Sentences with phrase «desert town who»

A Superior Court judge has given the parents in a Mojave Desert town who pulled the state's second «parent trigger» a milestone victory.

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«As I speak with you, the affected villages have been deserted and the invaders have taken over and are razing the ancestral homes of the people who have fled from the areas to other towns in their thousands, for fear of being killed.

In the film's biggest surprise, Johnny Knoxville is actually quite entertaining (or at least not annoying) as local gun - nut Lewis, who supplies the heroes with their heavy firepower in the tradition of the greatest of all desert town defence movies — and no, I don't mean Rio Bravo, I mean Tremors!

The two stranded soldiers who were transporting the deceased, Captain Sturges (Brian Krause) and Sergeant Underwood (Rocky DeMarco), and the desert town's respected Sheriff Beaumont (C. Thomas Howell) assume leadership of the diverse group of diners, transporting them to the safest refuge their truck's dwindling gas tank will allow.

Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

Other highlights in this section include: Pablo Larraín's THE CLUB, a mordant morality tale set in a sleepy Chilean coastal town, which won Berlin's Grand Jury Prize; CHRONIC, Michel Franco's uncompromising study of grief and isolation, featuring a revelatory performance by Tim Roth; brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser's feature directorial debut, DÉGRADÉ, a smart drama that moves seamlessly between humour and despair, set in a women's hair salon in Gaza; the European Premiere of George Amponsah's intimate documentary THE HARD STOP, revealing the story of Mark Duggan's friends and family following his death after being shot in a «Hard Stop» police procedure in 2011; Jonas Carpignano's engrossing feature debut, THE MEASURE OF A MAN which won Vincent Lindon Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival, MEDITERRANEA, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?»

«Whereas what we were facing was God, who was in the desert in the bright countryside with a small town.

It's hell though, for the folks in A Quiet Place — New England farmers (John Krasinski, Emily Blunt) who, on day 89 of the alien plague, are scavenging for food and medicine and useful items in a deserted rural town.

In the film's opening scenes, she decides to take out three contiguous billboards on a nearly deserted highway just outside of town to both express her rage and frustration and to jab at the police, who she feels have done nothing to bring justice for her daughter.

John J. Bramble Tone), the sole survivor of a British tank crew, makes his way to a desolate desert town where he is given refuge by a hotel owner (Akim Tamiroff) and a French hambermaid (Baxter) who prepare to receive General Erwin Rommel (Erich Von Stroheim) and his German staff.

Claudia Cardinale plays the widow of a visionary man who wanted to build a town in the middle of a desert, which, like I said, is what it's all about.

Valerie is a freelance writer, who lived in New Mexico for twenty years before trading the high desert for the medieval hill towns of Italy in May, 2006.

Ask around town for Bruce, a local nutcase who owns a plane, and will let you FLY it to a desert island for a castaway adventure.

With its stunning desert - meets - sea landscape, San Carlos is a haven for vacationers who want to immerse themselves in one of Mexico's most beautiful resort towns.

The desert of pure white sand hills just on the edge of town is unique and provides a vast playground for all to enjoy, particularly those who have the added benefit of an off road vehicle.

Another beach to the west of town offers an even better beach experience and is virtually deserted aside from a few vendors who will make sure you don't go hungry or thirsty.»

The Temple of Time, the remains of Hyrule Castle Town, Arbiter's Grounds in the desert, a child telling stories of people who used to live in the sky... It's endless.

On Saturday evening, about seventy - five people descended on the Sun Tunnels in Utah's west desert to watch the sunset with the artist Nancy Holt, who is in town for the opening of her exhibit Sightlines, at the UMFA (read about it in the October edition of 15 Bytes).

For this exhibition, he is displaying a series of surreal canvases from the 1980s devoted to a pair of characters of his own invention: Decimal and Zero, a man and a horse, who inhabit an abandoned desert town.

Barry Newman starred as Tony Petrocelli, a Harvard - educated lawyer who decides to put out his shingle in the desert Southwest town of San Remo.