Sentences with phrase «film drug war»

This month I've reviewed Tsui Hark's Working Class, Michelle Yeoh in Royal Warriors and Corey Yuen's She Shoots Straight in addition to Johnnie To's third feature Seven Years Itch and a revisit of his great 2012 film Drug War.

Not exact matches

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

The film follows Emily Blunt as an idealistic FBI agent who begins to question her beliefs when she's enlisted by an elite government task force official (Josh Brolin) to aid in the violent war on drugs.

Niccol has clearly been inspired by films such as Goodfellas and Boogie Nights, and initially infuses Lord of War with a similar sensibility - complete with period - appropriate rock songs on the soundtrack (ie Eric Clapton's «Cocaine» plays during a drug - heavy sequence).

The film tries to paint in shades of gray with vague criticisms of the war on drugs, but the absurdity of its he - man Everyman plot ends up turning its moral palette a muddy brown.

Heineman, whose last film quite literally put him in the line of fire in Mexico's drug wars, takes his cameras to the disparate locations from which the members of RBSS do their work.

Sicario, a fall release that addressed the war on drugs in both the United States and Mexico, led all films with five nominations including Best Picture and Best Director for Denis Villeneuve.

Filmmaker Matthew Heineman's Oscar - nominated film gives a chilling depiction of how the U.S.'s growing demand for illegal drugs helps fuel Mexico's drug war.

From Oscar - winning producer Kathryn Bigelow comes «Cartel Land,» director Matthew Heineman's documentary film about the Mexican drug war and vigilantes on both sides of the US - Mexican border.

A sprawling look at life on the front lines of the war against drug cartels in Mexico, this gripping film by Matthew Heineman explores the dangerous and messy moral dilemmas that arise when vigilante groups on both sides of the border take action.

His documentary film, «Cartel Land,» which was recently nominated for an Oscar and won a prestigious George Polk Award, made us — and many self - described drug war analysts — look like opinionated snobs.

I didn't want to be a character in the film — I don't find myself that interesting — but I wanted you to feel like you were there, with a ground - level view of the drug war.

But where that film was unabashedly jingoistic, Doug Liman's film is a more cynical satire of the War on Drugs and the Reagan Era.

The war on drugs escalates to war under President and former ghostbuster Ernie Hudson in the 1999 straight - to - video Ice - T vehicle Stealth Fighter (less a disaster film than a disaster).

Kathryn Bigelow «s previous film, The Hurt Locker, opened with the statement, «war is a drug.»

Prolific Hong Kong action auteur Johnnie To performs a border crossing with Drug War, his first cops - and - criminals film shot and set in mainland China, and in some ways the filmmaker is stretching his legs with all that extra space at his disposal.

Even if the film doesn't tell us much that we don't already know about America's drug wars, it tells it with abundant skill.

The basic outline of this play turned film is as such: King Cymbeline is a drug kingpin who is at war with a local Police Chief, Caius Lucius.

The violence shown here exceeds that in Heineman's previous film, Cartel Land, about the Mexican drug wars.

Sicario: This is a strong film about the war between drug cartels and American government agencies, which captures the brutality of the conflict.

Like the ongoing war on drugs, Villeneuve's film presents a complex landscape of violence wherein rulebooks have been forsaken - and on both sides.

Sicario (Lionsgate, Blu - ray, DVD, VOD), a violent, chaotic, adrenaline - fueled thriller set in the brutal violence of the drug war on the American border with Mexico, is a film that constantly seems to be spinning out of control.

Silly and therefore a step back from his serious films like Drug War or Election!)

This is a heartfelt essay film that digs into several instances of trauma occasioned by Mexico's drug war.

It's a directorial choice that some critics have questioned, but Attah never feels less than honest in those moments, even when high on drugs and hallucinating while part of a marauding band laying waste to a village; or when the exact nature of his and The Commandant's (Idris Elba) relationship is sickeningly revealed; or even in the quiet, tiny moments at the film's end when by the merest flicker across his face we understand how much the war outside has been internalized.

Filmmaker Denis Villeneuve's bleak, taut thriller Sicario is one of the best films of the year (read my full review here), but it presents a stark and candid portrait of the U.S.'s response to violence with more violence, specifically in the case of the War on Drugs.

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Sicario: Denis Villeneuve's grimy depiction of U.S. law enforcement's any - means - necessary war against Mexican drug cartels is filmed with the kind of precision and technical artistry that it's almost beside the point whether the story itself is something you care to get swept along with.

Sicario was among the best films to premiere at Cannes earlier this year, and even naysayers (who place too much emphasis on what the film is or isn't «saying» about the drug war) tend to concede that it's gripping as hell.

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Boasting an ensemble cast that mixed heavyweights with promising newcomers (some of whom would later gain A-list status), Soderbergh's film is a sobering account of the failures of the «War On Drugs» on all levels.

Along with war scenes and shootings, the film contains an after - sex scene between two unmarried friends, illegal drug use and some strong language when Carrie confronts the bureaucracy at the immigration office.

Probably not, but fans of the darkly cynical Oscar nominee, set on the front lines of a shadow drug war, have been eagerly looking forward to the return of Del Toro's mysterious Alejandro, the attorney - turned - hitman at the center of the new film.

Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro, stars of «Sicario» (2015), return, drug wars will be fought, and if it's any good we'll know what day of the week the «day of the soldier» is by film's end.

The film's nihilism serves as a metaphor for the merciless death pit of Mexico's drug war, but not much else.

The result is one of the most intoxicatingly unusual, visually entrancing and darkly funny films of recent years.Johnnie To may be best known for ultraviolent crime thrillers like Election, Vengeance and Drug War, but Office isn't as great a leap into the unknown as one might assume.

