Sentences with phrase «american films for»

Seriously, it's considered one of the great American films for a reason.

Colin Farrell Colin Farrell has been a mainstay in American film for nearly 20 years, and yet many always forget that the star is actually from Ireland.

This is the first American film for Brazilian director José Padilha.

Some have criticized this British / American film for portraying a stereotyped view of India and for capitalizing on the poor.

Not exact matches

On a visit to the DreamWorks studio, which produced animated films such as Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda, Mr Obama said Hollywood was a «bright spot» in the US economy and that movies such as Star Wars were a tool for American diplomacy around the world.

Scorsese isn't the first Italian - American director to receive blowback for portraying the mob on film.

The film stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae as real life NASA trailblazers Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson, whose work made it possible for John Glenn to become the first American in orbit.

«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..

He became something of a celebrity in North Korea for depicting «evil» American soldiers in propaganda films.

Unfortunately for the film, if new prognostications are correct then American Sniper's reign as # 1 will soon be over.

For «The American Dreamer,» directors Lawrence Schiller and L.M. Kit Carson filmed Hopper in Taos while he was in postproduction on «The Last Movie,» though this was hardly a nonfiction work.

He continued to tinker with the edit, which is what Schiller and Carson found themselves walking into when they began filming Hopper for «The American Dreamer.»

Now you can add the film American Hustle — which won a Golden Globe for Best Picture and picked up 10 Academy Award nominations this week — to the list, especially if you want to explain how really great salespeople find leads, draw customers, and make deals.

EASTWOOD: So anyway, we did that and then I went to Tokyo and where they hadn't been too fond of Americans going there and filming, I sold the governor who was actually the mayor of Tokyo, I sold him on the idea that this would be a great thing for the Japanese people that didn't even know this battle even existed much less how tough it was.

I was able to practice as a professional writer, producer of film, video and audio - visual productions and as a PR practitioner and spokesperson for Johns Hopkins Health System, American Red Cross and other Baltimore hospitals.

The last film I did was a current film, American Sniper and... But actually I had my associate go over to, Rob Lorenz, I had him go over to Morocco and he checked that out for the architecture of the villages.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

American film actress Rita Hayworth is best known for her stunning explosive sexual charisma on screen in films throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

For one night in June, a small East Windsor strip club will host an adult film star with a secret worth $ 130,000 that has entangled the highest reaches of American government.

American actor Mark Hamill became famous for his role as Luke Skywalker in the epic film «Star Wars,» as well as its sequels «The Empire Strikes Back,» «Return of the Jedi» and «The Force Awakens.»

They met at the American Century celebrity golf tournament in July 2006; he later came to the gift lounge sponsored by her adult film company, and he asked for her number before he invited her for dinner.

At a preview of the film in midtown, it was said that the film would be viewed by thirty million Americans and would be a great «education» for the American people on lesbian, gay, and transgender issues.

Still, all the talk of the film has caused me to reflect on the historic importance of the Exodus story for African - American Christians.

An entire industry of books and films has blossomed in the red soil of the American Christian persecution complex, with the first «Gods» Not Dead» installment caricaturing and vilifying atheists and the second set to expose liberal efforts to «expel God from the classroom once and for all.»

Earlier this month, The Atlantic listed the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer, National Organization for Marriage's Brian Brown, televangelist Tim Bakker, and evangelical film critic Ted Baehr among Putin's evangelical supporters, particularly for his restrictions on Russia's LGBT community.

It is, as well, an antidote to Mississippi Burning, a dishonest, award - winning new film in which blacks wait patiently and fearfully in the background for deliverance by two white FBI agents, played by Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, who zealously bend the law in the interest of justice — a film one fears will have a profound effect on the way many Americans view their nation in the King Years («The Dream Dafoed,» as the Village Voice put it).

posts on ALMOST FAMOUS, two on the SCHOOL OF ROCK, and an epic one on THE DOORS, I do think that among my list of pop - music films, THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO is the standout in terms of sheer cinematic achievement, with only AMERICAN GRAFFITI giving it a run for the money.

Made originally for Swedish television, the film came to American public networks in the uncut version this year.

