Sentences with phrase «way of a road movie»

It plays like a pulp noir thriller by way of a road movie of the damned, marinated in mescal and left to rot in the desert sun.

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While, as McGraw reminds us, «a movie is not a driver's manual for the road of life,» Tarantino and Theology has opened up to its readers several concrete ways of appreciating Tarantino's peculiar form of religious devotion.

That movie, for all it's exhilarating presentation of youthful life on the road as you experience those who make music which can speak to large audiences, is nonetheless all about how you ought to get sucked into the rock «n roll way of life (albeit eschewing the drugs and sex part of it) because somehow rock «n roll is supposedly important.

A gentle, heartfelt road - movie - of - sorts, The Way contains strong spiritual themes, influenced in part by the family's strong Roman Catholic heritage.

We've got a little ways to go in terms of some of the movie's predictions (where we're going, we still need roads) and we're being lied to about others.

This movie starts off with a prison bus going down a empty stretch of road and on the other side the only car insight driven by one Dr Douglas Madsen as these two come closer and closer together something happens that sends the Dr's car to collide with the prison bus freeing four prisoners who decide to take the good Dr hostage and retreat to a remote cabin in the woods that just happens to be home of a family that is more dangerous then the prisoners now with no way out the prisoners and the hostage must fight to stay alive against the people in the cabin.

American movie audiences don't like movies about «these sorts of people»; we prefer it when the poverty line is something to be crossed, and then crossed back the other way, the way Will Smith did on the road to bootstraps fame and fortune in «The Pursuit of Happyness.»

The resulting film is a road movie whose trail spans the remnants of the western frontier, exploring both the landscape and culture along the way.

Built as a road movie in its first hour of footage, the film accompanies a truck driver on his way from Kosovo to Belgrade... It's in the whole of this journey where the film seems more robust... [Full review in Spanish]

This is essentially a road movie, following the drug - fuelled exploits of FH (we'll follow the lead of the end credits and call him that from now on) as he drives around in a Volkswagen with girlfriend Michelle (Samantha Morton), bumping into the weird and wonderful characters who populate America's Midwest along the way.

Andrea Arnold presents a dynamic vision of young, weird America in American Honey, a sprawling road movie that winds its way from wealthy suburban cul - de-sacs to poverty - stricken trailer parks on a cross-country trip.

Film Editors Niels Pagh Andersen — «The Look of Silence,» «The Act of Killing» Joe Bini * — «We Need to Talk about Kevin,» «Cave of Forgotten Dreams» Bettina Böhler — «Phoenix,» «Barbara» Pernille Bech Christensen — «The Salvation,» «In a Better World» Raúl Antonio Dávalos — «The Amateurs,» «Meet Wally Sparks» Marie - Hélène Dozo — «Two Days, One Night,» «L'Enfant» Amy E. Duddleston — «Elegy,» «Laurel Canyon» Suzy Elmiger — «Lola Versus,» «Mighty Fine» Sim Evan - Jones — «Shaun the Sheep Movie,» «Shrek» Sarah Flack — «Away We Go,» «Lost in Translation» Affonso Gonçalves — «Carol,» «Winter's Bone» Matthew Hamachek — «Cartel Land,» «If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front» Chris King — «Amy,» «Exit through the Gift Shop» Pedro Kos * — «The Square,» «Waste Land» Sylvie Landra — «Catwoman,» «The Fifth Element» Tom McArdle — «Spotlight,» «The Station Agent» Adam Nielsen — «A War,» «A Hijacking» Kevin Nolting — «Inside Out,» «Up» Nathan Nugent — «Room,» «Frank» Stan Salfas — «Morning,» «Let Me In» Azin Samari * — «Ethel,» «The September Issue» Margaret Sixel — «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «Happy Feet» Mary Stephen — «Blind Mountain,» «A Tale of Winter» Troy Takaki — «Baggage Claim,» «The Bounty Hunter» Camilla Toniolo — «His Way,» «Company Man» Bernat Vilaplana — «Crimson Peak,» «Pan's Labyrinth» Pax Wassermann — «Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me,» «Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer» Julia Wong — «Hercules,» «Extract» Mark Yoshikawa — «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2),» «The Tree of Life»

The movie takes a bit of time to get going — the set - up of Quentin and Margo's history and their last night together spreads over the first half in a sprawling, mildly interesting way but once the crew decides on the road trip, Paper Towns really finds its groove.

It's a road movie and character piece more than the action comedy it's occasionally marketed as and Brest never lets any set pieces or gags get in the way of the journey made by the leads, physically or emotionally.

