Sentences with phrase «film as a civil rights»

In addition to directing, Redford also stars in the film as a civil rights lawyer who must go on the run when he's outed...

Not exact matches

David Oyelowo, who plays the civil rights leader in the film, is everywhere this year — from roles in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar and J. C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year to his major role as King.

There is no mention, in Anon, the latest film from writer - director Andrew Niccol (Good Kill, The Host), of such pesky notions as civil rights or legal warrants for Ether access.

Dealing with the Civil Rights act and his relationship with Martin Luther King as well as trying to get re-elected, Jay Roach gives us a great script and paces the film masterfully.

I like focused biopics that don't feel they need to go from cradle to grave, but the focus here gives the film a bit of unearned hero worship, as we see LBJ hold the country together after tragedy and fight for civil rights against caricaturish opponents.

The years needed for change as in other civil rights movements echoes in the slow burn of win - appeal we suffer as an audience in the film.

With a soundtrack that includes performances by rising musician Gary Clark Jr. (as Sonny), Keb» Mo», and Kel Mitchell, the film intertwines race, civil rights, and rhythm and blues.

Of course, if you are going to make another civil rights sports movie, the story of Jackie Robinson is pretty much the definitive version, so it's surprising that only one other film («The Jackie Robinson Story») has been made on the subject, and that movie starred the famous baseball player as himself.

«Selma» features Oprah Winfrey, who also produced the feature film, Tom Wilkinson as President Lyndon Johnson, who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.

None of Johnson's «triumphs» are played as such — the Civil Rights Act is passed midway through the film, and the whole thing ends on an almost bitterly interior note.

Some lucky, lucky fans and critics had the opportunity to attend early screenings of Captain America: Civil War last night — and as of right now, the majority of the reactions to the film have been mostly positive!

by Bryant Frazer Very early on in Blue Streak, as Miles Logan, the character portrayed by a fast - talking Martin Lawrence, co-opts Dr. Martin Luther King's famous «I Have a Dream» speech to describe his own civil rights movement upon getting released from the joint after serving time for his role in a botched jewel heist, it's clear the film is aiming for giddy irreverence.

W Magazine Taraji P. Henson, always fun, talks about getting the acting bug, auditioning for Precious and falling in love with «Cookie» on Empire even though she didn't want to do TV again AV Club Taraji also has a new leading film role as civil rights activist Ann Atwater who in 1971 had meetings with the Klu Klux Klan leader on reducing violence.

The film, which is set in the South after the Civil War, raised the ire of civil rights groups such as the NAACP, which decried «the impression it gives of an idyllic master - slave relationship, which is a distortion of the facts.&rCivil War, raised the ire of civil rights groups such as the NAACP, which decried «the impression it gives of an idyllic master - slave relationship, which is a distortion of the facts.&rcivil rights groups such as the NAACP, which decried «the impression it gives of an idyllic master - slave relationship, which is a distortion of the facts.»

This is a riveting story of the old frontier but also a meditation on the Western, not least the sub-genre that draws on the violent heritage of the Civil War, which Tarantino quite rightly, in this film and in Django Unchained, identifies as the foundation myth of modern America, in sharp oppostion to the more comforting myths around the pursuit of human rights and liberty.

The film chronicles the life of a sharecropper's son who served as butler to seven US presidents during the tragedies and triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement.

The film's ace ensemble casting extends to its smallest roles, including Cuba Gooding Jr. (doing his best work in years) as civil rights attorney Fred Gray and Martin Sheen as federal district court judge Frank M. Johnson.

The liberal lion of the Supreme Court (and second woman ever to be confirmed to the position) is presented in Betsy West and Julie Cohen's film as equal parts civil - rights pioneer and pop culture icon, with loving scenes of her lifting weights, cracking wise, and being turned into a meme spliced alongside original interviews and archival footage.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe, almost as if trying to address Batman v Superman and how to do a major superhero battle film right (or, after the disappointing Age of Ultron, how to do an Avengers film right), unloads Captain America: Civil War into theaters with a reverberating bang.

This new prequel film (a long the same world - exploring lines as Wolverine: Origins) will «chart the epic beginning of the X-Men saga,» which probably means Professor X and Magneto as young rebellious allegory - for - civil - rights - leaders.

The majority of the film centers squarely on the couple as they endure the harsh prejudices of society but the climax, subtle as it may be, shows how their trials — both literal and figurative — set a legal precedent in a nation on the cusp of the Civil Rights Movement.

Beyond the important civil - rights lesson, Selma is a wonderful ensemble portrait of how politics works, much as was Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's 2012 film about the 1864 passage of the 13th amendment.

A photojournalist with the eye of a visual artist, for more than 60 years, Parks covered civil rights, race and poverty issues, as well as high fashion, and in 1969 was the first African American to write and direct a Hollywood feature film («The Learning Tree»).

Central to the exhibition are found images that «serve as bedrock for Pendleton's artistic practice and connect his form of abstraction with the history of the America Civil Rights Movement, the pre-war Avant - Garde, La Nouvelle Vague in film, and Minimalist and Conceptualist art practices of the 1960s.»

The show also included several films that contain fragmented biographies and texts from key figures in the Civil Rights Movement, floor - based abstract ceramic sculptures, and a large vinyl wall work, with a title that, as with Shiferaw and Jackson, further signals his politics, «Black Lives Matter # 3 (wall work)» (2015).

Not Evil presents Innis as the leader of a historic civil rights group fighting to reinstate use of the pesticide DDT, whose ban the film blames for the daily malaria deaths of more than 300 African children.