Sentences with phrase «film about love by»

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So let's say this movie is about a woman whose life was shaped by love of her father; the making of the film Mary Poppins (as well as the writing of the book) is about her coming to terms with the truth about personal love and death and all that.

To learn more about the attraction of these films, you of course need to go purchase the Doomed Bourgeoise in Love book, with its fantastic essays by our Peter and Lauren Weiner, among others.

Oh, this is totally random, but have you ever seen the film «Lilies», which won four Genie Awards in 1996, about the two young men of Roberval, Quebec who fall in love in 1912 — and the poignant tale of how their love is undone by jealousy?

I would bet that the gay neighbor in the 1999 film American Beauty, who, it is implied, loves guns, collects Nazi trinkets, and turns to murder all because he represses his own urges, formed more people's views about how to regard homosexuals than did the entire decade's research into psychosexuality by the whole scientific community.

Shanghai Tang, known for form - fitting qipao dresses worn in Wong Kar - Wai's 2000 film «In the Mood for Love,» was begun by Sir David Tang as a bespoke tailor shop in 1994, and now has about 48 stores.

Instead of watching old films or picking up a new book, consider this dating advice to improve your relationship and love: Bond with your partner by snuggling up by the fire, cherishing old memories, celebrating how far you've come, and talking about where you'd like to be in the future.

a great music film this is the words which i can say about Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids great work by Jonathan demme and great performance bt Justin Timberlake is this movie a history is counted they show the people the history not just the concert i love how jonathan direct this and i love the edition i love how justin timberlake is humble and lovely funny smart with everybody i'm more in love with him.this deserves an emmy and a grammy for best music film at grammys 2018 everybody should watch this movie is amazing congrats justin timberlake netflix and jonathan demme great music film truly amazing maybe we have this film in dvd soon i will love if its happen i» ll love some extras yes i will.

«Looper» Movie Review By Joan Alperin Schwartz «Looper», written and directed by Rian Johnson («Brick») is an intelligent, engrossing, thought provoking, and totally entertaining, sci fi film about time - travel and what a person will or won't do to save the person they lovBy Joan Alperin Schwartz «Looper», written and directed by Rian Johnson («Brick») is an intelligent, engrossing, thought provoking, and totally entertaining, sci fi film about time - travel and what a person will or won't do to save the person they lovby Rian Johnson («Brick») is an intelligent, engrossing, thought provoking, and totally entertaining, sci fi film about time - travel and what a person will or won't do to save the person they love.

It's really good, deserves respect for its treatment of the subject matter, and is a great example of what I love about 70s cinema, but I just didn't get blown away by it, Maybe I just wasn't quite in the right frame of mind, or maybe I've just seen too many films like this already, but I don't think it's quite as good as everyone else does.

a great music film this is the words which i can say about Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids great work by Jonathan demme and great performance bt Justin Timberlake is this movie a history is counted they show the people the history not just the concert i love how jonathan direct this

Tender and touching film about two sisters whose close relationship is tested by the joy of love and the pain of grief.

Let's talk about that (much better) film's heroine, Leeloo Dallas (multipass), played by Milla Jovovich: She's a super-skilled, «perfect» warrior, but as the story unfolds, she learns about humanity; she discovers laughter, trust, sacrifice, and love.

The probing of moral fluidity, coupled with strong performances, led by the indefatigable Melissa Leo, makes Novitiate a timely film about spirituality, love and sacrifice.

To the extent that the Fifty Shades movies have been about the redemption of Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) by his love of Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), the transformation was completed at the end of the second film, Fifty Shades Darker.

The film is directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) and is based on Sara Gruen's bestselling novel about a veterinary student (Pattinson) who joins a traveling circus and falls in love with the wife (Witherspoon) of the head trainer (Waltz).

That the film makes almost zero sense is besides the point; those worrying about what Frank's job is, how Mitch's nerdy co-workers find out about the fraternity, or why Mitch's standard - issue love interest Nicole (Ellen Pompeo, who looks like a more sandy - haired Renée Zellweger) has any interest in the doofus will be flummoxed by the gaping holes in logic and narrative cohesion on display.

A nominee for the Platform prize at the 2017 Festival, the debut film by Michael Pearce is a riveting, slow - burning thriller about the limits of love and the darkness inside us.

