Sentences with phrase «fiction film set»

An Ayn Rand — flavored science fiction film set in the present day.

Rian Johnson's Looper is a smart and unique science fiction film set in the future about time travel that is controlled by mobsters.

«It is a science fiction film set in a place with a complicated, aggressive history.»

Not exact matches

The result is a movie that blurs the lines between fact and fiction, documentary and feature film, telling the story of childhood elation and adult struggle, in a motel where this happens every day and featuring dozens of extras who live within miles of the set.

In the recent science fiction film Passengers, a huge spaceship flies at half the speed of light on a 120 - year - long journey toward the distant planet Homestead II, where its 5000 passengers are to set up a new home.

The world's last unexplored continent — not a bad setting for a new science fiction movie, once Cameron returns from filming the further adventures of the Na «vi on their native Pandora, in the Alpha Centauri star system.

In other words, the popular conception of the term psychopathic, from crime fiction or slasher films, for example, doesn't always apply in clinical settings.

«Interstellar,» the latest blockbuster film by Christopher Nolan that opened Friday, is a science - fiction movie set in the near future when humanity must depart Earth and find a new home.

Stepping inside the pristine education and research space at the Houston Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation & Education (MITIE) is akin to walking on the set of a science fiction film.

The film had great set design and art pieces, but it's not really like a blatantly fantastical fantasy — it is shot and depicted almost like a historical fiction with some bizarre creatures in it.

His next project (which, though it doesn't begin filming until next month, is currently slotted for an end - of - year release) is a New York - set period dramedy based on the stranger - than - fiction, real - life FBI sting operation (ABSCAM) that brought down numerous crime figures and corrupt government officials in 1980.

The filmmakers referred to the film more as fan fiction and it might not actually live up to the standard set by Mark Twain's stories, but it certainly is fun to see them try to tell a modernized story of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

Set in the late 70s, the film positively revels in an exaggerated version of the era — so much smog, so much hair — and the Los Angeles setting means that it gets to mimic all the detective fiction of which Black's always been such a fan.

It's the three pillars of science - fiction as defined by J.G. Ballard; the film plays like a western set on Mars, starring bugs pretending to be men.

The film had a modest cinematic showing in the United States but became a major hit in the United Kingdom, setting Taratino up for further success with his even more widely acclaimed Pulp Fiction.

What sets it apart from similarly themed works is its expert storytelling — at times feeling more like a Roman Polanski film than a first swing from a relative newcomer at fiction.

«Jupiter Ascending»: The Wachowski siblings» science - fiction film may be set in the future, but by shooting at Warner Bros..

«I would say that the science fiction of it is a big thing that sets it apart from most of the other superhero genre films,» Trank says.

The setting feels very much like the Mars - in - fiction we've come to know over the years, and closely resembles Marauder territory in the Red Faction: Origins film released in 2011.

In its swirl of violence and emotion, the new movie feels like a summation of those two most recent pictures, even as it braids together settings and story elements from Jia's earlier films «Unknown Pleasures» (2002) and «Still Life» (2008), his surreally tinged docu - fiction about the incalculable impact of the Three Gorges Dam project.

I believed this to be the way movies naturally were, unaware then that I was poised at the cusp of a decade of filmmaking that would redefine fantasy and science - fiction, setting precedents for the genre with films like Back to the Future and Predator, E.T., and Blade Runner, Near Dark, and Miracle Mile — the well was as deep for flights of fancy in the Eighties as it was for incomparable character - driven paranoia in the Seventies.

Given that the film is set in 1965, what kind of science - fiction would you say she's reading?

Goya's Ghosts (2006) Mixing elements of historic fact with fiction, the easiest explanation for Bardem's wig - like mess in this Milos Forman film is that it's a period piece set in the late 18th - century.

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.

Like Miller's «Sin City» film, «The Spirit» (above) is a stylised pulp - fiction pastiche which suspends its stars in monochrome, computer - generated urban settings.

What it attempts is no more offensive than trying to glom together A Few Good Men with The Usual Suspects while returning McTiernan to the jungle setting of his Predator and reuniting the two stars of Pulp Fiction, neither of whom frankly has been in a film nearly as good as that in the nine years since.

The film, said to be in the vein of «Pulp Fiction», features a subplot about the Manson murders, with Margot Robbie set to play Sharon Tate.

Set in Los Angeles in 1949 Gangster Squad embraces the pulpy crime films and hardboiled fiction of the era.

In the film's most unexpected sequence, del Toro unites its science fiction and musical theater elements for a truly bizarre, woman - and - merman, Broadway - style number set to the Harry Warren — Mack Gordon standard «You'll Never Know.»

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.

But, of course, this is all just a flimsy foundation upon which director / co-writer Rick Friedberg and fellow scripters Dick Chudnow, Jason Friedberg, and Aaron Seltzer hang set pieces parodying specific films such as Pulp Fiction, True Lies, Speed, and In the Line of Fire, to name a few.

