Sentences with phrase «american film history»

Beginnings: Black Female Cinema (1977 - 81): This rare screening of four 16 mm short films is a crucial part of American film history.

A milestone in American film history, The Exile was the first all - black - cast independently produced «talkie».

Not exact matches

«Black Panther» is already proving to be quite successful, scoring $ 242 million in North American box office revenue in four days to become the highest grossing February film in box office history and Cineplex's highest grossing first - quarter film ever.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on the set of his new talk show series «StarTalk» filmed with a live studio audience in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.

To be fair, when the first film premiered, it became the highest - grossing R - rated film in American history.

It's a safe bet that the film will win at least a few of those, but even if it doesn't, 12 Years a Slave has undoubtedly brought back up an important, though often glossed over, part of American history.

He is neither a historian nor theologian, but the film, «Monumental,» shows him consumed with Christianity - and with rage over what he says has been the systematic removal of religion's role from American history.

February 21: Explore invention, dance, poetry, art - making, and short films at the Mary Baker Eddy Library's Untold American Stories / Black History Month (Boston)

Producers really wanted to shoot in a country that had production services, or at least a history with film production, and Ghana really hadn't had an American film production.

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

Later films like 1998's American History X also invoke the culture of jailhouse lifting, even though real California prisons currently do not feature equipment beyond dip and pull - up bars.

American Film Institute: AFI is America's promise to preserve the history of the motion picture, to honor the artists and their work and to educate the The Vow's Michael Sucsy will direct the film, which has also secured the life rights of Jessica Walsh, 26, and Timothy Goodman, 32, the friends behind the

So far the critics are being kind to Quentin Tarantino's bloody Western - down - South, singing the praises of the film's stellar cast and its fierce yet disturbingly funny confrontation with the most shameful chapter of American history.

Deadpan, the film allows us to register the difference between T'Challa and Erik as an African and an African American — Erik being burdened by the traumas and injustices of American history in a way T'Challa is not.

In addition, he appeared in AMERICAN HISTORY X, co-starred in the OCEAN»S ELEVEN trilogy, and appeared in the 2011 feature film CONTAGION, as well as the 2012 Fox Searchlight feature RUBY SPARKS.

With these three films, Spielberg has crafted something like a Trilogy of Good Decisions, in which, at pivotal moments in our nation's history, more or less decent people took the opportunity to make the right choices based on fundamental beliefs in foundational American values.

An assessment of the film as part of a dissertational examination of Lawrence's contribution to comedic posterity and to African - American cultural history will surely note that the film was not pre-screened for critics in advance.

Given Nixon's lifelong inability to control the medium or come out looking at all decent on it, the film is as much a cheeky celebration of TV's candor as it is a reminder of this fascinating sidebar to American history.

The result is a film of integrity and disclosure, a controversial chapter in American history that substitutes clinical accuracy for Hollywood embellishment, with an impressive attention to detail and an admirable respect for suspenseful narrative.

In just a handful of scenes Django Unchained reminds us that it is a film set in one of the darkest and most shameful periods of American history.

«Crooked Arrows» gets points for its glimpses of Native American culture and history - the film's backers include the Onondaga Nation - but too many of these scenes are disappointingly static.

Lincoln often appears in the film as the irresistible monument to folksy decency that we know from the simplified myths of our school history books, and Spielberg exploits these scenes for all their iconic worth, often visualizing the president as a ghostly totem burdened by the secret knowledge of his pivotal destiny in the story of American reform.

He did not simply depart from the facts of history, inventing, in the title characters, a squad of mostly Jewish - American killers led by a United States Army lieutenant from Tennessee; he rewrote the past in the vivid, visceral language of film fantasy.

The whole film is a lively lesson in music history that should stimulate renewed interest in Native American artists and convince other documentary filmmakers that there is still much more to explore.

The true story of a stray dog, who becomes a World War I hero and remains the most decorated dog in American history, is realized as an animated film with the voices of Helena Bonham Carter, Logan Lerman and Gérard Depardieu.

Rather than make a standard biopic about the most famous First Lady in American history, this film centres on just a few days in her life to offer some telling insights not only into the...

Formerly known as Loomis Fargo, the film is based on the true story of four dim - witted Southerners who pulled off one of the biggest heists in American history by robbing a Loomis Fargo truck and making away with nearly $ 20 million.

