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This week on the podcast we try to remember what podcasts sound like as we discuss a memory based romance film from Korea over a decade old, A Moment To Remember.
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Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.
There is, of course, a great romance in the film, but the love from George's friends and family is given equal weight.
By using Wattpad Studios, romance writers and dating experts can draw from their own experiences and create stories for other media, and as a result, they have an opportunity to see their stories turned into books, films, and TV shows.
Kristin Kreuk is an actress of films and television series and has a net worth There are many women who would be happy to have one romance with a man from a billionaire family — but actress Olivia Grant is dating two!
A university professor teaches a class on muses in art and literature as a means of romancing his female students in this breathtaking new film from Jose Luis Guerín, director of the widely heralded In the City of Sylvia.
Romance and westerns go together like peanut butter and jelly in these films from the FilmOn library.
The conclusion transforms at least this part of the film from sappy romance to beautifully authentic meditation on life, death and a family's love for its long - time loyal dog.
Coming from someone who hates romance films, this film got it right.
It was a lot different from many other romance films you'll see.
It's a rousingly watchable film from first - time screenwriter Liz Hannah about the Washington Post, its editor Ben Bradlee, proprietor Kay Graham and what is supposedly their platonic office romance while publishing the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
Eventually, the film lurches slightly toward melodrama as Francine strikes up a romance with Georges while he's on leave from the army.
Her contribution to this project — a deft and humorous lead role as Margie Chizek, a Midwestern immigrant to Hollywood with big - star dreams who undergoes a brutal and hilarious metamorphosis in the face of Tinseltown romance — drew hearty praise from even those critics who responded negatively to the film itself.
Francis Ford Coppola's gang film is as moony about death as «One From the Heart» was over romance; the film is unremitting in its morbid sentimentality, running its teenage characters through a masochistic gamut of beatings, killings, burnings, and suicides.
Even the reason for a potential romance seems a forced attempt to humanize the queen; her desire for Raleigh is intercut with scenes from the first film showing her a happy, naïve girl.
Christopher Reeve can't play a believable courter to save his life, the screenplay muddles everything from romance to time travel, and the result is an absurd film that takes itself far too seriously.
Stahl narrates his life story to her from a cheap motel room, and the film alternates between their growing romance and flashbacks from his dismal past.
One of the most breathtaking films of the year, this ambitious story shifts from a slacker romance to a heist thriller without skipping a beat.
Comedy, sci - fi, horror, romance, adventure, action, drama, and thriller, it covers quite a lot of territory in a short amount of time, and does so with its own sense of style that makes it different from any other film, even if it is an homage film at its core.
The film also goes a bit easy on its characters considering the time period (apart from Carol's custody battle, they don't experience any persecution), and while it looks gorgeous — like an oil painting of soft pastels — you don't feel the romance as much as you should; it's sensual, but emotionally distant.
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Of course, everything about «Pompeii» feels half - assed — from its bland romance, to its terrible dialogue, to the worthless addition of 3D — and though it's slightly better than last month's «The Legend of Hercules,» the film is still a pretty miserable viewing experience.
With this, the film shifts its attentions from Charles and Sebastian's vaguely homoerotic relationship to Charles and Julia's potential romance.
There are some nice visual elements that accentuate their relationship, but they are not enough to give their romance definition.The film spends so much time with visual cues to remind the audience why Casey is doing all of this for that it turns from endearing to nagging.
When the film makes its unfortunate shift from provocative comedy to drama, it begins to feel like a series of maudlin music videos interrupted by romance and saccharine uplift.
Along with films like Punch - Drunk Love (P.T. Anderson, 2002) and Jane Campion's In The Cut (2003), Lost in Translation represents a significant departure from the predictable depiction of romance.
The challenges in adapting a novel about the romance between two people where one of them is dead from the outset is obvious, but the film never skirts this fact, instead embracing it and using flashbacks and Justin's memories as a recurring them to show the evolving love affair between him and Tessa.
Meanwhile, most of the film's best moments come from the supporting players, who turn out to be more important to the story than Potente (whose character seems to be an addition simply so that the film can have some form of romance) or Damon.
And Director David O. Russell shows exactly that with this heartwarming film that alternates from comedy and romance to psychological drama that you will surely enjoy.
