Sentences with phrase «stab at film»

An over indulgent and often confusing stab at film noir, The Black Dahlia leaves little to be desired as director Brian De Palma continues to prove that his best days are behind him.

She acted with the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Charles Playhouse in Boston, and, with such future film luminaries as Al Pacino she appeared in several off - Broadway productions A tentative stab at film acting in The Wedding Party, filmed at Sarah Lawrence in 1963 but released in 1969, might have been forgotten save for its roster of celebrities - to - be: Jill Clayburgh, Robert DeNiro and director Brian De Palma.

First stabs at film often have the same lethargic traits — ordinary framing, awkward line readings, etc. — so it's nice that Drew finds an energy in his home turf that avoids and sometimes plays off those traps.

Not exact matches

In the 1970 film «Gim me Shelter,» filmmakers Albert and David Maysles document the 1969 concert at Altamont which resulted in the stabbing the death of a teenager.

Michael Apted, who turned the simple BBC documentary Seven Up into the most remarkable documentary series ever created, takes another stab at fiction with the British mathematician equivalent of a spy film, Enigma.

All the better to appreciate the film's raison d'etre: primal emotional button - pushing, stabbing at the most basic desires to punish the unrighteous.

Oslo, August 31st A 180 - degree turn from his 2006 semi — film - à - clef debut Reprise, Norwegian director Joachim Trier's sophomore feature follows a former drug addict (the excellent Anders Danielsen Lie) as he makes a tentative last stab at putting his life back together.

A murky, brain - dead stab - a-thon packed with so many inane chases, laughable special effects, and mismatched stock footage shots that it begs to be made into a drinking game, London Has Fallen is one of those rare films that is good at absolutely nothing.

Of course it was no picnic for the lower classes, but the film takes a good stab at showing that a life of privilege is not all it is cracked up to be.

This all just goes to show then what imaginative casting and ambitious storytelling can achieve, as Robert Downey Jr.'s first stab at the role of Tony Stark was the film that started it all.

Lagravenese, the screenwriter for such fine films as The Horse Whisperer, Beloved, The Bridges of Madison County, and The Fisher King, takes his first stab at directing with varying results.

Filmed in Portland, Oregon, «Green Room» gets momentum when a woman is found dead, stabbed in the head, at which point the victim's friend, Amber (Imogen Potts), opts to leave.

It's just dropped in there, a weird and slightly distasteful stab at seriousness in an otherwise unserious film.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe was once accused of dishing up the same rinse - and - repeat origin story over and over again — and while Feige will protest (and has) that each Marvel movie has had its own individual flavor (Thor was a stab at Shakespeare; The Winter Soldier riffs on 70s paranoia thrillers), the franchise has been finding more solid footing in its endeavor to remix all of popular film history through the lens of superheroes.

Nearly two decades later, Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne took a stab at their own version of «Pickpocket» with the harrowing «L'Enfant,» a title referring to both the film's nine - day - old child and the immature young father who sells him — a fatal error that condemns the man's soul and sets him on a quest for spiritual salvation.

Screenwriter Carl Gottlieb (The Jerk, Jaws 2) takes his first stab at directing a feature film, based on the screenplay he co-wrote, and ends up making almost an extended version of the caveman sequence of History of the World Part I, which came out the same year.

Roger Michell has directed this latest stab at My Cousin Rachel, starring Rachel Weisz as Rachel (the role played by Olivia de Havilland in an early film version) and Sam Claflin as her young cousin who is attracted by her but isn't at all sure if she is to be trusted.

Plus, the picture features lots of comic relief via «Stab 7,» a film within the film which periodically enables characters to poke fun at horrifying horror flick conventions and clichés.

Late in the film, Ribisi asks Brolin whether maybe there's something a little troubling or even hypocritical about their gangster - smashing squad trying to destroy Cohen's empire using tactics even the vicious Cohen might find excessively destructive, but the film is so unrelentingly positive and unambiguous in its depiction of righteous violence that this stab at moral ambiguity feels arbitrary and halfhearted.

