Sentences with phrase «best film education»

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I couldn't help but see in him a personification of education these days — our focus on test - scores, assessment, standards, ranking and comparison, as well as a correlating misunderstanding of the importance of play (at one point in the film, a boy confronts this adult: «But they are toys!

Services such as home education, shopping and banking as well as films, music and magazines will be available.

Putting my education to use, I went to work for a company called Bellcore, which pays well enough for me to keep up the mortgage, maintain a home theater, finance film festival trips, and buy the 25 - 30 gallons of gasoline I need each week to attend screenings.

Brian De Palma demonstrates the drawbacks of a film - school education by overexploiting every cornball trick of style in the book: slow motion, split screen long takes, and soft focus abound, all to no real point... He's an overachiever — which might not make for good movies, but at least he's seldom dull.

If you pay attention, you can get a much better — dare - I - say — education than any film school could ever offer.

BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM An Education Fish Tank In The Loop Moon Nowhere Boy BEST DIRECTOR Andrea Arnold...

I earned my nerdy education from years of watching television and film as well as reading countless comic books.

Barker and Bernard have released prestigious films that have won 27 Academy Awards ® (23 of those at Sony Pictures Classics) and have garnered 114 Academy Award ® nominations (93 at Sony Pictures Classics) including Best Picture nominations for AN EDUCATION, CAPOTE, HOWARDS END, AND CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON.

SXSW started off as a small music festival but has quickly morphed into this huge event that now not only celebrates music but film, television, social media, technology, education, and comedy as well.

In a year that, for better or worse, British film made a fair amount of noise on the international stage (for every An Education there was a The Boat That Rocked), Andrea Arnold's staggeringly good second feature demanded that everyone just shut up and listen.

In this script, co-written by Akin and director / actor Hark Bohm (a lawyer by education, and best known for roles in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films), the intention is to focus on violence against immigrants, and on the imperfect and capricious quality of justice under law that has sometimes attended crimes of this nature.

The documentary feel to the film brings us deep inside the world where money and education are lacking, yet allows us to briefly walk in another's shoes to better understand a young man's life and choices.

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.

It was a very bad year for Hollywood films, and not much better for so - called U.S. «independents», with Whiplash being arguably the most overrated film of the year, totally misrepresenting both jazz music and jazz education, while typifying in its Hollywood - ending what is wrong with Sundance existing as a professional calling - card festival.

Curtis, who has directed such films as «My Week with Marilyn» and «Woman in Gold,» has assembled an impressive technical team that includes cinematography by Ben Smithard's («Belle» and TV's «Cranford» for which he won an Emmy), editing by Victoria Boydell («The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel»), production design by David Roger (TV's «Great Expectations»), and costumes by Odile Dicks - Mireaux («Brooklyn» and «An Education»).

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

And though Solondz's counter - attack / apologia is trenchantly written and laudably thought - provoking, his rages are by now familiar (and better served by the scope and savagery of Happiness), and his defensiveness is ironically the most unbecoming element of a film that counts among its targets racism, disability, classism, homosexuality, and higher education.

Barker and Bernard have released prestigious films that have won 32 Academy Awards ® (28 of those at Sony Pictures Classics) and have garnered 140 Academy Award ® nominations (114 at Sony Pictures Classics) including Best Picture nominations for AMOUR, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, AN EDUCATION, CAPOTE, HOWARDS END, and CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON.

MMA skeptics will be hard - pressed to find anything objectionable about the film's well - organized, closely - refereed bouts, and non-fans will leave with a cursory education on tapouts and Octagons.

An Education is one of the best films I've seen this year (admittedly, not saying much).

Along with being entertaining, this film offers positive messages about adult education and making the best of a difficult situation.

And for the St. Francis community, the film represents more than a claim to fame: «It really touches on the beauty of the sisterhood of an all - girl Catholic education,» says Rodgers, as well as the truth of growing up in the early aughts.

While it would have been nice to see Condon take a more active stance against the ignorance that drove much of the politics and education of the times, all in all, Kinsey is a well - crafted film that offers a respectful look at a pioneer who changed the lives and attitudes of millions around the world.

I feel like it's been too long since one film has won Best Actor and Best Actress, An Education could pull it off.

An Education shares with Hornby's best work trenchant insight into the way smart, hyper - verbal young people let the music, films, books, and art they love define themselves as they figure out who they are and what they want to be.

The all - star cast of the film includes Academy Award ® - winner Michael Douglas (Wall Street, Basic Instinct), Shia LaBeouf (Transformers, Eagle Eye), BAFTA ® winner Carey Mulligan (An Education, Pride and Prejudice), Academy Award ® - nominated Josh Brolin (W, Milk) and BAFTA ® winner Eli Wallach (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, The Magnificent Seven).

