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Not exact matches
Instead of a typical church fundraiser - perhaps a bake sale - Friends Church's leadership proposed a
feature film shot on location on two sides of the globe and with a
powerful message about the $ 32 billion world slave trade.
Am thrilled to be
featured in a new
powerful film by Laurie David and Katie Couric that
features an all - star line - up.
The
film also
features the full power of Jean Grey as her telekinetic and telepathic abilities turn her into one of the most
powerful mutants, called Phoenix.
The story of the Lovings has all the elements for an inspiring and
powerful feature film.
What a tedious
film.Over acting, wobbly plot, dialogue at times pure drivel and a laughable ending.It really was poor.The
film goes straight into a Cul de Sac and can not get out.Way too much nudity from the metro sexual looking Tilda Swinton.Her androgynous body quite turned my stomach.A redeeming
feature was the glorious sunshine and
powerful light of Italy.The
film meanders, wobbles and finally falls down.Older people like Swinton and Fiennes should really keep their pants on at all times.It is acutely embarrassing when the oldies need to do so much nudity (l suspect it is to appease their insecurity that they might not be physically desirable anymore) Horrible attempt at
film making
The easiest point of comparison is probably Denis Côté's own Bestiaire (2012), a
powerful film that takes the exact concept and stretches it to unnerving
feature - length.
«We have chosen a
film that we believe encompasses the beauty, aesthetic, as well as the
powerful themes of love, struggle, life, death, and womanhood that are the spirit of this year's festival,» said the jury for best narrative
feature.
A kind of subversive take on the traditional Noah story, Take Shelter made good on the promises of writer / director Jeff Nichols» first
feature Shotgun Stories, establishing him as a
powerful new voice in the
film community.
Joe's been tracking unusual signals and disturbances at the plant and on this day, his birthday, a major catastrophe occurs, resulting in numerous deaths (and
featuring the most
powerful scene in the
film).
Saban Films has debuted an official trailer for a
powerful indie
film titled The Forgiven,
featuring two riveting performances in a tense thriller based on real events.
«The Art of Oz The Great and
Powerful» focuses mostly on the production of the
film and
features some never - before - seen
film stills, a little bit of concept art, all tied up with some nice interviews with the cast and crew.
His new movie is a genre mash - up, a cop
film featuring orcs, fairies, elves, and a
powerful magic wand.
Directed by Bong Joon - ho (The Host), and based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, the
film is rich in atmosphere and
features powerful performances from some very fine actors, including Chris Evans, John Hurt, Octavia Spencer, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris and Jamie Bell.
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018)
Feature - length animated
film finds Amanda Waller's top secret «Task Force X» — Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, Killer Frost, Captain Boomerang, Harley Quinn and Copperhead — on a mission to retrieve a mystical object so
powerful that they're willing to risk their own lives to steal it.
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.
Featuring a
powerful performance by Chiwetel Ejiofor and what I consider the best performance of the year (by Lupita Nyong» o), this epic is a must - see and will surely be judged a classic American
film in the years to come.
The
film features a stellar cast led by Justin Long (Yoga Hosers, Tusk, Accepted), Melanie Lynskey («Castle Rock,» «Togetherness,» Heavenly Creatures), Tony Hale («Arrested Development,» «Veep»), Melonie Diaz (Fruitvale Station, The Belko Experiment), Carrie Preston («Claws,» «True Blood»), and
powerful performances from teenage actors Arman Darbo (Defenders of Life) and Sawyer Barth (Super Dark Times).
Weirdly sad, always ridiculous and effectively nasty, Sleepwalkers is perhaps the least remembered King
film most worthy of re-appraisal, if nothing else because it
features some of the most
powerful cat acting committed to
film.
Among the other fiction
films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut
feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror
films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some
powerful political metaphors.
American Independents Presented by the Lincoln Motor Company:
Featuring powerful new voices in American cinema, these fresh, gritty
films explore a variety of subjects through the filmmaker's uncompromising vision.
The
film is absolutely one of the best of the year and
features powerful performances by the whole cast, especially Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong» O, and it will be a major player in this year's awards race.
