Sentences with phrase «as narrative features»

They join previously announced films such as Opening Night film Kick - Ass, as well as narrative features Cold Weather and Elektra Luxx, and documentaries Hubble 3D, Lemmy, SATURDAY NIGHT and The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights.

The indie has taken several notable prizes at domestic film festivals, including a special jury prize for breakout performance from the Los Angeles Film Festival for star Auden Thornton, as well as the narrative feature audience prize from the Austin Film Festival.

Eventually Magic Mike seems to remember that, as a narrative feature film, it should have a story of some kind, which is how we come to focus on the struggles of Adam (Alex Pettyfer), a 19 - year - old college dropout who's landed on the couch of his more responsible sister Brooke (the enigmatically poker - faced beauty Cody Horn).

Some Background: Director Marshall Curry is of course known for the success both of his previous documentary features have achieved — 2005's STREET FIGHT won awards at Tribeca, Hot Docs, and Silverdocs before going on to be nominated for both an Oscar and an Emmy, while 2009's RACING DREAMS also won at Tribeca and is being remade as a narrative feature by DreamWorks.

Freshly anointed as the narrative feature winner at the SXSW Grand Jury Awards, Destin Cretton's moving «Short Term 12,» about a group of foster care facility employees and their charges, boasts one of the most believable, talented casts at the festival this year.

As a narrative feature, I Could Go On Singing is shaky; as a vehicle for Garland, it's a must - see.

Still, it seems to exist more as an exercise in foreign accents than as a narrative feature film.

Not exact matches

But the narrative already has the makings of a feel - good Hollywood movie — so it should come as no surprise that a feature film dramatizing Ma's rags - to - riches rise is already in the works.

The juicy narratives driving Kipnis's four archetypal cases — lovelorn astronaut Lisa Nowak is featured, as is disgraced judge Sol Wachtler, memoir fabulist James Frey, and the dynamic duo of Tripp and Lewinsky — keep things on the zippy side, but the subject matter is worth taking seriously.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

In later chansons de geste, however» such as Les Quatre Filz Aymon, Enfances Roland, and Entrée en Espagne» the details of Roland's earlier life were filled in, with a variety of fanciful elements becoming ever more prominent features of the narrative, and it was not long before the real Roland (such as he was) had all but disappeared behind the more resplendent figure of the hero of legend.

The once - regnant ideal of history — that it features elite males as the main actors in political and military narratives — is now in tatters.

In fact, the number of theologians and exegetes is increasing who consider that nothing more is expressed in this feature of the biblical narrative than the important truth that Eve is of the same equal nature with Adam, «made of the same stuff», as we might say today, using a similar figure of speech to the dramatic one in Scripture.

Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.

Let us set down three observations: (a) Mark 15:40 - 16:8 possesses several features which divide it so sharply from the Passion narrative that it could hardly have been the natural continuation of that in the stage of oral tradition, (b) this pericope, however, could not have existed in its present form as an independent tradition, (c) the pericope itself falls naturally into two parts, the first of which can exist as an independent story, but the second of which can not, for it depends upon the first.

The Abraham - Isaac - Jacob and David cycles are brought back in Chapter Four as evidence that Biblical narrative together with lyric is in fact rich in figures of speech and can afford insight into characters» internal and external features.

These indications, it is true, are found in the editorial and traditional framework of the narratives, but the picture of Jesus as one who «came eating and drinking,» quite willing to join high or low, rich or poor, at the table, seems to be a fixed feature of the tradition.

Chocolate Milk: The Documentary counters this habitually negative narrative as award - winning director and producer Elizabeth Bayne, MPH, MFA explores the racial inequities of breastfeeding in her first feature - length film.

«The aim of our study was to investigate the frequency distribution of these features, both globally and according to the position of features in narratives, as well as the most frequently reported temporality sequences of the different near - death - experience features.»

Its a narrative from start to finish and you don't get side quests for rewards and extra characters because its a story without that as its features.

Documentary director John Maringouin's debut narrative feature stars David Zellner (the director of Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter) as a Texan hoping to acquire riches in China's booming economy.

It's far from innovative as other games feature superior narratives and better multiplayer modes, but it's still an edge of your seat and bullet riddled extravaganza that begs to be experienced by anyone with a PS3.

Fabien Constant's debut narrative feature spends 24 hours with jazz singer Vivienne Carala (Sarah Jessica Parker) as she copes with the news of having a terminal illness.

This feature length narrative film follows the emotional and psychological journey of a young, black, gay artist as he discovers the hidden legacies of the gay and lesbian subcultures within the Harlem Renaissance.

This impressive debut feature by Stacy Title has its wobbly technical moments and one or two underdeveloped narrative strands, but it's brimful of provocative ideas and moral dilemmas as well as being extremely funny.

As unoriginal as its title, David Hayter's «Wolves» is yet another hoary, hairy transformation narrative featuring lycanthropy as a metaphor for coming of agAs unoriginal as its title, David Hayter's «Wolves» is yet another hoary, hairy transformation narrative featuring lycanthropy as a metaphor for coming of agas its title, David Hayter's «Wolves» is yet another hoary, hairy transformation narrative featuring lycanthropy as a metaphor for coming of agas a metaphor for coming of age.

