Sentences with phrase «american experience film»

The book also inspired a 2001 Dateline special on NBC as well as the 2010 2 - hour PBS American Experience film Into the Deep by Ric Burns.

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If you're not familiar with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this is the 15th of 23 planned films (so far), which started in 2008 when Robert Downey Jr. experienced a career resurgence out of nowhere and made Iron Man an American icon.

Two African American producers based in Atlanta have been filming the SpelBots to make a documentary about the team and their experiences at the RoboCup events.

A review of The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a film by David Grubin, airing on PBS January 26 for the American Experience series, in association with the BBC

That journey — filled with personal milestones for Joe, and eye - opening experiences with average Americans — was captured on film, and has become the award - winning documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead.

The film takes a hard look at the modern American delivery room and makes a strong case for natural childbirth overseen by experienced midwifes.

Prior to American Beauty, Bentley's film experience had been limited to roles in independent films such as Three Below Zero and Halfway to Pleasantville, and a small part in Jonathan Demme's Beloved.

The Movie: The idea of George Clooney playing a (mostly) silent assassin holed up in the Italian countryside with gorgeous European women sounds like recipe for a solid dramatic experience, so why Focus Features is marketing «The American» as some sort of action thriller when in fact it's an arty European film, will throw some moviegoers off and just outright anger others.

When one of the camp's guiding shrinks tells a room full of parents that their children are addicted to online games because «they can't experience satisfaction and heroism in real life,» the film can't help but invite comparison to the child - coddling excess of American culture, while capturing the opposite scenario in excruciating detail.

Some of these films won't get American distribution until next year - one in particular, maybe not at all - but I can't leave them off my 2017 list, so much did they add to my moviegoing experience.

We begin with a compelling love story that evolves into a dissection of marriage in all its facets, a thrilling possible - murder mystery, a scathing indictment of American national media and... well to go much further I'd wade into spoiler territory and honestly, this film is best experienced without them.

Renny Harlin's found footage horror tale «The Dyatlov Pass Incident» has scored a new title and North American release date though IFC Midnight.Now called «Devil's Pass,» the film takes elements from the real life mysterious disappearance of nine experienced...

It's a «love it or hate it» experience to be sure, but in a season no doubt bombarded with other films taking themselves too seriously and receiving American recognition for it, it is undoubtedly worth a shot.

Bennett's film credits include Citizen King and Fisk Jubilee Singers for the PBS series «American Experience,» Hymn for Alvin Ailey for «Dance in America,» and the award - winning PBS mini-series Africans in America and America's War on Poverty.

Puzzle is directed by American producer / filmmaker Marc Turtletaub, an experienced indie film producer, directing his second feature film after Gods Behaving Badly in 2013.

Following the triumph of 2016's Moonlight, it was imperative that films about the African - American experience continued to register in 2017.

We spoke to Kaluuya, who knew he'd «kill it» in the role as soon as he read the script, about the prejudice depicted in the film, his own experiences of racism, and Samuel L Jackson's recent criticism of black British actors taking African American roles in Hollywood films.

Attack of the Killer Donuts is directed by an American filmmaker named Scott Wheeler, who is also an experienced special / digital effects supervisor, camera operator, producer, and second unit director, plus director of a few other bad horror films previously including Martian Land, Transmorphers: Fall of Man, Sink Hole, and Avalanche Sharks.

In our dossier on «American Extreme», we are joined by guest co-editor Jack Sargeant: not, in this case, to make «sense» of these films as such, but rather to engage with more sensorially demanding cinematic experiences, often well beyond the scope of what is deemed acceptable.

Unsane is directed by prominent American (indie) filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, of films including Sex Lies and Videotape, Out of Sight, Traffic, Ocean's 11, 12 & 13, Solaris, The Good German, Che, The Girlfriend Experience, The Informant, Contagion, Haywire, Magic Mike, Side Effects, Behind the Candelabra, as well as Logan Lucky previously.

The IDA also presented the career achievement award on Saturday to Lourdes Portillo in recognition of Portillo's body of work which spans nearly 40 years and includes films about Latin American experiences and social justice issues.

The boisterousness of the film's finale, with its sieges and rescues, its lightning bolts and flash floods, relieves what would otherwise be an almost unbearably sad evocation of what is least preservable about youthful experience: not so much the loss of that «innocence» that is such a hackneyed motif of modern American culture (and for which summer camps have always been a favored location) but the awakening of the first radiance of mature intelligence in a world liable to be indifferent or hostile to it, an intelligence that can conceive everything and realize only the tiniest fragment of it.

Hosting over 300 films, many of which are world or North American premieres, the Toronto International Film Festival is a frequently overwhelming experience even for veteran attendees.

As one contributor in the film says, African - Americans and black people worldwide are likely going to be intimately familiar with many of the issues and experiences you feature in the film.

