Sentences with phrase «art movie about»

Chungking Express (1994) was the Masculin féminin of the 1990s, a pop art movie about cool twentysomethings looking for love in the city that has replaced Paris as the center of the world - cinema imagination.

«Chungking Express was the Masculin Féminin of the 1990s, a pop art movie about cool twentysomethings looking for love in the city that has replaced Paris as the center of the world - cinema imagination.

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Lasting about as long as a church service, a good movie transports you to another realm where art of story and the magic of special effects allows you to experience an alternate reality that can help provide perspective or inspiration once you return to the real world.

Personally, I know that certain secular songs and movies and pieces of art have taught me more about God and pointed me to Chirst than most Christian songs, movies, literature, and art.

Funny how life imitates art, then, because Presley's new movie — Touchback, opening in about 50 theaters this week — is essentially his life story.

On Friday May 4, ZET Cinema and the Zylofon Arts Club would show one of the most talked - about movies currently, «That Night», at the South Campus (Amo Hall) of the University of Education, Winneba.

According to a controversial new study, set to be published in The Journal of Political Psychology, the bedrooms and offices of liberals, who are generally thought of as open, tend to be colorful and awash in books about travel, ethnicity, feminism and music, along with music CDs covering folk, classic and modern rock, as well as art supplies, movie tickets and travel memorabilia.

They're out there, reviewing books and art and music and movies and just about anything that may hold an opinion.

The artbooks are mostly related to animation, movie and comics.Parka Blogs features thousands of reviews for art supplies, products and art books relating to anime, comics, movies and illustration Frequency about 7 posts per week Since Dec 2006 Website parkablogs.com + Follow Facebook fans - 14,754.

Vancouver About Website The Georgia Straight provides local Vancouver news and the premier guide for events, music, arts, movies, restaurants, food, dining, nightlife, and things to do in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Portland, Oregon About Blog Portland's Most Awesome Weekly Newspaper covering Portland news, politics, music, food & drink, comedy, cannabis, film, and arts; plus the most extensive movie times, club calendars, and blogs.

I enjoy watching sunsets and listening to the ocean waves, reading books, staying in and having movie nights, and watching documentaries or articles online about history, culture and arts.

I'm new to the dating site, but here a little about myself her are some of my hobbies they are working out, staying health is very important, then reading, movies, traveling, Find Art, Indoor & Outdoor Sports, of course Shopping, My goals now is or expanding my business in becoming World Wide...

Caracas, Venezuela About Blog A blog dedicated to the review and appreciation of Marvel and DC comics books, art, animation, movies and more.

Likes: spending time indoors, mixed martial arts, taking long walks at night, horror movies, occassional drinker, surfing internet, sitting with someone and not worry about yapping About nonsense, silabout yapping About nonsense, silAbout nonsense, silence.

About Blog A Potpourri of Vestiges is a movie blog dedicated to cinema, in particular its Art form.

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About Blog The leading voice of latest martial arts action movies, old classic kung fu films, upcoming Chinese, Japanese, Thai karate movies.

Talk about movies, music, and art.

But as an ideological jukebox movie about 20th century art, this film should interest festivals and spaces in the art world that haven't yet featured the 13 - screen version.

There are a few beguiling moments in Holy Motors, particularly a martial - arts sequence and an erotic dance while Mr. Oscar is dressed in a motion - capture body suit, but the road between those moments is so strewn with stalled ideas that audiences who care about character and plot are liable to take the exit to a movie that makes sense.

This week, Art & Seek's Stephen Becker and Dallas Morning News movie critic Chris Vognar review Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's film about the 16th president and the 13th Amendment.

So many movies have been made about this appalling tragedy that it has become its own genre — the writer and artist Art Spiegelman dubbed it «holo - kitsch» — populated with noble victims and flinty, finally heroic enablers, and too easily reduced to sanctified, sodden cliché.

Here, with lessons from Petit himself, he finds the poetic joy in performing that honors what the movie is about, a man who truly believes art can give you wings.

It may try to force too much information into too little time if you don't know about the history and technology of film, but this documentary romanticizes the art with such passion and finesse that it stands as a reaffirmation of the power of movies and the importance of understanding their history and possible future.

Review after review has pointed out the faults of Twister director Jan De Bonts» latest film — not that it doesn't have some — but you can actually enjoy this movie if you make peace with yourself about the fact that it ain't trying to be art.

There may be better examples of cinematic art in 2013, but for a good time at the movies, it's hard to imagine anything beating this action extravaganza, from director Roland Emmerich, about a very Obama - like president.

another great thing about this game is the fact that there are so many unlockables such as alternate suits, concept arts, figurines, movies and even newspaper report.

Too pat to say that it's a movie about movies, Holy Motors is a movie about belief and the almost sexual relationship between spectator and art object in any medium.

