Sentences with phrase «uncompromising film»

The script, adapted by the author herself (her first screenplay) is strong, and while this is certainly a harrowing and uncompromising film to endure, its pleasures make it a worthwhile experience.

Its short running time is appreciated, however, and as a subtle yet uncompromising film it only disappoints in the last few moments.

Despite these comparisons, it's a very individual and uncompromising film — for most of its running time, at least.

Austrian director Michael Haneke has often been accused of casting a cold, even sadistic, eye on the characters who suffer through cruelly uncompromising films like Funny Games, The Piano Teacher, Caché, and The White Ribbon.

It was this fierce do - it - yourself attitude, and such startling, uncompromising films as Les enfants terribles and Bob le flambeur, that appealed to the filmmakers of the French New Wave, who adopted Melville as a godfather of sorts (Godard even famously gave him a cameo in Breathless).

It stands as a marvelous summation of a career of uncompromising films.

For 20 years now, director Nicolas Winding Refn has made bold and uncompromising films that explore the messy nature of men and masculinity.

Not exact matches

Uncompromising in her approach, Witherspoon went all in as she told L.A. reporters in a film Q&A, «I just knew that Cheryl had told the whole truth and I had to be brave enough as an artist to tell the whole truth too.

Written by prison system therapist Jonathan Asser, STARRED UP is a merciless, uncompromising portrayal of a dehumanizing life behind bars, and the most accomplished film of David Mackenzie's career; as father and son, Mendelsohn and O'Connell give extraordinary performances, charting a path that resembles Greek tragedy.

A searing Oscar - nominated performance from Paul Muni as the desperate James Allen and powerful uncompromising direction ensure that this film is as harrowing and vital today as it ever was.

So if we want to know who Isabelle is and what she's like — the principal concern of Claire Denis's shrewd and uncompromising new film — then the bedroom might be as good a place as any to start.

When Hollywood tackles terrorism, it rarely offers the degree of ambiguity on display in In the Fade and I have never seen a studio - funded film opt for this kind of uncompromising ending.

Vulture's Emily Yoshida believes it's one of Lee's «most flat - out entertaining films in years, and also one of his most uncompromising.»

Shooting the film with flashlights and a RED camera in natural unlight, cinematographer Jolanta Dylewska has done a masterful job in uncompromising conditions.

Already recognized as a genius in 1967, when the film begins, within the next few years he manages to alienate friends and fans with his imperious and uncompromising Maoist opinions.

Instead, he resorts to a graceful, intelligent and uncompromising approach that elevates the film and allows it to truly soar especially in the second act.

Possibly the most stressful watch of 2017, or at least neck and neck with Dunkirk, it's an uncompromising art film that predictably turned mainstream audiences off when it was somehow released into 2,000 - plus theatres -LRB-!).

With vast mountain terrains and theatrical music, the fantasy film feel is only enhanced by the voice - over by British actor Charles Dance, best known for his role as the uncompromising Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones.

by Walter Chaw Completely uncompromising in a way that films, especially sports films, just aren't, Ron Shelton's Cobb is one of the most effective hagiographies in film history not for the way that it elevates its subject to sainthood, but for the way that it allows its subject to be one of history's most notorious, relentless miscreants.

His uncompromising love for dubious and morally ambiguous characters is present, sparked with some female sensuality and a good serving of slasher film flavor.

That Winding Refn's ninth film is dedicated to the Chilean surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (best known for El Topo and Santa Sangre and a mentor to Winding Refn) gives you an idea of the kind of uncompromising material we're looking at.

While the film is fierce and uncompromising, its visuals as stark as the church, its protagonist is skittish, unsure.

Awash in all the visual and aural possibilities of filmed entertainment, David Lynch's 18 - episode sequel to his 1990s TV series was the ultimate, uncompromising display of personal obsession and totally tuned - in to the dream nature of the whole filmic endeavor.

Portman appears in almost every scene and the film's thrilling intimacy is intensified by Larraín's uncompromising close - ups and a brilliantly brutal score by Micachu & The Shapes» Mica Levi.

It's an uncompromising and brutal film (Eric spends one entire early scene with his teeth clamped onto the genitals of a prison guard), but the violence feels real, never stylized or glamorized, and the tos - and - fros of prison life have the quiet assuredness of «A Prophet.»

It is a cruel film, graphic and uncompromising because of the knowledge, imparted often, that Argento has no inhibitions in his treatment of his victims.

An adaptation of the Nobel Prize - winning author José Saramago's novel «The Double» (and not the thematically similar Dostoyevsky book of the same name which confusingly, features elsewhere on this list) this psychological thriller sounds a little bit more damaged and arthouse than Villeneuve's aforementioned studio film and given uncompromising nature of that picture, we're rather psyched to see how «Enemy» turns out.

