Sentences with phrase «other modern films»

The other modern films on Johnson's list?

But like many other films («Star Wars») the limitations of the time proved to be the films winning key, this element like other modern films has been lost completely here.

Not exact matches

I also wanted to talk up what is perhaps John Sayles» greatest film, the very play - like Sunshine State, as a beautiful illustration of the fact that in modern times especially, some need to heed the Berry-esque call to stay (or return) and build the community, but others need to sell and go, and get free of a community, or mere arrangement, that is holding them back.

Editor's Note: Author and pastor Jamie George, the band All Sons & Daughters and a film crew ventured to Europe to trace the lives of C.S. Lewis, Saint Patrick, John Newton, Saint Thérèse, Saint Francis, William Cowper, Saint Augustine, George MacDonald and others, mining for undiscovered gems, something to connect these individuals to modern believers.

I went for a modern 90's vibe today — it was one of my favorite decades for film and fashion the first time round (think Sex And The City, Clueless, Melrose Place and other cult classics!)

I know they're there and that many people love them, but I've found other modern fantasy film franchises much more investable.

Shame they chose to include modern pop music within the film but other than that its a fair animation that is fun to watch.

Certainly the 1924 Olympics as depicted in the film bear very little resemblance to the modern - day Games; you won't find athletes in 2012 using trowels to dig out their starting marks, or passing each other notes of encouragement.

A modern film can't, and shouldn't, celebrate whites killing Native Americans, and so it must feature other tribes on the whites» side who «approve.»

Gillespie smartly uses the known and builds upon it with context and some style, using «modern day» Tonya, Jeff and LaVona among others as interview subjects for a documentary of sorts that frames the film, but also has the characters speak into the camera in non-interview segments to help give Tonya some humanity, or at least make sure you have a better idea about all of her story and life coming out and you did going in.

Director Michael Mann does a retread and modern film version of his highly successful 1980's television series and despite his calibre, this turns out to be just like all the other poor makeovers of hit TV shows.

Two other films are currently growing in RHP's greenhouse, including Hill's L.A.P.I. and a biopic on modern teen outlaw, Colton Harris Moore, with Green circling to direct.

In fact, so much has been lifted by future films and other forms of media, that when one looks back at it from a modern perspective, it seems like just another typical kung fu movie, rather unfairly.

And as a person who's normally enthralled solely by history and science fiction, this Crash reminiscent film is due credit, because it's not only an eye - opening depiction of modern «ailments,» but an admirably acted film that puts other think - pieces to shame.

He continues to perform at a high level, and he's forged a partnership with Villeneuve over the course of three films now («Prisoners» and «Sicario» being the others) that makes for one of the great visual signatures in modern cinema.

Aquaman will also feature a strikingly different world from that of other superhero films - something that also extends to other upcoming superhero movies, such as Marvel Studios» Doctor Strange (which dabbles in supernatural horror) or even 20th Century Fox's Wolverine 3 (an R - Rated film with a modern - western vibe).

Olive releases two films from late in Preminger's career, one an overheated melodrama set in 1946 Georgia where the antebellum past is still alive, if not at all well, the other (Such Good Friends) a modern social satire about friendship and betrayal in the wake of the sexual revolution.

We blend in other topics as well, ranging from the state of modern film festival - ing, nannys, and other such fun stuff.

Even if the story is derivative, much of that old detective feel has been excised for a more modern approach in the movie adaptation, leaving it virtually indistinguishable from many other films in current release.

Two well - known modern musicians — one an indie - rocker, the other a now - seminal hip - hop artist — are plying their trades to some new films making their debut in Utah later this January.

I'll show it to my children because it's a film about female friendship and lord knows there aren't enough of those, and I'll show it to significant others, because if they don't swoon a little as Frances dances to «Modern Love,» or beam at the final shot, then I won't be entirely sure it's going to work out.

Other upcoming projects include the samurai film 47 Ronin, Chef - story by Reeves and written by Steven Knight, and a modern retelling of theRobert Louis Stevenson classic Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, scripted by Justin Haythe and titled Jekyll.

Other modern Sci - Fi films, from «Moon» to «Interstellar» take risks.

Godless was just one of two Bulgarian films about modern - day crime and corruption in the post-Soviet state, with the other, Slava (Glory), from Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, who had impressed with Urok (The Lesson, 2014).

Willard aspires for an artsy intellectualism, in other words, in the belief that the modern horror audience is still hungry, seven years after Scream, for post-modernism in their horror films.

In «Horror 101: The Exclusive Seminar» (10:27), director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell separately discuss their philosophies for the film, putting new spins on the haunted house and possession genres and doing certain things differently from other modern movies.

As with Alien and Blade Runner, Scott has fashioned a science fiction film that will leave fans arguing, with some dismissing it out of hand and others declaring it a modern masterpiece.

