Sentences with phrase «sets of his films called»

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But when a Second Lifer who calls himself Nimrod Yaffle tried to log in to the community earlier his year, he discovered his avatar had been sequestered in a surreal, isolated landscape: infinite rows of corn, spread out under a dark sky, with nothing else in sight except a small red tractor and a black - and - white television set playing the 1940 film Boy in Court.

She called us from the New Mexico set of the upcoming Western film Justice to share what it's like owning her truth.

Set against the backdrop of a technologically advanced Shanghai, where people are only allowed to travel between countries with official passports called «papelles,» the film charts the efforts of Seattle native William (Tim Robbins) to get to the bottom of a contraband - papelle operation within the walls of a high - tech company that manufactures them.

Like Tron given a state - of - the - art update, the film is mostly set in a virtual realm called the OASIS.

The shocking imagery generated a round of applause and laughter from the audience during the film's premiere on Thursday night, and set the tone for what the director calls his «playful» new movie.

Allied is unusually linear, after the initial setup: Max is told he married a German spy in Marianne; against orders and behind Marianne's back, he sets out to disprove it.2 The apologist urge is to call it a maturation of Zemeckis's style, to tell a story so simply and economically (even if we've kind of been here before with Cast Away), but the film feels conspicuously underdeveloped as opposed to streamlined, to the extent that the big reveal seems as if it was decided on a coin toss; it's easy to imagine the opposite outcome without any sort of retrofitting to accommodate it.

The film, called «Guernsey», is set in the island in the aftermath of Word War II and will premiere in cinemas on April 20th next year.

is a fascinating overview, courtesy narration by Reed, of the choreography behind the film's telephone - call set - piece.

Knowing Martin Scorsese was a fan of Jean Renoir's India - set The River, we asked him to record an introduction when we first released it in 2004 (since then, he even included it in his Criterion Top 10, calling it «a film without a real story th...

Knowing Martin Scorsese was a fan of Jean Renoir's India - set The River, we asked him to record an introduction when we first released it in 2004 (since then, he even included it in his Criterion Top 10, calling it «a film without a real story that is all about the rhythm of existence, the cycles of birth and death and regeneration, and the transitory beauty of the world»).

«BPM,» «God's Own Country,» and «Call Me By Your Name»: Though the handsomely crafted, Italian - set «Call Me By Your Name» has gotten all the critical attention, two other films about young gay men coming to terms with themselves in much harsher environments — the French «BPM» is set at the height of the AIDS crisis in Paris while the contemporary British drama «God's Own Country» is set in a grim, rural northern England — are both more haunting and powerful.

PH: A few years ago, I was an actor in a film called «Rudyard Kipling's Mark of the Beast,» and while on the set a number of people were talking endlessly and enthusiastically about the Tommy Wiseau film «The Room.»

It may not be called Infinity War, but the second film is still clearly going to be the conclusion of the fight against Thanos, who has, after all, been set up as the biggest of Big Bads ever since the stinger at the end of the first Avengers.

When the film premiered at the festival on May 19, TheWrap called it «a long, scathing, brilliantly funny film with a jaw - dropping set piece... It is a bold, generous and marvelously constructed exploration of its director's favorite question: «Aren't we humans a sorry lot?»»

He has emphasised his debt to the Japanese maestro Akira Kurosawa with this whole idea, and while the quest in the story, to find a missing guard dog called Spots, recalls some of that director's samurai films, the setting is very specifically indebted to Dodes» ka - den, his multi-strand 1970 drama about people subsisting atop a rubbish heap.

Cera delivers the one natural - seeming performance in the picture, the one that conveys legitimate exasperation for mothers who call him «puppy» and girlfriends who talk on hamburger phones and put abandoned living - room sets on his lawn as some sort of shrine (like the film itself) to fashionable quirk.

