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Don't bother to see this film unless you expect to be tested in film class about the Coens» serial dissertation on American cinema.

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Each film depicted the cold detachment of the U.S. military, the government's disregard for its young working and middle class boys, and the unraveling of American ideologies about home and country.

Until I read The Humiliation of the Word, for instance, I could not understand why my students in French literature classes had so much to say and ask about the texts they read but never had any verbal response whatever when I showed them a film.

After Skillshare contacted me about being a teacher and before filming my own classes, the very first thing I did was get an account of my own to check out the platform.

There's a little less film on Jackson than most of his peers at the top of the class, but his play in 2017 was so good that there shouldn't be many questions about him.

When Mea Robinson - Davis recently needed a few foreign films for her class about Latin - American authors, she didn't want to wait for Netflix to mail her the movies.

The class watched a film about how a law is made and learned how it took years for some school children to convince Alaska to pick a state dog.

The telescope tour features science demonstrations and a short film about the world - class Green Bank Telescope.

The Creative Class Anaita Shroff Adajania, Fashion Director and Bollywood Stylist BoF speaks to Anaita Shroff Adajania, the stylist behind the current Vogue India cover featuring Bollywood megastar Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, about her career trajectory and the inner workings of fashion and film in India.

This is not to insinuate that Haneke betrays any insincerity towards his characters, but one wonders how he might have conceived and shot a film about a lowly working - class couple dealing with encroaching death in a tiny one - room apartment.

A lovely film about a group of people who enroll in an adult swim class at the local recreation center.

Three petty criminals try to escape their lower class lives by making a film about a bank robbery - one they actually attempt.

This is just a bad film that tried to say something about social injustice, the class differences between the rich and the poor, the unfair loss of welfare programs, the inhibiting cost of health insurance that is falsely being blamed on the government when it is the fault of insurance companies why the rates are so high, the hypocrisies of the Gulf War, and the failure of the media to be more responsive in covering all the political corruption.

360 is a beautifully made film that oozes class and tells us something about where we are at as human beings in the 21st century.

I appreciated the lack of flash and quick cut editing here, there was maturity and class about how he handled the film.

Husband and wife Tim (Jake Johnson) and Lee (Rosemarie DeWitt) are housesitting at a well - off home, which offers ample opportunity for snooping and class comparisons (their conversations about whether to send their son to private school ground the film in issues not often part of the indie milieu).

The latest film from already - acclaimed Belgian brothers Jean - Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Two Days, One Night stars the not - so - working - class - but - still - beautiful Marion Cotillard as a working - class woman about to lose her job, desperate to convince her co-workers to keep her on board.

It's a coming - of - age story about 15 - year - old youth, adapted from a novel by film critic François Bégaudeau, who wrote and starred in Laurent Cantet's 2008 Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Class.

Perhaps if the film had concentrated more on introspective elements, such as Rashad and his internal difficulties in growing from a boy into a man, instead of constantly distracting us with side stories — Esquire's quest for the path to success, New New's fence - sitting between the ghetto and the mansion, Ant's seduction into materialism, and the roller skating competition that never really materializes — it would have been a more compelling movie about Atlanta's lower class areas, and the ups and downs of life there.

For lead actor, dark horse «Biutiful» star Javier Bardem — who portrays a hustler confronting questions about his mortality and morality in the Barcelona - set film — edged strong contenders including «Blue Valentine» heartthrob Ryan Gosling, Robert Duvall's portrayal of a hermit in «Get Low» and Mark Wahlberg's turn as a working - class boxer in «The Fighter.»

Directed by Paul Mercier, the film is a modern take on the legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne — a contemporary myth about the pursuit of power, class, love and the chance to start again.

Keegan - Michael Key and Jordan Peele head from sketches to feature film with this comedy about two middle - class cousins who impersonate gangsters so they can rescue a kitten.

Everything about this film oozes class; the 60's setting is beautifully captured with it's attention to detail and strikingly rich photography by Eduard Grau; the slow motion scenes with overbearing sound effects; the subtle changes of colour saturation providing an excellent technique in developing the mood and feeling of Firth's character and a fitting soundtrack to accompany the lush imagery.

