Sentences with phrase «storytelling of films like»

The Black Widow has evolved past her Iron Man 2 part into a far more dimensional character, proving key to the storytelling of films like The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Not exact matches

«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.

Probably one where editors can consume runway shows, presentations, and newer, fresher forms of collection storytelling like short films, pop - up shops, and, hey!

The film is by no means terribly long, at least when you compare it to its 1969 musical counterpart, so it's not like storytelling drags its feet for ages, but make no mistake, the fact of the matter is that plotting's structure is something of a mess that meanders along repetitiously and, well, is to be expected, because, really, where does this story have to go?

Amazingly, despite the hilarious tone, Thor: Ragnarok doesn't feel like a break from the MCU, as all of the films thus far have emphasized comedy as a vital component of the storytelling.

Se7en, like all Fincher's films to date, makes extensive use of darkness and shadow as an aid to the storytelling.

This film may seem like a movie that is only full understood by someone over the age of 50, but anyone who enjoys likeable chemistry, a relaxing story, or slice - of - life storytelling, the you may just find yourself enjoying A Walk in the Woods quite a bit.

Like in the earlier films where the space for personal monologue and storytelling is expanded for even very minor characters, Elvira's brutally honest tape - recorded interview in the final moments combines with the image for one of Fassbinder's most moving and penetrating moments in one of his best films.

It would be easy to say that it's hard to screw up with a cast like that, but plenty of other films have had the talent but not the tools — solid storytelling — to bring it all together.

Perhaps it's because some audiences are unable or unwilling to make sense of something that invests so much in visual storytelling, but it's a shame there aren't more films like this.

It's hard to imagine a more subtle version of such an extreme story, but the film starts to feel a bit like a carefully calculated lesson more than an organic piece of storytelling.

With his films it feels as if he's luring us as the audience over into his world of demented people and visceral storytelling and when we like it and are shocked by that fact, he knows he's won.

It doesn't even feel like any of George Clooney's past films, there's a great amount of depth to it, but it also moves swiftly and has such a vast scope in terms of characters and storytelling within this «tiny» town.

However as a whole, this is a satisfying, and truly unique viewing experience, and we get to see a director who is at ease with such grand ideas of storytelling, and in the end, we get an experience like no other, and for true film lovers, we couldn't ask for any more.

The results have been encouraging, with Disney both embracing its tradition of fairy tale musicals and also succeeding with creative original storytelling on less conventional films like Wreck - It Ralph and Big Hero 6.

Looking over the impressive crop of nonfiction films this year, it seems like the most noteworthy ones were those that collapsed the boundaries between reality and fiction, or passive documentation and active storytelling, or cinema and television.

While appearing in her fair share of high - profile projects like Legally Blonde and the Hellboy films, she's always maintained a steady pace of acclaimed independent work at the same time, from her collaborations with Todd Solondz (Storytelling, Dark Horse) to becoming one of John Waters» most absurdist modern characters in A Dirty Shame.

When: August 22nd Why: It's been nine years since the first «Sin City» captured audiences with its innovative storytelling, but this long - awaited sequel is at least five years too late, with many fans giving up hope of another installment when Robert Rodriguez decided his time was better spent directing garbage like «Shorts,» «Spy Kids 4» and the «Machete» films.

Covering the waterfront of Harding's life from when her domineering mother pushed her onto the world stage of figure skaters, through her emerging stardom on the ice to becoming a promising U.S. Olympian to the scandal where she tried to violently eliminate her main competitor Nancy Kerrigan and a marriage that involved domestic abuse — this film has it all but chooses a Rashomon - like storytelling device to play it all out onscreen.

In truth, an experience like Secrets of the Empire really does seem to illuminate the storytelling potential of VR; an approach with the ability to seamlessly bridge the gap between film, gaming, and amusement park ride.

It's the second film by independent filmmaker Jon Sherman (Breathing Room), working with first - time screenwriter Eric Pomerance's script, but it feels like the work of more seasoned veterans, with a good balance of storytelling and character development that pays off quite well during the film's more romantic moments.

