April and May have blessed us with the release of
several excellent films from Fantastic Fest 2015, including Too Late, Green Room, The Invitation, and...
Not exact matches
Though Landis assembled an
excellent line - up of rising talents (
several of whom were making their
film debuts, including Kevin Bacon), «Tanen was furious at the casting,» the director said.
Being an English major, I studied Thomas Hardy's «Far From the Madding Crowd»
several times and have seen
film versions of it since, including Julie Christie's
excellent take on the tale and the variation on it in «Tamara Drewe».
Takals's
film Always Shine successfully utilizes the best elements of
several genres,
excellent sound design, to produce a final product that is all at once horrifying and beautiful.
The topnotch cast, composed of a couple indie
film stars and
several excellent Native American actors (particularly Graham Greene and Gil Birmingham) give stellar performances.
A lot of the
film's success ultimately comes down to the
excellent action sequences, and that's where having a guy like Bradley — who worked as a stunt coordinator and second unit director on
several big movies — pays off.
It's unfortunate, then, that some distracting casting mars the
film's otherwise
excellent final act, with
several faces familiar to British audiences popping up in unsuitable and unconvincing roles.
The 2006 DVD comes with
several new features, notably an
excellent audio commentary track by Redford, who — it turns out — had quite a bit of input on the look and feel of the
film, and even managed to influence the tone of Woodward and Bernstein's 1974 book.
With its sharp dialogue, great soundtrack of opera and classical music and
excellent cast, I look forward to the next
film by Atom Egoyan as I feel he will have
several tense dramas in store for us.
There are
several excellent books about Kim Philby, and almost no good
films.