Sentences with phrase «small set of films»

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.

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Definition of CULT 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents 4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator 5a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

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.

Born in precisely the kind of small - town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood David Lynch news and opinion Chats with Terry Manning and Dan Vallor, Plus Jesse Cook, Ensemble Mik Nawooj, Vincent Colbert, Ships Have Sailed, Dead

I got a chance to visit one of the set locations, a lovely, small stone church where the finale is being filmed, and interview Roger Bobb, whose company - World's Best Casual Personals for casual dating, search millions of casual personals from singles, couples, and swingers looking for fun

Freeman told I got a chance to visit one of the set locations, a lovely, small stone church where the finale is being filmed, and interview Roger Bobb, whose company

Of course it would take more than a small independent film to truly set Washington apart from the pack, and many saw her performance in the 2001 romantic drama Save the Last Dance as one of the few redeeming qualities in the otherwise forgettable teen dramOf course it would take more than a small independent film to truly set Washington apart from the pack, and many saw her performance in the 2001 romantic drama Save the Last Dance as one of the few redeeming qualities in the otherwise forgettable teen dramof the few redeeming qualities in the otherwise forgettable teen drama.

Featuring a screenplay by no less than five writers, Flushed Away has clearly been geared to appeal primarily to small children - as evidenced by the film's emphasis on action - oriented set pieces and distinctly broad bits of comedy (there's even a fart joke thrown in for good measure).

He frequently showed up in the films of directors Cecil B. DeMille and John Ford; in Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln, he played small - town lout Scrub White, whose murder sets in motion the film's classic courtroom finale.

Most of the novel based films are is set in North Carolina, often in a picturesque small town that happens to be the perfect setting to sprinkle with romance.

It never goes for the big, brazen laughs others would relish; perhaps it's apropos that the film extols the virtues of a small set of balls throughout.

Instead, Dredd is a small - scale introductory escapade — outside of an opening chase scene and the sequences set within the Grand Hall of Justice, the film confines itself within the concrete interiors of Peach Trees.

From Killing Them Softly there's the setting of the film during Obama's election, from The Place Beyond the Pines we have the almost classical / Greek - Tragedy story and from Winter's Bone the vast, cold and oppressive emptiness of small - town America and its surrounding countryside which are filled with drugs and the twisted but more realistic vision of «The American Dream».

Set in a small, blue - collar American town, the film tracks the fallout of a terrible mining accident that left ten men dead.

The film tells the story of a small town girl (Julianne Hough) who falls in love with a larger - than - life rocker (Tom Cruise) set against the backdrop...

It's a gloriously written film, with jokes that are crafted rather than excavated from reams of on - set improvisation1; the success of the punchlines is scattershot and up for debate (connoisseurs of the Borscht belt should find much to admire, but a rehash of Lloyd's lovesick daydream flatlines, due in no small part to an overestimation of the comic chops and kitsch appeal of Honey Boo - Boo's mom), yet there is something bracing about its structural classicism after the last few years of watching the Church of Apatow whack off.

Save for a few scenes that take place on a battlefield, much of this work could easily be accomplished on stage, yet instead of making the film feel small or inadequate, this restrained setting instead gives weight to the micro expressions and gentle asides that Day - Lewis uses to bring life to his role.

With its limited setting and small cast, it feels like the filmed version of the...

Directed by Quentin Lawrence and based on a television film he had directed earlier, the entire film is kept to a couple of sets and a small, contained cast, and the controlled microcosm is part of what makes it work, as the threats are all outside the walls, unseen and only heard over a phone line or described by the charmingly commanding Morell.

