What follows is one of the most outrageous
road films of all time.
Not exact matches
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film has no curing
time, vehicle off -
road holding periods are kept to a minimum, and a fast turnaround
of indoor and outdoor graphics in sign workshops can be achieved.
The first
film was full
of heart and humor that both children and adults could love; but by the
time the third
film rolled down the yellow brick
road, something had been lost.
For the fourth
time» Alvin and the Chipmunks» trashed childhood, since the beginning, was good, but the rest
of the
film has failed, or keep up with the proposal, much less beat «Star Wars: The Force Awakens «and the end is very ruined, did not find the meaning
of descenlace
of» the
Road Chip».
The
film's single downside is a certain nagging sense
of deja vu: the fact that so many
of the elements
of the story — the dark force, the all - empowering object, etc. — have been usurped over the years (by «Star Wars» and others) that you feel as if you've been down this
road many, many
times before.
No one can accuse Richard Farnsworth
of taking the easy
road to
film stardom: by the
time he finally got name - above - the - title billing, he was 61 years old, and had been in
films for 34
of those years.
One
of the most impressive things
of Bahrani and Bahareh Azimi «s script is that it sets up scenes which could have followed into much more dramatic outcomes but the writers chose to take the
road less traveled and in an odd way, by taking the less dramatic approach, the
film removes itself that much further from the majority
of indie
films that concern themselves with cramming the most amount
of drama into the least amount
of time.
Robert Osborne and Robert Wagner have known each other a long
time, so when I sat down with them on April 16, 2013 to talk about TCM's
Road to Hollywood presentation
of THE PINK PANTHER, the interview became a spirited three - way conversation about the magic
of film and filmmaking, as well as why there is... Read More»
The
film's pacing is languid, at
times hypnotic, especially effective in sequences where Vance rides his bike at impossible speeds along the back -
roads of the verdant yet barren South.
While The
Time of Their Lives has its charm, the lack
of kindness between its characters makes it a less than successful
road trip
film.
Payne's
film, written by fellow Nebraskan Bob Nelson, also offers a biography
of its central character delivered by unusual means, in this case a mosaic compiled one piece at a
time from former friends, enemies, and lovers
of Woody (Best Actor winner Bruce Dern), on the
road from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska with his son David (SNL alum Will Forte).
As she has expanded her story into a feature - length
film, Atsuko has crafted a
road movie that manages to balance absurdist bursts
of comedy with a probing, at
times deeply sad, character study.
Chow Yun - fat, at this
time the biggest star in the colony, hot off the smashing success
of A Better Tomorrow, plays the middle brother while pop star Jacky Cheung, himself on the
road to a successful
film career (he'd win the Supporting Actor Hong Kong
Film Award this year for his work in Wong Kar - wai's debut feature As Tears Go By), plays the youngest.
At one
time, she was meant to be among the cast
of «Mad Max: Fury
Road,» but fell out when the
film was delayed.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 5, 2010 BIG BUDGET
FILMS Due Date (R for profanity, sexuality and drug use) Robert Downey, Jr. and Zack Galifianakis co-star in this raunchy
road comedy about an uptight dad - to - be who hitches a ride across the country with a wacky slacker in order to make it on
time to witness the birth
of his baby.
A bizarre little
road movie
time capsule from the swinging 1960s, The Girl on a Motorcycle is a
film that connects via the breezy cool
of leads Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull — two actors near the height
of their stature at the
time of its making.
Written by Bob Nelson (the first
time Payne wasn't directly involved in writing a
film he's directed), the comedic drama stars Bruce Dern (who won best actor at Cannes and is a shoo - in for his first Oscar nomination in over 35 years) and Will Forte (
of «Saturday Night Live» fame, pulling off a largely dramatic role) as a father and son
road tripping it from Montana to Nebraska to claim the alleged prize money the mentally deteriorating father thinks he's won.
In 2015 alone, we've revisited Bond (for the 24th
time) in Spectre, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation is now the 5th
film spawned from the 60's TV show, Mad Max was rebooted with Fury
Road, Jurassic World and Star Wars: A Force Awakens tapped into the magic and excitement
of their predecessors and now Ryan Cooglar's Creed is a revisit to the boxing gyms
of Philadelphia and has much in common with the original Rocky
of 1976.
In development for decades by Francis Ford Coppola, who remains a key producer on the
film, the eagerly anticipated big screen adaptation
of Jack Kerouac «s «On The
Road» has been a long
time coming.
It's the
film's universal truths — among them the constant splintering and rebuilding
of familial relations, the open
road as an open - ended metaphor, and the need for continued purpose and relevancy as one grows older — that makes this six -
time Oscar nominee (including a Best Picture nod) less a movie involving a specific state and more a
film evoking a specific state
of mind.
Yet instead
of keeping this a tightly wound yarn
of imprisonment and escape, Verbinski — working from a script by Justin Haythe («The Lone Ranger,» «Revolutionary
Road»)-- opts for something bigger, grander and more operatic, sending the
film wildly off the rails over the course
of its far - too - long 146 - minute running
time.
At once a
road trip
film and also a profoundly moving meditation on aging and memory, Faces Places is one
of the best documentaries
of this century so far, and a resounding artistic statement by one
of the great filmmakers
of her
time.
Sexual awkwardness among people bonded in holy matrimony is the running theme
of this recent Sundance fave, written and directed by Patrick Brice (Creep) and produced by discomfort - loving indie filmmaker Mark Duplass (who's been down this
road many
times in
films he and his brother, Jay, have directed).
Cooke is perhaps the best thing in the
film, and one can see, given her big eyes and pale skin, that it's just a matter
of time before Tim Burton casts her in something down the
road.
