believable montage of grief), and in loaded moments and changes in point of view that would probably play differently on a second viewing.

Speaking of which, Assassin is credited to an American guy named Robert Houston, but is actually a combination of earlier films directed by Kenji Misumi.

From the melodrama of the earlier films, Cowie distills Kurosawa's visual style and touching characterisations, finding «the flair of [a Sergei] Eisenstein» in No Regrets (p. 58), the sentiment of Frank Capra in One Wonderful Sunday (p. 59), something of «Bergman's youthful vision of the world» in Drunken Angel (p. 60), and a «meticulous creation of the urban milieu» in Scandal (p. 71).

By placing at the centre of the narrative a white woman who believes she belongs to the land, against a set of people who see her presence as oppressive and who want to brutalise her, yet who also carry out acts of violence against one another, Denis returns to the core themes of her earlier films (such as Chocolat, 1988)-- the highly problematic issues inherent in the processes of colonisation and decolonisation (2).

Baumbach's consistent and consistently enjoyable works remind one of the earlier films of Wes Anderson, with whom he co-wrote The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Fantastic Mr. Fox.

I guess another characteristic which unites them over some of the earlier films would be their tendency to focus on the slackers and other more subdued outcasts from society.

Echoes of the earlier films and their original source abound: the sexual triangle, the working - girl protagonist, the social settings, and so on.

(35) For Jodorowsky, the film drew upon his own childhood memories of the circus, and his «terrible» relationship with his mother, who allegedly tried to live through him and with whom he had little physical affection; characters with dominating or pseudo-incestual maternal relationships have figured into virtually all of his earlier films.

Wonderfully theatrical in conceit and frequently beautiful to look at, Archangel is nevertheless choppy and listless in pace, and has little of the surrealist zing of the earlier film (Tales from the Gimli Hospital).

My mom enjoyed it, though she misses the «fun» aspect of the earlier films, and isn't sure where they will take the story now.

Lelio is already making in - roads into Hollywood with another English - language movie coming out later this year called Disobedience, starring Rachels Weisz and Rachel McAdams, and he's also filming an English - language remake of his earlier film Gloria with Julianne Moore in the title role.

Sweet, slight and fitfully funny, it's a movie admirers of the earlier films should mildly enjoy, but cast in terms any new parent can understand, isn't worth the price of a sitter.

Although conceived and written by Miyazaki, the film was actually directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, and the inimitable magic of the earlier films isn't quite there.

This is compelling, and commensurate with the Han Solo of the earlier films.

I had been worried when a director I didn't particularly like was hired to make one of the earlier films, and somehow his work turned out to mesh well with all the other films.

«Mary Reilly» is in some ways more faithful to the spirit of Robert Lewis Stevenson's original story than any of the earlier films based on it, because it's true to the underlying horror.

But curiously, Whannell (who scripted both prior «Insidious» films, as well as the Wan - directed «Saw» and «Dead Silence») sidelines those amiable folks for much of «Chapter 3,» which takes place «a few years» before the events of the earlier films.

A handful of earlier films had examined (for some, exploited) juvenile delinquency but these productions, such as Youth Runs Wild (Mark Robson, 1944) and I Accuse My Parents (Sam Newfield, 1945), had been low budget efforts of smaller studios.

Gregg Araki was one of the biggest names in the New Queer Cinema movement, and of his early films, Totally F *** ed Up is probably the best example of this.

And at 142 minutes, Luhrmann doesn't do us any favors by prolonging the narrative almost 30 minutes longer than the longest of the earlier films.

Of the more than 40 films he's directed this century, I've only seen a handful, but Yakuza Apocalypse is firmly in the tradition of earlier films like Sukiyaki Western Django, 13 Assassins and his remake of the Maskai Kobayashi classic Harakiri in their critique of the psychotic masculinity that underlies the ideology of Japanese action narratives.

But the lack of vigor is most clearly felt when Nemesis tries to crib a trick or two from some of the earlier films with the intention of wrenching a few hearts.

The subjective tendencies of Bertolucci's films have always been evident, but Luna provides a perspective from which we can more fully grasp the dynamics of the earlier films that groped so eloquently for a vision that somehow always ended up out of reach.

With cinematographer Jakob Ihre, Trier decided to use anamorphic lenses instead of the more naturalistic spherical lenses of his earlier films.

Consolidating the themes of the early films — individualism, selfishness, pubs, ultraviolence — and adding all kinds of new concerns, it's also the most technically accomplished film of the three, Wright taking the Hollywood tricks he picked up on «Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World» and bringing them to a commuter - belt British new town with a secret.

Filmmaker Sally Potter combines the experimental tools and feminist approach of her earlier films with art - house style and more conventional narrative storytelling to find the cinematic counterpart to Virginia Woolf's writing in this 1992 adaptation of Woolf's novel «Orlando: A Biography.»

For filmmaker Monika Treut, Querelle «sums up what Fassbinder expressed in many of his earlier films,» 1 but Querelle is intriguing also for intimating new and unexplored directions.

While somewhat star - making for Cage and also featuring some of the earliest film appearances of Jim Carrey, Joan Allen, Helen Hunt, and «7th Heaven» mom Catherine Hicks, the movie belongs first and foremost to Kathleen Turner.

Gunman's Walk has never been released on DVD in the United States, and many of his early films circulate in cheap, unrestored versions that do little justice to the original film.

Overrated Damsels In Distress Not nearly as clever as the film, or its adherents, seem to think, Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress is a tone - deaf attempt to change gears from the observational comedy of his early films to a more stylized, absurdist mode.

In addition, Jeff Garlin of «Curb Your Enthusiasm» and Pixar voice work makes one of his earliest film appearances as an easily - entertained associate at the Knicks game.

Next comes Rita, whose underpaid schoolteacher husband George (Kirk Douglas in one of his earlier film roles) was suspiciously dressed in a blue suit this morning and not for fishing.

Fuller has left aside the bravura, thrilling camera movements that marked some of his earlier films, and settled on (sorry, «settled» is not a word to use when speaking of Fuller) a more Bressonian kind of tightly structured watching and following.