Sentences with phrase «american city setting»

But the anonymous American city setting (it was shot in Barcelona) echoes Nolan's similarly disarming approach, as do the hallways, warehouses and theatres where everything happens.

Not exact matches

Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, the company's urban planning team, is set to pitch a proposal to rebuild part of a struggling American city as a new high - tech «smart city,» The Wall Street Journal reports.

Asian and American institutional investors have already played a major role in driving up prices in leading cities and are set to do so again, 83 % of surveyed investors believe.

General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) has built 130 autonomous Chevrolet Bolt test vehicles in a factory setting and is deploying them in three American cities, CEO Mary Barra said Tuesday.

«44 At the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries Americans had wavered about claiming to be a city set on a hill with the eyes of the world upon it.

By filing a lawsuit to set aside the Mexico City policy on the basis of «international law» created outside the American political system, the CRLP has demonstrated that it firmly believes that «international law» (which has little if anything to do with the will of the American people or the representatives they elect to govern them) is nevertheless enforceable against the American people and, ultimately, the people of the world.

That people were essentially a problem, even a pollutant, rather than a resource; that social, political, economic, and ecological catastrophe was right around the corner, unless drastic steps were taken to stabilize and then reverse world population trends - these were the themes, familiar to even the most casual student of the American anti-natalist lobby, that set the agenda for Budapest and Mexico City.

For one of the few times ever, virtually all theologians of virtually all traditions began arguing about the American city, in confrontation with the same set of problematics and in the same idiom.

To take another example, one can scarcely imagine American Indians accepting the notion that a white European United States has an a priori right to exist because «God gave the Puritans this land,» to make a «city set on a hill.»

With more than fifteen locations around the world including Hong Kong, Tokyo and New York, BLT Steak has been a landmark for signature style and exceptional service, setting the tone for the Modern American Steakhouse since its flagship location opened in New York City in 2004.

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Manchester City are set to offer FC Barcelona star Xavi Hernandez a bumper contract to lead the club's American - based franchise — Football Direct News

The 28 - year - old is believed to be on the radar of European heavyweights with the likes of Paris Saint - Germain and Real Madrid, while Premier League leaders Manchester City were seemingly set to sign the South American on deadline day before the Gunners pulled out on the move.

In every American city the film opened in during the summer, he set up informal debates between a real local candidate and audience members.

The Point, a community development organization in the South Bronx, which reclaimed vacant land in the city for a 400 - square - foot garden, is setting an example for Detroit and other American cities.

The shadow Home Secretary ran into a similar storm of criticism last summer when he compared life in British inner cities to the popular American TV series The Wire, set in Baltimore, where the crime rate is far higher than anywhere in Britain.

In the interim, the federal government has set up an advisory board of business and education leaders — including American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, SUNY chancellor Nancy Zimpher and Stan Litow, an IBM executive and former deputy chancellor of New York City schools — assigned to look at current community college funding programs and formulate the best strategies for the national program.

«This legislative action will be the first of its kind for a major American city, as well as the first set of regulations by any state in the union, and it will establish new registration, cleaning and monitoring standards for cooling towers in the fight against Legionnaires» disease,» Mr. de Blasio said.

SOME 6000 Bolivian indians last week began a long march to their capital city, La Paz, to protest about the disruption to their lives caused by a scheme set up by American conservationists to preserve part of the Amazon rainforest.

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This «notorious Jezebel» arrives on the Amalfi coast of Italy trolling for fresh meat (we've seen her chased out of New York City in the opening scenes), and sets her sights on Robert Windermere (Mark Umbers), a young, upright American businessman newly married to his adoring wife Meg (Scarlett Johansson).

We've had more than enough superhero movies set in New York or fictionalized versions of other American cities, more than enough action movies set in London or Los Angeles, more than enough fantasies that draw on European mythologies.

It is set in what looks like New York, or possibly some other North American city, perhaps Vancouver or Toronto.

Set in a future American metropolis, Metro City, this sci - fi - thriller features a policewoman heroine who like the hero in Robocop was brought back from the dead and turned into a super-human fighter.

Ten Thousand Saints, which comes from the American Splendor team of Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, has an incredible cast for a story set at a tense period in New York City history.

Rather than document the cold realities and indulgent pleasantries of another big city with bright lights, Hill is set on exploring the very place that so many creative - types vacate upon the arrival of their first Visa card or college acceptance letter: the American South.

Moonlight feels more personal for Jenkins, who was born and raised in Liberty City, Miami, the predominantly African American neighborhood in which the film is set.

Fincher spends a lot of time setting up the authenticity of his hellish American city.

A Most Violent Year (R for profanity and some violence) American Dream drama, set in NYC in 1981, revolving around the efforts of an immigrant couple (Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac) to make it in the corrupt, oil delivery business during one of the most dangerous periods in the history of the city.

«Public Morals» is set in 1960's New York City, and the series follows the officers in the New York Police Department's Public Morals Division, who struggle with the city's immorality while also trying to manage their personal lives as Irish - AmericCity, and the series follows the officers in the New York Police Department's Public Morals Division, who struggle with the city's immorality while also trying to manage their personal lives as Irish - Americcity's immorality while also trying to manage their personal lives as Irish - Americans.

Set in an unnamed, gloomy American city, the story follows two cops, Mills (Brad Pitt) and Somerset (Morgan Freeman) as they pursue a serial killer who models his murders after the seven deadly sins.