It is well acted and filmed, and it is important for Americans to learn of the Cristero War.

Back in 2012, a short film called Montauk from filmmaker Charlie Kessler garnered some attention at The Hamptons Film Festival for its intriguing sci - fi story about a government research lab conducting strange experiments outside of a small American town (which leads to a bunch of weird stuff happening, including a child going missing and a monster from another dimension being released).

His Romeo and Juliet and Moulin Rouge movies are practically required viewing for modern film students, but his flashy, excessive style strikes some as the wrong tone for what might be rightly considered the Great American Novel.

Pinsky and Riess are right — film and television are where many Americans absorb their values, for good or ill.

You recall that the SABC, the South African Broadcasting Corporation, the exclusive state monopoly for radio and television, had the night before run an American Defense Department film version of their latest report on «Soviet Military Power,» with Secretary Casper Wineberger issuing dire warnings as animated hammer - and - sickle emblems marched menacingly down the coast of Africa.

For Noll, this reflects both American evangelicals» ingenuity and skill with modern technology and the amazing initiative of third - world churches in distributing the film.

Each film depicted the cold detachment of the U.S. military, the government's disregard for its young working and middle class boys, and the unraveling of American ideologies about home and country.

The star married American film director and artist Andrew Levitas at Hampton Court Palace last Saturday in a closed door ceremony, with no access for the media.

The film, made by Andrew Morgan, follows the American author and former pastor who has been heavily criticised for suggesting Heaven is open to all, challenging the traditional view of Hell and saying that humanity has twisted Jesus» words.

For reasons that are difficult to perceive, someone had decided that this sorry spectacle would make a great human - interest scene for the film as Arthur, the famous, rich black American athlete, nobly descends to the lower levels of life and plays table tennis with poor little African childrFor reasons that are difficult to perceive, someone had decided that this sorry spectacle would make a great human - interest scene for the film as Arthur, the famous, rich black American athlete, nobly descends to the lower levels of life and plays table tennis with poor little African childrfor the film as Arthur, the famous, rich black American athlete, nobly descends to the lower levels of life and plays table tennis with poor little African children.

Up until now Cool Runnings, the 1993 film about the»88 Jamaican bobsled team, has been just about the lone touchstone of the sport for most Americans.

In order to do so in a way that might, ahem, resonate more effectively with its viewers, it films a meeting between a few college athletes and Dr. Aaron Spitz, the lead delegate of urology for the American Medical Association.

One's a Bulgarian winger that plays for Aston Villa and the other is an 80s American teen film star — but both share a fondness for big hair and highlights

In an ad for their new Annie - inspired clothing line (which I'm assuming consists of both rags for the informal orphan and princess dresses for the more formal adopted child of a millionaire), Target has conveniently featured a random Caucasian girl instead of the film's star, Quvenzhané Wallis, who is African - American.

When Mea Robinson - Davis recently needed a few foreign films for her class about Latin - American authors, she didn't want to wait for Netflix to mail her the movies.

Most importantly, however, the film has a new site where people can set up their own screenings, and purchase copies of the film along with other stuff like screening kits and UNITE FOR LUNCH American Apparel T - shirts designed by the artist who did the illustrations in the film.

Despite the American Association of Pediatrics AAP twice clearly stating in 1957, and 1967, that football should be banned for children 12 and under, football's popularity grows and this battle game expands to kids so we leave the film having to wait for the sequel.

Nominated for awards at both the Pan African Film Festival, Bronzelens Film Festivals, and others, it's no wonder TV One, the network dedicated to delivering real life and entertainment programming from the African American point of view, has decided to acquire and air this historical film on Saturday, January 9, 2016.

Because the film is clearly made for the American market, the cinematography can be distracting but it provides an interesting look at how politicians operate and what makes them tick.

For Biggs, who is a surprisingly imposing presence given the self - deprecating nature of the characters he plays on screen, the risk of a political film was outweighed by the chance to escape his American Pie persona.

The outspoken American actor, who was in London promoting his new film Grassroots, took a dim view of a video in which Cameron went for a curry with his wife to celebrate his birthday.