Sentences with phrase «wondrous film»

Now, American audiences get the chance to see this wondrous film, with the voices of Gillian Anderson, Claire Danes, Billy Crudup, Jada Pinkett Smith, Billy Bob Thornton, Minnie Driver, and others.

THE TRUMAN SHOW In this wondrous film from director Peter Weir, Jim Carrey plays the title role of a man whose life has been recorded on live television without his knowledge.

Guillermo del Toro's wondrous film was the recipient of three awards, and the other two were big ones — Sally Hawkins won Best Actress and del Toro himself tied for Best Director with Call Me by Your Name's Luca Guadagnino.

With pitch - perfect performances by James Ransone (The Wire and Tangerine), Natasha Lyonne (Orange is the New Black, American Pie and Slums of Beverly Hills), Alex Karpovsky (HBO's Girls) and a keen eye for the ordinary, Ross takes a slice of Midwestern life and crafts yet another wondrous film from it.

Both of these movies — along with several other of Hershman Leeson's wondrous films — were recently screened at SITE Santa Fe in conjunction with Future Shock, the inaugural exhibition at SITE's re-designed space in which Hershman Leeson also has an installation, Infinity Engine (2017).

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One would never know, watching this film, of Christianity's elevation of women, its care for the poor, challenge to slavery, advances in science and medicine, educational system, wondrous art, extraordinary religious orders.

Guillermo del Toro has crafted a masterpiece, a terrifying, visually wondrous fairy tale for adults that blends fantasy and gloomy drama into one of the most magical films to come along in years.

I've heard rumors about Steven's involvement on THE HAUNTING, and after seeing the film, I can sense his fingerprints all over the last 10 minutes of this wondrous movie.

Reuniting Depp, Bloom and Knightley, the film pits them against the fearsome octopus - faced Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), a legitimately wondrous CGI creation, who both through Nighy's pathos - fuelled performance and some ILM wizardry, can match Gollum and Caesar in the mo - cap hall of fame.

A finessed film about growing up, getting together and not giving up, Beginners is wondrous and whimsical, brimming in content and execution with imperfections and possibilities.

On top of some of the most exquisite character design, facial expressions and body language you'll see in an animated film, several jaw - dropping flight and fight sequences and John Powell's majestic score are the grace notes that take it from great to wondrous.

Any number of great films, even leisurely paced ones, will provide wondrous examples of how much story detail you can pack into a scene and even within a single shot.

Besides Green's wondrous transformations into the falcon she's named for, the actor has little to do but mug for the camera (for a more entertaining and similarly flaccid period piece starring Green as a boarding school teacher, see Jordan Scott's 2009 film Cracks).

Pixel's gaming icons are gorgeous, all wondrous stacks of flowing, glowing voxels... but they were just as gorgeous in the short film the movie's loosely based on.

We live in a wondrous world where a film which breaks box office records in Denmark prominently features a chronic masturbator (the inimitable Mads Mikkelsen in his least embraced role in a year in which he's been part of every worthwhile blockbuster tentpole) and a reasonable - sounding description of the logic behind certain forms of bestiality.

by Bryant Frazer Not just the best Gene Kelly film, and not just the best movie musical ever made, Singin» in the Rain is a genuine national treasure — a single text proving for posterity what a wondrous thing the Hollywood studio system could be when it was firing on all cylinders.

This oddly named but inestimable DVD outfit deserves a shout - out for its industrious and often wondrous efforts as a quality clearinghouse for niche titles that might otherwise fall through the cracks, from music docs (The Great Rock»n' Roll Swindle) to classic television (Freaks and Geeks, SCTV, priceless Dick Cavett collections devoted to film, rock music, and comedy), and definitive comedy compilations (Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor).

The second film I saw at the festival and its wondrous cinematography, resonant performances, and an organic direction that plays right into my wheelhouse; Mr. Turner proves that Leigh can tackle the tricky genre of the biopic better than, well, anyone I've ever seen.

But hold on — the action in the film is fascinating, rife with chuckling humor and imaginative sets, all accompanied by Alexandre Desplat's wondrous score that enriches every scene.

The film's spirit of innocent, wondrous adventure is embodied in an extended sequence in which BFG takes Sophie dream - catching.

Like a wondrous love letter to the genre in the 70s and early 80s, the film feels both fresh and familiar.

These extraordinary people include some of the best child «performers» I've seen since the films of Truffaut, as well as a wondrous, comical Sign teacher whose everyday utterances automatically place him in the pantheon of character actors occupied by such figures as Walter Brennan, Michel Simon, and William Demarest.

This is meant to be a direct nod to the Wondrous Boat Ride from the film, another reference to a theme park ride.

