Sentences with phrase «excellent film about»

Whatever the case, the model for Gioni's show is Auriti's imaginary, impossible vision of a museum, and it is duly filled with libraries and archives: 19th - century Shaker drawings, Roger Caillois» collection of rocks, Ed Atkins» excellent film about the archive of André Breton, drawings by Rudolf Steiner, Carl Jung's Red Book (1914 — 30), Linda Fregni Nagler's 1,000 archival photos of babies... It goes on.

As vital, disturbing, and powerful now as it was when it was written and filmed, All Quiet on the Western Front is an excellent film about war and both its inhumanity — the moments when people are turned into monsters and pawns — and its humanity — the moments when despite the contexts people attempt to regain their decency.

You remember the decisive scene in The Social Network, the excellent film about Facebook.

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It's an excellent film for many reasons, but mainly because you'll start watching it to learn about Jobs and finish having learned something about yourself.

Marsden Wagner, MD, who is interviewed in the film, makes an excellent point about childbirth saying, «It's got to be like it is when you make love with someone.

«We knew we had to be better, we knew we had to be excellent,» said Brown, 89, one of about 10 Tuskegee Airmen who attended the White House screening of «Red Tails,» a film about the airmen produced by «Star Wars» creator George Lucas which opened in theaters in March 2012.

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That's about it, sometimes the film can be a mixed bag but once the story gets to the heart of the matter, it ends up becoming a strong film with an excellent performance from Martina Gusman.

I'm not sure there's anything extra special about this film, but compared to a great many, its craft and its plot are excellent.

The cinematography and location shooting are excellent and things look great, the music is decent, and this is one of those films that was made at a time when you could still make them like this and not have to worry about too much tinkering and interference.

A surprisingly enjoyable film about an unlikely subject that's brought to life through a clever script, understated wit, finely executed film editing, and excellent performances by Christian Bale, Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling.

Everyone knows about different acting methods and a lot of people knew about what Carrey did on the set of Man on the Moon but obviously we never saw it, but that's what this documentary is and although it's not spectacular or anything, it gives another look at the work of the actor and it becomes an excellent companion to the film and especially serves as a testament of one of Jim Carrey's best acting jobs.

As The Dissolve reported last year, Kaye is still bitter about the whole affair, but concedes that the performances are excellent and the overall film is «good.»

Everything about this film oozes class; the 60's setting is beautifully captured with it's attention to detail and strikingly rich photography by Eduard Grau; the slow motion scenes with overbearing sound effects; the subtle changes of colour saturation providing an excellent technique in developing the mood and feeling of Firth's character and a fitting soundtrack to accompany the lush imagery.

Sure, director Paul Weitz is responsible for some excellent films like About a Boy and In Good Company, but with Little Fockers so fresh in my mind, it's tough to remember what he's really capable of.

It's the kind of costume drama that BAFTA usually eats up, about an important historical event, and an excellent film to boot, except of course, it's about a black woman, and directed by a black woman, so why would it be nominated?

Nonetheless, it's a film worth mentioning more than once: Clio Barnard's remarkable debut, which paved the way for the equally excellent The Selfish Giant, is an ambitious, experimental docudrama about playwright Andrea Dunbar.

To the present writer, Arkadin is clearly the better film, but The Stranger is nonetheless, at the very least, a fascinating curio, and if it's a minor film (if...), then it's the sort of minor film that only a really major talent could make, and an excellent example of what the Cahiers du Cinéma critics meant about the failures of the great being better films than the best work of lesser talents.

Riveting performances from Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams anchor the excellent «Disobedience,» a film about love and grief set in a community of Orthodox Jews in London.

«A Bloody Business» (8:52)(HD) is an excellent featurette about the film's special effects, which of course gravitate around the need for blood.

Both visually lush (Woodley's shot entirely on HiDef 24p DV), both about cinema in a way that my favourite films are, and both featuring excellent performances from Pitt, what distinguishes Rhinoceros Eyes from The Dreamers is a naïveté about the enduring power of film that enchants.

«The Good Postman»: Fans of documentaries with excellent real - life comedy, political relevance and superb filmmaking can not miss «The Good Postman,» a film about a Bulgarian village's mayoral election, and the two men with contrasting takes on how Syrian refugees should be treated.

With excellent lead performances and an intriguing mysterious story to tell, some viewers may find much to like about the film.

Riseborough is excellent in this, as always, and the film brings up some intriguing questions about identity and personality.

The San Francisco Chronicle just wrote an excellent piece about Allen's relationship with San Fran, and the making of those films.

While Thomas W. Kiennast's black - and - white cinematography is quite beautiful to behold (Gröning's film certainly features some excellent cinematographic moments as well), Atef's film never manages to convey why we should care, today, about this brief moment in Schneider's well - documented life, including her never - ending struggle with the German press, her inability to escape the role of Sissi that made her instantly famous as a teenager, and the various tragedies that befell her, including the suicide of her ex - husband.7 The film is not a biopic per se (and Atef declared that she did not intend to make one): thus, audiences who are not already familiar with Schneider certainly will not come away from viewing the film with much of a sense of her life's story); yet, given it is not a biopic, one wonders what the film is, or what it tries to accomplish.