Both open with abortive space - docking action set - pieces, both involve brief explorative sections aboard the alien Derelict cruiser, and both tread the same hallowed ground of their source films with reverence that is sometimes so close to the films that it can be like playing someone's fan - fiction, in which they insert themselves into the story of the game as a way to replay the movie with themselves in the lead.

As such, though set in modern times, the film takes a decidedly spoof - y look at science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, with nods to such classics as The War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

But even when the film begins flailing (literally so in an irritating Joan Cusack's case) through a Depression - set Nancy Drew adventure, the story never loses sight of its social conviction, even connecting Kit's fearsomeness to the heroes of youth fiction — from Robin Hood to the cow that jumped over the moon — and recognizing that hers is a high - wire show of moral exactitude every child should look up to.

• James Cameron's science fiction film «Avatar» (his first feature film since «Titanic») set to be released in December 2009, is described by the director as «an old - fashioned jungle adventure with an environmental conscience.»

However, it seems to have also taken a backseat to another project, the Cuban spy thriller Wasp Network, a French - Brazilian co-pro set in 1990s Florida, which has been confirmed as filming after Non Fiction wraps.

In that sense, Shyamalan is telling what appears to be a very personal, two - person character study in the setting of a big - budget science - fiction action film.

It's a science - fiction film in J.G. Ballard's barest definition of the genre — an exploration of time, space, and identity set in the near future in a cloud of languages and ideas — that periodically soars like invention can when it's raised from a foundation of familiar catastrophe and intimate calamity.

I'm most curious about Nate Parker's Nat Turner biopic, The Birth of a Nation; Clea DuVall's The Intervention; documentarian Asif Kapadia's fiction film, Ali & Nino, set in Azerbaijan at the outbreak of World War I; John Carney's Dublin teen musical, Sing Street; Aaron Brookner's Uncle Howard, a tribute to his uncle, the filmmaker Howard Brookner; Robert Cannan and Ross Adam's The Lovers and the Despot, an investigation of the kidnapping of a South Korean director and his actress ex-wife by movie - mad Kim Jong - il, the crazy but true story that is hilariously retold in David Cronenberg's debut novel, Consumption; and Elite Zexer's Sand Storm, an Israeli - financed film, in Arabic, about two Bedouin women.

«The Curse of the Wendigo,» a story about a mysterious creature set during World War I, written by Mathieu Missoffe and illustrated by Charlie Adlard, the artist of «The Walking Dead;» «Josephine,» a romantic comedy by Penelope Bagieu, the creator of «Exquisite Corpse;» «Promethee,» a science - fiction story in the same vein as «Lost,» created by Christopher Bec, with an introduction by Mark Waid; «Iron Squad,» an alternate history sci - fi story in which new technology allows the Germans to win World War II, by Jean - Luc Sala and Ronan Toulhoat; «Spin Angels,» a tale of black ops and spies, a Catholic cardinal and the Mafia, by Jean - Luc Sala and Pierre - Mony Chan; «Come Prima,» a road story about two warring brothers, done in a style that pays homage to Italian films, by Alfred.

Like the Mass Effect series, the anime film will «tell the tale of an epic science fiction adventure set in a vast universe filled with dangerous alien life and mysterious, uncharted planets»

(or Buster Brothers), within a comical science - fiction setting inspired by films and series such as Futurama, Rick & Morty, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future or Spaceballs.»

The trailer features imagery and settings that feel calculated to remind players not only of the earlier Ghost Recon games, but also of popular recent films and TV series like Sicario and Narcos which have made the intricacies and mythos of the international drug trade a popular topic for dark contemporary fiction.

Beginning her work primarily in film, in recent years her versatile, multidisciplinary work has seen Foerster collaborating on everything from writing a science fiction novel with fellow artist Philippe Parreno to working with rock singer Alain Bashung on set design and collaborating with fashion house Balenciaga on a Paris exhibition.

Robert Orchardson's work draws on a range of sources from modernist architecture and futuristic design, including utopian manifestos, stage sets and details from science fiction films.

Bronwen Buckeridge's film installation follows performers at the Peking Opera, exploring how fictions take shape, while Amy Stephens» collection of spindly wooden frames looks like it might form a stage set — or perhaps a series of portals into another world.

The Vancouver - based artist's 12th solo show at NYC's David Zwirner gallery melds fiction and documentary through a six - hour film set

Shot among the abandoned film sets scattered over the Sahara Desert, the film blurs fiction and non-fiction.

And Pierre Huyghe phenomenally transformed an indoor ice skating rink into the set of an apocalyptic science fiction film.

Filled with 200 bunk beds scattered with books, the animal forms of gargantuan sculptures, a massive LED screen playing edited extracts from science - fiction and experimental films, and piercing lights that suggest some unseen surveillance, the Turbine Hall has taken on the appearance of an epic film set.