Sentences with phrase «remarkable little film»

Search is a unique and remarkable little film that was made with a lot of passion.

Breathlessly paced and with bright colors amid an impoverished setting, Slumdog Millionaire is that remarkable little film find we've been waiting for all year.

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To the film's credit, these facts are conveyed with a remarkable of degree of restraint though the fact that you actually see very little of this shocking mayhem doesn't make you feel any less sullied and violated for the mere idea of these crimes having penetrated your consciousness.

While a little dated, the special effects in the film are pretty remarkable and some of the kills are pretty well executed and intense.

At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay films of the 1950s and»60s; his five - film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune in terms of both drama and swordplay, yet remains little - known in the West (despite its availability on DVD in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others) in 2008, most of Uchida's films remained unscreened and undistributed in America, so with MOMA's bigger series recently ending, it's time again to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video to bring out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.

Unlike The Silent Revolution, The Captain's narrative focus is not on the victims (who eventually become victors) of history but the perpetrators — a true rarity in the history of German cinema that is made even more remarkable by the fact that the film does not concern itself with the famous culprits (as does Oliver Hirschbiegel's Der Untergang [Downfall, 2004]-RRB- but, rather, with the «unknown» wrongdoers, that is, the «little guys» who, once afforded the opportunity, displayed the same murderous tendencies than their more famous leaders.

This is a remarkable film in many ways - angry, visceral, brimming with testosterone and not a little self - mythologising (Mullan describes his gang membership as «I was a total tourist»)- and has touches of Taxi Driver and Ken Loach about it.

Nonetheless 3 WOMEN remains a remarkable, still - unsung, largely unloved and marvelously detailed and orchestrated motion picture experience, the likes of which I do not believe ANYBODY has ever come into contact with before or since and I am both pleased and gratified that it shall forever remain available on movie shelves, the internet or archival libraries for the potential enlightenment of future film enthusiasts both brave and open - minded enough to give this quiet, magnificent little film a try.

«When the opportunity arose to work with Little White Lies to create a special edition t - shirt that would pay homage to Greta's remarkable film, it was a dream collaboration.

The most fascinating thing about WALL · E is its remarkable ability to retain your attention despite there being little dialogue (at times, no dialogue), considering it is a «kids» film anyway.

There's also something remarkable about how little credit Malcolm D. Lee has received for delivering reliably entertaining films for years, including «The Best Man» and «Undercover Brother.»

Oldroyd, in his film debut, shows a remarkable confidence: There's no background music and little dialogue; instead, we hear the wind whipping through the fields like an angry banshee, and the click of Katherine's teeth as she clamps her mouth shut, presumably in order to make a sound in the endless silence of her new home.

Her performance is particularly remarkable given that there is little dialogue in the film.

His film runs a little long, and its concluding boxing showdown can't live up to the remarkable high bar set by an earlier bout shot in a single jaw - dropping take, but in general Coogler turns out to be an excellent successor to Stallone's throne behind the scenes.