Sentences with phrase «american war films»

He's clearly the authority when it comes to American war films and this one is no different.

A hallucinatory near - masterpiece and one of the best American war films produced in the 1990s, Three Kings soldiers onto Blu - ray with a wholly engrossing visual and audio package.

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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.

GALLOWAY: The film became quite controversial when it came out because there were... People said it, you know, glorifies war or glorifies American snipers.

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.»

The film is also clear that JPII did not see the Cold War in terms of Evil Empire A v. Evil Empire B; instead, he sided with the Americans over the Soviets.

Bridge of Spies reunites director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks (who've collaborated on films including The Terminal, Catch Me If You Can and Saving Private Ryan) to tell the true story of an American attorney entrusted to negotiate a high - profile prisoner exchange during the Cold War.

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

Particularly when American Sniper, Clint Eastwood's Iraq war film, is spinning heads everywhere by pulling in some truly crazy numbers.

On Friday, their story will be told by some of the soldiers themselves, in a free showing of the film «Men of Bronze: The Black American Heroes of World War I» at the Frank E. Merriweather Jr..

Classic rock fan, many tattoos, I play guitar, Favourite band is ac / dc, love Star Wars, 80's films, I go to lots of gigs, love the American office, daredevil, Gotham, narcos, the flash, etc...

Sunset Boulevard (stylized onscreen as SUNSET BLVD.) is a 1950 American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by After the war, the building was essentially a ruin.

This quote is the first The trailer was released this week for the upcoming war film «American Sniper,» directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper, hitting

The trailer was released this week for the upcoming war film «American Sniper,» directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper, hitting

The whole film consists of the heroes running around African desert whilst being shot at by various people really, there is a silly plot about trying to find a buried American civil war ironclad warship and also a plot about stopping most of the African water supply getting poisoned.

While watching a Planet of the Apes movie on TV, he thinks, well, why not pretend that the hiding Americans are a Canadian film crew scouting for locations for a Star - Wars rip - off sci - fi flick named Argo?

While the film is admittedly imperfect, it nonetheless deserves to be seen by all Americans to provide a clear understanding of what kind of a country we are currently at war within.

A film about the passage of a change to a legal document generates less intrigue, even if the revision in question outlawed slavery and came alongside the end of the longest and deadliest war fought on American soil.

Very powerful film which poses a lot of moral questions about the consequences of the American government's campaign to empower anti-communist governments during the Cold War but instead we empowered a brutal regime, and the fallout of this caused a million person genocide that took place

and was introduced to a broad American audience in Quentin Tarantino's World War II fantasy «Inglourious Basterds,» playing the scene - stealing role of a Nazi sniper turned propaganda film star.

He returned to the Oscar race in 2014 playing the title role in Clint Eastwood's 21st century war drama American Sniper, for which he also was nominated for Best Picture, having served as a producer on the film.

In Basterds, however, Tarantino was engaged with an exhaustive canon of World War II movies, from Casablanca to Schindler's List, while the subject of Django Unchained — slavery in the American South — is one that has been conspicuously absent in Hollywood films in the century since D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation.

Obviously, the film leans in the direction of peace, but it's as subjective as a documentary could possibly be on this subject, and it definitely makes one think of the true consequences of war, the nature of American imperialism, and how it all relates to our current situation in Iraq and the rest of the world.

Asian actress Lisa Lu made an auspicious American film debut as Mme Sue - Mei Hung in the 1960 war drama The Mountain Road.

Better known in the last few years for directing episodes of such shows as The Wire, Treme, and the American version of The Killing, Agnieszka Holland returns to her native Poland for another film of hers concerning the plight of people during the Second World War.

Past symposiums have focused on American elections on film (near the onset of the second Iraq War) and New Queer Cinema (around the time of Proposition 8, in an issue called «RS Prop 24»).

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.

The film centers on a beautiful, strong - willed woman, who, frustrated by ongoing injustice at home, leaves the United States after meeting Jude, an American doctor who runs a remote medical mission within the Ottoman Empire — a world both exotic and dangerous, and on the brink of what is about to become the first World War.

War film Lone Survivor has marched to the top of the North American box office in its opening weekend (10 - 12Jan14).

Even if Disney's Bob Iger doesn't want anyone to view Rogue One as a political film, we all know Star Wars is very political, and that Rogue One is coming out at an unusual time for American audiences.