One of the most refreshing aspects of Manuel Poirier's Western, a wonderful French comic road movie playing at the Music Box this week, is the way it explodes many common notions about France and French movies.

by Walter Chaw An unlikely romance, an unlikely road movie, and an unlikely buddy picture all in one that somehow works (and with a surplus of charm and sweetness), Joel Hopkins's debut feature Jump Tomorrow could be described as either Harold Lloyd by way of Jacques Tati or Jim Jarmusch by way of Thirties screwball.

A road movie of sorts, «Layover» follows this inventive and atypical heroine who goes off the deep end and has to find her way back to shore.

Deakins has shot every Coen brothers movie since 1991's Barton Fink (along with such beautiful films as The Shawshank Redemption, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and Revolutionary Road); Burwell's fruitful collaborations with the Coens date back further still, all the way to their 1984 debut Blood Simple.

A whole lot of plot ensues — an entertaining mix of buddy movie, road trip, Clash of the Titans, archetypal quest and a coming - of - age tale about misfits making their way despite, or because of, absent parents.

David Gordon Green returns to the lyrical tenor of his earliest films in this potent blend of comedy and road - movie stoicism, based on the 2011 Icelandic film Either Way.

Gerry is a middle - aged heterosexual still aching for his ex-wife; still, he's romantically smitten with Curtis, the way that straight men spark for each other in buddy movies, especially of the road or gambling variety, and Mississippi Grind is both of these.

LMD: The structure of the film is like a road movie in a way; with every stop the two make, Hee - su finds out more and more about Byung - woon.

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What follows is, like many of Payne's films, a road movie of sorts, winding its way through Wyoming and South Dakota, slate - colored skies hanging over pastureland and lonely blacktop, last - stop diners standing on the edge of nowhere.

The result is a long list of celebrity cameos including Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Chris Rock, George Carlin, James Van Der Beek, Jon Stewart, Steve Kmetko, Shannen Doherty, Jason Biggs, Alanis Morrisette, Judd Nelson, and many, many more as Jay and Silent Bob make their way across the country in what turns into a conventional road trip movie with one joke; pot.

RED 2 is neither an improvement nor a significant step down; the movie is, like its predecessor, completely ordinary and mediocre in a middle - of - the - road sort of way.

A remake of the 2011 Icelandic comedy Either Way, set in the late Eighties, it's a road movie in the most literal sense, shot in the charred landscape of Bastrop State Park, an area 40 miles east of Austin recently devastated by wildfires.

The 2000 movie — Crowe's most personal work, and one of his best — took viewers on the road in the days of vintage rock and roll in a way that was funny, emotional, and ultimately affecting.

Along the way they go through the checklist of indie road movie conventions: meet eccentric characters (including a guy who communicates solely through text messaging), get sidelined by random distractions and argue over Colton's ill - advised idea of smuggling a brick of cocaine (ingeniously concealed in the glove box).

Blu - ray Highlight: Unfortunately, there's not much in the way of extras, although the first movie does include an audio commentary with some of the crew and a retrospective titled «Mad Max: The Film Phenomenon,» while «The Road Warrior» features a commentary with director George Miller and cinematographer Dean Semler.

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These narrative films ``... would help to break ground in Hollywood in terms of funding women storytellers and women who were directing the films...» The 2018 Sundance Film Festival will premiere three Gamechanger films: The Tale, a story about sexual abuse written and directed by Jennifer Fox; Nancy, a dramatic story blurring the lines of fact and fiction written and directed by Christina Choe; and The Long Dumb Road, a road trip movie filled with detours and bumps along the way, written and directed by Hannah FidRoad, a road trip movie filled with detours and bumps along the way, written and directed by Hannah Fidroad trip movie filled with detours and bumps along the way, written and directed by Hannah Fidell.

In fact, «Nebraska» is not wholly the road movie its log - line suggested, as in large part the meat of the plot and characterization takes place in Hawthorne, where Woody enjoys sudden local hero status, and David discovers new things about his father and how he is perceived by those who knew him way back when.

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Notting Hill is my favorite movie of all time and so a visit to the Portobello Road has made way to my list!

So yes, it's all remote, but this doesn't get in our way to communicate and have good workflow», says the studio's CEO Eugene Lavrinenko as he shares the story of Madness Road, a mobile racing game inspired by post-apocalyptic movies about total destruction.

Dolby Atmos has made fantastic in - roads into cinemas in the last couple of years, with a flood of movies featuring the more immersive surround sound format having screened already and many more on the way.