Sentences with phrase «film about suicide»

Dead Ringers is, unavoidably, a film about suicide, though it's about other things, too: brotherly devotion, ego, art, and misogyny.

It's a film about suicide — but it's about living.»

When Hader lip - syncs «Nothing's Going To Stop Us Now» by Starship, bang - splat in the middle of a film about suicide, therapists and child molesters, it totally works.

I wasn't sure if I'd enjoy a film about suicide, and, though the film does have its somber moments, it's filled with good sequences, evidence of real talent, and hits a tone that makes it all work.

Not exact matches

Phil Reynolds reviews Chris Morris» Four Lions - a surprisingly intelligent film about our cultural fears on suicide bombers and fundamentalism

You film yourself doing 22 push - ups — or however many you can — and post a video to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Youtube with the tags # 22Kill (the group that started the challenge) and # 22Pushups (or whatever your number was), to help spread awareness about mental health issues, like PTSD, that can lead to suicide.

Hansen - Love's films (four features thus far) are «about» many things — first love, family life, suicide, drug addiction — but the plot is not paramount.

Francis Ford Coppola's gang film is as moony about death as «One From the Heart» was over romance; the film is unremitting in its morbid sentimentality, running its teenage characters through a masochistic gamut of beatings, killings, burnings, and suicides.

This was a blank - slate film experience for me, and it's not a sequel or prequel so much as an independent movie operating laterally to Suicide Club, so why am I even talking about all this.

Recognizing that a film about Chubbuck is a film about her on - air suicide, Greene centers «Kate Plays Christine» on the very possibility and difficulty of re-creating the videotape of the event, which is known to exist but has never been made public.

In effect, the entire film is a flashback from that crucial moment of performance — because that scene, dramatizing Chubbuck's suicide, is the raison d'être of Greene's film about Chubbuck.

But I kept telling the studio, and I kept telling Ryan, I'm like, «No, the director's cut going to come in at like 2:12,»» Leitch explained about his rough cut of the film before elaborating that the extended version contains a montage of Deadpool attempting suicide, some extra material with Domino and alternate takes of existing scenes with different dialogue.

Criterion has also added «Strange Magic,» a 13 - minute featurette focused around writer and Rookie editor - in - chief Tavi Gevinson, who explores the film through the lens of adolescence, suicide, and memory via her own writing and imagery from a fanzine she made about the film in 2012.

After Sophie is a proof - of - concept film about what happens when a documentary filmmaker investigating the story discovers that the details surrounding Sophie's suicide are both disturbing and supernatural.

But as Theresa's guilt and self - medication mount, along with the film's profoundly muddled ideas about assisted suicide, the curated trance grows mind - numbing.

I want to start off this «review» of Suicide Squad, the third film in Warner Bros» new attempt at building a universe out of DC comics characters to rival what Marvel is doing with their cinematic universe, by apologizing for the somewhat lax approach I am about to take to writing this.

It revolves around a real life interview Hervé did with a British journalist in 1993 just days before he committed suicide, which the journalist (who is played Fifty Shades of Grey's Jamie Dornan in the film) «very much saw... as his sort of suicide note almost, and he was very keen to explain to people about Hervé's life».

When I first heard about the plot from a friend, who went on to explain how «cool» it was to bring love and death and the allure of suicide together in one film, I wasn't sure if it was a joke or a real movie.

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.

The ultimate haptic heroine of the AFI FEST was the unnamed protagonist of Krotkaya (A Gentle Creature), the third narrative film of the Berlin - based Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitza.45 The Russian title is that of the original short story by Dostoyevsky (1876) about a meek young woman inexplicably committing suicide, but, in its country of production (France), the film is called Une Femme douce — like the 1969 adaptation of the same story by Robert Bresson directed.

But the noticeable absence of adults during the youths» crisis, the startling suicide, and occult themes associated with the Ouija board will still make many parents hesitate about sending their teens off to play with this film.

The film opens with a voice over of Ramirez talking about the stories of the Devil that his grandmother used to tell him where it would always start with a suicide and then boom we get a suicide, then he would get a group of people together and they would all be killed by the end of the story.

The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers (2009) Written by Rupert Friend and Tom Mison (who also stars), this short film is a sinister fairytale about the lives of two brothers and their daily suicide attempts, while forever over-looking the presence of their fairy godmother (Keira KniSuicide Brothers (2009) Written by Rupert Friend and Tom Mison (who also stars), this short film is a sinister fairytale about the lives of two brothers and their daily suicide attempts, while forever over-looking the presence of their fairy godmother (Keira Knisuicide attempts, while forever over-looking the presence of their fairy godmother (Keira Knightly).

A film about the depression and ennui that creeps into a family during the years after a matriarch's suicide may be a tough sell for a fun night out at the movies, but this looks like one of those films you'll be glad you made the effort to catch.

-- «Maborosi» (1995): Japanese director Kore - eda Hirokazu's film about a woman dealing with her husband's suicide is a small film with large impact.