One of the film's strategies is to pair the voice of Samuel L. Jackson intoning selections from Baldwin's writing with relevant images salvaged from American history, including segments that highlight the white supremacy encoded in Hollywood narratives.

Alas, my heart sank when I realized that the film I was about to see was not a remake of the 1995 forgotten Cindy Crawford - William Baldwin classic but a in fact change of pace low - key political drama from the go to high concept action film - maker of the past decade, Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr & Mrs Smith) focusing on the Plame Affair, one of the key scandals in recent American political history.

Last year's Jackie was a psychologically devastating look at the widowed Jackie Kennedy boasting one of the absolute best performances of the year by Natalie Portman, whereas in comparison LBJ is a film that will be thrown on in American History classes only for teenagers to fall asleep.

Through this series, programmed by film scholar Michael Raine, American audiences may be surprised to discover that the roots of the movie musical in Japan are nearly as intertwined with the rest of the country's film history as they are in the U.S.

American film director Terrence Malick's fifth feature film release, in four decades in the business, The Tree Of Life, is a film that, in parts, has some of the greatest techniques and moments ever recorded in film history.

If ever there was a watershed movie George Lucas's would top the list: American Graffiti went from un-releasable to becoming one of the benchmark movies of the decade, establishing George Lucas as a visionary to be reckoned with, and becaming a launching pad for more future movie stars than any film in history: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Cindy Williams, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, MacKenzie Phillips, Bo Hopkins, Harrison Ford, Kathleen Quinlan, Kay Lenz, Suzanne Sommers, all of whom went on to notable careers.

For his latest film Tarantino goes back in time once more to a much more controversial time in American history.

The Greatest Showman's sentimentality brings to mind Robert Altman and Alan Rudolph's Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), which is the greatest, least sentimental film ever made about the political origins and secret idiosyncrasy of American show business.

But stirring and solid, «12 Strong» is the kind of film that might make you think twice about January releases, and spotlights a riveting story in our recent history that many Americans might not know.

Fans of writer - director David O. Russell like to compare his films to those of Preston Sturges, who in the 1940s produced the most singular run of movies in the history of American comedy, including The Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, and Hail the Conquering Hero.

Loving, however, should not be dismissed as one of 2016's most important films, especially now that we're about to enter the darkest period of recent American history.

Steven Spielberg has given some of the greatest films in American history.

Being a relatively obscure chapter of American history, the story is pretty fascinating, although the film is so parched that it rarely comes alive.After...

But this film, despite the excellent lead performance of Michael Fassbender (with a decent American accent — I'm American), moves too slickly between the technical, and often incomprehensible, history of Apple early computing and Jobs» seemingly autistic behaviour in terms of his personal relationships.

History, in Forrest Gump, is an inconvenience to be overcome with digital technology, remembering here that we're midway between the film - as - vérité of sex, lies, and videotape and the digital - as - vérité of American Beauty — in the middle of a sea change, as it were, between what film used to mean and what it's going to mean.

Nominated for Netflix's «Mudbound,» Morrison made similar history two weeks ago with her nomination in the feature - film category at the American Society of Cinematographers Awards.

But for those interested in this time in American history, those studying music or anyone who likes a good story with interesting characters this film is a must see.

Clint Eastwood has directed a sly war film that, on the surface, is a laudatory biography of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in American history, but is, in fact, a shrewd critique of the warrior mentality.

«First, apart from being an American epic, The Searchers also is a John Wayne Western; for many, even at this late date in film history, that's still an excuse to ignore it.

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American History films tend to sit well with Academy voters (Lincoln, 12 Years A Slavery), so don't act too surprised if The Keeping Room ends up being an early Oscar candidate.

A year later, 2003's Harvey Pekar biopic, «American Splendor», pulled much the same trick, resulting in a wonderfully witty and moving film fusing reality, fantasy, memory and history.

Jordan Peele, the mastermind of «Get Out,» a social thriller about American racism, became the first African American to earn producer, director and writer nominations for a single film; the academy nominated a female cinematographer, «Mudbound's» Rachel Morrison, for the first time in its 90 - year history; and Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman recognized as a director, feted for her wry, observational coming - of - age story «Lady Bird.»