The farm scenes in particular (the poor city is reduced to only a few locations (that look like sets actually) and seems much smaller than the town in Sunrise are really stunning: much of the film feels like Days Of Heaven was the film Murnau actually wanted to make (same location: wheat field in the upper midwest, attacked by a natural disaster, though Murnau doesn't appear to have the budget for his hailstorm whereas Malick could afford locustsof the film feels like Days Of Heaven was the film Murnau actually wanted to make (same location: wheat field in the upper midwest, attacked by a natural disaster, though Murnau doesn't appear to have the budget for his hailstorm whereas Malick could afford locustsOf Heaven was the film Murnau actually wanted to make (same location: wheat field in the upper midwest, attacked by a natural disaster, though Murnau doesn't appear to have the budget for his hailstorm whereas Malick could afford locusts).

The film stars Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine, Andrew Scott, Joseph Gilgun, George MacKay and Ben Schnetzer and tells the story of a group of gay and lesbian activists who set off to help a small mining village.

by Walter Chaw A very small story set on a very large stage, Phillip Noyce's affecting Rabbit - Proof Fence is perhaps the most visually beautiful film of the director's career, proving between this and his other movie from this year, the Graham Greene adaptation The Quiet American, that not only is it possible to go home again (as in Noyce to Australia) but also that it's often wise.

Black described his work on the film to Empire Magazine, saying, ``... [we] were to take this very small script, where not a lot happens, and beef it up into a summer movie, with lots of set - ups and pay - offs and reversals.

Certainly it isn't because it's a fitting ending to the journey of Bilbo, as he's not even involved in the majority of this film, instead taking a back seat to a host of characters that are either greatly beefed up from their small supporting roles in the original Tolkien work, or, as in the case of lovelorn wood elf Tauriel (Lilly, The Long Weekend) and handsome dwarf Kili (Turner, The Mortal Instruments), complete fabrications injected to put in a love story for, presumably, the young female set.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth MosOF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth MosOF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Coming - of - age adventure follows 20 - year - old Lucy (Solo), a small - town girl from Ohio — who has never kissed a boy, never had a job and never really had friends — who discovers the delightfully bizarre films of the legendary Italian filmmaker and sets off on a journey across Italy to find him.

The scale of the film serves to reinforce these themes; the camera angles, the score, the set design all point to one specific idea: the humans are really really small, and these monsters are really really big.

Some of the little outbursts we see in the trailer (bloody fists, angrily punching through a drum kit after a set), are only small glimpses of the breakdown that Neiman is trapped in, when he hits the arguable height of his success in the film.

Our setting is a small backwater community, yet catastrophes and contretemps fairly tumble over one another within minutes of the film's start: two members of the local constabulary gone missing, the several - days - ripe corpse of a young woman turned up at lakeside, another cop shot in the foot by a whacked - out hermit, and wait, is there yet one more dead woman to be discovered out there?

, German - language documentary in 4x3 SD with burned - in yellow English subtitles contains B - roll that provides a good impression of the filming conditions — including the look of the sets and the relatively small size of the handheld 16 mm film cameras — plus a clip of Burger delivering a lecture on his work in the camps and footage showing him consulting on set during the production.

This seems to suggest that Paramount is sticking with the small handful of characters who actually worked in the original film — one of whom has plastic lips that don't move — and vetoing the likes of Sienna Miller, Marlon Wayans, Dennis Quaid, and even Joseph Gordon - Levitt who was clearly set up as the villain Cobra Commander in a potential sequel.

Set around four seasons in the small town of Drumheller, Alberta, the film is divided into four segments, operating with equal amounts of delight and despair for its core cast of characters.

As in many coming - of - age films, she's seen shedding her small town self for a new version of herself in the big city, all the more significant as she's finally letting go of the expectations of others — her mother, her boyfriends — and setting them for herself.

