Sentences with phrase «film about her life story»

In 1994, Saint Phalle worked with Peter Schamoni in making a documentary film about her life story, Niki de Saint Phalle: Wer ist das Monster — Du oder ich?

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It's also a film that works because there are lots of stories from the perspectives of heroic soldiers and Jewish survivors of WWII, but far fewer about those living in occupied countries who did what they could, with what they had to pursue justice.

The Exodus movie film premiers in mid-December, and with my new book What Every Christian Needs to know about Passover coming out shortly and describing how Jews and Christians can bring the Exodus story to life today, I have lucky timing.

This list is limited to those that focus mainly on Jesus» life story as told in the Gospels; thus, it does not include films about characters who are only peripherally connected to Jesus, such as Ben - Hur (1925, 1959).

The year's funniest movie is probably The Big Sick, a heartwarming romantic comedy written by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon, who tell their own life story in this film about an interracial couple dealing with their cultural differences.

Back to the film... What I love about Forks Over Knives is, in addition to hearing from incredible doctors like Colin Campbell (author of The China Study) and Caldwell Esselstyn, is that the film tells inspiring stories of real people, from all walks of life, who've embraced a plant - based diet and have thus reversed chronic health conditions like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.

ABOUT A Girl Story is a unique donation - based film that brings to life the experience of many underprivileged girls in India.

The film is a religious avant - garde film trapped inside a narrative story line about a boy who learns the reality of life and faith.

This modest film falls into the category of «character study», which generally means there there isn't a real plot or story follow, so much as a brief peek into a life of someone for a while, perhaps in the hope of learning a thing or two about a different mode of life, or as a reflection of our own.

Her latest Polish film, the tough, unsentimental In Darkness, brings together themes from two of the most highly regarded movies about the second world war, Wajda's Kanal, about Nazi troops pursuing resistance workers through the Warsaw sewers in 1944, and Schindler's List, Spielberg's true story of the quixotic German industrialist who saved the lives of more than 1,000 Jewish workers in wartime Poland.

Left on Purpose is a documentary film about the friendship between an aging anti-war activist who has decided that his last political act will be to take his own life and the filmmaker who is struggling to tell the story.

If nobody had been so adamant about making this film «about» Diane Arbus, it would be a perfect story about how an uncommon woman, living in the lap of luxury and perfection, discovers her own capability to see beyond the shape of things and boredom that privilege means.

And now, director / star James Franco has brought the equally bizarre real - life story behind the movie's creation to the big screen with «The Disaster Artist» - proving that, at the very least, good films can definitely be made about bad movies.

Gillespie smartly uses the known and builds upon it with context and some style, using «modern day» Tonya, Jeff and LaVona among others as interview subjects for a documentary of sorts that frames the film, but also has the characters speak into the camera in non-interview segments to help give Tonya some humanity, or at least make sure you have a better idea about all of her story and life coming out and you did going in.

Filmmaker Greg MacGillivray, a specialist in gigantic - screen nature movies including «The Living Sea,» is up to date in his use of 70 mm IMAX film, but he's stuck in the past about how to tell a story.

Writer / director Ira Sachs, who made his first feature film, «The Delta,» about 15 years ago (which I haven't seen), brings to life the story of two well - educated Manhattanites who have an anonymous sexual encounter that grows into a 10 - year relationship.

This is a film about the great man, this a story of his life events which inspired him to do great things.

The film is essentially a primitive rah - rah story about an underdog's triumph over a bully, and in the times that Americans are living through now the things in it that are merely simple seem simplified to the point of odiousness... In the Heat of the Night seems to be made up of a great deal of attitudinizing and very little instinct.

Most of the film is about a love story between down and out Andrew and epileptic Sam, who is making her way through life while keeping her disability a secret and trying to connect to someone besides her loving and yet embarrassing mother.

This film is about Jonathan's life, and what led these two dramatic story arcs to intersect on that fateful day.

The film is based on the true story of Pearson who after a life - changing experience challenges the faith of his congregation by preaching about universal salvation.

Inspired by the lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, this remarkable love story comes with an exclusive behind - the - scenes featurette about the making of the film.

Stewart plays out the film as if it were a traditional «haunted house» film, but because we already know it is about alien life, we merely watch the characters go through predictable motions until the story catches up with what we already surmise, and the only things keeping viewers reeled in are basic questions such as, «why are they doing this?»

Skateboarding aficionados will no doubt find the most to like here, as well as those who enjoy slice of life films about the 1970s, but everyone else is perhaps better off sticking strictly to the aforementioned Dogtown and Z - Boys to understand just what makes Peralta's story worthwhile.

This animated film from Chinese directors Xuan Liang and Chun Zhang may be inspired by the work of famed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, but the story about a girl who lives in a

This animated film from Chinese directors Xuan Liang and Chun Zhang may be inspired by the work of famed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, but the story about a girl who lives in a magical realm is full of undeniably Chinese touches.