Nebraska Bob Nelson's Nebraska was a film Alexander Payne wanted to make for many years before he finally took a stab at it, completely his «man coming of age» driving movie theme, which began with Sideways, then About Schmidt, and finally, Nebraska.

With his latest film Like Crazy, Drake Doremus takes a stab at a truth that still stands regardless of how many times it is said — love is tough.

I see the film as a brave, heartfelt and largely successful stab at adapting the «unadaptable».

But, far too much of Three Billboards trumps its humanity and empathy with vicious cynicism, which makes its goal of at least partially redeeming a handful of characters feel like little more than a hollow stab at stamping some sense of humanity on a film that otherwise wallows in the worst of it.

The feature directorial debut of Brett Anstey, Australian import Damned by Dawn represents a stab at homage to the classic Hammer Horror films of yore.

In lieu of taking in this weekend's Prom Night, or other dreck at the theater, one might be advised to simply enjoy an analytical look back at the story of the original, very Canadian slasher film, from 1980, and its desperate stabs at Americanization.

For most, the choice was relatively easy since even though Eastwood's output of late has been a bit on the uneven side, he has still made more than his share of stone - cold classics and his willingness to experiment at an age when most filmmakers become increasingly entrenched in the tried - and - true, even when those experiments end up going sideways, promised something more interesting than the wooden acting and tepid stabs at «kink» that have distinguished the «Fifty Shades» films so far.

This is all of a piece with the director's inability to maintain a consistent tone throughout the film, which veers from reality to fantasy to occasional stabs at black humor.

But revisiting the film, I was irked less by any perceived preening desire to be «authentic» than I was absorbed by the power of its story — though the movie's one go - for - broke stab at regional poetry, a black - and - white squirrel - centric dream sequence scored to a chorus of chainsaws, still falls completely flat.

might pose a challenge, as it's perhaps the first film in which his penchant for thudding, fraught metaphor feels oddly at one with his stabbing out in all directions.

More chases, shootings, stabbings and hand - to - hand conflicts continue throughout the film and although the carnage isn't explicit, we do see blood at times.

Francois Truffaut takes a stab at an anti-war film with a conscience, but like Renoir with Grand Illusion, he does it without showing any battle footage.

From this point forward the film becomes both a continuation of the original mythology and a reboot of sorts, a la JJ Abrams» 2009 stab at Star Trek.

With John Carter being the big release of the week I thought it fun to take a stab at slightly uninspiring film titles.

Director Paolo Sorrentino's second, painfully thin stab at an English - language film unfolds in a hyper - exclusive Swiss design hotel, where retired orchestra conductor Fred Ballinger (Michael Caine) and his best friend, successful movie director Mick Boyle (Harvey Keitel), are spending their holidays, which entail walking in the Alps, having massages, and invariably reminiscing about the good old days.

More a footnote to a revered career than an epic swansong, the late Alain Resnais final film takes him back to the works of Alan Ayckbourn for a third stab at adapting that most English of playwrights.

THE STORY OF FILM By Jonathan Rosenbaum A commendable TV epic takes a stab at remapping the history of world cinema

Rarely does a horror film receive high praise but Jason Peele's first stab at the genre is proving a success, as remarkably the film is yet to get a bad review, scoring 100 % on Rotten Tomatoes.

They go deep on the shocking nature of killing your star in the opening scene, the rules and tropes of horror film, and the killers» ridiculous plan to stab each other at the end.

Whatever position one takes on his worth as an artist, one thing is for sure: Fincher has come a long way since the early days of his career, when he was known simply as yet another television - commercial and music - video wunderkind (along with, say, Spike Jonze, Mark Pellington, Michel Gondry, and others) taking some bold stabs at feature - film directing.

It's been 18 months and two more viewings since I was first wowed by Andrea Arnold's sink - estate drama, and Fassbender's is the performance that reveals more at each turn: as the kindly boyfriend of the teen protagonist's neglectful mother, his delicate negotiation of the queasy divide between parental and sexual impulse gives the film its messy emotional heft, but he's responsible for some unexpected stabs of joy too.

Artist BossLogic took a stab at creating what he could look like in the film, and it's a pretty straightforward adaptation from the comics with some modern touches thrown in.