Sentences with phrase «film challenges its viewer»

The film challenges its viewer on many levels, perhaps being the reason why its been negatively and unfairly bombarded by critics, and audiences alike.

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The film introduces viewers to kids from impoverished neighborhoods, some facing nearly unimaginable challenges, as they come together under Courtney's leadership.

To see if entertainment could offer a solution to this challenge, Ingber teamed up with Charles Reilly, Ph.D., a molecular biophysicist, professional animator, and Staff Scientist at the Wyss Institute who previously worked at movie director Peter Jackson's Park Road Post film studio, to create a film that would capture viewers» imaginations by telling the story of a biological process that was accurate down to the atomic level.

Other films challenged audiences to confront the role of humans in wildlife extinction, invited viewers to think twice about our seemingly insatiable appetites for food and fuel, and encouraged the adoption of more sustainable ways of life.

We need more films like this: family - friendly efforts that challenge viewers with ideas rather than regurgitating tired tropes in the name of placating toy companies.

Equally, if everything fails to work, the film is a slog that perpetually challenges the viewer to engage while offering little reason to do so.

A Separation offers its viewers an experience that is both challenging and heartbreaking and, as with all truly great cinema, you come away from this film feeling just that little bit changed for having seen it.

For plot - challenged viewers, the film demands a concentrated effort to follow what's happening in the jumbled timeline.

It isn't perfect, but when it works, it's brilliant, and a definite recommendation for viewers looking for something a little more challenging than your typical adventure film.

Although this minimalist technique is the hallmark of a well - crafted film, it does prove to be a bit of a challenge for the viewer who has to carefully pay attention to the acting on screen while at the same time attempting to read the subtitles!

The challenge of «Bitcoin,» written by Brent Craft, and other cryptocurrency films is parsing a complicated, opaque economic system so that viewers are at once educated and entertained.

Little Fockers isn't necessarily a better film than Killing Them Softly (I wouldn't watch it again anyway), but because that film doesn't challenge viewers» perceptions, the grade is higher.

The team, nickname: Comebacks, is rounded out by the odd cinematic allusion: iPod (Jermaine Williams), a leg - humping mentally - challenged assistant, blatantly spoofs Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s Radio persona, while an Indian girl kicker (Noureen DeWulf) pays homage to Bend It Like Beckham, a film that most viewers probably haven't seen.

A cartoonist, novelist and screenwriter, Alex Garland, who's most commonly known for writing films such as The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd, has now made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a sci - fi cautionary tale that challenges viewers with a variety of existential questions in regards to artificial intelligence.

DiCaprio is good though never achieves the same greatness he displayed in The Departed, though one might blame the film itself, which sits so comfortably within the genre that the viewer is never really challenged.

It is a film that pushes boundaries, with both the content and the style challenging the viewer.

After all, any film which spends its first ten minutes on saying goodbye to an old piano and hello to a new one can not be too concerned with challenging viewers or keeping them enthralled.

And while this subject matter can be challenging, it's alluring at the same time and draws the viewer into the film.

I caught up with Fog to talk about the process of making a film that breaks with convention and challenges the viewer to think about what they're seeing on screen.

In a film that will challenge the patience of most viewers, the talented Liana Liberato and Gia Mantegna briefly ease the pain after Bikini Girl 1 references Homer.

Lis Rhodes (b. 1942) Since the 1970s, Rhodes has been making radical and experimental films that challenge the viewer to reconsider film as a medium of communication and presentation of image, language, and sound.

Artists in this exhibition invite spectators to take a closer look at films, challenging viewers by playing with their perceptions and memories of characters and movies that have become a familiar part of their lives.

Working across a wide range of media, Connor used iconic imagery and footage in experimental films, challenging the viewer to contemplate the saturation of cultural narratives in our daily lives.

Using visual subject matter that was wholly abstract, filmmakers could create works that, while occasionally interpreted as apolitical and «safe,» actually utilized complex structures and challenged viewers to reexamine the narrative basis — and in some cases the very materiality — of film.

Isabelle Cornaro employs painting, sculpture, installation, and film in her quest to challenge the way viewers perceive reality, dictated historically and culturally.

Sampling images from pornographic films and fashion photography, Liz Neal's paintings and installations challenge viewers with frank and livid depictions of carnality.

While film producers juggle with storyline, screenplay, actors and dialogue - the basic elements of entertainment movies - the video artist is concerned with exploring the medium itself, or to use it to challenge the viewer's ideas of space, time and form.

The film is the latest entry in Prager's oeuvre of cinematic and photographic investigations into subjects that tantalize and challenge the viewer.

The huge exhibition moves from a diptych of Hans Namuth's film of Jackson Pollock at work, playing on a monitor next to Pollock's Number 1 (1949), through - among so many other things - Japanese Gutai painting performances from the»50s; photo - documentation of Valie Export's Genital Panic (1969), in which Export, in crotchless jeans and packing an Uzi, roamed the aisles of a porn cinema challenging viewers to deal with the real thing (there's that «real» thing again); relics of Hermann Nitsch's bloody ritual drama, Asolo Raum (1971), to the most recent works, set pieces by Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy.