Sentences with phrase «feature film centering»

Patty Jenkins brings us the first feature film centering on Wonder Woman starring Gal Gadot.

A smart, sophisticated comedy about the challenges of love and marriage amongst modern day New Yorkers, Freundlich's fourth feature film centers on the romantic escapades of two couples: a successful actress (Freundlich's real - life significant other, Julianne Moore) and her stay - at - home husband (David Duchovny), and said actress» slacker younger brother (Billy Crudup) and his aspiring novelist girlfriend (Maggie Gyllenhaal).

«The Killing» star Mireille Enos has joined the cast of IF I STAY - R.J. Cutler's debut feature film centered around teenager Mia who...

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The show — which was filmed last month at New York's Lexington Avenue Armory and featured performers Selena Gomez and The Weeknd, as well as Kendall Jenner and Gigi Haddid on the runway — is an important part of L Brands» (LB) efforts to keep its Victoria's Secret brand at the center of pop culture.

You don't have to get far into most feature films to see some impact of money and wealth, but some movies put money front and center as the main feature, almost warranting its own mention as a character in the credits.

Featuring an array of permanent and special exhibits, live programs and educational films that appeal to audiences of all ages, the Nature Exploration Center encourages visitors to explore the natural world and their connections to it.

The Schomburg Center's 4th Annual Black Comic Book Festival The Schomburg Center's 4th Annual Black Comic Book Festival celebrates the rich tradition of black comics in a full day event featuring panel discussions, film screenings, hands - on workshops and exhibit tables -LSB-...]

He was a featured yoga teacher on the TV show Yoga Zone hosted by Alan Finger, founder of ISHTA Center, filmed in Jamaica.

The former music video director's first feature film since 2004's Birth is based on the satirical debut novel by Michel Faber, which centers on an extraterrestrial who comes to Scotland to pick up unsuspecting hitchhikers and bring them to her corporate bosses for use as meat.

To spotlight a few of those 7 percenters, BFF included in its five - day run an all - female From the Director's Chair panel featuring Oscar - nominated director Jennifer Yuh Nelson («Kung Fu Panda»), actor - filmmaker Maggie Kiley («Caught,» «We Own the Night»), documentary director Elisa Paloschi («Driving Selvi»), and Meera Menon, director of the fest's opening film «Equity,» the first female - centered Wall Street story (Anna Gunn stars opposite Alysia Reiner, Sarah Megan Thomas, and James Purefoy.)

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.

Though immigration is an issue front and center not only in Europe, but also on these shores, the company sees the feature first and foremost as an art film as opposed to a political one.

Mojave Directed by and written by William Monahan (USA)-- World Premiere, Narrative William Monahan's second feature, starring Oscar Isaac and Garrett Hedlund, is a delirious trip from the fringes of the desert to the center of the film industry.

Nominated for Best Feature, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing at the 2018 Independent Spirit Wards, Ms. Zhao is following up her highly - lauded 2015 film debut «Songs My Brother Taught Me» with another important story, once again centered on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation inSouth Dakota.

Presented as a «sort of sequel» to Apatow's 2007 sophomore feature, Knocked Up, This Is 40 gives center stage to the earlier film's supporting characters: Los Angeles record label executive Pete (Paul Rudd) and his wife Debbie (played by Apatow's real - life wife, Leslie Mann).

The film also features multiple camera angles ranging from your standard left, right and center, to the more adventurous headstock mounted camera shots and multiple drum cams showcasing drummer Charlie Benante's fancy foot and stick work.

The film — Anderson's second animated feature, after Fantastic Mr. Fox — will star Bryan Cranston, Greta Gerwig, Bill Murray, and a number of Anderson's other favorites, and center on a young boy searching the titular island for his lost pooch.

Ansel Elgort, star of the feature films «The Fault in Our Stars» and «Divergent,» and actress / director / producer and SAG Award ® recipient Eva Longoria will reveal the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ® nominations on Wednesday, Dec. 10 at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Executive Producer Kathy Connell announced today.

Featuring a memorable ensemble cast of both British and American actors, the film centers on a group of reckless criminals that inadvertently become involved in a labyrinth - like plot full of two - timing back stabbers set to the tone of Ritchie's trademark comic violence and tongue in cheek humor.

Hosted by the Gene Siskel Film Center, the month - long Chicago European Union Film Festival (CEUFF) featured 15 films directed by women (15 out of 62 = ~ 25 % = a record high for this event).

Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's semi-documentary was given its title because on a certain level, it isn't a film in the way of Panahi's past work — it has no script or actors, it was shot in the Tehran apartment in which he's been serving out his house arrest, and it's centered around his talking through the feature he would have made had he not been banned from filmmaking for 20 years.

In this film publicity image released by Focus Features, Philip Seymour Hoffman, center, and Nick Frost, right, are shown in a scene from «Pirate Radio».

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

The film — which centers on an amnesiac's quest for revenge — marks Naishuller's feature - length directorial debut and features a cast that includes Sharlto Copley, Haley Bennett and Tim Roth.

Perhaps because it centers on a murder no one in the film seems to care about, and features a framing device involving maid Macy Gray recounting the film's actions, which further distances this sleepy train wreck from the white - hot emotions at its core.

Today's Edinburgh talk may have centered on festival opener «Away We Go» (more on that to come), but the day's real delight was «Mary and Max» (*** 1/2), an alternately disarming and disconcerting feature debut from claymation maestro Adam Elliot, who won a 2003 Academy Award for his short «Harvey Krumpet,» and carries that film's decidedly -LSB-...]

