Sentences with phrase «film called history»

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Carey filmed his segment in April, pitching for what he calls «the largest legitimate ask in reality TV history»: $ 2 million for four per cent of his company, for a $ 50 million valuation.

It is a commercial center for large farming and ranching but is often called «Little Hollywood» because of its history with the film industry.

A few months ago I learned of a local company who were allowed to save and caringly salvage the remains of the factory and actually are being filmed as part of a new series on the History Channel called «Abandoned».

And, aside from a conclusion I won't spoil except to say that it plays exactly like the meta - film twist at the end of Altman's THE PLAYER, Spielberg can't resist to inject a Gumpian «brush with history» as then Assistant Attorney General Rehnquist, a future Justice of the Supreme Court, calls to advise Bradlee the publication of the papers is prohibited by the Espionage Act of 1917 — just a beat too late to stop the story going to print.

You can call that naive optimism on Donnersmarck's part, or historical revisionism of the sort duly lambasted by the current film version of Alan Bennett's «The History Boys.»

He and his wife, Dr. Kristin Thompson (who has a book coming out called «Frodo, Fantasy and Franchises: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood»), are also the authors of the two most popular film textbooks, «Film Art» and «Film History.»

Few films in movie history — and maybe no other film by a first - time writer - director — proved to be the breakthrough moment for as many talents as a made - in - Baltimore comedy - drama called «Diner.»

First, a seven - minute piece called «The Spirit of the Ride» has the director and various other cast and crew discussing how they drew on the amusement park ride for ideas and general atmosphere for the film; the 14 - minute mini-documentary «Dead Men Tell No Tales» (also available in the DVD - ROM content in the two - disc edition) gives a history of the «Pirates of the Caribbean» ride, complete with lots of behind - the - scenes looks at the animatronic pirates and nostalgia - inducing footage from the ride itself.

Disk 2 features a new 87 - minute documentary called A Cut Above the Rest, which follows the films history, production and influence from conception to the present day.

Balaker ends Little Pink House with film from life as if to prove that this ruling, called the most hated in Supreme Court history, actually happened and to remind viewers that the battle continues to keep eminent domain in check.

Then in late November, an anonymous organization calling themselves «Guardians of the Peace» subjected Sony Pictures Entertainment, whose Columbia Pictures produced the film and was soon intending to distribute it, to the biggest hacking of a corporation in history.

The master of the specific subgenre called body horror and the man who put out such classics as Dead Ringers and Videodrome, the Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg seemingly stepped out of his (dis) comfort zone and delivered one of the best movies of the first decade of this century when he made the film cleverly and multilayeredly called A History of Violence.

We're negotiating for films from UCLA Film & Television Archive, George Eastman House, Museum of Modern Art, the British Film Institute, the National Museum of African American History Culture, the Tyler Texas Black Film Collection at SMU and private collectors — we're calling in all favors.

Zandvliet's film calls your attention to a footnote of European history few probably know about and it breaks your heart in the process.

This idea of knowledge as the primary corruptor is echoed in Capt. Newport's (Christopher Plummer) declaration towards the end that «Eden is around us still,» with Eve's fall (Pocahontas, never called such during the film, is baptized — then corseted — after being rejected by her people for warning Smith of an attack) echoed in what we know to be the history of the Native Americans and the Britons» colonial interests alike.

Combat Girls (Solid Rock Fist Up)-- It's reductive to call this «German History X,» but there are definite parallels with the way this film weaves a coming of age story into the underground Neo-Nazi movement in Germany.

While the idea of slick David Copperfield types using magic to pull off capers is enticing and spectacular, the first movie squandered its potential with an inane subplot about an all - seeing magic society called «The Eye,» and one of the most obnoxious film twists in recent history.

There's one film in the After Dark shorts program called «Plus Ultra,» an experimental Spanish work, that's a really fascinating investigation of secret histories and Spanish colonial myths.

Gruber's sense of a calling to tradition is a common denominator among the many deli owners we meet in this fun and interesting film, mostly stressed - out men who somehow find deep satisfaction in being part of a long history.

by Walter Chaw A year after a glut of films about the past being wilfully stifled by the present, find Liev Schreiber's Everything is Illuminated and David Cronenberg's A History of Violence, literal calls to awake following the nightmare of the night before — or, better, avenues through which we might recognize that suppressing a collective shadow mainly serves to nourish it until it explodes, monstrous, back into our consciousness.