While at the Toronto International Film Festival for the North American premiere of Happy End, which opens this week in New York, Haneke sat down with me to talk about his early experiences falling in love with cinema and the films that have shaped his singular aesthetic.

Based partially on his own Ivy League experiences, the film revolves around a traditionally African - American residence hall at a predominately white college, examining race in an America that after Obama's election was suddenly said to be post-racial.

The following is an interview from American Cinematographer Magazine © 1999 ASC, written by Stephen Pizzello, «John Toll, ASC details his experiences on The Thin Red Line, an existential combat film that marks the long - awaited return of director Terrence Malick.»

One thing we need to know about African - American experience is the minutiae: there should be films that present the ordinary, everyday reality of these lives in forms that resist cliché and hyperbole, refuse to glamorize, mystify, or stereotype.

Sean Baker's The Florida Project was a revelatory experience, both in and of itself and because of the fact that it so fully realized the promise of American place - specific reality - based fiction cinema after so many years of films with intriguing passages and situations that never quite add up to an entire satisfying movie.

... as we watched movies produced and distributed by Amazon Studio and Netflix (last year's «Beasts of No Nation» was, thankfully, no fluke)... and we savored a bumper crop of deserving films about the African American experience, directed by and starring African Americans.

The experiences of five American film directors at war are examined in this stunning documentary series.

Making her feature film writing and directing debut, Cherien Dabis has used her family's experiences of hostility during the Gulf War as Palestinian / Jordanian Americans as inspiration for Amreeka (the Arabic name for America).

This is most certainly a film about loss — the loss of a solid American center, the personal losses of a husband and a child — but Didion describes everything she sees and experiences so attentively, so fully, and so bravely that she transforms the very worst of life into occasions for understanding.

Similarly, expectations aren't lifted by the involvement of Phillip Noyce, an experienced Australian director best known for big American action and mystery films (Salt, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Bone Collector).

Yes, «American Pie» had gross out humour but those moments were exaggerations of awkward teenage sexual experiences and the film had enough heart for you to care about the characters.

Making her feature film writing and directing debut, Cherien Dabis has used her family's experiences of hostility during the Gulf War as Palestinian / Jordanian Americans as inspiration for

In that manner, the film's presentation of both the African and American side of the experience feels «healing.»

Even if you don't think it's the best film of last year, it dominated Top Ten lists and critics groups awards and it offered a different and daring kind of cinematic experience, something rare enough in American popular cinema.

SY: What was your experience of working with Ciaran Foy, who made his American feature film directorial debut with «Sinister 2,» after the original film's helmer, Scott Derrickson, decided to only write and produce the follow - up?

by Walter Chaw Editor Éva Gardos's An American Rhapsody, her first film as writer - director, is riddled with inconsistencies, lacklustre performances, and convenient platitudes that are perhaps not terribly surprising for a debut screenwriter and director, but disheartening from a veteran cutter who gained experience with the likes of Hal Ashby and Peter Bogdanovich.

However, The American contrasts this detachment with its subjective use of sound and editing where the film will cut to what Jack notices or emphasise a dramatic noise to give the audience a sense of the tense, suspicious and always on - guard view of the world that Jack experiences.

To sum it up, no matter what surround sound format you use to hear this film (Dolby Atmos, TrueHD, Digital), American Sniper offers up one movie soundtrack that will definitely test how well your home theater system, from the loudest to the softest sounds, reproduce a realistic surround sound experience.

But the longer they stay waiting for Harry's call, the more surreal their experience becomes, as they find themselves in weird encounters with locals, tourists, violent medieval art, a dwarf American actor (Jordan Prentice) shooting a European art film, Dutch prostitutes, and a potential romance for Ray in the form of Chloë (Clémence Poésy), who may have some dark secrets of her own.

The African - American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) actively reviews cinema at - large, with a particular emphasis on films which include the Black experience.

If it wasn't for my first Excision experience I probably wouldn't have dug deeper into the genre and checked out films like Frankenhooker or The Re-Animator, or taken a risk on more modern favourites like American Mary or The House of the Devil.

As part of the very large and mildly perturbed American film audience outside New York and L.A., I now regard my tolerance of platform releasing as a noble sacrifice I make to selflessly preserve the theatrical experience for everyone, everywhere.

Imagine if you will, if Swingers had all of its best parts stripped out, and in their place you injected the absolute worst moments of the American Pie series, and what you'd have left would greatly approximate the dismal experience of watching this film.

In other words, the film is yet another look at the African American and black experience through the eyes and concerns of a virtuous white man.

Madonna's cinematographer Hagen Bogdanski is no novice, having ten years of experience in his native Germany as well as some recent American film credits to his name.

One of the greatest experiences I have ever had at a Toronto festival was the North American premiere of Curtis Hanson's «L.A. Confidential,» which was instantly declared a masterpiece and one of the great film noirs in movie history.