Sentences with phrase «directed by men»

All three are directed by men, which raises the question of whether women will find these portraits as potent and sensitive as I do.

All six were directed by men, from Jon Favreau to Joss Whedon to Infinity War directors Anthony and...

«Nothing against the R - rated comedies directed by men — but it does feel like the authenticity of a woman's point of view can only make the female characters feel that much more authentic.»

But does it matter that so many of these stories about women were directed by men?

Other examples are My Fair Lady, Funny Face, Sabrina, Working Girl, She's All That and Easy A - all written and directed by men.

Although Suzanne Collins, the author of the novels on which the franchise is based, has a screenplay credit in the first of the four films (along with two male co-writers) all four films were directed by men.

The irony is that the festival's first two films, Steel Flower and Paradise, though directed by men, feature a distraught female protagonist in nearly every single scene.

In her second such turn of the year in a distaff ensemble film (both written and directed by men; the other, Casa de Los Babys, also with Gyllenhaal), Marcia Gay Harden appears as some sort of fruitcake and walks away with the film as the most interesting fabrication in director Mike Newell's dyspeptic fabulism.

Unless those films are also about men they will get ignored here even worse than films directed by men about women.

«All the movies I loved were directed by men and that seemed like a prerequisite,» said Greta Gerwig in the clip, before Kumail Nanjiani added: «Some of my favourite movies were by straight white dudes about straight white dudes.

In the segment, Gerwig reflected on role models growing up, saying, «All the movies I loved were directed by men; that sort of seemed like a prerequisite.»

But Movie Club has already forced me to reckon with the fact that many of the depictions I found most resonant were in films directed by men.

Perhaps because this is a film written and directed by men, cutting loose for these moms does not mean acting like they did when they were young and single, but rather a frat boy fantasy involving speeding in muscle cars, downing bottles of vodka and Jell - O shots, shrugging off any responsibilities, flipping their condescending boss the bird, throw wild and hedonistic parties, and trying to get laid with easy hookups at the local bar.

Almost exclusively written and directed by men for a primarily male audience, the comeuppance angle can be so bent by the male gaze that the film feels more like an additional violation.

Notably, all three are directed by men but turn principally on women.

While it doesn't top the eccentricity of Wiseau's cult favorite, Best F (r) iends is written by a man who understands, probably more than anybody, the appeal behind The Room's creator, and directed by another man who understands not to mess with that connection and whatever ideas come spewing from it.

It has been hailed as a subversive feminist take on this form — although it is open to question whether the film would look all that different if it were directed by a man.

Since the first one was directed by the man behind the cutscenes of the game, Masaya Kobayashi, this one

Wisecracking Robert Downey Jr. in a (relatively) grounded real world setting was one thing, but a Viking god from space, played by a complete unknown and directed by a man best known for Shakespeare adaptations was quite another.

On the way out of the theatre a displeased female audience member quipped, «That HAD to be directed by a man.

Re-imagining the 1984 classic with female leads (especially one made up of today's funniest women: Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones), directed by a man who not only makes hilarious films but seems to innately understand the unique humor women afford to film, Paul Feig, is not only a great indicator that Hollywood might finally be wising up that we need less Get Hard and more Spy and Bridesmaids.

As it is, the one film that seems to have the most «Oscar potential» is Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner, which is solidly about a man, directed by a man.

NEBRASKA is an instantly mesmerizing tale directed by the man who gave us THE DESCENDANTS, Alexander Payne.

«I, Tonya» is directed by a man, Craig Gillespie, and many people today are talking about the fact that there weren't any women nominated for directing.

By the halfway point in this slice of cinematic comfort food you'll be finding it hard to believe that it was directed by the man who made «Donnie Brasco».

Another year (another season) and yet again, we're facing down another Marvel release, this time with the wildly enjoyable Thor: Ragnarok, directed by man of the moment (aka, internet heartthrob...

Another year (another season) and yet again, we're facing down another Marvel release, this time with the wildly enjoyable Thor: Ragnarok, directed by man of the moment (aka, internet heartthrob) Taika Waititi.

LD Entertainment will soon release Killer Joe, which is directed by the man behind The Exorcist and To Live And Die...

Bubba Ho - tep is directed by a man that knows all about how to make cult films, Don Coscarelli.

It is like if Oldboy was directed by the man who did The Raid.

It will be made in Hollywood, by Lionsgate, and directed by a man named Michael Gracey.