Other rarities I've recently found include Chekhov's Motifs (aka Chekhovian Motifs), one of the craziest features by the Russian eccentric Kira Muratova (it's on a Russian label with optional English subtitles and available in the U.S.); a fascinating collection of animated World War II propaganda from Disney, some of it unavailable since that time; a splendid French letterboxed copy of Anthony Mann's Man of the West; Charles Burnett's To Sleep With Anger and two Kenji Mizoguchi films (released on the British labels BFI and Artificial Eye, respectively); and Louis Feuillade's stunning 1916 French serial Judex on an American label.

At a time when retributive wars in the Middle East have become all the rage, it is unsurprising that revenge has also returned to our cinemas, with recent American films like The Punisher, Man on Fire and the remake of Walking Tall all exhibiting a gung - ho enthusiasm for extrajudicial retaliation (and all featuring protagonists who, like Richard, have a military background).

Two of his most famous films are 1993's «Schindler's List,» about an industrialist who worked to save Jews from World War II concentration camps, and «Saving Private Ryan,» about American soldiers working to find a private during World War II so he can be sent home.

You credited four artists for the artwork you attribute in the film to Charles Swan: Charles White III, who did the original STAR WARS roadshow poster, Peter Palombi, who did the AMERICAN GRAFFITI poster, Alex Tavoularis, who did original storyboards and designs for STAR WARS, and David Willardson, who is famous for doing Disney inspired illustrations.

The Civil War, Lincoln and race relations hold a continuing fascination for the American public which may have derived some satisfaction from this film.

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.

Klaue's posse includes Erik Killmonger (Michal B. Jordan, Coogler's star in «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»), an American war vet whose true identity is revealed halfway through the action, making clear what's hinted at in the film's Oakland - set prologue.

Director Daniel Barber's second film — after «OAP on the rampage» thriller Harry Brown — is a home - invasion tale, only it's set during the American Civil War when a trio of women on a farm in the Deep South are forced to fend off a pair of mercenary Union soldiers.

The film follows former war hero and convict Snake Plissken, who's sent into a futuristic Manhattan which has been turned into a no - man's land / maximum security prison to bring back the American President after he's shot down over the island and captured by the violent gangs who now lay claim to the island.

The film «12 Years a Slave» is based on the true story of a free black man who was kidnapped into slavery in the pre-Civil War American South.

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The film starts off with some awkward, painfully lame flashback scenes of Kyle's childhood and transitions into an opening act that is loaded with full - on patriotism that sees him go to war to get back at the people who brought suffering to our doorstep in the events of 9/11 (he was already enlisted, but if we believe the film that decision was also motivated by seeing news footage of American lives being taken), but one of the most interesting surprises is how balanced it eventually becomes and how we see the way that Kyle's actions negatively impact others and how even he begins to question his commitment to the cause, despite the fact that he would never vocalize it.

After announcing itself as a meditation on how the American soul has been forged by violence, the film begins in earnest when Joseph is tasked with releasing his most infamous prisoner — the cancerous Cheyenne war chief, Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi)-- and escorting the man back to the Valley of the Bears, so that he can be buried in his birthplace.

Cutler's other work includes the documentary films The War Room, A Perfect Candidate, Thin, The September Issue, The World According to Dick Cheney and Listen To Me Marlon; the documentary television series American High, Freshman Diaries, The Residents and 30 Days; and the prime time drama series Nashville.

Traditionally, Marvel Studios films premiere early in international markets ahead of their North American release, and that was also the case with Infinity War, which was scheduled to begin its global rollout on April 25 in a dozen countries, including Australia, Finland, France and Indonesia.

Having tackled the gangster genre in his last film Black Mass, Cooper's moved right to his culture's most potently mythic territory, pinpointing its peak moment: the climax of the so - called Indian Wars and the fading of the misguidedly romanticised American Frontier.

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.

THE GENERAL is perhaps Buster Keaton's best - known films, is inspired by a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War, as adapted from the memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.

Fresh off her Oscar for Fargo, Frances McDormand seems intensely uncomfortable in the role of a Russian Jew, while Pauline Collins, Juliana Marguiles, and Jennifer Ehle do their best with one - dimensional war - film constructs (the religious one of quiet faith, the brassy American, the girl pinning her hopes on her flyboy boyfriend).

Its opening film is the British - produced mountaineering thriller Everest, featuring Anglo - American glamour in the shape of Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley and Josh Brolin; its competition strand has an impressive list of international auteurs, including Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), Alexander Sokurov (Francofonia), Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) and Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa); and a number of authentic coups, including the world premiere screening of Black Mass, the much - hyped gangster film featuring Johnny Depp as James «Whitey» Bulger, and a first look at Beasts of No Nation, the African - set war thriller that represents Netflix's most serious shot yet across Hollywood's bows.