When Alex Gibney, Matt Tolmach and Frank Marshall set out to make a
film about legendary cyclist Lance Armstrong, they were creating a positive
film highlighting the achievements
of the seven -
time Tour de France winner called The
Road Back.
Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set
of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director
of the
film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International
Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International
Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes
of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most
of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures
of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story
of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC
of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last
of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son
of Alvin, Night
of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn
of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor,
Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next
of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return
of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The
Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession
of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set
of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.
A mere sampling
of film composers who began their careers assisting Zimmer include John Powell (The Bourne Supremacy), Harry Gregson - Williams (Kingdom
of Heaven), Rupert Gregson - Williams (Wonder Woman), Klaus Badelt (The
Time Machine), Lorne Balfe (The Lego Batman Movie), Ramin Djawadi (Game
of Thrones), Heitor Pereira (Despicable Me), and Junkie XL (Mad Max: Fury
Road).
Thomas Newman's scored a few strange
films in his
time, and one
of them is Josh and Sam, a kind
of road movie in which two boys try to escape to Canada to avoid living in Florida with their father.
Time is the best critic and if a
film like Mad Max: Fury
Road and Spotlight can stay fresh and relevant all
of these months later there must be more to them than the temporary buzz that afflicts festival goers.
The
road trip itself is a vague oddity
of an extended sequence — if one will permit the metaphor, an off - key bridge in the middle
of a song — in a
film that, up until that point, has so clearly defined a very specific predicament for a very specific person in a very specific
time and place.
1981 — Close behind 1980 on peak, but with a few more good
films rounding out the depth is this year, led by three
of the greatest action films of all - time: Steven Spielberg's Raiders Of The Lost Ark, George Miller's The Road Warrior, and Wolfgang Peterson's Das Boo
of the greatest action
films of all - time: Steven Spielberg's Raiders Of The Lost Ark, George Miller's The Road Warrior, and Wolfgang Peterson's Das Boo
of all -
time: Steven Spielberg's Raiders
Of The Lost Ark, George Miller's The Road Warrior, and Wolfgang Peterson's Das Boo
Of The Lost Ark, George Miller's The
Road Warrior, and Wolfgang Peterson's Das Boot.
Wechsler's other producing credits are a distinctive and award - winning mix
of independent and studio
films including «The
Road,» a Venice Film Festival Golden Lion selection; «The
Time Traveler's Wife,» «We Own the Night,» a Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or selection; «The Fountain,» a Venice Film Festival Golden Lion selection; «North Country,» for which Charlize Theron and Frances McDormand earned Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominations; «Requiem for a Dream,» which earned an Independent Spirit Award Best Picture nomination and an Oscar nomination for star Ellen Burstyn; «The Yards,» a Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or selection; «Quills» a Best Picture winner from the National Board
of Review; «Eve's Bayou,» an Independent Spirit Award winner for Best First Feature; «Love Jones,» a Sundance Film Festival Audience Award winner for Best Film; «Little Odessa,» which won the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion Award; «The Player,» a Golden Globe Award winner for Best Motion Picture, Comedy; and «Drugstore Cowboy,» which took Best Film honors from the National Society
of Film Critics.
Was In the Course
of Time (Im Lauf der Zeit) retitled Kings
of the
Road to make the
film more commercial in the United States?
The interactive tablet application - part
of Tourism Australia's commitment to utilising cutting edge technology to tell Australia's story — has also been downloaded more than 6,000
times, allowing tech savvy users to delve deeper into the campaign and explore in further detail the 12 locations featured in the
film, together with additional content
of the Great Ocean
Road and Canberra.
It's been a long and arduous
road for the
film adaptation
of BioShock, one
of the most critically - acclaimed video games
of all
time.
Getting his very own game has been a long
time coming, as the
road warrior and his trusty shotgun take to the wilds of the wastelands once again in a unique adventure that takes its cue and plots from George Miller's 1979 grindhouse film and it's subsequent sequels, such as most recently, this summer's Mad Max: Fury R
road warrior and his trusty shotgun take to the wilds
of the wastelands once again in a unique adventure that takes its cue and plots from George Miller's 1979 grindhouse
film and it's subsequent sequels, such as most recently, this summer's Mad Max: Fury
RoadRoad.
But spend some
time watching the
films being screened on the monitors, and scanning the strange array
of books laid out on tables like leaflets - which cover topics from war tactics to witchcraft - and your mind is provoked into wandering off its usual course and into strange side
roads and back alleys
of thought.
Though the individual drawings, which make up the
film sequences, exist for only a brief second in real
time, their digital record provided the artist with references for a set
of 7 intaglio prints, collectively called The Music
of Things, presented in a box set by Stoney
Road Press.
As filmmaker Ted White and bike designer George Bliss noted while spending
time filming in China, at certain unmarked intersections cars just completely ignore cyclists on the side
of the
road waiting to cross until a certain «critical mass»
of them accumulate.
That said, it does feel dated, overdone and a little bit creaky in places, and A View To A Kill really marks the end
of the
road for «classic» Connery - Lazenby - Moore Bond - cinema was moving on, and it was
time to bring the iconic spy
film franchise into the modern era.
Created and directed by John Hillcoat (the director
of The Proposition and the
Road), this short
film chronicles a slice - in -
time of protagonist John Marston as he tracks down his former outlaw and friend, Bill Williamson.
Liz lived in the Sherbrooke
Road apartment for three years in the late 1980s, during which
time she appeared in the
film Rowing with the Wind (no, we've never heard
of it either) and fell in love with fellow cast member Hugh Grant, who was playing Lord Byron.