Sentences with phrase «unique take on film»

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The music is quite twisted and cool, the film definitely has the most unique take on a classic, and it succeeds in getting a point across while pleasing exploitation fans.

Langella was tapped to reprise his performance for a film version of Dracula released in 1979, but he was forced to tone down his unique take on the role for the screen, and what would have seemingly been the perfect screen vehicle for his talents became a critical and box - office disappointment.

Playing through Detective Pikachu, it became readily apparent why the title will be the basis for the upcoming live action film: the game offers up a unique take on the Pokémon world, while simultaneously providing something that feels familiar, much like Pokémon Snap once did on Nintendo 64.

A majority of the film takes place on Asgard and other unique and cool planets that aren't boring old Earth and I applaud that.

It's still the only teen - themed / aimed weekly drama that has discussed sexuality from nearly every angle (as Williamson observes on one of the DVDs, the dichotomy of the Dawson - Joey - Pacey - Jen quartet gave them the luxury of taking four unique stands at the start) without becoming salacious, and I can't help but see my washed - up self in Dawson's eagerness to become a filmmaker, from Dawson's home videos in which Joey is attacked by a lagoon creature (as you may surmise from its title, the series is set in a sun - dappled New England inlet) to his Spielberg fixation — although even as a teen, I recognized that 1941 is a better film than Hook.

He talks about why the movie took years to make, his decision to only screen on 35 mm, working with John Hawkes, and everything else you need to know about one of the most unique film releases of the year.

Rob Zombie's films may be hit or miss (I still think that his take on Halloween gets unfairly shit on considering some of the other entries that came out of that franchise), but one thing that I've always appreciated about his work is that he never strays away from what makes him such a unique filmmaker — the dude always makes -LSB-...]

Subverting Toxic Masculinity We don't just want more women making films for their fine - tuned insights into the lives of women — Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women and Anna Rose Holmer's The Fits being perhaps the most obvious examples among this year's releases that I saw — but also for their unique takes on men and masculinity.

This is the 25th year of the SXSW Film Festival, and I took a look at what makes this fest unique from many others, with its longtime emphasis on discovery, female filmmakers, comedy and films that get overlooked elsewhere.

Many may wish to give the film a spot in their collections too, whether if it's as one of the 1980s» biggest blockbusters, as one of the Walt Disney Company's earliest and most successful Touchstone films, or more likely, as an amusing human drama which provides a unique and compelling take on a cinematically well - tread period of history.

Portman, who was born in Israel and who lived there until she was three, before her family moved to the US, has taken a brave decision to take on such potentially contentious material — and while the resulting film is perhaps a tad on the conventional - looking side, it has an unusual, and possibly unique, perspective on Israeli psychology, and Portman demonstrates she possesses a confident grasp of film - making fundamentals.

There are numerous zombie films and series out in the market, but Life After Beth may be the most unique take on the genre in some time.

The director is putting together his ninth feature film, which promises to be a «unique take» on the Manson Family murders.

The fly - on - the - wall approach often taken here usually works, but the piece is just too slick and short to provide any insight to the film beyond the English director's unique style.

The first trailer for Midnight Special, from the director of Take Shelter and Mud, offers a unique take on the basic premise of the superhero fTake Shelter and Mud, offers a unique take on the basic premise of the superhero ftake on the basic premise of the superhero film.

Things acclaimed British director Mike Leigh is known for: wry comedy - drama poking at ordinary lives and the class system, a compassionate yet sharp take on the human condition, his almost unique working method that involves workshopping and improvising for months with his cast before a frame of film is shot.

Do your part and see this unique take on loneliness and identity that's unlike any film you've ever seen before not made by Charlie Kaufman.

Commitment can take on so many forms, conventional and unconventional alike, and with wonderfully measured performances from Sidse Babett Knudsen and Chiara D'Anna and a beautiful look provided by cinematographer Nic Knowland and production designer Pater Sparrow, The Duke of Burgundy is a truly unique film in a year defined by them.

Directed by Antonia Bird (who came aboard the project two weeks after it began filming) and starring Guy Pearce (Prometheus), Robert Carlyle (28 Weeks Later), David Arquette (Scream), Jeffrey Jones (Beetlejuice), and more, the movie is a unique, fun, often times very funny take on the Wendigo myth.

Like a scripted take on the «7 Up» series, tracking a boy (Ellar Coltrane) from the age of six to eighteen as well as his family and shot at annual intervals, this process let Linklater use the signature low - key, intimate, beautifully observed style he's honed over twenty years, but blown up to a grander scale by virtue of the film's virtually unique conceit.

What makes Waters's output as an artist successful it what made his films work — a unique and very funny take on Americana, trash media, and ideas of perversity.