A five - minute featurette called «Greetings From Bull Mountain» is the standard five - minute B - roll / soft - sell interview errata that features a few additional male buttock shots; «King of the Mountain» is a two - minute music video that splices action sequences from the film together with bloopers and sets it to music (something resurrected in feature - length form by this year's ESPN's X-movie); and nine chapter - encoded deleted scenes (blissfully sans commentary and running between fifteen seconds and a minute, each) are essentially long «comedy» shticks that prove for as bad as Out Cold was, it could have been even worse.

Synopsis: The film is set in a fantasy world where the four elements of earth, air, water, and fire can be controlled through martial arts called bending, and the ruthless flame - manipulating Fire Nation is waging war to control the other nations of the world.

I'll provide a complete inventory below, but the point is that the main attraction of this set, other than the HiDef presentation of the trilogy itself, is a 7 - part, feature - length HD documentary spread across the three films / platters called Tales from the Future.

It was set to debut in theaters but after North Korean hackers called the film an act of war and made threats, many cinema chains chose not to screen the movie.

The Square, Call Me By Your Name, The Florida Project, Mudbound and A Fantastic Woman are just some of the early announced films hitting the Mill Valley Film Festival The Venice and Telluride Film Festivals are just kicking off but the Mill Valley Film Festival, now in its 40th season, is set to show off some of the fall and...

Galleries of production stills, production art, filmmaker biographies, posters, lobby cards, merchandise, set documents (call sheets and the like), and a screenplay excerpt of the film's climax (Felton had a beautiful command of language), three radio spots, storyboard - to - screen comparisons for the scuba and squid scenes, an outtakes reel, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea's 1954 theatrical trailer finish off this exhaustive treasure chest of a DVD.

He's accumulated fans and critical plaudits with each of the films he's written and directed to date — «Shotgun Stories» (2007), «Take Shelter» (2011), «Mud» (2012)-- each of them calling upon the formidable presence of Nichols» towering thespian totem Michael Shannon; each of them set in the American south and paying close attention to the area's natural landscapes; each of them dealing with masculinity in the context of father - son relationships of biological and non-biological types.

«The initial script called for a location in a glass house in upstate New York, but then Ex Machina came out and it had the same kind of setting, so in order to separate [our film] from that, we looked for a place on the beach.»

Along with the Blu - ray debut of one of Brian De Palma's most polarizing films, the two - disc set includes what is being called a «Director's Cut» but was actually edited by Peet Gelderblom, a commercial filmmaker and critic from The Netherlands, to reorder the film to De Palma's original plan.

Set in Indiana in 1817, this nature - adoring drama charts life of Abraham Lincoln as a young boy (played by newcomer Braydon Denney who barely utters a word), in a film that could alternately be called «Lincoln: Year One (A Malick Film).»

Love the love throughout these for Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird, Frantz, and Atomic Blonde.I always appreciate your dedication to expanding the «what's worthy» conversation beyond the same small set of films that dominate conversations this time of year.

For at least the first 20 minutes I couldn't stop comparing it to a film that just debuted last month called Spare Parts that is set up the same way: poor Mexican teens in need of a role model and a way out.

Firefighters in Thailand were called to the set of Owen Wilson's new film The Coup late on Wednesday (20Nov13) after a blaze broke out.Flames ripped...

Call Me By Your Name is also one of those films that truly takes viewers to another time and place, set in the early 1980s in Italy.

Coming off the heels of The Deep Blue Sea, probably the most underrated and misunderstood film of its year, Sunset Song is a period piece set in the cinegenic Scottish countryside of the 1930s, and based on a book by Lewis Grassic Gibon that's been called the most important Scottish novel of the 20th century.

After leaked footage revealed animal abuse on the set of A Dog's Purpose, star Josh Gad and the film's director and producer have all called for an investigation into the company responsible, while PETA has urged a boycott of the film.

While trying to set up a couple of new original movies, including a WWII submarine thriller and a Blade Runner-esque sci - fi film called Mute, he was offered an opportunity to take on his first high - profile Hollywood flick: a sci - fi thriller called Source Code.

Setting a thriller in one room is a risky decision, and while writer - director Hazeldine creates a gripping sense of claustrophobia, this film feels both contrived and padded out with unnecessary sequences.Eight people are called into...