But whereas other cinematic studies like Gomorrah (about modern Sicily) and the documentary Dancing with the Devil only wallowed in such viciousness, this film plunged deeper, gripped harder, and yet always allowed glints of humanity into such darkness.

It's a modern comedy that allows its characters to fall in love naturally, without the pressure of sex, while also providing plenty of sex throughout the film (with other people).

Of course, there is far more to Powell's music than drum loops, and the way he combines modern electronics and synths with an orchestra is as impressive as any other film composer.

Perhaps no other modern actor has transitioned between independent films and mainstream ones as deftly and frequently as Ethan Hawke.

If critics have a function anymore besides carving their own gravestones on the marble of modern cinema, it's to point a finger at films like Junebug, which sounds like a thousand other pictures but is actually something all its own: a Southern Gothic in the tradition of Flannery O'Connor that treats its characters as more than plot - movers or cardboard caricatures.

Just as other films of its ilk (The Phantom, The Shadow), the updating of the material involves keeping the core of what makes the Green Hornet the Green Hornet, while stuffing it into a modern - day action and comedy style.

The film is dated to modern eyes, and the struggles each of the men deal with are certainly subdued and edited for family viewing (and therefore, not very realistic), but the simple fact that a film focused on these problems before any other film had done so is something quite extraordinary.

The jury, of course, is too busy watching the 17 films in the main competition to follow some of the other sections such as «New Directors,» a complete retrospective of that whimsical purveyor of modern fairy tales, Jacques Demy, and «The American Way of Death,» a vast program of 40 crime movies from 1990 to 2011.

For films offering highly critical looks at modern life and its inmates, there are of course many other directors one could also reference, ranging from Michelangelo Antonioni to Michael Haneke.

But other than the mockumentary Comic Book: The Movie (2004) and, arguably, Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), there haven't been many films that are actually about superhero movies and their place in modern culture.

The plot barely makes sense and compared to other modern computer animated movies, the film just doesn't look that great.

The film's depiction of relationships between classes, genders and spouses, as well as between races, also seemed a little out of kilter, too informal, too candid, too egalitarian; in other words, too modern.

Klausner explained that the film is about «connection in the modern world — how we're more technically linked to each other than ever before, but we're in danger of losing the magic of direct, face to face human interaction, with all of its surprises and unknowns.»

In a way Almereyda's film, shot prior to most of the tech stocks going belly - up, anticipates the downswing: Its Wall Street is ghostly and devastated, full of glass tombs that scrape a dismal sky and inhabited by, among other Gloomy Guses, a Hamlet (Ethan Hawke) who's hollowed - out like so many victims of modern materialism and parental loss.

Among other things, this gritty and sometimes acerbic film from director Guan Hu («Cow») is a crime - genre satire about the fallout of new wealth on narcissistic sons of China's modern capitalists.

«Q&A at the Museum of Modern Art with Hole» (10 minutes) takes place after a screening of the film where Director P. David Ebersole and Schemel, Love, and others appear on - stage.

Stagecoach's original 3 1/2 - minute theatrical trailer unexpectedly opens with talk of aviation and other modern transportation, segueing into the yesteryear streamline in which the film is set.

With its flowing harmonies, «Disobedience» works equally well as an example of modern classical music at its most thankfully harmonious, Herbert dresses strings lines over each other with gossamer delicateness in a way that's also reminiscent of the hypnotic film works of ephemeral composer Michael Convertino («Bed or Roses») in a way that awakens with its womens» growing self empowerment, also calling to the ear such diverse, ultra-melodic composers as Claude Debussy and Richard Wagner.

As with previous Platinum Edition releases, the treasure trove of extras can be found on the second disc's «Backstage Disney» section, which features an hour - long documentary of the film's development, production, and reception, featuring comments from modern animation figures such as Pixar's John Lassiter as well as many of the now - elderly voice actors for Bambi and the other forest creatures.

Other newly featured stuff to look out for: Marie Antoinette, which solidified Sofia Coppola among my favorite directors, hidden gem of a B - movie film noir The Narrow Margin, incredible modern melodrama Little Children, and D.W. Griffith silent epic Orphans of the Storm.

Thankfully, the film never indulges in the sort of scatological humor seen in other studios» toon efforts — still, that's a consolation that only goes so far, given that innovation and imagination prove to be as extinct as pterodactyls in the modern world.

Whereas Johnston infused his film with an appropriately retro vibe, the Russos give it a modern, even futuristic vibe as with the other Marvel efforts.

A smart, sophisticated comedy about the challenges of love and marriage amongst modern day New Yorkers, Freundlich's fourth feature film centers on the romantic escapades of two couples: a successful actress (Freundlich's real - life significant other, Julianne Moore) and her stay - at - home husband (David Duchovny), and said actress» slacker younger brother (Billy Crudup) and his aspiring novelist girlfriend (Maggie Gyllenhaal).