Roy Grundmann who is Associate professor of Film Studies and also expert on Michael Haneke's films wrote about euthanasia in Amour: «Haneke submits the more provocative claim that such a choice, even when fueled by radical compassion and even in the arena of romantic love, is never completely altruistic.»

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.

If you find out anything further about the costuming for this film, I would love to know who makes the leather jacket worn by Joseph Gordon - Levitt.

Directed by Paul Mercier, the film is a modern take on the legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne — a contemporary myth about the pursuit of power, class, love and the chance to start again.

One of the greatest films of the last 15 years, Jane Campion's Bright Star is a nearly understated tragedy about a couple so physically chaste by emotionally vulnerability and pulsing with love that the ending nearly bowls the viewer over.

But the band's best - known work came in collaboration with giallo king Dario Argento, and while we love their droney, synth - tastic «Tenebrae» work (sampled by French electro titans Justice for their track «Phantom»), their finest hour is unquestionably via Argento's best film «Suspiria,» about an American ballerina (Jessica Harper) tormented by a witch's coven.

director Mike Mendez — that, while it has a charming sense of humor about itself, leans too heavily on CGI blood; The Girl With All The Gifts (B), a well - shot British zombie film that attempts to inject new life into a tired genre, and almost succeeds thanks to young star Sennia Nanua; and the disappointing Phantasm: Ravager (C --RRB-, a low - budget labor of love which, while it plays like a Phantasm fan film, ultimately undercuts the emotional closure it attempts to bring to the franchise by failing to resolve the central conflict between good and evil.

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.

Granted, James Bond films are all about formula, but it's hard to get worked up over by - the - numbers ski stunts when, contrary to the famous line, somebody has done it better — Bond himself, in fact, in the film from which that song came, The Spy Who Loved Me.

What I'm not so fond of is the cop - out ultimately taken by the filmmakers, who can't seem to follow through on their promisingly metaphysical premise (let alone the theme of obsessive love), electing instead to eliminate all ambiguity — now would be the time to dig up that gift - wrapped box I told you about earlier — which reduces the film, in the end, to little more than a cheap, if rather expensive - looking, joke.

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story A film about a married couple rather than by one, Harold Michelson was a production designer for dozens of films, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The film project, based on the book The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner, is about an Army veteran named Roger Holder and girlfriend Cathy Kerkow hijacking a Western Airlines Flight in a protest against the war in Vietnam.

Buckaroo Entertainment and Screen Gems released this brand new movie poster for the upcoming film «Priest» by director Scott Stewart (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Legion) and starring Cam Gigandet (Pandorum, Twilight, The Unborn) and Paul Bettany (Iron Man 2, Inkheart).

The films that seem to fall out of that purview, About Schmidt and Morvern Callar, show themselves ultimately to be pictures moved by the deaths of a loved one or, as with Wendigo, studies of the dynamics of family from surface ideal to subversive schism.

Here's a brand new international movie trailer for the upcoming film «Priest» by director Scott Stewart (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Legion) and starring Cam Gigandet (Pandorum, Twilight, The Unborn), Karl Urban, Maggie Q, Lily Collins, Brad Dourif, Stephen Moyer, Christopher Plummer and Paul Bettany (Iron Man 2, Inkheart).

What really impressed by about the film was how intelligent it is, exploring themes of love and friendship and religion and trust.

Based on the biographical book authored by sci - fi writer David Gerrold about his own experience adopting his son Sean, this sentimental film makes a strong statement about giving challenged children a loving environment in which to grow.

On another level, the film is an overly glossy, ostensibly intellectual but deliberately trite mass - market romance (from the screenplay written by Pierce) about a reporter and a movie star falling in love while she shadows him on the set of yet another movie (in which he plays a cop along side Brad Pitt) for a magazine fluff piece profile she's writing.

Undoubtedly acclaimed filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg has had a somewhat fractured relationship with directing films in the English language, his previous two attempts, It's All About Love (2003) and Dear Wendy (2005), mercilessly panned by critics and audiences.

Directed by Italian dream weaver Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love, A Bigger Splash), the film is a swirling wonder, a film about coming of age, about the secrets of youth, the magic of summer, the beauty of Italy.

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.

So decided to go off my memories of those films instead and as much as I love them, instead of deliberately quoting them I'd try to go by my childhood impressions of what I'd loved about them, the anamorphic framing, the lens flares, the dolly shots on faces, the way they mixed awe and moments of danger or heartbreak.

