Not exact matches
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As years passed, several
films saw the light of the day, featuring popular real life dating sites as the vehicle for the main couple's blossoming
romance.
Its a perfect
film,
romance, action, courage, revenge, tears, its very much an emotional roller coaster, but well worth it, you must
see this before you die, its an actual history lesson.
It was a lot different from many other
romance films you'll
see.
Elliott had a more age - appropriate
romance in Haley's previous
film I'll
See You in My Dreams, playing opposite Blythe Danner.
Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes (in what feels like a rare turn) have palpable chemistry, and the
film is shot with the sweeping air of off your feet
romance that we desperately want to
see in our romantic comedies.
A brief
romance with a likeable Derek Luke as the very man her advocacy group is battling in court
sees her open up a bit, and minor drama ensues with careless sibling played by Julianna Guill, the
film's mild comic relief.
The
film is partly inspired by the 1974 French sex comedy Les Valseuses, and will
see three small time crooks «inadvertently performing good deeds», with smidgens of surprising
romance thrown in.
As we often
see with Director Hong the
film focussed on the foibles of a man with a skewed sense of
romance and starred his frequent collaborators Kwon Haehyo and Kim Minhee.
Simultaneously an examination of the processes of effective activism and a deeply felt
romance, B.P.M. is one of the most refreshingly frank queer
films we've
seen in many years, both about politics and about sex.
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.
If only the low - aiming script by Simon Kinberg (xXx: State of the Union, X-Men 3), rumored to have undergone several rewrites at the hands of others,
saw their characters as living, breathing human beings instead of mere comedic devices in the singular big joke the
film is built on, and perhaps we would have
seen even more fireworks in the
romance department.
And in Tessa Louise - Salomé's cinephiliac
romance Mr leos caraX (since retitled Mr. X), the titular director talks about his work, mostly in voiceover, with brilliance and surprising openness while ravishing clips dissolve in and out of each other, making us hungry to
see the
films in their entirety again.
Reservoir Dogs, True
Romance and Pulp Fiction (the first two I watched back to back one weekend afternoon, after my friends learned I'd never
seen a Tarantino
film; I had heard he'd won the Palme d'Or, but didn't know he'd made any other movies) demanded we familiarize ourselves with their influences:
film noir, Howard Hawks, Jean - Luc Godard (one of our favorite pass - times was driving around to all the video stores in town looking for a copy of Breathless.
I could add a couple more: Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, 2015)-- the most original
film I
saw in 2015 La belle équipe (Julien Duvivier, 1936)-- a great
film from this interesting and underrated director Die grosse Liebe (Otto Ludwig Preminger, 1931)-- Preminger's first
film, a charming
romance with a mother character that could have stepped out of a John Ford
film; and does the revelation of Preminger's full name explain why Billy Wilder had a character in One, Two, Three (1961) called Otto Ludwig Piffel?
The
film tries at time to be a comedy, a
romance and a drama, but misses on all three fronts, and ultimately left me scratching my head at what I just
saw.
Packing
romance, retribution and a whole lot of time travel, the
film sees JCVD play officer Max Walker of the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) explore a scummy politician's rise to power by hopping through the time - space continuum.
«Better Luck Tomorrow» is not just a thriller, not just a social commentary, not just a comedy or a
romance, but all of those in a clearly
seen, brilliantly made
film.
Doubling as an effective
romance, Zemeckis story of Hanks's FedEx worker Chuck Noland becoming stranded on a deserted Pacific Ocean island after a plane crash, driven to survive by the thought of returning to his girlfriend Kelly (played by Helen Hunt) is one of the director's most restrained (even the music cues by Alan Silvestri don't start till over an hour into the
film) and in - command pieces of work that
sees the esteemed filmmaker largely hold back on artistic flashes and instead focusing on his leading man Hanks working his magic as the determined Chuck.
