Sentences with phrase «with damsels in distress»

But he took a break from filmmaking after 1998's The Last Days of Disco, and it's only now that he's returning to the silver screen with Damsels in Distress.

Back in 2011, Whit Stillman fans were ecstatic to see him return to filmmaking after a 13 - year hiatus with Damsels in Distress.

Fans of light puzzles and predictable stories with damsels in distress that turn into the champion by the end will find what they're looking for here.

He is still with his damsel in distress Sarah (Mary - Louise Parker).

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We may not yet be in negative rates territory in terms of the official Bank Rate, what with it hanging on to 0.25 % like a cinematic damsel in distress clinging on by her fingertips to a cliff edge.

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For that matter, I don't know that I'd quibble too hard with anyone who looked at the damsel - in - distress and the obnoxious characters, shrugged, and wanted to play anyway.

This week, get a first look at «Damsels in Distress» and «Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,» watch new trailers and clips for «John Carter,» «Friends with Kids,» and more, and catch up on the week's film news.

Gerwig's character is extremely similar to the one she played in Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress, a person whose go - getting nature makes it difficult for her to forge meaningful bonds with normal peoplin Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress, a person whose go - getting nature makes it difficult for her to forge meaningful bonds with normal peoplIn Distress, a person whose go - getting nature makes it difficult for her to forge meaningful bonds with normal people.

The film may have raised her profile for U.S. audiences, but it relegates her character twice to damsel - in - distress status, first when she's strip - searched by Cloche and his men and later when, left alone as her boyfriend goes asea with Treece, her quivering, scantily - clad body is smeared with chicken blood by hotel - room invaders conducting voodoo booga - booga.

And in the indie comedy territory, Whit Stillman made a triumphant return with «Damsels In Distress,» while the Duplass Brothers were behind the charming «Jeff Who Lives At Home,» which only missed out on this list by the skin of its teetin the indie comedy territory, Whit Stillman made a triumphant return with «Damsels In Distress,» while the Duplass Brothers were behind the charming «Jeff Who Lives At Home,» which only missed out on this list by the skin of its teetIn Distress,» while the Duplass Brothers were behind the charming «Jeff Who Lives At Home,» which only missed out on this list by the skin of its teeth.

Well, let there be no doubt: Stillman is just as enjoyable as when we last met him those many years ago, and «Damsels In Distress» finds the director with lots (and lots and lots) left to say.

Shonzi storyboards and blocks his scenes with homemade miniatures of himself and damsels in distress with figures resembling a Russ Meyer chorus girl.

Mike Myers strikes post-Austin Powers gold with his Scottish lilt as the eponymous fearless ogre with repressed yearnings for Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), an enlightened damsel in distress, a nighttime secret, and a voice that will strike fear into any bluebird (in a bit that had a dozen critics rolling in the aisles at an early press screening).

Jack, as played as earnestly as possible by Nicholas Hoult (with his «Warm Bodies» still in theaters), has very little room for fun, as well as any real chemistry with his distressed damsel, Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson, «Alice In Wonderland «-RRBin theaters), has very little room for fun, as well as any real chemistry with his distressed damsel, Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson, «Alice In Wonderland «-RRBIn Wonderland «-RRB-.

With Pierce Brosnan returning to espionage in this moderately budgeted thriller, you can expect great performances from the cast; mayhem controlled and uncontrolled; a damsel in distress who is more than she seems to be, and, of course, monumental betrayal — not necessarily in that order.

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Appearing in films as varied as Mistress America, Damsels In Distress, Woody Allen's To Rome with Love, Frances Ha and last year's 20th Century Women, Gerwig is every bit a leading ladin films as varied as Mistress America, Damsels In Distress, Woody Allen's To Rome with Love, Frances Ha and last year's 20th Century Women, Gerwig is every bit a leading ladIn Distress, Woody Allen's To Rome with Love, Frances Ha and last year's 20th Century Women, Gerwig is every bit a leading lady.

Refusing to simply play the damsel in distress, Gabby is a force to be reckoned with all on her own, and she proves to be as vital a part of the team as anyone else.

One of the Warriors Three gets put on the bench early on simply because there's no room for him, the hints at a love triangle with Thor, Jane and Jaimie Alexander «s Sif continue to be nothing more than that, Idris Elba «s Helmdall gets a big action moment and then vanishes, and Portman is asleep for the whole second act, and reverts to a damsel - in - distress in the third.

«Damsels in Distress» takes place at Seven Oaks College, where a clique of three preppy, self - possessed co-eds, Violet (Greta Gerwig), Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke), and Heather (Carrie MacLemore), walk around campus with the best of do - good intentions.