I was expecting to like Avengers: Infinity War as directors Anthony and Joe Russo delivered two of the best previous films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise, but I was not anticipating just how strong the storytelling and spectacle would be.

Solondz agreed to an interview upon the release of his fifth feature, Palindromes (he asks folks not to track down his directorial debut, Fear, Anxiety & Depression, which my editor, Bill, describes as something like a satire of Solondz films), another picture garnering an extreme amount of political fallout following the similarly - tumultuous receptions to his Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, and Storytelling.

When you have a film with such terrific actors like Al Pacino (The Recruit) and Christopher Walken (Kangaroo Jack), and such easy - to - watch personalities like Affleck and J.Lo, the horrendously misguided dialogue and lack of vision to the storytelling only become more pronounced, akin to performing the Macarena in the middle of a ballet, or having the diva of an opera perform a beatbox in the middle of her aria.

Unlike the kitschy films of someone like John Waters (whose Hairspray came out only a few years prior to this), Dottie Gets Spanked skips obvious laughs in favor of tighter storytelling.

Thus, it's hard to not be skeptical and suspect that Raimi's film (much like Burton's) could amount to another dazzling, but hollow, mishmash of muddled storytelling and technical finesse.

It's worth checking out if you're into grim crime films like Gone Baby Gone and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, though it isn't as gripping as the former or as funny as the latter, and it lacks the visual panache of The Departed and the masterful storytelling of Before the Devil Knows Your Dead.

Anime has always had a certain eccentricity about it (think of some of the stranger sequences in touchstone titles like Akira or Ghost in the Shell, or anything at the edges of the output of supposedly child - orientated Studio Ghibli), but the films which LEAFF selected to honour the medium's milestone take this eclectic, imaginative approach to storytelling to new levels, loosening the limits of the logic of reality, and travelling through the very fabric of space and time.

Like those two earlier films, it might enervate those who want clear answers and traditional storytelling, neither of which even remotely interest Glazer here.

Wise dominated, as he added nice notes about his involvement in the film and interesting topics like the dubbing and translation of the Vulcan speech and his rationale for some of the storytelling.

But whether she's working closely with her editors or she's leaving them little choice in how to cut her films because of how lean her scripts and footage are, this kind of short, snappy, collage - like approach to storytelling has become Gerwig's «style» — which undercuts the argument that there's nothing distinctive about the way her movies look and feel.

by Bill Chambers The Lucio Fulci apologists like to say that gore and general impropriety are the raisons d'être of his work, not storytelling, but there's a built - in fallacy to that implicitly macho challenge: It presumes that his films are light on narrative when in fact it's narrative drive that they lack.

Telling a story from a different cultural perspective than we're used to seeing could easily seem like a calculated cash grab if handled poorly, but it's a testament to the quality of the storytelling that this simply feels like a great movie and not a film that's only meant for one specific culture.

The 47 - year - old, London - based Irishman — who, like his older brother, filmmaker John Michael McDonagh («The Guard»), quit school at 16 to pursue a life of storytelling — spoke by phone about his buzzy new film.

Much like Tarantino, Wan's visual storytelling is unique and identifiable within the first few minutes of any one of his films.

Chilean - born Ruiz is a director whose love of storytelling and narrative play is often more engaging than the films themselves but with Mysteries of Lisbon, an epic based on a classic Portuguese novel (one yet untranslated into English), his engagement with the characters and their defining stories guides his direction, and his graceful camerawork and unerring eye for images both classical (like paintings in a cinematic frame) and fluid (his camera moves with purpose and grace) are in the service of the trajectories of the characters.

One of his strengths, evident in his best film, «The Sixth Sense,» and even in misfires like «Lady in the Water,» is that he knows how to withhold enough information — goosing the quiet with well - timed boos and bangs — to keep you asking that crucial storytelling question: What happens next?

She enjoys books, films and theatre, supports the work of the Scottish Storytelling Centre and likes growing and making things.