Sentences with phrase «period war film»

Oh, and He imagines himself in a variety of scenarios including South Korean soap opera and period war film, and His heart manifests as a character from a pulp detective story because f*ck you.

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For that to happen, Star Wars will have to break through in a usually crowded December period for movies, a month where no film has broken past $ 100 million in its opening weekend.

Just wait for Summer» 17, where we'll have the Beauty and the Beast live - action film, Star Wars: Episode VIII, Toy Story 4, and another Pirates of the Caribbean in a single four - month period.

Closer to home, over the Christmas period a 60 - second advert, featuring the Lord's Prayer and due to be shown before the new Star Wars film, was banned.

It's a quiet film with no score and set during the height of the Civil War, but it's masterfully edited to be a period piece that keeps you glued to your seat.

The film sheds light on one of the most private royals of recent years who overcame great personal struggles, reluctantly accepting his place as King and uniting his country, providing faith and hope through one of the darkest periods of modern history, the Second World War.

Although allegedly located in the wheat - growing area of World War I Texas in the early part of the 20th century, the film was shot on location in Alberta, Canada over a two - year period.

Two potentially higher - profile films, the disco period film 54 (1998) and Ang Lee's Civil War epic Ride With the Devil (1999), failed to make a positive impression on critics and audiences.Ruffalo's luck began to change, however, when he was cast in an off - Broadway production of This Is Our Youth.

Niccol has clearly been inspired by films such as Goodfellas and Boogie Nights, and initially infuses Lord of War with a similar sensibility - complete with period - appropriate rock songs on the soundtrack (ie Eric Clapton's «Cocaine» plays during a drug - heavy sequence).

If almost anyone else would inject hip - hop into a pre-Civil War film, the result would look silly, but Tarantino pulls it off with ease; one never even becomes conscious of the disconnect between period and music.

A period piece, of course, the film starts out in the mid to late 1940's, as America was finally done with the second World War and Hollywood was booming.

Junge, detained in Russia for a period at the end of World War II before finding work as a magazine editor, treats the unseen Heller like a priest; one might say that her regret drives the piece, resulting in not a lurid film about Hitler (which has disappointed those critics out for something pulpier), but a deathbed confession.

«Snapshot in Time: 1967 -» 68» (19:15) discusses the history of the Vietnam War in the period dramatized in the film with comments from Stone, historians, and an assortment of military veterans.

The feminist serial killer road movie Butterfly Kiss, the Bosnian war pic «Welcome to Sarajevo», the period property drama «The Claim» and the Manchester docu - comedy 24 Hour Party People might appear to be films with nothing in common, but in fact all are collaborations between director Michael Winterbottom and writer Frank Cottrell Boyce, who together have shown an ability to produce consistently interesting works in any and every genre.

Instead of conveying the horror the Armenians faced during this period, the deaths all too conveniently shift the film's focus back to the central trio, and the mens» tug of war for Ana's affections.

That first movie, 1977's Star Wars, is to date still the only one (and one of the very few science fiction films, period) to have garnered a Best Picture Oscar... Read

Instead, the film lingers on the war period and the Bletchley years, where it's most comfortable as an ensemble, getting - the - team together drama.

But where Harris's novel understood its place in the bittersweet, paranoid zeitgeist, Black Sunday, with its all - star cast (Robert Shaw two years after Jaws, Bruce Dern at his peak, Marthe Keller a year removed from Marathon Man), megalomaniacal producer Robert Evans, and blockbuster aspirations, proves to be another Star Wars - style harbinger of the impending end of what was possibly the most amazing period in film in history.

Now add to that the pictures of various MCU stars filming what looks to be «period» scenes on the set of Infinity War / Avengers 4, then everyone's theories of time travel seem to stand up.

Even though the film is due in less than three months, we're just now getting our first look at Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford in the true story of the «Rathergate» period of CBS News when Dan Rather was unceremoniously on his way out after a 2004 report about George W. Bush's ability to avoid service during the Vietnam War...

If the film feels Old Hollywood in that the stars are pretty, the heroes are tough, and the sex is good but the brutality is better, then excavate the ways that this period in our history dissolves into period noir: shells of men entrusted with the rebuilding of our society, with dangerous women and effete men (abortion rights and gay marriage vs. the evacuation of civil rights and ground wars in the Middle East) embodying the greater peril.

In this period, he tackled an Oscar - winning drama about alcoholism (The Lost Weekend), two well - regarded film noirs (Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard), a war drama (Stalag 17), two light - hearted rom - coms (Sabrina, Seven Year Itch) a gripping murder - mystery (Witness for the Prosecution) and perhaps the funniest American movie of all time (Some Like It Hot).

Unlike the War in Iraq / Afghanistan, WWII seems to dominate the box office like no other period of worldly conflict, so it shouldn't be too difficult for Jolie's film to find success, especially given the fact that distributing studio Universal has had a consistent outpour of hits since 2012's Les Misérables.

That intense storytelling approach is helped by the period setting — the Iraq War begins during the film, unfolding in the background and dialing up the sense of a world thrown into chaos.

