Sentences with phrase «road movie about»

These trance - like confessions and conversations are inter-cut with images of squid and fish, which — together with glimpses of Prouvost's body and the landscape of LA — form a poetic road movie about the vague promises and wistful possibilities of youth.

A bittersweet road movie about the joy and sadness of ageing directed by the great Alexander Payne.

The Coens / Burnett tribute was tied to «Inside Llewyn Davis,» a road movie about a down - on - his - luck folk musician (inspired by Dave Van Ronk and played by Oscar Isaac) in early»60s Greenwich Village.

British writer - director Andrea Arnold heads to the US for a bold, flawed road movie about American teens.

Much like the films of Tony Gatlif (Gadjo Dilo, 1997, Transylvania 2006), The Ballad of the Weeping Spring is a road movie about celebrating community through music.

The original Hollywood romcom, this whipsmart road movie about an heiress on the run and the sleazy reporter who picks up her trail scandalised America in the 1930s.

The film is an offbeat road movie about a devout Christian wife (Harris) who sets off to find her dying husband's biological son - a grubby 23 - year - old she knew nothing about (O'Leary).

London meets its maker in this charming, frazzled shoestring road movie about two pals braving the apocalypse.

A sweet, shambling, supremely enjoyable road movie about two compulsive gamblers of very different stripes, Mississippi Grind could easily be confused for one of Alexander Payne's wounded comedies, albeit one with higher stakes and a lower thread - count.

Wrapped up in a goofy road movie about male strippers» last hurrah, this is the most quietly radical film Hollywood has made in years.

In 1999, when director Alfonso Cuarón was asked to contribute to a series of sexually explicit movies, he and his brother / writing partner turned to an idea proposed to them ten years earlier for a «road movie about some guys who go to the beach.

Even by Ben Wheatley's genre - busting standards, this film is a triumph, centring on comedy and romance in a road movie about two violent serial killers.

This is a road movie about the Middle East.

It's an intimate road movie about one family, yet it also lingers on the landscapes and fabric of an old - time, dying vision of the American Midwest.

A music - fueled road movie about a naive youth from the Australian outback on his way to seek fame and fortune in Nashville.

An out - there, sometimes wacky, often mystical road movie about a lone Japanese journeyingacross Iceland to perform a family ritual.

A road movie about a family that is forced to come together, for better or worse.

«Old Joy» helmer Kelly Reichardt plays to her strengths in Wendy and Lucy, a modest yet deeply felt road movie about an idealistic young drifter, her faithful canine and the wide - open spaces of the Pacific Northwest.

You can practically smell the cigarette smoke and bourbon - soaked desperation wafting through «Mississippi Grind,» a nicely observed throwback of a road movie about a pair of gambling addicts en route from Dubuque, Iowa, to a high - stakes poker game in New Orleans.

This self - consciously kooky road movie about an unusual trio of bank robbers aims for Hal Ashby misanthropy, but hasn't a single emotionally grounded or plausible moment to justify its purely cinematic eccentricities.

Not exact matches

No matter how much Netflix spent to buy, say, a movie about a road trip to pick up a lounge chair (yeah, we didn't see The Puffy Chair either), others could turn around and distribute it just as easily.

That movie, for all it's exhilarating presentation of youthful life on the road as you experience those who make music which can speak to large audiences, is nonetheless all about how you ought to get sucked into the rock «n roll way of life (albeit eschewing the drugs and sex part of it) because somehow rock «n roll is supposedly important.

We've got a little ways to go in terms of some of the movie's predictions (where we're going, we still need roads) and we're being lied to about others.

Many in Hollywood say they see the spiritual - memoir - turned - movie as the next hot genre, suggesting there are ongoing talks about turning Lauren Winner's «Girl Meets God» into a romantic comedy, Ian Cron's «Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me» into an action flick, Anne Lamott's «Traveling Mercies» into an indie road trip film, Kathleen Norris» «The Cloister Walk» into something really creepy involving monks.»

I am so far down the road of sufganiyot testing and hallmark movie watching that I have to remind myself that thanksgiving still hasn't happened or else I'll get confused about the turkey cupcakes on my Instagram feed.

Great cooking, like a great road movie, isn't always about the destination — half the fun is just getting there.

After six months of work, the team formed by CSIC staff and the LuzLux production company, among others, has completed the documentary «Nanocosmos, a journey to the origins of dust grains, a road movie which talks about the technological and human challenge that lies behind the development of instruments in the area of Laboratory Astrophysics.

There are a few beguiling moments in Holy Motors, particularly a martial - arts sequence and an erotic dance while Mr. Oscar is dressed in a motion - capture body suit, but the road between those moments is so strewn with stalled ideas that audiences who care about character and plot are liable to take the exit to a movie that makes sense.

American movie audiences don't like movies about «these sorts of people»; we prefer it when the poverty line is something to be crossed, and then crossed back the other way, the way Will Smith did on the road to bootstraps fame and fortune in «The Pursuit of Happyness.»

«Hunt for the Wilderpeople» becomes a road movie with no road, a film about two people who may seem entirely different but have both been discarded by society.

During this recent interview to discuss the TV version of Zombieland, co-creators and executive producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick talked about the journey from TV series to movie and now back to TV pilot, what it's been like to work with Amazon, what motivated the decision to have the same characters from the movie on the TV show, how they envision it as a road show, how much gore they can have, what Kirk Ward (who was originally cast as Tallahassee before being replaced by Woody Harrelson) brings to this version of the character, what led them to the 30 - minute format, whether they could have any surprise cameos (Bill Murray made a very memorable one in the film), what will determine whether the pilot is successful enough to go to series, and when they might know if they're picked up.