Though it's evident that Marina comes from a different class than most of the film's other characters, A Fantastic Woman is withholding about her background and family — and this would be less of a problem if Lelio and co-screenwriter Gonzalo Maza offered her much in the way of motivation or aspirations.

It's a film about contradictions: Few movies have so insistently probed the paradoxes of class among aimless NYC twentysomethings.

Here is a film that is constructed entirely around a dinner scene that speaks volumes about the class system.

Everything about the film is first - class: Benoit Delhomme's cinematography, John Paul Kelly's period production design, Johann Johansson's score, and the contributions of such fine actors as David Thewlis, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, Charlie Cox, and Maxine Peake.

Rest assured, this isn't a biting satire or message - piece about racism or class in America, as many of the first film's traits (drugs, sex, swears, Flash Gordon) remain embedded in proceedings.

But as much as the film, which opens here on May 18 (the day before that other wedding), is about the failure of the newlyweds to connect, it's also about how class puts us in our place.

Matthew Vaughn's First Class always had a whiff of studio interference about it when compared to the British film - maker's work on Kick - Ass.

Gilbert, who has died aged 97, may have been best known for his three 007 films, but it's the films he made about working class life that are his great achievement

In talking about the film adaptation of the iconic TV soap opera that was in class all its own, Burton stated he was a fan of the show and had a «strange love of weird cultural phenoms» that he shared with Johnny Depp, with whom he had worked with on eight films.

From the jump and not by design, December «Class of...» entries have featured films lasting about three hours (or more) and starring Robert De Niro and / or Al Pacino.

Out on Blu - ray December 17th is Elysium, Neill Blomkamp's sophomore film about class disparity in a bleak futuristic vision of Earth.

A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, Safe functions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self - help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you can not see.

The visual joke about Daniel's gleaming phallus going flaccid under seismic stress is so obvious the film doesn't even bother to make it, although it spares the time to follow him after he abandons Blake in a parking garage and beats a solo retreat through the wreckage, establishing his credentials as a world - class dickhole at every opportunity.

The film concerns a seemingly normal, middle class Austrian family, husband and wife Georg and Anna, and daughter Eva, going about their mundane, daily activities, until one day, Georg quits his job and declares the family is moving to Australia (hence the film's title).

He'll drop names from Elia Kazan to Roger Corman, do a mean Hitchcock imitation (he appeared in the director's final film, «Family Plot») and talk about meeting Marilyn Monroe when she sat in on classes at Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio — and being stunned when she suddenly began crying as the two of them were passed by an older woman on a New York street in the early 1960s.

Moreover, theories about sociological, hidden and subliminal messages in Disney films and characters are so prevailing that I have enjoyed intriguing classes on the very subject in junior high (for free) and at university (for a repossessed Porsche).

These desecrations or enhancements, and they are variously classed as both, form the spine of this fascinating film, which says so much about women, men and creativity.

«The film dares to talk about class and redemption without compromising its sharp, comedic edge.

This is a convincing and emotionally honest film about a specific kind of adolescence: bratty, confused, middle - middle class, white, female, pretentious, and ultimately kindhearted.

He also asked his well - educated class to study the trashy goings on of MTV's Jersey Shore: not as much of a surprise when you think about his next film.

As she wrote in her post about the film, this is a story about class and it's a story, in keeping with good timing, that perhaps could only be told in these times, as we continue to engage in more nuanced discussions about belonging and inclusion and privilege.

Like many of Dahl's other stories, including Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, this film also features negative depictions of obese characters and subtle messages about class distinctions.

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Janney praised the film for «telling a story about class in America... about the disenfranchised,» since Harding was often seen as an outcast in the skating world because of her working - class upbringing.

Class Rank filmed over about 20 days in Alexandria, Louisiana.

«In The Soup» (1992) From the same Sundance class as «Reservoir Dogs» and «El Mariachi» (and winning the Grand Jury Prize that year, no less), this Steve Buscemi - starring flick about a struggling screenwriter, from director Alexandre Rockwell, was expected to go on to great things even before the Tarantino and Rodriguez films blew up.

Though their 2014 film, about a woman (Marion Cotillard) trying to save herself from imminent redundancy, is cut from the same careworn cloth as previous features, it's another undeniably sublime and heartbreaking work about saintly self preservation, the struggles of working class life and the fact that it's often the smallest stories which deal with the biggest and most important ideas.