Sentences with phrase «fiction films such»

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Lewis wrote, noting that such salted weapons were featured in the 1964 science - fiction Cold War parody film «Dr. Strangelove.»

Actor John Travolta — best known as starring in films such as Pulp Fiction and Grease — will be among the numerous celebrity attendees, serving as a special guest speaker.

Questions which the body politic or the academic world are unwilling to confront head - on are often dealt with through the medium of, say, science fiction: think of the Matrix films, or a novel such as Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

Modern films and fiction are replete with examples of persons who try to live as though there were no unseen God, and such persons have the look and smell of monsters.

In fiction, pneumatic technology is often associated with a creaking bureaucratic dystopia, such as George Orwell's 1984 or the satirical film Brazil, but it was once widely lauded.

Not the American science fiction writer whose novels spawned hit films such as Blade Runner and Total Recall — he died more than 20 years ago — but a state - of - the - art robot named after the author.

The old Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials were not science fiction, the «alien invaders» flicks of the 50s were likewise fantasy, and it continues today with such non science fiction films as Independence Day, Red Planet and Event Horizon trying to claim a genre title of which they are not worthy.

Commercial movies like Black Beauty and The Yellow Rolls Royce have utilized the same format, and more recently, adventurous filmmakers have experimented with this structure in such films as Go and Pulp Fiction.

In his growing years as a feature filmmaker, Arcand would alternate between fiction films and documentaries, at times combining the two in such efforts as 1975's Gina.

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.

In the late 1920s, Fritz Lang was the star director of Germany's Ufa Studios, the biggest film studio outside of Hollywood, and one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the world for such ambitious epic visions as Destiny (1921), the Die Nibelungen (1924) films and especially Metropolis (1927), his allegorical science fiction classic that is still considered one of the great films of the silent era.

In addition to running original fiction by major authors (Stephen King was a regular), the magazine contained features about older writers such as Lovecraft and Machen along with book reviews by Thomas Disch, film reviews by Gahan Wilson, interviews and more.»

Being such a massive phenomenon has made The Hunger Games an easy target to tilt at but the truth is that, staying close to the Suzanne Collins novel, this film adaptation is a lean, smart science fiction thriller that there's much to like about.

There's a palpable fit between progressive festivals and their progressive cinema, and, inversely, it's also noticeable when a festival that separates fiction and nonfiction selects a film that's an in - betweener: at LAFF, Kevin Jerome Everson's The Island of St. Matthews only serves to underline the retrograde nature of such a programming structure.

The best scenes in White God show Hagen's early solidarity with the street dogs into whose company he's been forced; surely no recent fiction film has conveyed with such respect the way animals interact on their own terms.

This event will see a selection of new release previews, specially selected classics and films that reflect the different programming strands that the IFI runs all year round such as IFI Stranger than Fiction, IFI Family and the IFI Irish Film Archive.

Though your films aren't documentaries, you do blend reality and fiction, such as when Frances (Greta Gerwig) visits her parents in Sacramento in «Frances Ha.»

Yet in the last few years an increasing number of films have questioned the dichotomy between documentary and fiction and integrated such questions into the films themselves.

It is a mutli - layered and profound film that speaks to such weighty issues as humanity, memories, dreams, and a vision of the future that changed the face of science fiction forever.

Doug Jones (born May 24, 1960) is an American film and television actor best known to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fans for his various roles playing non-human characters, often in heavy makeup, in films and television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

His daughter, Amanda Plummer (b 23 March 1957), has also had a successful acting career with roles in films such as The Fisher King (1991) and Pulp Fiction (1994), and in The Lark (2005) at Canada's Stratford Festival.

In addition to the plethora of comic book - based superhero movies in the next few years, there are a variety of other films such as science fiction, fantasy and action under the umbrella description of «genre.»

The festival focuses on genre films such as horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, Asian, and cult.

The Miramax library holds some of the world's most sophisticated, thought - provoking and critically - acclaimed independent films including sex, lies, and videotape, The English Patient, Shakespeare In Love, Reservoir Dogs, Chicago, Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction, My Left Foot, Cinema Paradiso, Life is Beautiful, Amélie, Kill Bill, Volume I and II, No Country for Old Men, as well as scores of commercially successful films such as Bridget Jones's Diary, the Scream, Hellraiser and Scary Movie franchises and Spy Kids.

