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Looking for early films about Henry Street Settlement?

Certainly when dealing with a subject who is not only alive but still serving in office (unlike Stone's earlier films about Nixon and Kennedy), it would be impossible to create a political piece that passes everyone's test of objectivity.

That last is unsurprising because CHAPPIE is the brainchild of Neill Blomkamp, and many of the elements at work in that earlier film about the meaning of humanity are at work in this one.

It also includes footage from Michel Auder's earlier film about Neel.

(His early film about working at Twitter is likely one of the most - watched recruiting videos ever made.)

Not exact matches

And many of these early films reflected the values that I cared deeply about, and I still do.

I wrote about the power of «no» earlier this year, when über - successful film star Tom Hanks expressed similar sentiments.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

In the film Snowden, released earlier this year, Woodley plays Lindsay Mills, girlfriend of the former National Security Agency contractor, who leaked details about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs and was granted asylum in Russia after fleeing the United States in 2013.

Among the materials they sought were communications between the two men about efforts to tamp down negative publicity about Trump during the campaign and details about a payment Cohen made to an adult - film star who alleged she had a sexual relationship with Trump years earlier.

The president did not mention his abrupt firing earlier this week of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by tweet, the personnel turmoil engulfing his administration, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign or reports of his alleged affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels — and his lawyer paying her to keep silent about the relationship.

Haring speaks in this work about mass media (TV, films, advertising), but we also see here the early traces of a sensitive awareness of communication as interactive and dialogic.

In truth, this news should come as no great surprise, considering Fury was filmed singing about «sniffing gear» with a group of England football fans earlier this year.

Having just watched Microbirth I thought I would point out the much of the film is about microflora in the gut and on the skin and the longterm health outcomes of early immune system damage / lack of development.

The Tory veteran was filmed earlier this year making disobliging comments about four top Tories, apparently unaware that the camera was rolling.

In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, its visuals and the strong performances of its cast.

October 4: Learn about early filmmaking tech when Thomas Edison National Historic Park in West Orange, N.J., screens the 1910 film Frankenstein.

James Mitchell Crowe writes about the somewhat exciting decay of celluloid materials, mentioning the spontaneous ignition of early film tapes...

Early in my challenge I had heard about the Summer Screen series at Somerset House, and keen to include one of the evenings in my 30 Dates by 30 Challenge, I posted on Facebook to ask if anyone had a friend who might like to go and watch an outdoor film with me.

Haskell Wexler remembers Terrence Malick's command of film technique and talks about his own efforts to maintain visual continuity after Néstor Almendros had to leave the production early.

Along with another early silent - screen actress, Mae Marsh, Clifford would turn up in about every other Ford film, usually playing pioneer women.

Featuring a racist plot and negative stereotypes about the Arab world, this film reflected the American fear of the Middle East prevalent in the early»80s.

Early in the film I noticed the emphasis on depth in certain set - ups and compositions; then I forgot about it, except when the glasses started to weigh heavily on my nose.

An Argentine native who spent her formative years exiled to Spain, Cecilia Roth was a regular in Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's early films and a star in Argentina long before she became an international critics» darling as the title character in Almodóvar's Oscar - winner All About My Mother (1999).

District 9 is partly presented as a faux documentary (rather than a mockumentary, which is what Roger Ebert wrongly labels the film... there is nothing funny about this movie), detailing how 20 years earlier, a huge alien spaceship (think Independence Day) parked itself over Johannesburg and... sat there.

This is a gritting, depressing film about the horrors of the chain gang prison camps of the south in the early 20th century.

From the late»70s to the early»80s, the Dardennes made such films as Le Chant du Rossignol (1978), about the Nazi Resistance in Belgium's southern Walloon region, and Leçons d'une Université Volante (1981), about emigration from Poland, for Belgian television.

There is something easily and unassumingly good - natured about Early Man, an indication of what a very intelligent film - maker Park is.

Starring Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, Farhadi's latest pivots on a disappearance (in this case a kidnapping) much like his 2009 film About Elly, but CineVue's Joe Walsh believes it «lacks the subtlety of his early work, yet he still shows he has the ability to deliver devastating blows that leave you stunned.»

