Sentences with phrase «american high school film»

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25 year old Vanessa Hudgens is an American actress and singer who rose to fame in her teens starring in the High School Musical films.

Following a crew of high - school - aged Asian - Americans who use their reputations as studious bookworms to mask their criminal activities, the movie proved without a doubt that Cho had what it took to make it in film.

A fairly interminable teen comedy, American Pie follows four high school buddies (Jason Biggs» Jim, Chris Klein's Oz, Thomas Ian Nicholas» Kevin, and Eddie Kaye Thomas» Finch) as they vow to lose their respective virginities by prom night - with the film detailing the foursome's expectedly flamboyant and over-the-top efforts at accomplishing this feat.

Moodysson's teen protagonists are more complex than both the high school stereotypes (the nerd, the jock, the beauty queen) in films like «American Pie» and the self - absorbed philosophers on «Dawson's Creek.»

With this honor to his name, Biggs segued into film a short time later, debuting in the 1997 Camp Stories.In 1999, the unequivocal hit that was American Pie came along, and Biggs, portraying Jim, one of the more perpetually humiliated members of a group of four friends trying to lose their virginity by high - school graduation, made an undeniably distinct impression on critics and audiences alike.

Story is told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African - American police officer and a high - school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.

John Huston's 1956 film of Herman Melville's whaling drama turned epic odyssey, a classic of American literature and a staple of high school and college literature courses, remains the most famous screen version of the novel.

Set in the»60s, that halcyon era of political action and cultural definition evoked in Sayles» first film, this story of an ambitious Jewish high school student's affair with a dapper Italian - American petty criminal renders assimilationist concerns through the tender prism of a love story.

One of the most terrifying moments in It Follows, the best American horror film since The Blair Witch Project, tracks a group of teenagers into a high school, where they're trying to investigate the origins of a being that's relentlessly tracking one of them.

Reaching back a little to the modern American indie explosion of the eighties is Spike Lee's debut feature «She's Got ta Have It» (1986) and a small library of Roger Corman seventies film arriving, including «Rock «n» Roll High School,» «Caged Heat» and «Crazy Mama.»

After an unsuccessful attempt with a «Cat People» remake at Warner Bros, Bill Condon and producer Michael Laughlin decided to collaborate on Condon's early version of «Dead Kids,» and with assistance from Hemdale and tax incentives from the New Zealand government, began production in northern New Zealand, with an eclectic mix of American actors: Dan Shor had recently appeared in John Huston's «Wise Blood»; Dey Young had just debuted in «Rock and Roll High School»; Michael Murphy was a Woody Allen alumnus; and Mark McClure had achieved a kind of immortality as Jimmy Olson in the «Superman» films.

Starting with the genuinely spooky image of Soviet paratroopers cascading onto an open field behind a Spokane high school, Milius» film thoroughly imagines an American city transformed by invasion and occupation, which raises the stakes for the plucky young guerrilla warriors who lead a rebellion from the mountains.

With so many exciting films slated for release this year, it's not surprising that a stereotypical, banal American high school teen comedy will join...

She has previously worked as an associate programmer for AFI FEST 2013; for AFI FESTs 2009 and» 10, where she oversaw the screen education program, screening a selection of festival titles for middle — and high — school students from across L.A.; and in the film programming department at the American Cinematheque, where she programmed the Cinematheque's first — ever Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Luis Buñuel retrospectives in 2012.

Based on a real - life story, Disney's newest inspirational sports film follows a high school cross-country team in a small, impoverished, primarily Mexican - American town and the coach who changes their lives — and his own.

While watching Richard Linklater's (Before Sunset, The School of Rock) semi-autobiographical homage to his high school days in Dazed and Confused, it's almost impossible not to think about another film that similarly captured the essence of a time and place for teenagers in an older era, George Lucas's American GraSchool of Rock) semi-autobiographical homage to his high school days in Dazed and Confused, it's almost impossible not to think about another film that similarly captured the essence of a time and place for teenagers in an older era, George Lucas's American Graschool days in Dazed and Confused, it's almost impossible not to think about another film that similarly captured the essence of a time and place for teenagers in an older era, George Lucas's American Graffiti.

The film's stable of voice actors reads like a Who's Who of Latin - American talent: the ensemble includes Edward James Olmos, Alfonso Arau, Ana Ofelia Murguia, Alanna Ubach and, in a small role, to my surprise and astonishment, playwright Octavio Solis, who was one of my teachers in high school back in Dallas.

So before crossing professional paths with Gerwig at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival, Ronan's entire understanding of American high - school culture came courtesy of her favorite films and television shows.

Unlike Lady Bird, the spunky, Sacramento - raised heroine of Greta Gerwig's critically lauded coming - of - age feature, the film's star, Saoirse Ronan, did not attend American high school.

At one point in the film, as Seun prepares to leave Dalton to complete high school elsewhere, one of Dalton's administrators wonders, «There's a cultural disconnect between independent schools and African American boys... What are we doing as a school that is not supporting these guys?»

So far REMIX has presented the film OT: Our Town, which documented a Compton, California high school's production of the American stage classic, Our Town; and has hosted a conversation about hip - hop in education, and the ways it can be used as a tool in classrooms to address issues of literacy, race, and social justice.

The confluence of institutional and cultural anti-intellectualism, which was incessantly reinforced by similar messages in films, television, and music, would bedevil American high schools for the rest of the century.

The stars of the film are Geoffrey Canada, the CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, which provides a broad variety of social services to families and children and runs two charter schools; Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public school system, who closed schools, fired teachers and principals, and gained a national reputation for her tough policies; David Levin and Michael Feinberg, who have built a network of nearly one hundred high - performing KIPP charter schools over the past sixteen years; and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who is cast in the role of chief villain.