Having made dramas that were set in the small worlds of arthouse film financing (Father Of My Children) and French house music (Eden), she shifts her attention here to a year or so in the life of a philosophy teacher named Nathalie (Huppert) as so many of the things that she's taken for granted crumble awaof arthouse film financing (Father Of My Children) and French house music (Eden), she shifts her attention here to a year or so in the life of a philosophy teacher named Nathalie (Huppert) as so many of the things that she's taken for granted crumble awaOf My Children) and French house music (Eden), she shifts her attention here to a year or so in the life of a philosophy teacher named Nathalie (Huppert) as so many of the things that she's taken for granted crumble awaof a philosophy teacher named Nathalie (Huppert) as so many of the things that she's taken for granted crumble awaof the things that she's taken for granted crumble away.

Set in a small northern California town of the late 40s, the film portrays Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), a barber dissatisfied with his life.

David Gordon Green is directing the film, which will set aside the small matter of Laurie Strode's (Curtis) death in one of the sequels, as well as co-writing it with Danny McBride.

One of director Alfred Hitchcock's (Suspicion, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) more experimental films puts all of the action within the confines of a lifeboat for the duration, becoming what some claim is the smallest set ever used for a major motion picture release.

I know because that's exactly what I said, when I found myself invited with a small group of journalists to the Vancouver based set for the upcoming January 2017 film from Paramount Pictures, Monster Trucks.

While this is without question not a typical horror film, if you can notice the nuances of everything from the setting to the actors and even the smallest of story details you will gain an appreciation for one of the best films so far of 2016.

Set five years after «Transformers: Dark of the Moon,» the new film introduces a new hero — a small - town single dad and tinkerer, played by Mark Wahlberg — but is otherwise indistinguishable from the earlier «Transformers» pictures.

Of course, it's a sad irony that «Candelabra» with its meticulous period detailing and flamboyant sets and costumes, is one of Soderbergh's most big - screen - worthy films, but it will be a small - screen experience for many U.S. viewers, still, the film's greatest strengths are its storytelling and characterization which simply sing, off screens of any sizOf course, it's a sad irony that «Candelabra» with its meticulous period detailing and flamboyant sets and costumes, is one of Soderbergh's most big - screen - worthy films, but it will be a small - screen experience for many U.S. viewers, still, the film's greatest strengths are its storytelling and characterization which simply sing, off screens of any sizof Soderbergh's most big - screen - worthy films, but it will be a small - screen experience for many U.S. viewers, still, the film's greatest strengths are its storytelling and characterization which simply sing, off screens of any sizof any size.

Set to the backdrop of the Detroit race riots, the film's opening sequences paint a striking picture of a city in violent chaos, but its broad scope soon gives way to a more focused telling of police brutality against a small group of youths.

It may not be as all - encompassing as some of the usual presidential biopics that we're used to getting, but as a small, intimate portrait of the young Obamas, it's a surprisingly delightful film that does exactly what it sets out to do by showing us the prelude to a blossoming romance.

Based on the setting alone, the film trips over every obvious German stereotype in the book - from the uninhibited cultural attitudes, to the kinky sexual indulgences, to the peculiar artistic tastes, smaller automobiles, penchant for beer and Euro - trashy nightclubs, etc., etc., etc.... Beyond that, the lineup of comedic gags and sequences feels like mishmash of ideas that never seem to balance out tonally with other jokes, not the entire dramatic side of the film.

Burnett often sets his films on a small scale but deftly explores universal themes, including the power to endure and the rewards and burdens of family.

Special features consist of a small handful of deleted scenes, the movie's trailer, and a nice, lengthy behind - the - scenes featurette which blends cast and crew interviews, some on - set footage and clips from the film.

Set sometime after the Civil War, the film opens in the dusty small American town of Rose Creek.

The film features an impressive cast that includes Wannell himself along with The Faculty star Elijah Wood returning to horror in a high school setting in the story of a virus that hits a small Illinois town and turns the young children into deadly little monsters little monsters.

A local website in the small coastal Yorkshire town of Whitby has posted some photos from the set of the film, including at least one that includes that title.

Chris Pratt is also set for the film, which will once more see a small town — in this case built around a gold mine — threatened by a ruthless baron and his gang of thugs.