At times I felt the film lacked a bit of detail on everyday life in the trenches, because the vast majority of it is set in the comparatively cosy officers» quarters, where food and drink is regularly available courtesy of Toby Jones» comic - relief cook Mason, whose ingredients are regularly called into question.

Below you can check out the latest UK Quad and a couple of extra still because you've been so good this year.I mistakenly thought the film was called «End Of Watches» which made me think it was a film set in the not - so - distant future, where people had become so used to clocks on their phones and Ipods, that watches were no longer needeof extra still because you've been so good this year.I mistakenly thought the film was called «End Of Watches» which made me think it was a film set in the not - so - distant future, where people had become so used to clocks on their phones and Ipods, that watches were no longer needeOf Watches» which made me think it was a film set in the not - so - distant future, where people had become so used to clocks on their phones and Ipods, that watches were no longer needed.

4:00 pm — TCM — His Girl Friday This is a remake of a 1931 film called The Front Page about newspaper buddies who go after a major story — Hawks took it to a whole new level by turning one of the men into a woman, and setting reporters Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant as a former couple, now divorced who can't seem to stay apart, either personally or professionally.

His new film - his second animated feature - is called «Isle Of Dogs,» and it's set in Japan in the near future.

God Help the Girl Director: Stuart Murdoch Starring: Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray, Pierre Boulanger Synopsis: Set in Glasgow, Scotland, the film is about a girl called Eve who is in the hospital dealing with some emotional problems and starts writing songs as a way of getting better.

The version of The Disaster Artist shown at SXSW was called a «work - in - progress» (though after the standing ovation, Rogen joked, «Then I guess we're done»); Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema have not set a release date for the film.

By the default FastPlay method, the fullscreen version plays and once it does, you'll have to go to the audio set - up page to select one of the tracks on the widescreen version to play the 16x9 - enhanced presentation of the film in its 1.85:1 theatrical aspect ratio (which the case calls 1.78:1 family - friendly widescreen).

Some sound editors and mixers refuse to believe they work within a set of rules; in fact, some call themselves sound anarchists, believing that every film presents its own set of challenges and creative options.

The Criterion set features both versions, and the theatrical cut features commentary by Bertolucci (who launches in to the film before he remembers to introduce himself), screenwriter Mark Peploe (who calls it «the biggest screenwriting experience of my life»), producer Jeremy Thomas, and composer / actor Ryuichi Sakamoto, all recorded separately and edited together in a dense, meaty that builds on the accumulation of observations and insights.

In our latest Crew Call podcast, Gassner describes the «brutality» philosophy of the future that both he and director Denis Villeneuve painted, how famed concept artist Syd Mead who worked on the original film was involved in the sequel, and how most of 2049 was shot with actual sets (despite that gorgeous birdeye's shot of the cliff - tall Atari sign).

Chalamet: As a young actor, when you get on set — and I think of, in my experience, there's Matthew McConaughey on «Interstellar,» or I just did a film with Christian Bale too called «Hostiles.»

Guillermo Del Toro has a new film called The Shape of Water «an otherworldly fairytale» set in a secret government laboratory where Elisa and her co-worker Zelda discover something magnificent.

I think that for a lot of people, what sticks in their minds about Call Me by Your Name is the sensuousness with which it is shot and its almost fantasy - like setting in a ramshackle villa in Italy — essentially, the beauty and emotion of the film.

Call Me By Your Name — The lush Northern Italian setting matches the rapture and longing of first love in this tender film from director Luca Guadagnino.

Danny McBride: Judd (Apatow) & Seth (Rogen) had said that he's seen this independent film that some buddies of mine had made called The Foot Fist Way and they liked that and invited us to visit the set of Knocked Up and I just kinda became friends with Seth after that.

Though it is set during World War I and inspired by stories Renoir heard from fellow veterans, calling «Grand Illusion» an antiwar film runs the risk of making it sound strident and dogmatic.