The only
real piece of this film that could be classified as «grounded» are the relationships, mainly of Eggsy, Merlin, and the returning Harry (Colin Firth).
Not exact matches
Anyone familiar with the more intellectual forms
of pop criticism (whether
of music or
film) will recognize it as a parody
of the Rolling Stone critic — a parody so good that, for a moment, one is almost convinced the
piece is the
real thing:
Of course, «The Peacemaker's» real selling point is action, and Leder proves herself a crackerjack action director, with some seriously intense set - pieces — a train wreck that opens the film, a horrifying nuclear blast, a car chase in a crowded plaza, a foot chase through the streets of New York and, best of all, a nail - biting standoff on a bridge between a truck armed with nuclear weapons and military helicopter
Of course, «The Peacemaker's»
real selling point is action, and Leder proves herself a crackerjack action director, with some seriously intense set -
pieces — a train wreck that opens the
film, a horrifying nuclear blast, a car chase in a crowded plaza, a foot chase through the streets
of New York and, best of all, a nail - biting standoff on a bridge between a truck armed with nuclear weapons and military helicopter
of New York and, best
of all, a nail - biting standoff on a bridge between a truck armed with nuclear weapons and military helicopter
of all, a nail - biting standoff on a bridge between a truck armed with nuclear weapons and military helicopters.
Based on a
real piece choreographed by Ohad Naharin and appropriately scored to the classic Passover jam «Echad Mi Yodea» (a fun song that simplifies an age - old struggle), this opening gambit offers a prime example
of the forcefulness missing from the rest
of the
film, even though Padilha finds a way to bring Batsheva back.
Is it a
real film, or a feature that uses the porn milieu to turn out a
piece of softcore titillation that's halfway between porn and actual drama?
Featuring hand sewn fabric garments and
real rooted hair, every detail
of this
piece has been carefully considered by the PCS team
of artisans, themselves huge fans
of the HALLOWEEN
film.»
That's harder said than done, resulting in a relationship that not only feels more
real than most
of the
films this year, but plays a big part in its success as a romantic dramedy and an enchanting
piece of science fiction.
As a
piece of fiction it does raise issues with
real world repercussions, and the
film certainly made me think.
This early test edit
of the
real match would help Martin work with directors to create the perfect climactic set
piece for their
film.
The documentary is very nicely done, drawing in many different people who were involved in the making
of the
film; it's very much a
real documentary rather than a promotional
piece.
The best thing about the
film, though, is that even though it's all about
real events and
real people, it still feels like a very well - written
piece of fiction — not to say it feels unrealistic, it's more to say that the characters are more developed and intriguing than in most biopics.
The
film doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it's a sturdy, tonally assured
piece of work with a winning specificity to its voice and setting, giving Murray a
real gift
of a part in one
of his best performances, one that the audience have clearly responded to in a big way.
The story, cobbled together by the director and young
film enthusiasts Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci, plays like a collection
of the genre's greatest hits: the tense,
real - time set
pieces of High Noon; the mysterious hero
of Shane; the encroaching antlike forces
of civilization as explored in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
«Suburbicon,» a George Clooney - directed»50s - era period
piece that touches on very
real issues
of integration within a borderline surreal dark comedy, recently saw filmmakers conduct an interview in a Hollywood trade that positioned the
film as a post-Charlottesville movie
of the moment.
«Big» is such a classic
piece of film and it also was a
real turning point for Tom Hanks as an actor.
David Lynch's Mulholland Drive contends that the answer to the eternal struggle between what is
real and what is fantasy comes in the form
of a Keatsian confusion — it's the difference between Adam's dream and Eve rendered flesh, blurred in the mind
of the creator and his audience.A
film is a dream
of the director made tangible, a conceit familiar from the fourth wall - breaking in Ingmar Bergman's Persona (banishing any mystery there might have been regarding the visual references to that
film in Lynch's
piece), and a movie's characters therefore become projections
of its maker's sublimated longing (clarifying too the auteur's use
of wardrobe and colour schemes from Hitchcock's meditation on objectification, Vertigo, as well as those
of his first collaboration with inamorata Tippi Hedren, The Birds).
But this week's competition is facing her down with a
real buried gem, somebody only the mosy diligent
of cineastes has heard
of and whose
film adaptation
of a serious difficult
piece of theater just hit theaters this past weekend... a Saoirse Ronan?
That's harder said than done, resulting in a relationship that not only feels more
real than most
of the
films last year, but plays a big part in its success as a romantic dramedy and an enchanting
piece of science fiction.
Exclusive to the Blu - ray is a thorough and detailed commentary track by director / writer Richard Kelly, the featurette «The Box: Grounded in Reality» (about the
real - life history
of his parents that inspired the characters), three brief yet quite efficient snapshots
of the
film's digital effects, a trio
of bonus mood
piece shorts (more ominous suggestions
of otherworldly surveillance) and a bonus digital copy
of the
film for portable media players.
