Sentences with phrase «experience of a film like»

The series was produced by Jeff Skoll (of eBay fame) and his activist company Participant Media, And it serves to underscore once again the «you - are - there» power of VR — as opposed to the two - dimensional flat - screen experience of a film like An Inconvenient Truth — when it comes to getting out the message of urgency about climate change.

Not exact matches

It's going to take a lot more then «visions» experienced by people in emotional and suggestible states to convince me, something like something seen by dozens of people who are not in an emotional and suggestible state, which is caught on camera by a person who we can reasonably assume would not tamper with the film.
The main street looks like a set from a Hallmark film — worn storefronts, light posts wearing seasonal decorations and a certain kind of bustle most cities never experience.
A film like The Greatest Story Ever Told is a film about Jesus in the light of experience.
In that beautiful film, the computers are so sophisticated that they, in fact, dominate human beings, even to the point of experiencing basic human emotions like spite, jealousy, and, unfortunately, revenge.
Considering the film is deep into production, it isn't a big surprise that they brought in a seasoned pro like Howard, with tons of blockbuster experience under his belt.
Many of these more biased websites and films portray hospital birth like a battle ground for many, if not all, pregnant women but especially those who would like a «natural» birth experience.
Nevertheless, Chasnoff says, «The experience of engaging in the mainstream media about our film like that was one of the first times that the topic ever surfaced in the mainstream media.»
Only after each system had produced a sophisticated representation of the world did the brain combine their perceptions into one experience of reality, like a film editor adding a soundtrack to a movie.
While Satrapi does a nice job of explaining why changes were made, I would have liked to learn more about her real experiences and how they match up with the film.
Even if you're eager to appreciate the 48 fps highlights, the fact that a good portion of the film dips down into that strange video - like territory turns the feature into an even more disjointed experience than it already is.
The Movie: The idea of George Clooney playing a (mostly) silent assassin holed up in the Italian countryside with gorgeous European women sounds like recipe for a solid dramatic experience, so why Focus Features is marketing «The American» as some sort of action thriller when in fact it's an arty European film, will throw some moviegoers off and just outright anger others.
The film works as supernatural horror at the same time as you feel the chaos and fear in everyday life during the Iran - Iraq War as experienced by people like the rest of us and not by presidents and kings.
This film will be the closest most of us will ever get to experience what it is like to be in space.
Young and Beautiful doesn't have the eerie power of some of Ozon's other films, like «In the House» or «Swimming Pool,» but it is still a fascinating experience.
This Film is Part Of The Grindhouse Experience 20 Fil Feature Collection, Audio was bad at times, and the filmed actually rolled once or twice, Like if it was recored off TV.
It is best to go into this movie as blind as possible because it is better to experience the film rather than read about it later, but the story focuses on biologist Lena (Natalie Portman) and a team of scientists who venture into a strange force - field - like area that mysteriously appears on Earth.
The influence of cheap»80s and»90s genre cheapies like «Dollman vs. Demonic Toys» from Full Moon Features is baked into the film, not that it will enhance the experience.
I would like to say that this film would make a good example of how visual effects look on a home television experience for a rental, but I still think the better recommendation for that would be the first film.
If you placed a few hundred random people into a movie theatre and asked them to invest their time in this film, I can guarantee that at least 50 percent would either walk out or despise their experience, but that's okay because not everyone likes every single piece of art.
Not a heady experience like many of the semi-experimental 1960s films he emulates.
Gravity is not a film of ideas, like Kubrick's techno - mystical 2001, but it's an overwhelming physical experience — a challenge to the senses that engages every kind of dread.
Despite huge hits like the final Harry Potter film (2011's highest - grossing title) and, to a lesser extent, the second Hangover movie, Warner Bros. also experienced a surprisingly large number of flops last year.
The experience of that is like winning the Irish sweepstakes in comparison to watching this film.
Combine the fluidity of the editing with Mica Levi «s score, and the film feels more like an experience to behold more than a story you watch play out.
The film also goes a bit easy on its characters considering the time period (apart from Carol's custody battle, they don't experience any persecution), and while it looks gorgeous — like an oil painting of soft pastels — you don't feel the romance as much as you should; it's sensual, but emotionally distant.
At the film's press day, actor Paul Giamatti, who's also an executive producer on the movie, talked about what drew him to John Dies at the End, his most memorable experience of the shoot, working with such new actors, how he sees the industry now, and that he doesn't think a film like Sideways would even get made today.
While it would be easy to shoot an entire film like this on a sound stage and use visual effects to complete the scenery, director Baltasar Kormakur (2 Guns, Contraband) wanted the cast to experience the elements firsthand by shooting on location in Nepal on the foothills of Everest, as well as the Italian Alps.
