Sentences with phrase «film about the ambitions»

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR is a film about ambition, optimism, and the American dream.

Hands Over the City isa film about the ambitions of a corrupt real estate developer and city council member of the city of Naples (played by Rod Steiger).

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«s internal debate over this sets up a fascinating conversation about the balance between personal ambition and responsibility to others that I don't believe a lot of parents will see coming after watching the film with their children.

Coco «s internal debate over this sets up a fascinating conversation about the balance between personal ambition and responsibility to others that I don't believe a lot of parents will see coming after watching the film with their children.

In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, its visuals and the strong performances of its cast.

But Variety critic Scott Foundas, who reviewed both the Toronto and Cannes editions, noted, «In all its versions The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby is a film of marked ambition that turns out to know a fair bit about love and loss and the various ways in which we do and don't grow up to become our parents.»

The writer - director, Babak Shokrian, has made an erratic autobiographical film about juggling artistic ambitions and family expectations in L.A.'s close - knit Iranian Jewish community.

The unit's work was top secret, its members» experiences, recounted in this film, fascinating above all for what they tell about the determined inventiveness, the all - out ambition to try everything, characteristic of that war effort.

It's a wry in - joke to have a villain worried about the hazards of overpopulation in a film that features nineteen movie stars billed above the title, and I've seen Infinity War lauded in certain circles for «unprecedented ambition» simply because it's so damn crowded.

Jason Solomons talks to Oscar - winning film - maker Kevin Macdonald about his Russell Crowe starring thriller State of Play and his early ambitions to work for The Guardian

Though the data tells us that women are interested in genres favored by Hollywood, female filmmakers encounter significant obstacles as they attempt to move from independent to more commercial filmmaking, and face deep - rooted presumptions from the film industry about their creative qualifications, sensibilities, tendencies, and ambitions.

At a conference at the film's Los Angeles press junket, co-stars Dwayne Johnson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan (who plays Agent Russell) and Joe Manganiello (who plays Burke, the leader of a team of mercenaries sent to stop one of the animals) talked about breaking the video game to movie curse, the ambition of filmmaker Brad Peyton, the relationship between Davis and George, the gorilla, being big animal lovers themselves, and the influence of Jurassic Park.

House of Strangers (1949) and All About Eve (1950) have a film noir ambience (both films are concerned with ambition and its consequences), while There Was a Crooked Man... (1970) combines a Western with a prison drama.

Dramatizing a popular anecdote about how the president first wooed his first lady, the film sends the young Barack and Michelle on a walk - and - talk outing across Chicago, as they chat about their lives, their ambitions, and their responsibility to the city.

In this regard, legends that have come out of Philadelphia are referenced both by dialogue from the characters within the film, and within the soundtrack.The most notable needle drop occurs when Creed arrives in the city, a quick montage unfolding to «The Fire» by John Legend and The Roots - not just a great song about ambition and drive, but also by Philly's local boys done good.

It's an inoffensive, light - hearted Christmas film centered around a love story about a woman following her ambitions and a man trying to do good in the world.

The film, like «Fink,» is a sort of portrait of the artists as young men, and anyone who has, or had, creative ambitions will identify with Davis, who is talented enough to acquit himself (Isaac's performances are excellent: he's arguably better than the character is meant to be), but probably not enough to move up to the next level (like Garrett Hedlund, now that we think about it...).

Documentary maker Sophie Fiennes, whose film premiered out of competition in Cannes, tells Charlotte Higgins about capturing the majestic ambition of artist Anselm Kiefer's creative process