As the
film draws towards its finale, so Howard finally really releases the shackles and allows the music to go full - pelt - «It's God» with a soaring trumpet theme; «The Final Climb» reprises a couple
of earlier themes, Howard once again combining conflicting emotions with
real class; and finally, a lovely end credits
piece which is very recognisably from this composer, and one
of the album's certain highlights.
Undoubtedly a high speed adventure, this
film's
real genius lies beyond the actors» faces and directly on the shoulders
of stunt coordinator Charlie Picerni (Lethal Weapon, Die Hard), who was in charge
of the stressful and exciting action
pieces that had Hawke's Magna racing against the clock for ninety minutes.
While that is a very definite part
of why the
film is one
of the most effective
pieces of cinema I've ever seen, I'm glad it's being noticed because
of the very
real issue that it tackles — hidden pedophilia within the Catholic Church.
When Andrew decides to contribute a
film to the Humpday fest (a
real - life amateur porno festival sponsored by Seattle alternative weekly The Stranger), a
piece of art that will «push boundaries,» Ben proposes (in front
of a crowd
of artist - types) that the two
of them — two straight men — have sex on camera as a radical performance
piece.
Though it delivers the familiar blend
of production footage and interview comments, one comes away from this
piece getting a
real sense
of the
filming, as we hear from author Neil Gaiman, director Matthew Vaughn, and assorted cast and crew members.
Additional bonus material on the final disc includes Eric Vespe's Butt - Numb - a-Thon greeting from 2011, the «Rivers
of Gold» music video, a not - very - clever fake hit
piece on one
of the dwarf actors «The
Real Adam Brown» and a touching tribute to cinematographer Andrew Lesnie, who passed away shortly after the
film was released.
Sony's new
film You Are My Friend, directed by Marielle Heller, is being distributed by TriStar Pictures and is inspired by the
real - life friendship between magazine writer Tom Junod who reluctantly takes a job to do a feature
piece on Fred Rogers and it changes his perception
of the world.
The
piece reveals the personal nature
of the
film (shot at Shanley's first grade, where the
real Sr..
One
of the
film's gimmicks is a
piece of software (seriously, the programs in this movie make the «Zoom, enhance» stuff on CSI look 100 %
real) that renders people and locations into abstract, polygonal shapes made up
of multiple camera angles.
Damien Chazelle's second
film is the story
of two struggling artists — jazz pianist Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and wannabe actor Mia (Emma Stone)-- who don't exactly meet cute, then do before going on to have a very
real relationship (cleverly camouflaged as
piece of fluff musical).
«Boyhood»: Richard Linklater's masterwork, and a
piece of cinema as superb as it is unique, with one boy's step - by - step trek through the years brought to meaningful, beautiful life in a
film made up almost entirely
of the kinds
of real, wrenching and funny scenes other, lesser movies either cut or never include in the first place.
MGM altered
Pieces of April's one sheet for home video in much the same way, and I guess my frustration with these changes is that they epitomize anti-intellectualism — there's
real canniness in the matter -
of - fact images
of Holmes that were used to market the theatrical releases
of these
films.
Japanese games almost exclusively use cutscenes;
pieces of pre-rendered or
real - time video that further the story through traditional
film style.
As gamers make matches, cards called CineBits appear along the bottom
of the screen, relating to individual movie stars (based on
real actors and actresses), narrative
pieces and even
film bonuses (like happy endings or pre-launch buzz).
The exhibition will include some the collective's key
pieces including their
film works, KI - AI 100, Black
of Death and
REAL TIMES.
Additionally a new video installation The Destruction quartet 2006 will be launched at this exhibition: it includes fragments
of symbolic and
real - life destruction acts that Jonas Mekas witnessed and
filmed through the years: Nam June Paik destroying a piano; Australian based artist Danius Kesminas» fire
piece in New York in 1983; the destruction
of the Berlin Wall in 1990; and 9/11.
Showcasing work by 29 artists
of varying race, ethnicity and gender (including David Hammons, Lorna Simpson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pat Ward Williams, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Lyle Ashton Harris and Andres Serrano, among others), the show, through installation
pieces, photography, sculpture,
film and video, presents a range
of representation — images that «challenge and transform the «negative» stereotypes,» «
real and imagined,» writes Golden in the exhibition catalogue.
At the time it was claimed this was to provide a less distracting backdrop for
film and photographs but it was reported that the
real reason was the panic
of his advisers at the thought
of Powell being recorded in front
of such a famous
piece of pacifist propaganda.
The huge exhibition moves from a diptych
of Hans Namuth's
film of Jackson Pollock at work, playing on a monitor next to Pollock's Number 1 (1949), through - among so many other things - Japanese Gutai painting performances from the»50s; photo - documentation
of Valie Export's Genital Panic (1969), in which Export, in crotchless jeans and packing an Uzi, roamed the aisles
of a porn cinema challenging viewers to deal with the
real thing (there's that «
real» thing again); relics
of Hermann Nitsch's bloody ritual drama, Asolo Raum (1971), to the most recent works, set
pieces by Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy.