Sentences with phrase «passes over the film»

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The coda to the TurinGames will be inspired by Venice's annual winter Carnevale — think acrobats,high - wire acts and actors in costumes from the 1971 Fellini film The Clowns.When the tumbling is over, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli (above) will performand pass the Olympic torch to Canadian pop star Avril Lavigne, who will acceptit on behalf of the host of the 2010 Games, Vancouver.

As the film opens, Ron is in the midst of great personal and professional humiliation, having been passed over for a cushy network position in favour of his wife Veronica (a returning and game Christina Applegate); his response is to walk out on her and their seven - year - old son, taking a job as an announcer at Sea World (where he drinks heavily and insults the dolphins).

Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

He has also played the brusque, bluff President in Being There (1978); senile, gun - wielding judge Ray Ford in... And Justice For All (1979); the twin auto dealers — one good, one bad — in Used Cars (1980); Paul Newman's combination leg - man and conscience in The Verdict (1982); shifty convenience store owner Big Ben in the two Problem Child films of the early 1990s; the not - so - dearly departed in Passed Away (1992); and Broadway high - roller Julian Marx in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway (1994).

That scene sets the stage for the plot of the film, which surprisingly, takes place over a very concentrated point in time — only a month, really — when the Civil War was limping to an end, and Lincoln was rushing to pass the 13th Amendment to ban slavery.

And yes, this is most certainly a film to look out for this Oscar season, although Hancock's Saving Mr. Banks was perhaps held in too high a regard sight - unseen before it was passed over for most of the major awards on nominations day, so a wee bit of caution is apt.

Not so however according to Revenge of the Fans, who said that it will in fact be part of the DCEU, although Jake Gyllenhaal is waiting in the wings to take over from Ben Affleck if and when Affleck decides to pass on the film...

The original movie grossed a little over $ 60 million worldwide back in 2001 from a budget of just under half of that, though the film has a huge following and gained a progressive cult status in the years that have passed since then.

But, in an age when CGI and digital technology are taking over the realm of animated filmmaking, I'm willing to give Burton a pass for that needless 21st - century enhancement to his otherwise moving and funny film, and his terrifically old - school approach to animation.

It is a lyrical, absorbing film, one that is hard to shake when it's over, like a great campfire story passed down through the generations.

She may be the last relatively untapped figure in British heritage cinema's well - worn library of queenly narratives, but she has once more been passed over for the privilege of fronting the latest middlebrow, true - life royal drama, fast becoming an annual fixture on the UK film calendar.

The realism of the film is one of the factors that makes it so great as it uses long takes and what seems like guerrilla styled filming at times to paint a detailed picture of the hardships of simply trying to survive whether it be a child passing time by scamming money for ice cream or a young mum trying to keep a roof over her daughter's head.

Taking over the action man reins from Matt Damon's amnesiac protagonist is Avengers star Jeremy Renner, whose profile continues to rise with each passing film.

by Walter Chaw I have a theory about Treat Williams: I believe that he, after being passed over for an Oscar for his magnificent performance in the 1981 Sidney Lumet film Prince of the City, has been on a vicious retributive rampage against the American viewing public.

Over four decades of film making, there's been plenty of talented people who have passed through Allen's films who, for whatever reason, didn't fulfil their acting promise.

However, I will note that over the years, I have seen the film in almost every possible circumstance and can promise that the chance to see the film in 70 mm is the kind of opportunity no film fan should pass up.

Despite both films being tipped for Oscars and receiving multiple nominations across categories, both Call Me By Your Name and Get Out were passed over for awards.

In a year that prognosticators keep telling us is a weak one for Best Actress contenders, passing over the astonishing tour - de-force central turn by Australian actress Essie Davis in the film seems like the kind of thing that future generations will shake their heads at.

Unfortunately this means that there's only fifteen minutes or so at the end to deal with the forty - odd year career in film, which means that masterpieces like «Shock Corridor» and «The Naked Kiss» are mostly passed over, with only his opus «The Big Red One» getting a fair shake.

Brandon Routh — who took the role after it had been passed over by Jude Law, Josh Hartnett and Paul Walker for fear of the curse — was a dead ringer for his predecessor but the film was overlong and is generally regarded as a disappointment.

From the gut - wrenching, step - by - step chronology of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad to seafaring cultists practicing Scientology - like rituals in the wake of World War II to the 16th president twisting arms over the passing of the 13th Amendment, the best films of 2012 brought history to life with an extraordinary scrupulousness that still left room for vivid artistic expression.

As each birthday passes (the film takes place on the same day over five years) her life evolves, specifically her relationship with Adam, played by Tony Goldwyn.

Since the film academy expanded the category in 2009, the only time the best picture category did not include a film by a DGA - nominated director was in 2011, when voters passed over David Fincher's «The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.»

Following the Bloom model I decided it should be an elitist canon, not populist, raising the bar so high that only a handful of films would pass over.

This film is the type that grows on you as time passes; it dominated the conversation over breakfast the next morning.

