Sentences with phrase «than feature length»

Survivors (8:09)-- A short film that takes place in The Darkest Hour's universe and works much better than its feature length counterpart.

Little more than a feature length version of an ATHF episode.

Not exact matches

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple unveiled its long - anticipated smartwatch Tuesday, introducing a device that transplants the features of an iPhone onto a smaller screen that's never more than an arm's length away.

The company envisions systems that will let consumers download a high - definition, full - length feature film in less than five minutes, allow rural health clinics to send 3 - D medical images over the Internet and let students collaborate with classmates around the world while watching live 3 - D video of a university lecture.

I like shirtdresses because they're almost always an appropriate length (a couple inches above the knee to just below); plus, the button - down feature makes them seem a little more dressed up than they already are.

Pair a crop top featuring shoulder details or fullness with knee length dress or kurta when the hip is broader than shoulder.

The pale blue button - down shirt featured here is the perfect length to wear with leggings, as its proportions are closer to those of a tunic than those of a standard shirt.

The best part about shopping at E-Shakti is this customisation feature where you can be the stylist and alter the dress neckline, length, sleeves etc and also get it made according to your BODY MEASUREMENTS rather than a standard size chart!

It's ultimately clear, however, that Fear and Desire simply isn't able to justify its feature - length running time (ie the whole thing feels padded - out even at 61 minutes), with the movie's less - than - consistent vibe paving the way for a second half that could hardly be less interesting or anti-climactic - which does, in the end, confirm the film's place as a fairly ineffective first effort that does, at least, highlight the eye - catching visual sensibilities of its preternaturally - talented director.

It's trippier than «Ex Machina,» and Garland makes a valiant go of its concerns, but «Annihilation» feels like a short - story amount of story pulled and twisted into feature length.

More often than not, Two Men Went to War resembles a feature - length episode of «Hogan's Heroes,» with the brave but clumsy Brits continually managing to outfox the even more bungling Nazis.

Less cohesive documentary than feature - length red flag, The Bleeding Edge assembles a range of talking heads and upsetting case studies to target several key villains.

The trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's eighth feature - length film dropped less than 30 minutes ago and cinephiles are already frothing at the mouth.

An upgrade also makes a dramatic difference with «Night Tide,» a slow - moving, richly atmospheric supernatural tale from 1961, closer in spirit to M. R. James than EC Comics, that was the first feature - length narrative directed by the avant - garde filmmaker Curtis Harrington.

In extending a short story to feature length without embellishing it — at least in the plotting — Loktev suffuses the film with the kind of intimate, microscopic detail and observation that's more common to literature than cinema.

Clocking in at barely more than a minute in length, it features brief, eerie looks at the film, spliced together with famous quotes from everyone from Aristotle to Charles Manson about the overlap between paranoia, love, fear, and pain.

The 3 - D IMAX «Born to be Wild» is only 40 minutes long — that's just how 3 - D IMAX documentaries roll — but in that short time it produces more «awwww» moments than any feature - length film to hit theaters this year.

More remarkable than the particulars of Machete's quest for justice is Rodriguez's touch as director — not simply the scratched prints, which give his latest the same semblance of well - worn trash that he brought to Planet Terror, his feature - length contribution to Grindhouse, but also the fake blood he splatters with such creative panache.

The disc's only other extra of note is a feature - length commentary by Tennant that's less antennae - raising than his monologues elsewhere — instructive, even.

There are few people I'd rather hear talk shop at length than Stillman and Chris Eigeman, who, along with co-star Chloë Sevigny, get the chance to do just that over the course of this disc's feature commentary.

Writer / director / star Gregory Pakis has gone to extraordinary lengths to create an honest, unpretentious comedy that features a miasma of supporting characters, each more memorable than the last.

Cross «D.O.A.» with «Speed,» add lots of carnage, and you've got «Crank,» a feature that's more full - length video game than movie.

With almost 300 feature - length films playing over 11 days (along with over 100 shorts), for some people this is more of a marathon than a festival.

I'll provide a complete inventory below, but the point is that the main attraction of this set, other than the HiDef presentation of the trilogy itself, is a 7 - part, feature - length HD documentary spread across the three films / platters called Tales from the Future.

The SD extras basically consist of a feature - length doc (I timed it out at approximately 81 minutes) shattered into a million little pieces that could've been better consolidated so as to avoid talking about different aspects of the same thing separately, e.g. the Maglev Escape, deconstructed no fewer than three times in the unique contexts of vehicles, stunts, and special effects.

As far as zany dark comedies go, Moonwalkers never approaches Dr. Strangelove territory, but Antoine Bardou - Jacquet's feature - length debut provides more than enough laughs and ridiculous entertainment.

