Sentences with phrase «fiction films which»

Cinema Eye presented its first Nonfiction Short Film award (it went to The Poodle Trainer by Vance Malone) and the first Heterodox Award, recognizing fiction films which imaginatively incorporate nonfiction strategies, content and / or modes of production.

Not exact matches

He didn't want to make it look like just a mechanical mat... which is typically what happens with robots in science fiction films.

I took this from a discussion of Jesus» bloodline that is in wikipedia - «Differing and contradictory versions of a Jesus bloodline hypothesis have been promoted by numerous books, websites and films of non-fiction and fiction in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which have almost all been dismissed as works of pseudohistory and conspiracy theory.

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.

Mr Armstrong said this was the theme to the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction, which Mr Armstrong described as a «killing spree movie».

Adonaijah Owiriwa and Izu Ojukwu's movie, «76» a 2016 Nigerian historical fiction drama film which stars Ramsey Nouah, Chidi Mokeme, Rita Dominic and Ibinabo Fiberesima, won in five categories, which includes, Best Actress in Drama / TV / Movies (Rita Dominic), Best Director (Izu Ojukwu), Best Art Director (Pat Nebo), Best Costume Designer (Pat Egwurube).

Counselors in rehab often warned me of watching films like Pulp Fiction or Requiem for a Dream, which have a reputation for glorifying drug use and could have led me to a relapse.

In the typical science fiction film circa 1950, there's that scene in which scientists return from the just - landed flying saucer and tell the Army brass that no tool known to humankind can cut, burn, bend, or otherwise scar the hull.

It is quite easy to take a trip to the river and discover that the part of the film when commandos Jack Hawkins and William Holden parachute into the jungle and plant dynamite under the bridge, which British officer Alec Guinness and his surprisingly healthy - looking troops have built, is pure fiction.

The European Space Agency's first foray into science fiction, in the form of a short film entitled Ambition that promotes the Rosetta mission, may herald a new way in which science outreach can be conducted.

A «creepypasta» is a short piece of horror Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death

Director James Cameron's 1986 blockbuster follow - up to Ridley Scott's Oscar winning science - fiction / horror flick that became one of the biggest grossing films of 1979 asks a good question to a successful hit... How do you make a successful sequel to a film in which much of the suspense comes from learning about the mysterious monster?

But amazingly for a 50's space flick its a very intelligent and deep adventure which has become a full top level cult and the quintessential science fiction film up alongside the likes of» 2001: A Space Odyssey».

The film, in which Tarantino had a voice - over cameo, reunited him with Fiction star Samuel L. Jackson and won him the raves that had been missing for much of his post-Fiction career.

Released in theatres on August 24,1966, «Fantastic Voyage» was not only a film of authentic wonder but a science fiction masterpiece with amazing special effects... the team enters the body of a man where they see first hand the oceans of life within the human body that contains the «corpuscles», «the heart», «the lungs» and other features of the human body through which the crew move through are exquisitely designed in great detail with artistic quality.

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.

You don't have to look too far or to deep to find the similarities among writer / director Andrew Niccol's three science fiction films (I'm ignoring The Host, which is more Stephanie Meyer than Niccol).

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.

But there's one Science Fiction film that towers above all others of the genre, as well as all other films, and that is Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Warner Brothers barely released in time to actually be seen on a big screen during the relevant year.

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.

There are science fiction films that deal with the subject of time travel and then there is Looper, which comes across as refreshingly original as well as entertaining, with a story full of interesting twists.

The metafiction in «Stranger than Fiction» might not be as clever as «Adaptation» (or even Neil LaBute's underappreciated «Nurse Betty»), but this imitative screenplay of a superior film is better than, say, «EdTV», which was a byproduct of «The Truman Show».

Which of this year's fantastical science fiction and fantasy films at SXSW will hit the big time this year?

Per The Hollywood Reporter, this Jennifer Juniper Stratford film is a «science fiction tale told in the style of classic B - movies and outfitted with practical special effects, laser beams and lunatic ideas which are guaranteed to make it the next big midnight movie hit.»

Mike Birbiglia's sensitive, funny, sad, honest film Don't Think Twice, which has more affection for and understanding of a certain kind of comedy person than perhaps any piece of fiction that's ever been written about them.