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Playing a businessman named Samuel in the days of the old West, he decides to travel across the country to reunite with his beloved fiancé Penelope (Mia Wasikowska, who I'll have you know right off the bat is more than just the titular damsel in distress) believing -LSB-...]

Any hope Ferguson might produce some consolatory warmth or heat with her co-star gets extinguished early on, and while it's almost a relief when the film abandons its limp attempts to make Katrine interesting and instead generates another damsel - in - distress, it's also an admission of defeat, marking the point at which Alfredson abandons any pretension to serious drama.

If Marvel wants to inject T'Challa's personal life with some high drama, introducing American jazz musician and chronic damsel - in - distress Monica Lynne would be an interesting choice.

With back - to - back - to - back releases of Whit Stillman's «Damsels in Distress,» the new «Lola Versus» and Woody Allen's forthcoming «To Rome With Love,» she seems to be everywhere.

The only real interest lies in the main plot point of a woman who goes along with playing a damsel in distress for the man to escape and kill her anyway.

Along with a female lead that plays the perpetual damsel in distress, the plot has all the predictability of a multilevel videogame.

She keeps up with Bond, step for step, and is the farthest thing from a damsel in distress.

It doesn't matter a jolt that these two fights are attached with a pretty bland story about a vengeful anti-hero on a vendetta, a damsel in distress popping up along the way.

As with «Olympus,» «London» is akin to an indelicate, more vicious riff on «Air Force One,» with the Commander - in - Chief relegated to a damsel in distress — Eckhart's Asher does more fighting this time around, but he's still ultimately in need of rescuing — and America's finest military man, Banning, envisioned as a noble macho deity.

Harper and Allie are indeed damsels in distress, and not just because they can't efficiently navigate the way from a Brooklyn loft to the Rockaways (a disastrous, distended day trip to hook up with some boys, which makes up the film's entire plot).

Unfolding like a classic Seventies disaster flick, San Andreas serves up a smorgasbord ofreadily - identifiable archetypes: the musclebound hero, the effete coward, the damsel in distress, the terminally - nerdy professor, and so on, each played with perfect aplomb by a talented cast.

Damsels in Distress follows a trio of girls in a university who attempt to civilise the DU frat boys and uplift the depressed student body with musical numbers.

by Angelo Muredda When Whit Stillman emerged from his thirteen - year sojourn in the wilderness after The Last Days of Disco, it was with the pastel - washed curio Damsels in Distress, practically a radio transmission from a planet of the auteur's own construction.

Soracha Pelan Ó Treasaigh met with Whit Stillman during the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival to discuss his new film Damsels in Distress.

Rather than just play the stereotypical damsel in distress routine, Temple skilfully balances the characters tough street kid exterior with a hidden depth, and as her defensive guard slowly lowers and her hardnosed exterior softens, we begin to see glimpses of the terrified girl who just wants to scream for help.

For those already familiar with Gerwig (Hannah Takes the Stairs, Damsels in Distress, Arthur), enjoyment of Frances Ha is pre-determined.

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Perhaps the numb damsel - in - distress will snap out of her comatose state just in time to ride off into the sunset with Captain Joe.

Greta Gerwig has matured out of playing the adorable, quirky, self - absorbed with self - invention young women of «Hannah Takes the Stairs» and «Damsels in Distress.»

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Portman is saddled with the thankless role of love interest / damsel in distress but carries it well, and athe like of Stellan Skaarsgard, Clark Gregg, Kat Dennings, Colm Feore, Rene Russo, and several others makes for a rich and lively supporting cast.

Yet by the time Vanessa becomes the helpless damsel in distress in the third act, anything remarkable or distinctive about her or her relationship with Deadpool has been forgotten.

Malkovich is chemistry - free with everyone, which is a problem when it comes to leading lady (barely in the movie, completely «harpy,» ultimate damsel - in - distress Catherine McCormack) who he's apparently been intimate with.

After a a long hiatus over a decade, Stillman returned to filmmaking with the dark 2011 college comedy «Damsels in Distress,» and later made a pilot for Amazon TV called «The Cosmopolitans.»

But we're mostly stranded with Eastwood and Roeck's inelegant attempts to infuse a standard revenge western with the gravitas of a war veteran's coming - home odyssey, which includes the usual, unconvincing Native American and damsel - in - distress clichés.

So, the story of LOST RIVER began to emerge as a dark fairy tale, with the city in the role of the damsel in distress, and similar figures with pieces of a broken dream trying to rebuild.