Like the Staten Island educator at the center of this film, The Kindergarten Teacher pushes boundaries and crosses lines as it navigates its way through a tricky story of a five - year - old boy (newcomer Parker Sevak), who shows an unreal gift for poetry, and his teacher, Lisa (a career - best performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also one of the film's producers), who struggles in her adult - education class to be a poet as well, if only to add a bit of culture to a home life that offers her little by way of intellectual stimulation.

An Education (2009) was a great film, nominated for best picture and solidifying the career of Carey Mulligan.

G. From me, Chris Reed: This film spells out something that has been very much on my mind of late, thanks to the many hours I have to spend thinking of how to devise a curriculum at Stevenson that best address the challenges of media production and media education in the 21st Century.

Into Film Clubs are FREE for all state funded schools and non-school settings and offer free access to thousands of films and education resources for learning through and about film, as well as opportunities to learn about filmmaking and go behind the scenes of the film industry.

It's filled with very special human drama that transcends the education film genre and is better than any fictional film that I've ever seen about schools.

Today, in the wake of new energy in Washington D.C., new focus in the educational and philanthropic communities, and with the recent release of the film «Waiting for Superman,» the nation is getting a better picture of what is wrong with public education in America.

Each faculty member admitted to taking away something different from the documentary — for instance Mapp was pleased to see a mostly positive portrayal of parents and their concern for their children's education; however, they all agreed with Mehta that the film missed the opportunity to more fully explore issues of inequity and poverty, as well as some long - standing problems within the teaching profession.

As a teacher of pre-service teachers, it keeps me up to date with a huge variety of topics that are current in classrooms --- e.g. teacher well - being research, film literacy, instructional coaching or Indigenous education — among many!»

Following consultations with educators across all four nations, the Festival will have clear learning outcomes that tie in with the UK's respective curricula, support education and personal development, as well as help to build a lifelong passion for film.

Designed to recognise, showcase and celebrate young people's involvement in film and education, the star - studded, red - carpet event will bring together film industry professionals and young people to shine a spotlight on the filmmaking achievements of 5 - 19 year olds from across the UK, as well as recognising teachers» use of film in the classroom, young film reviewers, and exceptional film clubs in primary and secondary schools.

The Into Film Awards are back for 2017 as Into Film sets out to find the best young filmmakers, reviewers, film clubs and teachers of the past twelve months — this year with the support of education partner NATE.

The film, which included interviews with Michelle Rhee, Bill Gates, and the economist Eric Hanushek, among others, made the central points that public education was failing, that resources don't matter, and that the best ways to fix the national crisis of low test scores were to expand the number of privately managed charters, fire ineffective teachers, and weaken the unions that protected them.

Good Morning If we could all be as fortunate at Matt Damon — successful actor, fabulously wealthy and so concerned about education that he makes a film about denying school choice to poor families.

Virtual reality holds great potential, and is expected to go further beyond gaming, to include areas such as training and education, as well as VR films, sports, and music.

Wednesday, April 23, 7 — 8 pm: Good Morning Mission Hill film screening at Francis Parker School, 330 W Webster, followed by a panel discussion on democratic education.

Digital radiography has the advantages over conventional film radiographs in that it uses approximately 1/3 of x-radiation to create the image, the ability to enlarge the image to see small changes, increase or decrease contrast to help small lesions show up better, archival of images on a hard drive or back - up disc, easy retrieval, and the ability to print the images for client education.

PADI also honoured them with the award for good diving courses with the PADI Education Award.A prestigious Spanish Filming Company also chose Frankie's for the Underwater Documentaries of the Mediterranean Dive Destinations.

MMoCA's education department organizes lectures, films, panel discussions, docent - led tours, and children's art classes, as well as outreach programs like Art on Tour, Art Cart, and ArtZone.

In a 2012 filmed interview, Kristalova stated, «Glazed ceramic was a despised material in my education... and for me that was good, because I was not into making important art.

Sharjah Art Foundation presents a range of activities and events throughout the year including film screenings, performances, music, artist talks as well as art education programmes for children, adults and families.

In addition to my therapeutic and private consultation services, I give speeches and workshops ranging from keynote addresses for large audiences to parent education in school settings; speak to medical residents about eating disorder treatment modalities and management; work with fertility physicians and surrogacy and donor agencies to help clients navigate the path to parenthood; offer expert opinion on parenting, relationships, family building, and body image to publications ranging from Elle and Self to the Washington Post and Time magazine; consult on film and television projects from a psychological perspective; and do executive coaching to help corporations and individuals perform at their best.