Calling Lincoln an heir to these films perhaps does it a disservice however, for, in the film's often misunderstood prologue and following dream sequence, Kushner and Spielberg openly acknowledge their movie's genial relation to the actuality of the 13th Amendment's passage, theater, and cinematic history itself — and by announcing upfront that they're employing the tools afforded by the arts to re-create past events, they let us know that their aims are somewhat closer to folklore than strict reportage.

by Walter Chaw The title refers to a New York Museum of Natural History diorama called «Clash of the Titans» that proposes what a tussle between a sperm whale and a giant squid would look like — and it functions as the final, stirring tableaux of a 16 mm film self - consciously shot in the manner of early Jim Jarmusch or Spike Lee joints.

Having done all right with the last film to cover the romantic tribulations of King Edward VIII — it was called «The King's Speech,» it won a few Oscars, you might have heard of it — The Weinstein Company clearly feels there's an appetite among audiences for more on that chapter of British royal history, -LSB-...]

These Amazing Shadows (Directors: Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton)-- The history and importance of the National Film Registry unfolds in a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself.

Responses were mixed, with Esquire calling it «the longest fart joke in film history».

Written and directed by Academy Award nominee J.C. Chandor (Margin Call) and starring Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain, the film details one of the bloodiest years in New York City's history, 1981.

The film climaxes with what Bullz - Eye's Jason Zingale calls the «best chase sequence in movie history.»

With his new film Big Eyes, Tim Burton and collaborators suffer from what I like to call bad history teacher syndrome.

However, every film aficionado knows that when the place is called Blackwood Manor, has a history of mysterious disappearances, and hasn't been bought in decades, it's most likely a conduit for evil.

Schrader also calls Richie «the Commodore Perry of Japanese film history»!

And while the film isn't without a couple good jokes (upon entering an amusement park ride called The Time Masheen, the riders are given a history lesson about how Charlie Chaplin commanded the Nazis), it's one giant mess that should be seen by as few people as possible.

Cinema is not only the information contained on film strips (or DVDs or AVI files), or the specifiable work of filmmakers to achieve identifiable results, it is also what Alexander Kluge calls «the film in the spectator's head,» as well as histories and theories of what cinema is or can be.

Called History Assessments of Thinking (HATs), these assessments use the Library of Congress's collection of documents, photos, paintings, radio broadcasts, and film clips to measure students» historical understandings and critical - thinking skills.

The image you published with your article is a copyrighted still from a lovely independent film called «A Short History of Decay.»

It is a commercial center for large farming and ranching but is often called «Little Hollywood» because of its history with the film industry.

Robert Englund is the biggest introduction to the Injustice series as Scarecrow which is rather appropriate as he portrayed one of the scariest characters in film history; Freddy Krueger in six A Nightmare on Elmstreet films from 1984 to 1991, two seasons of Freddy's Nightmares television series and the film Freddy vs. Jason in 2003, while Robert Englund is no stranger to videogames having voiced Freddy Krueger who appeared in NetherRealm Studios» Mortal Kombat in 2011 as a downloadable content fighter and appearing as himself in Call of Duty: Black Ops» zombies themed downloadable content Call of the Dead.

If the artist is organizing their history for a retrospective or large scale exhibition, publication, or documentary film, CALL Services will seek to work with the museum, arts organization, publisher, dealer or collector, to raise additional funds in support of this work.

LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON: Well, I did this film called Strange Culture [2007] that helped to get the charges dropped against an artist, [Steve Kurtz, who was detained by the FBI on suspicion of bioterrorism,] and then I did Woman Art Revolution [2010], which inserted a history [of women in art] that had been denied our culture, and I thought those were really important things to add.

Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so - called «race films» that flourished in the 1920s - 40s.

But for a long time, film was the thorn of art history after that thing called «Hollywood» came along, which threatened the avant - garde film's separation from mainstream cinema.

Since 2009 Kraczon has organized ICA's annual juried film and video exhibition Open Video Call, and she was the receiving curator for the traveling exhibitions Jeremy Deller: Joy in People (2012) and Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History (2009).

The article covered Martin's history, talked about her leaving New York, the film she made called «Gabriel,» and discussed her new work.

Through his emphasis on the importance of a knowledge of art history, his support for visiting artist programs, and his progressive courses that examined the common history of various media including film, photography, and painting, Wallace influenced a generation of artists emerging from the Vancouver scene, including members of the so - called Vancouver School of artists, Jeff Wall, Ken Lum, Stan Douglas, Roy Arden and Rodney Graham.

AT&T celebrates Women's History Month with the more than 200 amazing women called the Hello Girls, who served our country in World War I and are featured in a new film sponsored by AT&T called, «The Hello Girls,» which is premiering today.