Sentences with phrase «second story of the film»

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All performances remain irrelevant in the face of such expensive, explosive combat and destruction, and there the film excels: You will feel blown back into your seat, starting 40 seconds into the story.

Her latest Polish film, the tough, unsentimental In Darkness, brings together themes from two of the most highly regarded movies about the second world war, Wajda's Kanal, about Nazi troops pursuing resistance workers through the Warsaw sewers in 1944, and Schindler's List, Spielberg's true story of the quixotic German industrialist who saved the lives of more than 1,000 Jewish workers in wartime Poland.

It's not until the second half of the film that the action and pacing start to gel, as Bilbo and company make their way through treacherous mountain passes populated with goblins, beasts, and the withered creature Gollum (Andy Serkis), original owner of the magical ring that will eventually set larger stories in motion.

We also meet an array of supporting characters, including a pair of corrupt innkeepers (Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter), a young revolutionary named Marius (Eddie Redmayne) smitten with Cosette, and the innkeepers» daughter Éponine (Samantha Barks), who is meant to be the thread that ties many of these stories together in the film's second half.

His second film is a loose adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's doppelgänger tale The Double, with the story transported to present - day America.

The second film's success was perhaps even more staggering than the first: The Godfather, Pt. 2 garnered six more Oscars, including a win for Coppola in the Best Director category; Robert DeNiro won his first Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor field; and the movie itself became the first and only sequel ever to win Best Picture honors.Next, Coppola began adapting the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, transferring its story to the heart of the Cambodian jungle at the height of the conflict in Vietnam.

Excellent story and acting especially the second half of this film!!!! Go watch it!!

Based on Joan G. Robinson's 1967 children's novel, this second feature film by Hiromasa Yonebayashi tells the story of a lonely girl named Anna who meets an unexpected friend in Marnie.

It's a long movie for its genre, but don't think for a second that it's going to drag; there's story and detail stuffed in every frame of this film, and it seems to run for half the time it actually does.

With this second film, the story is pulling in more of the Katniss» motivation (less romance, more protecting those she loves at any cost) and the societal politics that was such an important undercurrent of the book series.

The kind of film that makes you wish they had perfected choose - your - own - adventure technology for movies, one that would allow you to ditch the central character and follow any number of the story's more interesting second bananas.

That's the story — and the promise — embedded in the title of this, the second film from Angelina Jolie as director, and there's nothing in its near 2 1/2 hour running time that allows for the idea that happy endings are impossible and redemption is never far off.

Luckily, Holland's film focusses on a rather unusual true story from Poland during the atrocities of the Second World War rather than the well - told tales of the concentration camps (as obviously important and powerful as they are).

The film is Jane and Stephen's story (the script is largely based on the second of Jane Hawking's two memoirs), and even though it smooths out some of their domestic unease and eventual divorce, there's still a painful strain below the surface, from playful sparring over religion to the tougher realities of ambitions put on ice.

Disney and Lucasfilm have released the full Solo: A Star Wars Story trailer for the second film in the Star Wars story series ahead of the film's Cannes premiere (10 days before it hits theatStory trailer for the second film in the Star Wars story series ahead of the film's Cannes premiere (10 days before it hits theatstory series ahead of the film's Cannes premiere (10 days before it hits theaters).

Monsters University — $ 82 million [debut week] Pixar's streak of consecutive films opening atop the box office now reaches 14 and this prequel is Pixar's second highest opening trailing «Toy Story 3 «s» $ 110 million.

At the Critics» Week — where, in the interest of full disclosure, I served on a competition jury comprised of three other critics and the South Korean director Lee Chang - dong — the highlight of an unusually strong lineup was Take Shelter, the second feature by Shotgun Stories director Jeff Nichols, an acknowledged Malick acolyte whose new film shares a producer with The Tree of Life as well as a leading lady, Jessica Chastain (reportedly at Malick's personal recommendation).

This is the second film of 2013 about WikiLeaks and Assange, and by most accounts, the documentary that came first (We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks) does it better.

The Star Wars universe will get its second anthology film in May with the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

Following a record $ 20.1 million opening weekend in China, Illumination Entertainment's «Minions» has pushed past «Toy Story 3» to become the second - highest grossing animated film of all time.

A late introduction of the recently deceased Nigel Hawthorne (as a crusty theatre critic) only serves to heighten the distance the film gains on its increasingly dismayed audience — the key scene of the film, in fact, is one with Hawthorne gazing forlornly from his second - story window at two young lovers in embrace.

I am curious / worried if the film's heavy amount of dialogue will make this story feel slower when viewed for a second time.

