Sentences with phrase «own earlier films»

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.

The earlier film adaptations didn't get Lewis right either — some were worse than others — Prince Caspian worst of all.

The overall style of Sleeping Beauty is also more modern than that of the older Disney fairy tales; both figures and backgrounds are somewhat sharp edged and angular, in the manner of 1950s commercial art, rather than softly rounded as in the earlier films.

While Marvel's earlier films dazzled with stories of great power from great men, women acted merely as props, but Marvel has taken a giant leap forward in female representation.

How then, does his recent DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, a rather stranger film and one made more than a decade after the others, work with the earlier films?

In his pathetic ineptitude, Jonah is a kind of Mr. Magoo or one of the clueless characters Woody Allen plays in his early films.

The earlier film starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as Douglas Quaid, an unsatisfied, late 21st - century construction worker in search of adventure.

4 Some things never change: Edison's early film loops included one showing «cooch» dancers; another reenacted the decapitation of Mary, Queen of Scots — arguably the first horror flick.

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

Fitness has come a long way since the times of Arnold, but a key message in that early film remains true to this day.

The side splits which many people still associate with Van Dam because of his insistence in showing it in all his early films is an iconic demonstration of flexibility and the one stretch that everybody associates with martial arts and the ability to kick high.

Choi Min - sik (b. 1963) first made a name for himself in theater before breaking into the film world with roles in Park Chong - won's early films Kuro Arirang Shin Min - a (born Yang Min - a on April 5, 1984) is a South Korean model and actress.

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.

An intimate and concentrated 3 - person play, Death and the Maiden echoes back to Roman Polanski's early film, Knife in the Water.

Characters that gave the earlier films their spark - the eager - to - please Donkey, one of Eddie Murphy's finest vocal moments, the debonair Puss in Boots, a great Antonio Banderas achievement - are wheeled on and off for what seem like guest spots.

What's impressive is that, where earlier films revolved around solving a mystery, this one shifts to a war footing without losing its emphasis on character and emotion.

seems less like a sequel to than a parody of the first 48 Hrs., especially when Nick Nolte, repeating his role from the earlier film, begins commenting on the cliched absurdity of the goings on.

The grim endings of most of Polanski's early films encourages this sort of pessimism.

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

Following the lead of 2012's underrated «At Any Price» in matching the socially conscious topicality of Bahrani's early films to the demands of broader - brush melodrama, this dynamically acted, unapologetically contrived pic reps the filmmaker's best chance to date of connecting with a wider audience — one likely to share the helmer's bristling anger over corruptly maintained class divides in modern - day America.

Continuing through the mid -»90s with numerous television roles (including a stint on the popular series Picket Fences), Moss» early film roles range from both lightly comical (Suburban Commando [1991]-RRB- to increasingly dramatic (Imaginary Crimes [1994]-RRB-.

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.

He's marvelous, as are all the British character actors — Maggie Smith, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent, David Thewlis — who pop up to reprise characters from earlier films, sometimes without speaking more than a line or two.

An Argentine native who spent her formative years exiled to Spain, Cecilia Roth was a regular in Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's early films and a star in Argentina long before she became an international critics» darling as the title character in Almodóvar's Oscar - winner All About My Mother (1999).

The earlier films had more than enough fun and frivolity; Part 2 should take us to the brink of apocalypse in a literal sense, as a Voldemort victory would lay waste to humanity.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has dispensed with the amusing whimsy involving its eccentric staff that lightened the earlier films, and it takes its sense of mission very seriously.

Noah Taylor repeats his «Danny» characterization from the earlier film, while Thandie Newton plays a Ugandan exchange student who attends an Australian girls boarding school.

One senses in World Traveler and in his earlier film that Freundlich bears a grievous but obscure complaint against fathers, and circles it obsessively, without making contact.

The earlier film, however, lacked this one's delightful emotional connection.

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

And yet... the film shows Keir Dullea at the top of his game, finally shedding the chilly Otherness that characterized his early film roles.

Perry has been prone to pretension in his earlier films like Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth, and he hasn't shown much instinct for dramatic tension.

Like the abominable «Napoleon Dynamite,» director Jared Hess» second feature will doubtless capture the hearts and minds of 12 - year - old boys everywhere, even if Nacho Libre sacrifices the earlier film's aggressive mean - spiritedness in favor of gentle slapstick lunacy.

Two earlier films in the 1970s dramatized the Entebbe raid in ways that Brühl felt were too facile.

«Bromance» is too dopey of a word for what goes on here; as with Phillips» earlier films, The Hangover honors the significance of male friendship without insisting on its primacy.

The film demonstrates how Marvel, following the overall architecture overseen by studio head Kevin Feige, ties together moments, personalities and themes from earlier films in ways beyond reheated nostalgia.

Truffaut protégé Claude Miller sadly died shortly after filming but his directorial reputation will rest safer on earlier films such as La Petite Voleuse.

Favorites among her earlier films include the multistoried Holiday Camp (1947) and Ghost Ship (1952), the latter co-starring her then husband Dermot Walsh.

The earlier film was shot in England on a very low budget, and such hints as Eleanor's obviously foreign car (mischievously, in the new movie Nell drives a Gremlin) and a briefly glimpsed «To Let» billboard suggest much of the location filming was done on the fly.

Furthering the similarities is the fact that Morgan Freeman essentially plays the same part he did in that earlier film, with him being a scientist who conveniently has been researching Lucy's very affliction for years.

Her early film credits included playing Peter O'Toole's daughter, Tess, in My Favorite Year; and tap - dancing, 1930s style, on a white piano, in Pennies From Heaven.

Not quite the clean, elegant creation that his earlier films were, The Warriors admits to failures of conception (occasional) and dialogue (frequent), but there is much of value in Hill's visual elaboration of the material.

As Lelio's earlier films demonstrated, the director's style is restrained but potent, which helps the impact of the actors» performances as well as the picture's fairly graphic love scene.

Tandy Cronyn's earliest film appearance was in the obscure agit - prop comedy Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970); she has since been seen in such productions as All Night Long (1981), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), and the made - for - TV The Story Lady (1991), in which she co-starred with her mother, Jessica Tandy.

Early filmed projects included the features Rowing Through (1996) and Night Sins (1997) and the television miniseries More Tales of the City, as well as prominent roles in the celebrity - themed telemovie biopics Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story (2000) and Inside the Osmonds (2001).

Those who have seen the earlier film will struggle not to catalog the ways that the new one deviates, especially as many of the anecdotes have been recycled.

Comparisons to the earlier film are inevitable, but the good news is that there is room for both.

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.

This is a prequel to the 2 earlier films and the origin story of the creepy killer doll.