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Whit Stillman on Damsels in Distress: «It was a little bit like a university project» - Toronto film festival video

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We may not yet be in negative rates territory in terms of the official Bank Rate, what with it hanging on to 0.25 % like a cinematic damsel in distress clinging on by her fingertips to a cliff edge.

It wasn't so long ago that women on TV were being portrayed as damsels in distress that desperately needed a man to validate their existence.

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Even the lovely damsels in distress, Pimchanok Leuwisedpaiboon and Supaksorn Chaimongkol, get in on some of the action.

This week, get a first look at «Damsels in Distress» and «Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,» watch new trailers and clips for «John Carter,» «Friends with Kids,» and more, and catch up on the week's film news.

And in the indie comedy territory, Whit Stillman made a triumphant return with «Damsels In Distress,» while the Duplass Brothers were behind the charming «Jeff Who Lives At Home,» which only missed out on this list by the skin of its teetin the indie comedy territory, Whit Stillman made a triumphant return with «Damsels In Distress,» while the Duplass Brothers were behind the charming «Jeff Who Lives At Home,» which only missed out on this list by the skin of its teetIn Distress,» while the Duplass Brothers were behind the charming «Jeff Who Lives At Home,» which only missed out on this list by the skin of its teeth.

«Damsels Is Distress» is just way too out there for anybody in the Academy and while the cast is good, it's really Stillman's work on the page and behind the camera that is the real star.

«Damsels Is Distress» is just way too out there anybody in the Academy and while the cast is good, it's really Stillman's work on the page and behind the camera that is the real star.

Bryce Dallas Howard is our damsel in distress in this little drama, a woman in heels who is on the run.

She went on to work with Woody Allen (To Rome With Love) and Whit Stillman (Damsels In Distress), but found her calling with Noah Baumbach, who directed her in Greenberg, Frances Ha and Mistress America (he is now also her partnerIn Distress), but found her calling with Noah Baumbach, who directed her in Greenberg, Frances Ha and Mistress America (he is now also her partnerin Greenberg, Frances Ha and Mistress America (he is now also her partner).

A simple damsel in distress movie that allows itself to focus on bigger themes, like characters and settings.

Refusing to simply play the damsel in distress, Gabby is a force to be reckoned with all on her own, and she proves to be as vital a part of the team as anyone else.

John Carter (PG - 13 for violence and intense action sequences) Screen adaptation of «A Princess of Mars,» Edgar Rice Burroughs» sci - fi novel about a Civil War Confederate veteran (Taylor Kitsch) who is magically transported to Mars where he rescues a desperate damsel in distress (Lynn Collins) while on the run from a horde of 12 - foot tall green creatures.

Provided you are willing to swallow a silly premise which has the protagonist crisscrossing the country in search of his long - lost nursery mates, the picture proves to be a pleasant enough diversion, not for its examination of astrology but rather on account of the love story which blossoms between gentlemanly Jake and damsel - in - distress Sarah.

Damsels in Distress (PG - 13 for sexuality and mature themes) Female empowerment comedy about three college coeds (Greta Gerwig, Carrie MacLemore and Megalyn Echikunwoke) who decide to do something about the chauvinistic environment on campus.

One of the Warriors Three gets put on the bench early on simply because there's no room for him, the hints at a love triangle with Thor, Jane and Jaimie Alexander «s Sif continue to be nothing more than that, Idris Elba «s Helmdall gets a big action moment and then vanishes, and Portman is asleep for the whole second act, and reverts to a damsel - in - distress in the third.

It opens on a mock - instructional film on «How to Take a Bath,» shifts to a submarine trapped at the bottom of the sea where a lumberjack (Roy Dupuis) inexplicably appears, shifts to his story of a feral forest adventure and a damsel in distress, who finds herself transported to an exotic nightclub out of an old Hollywood movie, and so on.

Any hope Ferguson might produce some consolatory warmth or heat with her co-star gets extinguished early on, and while it's almost a relief when the film abandons its limp attempts to make Katrine interesting and instead generates another damsel - in - distress, it's also an admission of defeat, marking the point at which Alfredson abandons any pretension to serious drama.

Stillman fans may also want to shimmy over to the Cinefamily on June 1, when the director will also be in attendance, for a Q&A following a screening of his latest comedy, Damsels in Distress.

From that point on, the film devolves into the cozily predictable world of TV legal dramas, abandoning the moral uncertainty of its opening scenes for the benefit of a villain so comically over-the-top in his evil, he might as well be theatrically twirling a mustache and tying a damsel in distress to train tracks.

It doesn't matter a jolt that these two fights are attached with a pretty bland story about a vengeful anti-hero on a vendetta, a damsel in distress popping up along the way.

As with «Olympus,» «London» is akin to an indelicate, more vicious riff on «Air Force One,» with the Commander - in - Chief relegated to a damsel in distress — Eckhart's Asher does more fighting this time around, but he's still ultimately in need of rescuing — and America's finest military man, Banning, envisioned as a noble macho deity.

The rest — in more or less typical, though R - rated, superhero fashion — is our wisecracking antihero exacting revenge on Ajax (Ed Skrein), the snarling sadist who did this to him, while rescuing girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), who asserts repeatedly that damsel in distress is not a comfortable role for her, though she is eventually reduced to one.

Therefore, when he comes to the rescue of a gorgeous damsel in distress (Malin Akerman) being robbed on Valentine's Day, he takes it as a sign that the leggy blonde might be Ms. Right.

Unfolding like a classic Seventies disaster flick, San Andreas serves up a smorgasbord ofreadily - identifiable archetypes: the musclebound hero, the effete coward, the damsel in distress, the terminally - nerdy professor, and so on, each played with perfect aplomb by a talented cast.