: Perhaps the experts in road - movie treatments, we affectionately think back to examples such as About Schmidt and Sideways and think the prospects for this project are very good indeed.

John Lee (Inside Amy Schumer, Broad City) is directing the latest road trip movie and Herman has begun blogging about the experience.

While most filmmakers and actors visit the convention generally to promote a comic book movie or an adaptation of some kind, director Oliver Stone and Open Road Films brought a biopic about Edward Snowden (played by Joseph Gordon - Levitt) to Hall H.

And not because there was anything particularly grisly being shown (although when the movie does go down that road, holy hell, is it painful), but because I genuinely worried about what was going to happen.

-- compiled into a road movie with shades of About Schmidt and Little Miss Sunshine, and a morbid streak that comes in to cut the quirkiness just a little bit too late.

There have been other sports movies about racial barriers, including «Remember the Titans,» «Glory Road» and «The Express.»

Fans of whimsical American indie movies will enjoy this ramshackle road comedy about a couple of losers who only come to life when they play their music.

Up the Junction (1965), The End of Arthur's Marriage (1965), In Two Minds (1967), (500) Days of Summer (2009), Bananas (1971), Cathy Come Home (1966), The Rank and File (1971), 3 Clear Sundays (1965), The Big Flame (1969), Poor Cow (1967), Kes (1969), The Gamekeeper (1980), Riff - Raff (1991), Raining Stones (1993), Midnight in Paris (2011), Blackjack (1979), Looks and Smiles (1981), Family Life (1971), Fatherland (1986), Hidden Agenda (1990), Ladybird Ladybird (1994), McLibel (Extended Edition)(2005), Land and Freedom (1995), Carla's Song (1996), My Name Is Joe (1998), Bread and Roses (2000), The Navigators (2001), Sweet Sixteen (2002), Ae Fond Kiss (2004), The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), Route Irish (2010), The Angel's Share (2012), Jimmy's Hall (2014), The Spirit of ’45 (2013), It's a Free World... (2007), I, Daniel Blake (2016), Raghs Dar Ghobar (Dancing in the Dust)(2003), Shar - Re Ziba (Beautiful City)(2004), Chaharshanbe - Soori (Fireworks Wednesday)(2006), Trainspotting (1996), About Elly (2009), A Separation (2011), Looking For Eric (2009), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Border Radio (1987), Gas Food Lodging (1992), Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)(1993), Grace of My Heart (1996), Four Rooms (1995), Things Behind the Sun (2001), Mystery Girl (A Crush On You)(2011), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Beaches (1988), The Cabin in the Woods (2011), Ring of Fire (2013), Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), Dog Soldiers (2002), The Descent (2005), Doomsday (2008), Centurion (2010), Moana (2016), Speed Racer (2008), Good Night and Good Luck (2005), Hollywood Boulevard (1976), Piranha (1978), Rock»n' Roll High School (1979), For the Love of Spock (2016), The Howling (1981), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), Explorers (1985), Innerspace (1987), Gremlins (1984), The» Burbs (1989), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) Matinee (1993), The Second Civil War (1997), Small Soldiers (1998), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), Finding Dory (2016), Burying the Ex (2014), The Warlord: Battle For the Galaxy (The Osiris Chronicles)(1998), The Hole (2011), Zootopia (2016), Army of Darkness (1992), Madagascar (2005), Patrick (1978), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Long Weekend (1978), Harlequin (1980), Road Games (1981), Keanu (2016), Razorback (1984), Suicide Squad (2016), Snapshot (One More Minute)(1979), Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr (1981), Fortress (1985), Link (1986) Frog Dreaming (The Quest)(1986), Windrider (1986), Visitors (2003), Storm Warning (2007), Long Weekend (2008), Nine Miles Down (2009), Not Quite Hollywood (2008), Strangers With Candy (2005), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), Rushmore (1998), Bottle Rocket (1996), Moulin Rouge!

Middle - of - the - road movies are always the hardest to write about, and unfortunately, The Bachelors falls into that category.

Director of Y tu mamá también Alfonso Cuaron talks to Jason Solomons about his latest film, Año uña, and his plans to make a road movie in Britain

Brazilian director Walter Salles talks to Jason Solomons about his new film Linha de Passe and his love of road movies

We talked about what it was like to walk on the yellow brick road for the first time, her reaction to the finished film, 3D, doing so much press, and does she get to visit Disneyland for free after being in a huge Disney movie.

Critics are somewhat mixed on the film, but the reviews are far more positive than what we read for The Hangover sequels, and they're about on par with the reviews for Phillips» Old School, Starsky & Hutch, and Road Trip, his more well - liked movies.

A clever, gently provocative movie about talking, listening and competing interests, «The End of the Tour» is a two - character play that managed to hitch a ride as a road movie directed by James Ponsoldt, whose previous films include «The Spectacular...

As the official synopsis puts it: «Part road movie, part science - fiction, part real, it's a film about seeing our world through alien eyes.»

This road trip movie is really about his coming of age.

It's a low - key relationship dramedy / road movie starring the ripe - for - a-late-career-renaissance Bruce Dern (who'd be the most obvious likely beneficiary from the film's award season release date), and «SNL «alum Will Forte, that promises at least a modicum of the kind of off - kilter wry observations about masculinity and aging that have marked out Payne's best previous work.

Mashing together the «gambling movie» and the «road movie,» Mississippi Grind puts two down - and - out hucksters on the path to redemption as they travel along the Mississippi River, hitting up just about any spot that will let them place a bet.

If beating advance ticket sales for previous buzzed - about superhero films are like flipping over cars during a late - night road chase sequence in a movie trailer, then Black Panther is like... Black Panther, leaping ahead of those vehicles while a Run The Jewels track plays behind it.