Sentences with phrase «center of the film»

The story begins and ends with her, and she is clearly the emotional center of the film.

Let's take someone that society rejects and put her at the absolute center of the film, like an act of love.

George Heimrich, now retired, was the director of the office, and Bishop Gerald Kennedy of the Los Angeles Area of The United Methodist Church was the chairman, The committee met twice a year and usually engaged itself - in desultory discussion of procedural matters including how to get the power centers of the film industry to pay attention to the churches.

Other standouts include the always - good Mark Rylance, as the sweet, kind - hearted, geeky moral center of the film.

Redford plays determined and serious (while sometimes spouting environmental facts), while Nolte gets a chance to be blustery, feisty and the comic center of the film.

T'Challa's sister, Shuri (Letitia Wright), is sufficiently brilliant to make the Q character from James Bond films seem a clever child with some interesting ideas, while Nakia (Lupita N'yongo) is the ethical center of the film, thoughtful and lacking any stereotypical hysterics or emotional cloudiness that so many movies use to savage the intellect of leading women.

Everyone seems to have noticed that Michael B. Jordan is the charismatic center of the film.

Young star - crossed lovers: Amidst the mile - a-minute screwball antics in the trailer, you get your first peek at what may be the true center of the film: a budding relationship between Tony Revolori and Saoirse Ronan's characters.

I grew up in Montreal, so not very close to the most important centers of the film business at the time.

Roger himself became an iconic force when he joined with Gene Siskel to create one of the longest running, most influential television shows in history, making Chicago the cultural center of film criticism.

But the rock solid center of the film is Matt Damon who is better than anyone at simultaneously conveying nobility of purpose and self - deprecating bravado.

Kirke is wonderfully cast as the cagey center of the film.

William Hurt occupies the silent center of the film.

Renato's story — in particular how his raw lust develops something deeper and heartfelt — is also touching, but despite being the real center of the film, he is not nearly as compelling a character.

Nolan plucked Fionn Whitehead out of obscurity for his film debut, and he's captivating in an almost dialogue - free role as the emotional center of the film.

Audrey, the moral center of the film and very much a Fanny Price character herself, protests simply, «I like Fanny Price.»

Footage of educators, policy makers, and young people at the center of our film is complemented by a rich spectrum of individuals who are important to school lunch policy and administration but who are rarely included in popular discourse on the subject.

At the center of the film lies a moral question, not a literary one: Should Ginsberg abandon the potentially visionary Carr when he turns out to be a liar, an exploiter and an emotional traitor?

The big man at the center of this film is Oskar Schindler, a Catholic businessman from the Sudetenland who came to occupied Poland to reap the spoils of war.

As the bride in «American Wedding,» she's set up to be at the center of the film, but there's nothing to be done with Michelle — she's a punch line, not a personality — and so she must be shoved to the side.

At the center of the film, like a man trying to pull a donkey out of a peat bog, stands Craig: inexpressive, uninflected and obviously tired.

The good and noble deed at the center of the film is the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment, the monumental piece of legislation that definitively abolished American slavery and laid the sturdy groundwork for a century and a half of civil rights struggle.

Which might sound odd coming from someone who likes the American Pie movies, which usually have at least one gross - out gag at the center of the film.

Jamie Foxx too is rather strong when he's given something to do, but oddly, even though his character is the center of the film, he's an afterthought in service of the more colorful DiCaprio and Waltz.

It's that word that forms the center of the film, and the pope often gets to speak it, thanks to a series of intimate interviews with the man himself.

At the center of the film is an Asian cheerleader who is dating Jon Cho (Sulu in the Trek remake).

She's also at the center of the film's obsession with sexual violence.

And at the center of the film is Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez), an impish 12 - year - old who lives in Mexico with his family of shoemakers.

At the center of the film is a recurrent scene in which Lena is being interrogated by a man in a white hazmat suit.

The center of the film is the unstable relationship between Socha and his terrified wards.

Lelio understands that the community at the center of the film is rooted in old - school tradition, but as it's physically rooted in a cultural capital of the world, no one here is a stranger to gays and lesbians, and so the reactions to Ronit and Esit's rekindled love affair never rise to the level of the hysteric.

Isabelle's love life is at the center of the film, but there is always a sense that it's conducted in the frantic margins of her actual life, in the parentheses when her daughter — viewed only once, briefly — is staying with dad, the clock always ticking.

At the center of the film, however, is a story that not only functions as true continuation of the events in the original, allowing the characters to grow and change in different ways than the first chapter, it's surprisingly emotionally engaging and resonant.

The simple question at the center of the film is for Tom.

Bang is at the center of the film (Moss appears in only a handful of scenes), and he's a sympathetic figure, a perfectly nice guy contributing to the decline of Western Civilization.

Director Haynes began the conference by discussing his approach to Highsmith's work and this powerful romance at the center of the film:

Fey and Poehler are clearly the center of the film, and watching their lively games of verbal ping - pong is always an enjoyable way to spend 90 minutes or so.

Pictures have released a new four - minute featurette about the upcoming «Veronica Mars» movie and focuses on the love triangle at the center of the film - between Veronica (Kristen Bell), good guy Stosh «Piz» Piznarski (Chris Lowell)...

But while «War Dogs» occupies a similar space as Adam McKay's Oscar - winning dramedy, it doesn't really have anything important to say — or rather, the important stuff feels like an afterthought compared to the dramatized events at the center of the film.

Isn't having a real person at the center of a film — like Lincoln — akin to a brand, the way Twilight is?

But while the relationship at the center of the film is the engine that drives the narrative, there are much more mysterious things going on under the hood.

That's one of the questions at the center of this film, which I'd go so far as to consider essential viewing.

The heroin addiction gives Boyle and company opportunities to visually impress, but it's not really the center of the film.

The plot is thin and unsatisfying, and I don't think I'll ever truly get Donald Sutherland's complete disinterest in everything he gets cast in, but the center of the film is rightly Jane Fonda's high - class hooker Bree.

Damon is a shapeless lump at the center of this film, but amid the strained skullduggery and tract - housing dress - up, Clooney does succeed in staging something resonant through parallel narrative alone: Damon's white company grifter brings all his trouble and strife upon himself, while his neighbors» lives are ruined through absolutely no fault of their own.

That changes in her latest action entry, Momentum, which puts the actress» name above the title and her character at the center of the film.