A twist on the tired old damsel - in - distress theme.

It was a shame that the film went on to give her the typical «damsel in distress» role for the climax.

Instead of setting out to save the world from some unimaginable horror or rescuing a damsel in distress, this starving simian is intent on getting back his stolen bananas.

Even Zelda herself took on a different role, playing the concerned leader rather than the damsel in distress.

She starred in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress, playing one of the director's singular hyper - articulate moralists, and in Lola Versus, another movie that capitalized on Gerwig's penchant for beguiling, wayward messes.

After a distressing number of potential projects have fallen through over the ensuing years, Variety indicates that he has a «micro-indie» on track to be shot in the fall called «Damsels in Distress» (aka Diorissimo.)

Based on the novel by Fred Zackel, made for NBC by O.J.'s production house, Cocaine and Blue Eyes marks an attempt at a modern noir private investigator flick, complete with voice over narration, damsels in distress, and dialogue that wouldn't sound foreign if Humphrey Bogart had said them 50 years before.

Aja Naomi King's movie ascendancy as the slave girl Cherry in Nate Parker's blazing battle cry, The Birth of a Nation (based on the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831), is a complete boomerang from the role that made her television rep.. After an assortment of credits in film («Positive Polly» in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress and Rosa in the underseen comedy The Rewrite) and in prime - time series such as Emily Owens, M.D. and The Blacklist, King was whisked aboard the mother ship of Shondaland's How to Get Away with Murder, starring the inviolable Viola Davis.

This is the first of three consecutive Endy wins for Gerwig, as she'll go on to win Best Actress Awards for Damsels in Distress and then Frances Ha.

One minute you could be practicing fainting exercises in Damsels in Distress class, sword fighting in a field, or flying on a Pegasus, and the next, BAM!

You can imagine a damsel in distress crying from the tower's tiny window, waiting for her hero on a white horse to come and rescue her.

In the (likely) event you haven't played the original in a couple of decades, here's a rundown of what happens in the game: A distractingly bosomy damsel in distress gets murdered by brutish thugs, causing a twin brothers Billy and Jimmy Lee — who are also her twin lovers — to go on a fist - fuelled rampage of revengIn the (likely) event you haven't played the original in a couple of decades, here's a rundown of what happens in the game: A distractingly bosomy damsel in distress gets murdered by brutish thugs, causing a twin brothers Billy and Jimmy Lee — who are also her twin lovers — to go on a fist - fuelled rampage of revengin a couple of decades, here's a rundown of what happens in the game: A distractingly bosomy damsel in distress gets murdered by brutish thugs, causing a twin brothers Billy and Jimmy Lee — who are also her twin lovers — to go on a fist - fuelled rampage of revengin the game: A distractingly bosomy damsel in distress gets murdered by brutish thugs, causing a twin brothers Billy and Jimmy Lee — who are also her twin lovers — to go on a fist - fuelled rampage of revengin distress gets murdered by brutish thugs, causing a twin brothers Billy and Jimmy Lee — who are also her twin lovers — to go on a fist - fuelled rampage of revenge.

He shows up in the game as what is essentially a damsel in distress, hidden on each stage that the player can find and rescue.

Is he going to complain how from the very beginning, Princess Peach has narratively been the damsel in distress... but on almost every occasion she's been playable, she's been quite capable, whether as a fighter, athlete, or go - kart driver, and largely a match for Mario... which raises the question of how she continues to be kidnapped and require Mario to save her when she's as good as him and more than capable of defeating swarms of angry Koopas or even Samus Aran & Bayonetta when she needs to?

While she may appear at first glance as a weak girl that is clutching a stuffed rabbit, she is no damsel in distress and she sure as hell will let you know it by using her CIA training and Aiden to wreak havoc on guys twice her size throughout a large portion of the game.

Sadly, Daphne on the other hand comes off as really stereotyped damsel in distress and not in a good way.

Our moustachioed hero climbs atop a flying ship named Odyssey, wherein he embarks on a far - flung journey to save eternal damsel in distress Princess Peach from the villainous clutches of the dastardly Bowser.

In what other game can you earn a «dastardly» achievement by saving a damsel in distress, then putting her on the rail road tracks to meet her fatIn what other game can you earn a «dastardly» achievement by saving a damsel in distress, then putting her on the rail road tracks to meet her fatin distress, then putting her on the rail road tracks to meet her fate?

While companies such as Nintendo solidified the damsel - in - distress paradigm with characters like Zelda in the Legend of Zelda, for example, SEGA was already latching on to the idea of strong heroines with Tyris Flare in Golden Axe.

On the other hand, damsel in distress stories are compelling.

In it players take on the role of a cave explorer or spelunker as they wind their way through the dark, underground caverns collecting treasures, encountering enemies and rescuing damsels in distress along the waIn it players take on the role of a cave explorer or spelunker as they wind their way through the dark, underground caverns collecting treasures, encountering enemies and rescuing damsels in distress along the wain distress along the way.

The game was named after the de facto villain, a gorilla (which was named after the classic 1933 movie monster King Kong), instead of the player - character Mario (or «Jumpman», as he was named at the time), because designer Shigeru Miyamoto felt Donkey Kong had to be the strongest character in the love triangle displayed on - screen - the game used then - innovative techniques to tell the on - screen story of how the stubborn pet gorilla of «Jumpman» the carpenter steals away his girlfriend, Pauline, and it is up to the hero to save the damsel in distress.

Neither being a damsel in distress, a quirky pixie dream girl or a sex symbol, Faith has been praised by all for the focus on her story rather than her appearance.

You see, long before he started eating mushrooms on a regular basis, long before his epic battles against Bowser and long before Princess Peach became his damsel - in - distress............ long before all that, there was Jumpman.