It is with Hellboy that del Toro seems most at ease, never losing the tone or
vision of the film from beginning to end, and faithfully capturing not only the essential ingredients of Mignola's creation, but also deriving much of the storyline and plot developments from the comics themselves.
Not exact matches
From the Inside Out - «Making Avengers: Age
of Ultron»: A 20 - minute video going back 18 months showing what it was like on set
of the
film in Italy and Seoul, Sourth Korea; a look at the Avengers Tower; some
of the behind - the - scenes early visual effects
of Ultron; early concept work for Quicksilver, the Hulk, and
Vision; and more.
One example would be Aimee Dorr Leifer's essay entitled «Teaching with Television and
Film,» (TTF) published in N. L. Gage's The Psychology
of Teaching Methods, a widely read Yearbook
of the National Society for the Study
of Education.1 Even in this essay, however, Leifer reviews what has been learned
from various psychological studies
of television and
film narratives, and the limited range
of the studies limits the
vision of narrative teaching that she puts forth.
«Turning the term partnership on its head, Ne - Yo has really served as the Creative Director
of Malibu Red
from beginning to end — lending his «smooth» talents and creative
vision to create a product experience —
from flavor to
film — that will push boundaries in the spirits category.»
«The nano crystals are so small they could be fitted as an ultra-thin
film to normal eye glasses to enable night
vision,» said Professor Neshev
from the Nonlinear Physics Centre within the ANU Research School
of Physics and Engineering.
Every time I said yes, amazing people who believed in me and who've had a bigger
vision of what I could do in this world stepped forward —
from my mom who went vegan with me after my fourth recurrence
of bone cancer, to the yoga teachers who insisted I could become a yoga teacher too, to the talented woman who designed my website, to the director who brought together the crew for this
film and made an idea a reality.
But Mr. Rodriguez seems to be coming
from the angle
of those directors nostalgic for some
film that influenced their
vision and, lacking the respect to leave it alone, are determined to add their name to the franchise largely out
of some notion
of self - importance.
Often reviled in his native United States but worshipped as a genius throughout much
of Europe and especially France, Lewis took slapstick comedy to new realms
of absurdity and outrageousness, his anarchic
vision dividing audiences who found him infantile and witless
from those who applauded the ambitions
of his sight gags, his subversions
of standard comedic patterns, and his
films» acute criticisms
of American values.
Wanda lost her accent,
Vision was actually Paul Bettany for a minute, Peter Dinklage had an odd cameo; there were a few strange choices that might have kept this
film from being perfection, but you have to imagine how incredibly difficult an undertaking melting all
of these storylines together must have been.
The
film rarely breaks away
from Isabelle, but when it does the result always feels significant: when we see Duvauchelle alone on the Metro platform, for example, we may wonder if we are really seeing him or rather the taunting
vision that Isabelle has
of him in her longing.
By far the most intriguing element
of Holmer's
vision, the music stands apart
from literally everything else in the
film.
As the
film jumps
from location to location, chyron to chyron, picking up storylines listlessly while letting others lay fallow for a while, out
of sight but without any sort
of urgency at their displacement, the best moments emerge as those featuring Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner / Hulk, conveying an ocean
of regret in the delivery
of the word «Nat» to his lost love, Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson)-- or those between Paul Bettany's «
Vision» and Elizabeth Olsen's «Scarlet Witch,» who share a stolen moment together in Scotland before what they believe will be their deaths.
Aside
from Wanda and
Vision, the only hero not glimpsed here that we know came to Wakanda is Bruce Banner — and several toys for the
film have given us hints that it's actually him inside this new Hulkbuster, for a nice bit
of irony.
Even if the main story seems oddly familiar, it's the unique
vision at the heart
of the
film that keeps this like the pies made daily at Joe's Diner — innovative, always fresh, and made
from personal inspiration.
Considering how much actual footage the movie had to work
from, the most surprising thing about Devil's Knot is that it gets the look somewhat off, replacing the lived - in homes
of Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's Paradise Lost
films with a posh, clean
vision of suburbia.
Most recently, Gerwig co-wrote two screenplays with director Noah Baumbach («Frances Ha» and «Mistress America»), and the sense that came
from those
films was
of visions in collision: Baumbach's pinched, insulated
vision versus Gerwig's generous, expansive
vision.
From the melodrama
of the earlier
films, Cowie distills Kurosawa's visual style and touching characterisations, finding «the flair
of [a Sergei] Eisenstein» in No Regrets (p. 58), the sentiment
of Frank Capra in One Wonderful Sunday (p. 59), something
of «Bergman's youthful
vision of the world» in Drunken Angel (p. 60), and a «meticulous creation
of the urban milieu» in Scandal (p. 71).
The screenplay had originally been scripted by Edgar Wright (The World's End, Scott Pilgrim) and Joe Cornish (The Adventures
of Tintin, Attack the Block), with Wright, who had cultivated the
vision of Ant - Man for years, intending to direct, but creative differences saw a divorce
from the project (Marvel became more controlling as they grew to massive popularity — a queen ant that expects its workers to keep the colony running smoothly), leading to rewrites by Adam McKay (Anchorman 2, Talladega Nights), and eventually Rudd himself during
filming, while fluff - comedy veteran Peyton Reed had been brought in to mold it more in the shape that Marvel Studios had been seeking.