But this year's slate also featured several films centered on relationships between older women and younger men: Hannah Fidel's A Teacher, which concerns an affair between a high school teacher and a student; Liz W. Garcia's The Lifeguard, in which Kristen Bell takes up with a teenage boy; and Two Mothers, in which Robin Wright and Naomi Watts are friends who each get with the other's teenage son.

Disney's biennial — that's every two years — D23 Expo is back for its fourth installment at the Anaheim Convention Center, and once again they're holding two major presentations to highlight the company's upcoming feature film slate.

Sight and Soundtrack Presented by Sweat Fitness: Featuring rockumentaries, musician biopics and films that are centered on the unifying power of music.

While movies featuring black superheroes aren't too much of a novice idea (see Blade, Storm, War Machine, etc.), a film specifically centered on a black superhero with a predominantly Black cast is what's caused such a buzz with Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige stating that «90 percent of the cast is either African or African - American.»

But as with her queerness, her pop inclinations are a feature, not a bug, and it is difficult to separate Dirty Computer from the larger narrative of resistance across the arts today; from A Wrinkle in Time, a film dedicated above all else to instilling wonder and empowering young viewers; from Gabby Rivera's (now sadly discontinued) America comic book series, one centering a young, queer Latina, America Chavez, who repeatedly declares she is America; from An American Marriage, Tayari Jones's latest novel that emphasizes to be black is to be American.

FILM COMMENT spoke to Strickland this week in Manhattan, where he will introduce the magazine's double - feature sneak - preview of The Duke of Burgundy with the 1986 movie Mano Destra at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

In the film, helmed by first - time feature director Luke Scott, Kate Mara (House Of Cards) plays a corporate risk management consultant who's sent to a remote research laboratory in order to investigate a deadly accident and determine what should be done with the experimental artificial being at its center.

«The Square,» Ruben Östlund's outrageous satire centered on the world of modern art, was named Best Foreign Film; Pixar's «Coco» won the prize for Animated Feature; and «Jane,» Brett Morgen's film focusing on the life and work of primatology scientist Jane Goodall, won the Best Documentary award.

Other films that we admire, but didn't quite make the cut included Alison Mclean «s «Jesus» Son» featuring awesome performances by Billy Crudup and Samatha Morton as drug - addict adult - lescents in the 1970s, Stephen Daldry «s celebratory boyhood - meets - ballet drama, «Billy Elliot,» Lars Von Trier's comedic docu - like dogme film «Idioterne» («The Idiots,» made in 1998 but only released in the U.S. in 2000), Steven Soderbergh «s economic and no - nonsense «Erin Brockovich,» Stephen Frears «manchild, record store - centered love story, «High Fidelity,» Terence Davies ««The House of Mirth» featuring an excellent Gillian Anderson turn, and perhaps Neil LaBute «s best film, tellingly one he didn't write, the dreamy and odd, «Nurse Betty.»

The idea is that box office success for a movie centered on a nonwhite superhero and cast could inspire Marvel to produce and create more movies like Black Panther in the future (the studio's previous 17 films have all featured white men as the superhero leads).

Both films are the feature directorial debuts of talented women filmmakers and both center on complicated women trying to come to terms with tragedies in their pasts.

Though fans will likely wish there was more in the way of bonus features, Sky High garners a recommendation on the strengths of the fun film at the disc's center.

As the first Marvel film centered around a predominately black cast and featuring a rising star black director, Black Panther was already set to make waves.

Another example of the «great trailer, disappointing film» syndrome, Gaspar Noe «s surprisingly soft - centered «Love» may have featured 3D ejaculations and plenty of clearly un-simulated sex, but its story was sadly lacking in any real edge or insight.

The Nora Ephron Prize jurors also gave a Special Jury Mention to writer / director Rachel Israel for her film Keep the Change (without additional comment), although Israel's enjoyable romantic comedy (an unusual story with a male character at its center) captured The Founder's Award for Best Narrative Feature (and $ 20,000 sponsored by AT&T).

The film centers around bickering siblings reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed, and features a great cast, including Reinhold, Beau Bridges, Keith Carradine, Beverly D'Angelo, and Tess Harper.

A 3D feature film telling the story of Philippe Petit's legendary World Trade Center wirewalk in 1974 looks set to go ahead with Robert Zemeckis, of Forrest Gump and Polar Express renown, at the helm.

Two female - centric features took center stage for day 3 of MVFF, further bolstering the festival's women - in - film initiative with...

For months we've been hearing about a Margot Robbie - produced Suicide Squad spinoff film centering on or at least featuring Harley Quinn, but didn't have any concrete details... until now!

The documentary later goes into the controversy surrounding the film, most of it centered around the marketing which featured images of Santa grasping an axe as he came down the chimney.

Two female - centric features took center stage for day 3 of MVFF, further bolstering the festival's women - in - film initiative with female talent both in front of and behind the camera.

In this year's annual bid Kosovo Cinematography Center (KCC) supports 17 films, which consist of 7 features including The House produced by Bujar Kabashi, written and directed by Lendita Zeqiraj, known for her short Balcony.

The center of the film is Colin O'Donoghue, making his confident, impressive feature debut as Michael Kovak, an aspiring Catholic priest suffering a spiritual crisis.

Each table featured designs from the five films that were up for best picture; one, for instance, reimagined Three Billboards, replete with three red billboards growing out of its center.