For a film that is so consumed with the burning complications of first, early love, «On Chesil Beach» more resembles a wilted relationship, one that offers up no excitement about the future and little respect for the past.

Sure, there was some commentary about war profiteering early on in the Iron Man films, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier glanced upon the idea of selling out privacy and freedom in the name of security.

I knew a little about the film during earlier screenings, but I wasn't very prepared for the style and pace at which the movie unfolds.

What makes After Midnight more than just another ménage à trois (in homage to Truffaut) is the way Ferrario, who also writes about movies, weaves the allure of early film into a contemporary story, shot with the latest high - definition technology.

This early Charles Band horror sci - fi kinda reminded me of early John Carpenter films, it does have a charm about it that shines even today.

Early in the film when John Malkovich's character makes a crack about a visual and visceral betrayal, it does sound like a deliberately self - aware moment.

The documentary is accompanied by a number of interesting films: three shorts made at the Champion studio from 1910 to 1913, an early documentary short about Fort Lee by Theodore Huff and Mark A. Borgotta, a feature called The Danger Game starring Madge Kennedy, an early Mack Sennett comedy short, and a 31 - minute version of Robin Hood released by Éclair America in 1912.

Because I interviewed him earlier this year, this time talking about the film in - depth, I wanted to go all out, and cover the spoilers, cover all the pressing questions you might've had after seeing Looper.

Earlier this year I saw Smashed, a film about a pair of alcoholics and how recovery changes one's relationship with everyone around them.

Despite the film not seeming to be a period piece, the merits of Xbox's Kinect are spoken about early on and the Nintendo Wii is offered as an alternative.

But truthfully, it isn't saying anything about the relationship between the media and society — and the toxic and symbiotic voyeurism that fuels it — that hadn't been said already, decades earlier, in eerily prescient films from «Ace in the Hole» (1951) to «Network» (1976) to «Broadcast News» (1987).

He dropped out of film school in the early»90s to make a documentary about the notorious punk rocker GG Allin, and by the end of the decade he was making his first mainstream comedy, the American Pie - lite college romp, Road Trip.

For whatever reason, Warner Brothers packaged Jammin'the Blues, one of the greatest short films ever made, alongside Michael Curtiz's feature length Passage to Marseille (1944), a thoroughly mediocre military melodrama so desperate to replicate the success of Curtiz's earlier masterpiece Casablanca (1942) that it reuses most of the principal cast and some of the same story beats about lovers torn apart by war and self - centered anti-heroes who come to learn the importance of self - sacrifice.

In «Ratcatcher,» «Morvern Callar» and «We Need To Talk About Kevin» her characters are forced to try and to pick up the pieces following one tragic, life - altering event that happens early in he film.

Following the exploits of the Paris police department's «child protection unit,» Polisse (which screened early on) helped to establish this year's Croisette - spanning theme of children in peril, which could be found to varying extents in fellow Competition entries Michael (kidnapping and pedophilia), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the NineAbout Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineabout every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineties.

The universal quality you mentioned is interesting given the earlier films where the characters» idiosyncrasies are more pronounced — they still have universal themes below that — but this one seems less about heightened idiosyncratic characters and more about a universal fear.

The trailer indicates that Ridley's film is as much a work of Impressionism about Hendrix's experience performing as part of the 1960s London music scene as anything else - a sentiment backed up by the early reviews, with the Seattle Times» Moira Macdonald calling the movie «a mood piece, not a biopic» in her overall positive critique.

Cinephiles, especially those enthusiastic about the avant - garde, are probably familiar with Robert Gardner «s series Screening Room, which hosted numerous directors working in documentary and experimental film in the 1970s and early»80s.

Southside With You, a film about the early years of Obama's relationship with first lady Michelle Obama, premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival.

A crime - flick love story as Pop - conscious as Wright's earlier work but unironic about its romantic core, it will delight the director's fans but requires no film - geek certification...

Pete's Dragon, which unveiled an early look of the film, brought Bryce Dallas Howard to the stage to talk about the film.