Perhaps if the film had concentrated more on introspective elements, such as Rashad and his internal difficulties in growing from a boy into a man, instead of constantly distracting us with side stories — Esquire's quest for the path to success, New New's fence - sitting between the ghetto and the mansion, Ant's seduction into materialism, and the roller skating competition that never really materializes — it would have been a more compelling movie about Atlanta's lower class areas, and the ups and downs of life there.

In 2004 he directed his last film project, The Brooke Ellison Story, about the life of another paraplegic.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

The first film charted a story about a group of male strippers, believing that they were living the good life, but as they fell deeper down the rabbit hole, they realised their lives were hollow.

This cohesiveness is a remarkable achievement for a film that compresses a life story into three episodic segments, each running about 40 minutes.

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.

Also, although the film, through flashbacks and narration does a fair job of compressing over 100 years of time into about 2 hours of film time, it would have been interesting to tell Adaline's story more in a limited - TV series in which each decade of her life experiences could have been shown in more detail.

A Ghost Story (David Lowery) A mournful and poetic film about a restless spirit (wearing a sheet with the eye holes cut out) played by Mark Ruffalo who is forced to silently and helplessly watch as life moves on without him.

Arrow films has two new Blu - rays this week: John Milius» «Dillinger,» about the true - life story of the titular gangster played by Warren Oates, and the Nico Mastorakis» B - movie «The Zero Boys» about a paintball team that discovers a massacre in the mountains and must fight the enemy with real weapons.

Gerwig has taken exception to the attention she has paid to bringing forth the character of Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Ronan) in the film being dismissed as she telling a story about «just your life».

Mockingjay — Part 2 isn't really a story about which prince Katniss chooses to live happily ever with though, despite what the film's final scene might tempt us to believe.

While Thomas W. Kiennast's black - and - white cinematography is quite beautiful to behold (Gröning's film certainly features some excellent cinematographic moments as well), Atef's film never manages to convey why we should care, today, about this brief moment in Schneider's well - documented life, including her never - ending struggle with the German press, her inability to escape the role of Sissi that made her instantly famous as a teenager, and the various tragedies that befell her, including the suicide of her ex - husband.7 The film is not a biopic per se (and Atef declared that she did not intend to make one): thus, audiences who are not already familiar with Schneider certainly will not come away from viewing the film with much of a sense of her life's story); yet, given it is not a biopic, one wonders what the film is, or what it tries to accomplish.

However, this year has seen movement on a prequel series of films, a documentary about real life Quidditch players, and even a short story updating the...

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.

While there are artificial elements to the story, there is a genuineness to the characterizations that allows the film to take hold and emerge as a winning comedic drama about women finding the strength to cope with tragedy and move on with their lives, even well into adulthood.

You can see the film as an uplifting story about a wife and mother overcoming the drudgery of domesticity and finding new meaning in her life.

In the middle part of Anderson's career (circa «The Life Aquatic» and after), some critics began to complain about the familiar stylized elements of his films being a crutch and formula, diorama - like to the point of aestheticizing the emotions of the story (to be fair, some prescribed elements — the slow motion endings, that Futura font, the expected Kinks or Rolling Stone song — were starting to feel a little mechanical at a certain point).

His sophomore feature Boogie Nights (1997), about the adult film industry in the late 1970s (partially inspired by the life of porno star John Holmes) is a surprisingly vibrant, funny, and at times quite warm story of a dysfunctional filmmaking family, with Burt Reynolds as a quiet but firm director Dad and Julianne Moore as the porn star surrogate mother to the company's teen stars Rollergirl (Heather Graham) and Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg), the «natural» from the suburbs who is quickly recruited.

Based on stories by Maile Meloy, the film is about how «the lives of three women intersect in small - town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.»

Some of the best - received films at earlier festivals will get their North American launches here, including «Life is Beautiful,» Roberto Begnini's Cannes winner about an Italian clown who fights the Nazis with laughter; Rohmer's heartwarming love story «Autumn Tale,» which charmed Telluride audiences; Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,» with Cannes best actor winner Peter Mullen as a recovering alcoholic facing tough times; Theo Angelopoulos» «Eternity and a Day,» this year's Cannes winner; «The General» (1999) which won Boorman the best director prize at Cannes, and the Cannes and Telluride favorite «Claire Dolan,» by Lodge Kerrigan, with Emily Watson («Breaking the Waves») as a prostitute who thinks she can detach from her work.

Alan Tudyk shares stories about bringing Rogue One's K - 2S0 to life, and which actor's on - screen corpsing actually made it into the film's final cut.

That's a beautiful sentiment that is carried over to this wondrous and heartwarming movie, a rare feel - good live - action film for the whole family that is about who we are on the inside, a sweet story with a strong message about doing the right thing.

Considering that core N.W.A. members Dr. Dre and Ice Cube are producers of the film about the band that made them superstars, it will surprise no one to discover that «Straight Outta Compton» delivers an almost laughably squeaky - clean version of their life stories between 1986 and 1995.

However, Field's film is its own beast in the end — an intelligent and contemplative drama that merits discussion, even about the things that make little sense to include, and yet, the story is so self - conscious, there must be some reason that all f these lives are meant to intersect in their awkward ways.