Sentences with phrase «age film which»

Not exact matches

It is a hamfisted cautionary tale about global warming (which, via the film's scientific hand - waving, produces an ice age), but it also functions as a powerful 9/11 allegory, celebrating the ability of New Yorkers to unify in the face of tragedy.

He is a movie and baseball buff, and he recalls the film For Love of the Game, in which Kevin Costner played an aging Tigers pitcher who blocks out hostile crowd noise with a mantra of his own, Clear the mechanism.

The amount of gun violence in top - grossing PG - 13 movies, which can be seen by children of all ages, has continued to exceed the gun violence in the biggest box - office R - rated films, a new analysis published in the journal Pediatrics shows.

PG - 13 films account for nearly two - thirds of the smoking scenes adolescents see on the big screen, according to the two - year study, which surveyed roughly 5,000 children ages 10 to 14 about the movies they'd seen and whether they'd ever tried a cigarette.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

Last week my best friend and I went to see Age of Adaline, which, although wasn't mind blowingly amazing, was still a film worth seeing if you love Blake Lively, and like movies with a good message and beautiful cinematography.

I am crazy enough to decide after many years of work for the same company that life is about making dreams come true - which led me to becoming a film school student at the age of 30; — RRB - This is what I am actually loo..

A smarter film about country music would cast the would - be cowpunk as a Jack White - type, somebody who would encourage the aging legend to reject Nashville values and make an all - out roots album (similar to Loretta Lynn's «Van Lear Rose», produced by The White Stripes frontman himself), which would add creative tension to the preexisting atmosphere of marital discord between Kelly and her commercially - minded husband.

Michael Tolkin has also written and / or directed such films as The Player (1992), directed by Robert Altman, and The New Age (1994), both of which also skewer contemporary American society as shallow, materialistic, and desperate for something authentic to believe in.

In the meantime, a deliciously nasty bad guy, a white South African gangster and arms dealer named Klaue (Andy Serkis, in a role he introduced three years ago in Avengers: Age of Ultron), is keen to get his hands on some vibranium himself, which involves an unexpected side trip to Busan, South Korea, for a prolonged sequence heavy on chases and tough - guy action but rather more conventional than the rest of the film.

With dogged determination, the producers continued onward with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), at which point fans finally flocked to the series, rallying behind the film's crisp space battles and the melodramatic tête - à - tête between Shatner and Ricardo Montalban.Shatner had to wrestle with his advancing age and the deaths of several characters in Star Trek II and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but by Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), the actor got to indulge in his more whimsical side, which has since characterized his career.

In an age where demographics and target audiences are everything, The Arbor is a film which genuinely defies genre.

Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

Don't get me wrong, I like to punk out on more than a few occasions, but it's interesting to look back at a time in which the talent was getting commercial promotion, because in this day and age, you have to go either underground or, well, bona fide prog - rock to find real quality music, though not necessarily quality film.

In his seminal 1972 book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (written at age 24, two years before he turned from film criticism to filmmaking), Schrader noted that, «The many statements [Robert] Bresson has made in interviews and discussions, properly arranged, would constitute an accurate analysis of his films (a statement which can be made of no other filmmaker to my knowledge)....»

And then we come to the unexpected «coming of age» angle in the film, which belongs entirely to Kay Graham (Meryl Streep), publisher of The Washington Post.

She just completed the independent digital short film, Black Water, about a successful middle - aged man whose life falls apart, which has been invited to the Hawaii Film Festival upon completion.

THE great Cate Blanchett reprises her role as the English monarch in «Elizabeth: The Golden Age,» Shekhar Kapur's inferior follow - up to their 1998 film, which is still quite lavish and entertaining in the

Cheadle is also producing the feature ST. VINCENT OF VAN NUYS in 2014 which stars Bill Murray and Naomi Watts, and he will soon begin filming the sequel to the mega-box-office-hit AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON, reprising his role of Colonel James Rhodes from the 2010 and 2013 Marvel films IRON MAN 2 and 3.

The star - studded heist caper «Widows,» from director Steve McQueen and set to begin filming in Chicago this month, is looking to hire two sets of twin infants — one set biracial (unspecified), the other white — who are between the ages of 3 months and 6 months, according to a flyer posted by 4 Star Casting, which specializes in background actors, aka extras.

The nihilistic tone, cynicism towards governmental authority, and nostalgia for a lost age of honor are perfect products of the early»70s atmosphere in which it was made — according to Julie Kirgo in her essay on the film for its recent Twilight Time Blu - ray release, Winner was actually staying at the Watergate Hotel during the June 1972 burglary of the Democratic campaign offices!

Other film front - runners include the coming - of - age story «Boyhood» and World War II code - cracking drama «The Imitation Game,» which have five nominations each, including best picture (drama).

This British stop - motion - animated film from the makers of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run is a helter - skelter prehistoric romp in which a group of villagers take on their Bronze Age overlords — at soccer.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

The sixth feature film of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, «L'Avventura» will probably be even more controversial than its French and Swedish predecessors, which have been conveniently misunderstood as problem tracts of old age, childhood, juvenile delinquency, miscegenation, nuclear warfare, or what have you.

