Sentences with phrase «fictional film»

The director makes a good but not perfect transition to fictional films here.

I've seen a documentary based on the book, and while it is a fascinating concept, I'm still wondering how it can possibly be turned into an exciting fictional film.

First fictional film about the 3/11 tsunami that devastated the Northeast coast of Japan, directed by the L'enfant terrible of Japanese Cinema - Sion Sono.

The effect of fictional film portrayals of psychotherapy on viewers» expectations and attitudes toward seeking treatment (Doctoral dissertation).

Using student help, Hooper began making fictional films while an instructor at the University of Texas.

She is the proud caregiver to a miniature poodle named Eddie, fondly named after fictional film character, Edward Scissorhands.

The campaign screened «Slaughterbots,» a 7:47 - minute fictional film by artificial intelligence (AI) expert Professor Stuart Russell of the University of California at Berkley, for CCW delegates on 12 November.

I bet I'll end up CNN faster than a Michael Moore interview of his next fictional film.

Sometimes, fictional film people meet extraterrestrial beings.

In any other fictional film if you have bad characters, underdeveloped elements, and sloppy narrative you simply get a bad piece of fiction.

More accurately, it is a supercut of various fictional films — a stitched - together collage of associative links and vague thematic consistency.

Is it a thrilling / entertaining found - footage fictional film, at least?

Taking place in Folsom Prison over a four - day therapy retreat involving both prisoners and outsiders, «The Work» is emotionally cathartic in ways fictional films rarely even get to touch.

Danny Collins, starring Al Pacino as a septuagenarian rock star, is a largely fictional film.

We've been seeing a lot of documentary filmmakers successfully make the jump to fictional films over the past few years, with people like Seth Gordon and Jeffrey Blitz going into comedy and Kevin Macdonald and Werner Herzog delving into genre films.

The movie is being directed by Seth Gordon (The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters), and it definitely looks like a step up from his last fictional film, Four Christmases.

Like the best fictional films, it focuses on heroes with whom we resonate emotionally, and features engaging dramatic action in the changes that these heroes help initiate.

The portrayal of Rottweilers as evil dogs in several fictional films and TV series, most notably in The Omen, has contributed to this negative publicity.

The James Cohan Gallery, in a statement to NBC News, defended Fast's remodeling for his exhibition, which features a 15 - minute, 3D digital fictional film entitled «August.»

In a recent project, Hunting for Pheasants, currently on view at Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA, Tomaszewski created a series of fictional film posters based on famous assassinations and installed them within a space negotiated by threading through a knee - high maze.

We need pay no more attention to it than to a chart of the bureaucracy in a foreign land or a fictional film about an organization half a world away.

Additional special features include audio commentary with Ben Affleck and writer Chris Terrio, interviews with the key players in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis including President Jimmy Carter, former CIA agent Tony Mendez, and the houseguests, a featurette on recreating the era for film, a peek inside the Canadian government, a bit about how Istanbul was chosen for shooting the film, and a look back at how the CIA made Hollywood believe in a fictional film.

In addition (and I hate to bring up realism in what is so clearly a fictional film) the main characters appear to be superhuman.

It won two jury awards at Sundance, and arguably an appreciation for Nick Cave the artist would influence any viewer's perception of 20,000 Days On Earth, but what really affects ones viewing of this film is entering into it and viewing it as a documentary disguised as a fictional film, or a fictional film disguised as a documentary.

Why would anyone praise a fictional film about soulless, inconsiderate, selfish people?

A lonely Japanese woman (Rinko Kikuchi) becomes convinced that a satchel of money buried and lost in a fictional film, is in fact, real.

Wiseman has occasionally returned to fictional films, albeit in a non-fiction performance style, as with Seraphita's Diary (1982) and La Derniere Lettre (2002).

It's a horror flick afraid of its own audience, as lost in its own geography as the fictional film crew in The Blair Witch Project.

Scenes occur both inside and outside the fictional film without adequate warning, and this arty ambiguity is as about as far as the movie's pleasures go.

A fictional film made with the same group of actors over a twelve year period, Boyhood is certainly something to look out for.

That is, the fictional films used in a film.

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper).

The fictional film tells the story of shrewd con man by the name of Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with the equally cunning Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a manic FBI agent, Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper).

Then there're the films themselves, debuted at a fictional film festival to the scorn or adulation of a fictional festival crowd (but no more fictional than a real festival crowd).

In an unexpected twist, much of what's played for hyperbole in the fictional film presages what happens in «Their Finest,» during which Catrin comes into her own, like so many women of her generation.

This fictional film deals with issues surrounding the Jewish Holocaust and how two young boys — one German and one Jewish — may have perceived what was happening around them.

Competing in the documentary section was Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine, a decidedly more experimental endeavor in which actor Kate Lyn Shiel prepares to play Chubbuck for a fictional film on her life.

Two of this week's documentaries could have been concocted by a Hollywood screenwriter — although if you saw their plots in a fictional film, you'd probably scorn them for being too far - fetched.

In fact, the moment recalls Godard's famous dictum that every fictional film is a documentary of its actors.

«It's a fictional film, but what it's based on happens all the time.»

What unfolds, through archive footage, interviews and reconstruction, is a story as absorbing as anything in any fictional film this year.

The film, directed by actor - writer - filmmaker David Zellner, is about a Japanese girl who becomes «convinced that a satchel of money buried in a fictional film is, in fact, real.»

I can't ever recall seeing a movie that could be called an «autobiopic» before, afilmmaker making a fictional film about his own life.

This is a fictional film rather than a documentary on several of the movie theater shootings that occurred over the past few years.

Here is the official press synopsis: «A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper).

But while the names are the same, Zhao wrote a fictional film about rebuilding a life which has captured the attention of critics and audiences alike.