The arrival of the film noir coincided with a new penchant, inspired by Italian neorealism, for moving out of the studio on occasion and onto the great rich set of the American city and its suburbs, a readily available set which became, sometimes with only minimal adjustment of light and shadow, fully as «Germanic» as anything constructed at Ufa in the Twenties.

An extensive selection of work from across the world is presented including the World Premieres of William English's HEATED GLOVES and THE HOST, in which director Miranda Pennell delves deeper into her past and her late parents» involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP); Ben Rivers» THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS, the feature element of Ben's current Artangel installation at BBC White City; EVENT FOR A STAGE by Tacita Dean, a filmed presentation of her live theatrical happening in collaboration with actor Stephen Dillane at the 2014 Sydney Biennial; the European Premiere of Omer Fast's REMAINDER, a London - set thriller adapted from Tom McCarthy's acclaimed novel of the same name; the European Premiere of INVENTION which highlights the possibilities of camera movement and the development of artistic apparatus and Kevin Jerome Everson's PARK LANES, set in an American bowling alley over the course of a day.

Set in the titular Portuguese city, co - writer / director Gabe Klinger's drama stars Anton Yelchin as Jake, an American expatriate who meets French student Mati (Lucie Lucas) on an archaeological dig site.

Raymond Carver set a few short stories along the banks of the Sacramento River, and Sam Mendes panned the city's tree - lined suburbs in a shot from «American Beauty,» but besides the rare cameo, the state capitol is oft overlooked as a suitable setting for cinematic and literary ventures.

«Kings» takes place against the ambitious backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and opens with a dramatization of the 1991 shooting of Latasha Harlins, the 15 - year - old African American girl killed by a Korean convenience store owner that set the city on edge.

While still under the title «Mena,» named after the Arkansas city where Seal carried out his operations at an airport facility, American Made made headlines in 2015 when a plane crash on the set in Medellin, Colombia killed two pilots, Alan Purwin and Carlos Berl, and injured one, Jimmy Lee Garland.

This weekend might be all about Black Panther, Marvel's much - anticipated, 18th entry in its ten - years - and - counting cinematic universe, but that's no reason to ignore the other visually expansive, comedic delight arriving in in multiplexes: Oscar - winner Nick Park's (Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit) latest foray into stop - motion wizardry (his first as sole director), Early Man, an unexpected, if no less welcome, ode to the joys, excitement, and wonders of the «beautiful game» («soccer» to less enlightened Americans, European football everywhere else) set against the backdrop of a future - hanging - in - the - balance, winner - take - all Stone Age vs. Bronze Age football match that's almost as thrilling and exhilarating as watching Real Madrid vs. FC Barcelona or Manchester United vs. Manchester City play in front of paying fans (i.e., in the real world with real - world stakes).

Set during the winter of 1981 — statistically one of the most crime - ridden of New York City's history — A MOST VIOLENT YEAR is a drama following the lives of an immigrant and his family as they attempt to capitalize on the American Dream, while the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

Taking place in 2016 in the fictional North American city of Riverport (possibly set in the same fictional world as Alan Wake), players assume the roles of Jack Joyce (Shawn Ashmore) and Paul Serene (Aidan Gillen) who gain vastly different time manipulation powers referred to as «chronon abilities» when an accident occurs while using Serene's time machine experiment at the local university.

This week, I spoke with Sheridan from the Park City, Utah, set of his upcoming TV show, Yellowstone, about how he wrested control of the movie, which stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen as investigators probing the suspicious death of a young Native American woman, away from the Weinsteins.

Based on a Henry James novella and filmed against a lush jungle backdrop in Venezuela, a young American publisher sets out from New York City, to search for the lost manuscripts of a famous deceased poet.

Set in the medium's native city of Lyon and captained by cinephiles Thierry Frémaux and Bertrand Tavernier, the Lumière Festival, which hosted its 9th edition in 2017, unfolded like an ethereal, kaleidoscopic journey through cinema joining the living and the departed, the modern and the classical, the marginal and the mainstream via an eclectic lineup of new releases, revivals, and restorations, including American westerns selected by Tavernier, from John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946) to King Vidor's Man Without a Star (1955); Henri Decoin's Monelle (1948); Jacques Rivette's Le Pont du Nord (1981); John Cassavetes's A Child Is Waiting (1963); and Barbara Loden's Wanda (1970).

Karina purposely films the young men in nature settings and not in the typical city settings most often used in films about African American teens.

At a meeting here, officials from American College Testing, the Iowa City - based firm that administers the widely used college - admissions test, outlined the procedure it used to set standards on the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress.

In Kansas City in the late 1980s and early»90s, African American parents were justifiably irate when the federal court's integration plan denied their children access to the magnet schools of their choice because so many seats had been set aside for white children — who did not show up in sufficient numbers to fill them.

The rapid gentrification of many large American cities represents a triumph and an opportunity for Republicans — a triumph because it was mainly Republican ideas (welfare reform, aggressive crime - fighting tactics, pro-growth policies) that set the trend in motion, and an opportunity because the wealthier, and frankly whiter, new residents are more likely to vote for the GOP.

Denise Prince (MS.ED, Bank Street College in (NY) Educational Leadership, is the Director of the Early Childhood Leadership Program and Project Director for Setting the Stage, «Teaching American History,» a collaboration with the New York City Department of Education and Bank Street College.

We want an end to mayoral control, state takeovers and other privatization schemes that remove our right to hold public officials accountable for the education policy they set; and curiously target cities whose public school systems serve primarily African - American and Latino children.

The real - time traffic service is currently available in twenty major American cities, but the system is expanding, and AcuraLink is set up to operate in all forty - eight contiguous states.