Sentences with phrase «black film figures»

Not exact matches

While Fandango did not release specific figures for Black Panther «s first day of advance ticket sales, the film's fast start should put it on the path toward a blockbuster box - office debut next month.

In its deft sketch of the deep philosophical divide between two leading black figures of the early 20th century — Tuskegee Institute founder Booker T. Washington and intellectual firebrand W. E. B. Du Bois — the film illustrates how obstacles toward full - fledged higher academics at HBCUs gave way to an unstoppable enterprise to achieve just that.

To Sam (Tessa Thompson), the militant black DJ who hosts the hot - button show that gives the film its title, the president scolds, «I think you long for the days when blacks were hanging from trees so you'd have something to complain about,» before dubbing her the school's most intolerant figure.

Time and again, American audiences have responded to films with black leads like Hidden Figures, Get Out, and Girls Trip, all of them turning huge profits on smaller budgets.

An unfocused, unfunny black comedy, Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb details the chaos that ensues after a nuclear attack is mistakenly triggered against the Soviet Union - with the film following a host of disparate figures, including George C. Scott's Buck Turgidson, Sterling Hayden's Jack D. Ripper, and Peter Sellers» title character, as they attempt to neutralize the threat.

You could almost imagine the two films, or at least their heroes, figuring in the kind of good - natured, racial - stereotype humor that used to be a staple of stand - up comedy (and was memorably parodied on «The Simpsons»): «white guys abolish slavery like this» (pass constitutional amendment); «but black guys, they abolish slavery like this» (blow up plantation).

More, this is an unusually «dark» film in the literal sense, with many a lowly / dimly - lit or nearly - black interior scene, but even in those dark moments detail and solidity of colors, shapes, and figures is impeccable.

Framed with documentary film — like interviews with the key players in what remains the most infamous story to come out of Olympic figure skating, his Tonya Harding script straddles a tricky tone of pitch - black humor, affecting pathos, and winking self - awareness.

But nothing gets lost in the night — the deep blacks never overpower and serve the film well, as do the gauzy filters applied to figures and settings in daylight scenes.

Set in deep space, and in half a dozen lands (New York, Wakanda, Titan, Knowhere), the film presents a galactic battle for the fate of the universe that throws together the six original Avengers; the follow - up wave of Marvel superheroes who've only recently been given their own origin stories (Black Panther, Dr. Strange, the rebooted Spider - Man); the Guardians of the Galaxy; and a sprinkling of other figures who've been there on the fringes.

For the most part, though, this documentary is worth watching because of the vintage footage, and because someone thought to capture on film almost all of the principal figures of the Black Power movement of the late «60s and early «70s.

Fences, Hidden Figures, and Moonlight are all nominated for Best Pictures, marking the first time that three black films have ever been nominated in this category.

In early 2017, the Oscar nominee bought out a Hidden Figures screening in Los Angeles and invited families who couldn't afford to purchase tickets for the film about the pioneering black female mathematicians involved in NASA's earliest efforts.

The Oscar winner, who plays lead role Katniss Everdeen in the film, wore a strapless black leotard that showed off her toned figure under the transparent dress.

«The film will offer the viewer a unique look into two larger - than - life figures who served as the catalysts for one of the most defining moments in our history, the end of the Cold War,» said Scott Free prexy Ridley Scott («Black Rain»), who serves as one of the producers.

Although this sumptuous fantasy also involves a new Del Toro creation, a kind of Creature from the Black Lagoon - like figure played beneath the elaborate costume by Doug Jones, this is perhaps the most human, and humane, film yet to come from the mind of Del Toro.

Although the inky black - and - white photography recalls Gordon Willis's work in Manhattan, the film is much more in line with the modest tragicomedies of the French New Wave, with Frances figured as a better educated but just as coarse American cousin to Truffaut's Antoine Doinel, apologizing at one point for not being much of a «real person» just yet.

After the usual rigamarole about shooting challenges and directorial perfectionism, someone asked Zhang Yimou what he thought the film was about, which he either answered honestly or deftly dodged by asserting that what he wanted people to take from the film, long after they've forgotten the plot, are the memories of certain images: two women in red fighting among swirling yellow leaves, two sorrowful men flying and dueling on a lake as still as a mirror, a sky of black arrows, a desert moonscape haunted by lonely figures in white.

Smaller films such as Moonlight, Fences, and Hidden Figures proved to us that not only are there great films being made in the indie scene, but also by black through white people.

Included in the batch of new toys are multiple Black Panther figures, including T'Challa in his new and improved suit for the 2018 film, as well as one that showcases the hero's vibranium charged suit, which was teased in the exclusive trailer showcased during Comic - Con International in San Diego.

Along with Hidden Figures, Girl's Trip and of course Black Panther, it showed that the old beliefs about films with non-white protagonists not selling at the box office are bigoted nonsense.

As Variety notes, the initial estimates and expectations prior to the film's release had Black Panther making around $ 100 to $ 120 million in its opening weekend — a number that looks positively meager compared to the final figures.

The technical aspects of the film are explained in such a way that most should be able to figure out what's going on (The black box is the MacGuffin, so all you have to know is that it's important enough to kill for).

Speaking of Black Panther deals, Funko's entire lineup of Pop figures from the film are up for grabs in a massive buy one, get one 50 % off sale.

Thankfully Whedon does continue to explore the Black Widow (Johansson) character in these ensemble films since the sexism of Marvel refuses to offer that character a stand - alone film, or even her own Avengers action figure.

