Sentences with phrase «penultimate film»

He described this, his penultimate film, as a digest of the nineteen definitive underworld set - ups that could be found in John Huston's picture of doomed gangsters, The Asphalt Jungle.

The real reason Weitz is giving for «The Twilight Saga: New Moon» being his penultimate film, according to MovieMaker Magazine, is the heavy studio influence on «The Golden Compass,» a film the director says -LSB-...]

«The Tale of the Princess Kaguya»: Studio Ghibli's penultimate film is a hand - drawn wonder, a passion project from legendary director Isao Takahata that spins a universal folktale about rebelling against societal dictates while staying true to its 10th - century Japanese roots.

As it was, it would be his penultimate film; Herrmann's last hurrah being his brilliant but atypical score for Taxi Driver (1976).

Studio Ghibli's penultimate film is a beautiful, melancholic fairytale, while Roy Andersson finds a perverse hope in life's futility

2020 Marvel Studios has already blocked out the date - supposedly for the penultimate film in their «Phase 3» plan though we don't yet know what that is.

Paul Walker's penultimate film appearance is a remake of Luc Besson's 2004 District B13.

Now we come to the penultimate film in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.

It's not exactly a story you'd think would lend itself to musical staging, but Minnelli, who pretty much invented the structure of narrative musical storytelling with Meet Me In St Louis, has not lost his touch even in this, his penultimate film, as the numbers seamlessly ingratiate themselves into the plot.

The French director Eric Rohmer told a similar story in his penultimate film, Triple Agent, and he achieved brilliance by channeling the thrills of seeing people talking in rooms, unpicking words and nuances, becoming spies in their own lives.

With Le cercle rouge, his diamond - hard penultimate film, Melville mounted one of his most masterful entries in the crime - thriller genre, an elegantly stylized heist film in which a taciturn trio of thieves (Alain Delon, Yves Montand, and Gian Maria Volonté) orchestrate an intricate jewelry - store robbery, their fates hanging in the balance as a dogged police inspector (André Bourvil) closes in.

That gets the attentions of their square parents (played by Dante alums Joe Flaherty, Robert Picardo, Belinda Balaski, Dee Wallace, and, in his penultimate film, Christopher Stone), police officers, and one savvy private investigator (Dante favorite Dick Miller in a scene - stealing role).

This is Robert Bresson in an interview with Paul Schrader in Paris in 1976 during a production hiatus on his penultimate film, The Devil, Probably (1977), a staggering portrait of eco-hysteria.

This routine, often disappointing, «B» - grade, low - budget western is directed by Edward L. Cahn and was the penultimate film of his career.

Not exact matches

The penultimate scene conveyed to me a sense of cosmic joy I have not seen in any other film.

If this is the penultimate ending of the Marvel universe and the characters we love, then I can't (maybe don't) want to see what the final Avengers film will bring.

Each film in this penultimate group also sounds interesting enough on paper that we can't resist including it here, but is only tentatively scheduled for 2013 (or has yet to even begin filming).

Akin's film is the penultimate title to premiere in competition at Cannes, and while it doesn't seem headed for big awards, it still hit me hard in ways I didn't quite expect.

This penultimate «Twilight» film is the best in the series so far.

Thankfully, there's no big, glowing, CGI deus ex machina waiting as Black Panther's ultimate big bad, but the film's penultimate major battle is chock full of just enough explosions to scratch your itch if you're into that kind of thing.

The penultimate installment in the YA film franchise starring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen was number one again at the box office in its second week in theaters with an estimated $ 56.9 million.

Thankfully, after an underwhelming penultimate effort that outstayed its welcome courtesy of a prolonged road trip narrative, the final film sends the series off in the style it deserves.

Life of Riley, the final film from the director (he passed away in 2014, a few months after the film's debut), is his third adaptation of British playwright Alan Ayckbourn and, like his penultimate feature You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (2012), revolves around the theater.

Spall spends most of the film loafing around depressed and miserable, but in the penultimate scene, we seem him in a new light.

(A more literal problem of translation involves the film's crucial, penultimate line, which is wildly misrendered.)

The open casting call for extras — which appeared on MovieCastingCall.org — lists all of the characters that will return for the penultimate «Avengers» film.

Daniel Craig is back in his penultimate iconic performance of James Bond in the new film, Spectre, which will be released in November 2015.

When Frances is doing nothing but drifting aimlessly, it's hard to escape the feeling that the film is doing the same — right up to its contrived and hard - to - credit penultimate scene, where the desultory suddenly becomes upbeat.

Spearheading the effort is game - maker cum turncoat for the resistance Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in his penultimate performance) and President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore, new to the series), attempting to create a wedge through the use of propaganda pieces with the help of a film crew (headed by Natalie Dormer) looking to unite the districts behind Katniss, the titular Mockingjay.

Also in 1996, Akerman directed what might be described as her penultimate attempt at a «commercial» feature film, the light romantic fantasy Un divan à New York (A Couch in New York), starring William Hurt and Juliette Binoche, which despite its star power sat on the shelf for a while, before opening quietly at Anthology film Archives in Manhattan in November, 1997.

Colfer previously wrote the screenplay for the big - screen adaptation of his book Struck by Lightning, the Brian Dannelly film in which he starred, as well as an episode of Glee, season 5 «s penultimate hour «Old Dog, New Tricks.»

The real star is the enormous glistening caftan that Streep, as publisher Katharine Graham, wafts about in when the film's penultimate moment arrives.