By the time Valentine's Day night, which gave it the 17th biggest non-opening Tuesday in box office history (landing it among Twilight and Lord of the Rings episodes), had passed, The Vow had pulled in over $ 56 million (an admirable finish line for most romance films) in just five days.

They passed over outstanding works like Elizabeth Olsen in Martha Marcy May Marlene, Juliette Binoche in Certified Copy, and Adepero Oduye in Pariah because either their films were «too small» or «too foreign» or «too uncomfortable» or is it simply, they don't watch movies that there buddy friends aren't in?

I've lost count of how many «versions» there now are of his early sci - fi masterpiece Blade Runner (1982) and, after years of threats, that film will have a sequel this October, Blade Runner 2049, though Scott opted to pass the directorial reigns over to Denis Villeneuve (Arrival).

It's an amazing film but it is so politically incorrect that it seems likely that it will be passed over this awards season, at least for the major prizes.

Having taking over composing reigns from Nino Rota after his passing for Frederico Fellini's last three films, among them the nostalgically swooning «Ginger and Fred,» Piovani was no stranger to the circus - like whimsy.

Despite over seventy years passing since The Wizard of Oz, Sam Raimi's film retains its style.

In a very competitive year there are bound to be films or performances that either for one reason or another, get passed over by voters.

That the film was passed over by Telluride is the only red flag right now, especially in the era of Telluride being the pre-Oscar festival must for your Best Picture player.

As allegations about Kevin Spacey's history of sexual assault and predation began to mount, Scott took the unprecedented step of recasting his part and reshooting key portions of the film; ironically, that meant giving the role of tycoon J. Paul Getty to Scott's first choice, Christopher Plummer, who had been passed over by the studio in favor of the more «bankable» Spacey.

Reunion's strength over that film, other than a writing team that work their damn hardest to send American Pie off in style properly, is that a sensible amount of time had passed.

Worse, Vanderbilt seems to be referring to author Thomas Hardy in the naming of Travolta's character (and Barbarino's recent sour grapes concerning his passing over Chicago doesn't say all that much for the film he was shooting instead), pushing the connection by tying Hardy's hallmarks of personal archetype and use of forces of nature as allegory into what is essentially a stupid rip - off of any stupid David Mamet film.

Over a year has passed since Deadpool lit up the box office, setting records for the month of February, R - rated films, and the X-Men franchise as a whole.

Instead, even with the melange of technological and geographic razzle - dazzle at the crew's disposal, there is very little joy in this film; the overall effect on screen bears more than a passing resemblance to what might have occurred with a hypothetical pairing of James Cameron and John Calvin; the decision to eliminate over seventy - five per cent of the cast within the first forty minutes doesn't help the situation very much.

The film is beautifully shot by Robert Richardson, and Fred Riskin takes over for Tarantino's long - time editor Sally Menke, who sadly passed away in 2010.

The director Patricia Cardoso — who's best known for her 2002 film Real Women Have Curves (which won a Sundance Audience Award)-- recalls how she was passed over to direct seven different feature films, and each time, the job went instead to a white male director.

Things get more vague when explanations for Alton's gifts come to light and passed over, perhaps one of the more unsatisfying elements of the film.

Sooner or later a film was bound to make 9/11 a glib plot point and with REIGN OVER ME, so it has come to pass.

Not much to add to that, apart from the observation that this dysfunctional family drama is a SIFF World Premiere, and like so many premieres has every earmark of a film passed over by Sundance and Tribeca.

We passed over a couple of fine animated features (at that point, Avatar was still a dark, threatening mass on the horizon) to give the award to a Venice premiere: Joe Dante's The Hole, a modestly budgeted horror film that displays an effortless mastery of the third dimension.

Whilst many have already given credit to the originality of the central plot about a curse being passed on by having sex, let us not forget the works of directors such as David Cronenberg and, if you want to go even more bizarre, Frank Henenlotter, who have both made films involving the distortion of sex and the idea of sex being the conduit for bad things to happen, And granted, the actual threat in It Follows is a supernatural one rather than one of the body turning on itself, but how many curse movies have there been since Ringu convinced us all that video tapes were credible vessels for evil beings from other dimensions to cross over and kill us?

«Pass Over» is a filmed stage production about «two young black men talking...

Amazon Studios has released the official trailer for Spike Lee's new feature «Pass Over,» a filmed stage production based on newcomer Antoinette Nwandu's play.

It's hard to think of any Steven Spielberg film as being overlooked, but whenever his career is assessed, «Empire of the Sun» seems to get passed over.

Edison favoured direct current and Westinghouse alternative current, and it was a titanic war of personalities and ideas, which incidentally involved a gruesome minor battle, which this film tactfully passes over: Edison tried to get the rival AC approach identified (and stigmatised) in the public mind with the death penalty and the electric chair, whose frazzling executions were macabre and often bungled.

While the film sometimes falls short of fully realizing its potential due to shifting tones and a couple other missteps, it's original and far too interesting to pass over.