Marvel's upcoming Black Panther solo film has added another actor to its expansive supporting cast, this time in the form of Emmy Award - winning and Golden Globe - nominated actor Sterling K. Brown as N'Jobu, «a figure from T'Challa aka Black Panther's past.»

Like the film, black figures the focal point of Ikiré's collections styled in adorned in royal robes, crowns with sacred symbols and jewels.

Check out the Marvel Legends line of figures tying into the upcoming Black Panther film starring Chadwick Boseman and Andy Serkis.

Hasbro has revealed its Marvel Legends line of action figures that will tie into Marvel Studios» upcoming Black Panther film.

Hidden Figures Recently adapted to film — with Oscar nominations for best picture and best adapted screenplay — Margot Lee Shetterly's nonfiction book depicts the lives of four black women who, as mathematicians and engineers, helped send the first American astronaut into space.

According to Newsarama, the Guardians of the Galaxy headline Marvel's free issue — understandable considering the «Guardians of the Galaxy» feature film hits theaters August 1, 2014 — in a story by Brian Michael Bendis and Nick Bradshaw that sees the addition of two new members: Captain Marvel and a mystery blacked - out figure.

The Play Set features an original Marvel storyline and full compatibility for all Disney Infinity Marvel figures, including new characters, Captain America — The First Avenger, Ant - Man, and Black Panther, whose costumes are inspired by the upcoming film Marvel's Captain America: Civil War.»

Jibade - Khalil Huffman (b. 1981) will present a new body of work at Anat Ebgi that focuses on the black male figure in art history, film and literature, while Jamal Cyrus (b. 1973) will explore the cultural politics of Black American music and the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s at Inman Galblack male figure in art history, film and literature, while Jamal Cyrus (b. 1973) will explore the cultural politics of Black American music and the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s at Inman GalBlack American music and the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s at Inman Gallery.

These «details» are matched with a black and white Hollywood film still that Baldessari has illuminated and illustrated with pops of primary coloured shapes and figures, mirroring and creating a strong visual link with the almost abstract and strongly coloured compositions of the Miró works below.

Other exhibition highlights on view in October include Little Black Dress, curated by SCAD trustee and Vogue contributing editor André Leon Talley; Addio del Passato, presenting photographs, sculpture and film by Yinka Shonibare MBE; Stretching the Limits, a group exhibition by fiber - based media artists; Reveal the secrets that you seek, featuring installations by Bharti Kher; and Figures, four large - scale wall hangings by renowned American sculptor Lynda Benglis.

He figures in the recent books, 100 New York Painters by Cynthia M. Dantzic (Schiffer, 2006), Black Paris Profiles by Monique E. Wells (2012) and is also the subject of a projected film by the well - known documentary filmmaker Louis Massiah.

This past year, the space has held regular film screenings and talks by figures such as photographers Deanna Lawson and Catherine Opie and Black Lives Matters» founders Tanya Bernard and Patrisse Cullors.

The 120 artists named cover a broad spectrum, taking in figures as diverse as Anri Sala, Karla Black and Olafur Eliasson as well as several deceased masters and the film director John Waters.

Radical politics were at the centre of the Black Power movement, and was accompanied by effervescent cultural manifestations in literature, film, and the visual arts, and these figures» works will show.

The exhibition is titled Music for Silence and consists of small porcelain figures that carry planets, a silent black and white film that features a deaf woman performing in sign language, and a life - sized underwater cave.

Compelling features of the Winter Show include two of Walker's 2009 films — which are based on narratives from archives of a bureau established in 1865 to assist African Americans with the transition from slavery to freedom — presenting the artist's signature black - silhouette cut - out figures, which almost impossibly convey the complexities of race, gender, sexuality and power in their stilted and provocative movements.

And the film was Black Orpheus; I already had this figure in the boat seeing himself in the water.

For Akomfrah, the win should mean the realisation of a film he has been hoping to make for more than a decade, the third in a trilogy resurrecting black cultural figures forgotten by history.

Johnson himself is known for his photography, films, sculptures and installations that often draw on the identities of black figures from recent history such as Don King and Sun Ra, as well exploring his own upbringing.

Black folks are the subjects, which strew the walls in these varying rooms, appearing on canvas and film as solo figures and kin, as posed and observed citizens of Taylor's vision.

In the presentation at Matt's Gallery in 2012, the viewer walked through an expansive sculptural installation, in which motifs from the film were played out; giant diagrammatic stick figures in the warning colours of yellow and black tower over a school girl inhabiting the world of School of Change.

The show also included several films that contain fragmented biographies and texts from key figures in the Civil Rights Movement, floor - based abstract ceramic sculptures, and a large vinyl wall work, with a title that, as with Shiferaw and Jackson, further signals his politics, «Black Lives Matter # 3 (wall work)» (2015).

To see the film the viewer walks through an expansive sculptural installation, in which motifs from the film are played out; giant diagrammatic stick figures in the warning colours of yellow and black tower over a school girl inhabiting the world of SCHOOL OF CHANGE.

In the Positions sector, devoted to showcasing singular projects by up - and - coming artists, she will show Jibade - Khalil Huffman's multi-channel video installation, from a new and timely body of work by the artist that, according to Ebgi, «focuses on themes of the black male figure in American pop culture, film, and literature.»

Compelling features of the Winter Show include one of artist, Kara Walker's 2009 films — which are based on narratives from the archives of a bureau established in 1865 to assist African Americans with the transition from slavery to freedom — featuring the artist's signature black - silhouette cut - out figures, which almost impossibly convey the complexities of race, gender, sexuality and power in their stilted and evocative movements.