Sentences with phrase «shadow over the movie»

The discovery at the outset of Anne's corpse - laid out on a bed, decked in flowers - casts a morbid shadow over the movie, and how she got there is shown as a prolonged flashback.

Not exact matches

I'm sure you've seen those old, scary movies where the director lit the subject from below, casting shadows over the villain's face in the most unpleasant manner.

A film noir series is currently casting a long shadow over the Omaha movie theater Film Streams.

Kline struggles to break out of the shadow of past Dreyfus performances, but keeps the movie ticking over, a fine villain to spend some time with.

It's a treat to watch the movie - within - a-movie come together — the process is often funny, but the tragic attrition of the war on Londoners is on display, and its shadow creeps over the characters as Their Finest moves toward its elegant conclusion (you'll be glad the ministry hired a documentary director for the job).

Anna Kendrick has always been the «second girl», the best friend of Twilight, always fighting for screen time, the sister in Scott Pilgrim... Kendrick's filmography is mostly spent sat in the shadows of great movies (please breeze over the fact I just called Twilight a great movie).

You feel his presence even when he's absent; he casts a shadow over the whole movie, just as his character, Juan, casts a shadow over Chiron.

Weekend — Andrew Haigh's the 2011 film of two young gay men who meet, have sex and talk — got all the acclaim a few years back, casting a long shadow over Tom Shkolnik's underseen 2012 movie about a struggling stand - up comic (Edward Hogg) torn between his female roommate (Elisa Lasowski) and the boyfriend he met on the night bus (Nathan Stewart - Jarrett).

The heart of the movie involves the relationship between Will and Marcus — who begins by shadowing Will, finds out there is no «Ned,» and ends by coming over on a regular basis to watch TV.

Director Sarah Gavron, working from a novel by Monica Ali, doesn't push too hard on Nazneen's voice - over letters to her sister in India, though they provide the movie's underlying shadows and hope.

Mortality seemed to hang over the movie like Preacher Harry's shadow.

Talking movies with him is a treat, the conversation leaping from obscurities such as the 1980 asylum - set psychological thriller The Ninth Configuration (about which we discovered a shared obsession when we first met in 2002) to such detective classics as The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, both of which cast long shadows over his latest work, Inherent Vice.

You're made to be aware of the movie's literary source — stylized voice - overs by multiple narrators, starting with Laura (Carey Mulligan), a woman who sidesteps spinsterhood by marrying a stolid farmer Henry (Jason Clarke), who chafes under the criticism of his hateful father (Jonathan Banks), and lives in the shadow of his more popular brother Jamie (Garrett Hedlund).

(Note: Amazing what a long shadow 2001: A Space Odyssey still casts over sci - fi movies even all these decades later.

It's hard to pick just one image from Andrew Dominik's masterpiece as it is one of the most beautifully photographed movies of the 21st century, the train station shadow / smoke scene is one other iconic moment that comes to mind, but for my money nothing beats this gorgeous frame in which Brad Pitt's Jesse James look over the sunset as he contemplates his next move.

High school had been such a traumatic time socially that I was determined to start afresh when I escaped Washington — brand - new identity, new locale, no shadow of my movie - star - handsome big brother hovering over my social life.

Before a rage - fueled fanboy suffers an imminent stroke, thus casting a dark shadow over this post, I will try to actually start supporting my argument with a quick synopsis of a shitty, low budget movie I once saw.