The Witch's woodland farmhouse setting also counted as one of many backdrops of dread, pinning in the year's unluckiest of movie heroes: the quiet, empty spaces of a Manhattan mansion, where the young caretaker of Mickey Keating's Repulsion homage Darling comes violently unglued; the London haunted house of James Wan's bigger, sillier The Conjuring 2, a spring - loaded funhouse ride of a movie; and the claustrophobic underground bunker of 10 Cloverfield Lane, which proved less a sequel to its blockbuster «cousin» than a feature - length Twilight Zone episode.

The film's underlying themes of identity and the candid nature of it's subjects help to elevate the film from simply being nothing more than a feature - length viral video.

IFI Stranger Than Fiction is accepting entries of Irish and international short documentaries and for Irish feature - length documentaries

Recommendation: This is a frustratingly mediocre product that begins with promise and steadily declines over the course of less than 90 minutes — and to reiterate, the film feels more like a two - hour affair than something that registers just shy of a standard full - length feature.

Jackie is a film that often looks and plays like a feature - length expansion of Lana Del Rey's JFK - themed «National Anthem» music video: The scenes of the late president — played, interchangeably, by Brody and Aiden Weinberg — are no less fleshed out than those with A$ AP Rocky in the role.

Making a feature - length film takes more than a cool concept and themes of fatherhood.

Even with the buccaneers returning for a satisfying reprise before the end credits, the actual story is stretched longer than an eel in an attempt to make this feature length material.

The actual Jack and Jill is far more sinister, nothing less than a feature - length actualization of the «piano man» scene from the same film, in which Sandler's George Simmons character, in a stream of smiling - aggressive invectives, makes it clear just how deeply and thoroughly he holds his audience in contempt.

The story sounds like the simplest of things, but Benson sets himself loftier goals and achieves them like he's been directing feature length films for ages rather than tackling his very first one.

There isn't enough story here to sustain a full - length feature, and Shyamalan probably would have been better served making this the first short in an anthology film (indeed, it is rather reminiscent of a «Twilight Zone» episode, «Five Characters in Search of an Exit»), rather than stretch it out with weaker side stories and needless characters.

Older than Ireland won best feature length documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2015 against some formidable opposition.

Directed by Alex Fegan, Older than Ireland has a signature style which is reminiscent of Alex Fegan's previous feature length doc The Irish Pub.

This bonus is more than feature - length, due to the branching pods and McG pausing the action as desired to add further commentary.

It packs more smarts and surprises into its 22 minutes than you'll find in many feature - length releases.

DVD special features are ample, anchored by a feature - length audio commentary track with director Alvart and producer Jeremy Bolt, in which the pair discuss Alvart's late - in - the - game, pre-production idea of depicting the effects of years of hyper - sleep via sloughing skin, as well as the special challenges involved for Foster in crafting a performance out of reacting to Quaid's disembodied voice, since more than half of his material was prerecorded, before the younger actor's scenes.

A24 purchased the film, which stars Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, and Gabriel Byrne, ahead of the festival, and judging by its first trailer, a conscious effort is being made to position Ari Aster's feature - length directorial debut as less miminalist in the horror department than both The Witch and It Comes at Night.

It's ultimately clear that Blumhouse's Truth or Dare doesn't possess enough material to wholeheartedly justify a feature - length running time, and there's little doubt, too, that the film fares especially poorly in its aggressively bland and uninvolving opening stretch - with the less - than - captivating vibe compounded by an almost astonishing assortment of one - dimensional, interchangeable characters.

The ability to tell a compelling story in no more than 30 minutes is a rare one and the 2018 Live Action and Animation nominees are a rich and diverse collection of wonderful stories that are equally as powerful as their feature - length cousins.

That being said, it's more riveting than either of the two film - length commentaries, particularly the sycophantic producer's track featuring an individually - recorded Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, and Lesley Chilcott: at least in his solo yakker director Davis «Elisabeth Shue's Husband» Guggenheim doesn't spend all his time qualifying his passion for the project.

by Bill Chambers Despite its streamlining of the particulars, Walt Disney's feature - length Cinderella ultimately takes fewer liberties with the source material (chiefly, Charles Perrault's «Cinderella, or The Glass Slipper») than almost any of his other animated fairytales.

Lacy conducted more than 30 hours of interviews with the renowned filmmaker for the feature - length doc.

An impressive feat that the film was actually shot in just 21 days but I feel like it was better off as a short - story rather than a full length feature.

I certainly had my doubts about a feature - length version of a recurring sketch that is nothing more than a MacGyver parody (surely most of us thought the initial announcement was a joke), but I have to admit, I'm starting to come around on this a little bit.

Where «Clear History» falters slightly is with its 99 - minute runtime, mostly because David's brand of comedy works better in half - hour segments than a feature - length format.