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He just works his way up from the big bosses to a beautiful wife.
During the murder spree, Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance) works hard to find Michael before he unleashes his fury.
I have no idea why this documentary works.
Like most of his other works, Fuller injects his own experiences and the sense of New York style that is usually absent in the Hollywood noirs.
A freed genie, a beautiful princess, a flying carpet, fantastic mechanical toys, sea voyages, a crowded marketplace, a wicked vizier, jewels ... I don't know why it all works, but it does.
The plot, which works like puzzle forces viewer to think and guess, what will happen next.
Too many people, and nothing works.
It is hard to describe the incredible subject matter the Maysles discovered but everything in it works wonderfully.
Tierney, gorgeous as ever, now works as a department-store mannequin and lives in Washington Heights (the neighborhood of the "doll" who once got a fox fur out of LAURA's Mark McPherson).
Well anyway you have Mary Ellen Trainor(who by the way plays in several warner brothers works, usually small parts) as a greedy philandering wife who takes care of her hubby while waiting on some money and a new romance.
Perhaps the most personal of David Lynch's works is his most accessible.
If you're as huge of a fan of an author as I am of Jim Thompson, it can be pretty dodgy when their works are converted to film.
Henry Thomas works well with the young baby.
"Der Todesking"-Jorg Buttgereit's second full-length feature film(the first one was notorious "Nekromantik")has no central character or characters,but instead thematic continuity in the act of suicide.Divided into days of the week,it comprises of a series of set-pieces,each of which featuring the self-destruction of a complete stranger.Yes,the production values are low and it's disturbing,but in many ways "Der Todesking" is extremely effective.It makes you think which is sometimes more important than pure entertainment.Unlike the other Buttgereit's works it isn't very gory,but there are some unpleasant images like castration scene in the Tuesday episode,a decomposing corpse and various acts of suicide.The last(Sunday)episode is so depressing and full of pain!-just amazing if you want my opinion.10
He has ripped his canvases and other works, at the height of his despair, and fashions a flying device for his jump.
In late 1800s San Francisco, poor well-dressed Errol Flynn (as James J. Corbett) works at a bank, and enjoys attending local "fights" (boxing) with co-worker and drinking buddy Jack Carson (as Walter Lowrie).
One day, pretty Alexis Smith (as Victoria Ware) walks into the "Comstock Bank", where Mr. Flynn works.
The film is an under-budget sci-fi movie which actually works, due to an interesting storyline and well done scenes.
By her arrival in Hawai ryu discovers that her new husband is much older as in the photograph ,and that he lives in very humble circumstances beside a sugar cane plantage were he works on.
Sometimes European series are less accurate than the USA ones, but this time authors have hit the right target creating a mix that works in a smoothly way.
It's entertaining to see how things works in the justice field in other countries than the USA and for once "feel" the old Europe way of dealing with life.
I would assume the movie works wonderfully (lots of apparent inside jokes) if one was involved in theater (which I'm not).
The final season, where Sabrina works at a pop culture magazine, was unequivocally disappointing.
Lucci became subject of a portrait by him followed as the basis for works of a sitter called Catherine.
The film works isn't trying to work as history, but rather is a deconstruction of 1940s war movies.
Thus, most of Goldsworthy's works don't really last, except as photos or films of what they were.
Now, one can argue that Goldsworthy's works are a reflection of mortality, or words to that effect, but isn't it easier to say that what he does is just beautiful art.
And at a time when the stereotype about artists is that they are mostly bitter, pretentious, often mentally unstable people who live in decrepit urban settings, Goldsworthy seems to be the opposite: a stable, unpretentious, family oriented person who loves nature and lives in a small village in Scotland (of course, I'm sure those are the same reasons why he's shunned by some people on the art world who found his works fluffy or superficial).
and for those that enjoy Kurosawas earlier works.
The short that starts this film is the true footage of a guy named Gary, apparently it was taken randomly in the parking lot of a television station where Gary works in the town of Beaver.
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