This approach, while perhaps a little naïve, is brought to life by Cumberbatch's
powerful attuned performance, which is the
film's solitary redeeming
feature.
Incredibly moving and
powerful, it marks an impressive
feature film debut from Shane and Wilson, and should pretty much be required viewing for anyone on either side of the abortion debate.
Bounce combines the
powerful narrative elements of
feature animation
films with the intricate gameplay mechanics of VR to create the ultimate puzzle adventure.
It's a
film that deserves as wide an audience as possible in spite of its forbidding length; a hugely
powerful work of great empathy and insight that
features a performance from Léa Seydoux that would probably have been the most talked - about coming out of Cannes had it not been overshadowed by that of the
film's lead Adele Exarchopolous.
«At its core the Sundance
film festival is about discovery,» we explained in our statement, «In their
feature film debut these filmmakers dare to expose a story that
powerful forces would rather keep hidden.»
An even bleaker movie than González Iñárritu's earlier
films, it
featured a
powerful central performance and much more straightforward camera and editing work than we had grown accustomed to.
These letters form the basis of «Trumbo,» a documentary about the writer's life based on the play «Trumbo» by his son Christopher and
featuring powerful staged readings of the letters by such performers as Brian Dennehy, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Liam Neeson, David Strathairn, and Michael Douglas — whose father, Kirk, interviewed in the
film, helped break the blacklist in 1960 by insisting that Trumbo be credited as the screenwriter for «Spartacus.»
The best thing about the
film is that it heralds the arrival of a young and
powerful new female director, the formidable Ana Lily Amirpour (
featured on our Best Of 2014: The 20 Breakthrough Directors Of The Year list), whose magnetic personality is on display in a new Vice documentary on the making of «Girl,» her
feature debut.
Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017), because it's the most
powerful popular feminist statement in mainstream cinema thus far, inspiring countless young women and girls to dare to succeed; because Patty Jenkins more than deserved it after languishing in the wilderness of episodic television after her masterful
film Monster (2003), when any male director would have gone on to direct four of five
features on the strength of that one
film; because it's about damned time that a female comic book
feature got made; because Jenkins still had to fight to get a fair payday to direct WW 2 — enduring months of fight - to - the - death negotiations to get a directorial fee comparable to that of Zack Snyder or J.J. Abrams for the sequel; and finally because she's better than either of those two directors, who are overrated hacks with little or no vision at all.
Warner Bros. has revealed the first trailer for David Yates» Harry Potter spin - off prequel, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald along with a teaser poster
featuring Eddie Redmayne's Newt Scamander and Jude Law's Albus Dumbledore; check them out here... At the end of the first
film, the
powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) was captured by MACUSA -LSB-...]
This
powerful app lets kids create
feature films and Hollywood - style trailers using the built - in themes and templates.
In the newest animated
feature film adventure, a
powerful spirit that once threatened to destroy the world is back!
Gives players the chance to «play as the most
powerful super heroes in their quest to save humanity,» says Warner Bros. «Experience the first console videogame
featuring characters and storylines from the blockbuster
film The Avengers and the much anticipated sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron and more.»
For more than 30 years, Hershman Leeson has employed innovative technology to probe issues of identity, embodiment and expression in newly engaging ways, producing complex works of computer engineering as well as
powerful documentaries and
feature films.
Laura Poitras (b. 1964, Boston) is best known for her
powerful film project «9/11 Trilogy,» three
feature length documentary
films created in response to the United States invasion of Iraq.
Coinciding with the release of his latest
feature film, 12 Years a Slave, this extensive retrospective brought McQueen's impressive two decades of quiet radicality full circle, showing that to comprehend his
powerful and unsparing vision as a filmmaker one must begin with the roots of his practice as an artist.
In addition to ascreening of his recent
film Black Mirror
featuring American actress Chloe Sevigny, Aikten exhibits
powerful lightboxes alongside sculpture and installation.
One of the works, Lenticular (2013), exploring train of the Planet through figures of self - taught astronomer,
filmed at an old observatory in Dundee, is shown in this book together with its installation view of dome shaped and rectangle channels to
feature its sculptural presence, while Aurora (2013) is enhanced the work's rather
powerful charms by showing images in various sizes.