Fans of the Korean auteur (as well as fans of good sci - fi in general) were understandably very vexed by the decision to cut the film down by twenty minutes and add expository voice over, eager to see the director's original, uncompromising vision.

With an uncompromising but well - informed sense of rising urgency, «Lo and Behold» «devolves into an outright horror film about civilization, and what we're allowing it to become.»

Though it's been offered that the lack of any actual conflict is a product of the picture's miniscule budget, it feels a lot more like an unwillingness to take a chance at the moment of crisis, despite the film's generally uncompromising attitude.

That film is about a woman crippled under her complete and uncompromising devotion to religion.

It's the definition of a film meant to be admired more than loved, but Desplechin's fierce intelligence and uncompromising sense of character come through, as does some of the sharp wit and stylistic flourishes left over from his last film, 2004's Kings And Queen.

I agree with the decision to lift a pair of sequences concerning Laney's alcoholic sister, brilliantly essayed by Childress's sister Patricia though she may be: the uncompromising (or «heavy - handed,» to borrow Stiller's assessment) nature of this rehab - set subplot clashes with the film's poppy façade.

A raw, brutal and uncompromising revenge thriller that may well be Lynne Ramsay's best film thus far.

American Independents Presented by the Lincoln Motor Company: Featuring powerful new voices in American cinema, these fresh, gritty films explore a variety of subjects through the filmmaker's uncompromising vision.

First Reformed's final minutes are untidy, but in all of its exaggerations, the film persists in its seriousness about the survival of the soul in hard times and its portrait of a flawed man who can't reconcile a troubled world with an uncompromising faith.

It's that middle section where a certain Hungarian filmmaker wins the foreign language film award or the director of a little - seen short injects mania and uncompromising glee into an evening full of been - there - done - that Meryl Streep stares.

His film is uncompromising and doesn't chicken out with a U-turn ending.

Speaking of failures, while the uncompromising nature in portraying brutality serves the oppressive mood well, they do tease the specter of exploitation when the film, as if aware of its two - plus hours of life, really takes it time before moving on to the next scene (or, gulp, to the next part of the punishment).

Even if the big - screen revival of the HBO series about a movie star (Adrian Grenier) and his posse does technically qualify as a film, it's still questionable whether writer - director Doug Ellin has ever seen any other movies, given the Mortal Instruments - level movie - within - the - sorta - movie that he presents not as a goof on Hollywood hubris but as an uncompromising masterpiece that eventually makes half a billion dollars at the box office.

Because this was my fourth film, most of the actors I'd either worked with before or they've probably seen one of my other films and they realize that I'm looking for a truthfulness, verisimilitude, and authenticity that is uncompromising and unflinching.

The rough, direct style of the film proved that Oliveira wasn't really interested in «entertaining» his audiences in the classical sense of the word; in reality, he was really making the film for himself, by his own rules, and the public used to being catered to, dismissed the film as harsh and uncompromising.

Equally hard - hearted and uncompromising in its mode of delivery as its coolly received follow - ups, Margot at the Wedding and Greenberg, the film executes its mercilessness in dart throws, with each offhand aggression piercing the cork around the bull's - eye until the board is nearly filled up and a moment of release is granted.

The plight of Anwar Congo and how it evolves over the course of the film is fascinating to behold, and it ends with a moment of pure, uncompromising (and utterly uncomfortable) power.

It marks film number nine for Marvel — films ten («Guardians Of The Galaxy»), eleven («Avengers: Age Of Ultron»), and twelve («Ant - Man») are slated for release through July 2015 — and it's entirely uncompromising in its vision.

Said to be a cold war fears revision of the filmmakers» own childhood anxieties, this bleak entry into the doomsday canon is sure to be as uncompromising as his previous film.

The film's other shocks are more visceral, with uncompromising images of skeletal corpses, decapitated heads and more — even Steven Spielberg's hard - hitting Schindler's List looks comparatively benign when compared to the sights on view here.

McQueen's movies are fierce and unflinching, and it'll be interesting to see how he meshes that uncompromising sense of purpose with a film that looks to be his most commercial project to date.

There's a reason the Criterion edition of the 1955 film noir Kiss Me Deadly includes a 4 - minute tribute by Cox, considering he borrows that movie's visual of an otherworldly glow for his own uncompromising effort.

A tough, uncompromising look at New York waterfront corruption was found in the classic American film, director Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) with Marlon Brando as a longshoreman who testified to the Waterfront Crimes Commission.