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In fact, take out the killings and you're left with a somewhat boring urban portrait.
This movie really is, as some of the commentators have said, a tour de force of mise en scene - it is shot with a distinctive hand-held camera style, features some powerful performances (most notably by Ian Gamazon as Adam, a secular Muslim American born in the Phillipines), and makes exceptional use of its gritty noir setting of Philippino urban slums.
This is an urban fairy tale.
The cartoon opens with an exceptional sequence in which Claude wakes up in an urban junkyard with the sort of tranquil serenity that befits a far more idyllic setting.
Demi Moore is superb in this tale of urban violence against women and family and drug use.
Death Wish is a movie for all of the people who have to wade through the legends of scum that inhabit the streets of America's urban wasteland.
Sunshine" is more fondly remembered for it's bald,thirty-something,ex-hippie murderers who are easily the most bizarre descendants of the living dead yet to reach the silver screen.This film is not easy to categorize:it's a horror film mixed with drug movie and also features paranoid urban legends and bizarre conspiracy theories.The title of this movie is taken from the name of a bad batch of 60s acid that seems to have some rather unfortunate long-term side effects.The film is badly lit and there are some dull spots,but "Blue Sunshine" is a must-see for experimental cinema enthusiasts.7 out of 10.
Hooper manages the neat trick of paying homage to the slasher tradition that he himself launched so long ago with "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" while also adding some dimension and wit to the proceedings by virtue of a nicely detailed Hollywood urban legend angle.
Surprisingly mild vehicle for Pam Grier, targeted at the black urban audiences of the 1970s, isn't terribly good despite a varied roster of bemused supporting talents, including Jim Backus, Yaphet Kotto, Scatman Crothers, Godfrey Cambridge, Carl Weathers from "Rocky", Ted Lange from "The Love Boat", and Eartha Kitt, hamming it up as usual playing a breathless fashion designer.
Actually the one good thing about this film is the copious shots of New York in the late 1980's which record the city before urban renewal changed everything for the better.
The scenes of urban Manila/Cavite, the abject poverty, the sense of seeing life as it really is for the masses in the urban Philippines, made the film a proponent of sorts for the poor and unprivileged, this was powerful.
You'll have to get past the silly & inept Vietnam opening-scene, but then this movie turns into an urban tale of virus-outbreak.
It tries to present another catalog of urban tribes, but it fails on that too.
Rather than a demon from hell, the antagonist of this tale is an urban legend going by the name of Candyman.
The film follows a pair of University students; Helen Lyle and Bernadette Walsh doing a thesis on urban legends.
The plot centres on two families, one rural and one urban, whose paths cross as they engage passionately in the uprising.
This isn't a drama, or an urban drama....it is a GRAF FILM.
The original Crocodile Dundee film was fresh and creative, as was the first sequel, as it juxtaposed the culture of the Outback with the shallowness of modern urban society, tipping its hat to the superiority of the former over the latter.
In Chicago, Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) and her friend Bernadette Walsh (Kasi Lemmons) are researching for their thesis about urban legend in the University of Illinois, where Helen's husband Trevor Lyle (Xander Berkeley) gives classes.
It is obviously a contemporary urban area because we see highways, traffic, stoplights, and large buildings, but it is also obvious that it is not an American city.
Not many movies made such a good use of stereotypes and urban myths of former Yugoslav Army.
A bunch of young adults go deep into the woods to a remote cabin and tell each other several scary urban legend-style stories.
As always, Anil Mehta does a fabulous job lensing the story -- his cinematography captures a wide range of urban landscapes that subtly adds depth and context to the story (and be on the lookout for an in-joke concerning his name in the film).
Think of it as a goofier, more urban version of THE CROW.
Let me start out by saying that I enjoy a good urban movie, even those stereotype ones with lousy humor and stuff.
'Gregory's Girl' was clearly filmed between Spring and early Autumn and there's one enduringly beautiful scene where Dorothy plays keep-up with a soccer ball, shot against the maternally basking backdrop of urban Glasgow, whilst a haunting saxophone laments and chases the fading daylight, bemoaning the inevitable and eventual closure of our younger years, brief and fleeting as the scene itself.
Unlike the un-related mediocre other "urban legends" this movie fails to have a significant plot, bits are thrown in through the movie (without need for the average viewer)in order to convey this is a movie about urban legends.
As a result of constant urban decay, pollution and unbearable heat, the sewer rats of Manhattan are quickly spreading a horrible disease that causes its victims to mutate into a ravenous and bloodthirsty rat-creatures.
This feature is a grim, violent urban saga of a dysfunctional family that plays out amid the decay and ugliness of Harlem.
Jia Zhangke's The World, his first state supported film, continues his look at the disillusionment of Chinese youth with Western-style globalization but shifts the setting from a rural to an urban environment.
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