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Photographed by Tom Hoops for Lab MagazineNicolas Winding Refn, the Danish auteur whose made a career of candy colored violent films after grimier movies at home, is both exactly what you'd expect and unexpected.
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The specific ending of the film, which wisely avoids the worst mistakes of the book and at least cuts things mercifully short after a series of catastrophes, is not successful or convincing; in fact, it's rather clichéd and banal, but the intuition that violent, terrible acts flow inexorably in part from Americans» unawareness and incomprehension of the simplest facts of their own lives is undeniably true.
«Mary and the Witch's Flower,» the first film from Studio Ponoc, an animation outfit founded by Studio Ghibli veterans Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura after Ghibli closed its doors in 2015, starts in medias res, with a violent firestorm engulfing the screen.
In film, she has appeared in the Coen brothers» TRUE GRIT and BURN AFTER READING, Spielberg's LINCOLN, Tony Gilroy's BOURNE LEGACY, Roger Michell's HYDE PARK ON HUDSON, J.C. Chandor's A MOST VIOLENT YEAR, and Cameron Crowe's ALOHA.
The worst will happen, says Michael Haneke, in film after film: catastrophes personal and global, violent home invasions (twice, if you count his American remake of Funny Games), evil spying and life - ruining guilt.
Well, after watching Thanos, the film's violent supervillain, destroy cities and murder innocent people to claim five of the six infinity stones — powerful gems that yield the power to alter the fate of the entire universe — we're shown his final face - off against the Avengers.
The film manages to be conventional and surprising at the same time, as we are subjected to violent acts one after the other.
It's nice to see a lighthearted comedy after two months of dark, violent films.
Two years after Ryan Reynolds revived the idea that a mainstream genre film could be violent and mirthful; something we all used to take for granted before Hollywood sanitised their product by conflating teen - friendly ratings with mass -LSB-...]
The film follows former war hero and convict Snake Plissken, who's sent into a futuristic Manhattan which has been turned into a no - man's land / maximum security prison to bring back the American President after he's shot down over the island and captured by the violent gangs who now lay claim to the island.
«The Hateful Eight» Continually hearing the film may be too violent even after Tarantino's similarly bloody nominees «Inglorious Basterds» and «Django Unchained.»
The film has had a tumultuous history: it was subjected to cuts after the violent response of the premiere audience in 1939, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II; it wasn't reconstructed until 1959.
The documentary is mainly comprised of interviews, many with the director himself in his apartment, but the highlight for most will be the scene of Tarantino and De Palma talking about the similarities in their careers of having to deal with public attention regarding the violent content in their films (this comes after an extended sequence featuring Tarantino explaining his love for De Palma, which includes a personal scrapbook of printed interviews and a description of the influence that Casualties of War had on certain elements in Reservoir Dogs).
Only four years after the disastrous 1492: Conquest of Paradise (a film that would have destroyed a lesser director's career), Ridley Scott was back in nautical territory with White Squall, a semi-successful, fact - based survival / courtroom drama that featured a sizable collection of up - and - coming actors, including Scott Wolf, Ryan Phillippe, Jeremy Sisto, Eric Michael Cole, Balthazar Getty, and Ethan Embry (among others), and a creditable turn by Jeff Bridges as the ill - fated leader of a sailing trip threatened by the «white squall» (a sudden, violent windstorm) of the title.
The film's ostensible subject is the largely - unrecognised Republic of Abkhazia, which split from Georgia after a violent separatist war in 1992, as well as the title's eponymous Maxim Gvinjia, Abkhazia's former Minister for Foreign Affairs; the film's other subject is Baudelaire's wider questioning of national identity.
After film reviewer Jan Wahl took issue with Tarantino's assertion that kids older than 12 would enjoy the violent «Kill Bill,» the director told Wahl that she needed to separate movies from the real world.
With a screenplay and original scenario from Stephen King, regular King collaborator Mick Garris» 1992 film sticks in the mind long after its conventionally melodramatic and violent finale, because its opening hour is so sexually bizarre and tonally berserk.
It's a violent, charged, surreally hilarious moment and after it happens, the film suggests, Horvath and Berger do not speak to one another again.
Having watched Gerald's Game after a string of some very violent films during genre film festival Fantastic Fest, I still wasn't prepared for a certain scene late in the film.
After creating such violent male - dominated films like Bronson, Only God Forgives, and Valhalla Rising, Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn is entering the world of strong female leads with The Neon Demon, a dark tale of treachery and the obsession of beauty.
Styled after 1980's gangster / action films, the top - down game is viciously brutal, outrageously violent, and also features some incredible music!
Running from 1973 to 1976, «Panther's Rage» saw the Panther return to his nation and people after a long absence, only to deal with both distrust and anger from his court and a violent revolution led by the sadistic, calculating Erik Killmonger (who, as played by Michael B. Jordan, serves as the villain of the Black Panther film).
Based on the thrill - ride film, «From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series» is a supernatural crime saga centered around bank robber, Seth Gecko (Cotrona) and his violent, unpredictable brother, Richard «Richie» Gecko (Holtz), who are wanted by the FBI and Texas Rangers Earl McGraw (Johnson) and Freddie Gonzalez (Garcia) after a bank heist left several people dead.
Meeting up after a triumphant opening - night premiere of «A Most Violent Year» at Los Angeles» recent AFI Fest, actor Oscar Isaac and director J.C. Chandor didn't look like the creative team behind one of the most complex, rewarding American films of the...
Just a day after the New York Film Critics Circle named «Boyhood» the best film of the year and the Gotham Awards crowned «Birdman» comes another list of winners and another best picture: «A Most Violent Year» has been selected by the National Board of Review as the year's...
Coming after a pair of uneven broad comedies, The Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty, the stark, stripped down, formally - controlled aesthetic of No Country, appeared to be a departure even from films like Fargo, Miller's Crossing, Blood Simple, and The Man Who Wasn't There, which were similarly grim and violent, but still contained their signature moments of absurd humor, references to older movies, and self - conscious pastiche of classic Hollywood genres.
After seeing concept art and a couple of still shots from Patrick Lussier «s Drive Angry, I started to wonder if the film might be the sort of action film that few filmmakers seem to get right these days — a dirty, slightly weird, possibly quite violent revenge story.
While the film was conceived as a star vehicle for Lana Turner — seeking rehabilitation after the violent end to her relationship with Johnny Stompanato — the real drama exists in the relationship between two supporting characters, black maid Annie (Juanita Moore) and her light - skinned daughter Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner).
It's a violent and ruthless film as Leo is left for dead after being mauled by a bear in the icy cold woods.
* The Cinefamily Q&A with Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais & Joe Trapanese (44 mins)-- A detailed discussion session that goes into a lot of detail of how «The Raid 2» came to be (English subtitles are also included) * Violent Ballet: Behind the Choreography (19 mins)-- A detailed featurette looking into the film's fight choreography and shooting it (with optional English subtitles) * Fan Q&A with Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais and Yayan Ruhian (UK Exclusive, 9 mins)-- A very candid brief Q&A filmed after a UK showing of «The Raid 2».
The really odd thing about this is that Manhunt is a dark and violent game, and far more brutal than Grand Theft Auto 3 ever was - instead of a street thug you play a convicted murderer on a snuff film killing spree, after all.
Violent explosions interrupt Douglas Gordon's moving film I Had Nowhere to Go, which consists mostly of a black screen and the filmmaker Jonas Mekas reading parts of his memoir about being in Nazi and displaced - persons camps in the 1940s after fleeing his native Lithuania.