That's a beautiful sentiment that is carried over to this wondrous and heartwarming movie, a rare feel - good live - action film for the whole family that is about who we are on the inside, a sweet story with a strong message about doing the right thing.

The film asks who we really are inside, explores the ideas of illusion vs. reality, what is artificial vs. what is human, the scary end of all things vs. the wondrous beginning of something else entirely different and new.

By the parade of wondrous U.K. thespians, cashing checks for 10 years (like Alan Rickman, who's played Snape in every movie) or breezing by the set for a week's work (like, in the latest film, Kelly Macdonald, who's touching and a bit scary as a ghost).

Filmed in a sleepy Detroit, there's an»80s feel to It Follows, and when it's not terrifying it's dreamy and wondrous.

All the performances are great, and it's clear to me that whilst Snyder doesn't make perfect films, he does elicit wondrous performances from his actors in any given scene.

Similar in tone to the brilliant brainwash montage at the centre of Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View, this short film starts out by showing a most wondrous patriarchal Christmas morning but soon depicts murder and mayhem within a monarchy — a number of these images rendered all the more tongue - in - cheek by the fact that they're excerpted from cinematic Shakespeare adaptations of yesteryear.

Filmed and broadcast live from New York, this wondrous adaptation of the original Broadway musical tells the beloved story of Peter Pan (Allison Williams, HBO's Girls), a mischievous boy who ran away to have adventures in Neverland and never grow up!

But at the same time, this film represents something daring in Anderson's career: something astonishingly shapeshifting, tracing the ebbs and flow of a relationship with an exceeding amount of care, all with a lushness and richness of form that belies an essential, wondrous perversity.

While Zemeckis, who co-wrote the film with Christopher Browne, makes sure the movie looks wondrous, most of the characters are campy caricatures, especially after Petit and company touch down in the Big Apple and mingle with the Noo Yawk folk.

Filmed on location in Mumbai, the film conveys the Indian city's wondrous vibrance.

More than just a splatter film (though as a splatter film, it's one of the best), Evil Dead II is joy and aptitude coming together in a wondrous alchemy to produce a classic, nigh - unclassifiable slapstick / gorefest.

Like the humor, the pace is gentle, but the film as a whole is well - divided between present - day antics, an extended (and somewhat wondrous) time travel sequence, and then the bulk of the action in colonial times, with a dextrous action scene that resolves the differences between the turkeys and their would - be human overlords.

Alex Garland) Jeff VanderMeer's book is strange and wondrous, but I absolutely can not conceive of it working on film given how cerebral it is.

Kyle's Review: Ice Age was yet another wondrous surprise of a film that impressed the heck out of me.

But Jane Campion's wondrous, petal - delicate film not only finds a shimmering visual language that's wholly in sympathy with the great man's turn of phrase, but applies his poetry in a real - world context that never feels too precious or contrived.

Ang Lee displays a deft touch in directing this film, neither lingering too long on the wondrous outdoor settings that symbolised for me the unbounded passion Ennis and Jack feel, nor too short on the claustrophobic, run - down, without - ambition lives they lead when not together on Brokeback Mountain.

From energy spears to the Royal Talon Fighter to the Black Panther suit itself, we look at the wondrous Wakandan technology depicted in the film.

That, of course, was no doing of Allen's decorated little film, but its most formidable rival, George Lucas» Star Wars, which took populist entertainment and visually wondrous science fiction to new heights.

What separates it from its predecessors, beyond the wondrous particulars of Gerwig's observations, is that the film is about achieving a specific form of enlightenment, when a young person finally gains insight into the lives of those closest to her.

With The Grand Budapest Hotel, Anderson seems to be not so concerned with history, but with the history of cinema; we can see references to Kubrick and F.W. Murnau, and the plot descends into an elaborate caper full of bizarre character studies, wondrous sequences (including a superb cat - and - mouse chase where Gustave and Zero zoom down a precarious mountain atop a toboggan in pursuit of Willem Dafoe on skis), and meticulously - designed, glamorous sets that are reminiscent of the traits of classical Hollywood films and murder - mysteries.

Like Katy Perry's Part of Me before it, the film seems to be a big shiny ad for the wondrous and awe - inspiring cultural force that is Justin Bieber.

That's the same writer / director duo who worked on The Motorcycle Diaries and are just finishing up work on the film version of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (read our review of Oscar Wao here).

The dramatic setting of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy features unspoiled awesome landscapes, lush forests, wondrous beaches, amazing wildlife and a lovely climate.

This short animated film tells the story of coral reefs with humor and admiration for these wondrous ecosystems.

The designers at Naughty Dog have absorbed the vernacular of film and then built upon it productively, not slavishly, to create something wondrous.