It's a fairly stupid premise that's employed to progressively unwatchable effect by filmmaker Eli Roth, as the director, along with coscreenwriters Nicolás López and Guillermo Amoedo, proves utterly unable to elevate the narrative above its persistently one - note sensibilities - with the movie, by and large, coming off as a five minute short that's been clumsily, brutally expanded to feature length.

The series also features Sidse Babett Knudsen as Theresa Cullen, Westworld's head of quality assurance; Jimmi Simpson as first - time visitor William; Rodrigo Santoro as Hector Escaton, Westworld's perennial «most wanted» bandit; Shannon Woodward as Elsie Hughes, a rising star in the park's behavior department; Ingrid Bolso Berdal as Armistice, a savage fighter and brutal bandit; Ben Barnes as Logan, a veteran guest whose hedonistic romp through the park is motivated both by self - indulgence and a desire to help is friend William; Simon Quarterman as Lee Sizemore, the park's head of narrative whose storylines tantalize guests; Angela Sarafyan as Clementine Pennyfeather, one of Westworld's most popular attractions; Luke Hemsworth as Stubbs, the no - nonsense head of security; and Clifton Collins Jr. as Lawrence, a charming but lethal outlaw.

Like their previous film Lenny Cooke, sibling directors Benny and Joshua Safdie focus on a true story in Heaven Knows What, only this time they shoot it as a feature narrative instead of a documentary.

After premiering at the SXSW festival in March, Patrick's Day went on to win Best Irish Feature Film at the Galway Film Fleadh, as well as three awards at New York's Woodstock Film Festival (including Best Narrative Feature).

The Tale comes as her first narrative feature.

Ezra Edelman, known for directing this summer's O.J.: Made in America has been set to direct The Ballad of Richard Jewell as his first - ever narrative feature.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

In order to qualify as an international narrative feature film, the submitted project must be either scripted or improvisational fiction, and more than half of the project's financing must originate from outside of the United States.

Director Fabien Constant, in his narrative feature debut, finds a momentum in that knowledge that propels the film forward, as Vivienne explores her fate (while never disclosing it) in encounters with friends, family and strangers.

The plot borrows many narrative elements from The Matrix, which itself, truth be told, borrowed many elements of its own from comic books and martial arts films, so it's hard to qualify this feature as a direct rip - off.

Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016) 4 out of 4 stars Set in wintry Montana, Certain Women — the sixth full - length feature from Kelly Reichardt (Meek's Cutoff)-- offers a narrative scope as majestic as the mountains we glimpse in the distance, with a focus as narrow... Continue reading →

As is true with narrative features, those «based on» and «inspired by» included, documentaries are only as compelling as its protagonists, if you wilAs is true with narrative features, those «based on» and «inspired by» included, documentaries are only as compelling as its protagonists, if you wilas compelling as its protagonists, if you wilas its protagonists, if you will.

The fractured identity and Hollywood - as - exploitive - nightmare - factory themes were pushed even further in Inland Empire (2006), Lynch's final narrative feature film to date, as much as it can be regarded as a narrative film.

Inarrittu's narrative isn't quite as preachy, but either way, it's hard not to criticize the director for attempting to cash in on the award craze of both features, and star Brad Pitt seems to be following suit.

As with many of the previous films made by the prolific Belgian duo, their tenth narrative feature reveals the devastating effects of social inequities, which brutally entangle those who too often remain fundamentally invisible and entirely unknown.

Writer / director Howard Weiner (a Neurologist and Harvard professor — thanks Google) delivers his first narrative feature film as a statement on old age, pride and dying.

The trailer also includes scenes of the story that is inserted into the main narrative, a story written by Jake Gyllenhaal's character that will feature most of the supporting cast and serves as a possible threat to his ex-wife, played by Amy Adams.

For his first narrative feature as director, Luna takes an offbeat look at parenthood through the eyes of an unusual child.

It remains to be seen whether Manifesto works as a coherent narrative feature, but one thing we're sure of is that it will boast 13 stunning lead performances.

«We have chosen a film that we believe encompasses the beauty, aesthetic, as well as the powerful themes of love, struggle, life, death, and womanhood that are the spirit of this year's festival,» said the jury for best narrative feature.

After producing multiple shorts, documentaries and experimental films, Meredith Danluck is the latest director to explore these ideas with her feature - narrative debut State Like Sleep (which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival) starring Katherine Waterston as a photographer trying to find answers to her husband (Michiel Huisman)'s recent death; co-starring Michael Shannon and Luke Evans.

True, one of the scenes features a singing Kylie Minogue — always a plus — who plays a female counterpart to Monsieur Oscar, but the constant shifting of narrative focus begins to feel as gimmicky as it is intriguing.

And so on — and on and on — the stream of story flows, like leaking bathwater, or melting jelly, or gushing volcanic magma (lava features heavily both as a narrative and a visual motif).

In both features, Altman is familiarly painted as an adventurous man given to trusting his intuition, whether advising Keith Carradine to cut his hair, or sticking with a handful of Leonard Cohen songs for the soundtrack, despite the anachronism of their presence in a narrative set in 1900.