Unfolding like Roman Polanski's take on «The King of Marvin Gardens» while simultaneously serving as a suitable spiritual sequel to the director's debut, «Afterschool,» in which the male desire to connect meaningfully with others is frayed and warped by life experience, «Simon Killer» is Antonio Campos» latest chilly, chilling character study, with Corbet effectively replacing Ezra Miller, who led the previous film, as a neuroscience major who studied how the eyes and the brain relate, but has a seriously loose wire between his own brain and his heart.
Skipping from a neo-noir adaptation (Out of Sight) to a biopic (Che), social commentary (Traffic) to an Andrei Tarkovsky remake (Solaris), mainstream drama (Erin Brockovich) to an experimental film about prostitution (The Girlfriend Experience), Soderbergh is a man who doesn't like repeating himself.
These misses narratively combined with other elements of Deadpool 2 make it feel like a backwards step or at the very least of a stalling of the series from the first, there's a sense here that everything's a little auto - pilot, the action too taking a backwards step from the imaginative sequences of the first film and while perfectly entertaining, this is an experience filled with nothing that would suggest Deadpool 2 is going to be a film you'll be going back to anytime soon.
The quintessential midnight experience, Kevin Smith's next outing as he transitions from slacker comedy to dark horror is, like most of his films, for the fans.
The absence of any significant evidence of digital manipulation adds to the very film - like experience.
However as a whole, this is a satisfying, and truly unique viewing experience, and we get to see a director who is at ease with such grand ideas of storytelling, and in the end, we get an experience like no other, and for true film lovers, we couldn't ask for any more.
With Coco, Pixar Animation Studios» take on the traditional Mexican celebration Día de Muertos, audiences are given a film that will become the standard - bearer of a positive example of what the Latino experience can look like on the big screen for years to come.
Global Citizen: Just out of curiosity, what were you experiences like filming RBSS in Germany, as opposed to Turkey?
This is Grunberg's first feature film, but he has worked as an assistant director for the likes of Peter Weir, Oliver Stone, Tony Scott and even Gibson himself, which equipped him with the experience to craft impressive set - pieces.
They're also derivative of films like Finding Neverland and Shakespeare in Love in presenting some of the experiences that inspired the author.
Final Destination 3 is like the roller coaster featured prominently at the beginning of the film — a thrill ride we all know the destination and boundaries of, and whatever fun we extract from it comes through the experience of it.
The film is like 13 Ghosts crossed with 13 Hours, except you're likely to find a more thrilling experience in an episode of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby - Doo.
There's a unique experience I have every time with Anderson's work: I watch with a smile on my face the entire time, until the final moments, when the film's emotional undercurrent hits me like a ton of bricks and I watch the end credits roll with tears streaming down my face.
I don't know how or if the experience of watching 10 Cloverfield Lane Lane would have differed if it had followed a conventional marketing campaign, but the way that it ended up being marketed and hidden for so long ended up being more interesting than the film itself, as it drew this air over it that made the film seem like something far more fascinating than what it actually was.
It plays like one of those films based on a true story, but it's really a fiction film that draws from some personal experiences of actor (and former pro soccer player) Andrew Shue (The Rainmaker, «Melrose Place») growing up and attending Columbia High School, the South Orange, New Jersey school depicted in the movie.
The rhythm he catches is like no other in my film experience, but it seems very close to the seasons of life.
With our own experience of the books (hey, we have nieces) being that # 2 is actually the best of the trilogy in expanding the mythology to a more resonant plane while still retaining the visceral excitement of the first, and with the director who'll be responsible for the taking the franchise home now in the hot seat (Francis Lawrence, replacing Gary Ross), we're hopeful for a film that at least partially deserves its inevitably blockbusting box office, and the trailer makes it look like it may.
But like much of the rest of the «Annie» cast, she had little previous experience as a singer and dancer and said she had not seen the stage musical or any of its many TV or film remakes.
«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your fLike Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your flike the asphalt under your feet.
Experience one of the most unpredictable»80s films, like you've never seen it before.
What initially seems like just another story of a Westerner recounting his experience of the tragedy evolves into an eerily raw and haunting film.
David Mackenzie — «Starred Up» Scottish helmer David Mackenzie is easily the most experienced name on this list: his latest is actually his eighth film as director, and his previous work has included major movie stars like Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell and Ashton Kutcher in films like «Young Adam,» «Hallam Foe,» «Spread» and «Perfect Sense,» some of which were decent, some of which weren't.
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