Sentences with phrase «other kinds of films»

If Harvey Weinstein had any significant impact on the Oscars, it was that he helped create the «custom meal» (or you could say the «custom meals on wheels») that fed the voters exactly what they wanted so that they never had to really endure the flavors of other kinds of films that weren't to their liking.

That's not to say he's done with studio filmmaking altogether — Warner Bros. is reportedly keen on bringing Ayer back for Suicide Squad 2 but the filmmaker wanted to do something different (see: Bright) first — but when he's not in the mood to helm an awards film or a massive tentpole, Ayer sees Netflix and the like as places where he can get other kinds of films done without a tremendous amount of compromise.

Then I found all these different other kinds of films.

Because of this dichotomy, it's the kind of movie that has never really found an audience, save for those who enjoy quirky oddities that are, at the very least, different from any other kind of film.

Not exact matches

We make project - management software for other software developers, not documentary films, so this idea was precisely the kind of monumental distraction that every venture capitalist warns you to avoid like the plague.

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

Initially, critics were baffled when they attempted to interpret the film on a literal level and measure it against other typical disaster / horror films of its kind.

The other hope is you accept film's characteristics create a different kind of balance for superhuman characters in film.

For some, it is merely because it is such an thrilling technique of becoming capable to produce new friends, just to have other Christians that you just can possess a fun wonderful with, go to the films, and engage in a variety of other kinds of thrilling activities.

The film lacks any kind of real «action», which makes it a departure from Mann's other work like Heat or Last of the Mohicans, but it still feels like an action movie because of the aggressive way in which Mann directs it.

Corbijn isn't making a stereotypical Hollywood thriller, with the stakes spelled out in neon and the loud fight scenes spaced every few minutes, but he doesn't seem to realize there is such a thing as being too vague, and in his efforts to make some kind of art - house / thriller hybrid, he goes too far the other direction and creates a nicely rendered film with no emotional hook.

«Miles Ahead,» actor - director Don Cheadle's unconventional film about the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, is odd and audacious — in other words, the kind of movie you should make if you're going to make a movie about the revolutionary and unconventional musician.

The film is about the same kind of social overcompensation that virtually any other mainstream comedy is about, but it feels comfortable with this, not desperate to pile on the raunchy bells and whistles in an effort to feel more current.

It helps that actors clearly like working with the improvisational Swanberg, and DIGGING FOR FIRE has a kind of party atmosphere his other films haven't really had.

In other words, it's the kind of film a clever - dick film student can really get their teeth into (and indeed, many have).

Anderson has championed an audacious, anarchic kind of youth in many of his other films: Rushmore's Max Fischer, The Royal Tenenbaums» Margot Tenenbaum and Suzie Bishop and Sam Shakusky from Moonrise Kingdom are all variations on a concept that was so eloquently personified by Scorsese's Johnny Boy back in 1973.

i only wish those thousands went to work on movies of more substance than fighting robots... and you don't have to apologize to me, i can in fact compare «Real Steel» to «The Fast and the Frivolous» films because in essence they are one - in - the - same, simply just the flavor of the week kind of flicks that have no real pull behind them other than big name actors, CGI and a promise of action.

Compare it to the others and you can see what kind of impact that film made.

Have you noticed this kind of negative portrayal in other films?

This is the start of exactly the kind of film you would expect from Sundance as each of these characters have something to teach and learn from the other, especially about life and the pursuit of happiness.

I don't think film festival mega-stars like Lars von Trier or Abbas Kiarostami or Wong Kar - Wai are nearly well - known or influential enough to have this kind of impact, on movie fans in general or on other filmmakers.

But his ears were surely burning, because his film opened to the kind of near - universal kudos that nearly eclipsed the somewhat mixed reaction to the day's other bows.

It's the kind of perfect film that leaves you speechless at the end, you don't even know what to say other than «wow.»

Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes, Green Lantern) plays one of the drug dealers, and his approach in this really breaks down the way you look at drug deals in other films, giving you a much more realistic look into those kind of situations.

This kind of biographical film always faces the danger of having scene after scene of famous people meeting other famous people, but Kaufman deploys it all smoothly and effortlessly, bringing this heady world of revolution - minded artists and intellectuals to life as vividly as he did for the space - race pioneers of The Right Stuff and the Prague Spring lovers of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

That said, it is doubtful that a mainstream Korean movie that challenged this kind of nationalist myth could be made, if the treatment of local scholars is any indication.8 Other films from earlier in the year that I was able to catch up with were E J - yong's Jook - yeo - ju - neun Yeo - ja (The Bacchus Lady) and Lee Kyoung - mi's Bi-mil-eun Eop - da (The Truth Beneath).

We're going to be seeing films of all kinds and genres within this shared universe, and more so than any of the other MCU films, Black Panther feels like an invitation for everyone to take part — to tell stories from unique perspectives and world views, and to bring cultural, ideological, and social ideals to these comic book heroes.

and other mythological creatures and then confronting a very pissed off Ares — before the heroes finally have to find their way into the Underworld through a very odd, three - dimensionally moving labyrinth — a kind of Greek - Deco - Escher construct that houses the film's best practical effect — a completely physical, GC - unenhanced minotaur.

WHY: «The Other Woman» is one of the worst movies you'll see this year — the kind of film that gives female - centric comedies such a bad name that it's no wonder Hollywood doesn't make them more often.