Among the first films and filmmakers to use these services will be two selections from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival: Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology by director Tiffany Shlain, which premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition section and On the Ice, by director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, which premiered in the U.S. Narrative Competition section.

Even The Price of Salt — her second novel, adapted last year, by film director Todd Haynes, as Carol — was more than merely a lesbian love story (certainly a bold enough literary statement for 1952, when it was first published), occupying, in its intense focus on desire and its consequences, similar territory to Highsmith's thrillers about killers.

In the months and days leading up to the release of Zero Dark Thirty, about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the film was pilloried by the right as propaganda for President Obama in an election year, and by the left as a love letter to torture.

«When I made my first short film in 1996, I tried to buy that song and I couldn't afford it,» the filmmaker says of the British art - rock band's 1981 easy - listening hit, a celestial lament about a love affair torn asunder by distance and circumstance.

(Italy) George Harrison: Living In The Material World, music documentary directed by Martin Scorsese (USA) Goodbye First Love, directed by Mia Hansen - Løve, tracks a first love over eight years (France / Germany) Pina, directed by Wim Wenders, which is a 3D dance film and tribute to Pina Bausch (Germany / France / UK) Play, directed by Ruben Östlund, which is a provocative movie about African immigrants taking advantage of Swedish peacefulness (Sweden) Policeman, directed by Nadav Lapid, which includes wealthy anarchists and anti-terrorist police (Israel / France) Sleeping Sickness, directed by Ulrich Köhler who won Best Director at the Berlin Film FestiLove, directed by Mia Hansen - Løve, tracks a first love over eight years (France / Germany) Pina, directed by Wim Wenders, which is a 3D dance film and tribute to Pina Bausch (Germany / France / UK) Play, directed by Ruben Östlund, which is a provocative movie about African immigrants taking advantage of Swedish peacefulness (Sweden) Policeman, directed by Nadav Lapid, which includes wealthy anarchists and anti-terrorist police (Israel / France) Sleeping Sickness, directed by Ulrich Köhler who won Best Director at the Berlin Film Festilove over eight years (France / Germany) Pina, directed by Wim Wenders, which is a 3D dance film and tribute to Pina Bausch (Germany / France / UK) Play, directed by Ruben Östlund, which is a provocative movie about African immigrants taking advantage of Swedish peacefulness (Sweden) Policeman, directed by Nadav Lapid, which includes wealthy anarchists and anti-terrorist police (Israel / France) Sleeping Sickness, directed by Ulrich Köhler who won Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival.

In her review of the film for the BFI, my good friend and collaborator Sophie Mayer astutely links Stories We Tell to the feminist classic Daughter Rite (1978) by Michelle Citron, and what I love about this connection is the fact that it perfectly crystallizes how experimental and powerful Polley's examination of female identity — both hers and that of her elusive mother — is.

Selected by Chile to represent the country in the Best Foreign Language category at the Oscars, this moving, funny, very human film about a middle - aged woman and the obstacles that prevent a full and rich love life has a terrific shot at making the final five nominees.

About a half - hour into the film, after Allen establishes his standard, complicated love story, this time involving a «genius» philosophy professor named Abe Lucas (played by Joaquin Phoenix, with a heck of a gut), Jill, his brightest pupil (Emma Stone), who says she's in love with her boyfriend, and Rita, a married professor (Parker Posey), who all teach / attend the same Newport, R.I. university, «Irrational Man» takes a rather dark and very welcome turn.

Scored lightly by a series of Brian Eno compositions, The Jacket is an apocalyptic poem of love and loss that's unusually wise about its visual vocabulary — about ways of looking, the line between dreaming and reality, and how eyes on film can be a powerful and elastic metaphor for the audience engaged in a kind of liquid dreaming.

Apple Movies got their hands on this brand new theatrical movie trailer for the upcoming film «Priest» by director Scott Stewart (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Legion) and starring Cam Gigandet (Pandorum, Twilight, The Unborn), Karl Urban, Maggie Q, Lily Collins, Brad Dourif, Stephen Moyer, Christopher Plummer and Paul Bettany (Iron Man 2, Inkheart).

Billed as «the world's first oil painted feature film», which is slightly harder to quantify than the film's PR people might hope, Loving Vincent consists 65,000 frames painted by a team of 125 classically - trained painters on glass, with about two - thirds of those have been copied over live - action reference footage.