Sentences with phrase «fiction film called»

Word has spread that he is looking to cut his directorial teeth on an indie - budgeted science - fiction film called Ex Machina.

He concocts a fairly crazy scheme to a create a Hollywood science fiction film called «Argo» and send a Canadian film crew to Iran to scout locations.

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Knowing of my interest in crime fiction and detective stories my late father - in - law, John Thynne — who had supported Arsenal from before the war — was always talking about a film made in 1939 called The Arsenal Stadium Mystery.

In the mid-nineteen-forties, Rossellini rose to international fame with the seminal works of so - called neo-realism, in which he filmed actors who weren't stars, mainly on location, in stories and with methods that seemed closer to documentary than to fiction.

A film that defines the fatigued term «ambitious,» it's the story of Man's need to transcend the physical, to defeat mortality, to address the divine that takes the form of what the director has called «science - fiction for the new millennium.»

But the film opened in France uncut in October, and U.K. correspondent Oliver Lyttelton hopped across the Channel to catch it, and found it more than worth the trip, calling it «the best pure science - fiction film since «Children Of Men.»»

Chungking Express — This was actually a very tough call for me, whether to make this or Pulp Fiction the # film of the year.

We've sat through an entire generation of fantasy and science fiction films about a protagonist gifted with extraordinary powers who first Resists, then Accepts The Call, which almost always involves saving the world, defeating a powerful villain, and re-establishing the status quo.

It was a hit that got overlooked when another 20th Century Fox science fiction film, a little thing called Star Wars, opened just a few weeks later, but a cult following kept it alive through revival house, college campuses, and video releases ever since.

It's no wonder, then, that science fiction and fantasy films often felt more resonant and important than so - called «realistic» fiction.

This movie is more watchable than some of the so called films that recently screened at the Ohio Science Fiction Movie Marathon and Honor Marathons.

But Polley's entire point is that one person's «reality» is someone else's «fiction» and her brilliant film almost deconstructs itself as it goes along, calling into question its own presentation of the «facts» yet never feeling academic, and always wholly emotional.

Set on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, The Rider is a fiction film that calls on nonprofessional actors to play characters similar to themselves, incorporating their skill sets and experiences.

Back in 1997, Michael Douglas and Sean Penn starred in a film called The Game, where Douglas was put through his paces in a live - action role - play that intentionally blurred the line between fiction and reality.

-- In late June, the call for submissions will open for the second #HometownHeroes rally with The Duplass Brothers, which expands this year to include both fiction and nonfiction feature films.

As if defending the movies that made Stewart a star, her «Sils Maria» character asserts that there can be as much truth in genre films — science fiction and fantasy, for example — as there is in so - called serious movies.

To disguise the six as a Canadian film crew scouting locations in Iran for a science fiction movie called ARGO.

While others called it 2017's best, ScreenCrush's Matt Singer added it «looks like someone dared director Denis Villeneuve and cinematographer Roger Deakins to make the most visually spectacular science - fiction film of the century — and then they actually did it.»

Marco Kalantari made this epic science fiction short film called The Shaman.

It was popularized in other countries after a little known film called Pulp Fiction (1994) explained a quarter pounder with cheese is called a Royale with Cheese in France (it's actually listed as Royal cheese on menus in France) Jump back to more modern times and Battle Royal has been around in wrestling a long time.

Paramount Pictures has released a new trailer for Alex Garland's upcoming science fiction - horror film Annihilation, showing off the strange world that an expedition finds when they enter a zone called Area X.