We didn't get to
see the traces of the
romance that the character shares with Cable in the comic - book series, but we're sure that this relationship will be explored in the X-Force
film.
I actually just
saw a
film of Anton Yelchin this weekend, it's a
romance so I doubt it's for you, but man it's so sad he's gone, he's a pretty darn good actor.
Ultimately, Meet the Parents is one of the funniest comedies I've
seen since Annie Hall, a
film with which it shares a wry sensibility about modern
romance.
And like that previous
film, it gives the audience what it wants to
see: an irresistible confection that serves up the laughs and a sweet, involving
romance, with the proven Roberts - Gere electricity as the not - so - secret ingredient that gives the
film its special kick.
In fact, the impact of
seeing the same performers at one moment pale, overworked but concerned with their scruffy patients, and the next involved in an absurd six ‐ sided
romance that culminates in an interracial kidney transplant, is, if anything, intensified by the quick cuts possible only in
film.
From here on out, this
film isn't much different than other coming - of - age or high school
romance films you've
seen before.
Even though the script most of the time didn't allow any real
romance develop between them (even though it tried), you could
see it being a decent re-edit of the
film that is currently released.
Its influence can be
seen in countless
films that came after it, yet for decades it remained the happiest of LGBTQ screen
romances.
Audiences can expect to
see Michel Hazanavicius» winning, black - and - white silent
film «The Artist;» Roman Polanski's adaptation of the stage play «Carnage;» David Cronenberg's sexually charged «A Dangerous Method,» with Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender; Sam Levinson's Sundance entry «Another Happy Day» (starring Barkin); and Drake Doremus» Sundance
romance, «Like Crazy.»
With two weeks to go until director Roger Michell's Daphne du Maurier adaptation My Cousin Rachel arrives in cinemas, a new batch of images from the
film have arrived online featuring Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, and Iain Glen; take a look below...
SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for My Cousin Rachel here A dark
romance, MY COUSIN -LSB-...]
The female audience that primarily were drawn to
see eye - candy men like Walker, Diesel and Tyrese strut their macho stuff, often without a shirt, will probably not care enough to
see Walker - wannabe Lucas Black and comic relief cute, Bow Wow, especially as the
film is mostly chaste from a
romance point of view.
His pictures always non-traditional (even Beverly Hills Cop is surprisingly stately in its development and resolution), Brest is at his best in presenting the broad, the theatrical, even the melancholy through his word jumble (Walken can say «absconded» without irony; Lopez can't even read in the
film without moving her lips), and at his worst when trying to justify surprise moments of spontaneous lovemaking and unlikely
romance (
see also: Meet Joe Black).
Perhaps the closest thing imaginable to a modern day Ernst Lubitsch
film, Love & Friendship
sees puffed - up gentry adorned in lace - trimmed garments (colour - coded as to the capacity of their imagination) trying to get their prissy minds around the concept of modern
romance.
It's refreshing to
see a
film about an older man and younger woman that doesn't involve some sort of icky, Woody Allen-esque
romance, because although «The Intern» isn't technically a romantic comedy, it features many of the same tropes reworked to fit Ben and Jules» platonic relationship.
First off I liked Cianfrance's last two
films, and also I'm in the mood for a good old - fashioned sweeping
romance (going to
see La La Land for similar reasons).
Both
films are obviously based on Bram Stoker's Dracula novel, but where Stoker
saw romance, these German filmmakers
saw pestilence.
(POSSIBLE SPOILER) Yet, if you go into this
film expecting to
see a
romance between Gere and Lopez, prepare to be disappointed.
(The feature - length
film sees animations of «hyper - eroticized cyborgs» conveying a narrative about power,
romance, and sexuality.)
External factors may include the media (younger people may want for more from a relationship after being socialised by images of
romance on
films and television),
seeing friends and families in relationships (people who have divorced or separated parents may have a different CL to those with parents who are still married), or experiences from prior relationships, which have taught the person to expect more or less from a partner.