Dixon is a thug and a dullard — he has comic books scattered about his desk like some sort of man - child — but he is a man of action, throwing the Flannery O'Connor - reading, billboard - owning Red Welby (Caleb Landry Jones) out of a window following Willoughby's suicide at the film's midway point.

The original black comedy about suicide, it is, in fact, an incredibly positive, joyous and life affirming film.

The swapping of hero and villain after the first test screenings and the film's heavy dose of Freudian symbols — for instance, the (ultimately abandoned) suicide dive into a volcano — only yielded an effect of confusion and alienation: was this a film about lust or about murder?

Robert Greene's documentary is superficially about the making of a film about news reporter Christine Chubbuck's 1974 live - broadcast suicide.

A film about assisted suicide should be thought - provoking, but this just feels superficial.

Out of the competition, the international highlights were El Clan (The Clan, Pablo Trapero), an effective if derivative Argentinian political drama / gangster film heavily influenced by Scorsese's Goodfellas; L'avenir (Things to Come, Mia Hansen - Løve), a fine if rather low - key drama helped enormously by Isabelle Huppert's lead performance; and, best of all, Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine, a truly disturbing mixture of fiction and documentary concerning the attempt to make a movie about the tragic suicide of Florida journalist Christine Chubbuck, who shot herself on live television back in 1974.

For months now we've heard about how tight the cast of Suicide Squad is, and that camaraderie was definitely on display at the film's New York press conference this weekend.

Michael Gothard stars in this 1967 film about a young poet who hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass - media event.

Focusing on parents of suicide victims and the suffering they experience in the aftermath, Dieckmann has also made a frequently funny and warm film about surviving grief.

The film — about a high school student who plots a murder / suicide in retaliation for sexual abuse from a former friend — would have been Tatum's directorial debut, working alongside frequent collaborator Reid Carolin.

The film — about a high school student who plots a murder / suicide in retaliation for sexual abuse from a...

Suicide Squad's director David Ayer drops a few f - bombs in explaining why his film's different than other superhero fare: «all these movies are about defeating the evil alien robot from f*cking Planet X, before it destroys the world with its ticking clock.

Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Paul Dano, the film is about a man (Dano) on the verge of suicide after being stranded on a desert island, only to see a dead body (Radcliffe) washed up on the beach.

We're still about three months away from the release of Suicide Squad, but Warner Bros. apparently has a lot of confidence in the property and its female star, and are already prepping a spinoff film for Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn.

For months we've been hearing about a Margot Robbie - produced Suicide Squad spinoff film centering on or at least featuring Harley Quinn, but didn't have any concrete details... until now!

It feels like «Suicide Squad» is taking forever to be released because they've been releasing images and teasers about the film for a while now.

The Week in Movies discusses the last seven days in cinema, like the reported Suicide Squad reshoots to lighten its tone following Batman v Superman's critical reception, has Ewan McGregor met with LucasFilm about an Obi - Wan Star Wars spin - off film?

And though the spectre of the recent suicides of real - life hockey enforcers Wade Belak, Rick Rypien, and Derek Boogaard (and a remarkable, honourable NEW YORK TIMES article by John Branch about the culture of enforcers in hockey) hangs over Goon like a cloud of disquiet, the film itself is less a celebration of Doug's actions than one of finding a niche in a life and living the hell out of it.

A Single Man Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: An official selection of the Toronto, Tokyo and London film festivals, former fashion designer Tom Ford's directorial debut, about a homosexual English professor contemplating suicide after the death of his lover, gives Colin Firth (BBC's Pride and Prejudice) what he has long deserved: a richly conceived starring role worthy of his talents.

In «The Mountain Between Us,» she teams up with Hany Abu - Assad, whose 2005 film «Paradise Now,» about two men who embark on a suicide mission in Tel Aviv, made him a fearless filmmaker — and a controversial one.

You can practically diagram every scene in the film: The ones that slip in the backstories of the characters (Affleck's wife is eight months pregnant; Sibide's work visa is about to expire), the ones that reveal important information in - between the laughs (Tea Leoni's excellent moment as an FBI agent who's had too much to drink), the ones intended to inject some emotion into the picture (an attempted suicide) and the ones where the actors were allowed to riff and improvise (practically any scene in which Murphy appears).

Just as 13 Reasons Why faced criticism for sensationalizing of suicide, Netflix's new film To the Bone is stirring fears about how young viewers might perceive its depiction of eating disorders.

Dramatic scenarios of moral and ethical lapses are everywhere on the Internet: the college student who used his webcam to secretly film his roommate, who later committed suicide; the high school students who tweeted about the rape of a fellow student; the hackers who stole compromising photographs from celebrities and posted them to a public site, where commenters blamed the celebrities for their predicament.

More Than Sad: An informational film and resource site, including a lesson plan for the film, designed to foster educational discussion with students about suicide, produced by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the New York State Office of Mental suicide, produced by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the New York State Office of Mental Suicide Prevention and the New York State Office of Mental Health.

The film Not Alone is the brainchild of Jacqueline Monetta, a teenager who decided to do something about the epidemic after she lost her best friend and five other students from her school to suicide in one year.