Hot tip: A much better movie dealing with a similar scenario is John Frankenheimer's 1964 «The Train,» starring Burt Lancaster, about the French Resistance hijacking a shipment of Germany - bound art treasures.

This movie's premise could easily have lent itself to schlock: Saoirse Ronan is a super-assassin who has been trained to kill by her «father» (Eric Bana) but has never learned about music or art or love, or the joy of painting your toenails.

«Outrage» (1950): Introducing this little - known drama, directed by Ida Lupino, about a woman's harassment and subsequent rape, Museum of Modern Art curator Anne Morra said the movie «speaks to MeToo issues 70 years ahead of its time.»

I remember that it made me passionate about film in a summer that was full of forgettable movies, and it continues to further my love for the art form as I watch it again and again.

Dazzlingly strange art rock pours out of «Frank», both the movie, a dark comedy from the Irish director Lenny Abrahamson («What Richard Did», «Garage»), and the title character, a singer devoted to lyrics about random tufts of string and terrifying litanies that might have freaked out Joy Division's Ian Curtis.

They talk about Blake's pioneering digital art, which often obliquely if not directly referenced pop culture; one exhibition of his work was named after the eyeglass vendor in David Cronenberg's Videodrome, Spectacular Optical, and borrowed its ideas from the spatial dynamics in Cronenberg's early movies.

Filmmaker Sean Durkin, whose most significant credit was the art house movie about a woman escaping a cult, «Martha Marcy May Marlene,» is reportedly set to direct.

Director Kevin Chu was like the head coach leading out his Most Valuable Players (MVPs) to court, and explained that the idea for Kung Fu Dunk was actually established some 13 years back when filming martial arts movies such as Shaolin Popey (Shao Lin Xiao Zhi, starring Jimmy Lin), when he thought about whether martial arts could be combined with a ball game like basketball.

It also looks at art — what it is, and what it isn't — and prompts our subjectivity to draw its own conclusion about the movie, much as it would any form of art.

Don't be such a killjoy, The Greatest Showman replies, and then goes on with song lyrics about Barnum (Hugh Jackman) dreaming of amazing colors, because this movie is nothing if not vague about its conception of art and beauty.

But is this comedy — co-starring Franco's brother Dave as Wiseau's collaborator Greg Sestero — saying something about art, or is it just a goof upon a goof, a midnight movie squared?

While art isn't about ticking boxes and selling a preconceived political philosophy, the act of surrendering your attention to a two - hour movie (or an 18 - hour TV series masquerading as a movie) revolves around experiencing someone else's POV and reflecting upon it afterwards.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 10, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Dragonball Evolution (PG for intense action and brief adult language) Sci - fi martial arts adventure, based on the Akira Toriyama novel about a young warrior (Justin Chatwin) who, with a handful of friends, sets out on a quest to save the planet from an evil king (James Marsters) bent on world domination.

Whiplash is a movie about the insanity of art and the personal cost inherent to the pursuit of perfection.

Some are still skeptical about the actual story, but nobody is debating whether or not the movie will be an exhibition of state - of - the - art CGI.

FRUITVALE STATION (2013)-- I'm not hating on the world guys... RIDDICK (2013)-- I'm not hating on the world that allows this movie to keep going... THE EAST (2013)-- I'm hating on the world, and cinema for this movie... MUSEUM HOURS (2013)-- Let me think about art some more... FROZEN (2013)-- Let me wish for more great musical songs per film... THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (2013)-- Let me wish for shorter films... CALL ME KUCHU (2013)-- Let me wish for equality... THE TWELVE CHAIRS (1970)-- Young Frank Langela makes me feel weird... TOUCH OF EVIL (1958)-- Charlton Heston is badass guys...

Hunting Bourne are a group of CIA spooks who travel and fight Bourne alone, which is about as smart as a group of enemies taking turns to fight the hero in a martial arts movie.

In spotlighting the mostly sweet - natured but still slightly bruised give - and - take of this unusual codependent relationship, director Zachary Heinzerling's movie sidesteps doctrinaire concepts of nonfiction art films and expands its core audience, imparting glancing lessons about the uncertainty of love and the almost necessary dance of responsibility and care - taking involved.

It affirms that art, this movie very much included, can tell us things about ourselves that we'd prefer not to know.

MAD ABOUT MOVIES: Nowhere is the collision of art and commerce more pronounced than at the Cannes Film Festival, and HBO's tantalizing quasi-mock-documentary Seduced and Abandoned (9 / 8c) gives us a ringside seat, courtesy of Alec Baldwin — a Cannes newbie, incredibly — and director pal James Toback, who celebrate the history and glamorous hysteria of this venerated event while purporting to pitch a passion project to investors: an unlikely political sex drama they call «Last Tango in Tikrit.»

Spanning a century of film art and taken from various countries around the world, these posters show the evolution of movie promotion over the years, but more pertinently they also reveal a great deal about how blackness has been portrayed, exploited and indeed commoditised, throughout the history of cinema.