The six all - powerful stones (originally known as gems in the Marvel comics) have popped up in nine of the franchise's fourteen films, movies ranging in scope and tone from the World War II period piece «Captain America: The First Avenger» to the outer space adventure film «Guardians of the Galaxy.»

I don't know what to say, other than, if Disney has been making a lot of steps in the right direction overall as a company, with features like Moana, and Star Wars, and (finally if late to the table) Marvel films, then asking for every movie, including period films set in Europe, might be over-correcting the ship.

The film is set in 1938, near the beginning of the Shōwa era in Japan, a tempestuous period that ended in 1989 with Hirohito's death and included such major traumatic events as the Sino - Japanese War, WWII, and the Allied occupation of Japan.

With its period setting during the English Civil War and its increasingly abstract visual schema, A Field in England is Ben Wheatley's most ambitious film to date.

After tracing how the discoveries of Turing's World War II decoding machine led to the modern computer, Cumberbatch clarified that the Morten Tyldum - directed film «is not a period drama» but is «utterly relevant» now because of its discussion of Joan Clarke's (Keira Knightley) plight in a male - dominated workplace, as well as Turing's secret homosexual status, for which he was punished by the British government and eventually triggered his suicide.

This film is a period piece, a romance, a war tale, and a fictional apology letter, something so complicated that it takes your breath away, while also being so magical that you can't help but fall in love.

Due to its World War I setting, Wonder Woman is often as much of a period piece as it is a superhero film.

The conflict at the film's center is a familiar standoff between good and evil (or «love and war»), and the romantic aspects occasionally become quite saccharine, but the fusion of mythological elements, period settings, comedy, and standard superhero action makes for an entertaining experience that's more than the sum of its parts.

Not fearless enough to nose the camera in the dramatic mire, like a soldier to the cause in a personal guerrilla war, Diego Luna «s film beckons a paint - by - numbers summary of the man's greatest achievements, the spark notes of a six - plus year period that glosses all with thin coats, rarely taking the opportunity to remain in the moment and settle in with the hard - won emotional beats of the characters.

Set in an interesting period that suggests the existence of the Cold War between the US and Russia, the film lurks in the shadows where trust is a commodity that no one can afford to lose for the fear of sparking a huge international embarrassment or a full - scale wWar between the US and Russia, the film lurks in the shadows where trust is a commodity that no one can afford to lose for the fear of sparking a huge international embarrassment or a full - scale warwar.

But after a few months on the DCEU project, MacLaren departed over creative differences — there were rumors that she wanted the film to be set in a far earlier time period than World War I, but it's officially unclear as to exactly why MacLaren left the project.

Jasper Jones captures the time period, drawing in elements of the Vietnam War and the dissolution of the nuclear family, but it may be overly ambitious in trying to cram too much from the novel into the film.

In the film's seemingly out - of - left - field flashes to a period some 80 years after the war and the aftermath, it's about how the problems of the past never truly leave us.

Lawrence Roeck's film has been explicitly conceived as an opportunity for the younger Eastwood to emulate the persona that cemented his elder's legend, fusing elements of The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, Unforgiven, and the Dollars trilogy into a revenge narrative spanning portions of the American West during the period of unrest following the Civil War.

This beautifully photographed civil war era period piece tells a similar story to the 1971 film that was directed by Don Siegel and starred Clint Eastwood.

Post World War II British Cinema was one of the richest periods in film history.

Two very different, very British films cover a specific period in World War II: the evacuation of British soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, France.

The new footage is uneven — the dubbing is often jarring and the film quality varies — and consists mostly of short scenes that reinforce the story's Civil War backdrop, which fades from view for extended periods in the original release.

Joe Wright's film charts the best speeches that Churchill gave leading to the U.K.'s foray into World War II (some of the best speeches ever given, period), and Oldman bites into them and chews forcibly.

The film with the most advance buzz is Amazon Studios» Pawel Pawlikowski period war romance «Cold War.&raqwar romance «Cold War.&raqWar.»

What's constantly frustrating about The Current War is that it has an interesting period of history and three historically important figures, but the film has no idea how to use them.

His debut film, Safety Not Guaranteed, features everything from jeans jackets, Star Wars references and a time travel plot to rival the seminal series of the period, Back to the Future.

The latest from Bertrand Tavernier («Round Midnight), this period drama is set in the 1500's, during the reign of Charles IX, when France was decimated by religious wars, as Catholics and Protestants slaughtered one another.Tavernier skillfully manages a romantic roundelay, in which three suitors vie for the love of the Princess of Montpelsier who, of course (it's a French film, after all), is already married.

The setting is Cold War - era America, and while this informs the film's heightened period aesthetic, it is incidental to its arc.

Birdmen sets the engrossing story of the Wrights» war with Curtiss against the thrilling backdrop of the early years of manned flight, and is rich with period detail and larger - than - life personalities: Thomas Scott Baldwin, or «Cap» t Tom» as he styled himself, who invented the parachute and almost convinced the world that balloons were the future of aviation; John Moisant, the dapper daredevil who took to the skies after three failed attempts to overthrow the government of El Salvador, then quickly emerged as a celebrity flyer; and Harriet Quimby, the statuesque silent - film beauty who became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.

If you recall, I previously called for Star Wars games to move away from the films, and focus on unexplored time periods.