The Globe nominations were kind to other films coming out later this year: Both «The Wolf of Wall Street,» the account of a win - at - all - costs stockbroker premiering on Christmas, and «Her,» a dystopian tale of severed interpersonal relationships opening Dec. 18, received multiple nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., including selections alongside «American Hustle» for best comedy or musical motion picture.

An odious correspondance on none other than Macbeth and his unfortunate demise at the hands of a man «not of woman born» is one of several colorful diatribes the film unwisely regurgitates for us, but these kinds of stylized choices take a particular energy to pull off, and Criminal Activities doesn't have it.

David Mamet ---- «House of Games «If it feels like some of the writers on this list kind of lucked into direction having written a film (or several) that became a mainstream success thereafter, there are a few others whose writerly voice was already so established that the idea of having them direct a straightforward genre film is kind of inconceivable (see also: Charlie Kaufman).

It's a stupid idea, in other words, one exacerbated by the casting of the usual suspects of beautiful young things who here find themselves trapped in a bad rave by some twisted games master (Lance Henriksen, in the kind of performance you praise for his knowing how wretched the film is — let's think on that for a moment).

He's one of the greats, so for me, it's a privilege to have him on the movie and to give him sequences, and like Daniel says, you're making four movies and every section of the film feels so distinct from the other, feels so alive, it kind of regenerates in front of your eyes really, the film.

And other than some misdemeanors worthy of grounding, the kids in this film are the kind most parents could stand to have around.

If the film remains modestly resonant for its kind - hearted presentation of people who hunger for alternate perspectives of their own lives and those of others, it's at the expense of a richer delving into the historical trajectories that inform its cultural snapshot.

That «key role» hasn't been specified yet, although Deadline claims that sources say Thompson's character will «be a kind of superhero and will appear in other Marvel films as well,» and The Wrap reports that Thompson has signed a multi-picture deal.

Like other Joe Swanberg movies, Happy Christmas is quiet but endlessly charming, the kind of film that washes over you and continues to grow on you long after you've finished watching.

But unlike other dark comedies to make the jump («Mean Girls» director Mark Waters» «The House of Yes» comes to mind), Finley displays a natural cinematic instinct, treating the baroque, marble - lined mansion where the film principally unfolds not as a closed - in set, but a kind of tiger sanctuary, prowling the location in long, restless takes — whether it's stalking an SUV up the gravel driveway or lurking behind a door jam, carving knife in hand, while two characters stare each other down in the adjacent room.

Based on a Daphne Du Maurier novel and made a year before Hitchcock's Oscar - winning movie of Du Maurier's «Rebecca,» the film introduces Maureen O'Hara as Mary, a headstrong young Irish woman (is there any other kind?)

The two - hour - and -20-minute film turned out to be a shaggy satirical comedy about Christian (Claes Bang), the chic curator of an art museum, toggling among mortifying story lines: a one - night stand with lingering consequences, a nastily conceived ad campaign for a hot new exhibit (the titular «square,» an artwork creating a kind of ethical safe space), and a positively unbelievable outreach effort to retrieve a stolen wallet and other items.

But in other ways, Cool Hand Luke is vaguer about what it stands for — it's the beginning of a decade - long run of films in which being an individualist is valorized in the absence of any particular information about exactly what kind of an individualist a character is, or why.

I found in it something of an explanation for, or at least a corollary to, the picture's title, in that the demon in The Right Stuff refers to the sound barrier while the demon in Refn's film refers to, perhaps, soft obstructions of other kinds.

They dance around each other, sometimes literally, and the film is a kind of dance, too: that agonizing, exciting waltz of uncertain courtship — of two people orbiting one another, feeling out the feelings between them, dropping and interpreting clues, inching ever closer together.»

But this kind of thing is like a late Christmas gift to other studios that see it as another film biting the dust and letting their film move up a notch.

If not for Punch - Drunk Love, I would probably feel much more pessimistic about Sandler's future after two of his worst films being released this year (Mr. Deeds is the other,) and the choice is now up to him as to what kind of entertainer he wants to be in the future.

In the book, I describe the film as kind of a dorm room standard during the late»90s, when I was a college student, and I've since praised it in other forums (http://goo.gl/kL3jl2) as really one of the more faithful literary adaptations in recent cinema.

But it's also true that his films, which include «The 40 - Year - Old Virgin» and «Knocked Up,» have an appealing emotional nakedness (to go with the other kind of nakedness).

It seemed as if we'd never get to see any other kind of foreign film hereabouts — an effect reinforced by Ettore Scola's A Special Day, in which a director who had heretofore drawn a lot of his strength and interest from the unpredictable intersections of gritty - grubby realismo and flamboyant stylization (The Pizza Triangle, We All Loved Each Other So Much) inclined dangerously toward high gother kind of foreign film hereabouts — an effect reinforced by Ettore Scola's A Special Day, in which a director who had heretofore drawn a lot of his strength and interest from the unpredictable intersections of gritty - grubby realismo and flamboyant stylization (The Pizza Triangle, We All Loved Each Other So Much) inclined dangerously toward high gOther So Much) inclined dangerously toward high gloss.

Among the certainties in the world of film criticism — there will be a series of pieces bemoaning critics» inability to stop a terrible summer film from becoming a blockbuster; Armond White will often stake out a position in opposition to many of his fellow critics; movies about middle - aged men having their mid-life crises sorted out by women well out of their league will always receive mostly kind notices; etc. — there's one that stands above all others.