Not exact matches

In addition to seeing Martin Scorsese produce the new film, it will be directed by Todd Phillips, the man behind «The Hangover» trilogy, with a script by Scott Silver, the man behind «8 Mile.»

According to studies conducted by researchers in the U.K. and Turkey, something as simple as the suit a man wears can have a direct impact on how people view his character.

Critics have almost universally praised the film, which is produced and directed by black men and stars a who's who of black acting talent, including Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther, as well as Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Lupita Nyong» o, Michael B. Jordan, and Danai Gurira.

Something Ventured, a new documentary film directed by husband - and - wife team Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, explores the lives of the men who, in the early 1960s when the venture capital industry was just beginning to take shape, risked social status (and their money) to back the companies they truly believed in.

For example, he is actively promoting AI and man - machine integration by founding the company «Neuralink» in March 2017 for the direct connection of the human brain with machines and artificial intelligence — but at the same time since 2014 is warning that humanity could face doom through the rise of robots equipped with artificial intelligence:

I don't think a woman ought to be doing that to a man because it's direct, it's forceful, it's authoritative, it compromising something about the way a man and a woman were designed by God to relate.»

These are men greeds and are unrelated to religion nor it is in favor of religions... religion is a direct spritual connection between the Servent and his GOD... that was what most of us knew before we were spoiled by the «Islamic Belt Idea» that the West had introduced and marketed it in our MidEast area towards encouraging youth to join militants in «Jihad» establishing that belt surrounding and fighting the communists in Afghanistan and some Asian countries... Well now that has spoiled our life coming back on us and you but I do not see why should we innocents pay for your «Political Games»...!?

God said we should not kill (murder is the word from the direct translation from the Ancient Greek and Hebrew) and He did not tell people to stone their servants if they worked on the sabbath (the metaphore was generated by mortal man).

I should wish, on the contrary, to say that the objective efficacy of the death of Christ lies in it being an act of God Incarnate directed towards man, placing him in a new relation to himself by a decisive act of acceptance.

For Jesus, however, man is dc - secularized by God's direct pronouncements to him, which tears him out of all security of any kind and places him at the brink of the End.

All this, which is only a part of what ought to be said about the Atonement, is not irrelevant to our discussion; for like Professor MacKinnon, though in a rather different way, I want to lay the greatest emphasis on the decisiveness and uniqueness of the Cross and the Resurrection In both these acts of God, however, I find no inconsistency between their decisiveness and «objectivity» and the fact that they are directed towards men: the former as conveying to them the divine acceptance which is also judgement, the latter by bringing to them, in the Easter experiences, the active presence of the living Lord.

For it is not merely that at that privileged point all the external springs of the world are co-ordinated and harmonized: there is the further, complementary marvel that the man who surrenders himself to the divine milieu feels his own inward powers directed and enlarged by it with a sureness which enables him effortlessly to avoid the all too numerous reefs on which mystical quests have so often foundered.

In Man, therefore, matter is subsumed and transformed into a more perfect state by direct union with the Godhead and the indwelling of theHoly Spirit.

Perhaps also this book not only may throw light on the fundamental purposes by which education should be directed, but may at the same time suggest the outlines of a relevant and mature faith for modern man — a faith that grows directly out of the daily struggle to make responsible decisions.

According to Bercier, «the highest act of man is not his exercise of reason in discerning the forms of nature» but rather his «responsibility for his own being and identity as it is authoritatively addressed to him by the Logos»; in other words, man's special dispensation of reason is for the sake of directing human nature towards «its most perfect end in man's own right self - governance» versus a liberation from the yoke of that nature.

This is especially so if one understands by the Single One not Kierkegaard's man, who finds truth by separating himself from the crowd, but Buber's man of the narrow ridge, who lives with others yet never gives up his personal responsibility nor allows his commitment to the group to stand in the way of his direct relationship to the Thou.

The scribes might counsel a humble waiting for God's appointed time, but for the «man in the street» that meant no more than postponing for a while the fulfillment of the same national ambitions, and the satisfying of the same national grudges, which the Zealots proposed to settle out of hand by «direct action».

The conspicuous tendency of our age... is not, as is sometimes supposed, directed merely against the sanctioning of... norms by religion, but against their universal character and absolute validity... their claim to be of a higher order than man and to govern the whole of mankind.

It is probable that Buber exercised some direct influence on Fromm's thought since as a young man Fromm belonged to the Frankfurt circle of students of the Bible and Judaism led by Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber.)