But whereas those earlier films were panoramic in scope and choral in structure, «Sicario» unfolds almost entirely through the eyes of Kate, as she wades into the murky waters of an inter-agency task force assembled to give the U.S. a tactical leg up in the war on drugs.

Just as Nolan justified fascist ideas like decieving the population and breaking the rules to keep society stable in The Dark Knight, Villeneuve exalts secrecy by breaking of rules (torture, murder, deceit, etc.) to achieve goals — in the film's context the drug war.

The film stars Emily Blunt as idealistic FBI Agent Kate Macy, who's recruited by a CIA official (Josh Brolin) to aid in the escalating war against drugs.

Mayor Enrique Serrano says that the film's depiction of drug - war violence is out of date and will damage the reputation of a city on the road to recovery

While Traffic is essentially about the war on drugs in America, the film's starting point is the almost - exclusively south - of - the - border (and nearly all Spanish language) story of Javier Rodriguez (Benicio Del Toro, doing away with his annoying tics and delivering a career performance), an average Tijuana State policeman who is given the opportunity for greater prestige by working for General Salazar's (Tomas Milian) efforts against the drug cartels.

Several new trailers are out today, starting with the Korean film «Believer» - a remake of Johnnie To's celebrated 2012 crime saga «Drug War».

A follow - up to the 2015 film, Sicario, which centers around the escalating war against drugs along the border of the United States and Mexico.

SPECIAL JURY MENTION DEVIL»S FREEDOM (LA LIBERTAD DEL DIABLO)(d: Everardo González, Mexico 2017) JURY STATEMENT: A timely and urgent film on the ongoing Mexican drug war, that presents the many faces of violence without presenting any actual faces.

But I really shouldn't bury the lede: if you are going to catch The Infiltrator (and here, your Cranston fandom and / or your interest in drug war films not starring Emily Blunt will surely factor in), you should know that you get to see Diane Kruger rock some serious fashion while nailing the tricky role of a smart and rookie undercover agent playing Bob's arm candy fiancée, you get to witness Olympia Dukakis chew scenery as Mazur's Aunt Vicki, who's not as clean - cut as her nephew, and you get to watch Amy Ryan... well, sadly not all the women could get choice roles here, now could they?

Repertoire (Alphabetical order by director) Du levande (You, the Living, Roy Andersson, 2007) En kärlekshistoria (A Swedish Love Story, Roy Andersson, 1970) Sånger från andra våningen (Songs from the Second Floor, Roy Andersson, 2000) Les ordres (Michel Brault, 1974) Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern (Hunting Scenes from Bavaria, Peter Fleischman, 1969) La faille (Weak Spot, Peter Fleischman, 1975) Proverka na Dorogakh (Trial on the Road, Aleksei German, 1971) Moy drug Ivan Lapshin (My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Aleksei German, 1984) La Verifica Incerta (Alberto Grifi & Gianfranco Baruchello, 1965) Die linkshändige frau (The Left - Handed Woman, Peter Handke, 1978) Poison (Todd Haynes, 1990) Feng gui lai de ren (Boys from Fengkuei, Hou Hsiao - hsien, 1983) Jak zyc (How to Live, Marcel Lozinski, 1981) The savage eye (Ben Maddow / Sidney Meyers / Joseph Strick, 1960) Kundskabens træ (Tree of Knowledge, Nils Malmros, 1981) Drenge (Boys, Nils Malmros, 1977) Visita ou Memórias e Confissões (Visit or Memories and Confessions, Manoel de Oliveira, 1982/2015) De ofrivilliga (Involuntary, Ruben Östlund, 2008) Minotaur (Nicolás Pereda, 2015) La parmigiana (The Girl from Parma, Antonio Pietrangeli, 1963) Chroniques turcs (Turkish Shorts, Maurice Pialat, 1963) La gueule ouverte (Mouth Agape, Maurice Pialat, 1978) Passe ton bac d'abord (Graduate First, Maurice Pialat, 1978) La maison des bois (Maurice Pialat, 1971) Silvia Prieto (Martin Rejtman, 1999) Entrenamiento Elemental para Actores (Elementary Training for Actors, Martin Rejtman, 2009) Rapado (Martin Rejtman, 1992) Trás - os - Montes (Antonio Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, 1976) Os Verdes Anos (The Green Years, Paulo Rochas, 1963) Sagro Gra (Gianfranco Rosi, 2013) Carriage trade (Warren Sonbert, 1968) Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt wo Gewalt herrscht (Not Reconciled, Straub - Huillet, 1965) Idioterne (The Idiots, Lars von Trier, 1998) Im Lauf der Zeit (Kings of the Road, Wim Wenders, 1976) Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Wim Wenders, 1971) Summer in the City (Wim Wenders, 1970) Ich war neunzehn (I Was 19, Konrad Wolf, 1968) Ljudi (U Prolazu)(People (In Passing), Lordan Zafranović, 1967) Poslihe Podne (Puska)(Afternoon (The Gun), Lordan Zafranović, 1968) Crni film (Black Film, Želimir Žilnik, 1971)

As one of the film's participants puts it, the drug war is a «never - ending story.»

Dubbed as the most expensive war movie ever made, filming is halted only five days into production due to a skyrocketing budget and a cast of prima donnas that include A-list action star Tugg Speedman (Stiller), Australian method actor Kirk Lazarus (Downey Jr.), drug - addicted comedy star Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), rapper - turned - actor Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson), and rookie actor Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel).

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Akira is a film like his manga, demonstrates the violence of its population discredit the political gangs that rule and also the separation of rich and poor before the drugs, it is a part of what happened in New York in the 1970s and 1980 in the film set in Neo Tokyo Japan after the 3rd World War.