Of course, such comparisons are unfair, even in a movie that pays tribute to the science - fiction films of a generation earlier.

The film, starring Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis and the timeless Robby the Robot, is considered one of the best science - fiction films ever made and was a strong inspiration on such future projects as «Star Trek.»

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.

Few science fiction films are aimed exclusively at the teenage market; fewer still escape such an endeavour with any measure of success.

In terms of tone, John Michael McDonagh's first film shot outside in the United States feels a bit like the latest U.S. - based film turned in by his filmmaking brother, Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths, another film that I compared to the post-Pulp Fiction clones that came out in the late 1990s, full of bloody violence, brash attitude, and peppered with jokey moments that play to the crowd, such as one of the characters musing on whether a mime will make a sound when he is hit with a car.

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.

The flagship of the Festival, section Oficial Fantàstic, presents some of the most eagerly awaited movies of the year, such as Only God Forgives by Nicolas Winding Refn - director of Valhalla Rising and Drive; Jim Jarmusch's latest film Only Lovers Left Alive, an eternal love story between two vampires; A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III, a surrealist comedy by the hand of Roman Coppola; The Congress, a spectacular adaptation of Stanislaw Lem directed by Ari Folman - responsible for Vals with Bashir -, that combines animation with a science - fiction story starring Robin Wright and Harvey Keitel; Sitges 2013 will also represent the return of Kiyoshi Kurosawa to the fantastique genre with Real.

While it definitely qualifies as such, the film had a sizeable impact on science - fiction cinema.

Of course, such comparisons are unfair, even in a movie that pays so much tribute to science - fiction films that came a generation earlier.

In addition to Pulp Fiction, McDonagh's film carries echoes of such genre demolitions as Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz and the Robert - Downey - Jr.

Starting in the late 1980s, Herzog began to focus much more on documentary storytelling (though he had always made documentaries previously, and would continue to make fiction films, going forwards), and now has a body of work that includes such nonfiction masterpieces as Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Grizzly Man, the Oscar - nominated Encounters at the End of the World and Cave of Forgotten Dreams.

Too often big screen science fiction movies finesse such complicated matters with the recent Her being a good example of a film that ultimately avoids facing the full implications of its premise.

10 of Napa Valley's most innovative chefs will present their fresh spin on dishes inspired by iconic film scenes in movies such as Big Night, Pulp Fiction, andJulia and Julia.

Many teachers across the globe routinely utilise elements of media such as music, films, comics and fictions, internet media as well as advertisements as supplements to textbook teaching.

After years of amateur film - making and writing short fiction, he journeyed to Hollywood in 1976 where he quickly found work writing scripts for such major television series as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, and Miami Vice, as well as numerous series pilots and Movies - of - the - Week for the major networks.

(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.»

Fan art, or fanart, are artworks created by fans of a work of fiction (generally visual media such as comics, film, television shows, or video games) and derived from a series character or other aspect of that work.

Her work has exhibited internationally at galleries, film festivals and venues such as Vitrine Gallery (London), Public Fiction (Los Angeles), Storefront for Art and Architecture, Anthology Film Archives (New York), and Antimatter Film Festival (Canada).

While notions of utopia are common in popular culture, such as through science fiction novels, films, and television, the concept remains an ideal outside of our reach.

Inspired by direct experiences and observations of her surroundings as well as the films, plays, and novels of such luminaries as Alfred Hitchcock, John Cassavetes, Roman Polanski, Jack Smith, Jorge Luis Borges, Tennessee Williams, and Samuel Beckett and mainstays of popular culture like soap operas and science fiction, her work is carefully scripted and produced while maintaining an immediate sense of spontaneity and unpredictability.

His practice revolves around a diverse range of mediums, such as film, photography, and text in order to expand the way textual and visual narratives, whether documentary or fiction, are constructed.

Clark's still photography, which is filled with narrative tension has led him on to producing film and directing cult classics such as Kids (1995), Bully (2001) and Wassup Rockers (2006), films which blur the boundaries of documentary and fiction, often using untrained actors playing scenes which could be from their own lives.