The moderately successful artistic pursuits of this sculptor and retired Bard College professor, coupled with the short story structure of the film, lay the foundation for its exploration of the way in which history and perception become intertwined with identity and how people often cling to an idea of themselves, be it objective fact or socially constructed fiction.

According to the press notes, «Reach Me» director John Herzfeld first wrote the script for this ensemble dramedy circa 2001, which makes sense given that the film bears more than a faint aroma of Herzfeld's «2 Days in the Valley» (1997), one of the least offensive of the era's many «Pulp Fiction» also - rans.

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.

She produced the short film «Alone» (NYT OpDoc) which won the Short Film Jury Award: Non Fiction at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

Visually stunning with impressive special effects Ender's Game is one of the better science fiction adventure films to come along in 2013, next to «Oblivion,» which also had at its heart a war between humans and otherworldly creatures.

, in which Espinosa says he wanted to make «science reality» rather than «science fiction,» filming a scenario that made some scientific sense and portraying the realistic reactions of characters living through a crisis.

«Ridley Scott did the first film, and he inspired an entire generation of filmmakers and science - fiction fans with that one movie and there have been so many films that stylistically have derived from it, including my own Aliens, which was the legitimate sequel and, I think, the proper heir to his film.

Lucas» only previous experience was TH 1138, a science fiction thriller, which he had developed from a student film he had made while at USC.

«Pulp Fiction» filmmaker wants to direct the untitled «Trek» film, which he'll produce with J.J. Abrams

One of the best - and for the vast majority of people still hotly - anticipated - films of the year is Bong Joon - ho's fantastic science fiction thriller, Snowpiercer, in which the sole survivors of a nuclear winter reside within a single...

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

I would say he was the Russian equivalent of Stanley Kubrick, because he is simply an artist, his vision and ideas and one of a kind, and though this is my second film of Tarkovsky's that I have watched, the first being Solaris, which for me is his masterwork, and a masterpiece of Science Fiction.

Growing up in the isolated suburbs of Vancouver Island during the 80s, he obsessed over the minutiae of heavy metal, fantasy art, and science fiction horror films, which he still does to this day.

And for better or for worse, this next Frankenstein film doesn't have anything to do with that campy, fan - fiction - spurring flop Victor Frankenstein, in which James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe recently starred.

Paul Schrader's «First Reformed,» which premiered at Venice and played the Telluride and Toronto film festivals, took home MFF's Fiction Feature prize.

But plenty of classic films have lost Best Pictureike Citizen Kane, The Graduate and Pulp Fiction, each of which has a lot in common with TSN.

He's helped by a very entertaining cohort of co-stars which include holdovers from the previous films like Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction), Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead) and Jeremy Renner (Kill the Messenger), and newcomers like Alec Baldwin (Still Alice), Sean Harris (Harry Brown) and Rebecca Ferguson («The White Queen «-RRB-.

Although the film's controversial nature depends in part on the explicitness of some of the unsimulated sex scenes — an ejaculation shot, for instance, and images of cunnilingus in which the labia are clearly visible — the crux of the problem for many critics has been the slender division between fiction and documentary.

Tarantino exploded on the film stage in 1992 with the brilliant Reservoir Dogs, before following that up with the superior Pulp Fiction, for which he won his first Academy Award.

By way of its coolly detached and minimalist style, Funny Games was deliberately made as a nauseating antidote to films like Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994) and Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994), which (too) eagerly depict graphic violence for the viewer's entertainment (13).

Signatures is a short film scheme for the making of live - action, fiction films that act as a proving - ground for Irish creative talents which aims to encourage strong, original storytelling, visual flair, and production values appropriate to the big screen.

«Children Of Men» For a film which is, ostensibly at least, science fiction (it creates one of the most coherent, fascinating futuristic dystopias ever seen on screen), «Children of Men» sums up our War - on - Terror, immigration - panic era better than any contemporary drama could.

Morris is also beginning preproduction on his next film, Holland, Michigan, a thriller starring Naomi Watts, Bryan Cranston, and Edgar Ramirez, which will be, «for all intents and purposes,» his first fiction feature.

Ending a frustrating nine - year absence from the screen, during which Martel began and ultimately abandoned a science - fiction project, «Zama» is, fittingly enough, a film about waiting: It brings you deep into the world of Don Diego de Zama, a servant of the Spanish crown longing for a transfer from his soul - sapping Paraguayan outpost.