The cast is excellent, the plot is easy to follow (but still intriguing to those who understand the industry), and I found nearly every single thing about the film to be completely realistic.

Another healthy week at the box office, and new excellent pieces from the UK where the film is about to be released.

«Jeffrey Westhoff on «The Boy Who Knew Too Much»»: The veteran Chicago film critic chats with Indie Outlook about his excellent debut novel.

The fifth feature from About Elly writer / director Asghar Farhadi, and the first Iranian film to win the Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin Film Festival (as well as earning best actor and actress awards for the excellent ensemble cast at the same event), A Separation tells a personal tale rampant with politics.

While the joke about two tourists near Keswick on a killing spree has the potential to get old the fact that the real laughs in the film are rooted in excellent characterisation and clever dialogue means the film is surprising and fresh right down to its final bleak twist.

There are a lot of things to like about this film, the cinematography is stunning, the soundtrack is beautiful and Sally Hawkins is just excellent.

A few more words about the «Garbo — The Signature Collection»: In addition to the films, it includes an excellent feature - length documentary about Garbo, by Kenneth Brownlow, which is airing this month on TCM.

The film is good to excellent in every way except morally, and there it's questionable more often than it should be, not because it's an evil film, or because the filmmaker or actors are bad people, but because the interplay of means and ends has been under - thought or misjudged, to the point where the film becomes a catalog of obscenities: a horror thrill - ride drawn from life, a thing for viewers to test themselves against while feeling just awful about Agu and his country, whatever its name is.

Though it can technically be labeled as a time travel film, «Safety Not Guaranteed» is more about its characters» relationships than the veracity of the sci - fi premise, and that's thanks to Derek Connolly's excellent script and the fantastic cast.

The excellent work in establishing characters and the group's relationship early on is nearly all but thrown out the window or forgotten about for large portions of the film to make way for prolonged, self indulgent action sequences that we have all seen many times before and that are all too common in a Frost, Pegg, Wright collaboration.

With excellent performances, a tight script and intelligent direction, there's plenty to admire about the film just as there's plenty to applaud its subject matter for the tenacity and courage displayed.

Errol Flynn is excellent in this film, based on a true story, about how James J Corbett benefited from the advent of the Queensberry Rules to become one of the first heavyweight champions of the world.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

The box set's excellent making - of documentary makes it clear that the people who made this film went into the project knowing next to nothing about their subject.

This year, Doremus was back with the excellent «Breathe In» (which also stars Jones), and the filmmaker clearly still has an eye for talent, as Mackenzie Davis, who co-stars in the film, was one of the most talked about actresses in Park City.

The shop - worn idea of man being man's own worst enemy is played with and cannily discarded as Dawn of the Dead settles into an excellent action film and a consistently entertaining B - movie that reminds a great deal of what worked about Tremors.

For this latest episode of Film Club, A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky return to Farmhouse Tavern to talk about three excellent smaller films in theaters or coming soon to them: Richard Linklater's»80s campus comedy Everybody Wants...

For this latest episode of Film Club, A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky return to Farmhouse Tavern to talk about three excellent smaller films in theaters or coming soon to them: Richard Linklater's»80s campus comedy Everybody Wants Some, now in theaters everywhere; the smart, moving family drama Louder Than Bombs, which opened in select theaters today and will expand in the coming weeks; and the forthcoming punk - rock thriller Green Room, which begins its theatrical release next week.

The Daily Beast interviews Tom Hardy about Legend, The Revenant, dogs, and that sexuality question that keeps popping up The Telegraph their excellent film critics rank all Woody Allen movies ranked.

The Steel Trap is an excellent, fast - paced crime drama, with great thrills and suspense, and the less you know about the film going into it, the better.

Writer / director Michael Dougherty has given movie buffs everywhere a gift, not just in terms of crafting an excellent film (one that's assuredly destined for cult classic status), but in granting us the opportunity to surprise the hell out of all of our friends on Halloween night with a trippy little horror flick that they know nothing about.

Johnnie To is most famous for his «Election» films, gripping crime dramas about rival gangs and who controls them, but before he made those, he directed a film (with Wai Ka - Fai) that oozes charm, a clever narrative structure and excellent action sequences.

The two also give some background info Hemmings, star Contouri (who ultimately retired from acting after a brief stay in Hollywood), the excellent locations at an artist colony and dairy refinery, plus a funny explanation about why Aussies shoot such striking widescreen films.

The episode also features a clip of Dario's deep discussion about film criticism and contemporary film culture with friend of the podcast Simran Hans, which can be found in full over on our Patreon site for subscribers, as well as Neil's chat with film critic and podcaster Leslie Byron Pitt about representation in filmmaking and film criticism alongside as Basic Instinct and erotic thrillers as Leslie is one quarter of the excellent Fatal Attractions podcast.