Sentences with phrase «specific kind of film»

Rodriguez winks and tries maybe too hard; Tarantino, being the sui generis of a very specific kind of film, proceeds to create something that resembles Vanishing Point and Two - Lane Blacktop while steering clear of irony, self - indulgence, and post-modernism in its reverence.

Not exact matches

(There's a specific cinematic language these films speak; when you hear a certain kind of music cue, or see a shot framed in just such a way, or when a character expresses anything approaching contentment, you'll know it's coming, so gird your loins.)

At its heart, the film is a kind of mystical fairy tale whose messages of belief, endurance, family and belonging transcend its memorably specific people and setting.

Demanding a specific kind of active spectatorship, Borgman is a complex film with heat, and somewhere in the middle of it there's a performance within a performance that ends with a declaration of intent that stands as one of the most existentially chilling things in cinema this year.

However, we don't know what specific bad guy Bruhl will play in the film, as Deadline (who added that little tidbit about what kind of character he's playing) didn't have that information.

This is a convincing and emotionally honest film about a specific kind of adolescence: bratty, confused, middle - middle class, white, female, pretentious, and ultimately kindhearted.

HOWEVER, THIS KIND OF FILMS ARE MARKETED TO A SPECIFIC AUDIENCE.

The appearance onscreen of pointillist swarms of film grain may trigger a specific kind of nostalgia in movie buffs, for chemically produced and mechanically projected images that are rarely seen these days outside of repertory cinemas and museums.

It is kind of an interesting story, and plot holes aside, I can see that the real charm of this film is the universal theme of revenge rather than a specific storyline.

Crucially, it's not a product of the United States or South Korea, two cultures married to a specific kind of morally relativistic nightmare that have produced films like this for years, but of an Israeli movie industry that marks this as only their second «horror» release.

There's always the hovering director, Anderson taking the role of surrogate father echoed in so many of his films (the paternal mentor being a key figure in all his features bar Punch - Drunk Love (2002)-RRB-, willing (as Hall says) a specific kind of performance and, like a stern parent, ensuring there'll be no skylarking among his actors by determinedly interposing himself and his camera between them.

That synopsis makes me think Beast of Burden is going to be one of those «one man show» movies — you know the kind; the films that take place mostly in one location, focused on one specific individual.

It's clear right from the get - go that Christopher Cain is in absolutely no hurry to tell this story, as the director has infused The Stone Boy with an almost achingly deliberate pace that does prove effective at establishing the film's very specific locale, admittedly - yet there's little doubt that the laid - back atmosphere, when combined with the uniformly subdued performances and the less - than - eventful nature of Gina Berriault's script, effectively ensures that the viewer's efforts at forming any kind of emotional attachment to the characters fall flat virtually from start to finish.

You have to have that specific knowledge of the subject matter to make this kind of film work and take it to the next level.

However, unlike most films of this kind, One Day — based on David Nicholls» award - winning book from 2009 — only visits these two clunking clichés on one specific day each year.

Victoria Eleanor Bradford is a choreographer and visual artist whose structured improvisations take shape as experimental dinner parties, site - specific dance films and dances translating words into a kind of gibberish performance language.

Victoria Eleanor Bradford is a Louisiana - born, Chicago - based choreographer and visual artist whose structured improvisations take shape as experimental dinner parties, site - specific dance films, football training manuals used as choreographic instruction, and dancers translating words into a kind of gibberish performance language.