● SIGNATURE MOVE, by Jennifer Reeder, finds common ground between a closeted Muslim lawyer (Fawzia Mirza) and a free - spirited Chicana bookstore owner in this heartfelt and funny film about how modern romance can arise from a path steeped in tradition.
It's absolutely one of the best films of the year; a sensual, moving summer romance coming - of - age tale that is impeccably acted, impeccably shot, and basically just impeccably crafted from head to toe.
«The Longest Ride» is the tenth film adapted from a novel written by romance king Nicholas Sparks.
On another level, the film is an overly glossy, ostensibly intellectual but deliberately trite mass - market romance (from the screenplay written by Pierce) about a reporter and a movie star falling in love while she shadows him on the set of yet another movie (in which he plays a cop along side Brad Pitt) for a magazine fluff piece profile she's writing.
More damaging to his chances is the fact that González - Iñárritu climaxes and closes his film with Ryuichi Sakamoto's far - more - memorable «Bibo No Aozora,» written previously but which I will forevermore refer to as «Romance from Nympho Japanese Schoolgirl Being Embraced By Distant Father While Naked On Highrise Penthouse Deck.»
Similarly, the film suffers from a common problem in biopics that span more than 50 years, in that the editing suddenly leaps forward to another time period, just as things are getting interesting — this is particularly frustrating in the depiction of the central romance, but it also short - changes the sequences set during the AIDS crisis.
It does take a while before the thematic material starts to gel, but it does, with such interesting concepts as the fantasy elements that one gleans from porn being akin to those that some get from such films as romances, Barbara's favorite pastime.
She made a break - out performance in the film adaptation of Nicolas Spark's romance novel «The Notebook» and stole the show from Lindsay Lohan in the teen angst comedy «Mean Girls.»
He would return to the era in later films, most notably his hugely successful drama Twenty - Four Eyes (1954), but immediately after Morning for the Osone Family, he dived into escapist fare that better showed off his range, from the poetic romance The Girl I Loved (1946) to the noirish thriller Woman (1948) to the comedy Here's to the Young Lady (1949) to the ghost story Yotsuya kaidan (1949).
That said, the film begins to lose its sense of fun with a romance that doesn't seem very authentic from a 14 - year - old's point of view.
Rampage: The Movie eventually pairs off Davis with a geneticist, Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris), but keeps their potential romantic partnership so far on the backburner that it takes a late - film, off - color from George to remind moviegoers that romance might be in their respective futures.
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The most anticipated film of the year, Terry Malick's Tree of Life hasn't even seen the dark of theaters yet and already we're getting some bits from his next film; an as of yet untitled romance starring Rachel McAdams and Ben Affleck.
The films have all been available on Blu - ray before and those discs are essentially reproduced for this set, supplements and all, from Tarantino's commentary on «True Romance» (his sole commentary track for any of his films) to interviews with Tarantino and his collaborators on «Jackie Brown» and «Inglorious Basterds.»
Aside from the pratfalls and the dismemberment, there's a surprisingly tender romance between Binoche's gender - swapping offspring Billie (played a by a striking newcomer named Raph) and the eldest son Ma Loute (Brandon Lavieville), but that strand of the film ultimately takes a jarringly brutal detour too.
Duck Butter is not a film about a whirlwind lesbian romance — rather, it's a slow - moving train crash about a relationship that appears doomed from the start.
It's the only out - and - out comedy in the collection, but all of these films are smorgasboards of Hollywood entertainment: romance, melodrama, comedy and even a musical number or two in most films and right up front in The Girl From Missouri (1934) and Reckless (1935).
So begins Paul Thomas Anderson's glistening, magnificent Phantom Thread, and it's a moment of rare, blithe sexiness in his oeuvre: a light little flirt - note — were the film set half a century later, it might be signed off with a smiley face — that sets in motion a far darker, more perverse and conflict - riven romance than most would expect from such breezy beginnings.
That film explores the strict sexual mores of mid-century America from the perspective of interracial and homosexual romances, and the passion and fury that seethes just under the surface when people are not allowed to live their fullest lives openly and freely.
The Shape of Water is one of the most romantic films in the race this year, but it's romance comes from its subversiveness — both in how it depicts the well of desire within most women, how unquenchable it can sometimes be, and how it depicts an America that did not allow for different kinds of people.
Taking inspiration from films like The Innocents and The Haunting, Del Toro has been pretty vocal about defining his latest project as a gothic romance, rather than a traditional horror movie.