This Star Wars Story is the second in a series of films that live outside the Skywalker family saga, and is set during the early scoundrel days of the iconic characters, prior to A New Hope.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Like the best dual - story films the echoes of the first story in the second make both stories all the stronger.

However, the story in the second part of the film does not match the initial heights the film sets itself.

I watched the film for the second time last night and I was struck by how much of the story is written on your face!

He makes a movie that's unlike anything else in the MCU, and while certain beats and story points follow a traditional pattern, the world Coogler has crafted as well as the people he has constructed to live within it are so uniquely three - dimensional I sat in mesmerized awe for every single second of the film's briskly paced 134 - minute running time.

The film's second central story is that of Cliff Stern (Allen himself).

It's a great film steeped in the language of other great films, so for the second installment of our ongoing Origin Stories series, we've invited Schrader to select a roster of titles that have had an impact on his life and art and influenced his new film.

Crazy Donny (Giovanni Ribisi) shows up again to menace the bear; one of the main characters has a near - death experience; Sam «Flash Gordon» Jones, who enlivened the first film, seems to be wedged into the second story out of friendly obligation.

This is Demme's second remake of a classic film in row, however, unlike his overcooked update of Charade in The Truth About Charlie, he directs with just the right amount of style here, always staying true to the events of the story as they unfold.

A continuation of 2002's remarkable roster of unexpected love stories, David Gordon Green's second film also evokes Claire Denis's late work, of Lindsay Anderson's oeuvre, and finally, of the hope — once strong — that American cinema could change the world.

Marking Irish director Jordan's second venture into the vampire genre, the film is an adaptation of a play by Moira Buffini called A Vampire Story, which was commissioned as part of Londonâ $ ™ s National Theatre Connections season in 2008.

Landesman, in what is only his second film after the milquetoast JFK assassination ensemble piece Parkland, has a journalistic approach to his writing that charges adrenaline into potent scenes of Omalu fighting against this corrupt system, but he lets his rightful anger get in the way of presenting the story in an objective fashion.

Inventive and bold but never jarring, every second of film offers something more than just story to chew on.

Following up HER, his second film, The Immigrant, is a story of a young polish immigrant named Ewa (Marion Cotillard).

Speaking to Variety's chief film critic Scott Foundas, Mann discusses growing up in Chicago, becoming interested in crime stories, the visual ideas he had for the film, the nonfiction book he discarded but still credited, the influence of real criminals and past films (particularly his eye - opening time shooting The Jericho Mile in Folsom Prison), choosing Tangerine Dream to do the score (a decision he still second guesses), the film's writing (including basing characters on real crime figures), casting, explosive stunts, changes made from the shooting script, and the modernist narrative.

This is his fifth collaboration with star Leonardo DiCaprio, but marks just his second feature shot digitally and combines a loosely mob - inflected story with a topical, high - finance setting, and so overall the film promises to deliver an exciting blend of the old and the new from the director.

The compromise one has to make about these ideas of war and greed is that Anderson resorts to set pieces that parody action film clichés to advance the story in the second half of the film.

It's pretty safe to say that if you belong to the first set, you're far more likely to enjoy the film than the second, as this is definitely a film aiming more for Eddie's fan base, not particularly concerned with its story or plot elements when they get in the way of allowing Eddie to do his thing in front of the camera.

Nichols» second film this year after «Midnight Special,» «Loving» tells the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), a Virgina interracial couple who were sentenced to prison in 1958 and their battle to overturn their convictions.

Variety reports that the film will tell the story of Ginsburg, who was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993 by President Clinton, becoming only the second female justice, and would face numerous obstacles in her fight for equal rights throughout her career.

The Thalys train attack — in which a group of passengers, including two American servicemen on vacation, overpowered an armed attacker on a Paris - bound train — made headlines in 2015, but is there really enough in this story of split - second bravery to make a film?

I ORIGINS, the second feature film from writer and director Mike Cahill, tells the story of Dr. Ian Gray (Michael Pitt), a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the eye.

The second Claire Denis film on my list may seem an overly convenient choice for # 1, given how it neatly covers the prominent 2009 trends of standout female filmmakers, stories about Africa and, well, great Claire Denis films.

The story is so remarkable you almost can't help but being skeptical that it wasn't crafted just to be the basis of a film some day — massive international touring band loses their second main lead singer, and needs to...

Because of this lopsided editing, the second half of the film feels slightly abridged too, which is unfortunate because it is the much more exciting part of Trumbo's story.

The brilliantly twisted minds behind Resolution — Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead — are back with their second feature film in Spring, a monster of a love story that tore up the festival circuit last year, making it one of 2015's most anticipated horror offerings.