From Killing Them Softly there's the setting of the film during Obama's election, from The Place Beyond the Pines we have the almost classical / Greek - Tragedy story and from Winter's Bone the vast, cold and oppressive emptiness of small - town America and its surrounding countryside which are filled with drugs and the twisted but more realistic vision of «The American Dream&raq
From Killing Them Softly there's the setting
of the
film during Obama's election,
from The Place Beyond the Pines we have the almost classical / Greek - Tragedy story and from Winter's Bone the vast, cold and oppressive emptiness of small - town America and its surrounding countryside which are filled with drugs and the twisted but more realistic vision of «The American Dream&raq
from The Place Beyond the Pines we have the almost classical / Greek - Tragedy story and
from Winter's Bone the vast, cold and oppressive emptiness of small - town America and its surrounding countryside which are filled with drugs and the twisted but more realistic vision of «The American Dream&raq
from Winter's Bone the vast, cold and oppressive emptiness
of small - town America and its surrounding countryside which are filled with drugs and the twisted but more realistic
vision of «The American Dream».
Each title gets a full - length audio commentary
from Travis Crawford, a dogged
film critic and programmer with the instincts
of a historian, who goes into detail on the background
of just about every lead and significant supporting player who appears on screen, in addition to the producers and financiers behind the scenes who allowed (or more likely didn't allow) Romero to realize his
vision on screen.
They really are about,
from what I've seen so far, supporting up and coming artists, artists who have a strong
vision and voice and perspective, and they really wan na permeate the
films with those kinds
of voices.
As different as it is
from Craven's
vision, it is still marred by being derivative
of other horror
films, especially in The Amityville Horror, The Exorcist and Carrie.
At once genre movie and psychodrama, Nichols's
film unfolds in a stretch
of rural Ohio where a blue - collar husband and father (brilliantly played by Michael Shannon) finds himself suddenly plagued by
visions of the rapture: strange clouds darkening the sky, acid rain sheeting down
from the heavens, flocks
of birds in panicked flight.
These rich
visions of metaphorical, political chaos were all but absent
from the last big journalism
film, Spotlight (2015), also scripted by The Post's Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, but less imaginatively directed.
What follows is a series
of increasingly insane events that take suspension
of disbelief to impossible extremes and leave you stupefied wondering when this stopped becoming a
film that aimed for a prescient
vision of where our reliance on technology was headed and became a corny after school special
from the»80s warning us
of a future that's never going to happen.
This is an abstract making -
of alternating B - roll shot in a variety
of media, watermarked outtakes (including one
from a deleted scene between Phoenix and Amy Adams), and snatches
of dialogue
from the
film that gives the impression
of a tight - knit cast and crew there to serve Spike's
vision.
From the moment the first trailer for director Ryan Coogler's film hit, audiences have been captivated by the bursts of breakneck action, the tangible world of Wakanda, and a sci - fi vision that unabashedly draws from non-Western source mater
From the moment the first trailer for director Ryan Coogler's
film hit, audiences have been captivated by the bursts
of breakneck action, the tangible world
of Wakanda, and a sci - fi
vision that unabashedly draws
from non-Western source mater
from non-Western source material.
While Kore - eda's
vision for this story about a woman's trauma was assuredly original, Roger was particularly excited about the obvious influence
from Yasujiro Ozu, a filmmaker that Roger called «one
of the four or five greatest
film directors
of all time.»
Far
from frustrating, the mystery is as haunting as the
film's
vision of Bangkok — a place
of dark, encircling streets and interiors that are soaked in bold hues
of blue, yellow, and, naturally, red.
For the supplemental materials, there's an excerpt
from the documentary Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema; Blow - Up
of «Blow - Up», a new documentary about the
film; two interviews with David Hemmings, one on the set
of Only When I Larf
from 1968, and the other on the TV show City Lights
from 1977; 50 Years
of Blow - Up: Vanessa Redgrave / Philippe Garner, a 2016 SHOWstudio interview; an interview with actress Jane Birkin
from 1989; Antonioni's Hypnotic
Vision, featuring two separate pieces about the
film: Modernism and Photography; both the teaser and theatrical trailers for the
film; and a 68 - page insert booklet containing an essay on the
film by David Forgacs, an updated 1966 account
of the
film's shooting by Stig Björkman, a set
of questionnaires that the director distributed to photographers and painters while developing the
film, the 1959 Julio Cortázar short story on which the
film is loosely based, and restoration details.
The subjective tendencies
of Bertolucci's
films have always been evident, but Luna provides a perspective
from which we can more fully grasp the dynamics
of the earlier
films that groped so eloquently for a
vision that somehow always ended up out
of reach.