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

It was announced on Friday that movie distributor The Orchard would not be releasing his film, I Love You, Daddy, which is about a successful television writer (C.K.), whose 17 - year - old daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) becomes the interest of an aging filmmaker (John Malkovich) with an appalling past.

Flower by Alex Edeburn Max Winkler's coming - of - age film, Flower, is one which is filled with a number of confusing and... read more →

The film spans quite a long period of time, yet neither Yuri nor his brother Vitaly (Jared Leto) seem to age, which is a bit frustrating, especially so soon after Brokeback Mountain, where characters Ennis and Jack also seemed to have found the fountain of eternal youth.

For all the film's techno sophistication, which mixes motion capture, live action, and computer animation, «Ready Player One» at its heart resembles a dewy, coming - of - age love story.

Yes, I've seen some happy films this year, some of which were incredible, but films like Toy Story 2 was ground into a form that could be accessible to all ages (for the record, I actually do think that Toy Story 2 is the superior film), and The Straight Story was too serene to ever be thought of as having much zeal.

Jaromil Jires» 1970 Czech New Wave classic delves into the subconscious of a 13 - year - old girl, which takes her through a fantasy realm, but reflects the adolescent experience as well as any coming - of - age film ever made.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

MUBI celebrates International Women's Day with Rachel Lang's indie film, which balances balance of comedy and tragedy to create a unisex heroine for the ages.

Our stage has been well and truly set for a film that can be seen almost as a companion piece to Roger Michell's Le Week - End and which explores ageing, regret and the rocky foundations on which even the most enduring marriages are set.

This film can be seen almost as a companion piece to Roger Michell's Le Week - End and which explores ageing, regret and the rocky foundations on which even the most enduring marriages are set

Because she looked about fifteen, and because for many years she misrepresented her date of birth, a myth grew up around Anita, alleging that she was writing Griffith scripts from the age of 12; vestiges of the Anita Loos legend were utilized for Peter Bogdanovich's 1975 film Nickelodeon, in which Tatum O'Neal played a pre-teen silent movie scriptwriter.

On Thursday, Netflix released a preview of the film, which depicts the life of the artist during her upbringing in New York City's Queensbridge Projects and coming of age as a rapper.

Coming - of - Age films are typically big hits with not only critics but audiences as well but what makes Eighth Grade so special is that it is told from a female point of view which is surprisingly still a rarity in film.

He doesn't so much have supporting players in the film as he does an extended family of cherished guests who he invites to stay for a while, relax and soak up the ambience: French it girl Léa Seydoux has a part as a maid which may as well be non-speaking; Owen Wilson plays one of M Gustave's concierge brethren and gets a line (if not a laugh); even Tilda Swinton makes a flying visit to Wesworld, caked in gristly prosthetics as an ageing dowager who drops dead after her first and only scene, her passing acting as deus ex machina for an elaborate art heist involving the whereabouts of the apocryphal, priceless chef d'oeuvre, «Boy With Apple».

The shorter pieces, which take on various aspects of the film, the story, production and special effects details (like the use of miniatures, which has become a rarity in the CGI age), range from under two minutes to just over twelve minutes.

The domestic scenes in which the aging gambler chafes against his wealthy wife's (a superb Elisabeth Shue) aloof disapproval make up some of the film's most heartfelt moments.

Like Age of Ultron (which some have argued is the best Avengers film), this is one of those Marvel movies where the title bears little resemblance to the actual comics event where it originated.

In fact, the role pretty much exhausted her range, which she's spent the rest of her career struggling to expand, taking wildly un-Veronica roles in films like Edward Scissorhands and The Age Of Innocence.

The mother's elective surgery put up against young Annie's struggles with weight and race (in the film's only mawkish moment, the child wishes she could rip her skin off), compared to Elizabeth's shockingly vulnerable scene in which she asks an actor lover (Dermot Mulroney) to critique her naked body and contrasted with Michelle's compensatory indiscretion with a boy less than half her age (the exceptional Jake Gyllenhaal).

Cannes 2017: Coming of age film marks Jonas Carpignano's follow - up to «Mediterranea,» which company also distributed

Wings, a silent film, won the Oscar for Best Picture that night, a feat which would never be repeated, given the impending innovations in sound technology that ushered in the age of the talkies.

, which shows black - and - white B - roll footage of an aged Curtiz (this was one of his last films) directing his actors on the set.

The Outstanding Achievement by A Woman in The Film Industry honored «Rose McGowan, Ashley Judd and all who spoke out against sexual harassment,» while the AWFJ Hall of Shame Award went to «sexual tormentors Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Brett Ratner, et al.» Louis CK earned a mention for his shelved film, «I Love You, Daddy,» which won the Most Egregious Age Difference Between The Lead and The Love Interest Award for its pairing of 64 - year - old John Malkovich and 20 - year - old Chloe Grace Moretz.

Spanish sites Cinemex and elmulticine are reporting that Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) will follow up her appearance in Age of Ultron with one in the third Captain America film — which, given the plotline being adapted in that film, wouldn't be a huge surprise.