From the start of the film, the camera constantly works from Starling's POV, shooting both Dr. Chilton (Anthony Heald) and Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) as if they're filling her frame of vision — which, of course, they
From the start
of the
film, the camera constantly works
from Starling's POV, shooting both Dr. Chilton (Anthony Heald) and Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) as if they're filling her frame of vision — which, of course, they
from Starling's POV, shooting both Dr. Chilton (Anthony Heald) and Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) as if they're filling her frame
of vision — which,
of course, they are.
The
film equivalent
of a stroll through the Louvre, the documentary
Visions of Light: The Art
of Cinematography collects interviews with many
of modern - day Hollywood's finest directors
of photography and is illustrated by examples
of their best work as well as scenes
from the pictures which most influenced them.
The
film's commitment to Cormac McCarthy's dark
vision may prove too unyielding for some, but the
film benefits
from hauntingly powerful performances - including Theron, whose memory comforts a man on a mission
of survival.
All the bits and pieces — like the music (primarily
from the Kinks» Lola vs The Powerman and the Moneygoround album and the
films of Satyajit Ray) and like the art direction — make for a very particular
vision of India.
A well - crafted
film, richly deserving
of the honors it has received, No Country for Old Men nevertheless too often feels like a collection
of highlights
from Cormac McCarthy's novel, sometimes about one guy, sometimes about another, never matching the novel's more focused
vision.
Speaking
of that other Valkyrie, obviously the version that Tessa Thompson plays in the
film is different
from the original Marvel version
of the Valkyrie, as the Marvel version intentionally evoked the mythological version
of the character, which is very much a Norse
vision of what a woman would look like, complete with the name Brunhilde (Brunnhilde also was a major part
of Richard Wagner's famous operatic «Ring» cycle).
Where much talk
of film culture necessarily targets the social conditions enabled (and disabled) by government, institutions, big business, etc, an older tradition in
film criticism takes a step away
from this «materialist» fray, to revel in the
visions of special auteurs.
The financial realities facing movies often have no place in my reviews — I find it boring if not depressing to bring up numbers and statistics, and I'm sure I've already lost people here — but I feel an obligation to come to the defense
of producer Scott Rudin, who said damn the torpedoes and pushed through Garland's original
vision for the
film, despite fears
from Paramount over Annihilation posing too much
of an intellectual challenge for the general moviegoing public.
He began his career in
film criticism with a very positive review
of Sylvester Stallone's debut as a director, Paradise Alley (1978), which in itself revealed something
of Carax's particular
vision, a special feeling
of urgency he was demanding
from cinema and filmmakers — an embryonic version
of the «smile
of speed».
Being that a large part
of the
film is essentially silent, the towering and conflicted performance
from Daniel Day Lewis and the searing score lurking around every corner loom large in creating the tension that creeps up and down your spine when viewing this bold cinematic
vision from Paul Thomas Anderson (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love.)
This newly pieced together version
of Clive Barker's own adaptation
of his book Cabal, created
from footage found on a VHS work print, the «Cabal Cut»
of Nightbreed is not quite a «lost masterpiece» but it's interesting to see the painstaking work gone into restoring the
film to what more closely resembles Barker's
vision.
Still, even if much
of «Blade Runner 2049» feels like well - trod territory by this point — cribbing as much
from sci - fi like «Ex Machina,» «Her» and «A.I. Artificial Intelligence» as Scott's original
film — it's a beautiful revisit to one
of sci - fi cinema's most striking
visions that does right by its predecessor.
His attention to detail in such
films like «Far
from Heaven» and «I'm Not There» are simply superb, and one can not overlook the
vision he engulfs upon as he directs each one
of them.
Costume designer for Tron Legacy is Michael Wilkinson, with likely input
from original Tron director (and creator) Steven Lisberge (now co-writer) and Jean Giraud's
vision as engineer
of the first
film's game environment.
Born
from the creative
vision of filmmaker Zack Snyder («Watchmen,» «300»), «Sucker Punch» features an ensemble cast
of young stars, including Emily Browning («The Uninvited»), Abbie Cornish («Bright Star»), Jena Malone («Into the Wild»), Vanessa Hudgens (the «High School Musical»
films) and Jamie Chung («Sorority Row»).
Contrary to what he said after the fight was over, Creed wants a rematch, but Balboa, at the urging
of his girlfriend (turned wife in this
film) Adrian (Shire, The Godfather Part II), wants to retire
from the ring, suffering
from limited
vision in one
of his eyes as a result
of the repeated blows he took
from Creed's fist.
Sarchie's
visions (represented by quick flashes
of disgusting things, the lamest kind
of scare tactic) stem
from an ancient evil brought to the Bronx
from Iraq by a group
of soldiers who discover evil looking Latin inscriptions in a cave, as is seen in the
film's prologue.
Indeed, a description
of footage
from the
film screened Saturday at Disney's D23 Expo indicated Winter Soldier and Black Panther were seen in a series
of quick shots that also depicted Star - Lord, Doctor Strange, Spider - Man, The
Vision, Captain America, Iron Man and Black Widow.
Those who have seen Ringu will obviously know why, but the
film feels very much like a mixture
of Feardotcom, Minority Report, D.O.A., and Stir
of Echoes, with
visions from Salvador Dali as directed by Luis Bunuel in Un Chien Andalou.