Sentences with phrase «film community which»

Commenting on this year's program, Geoffrey Gilmore, Director of Programming for the Sundance Film Festival, said «The nearly 800 films submitted for competition at the Sundance Film Festival this year emphatically demonstrates the vibrant health of the independent film community which made our task of selecting thirty - four films for this year's competition an especially difficult and daunting one.

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But, wait, there's yet another «taste community» rallying to «Ozark,» says Yellin: fans of the 2015 film «The Big Short,» which deals with Wall Street dirty tricks, have been found to respond to the money monkeyshines that animate «Ozark.»

A staffer on the film, which has provoked anti-American protests and violence across the Muslim world, said he believed that the filmmaker is a Coptic Christian, information that has sent shock waves through the Coptic community.

The program's merit led Warner - Chilcott, drug firm, to produce a film which would spread the method to other communities.

Laboratory tests indicate that the eCAPs work well against biofilms, which are bacterial communities that develop very high levels of resistance to antibiotics by working together to protect the film's inner bacteria from traditional treatments.

Occasional passing shots of Orthodox men garbed in traditional heavy black coats and hats have an almost Edward Gorey-esque surrealness to them, and yet what makes the film so engaging is the thoroughness with which it humanizes and renders accessible the hermetic Hasidic community of Borough Park, Brooklyn.

The supplements we do get, however, are worthwhile — two documentaries, one a brief introduction to Spielberg's educationally minded Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, the other a feature - length film in which surviving Schindler Jews vividly recall their ravaged Polish community and the German - Catholic industrialist who saved them.»

Although the film is over two hours, there was definitely more to the story to be told, as it did not go into Zamperini's post-war experiences, including his embracing of Christianity, community work, his return to Japan to meet with some of his former captors, and more, which could have been a great movie on its own.

She pioneered a community outreach program to connect film sets across the U.S. with the communities in which they operate and led efforts to support critical non-profit community service providers.

Andie Redwine was honored with The Hoosier Award for her work on «Paradise Recovered,» a film about a woman from a cloistered religious sect forced to view her community from a new perspective, which was partially shot in southern Indiana.

Also noteworthy, in the category of cinema ruled by cultural concerns and actual political events, was Carlos (d. Olivier Assayas), which kept a packed auditorium of critics in their seats for over five hours with a glossy, but intelligent action film version of the 1970s exploits of a terrorist born Illich Ramirez Sanchez, but known internationally as the Jackal, also by the code name Carlos; and Des Hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), a film, elegantly minimalist in design, based on a real - life encounter between Algerian fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and a community of ascetic Christian monks.

No film this year, however, addresses the matter with more thematic exactitude and near - scientific scrutiny than Michael Haneke's grimly riveting «The White Ribbon,» a film which differs from the ones previously mentioned by taking an entire community, as opposed to a solitary family, as its allegorical subject.

Film Fatales is a diverse community of women filmmakers who meet regularly to mentor each other, share resources, collaborate on projects and build a supportive environment in which to make their films.

The inspiration for the film, which is set in a rural Kentucky farming community, came from an unlikely source: field research.

As Gitai's most widely screened film, Kadosh won both admiration and sharp criticism — the criticism predictably coming from the Orthodox community, which disputed the film's portrayal of Orthodox men acting with brutal lack of feeling toward their wives.

The environment and the small community they live in is the most realistic aspect of the film in which every decision and character motivation is questionable at best and ludicrous at worst.

The film focuses on the divergent fortunes of a trio of twangy - accented waitresses working at Joe's Pie Diner, which appears to be the social hub of their tiny, close - knit community.

Variety reports that Hugh Grant and Brendan Gleeson have joined the film, which will see «the beloved bear, happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, embark upon a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.»

And Naomi Alderman, who wrote the book on which the film is based while she was a part of the community in 2006, was always there to explain the nuances of what being an Orthodox Jewish woman means.

An elderly miner played by Bill Nighy and a community leader played by Imelda Staunton (whom you remember as the abortionist in Mike Leigh's 2004 film «Vera Drake») add zest to the proceedings, which yield not only the new camaraderie between miners and «perverts» (as the gays call themselves to «own» the pejorative) but a new entente between one young man and his family.

Instead, these are small - market, semi-pro mascots for community colleges or minor league teams, whose dreams of glory are all tied to the World Mascot Association's Gold Fluffy Awards, the presentation of which serves as the film's centerpiece.

Unbelievably, given the violence that Arlen (Suki Waterhouse) endures in The Bad Batch and its ties to that which Miami Man (Jason Mamoa) dishes out, the film turns out to be something close to a love story — of two people discovering a rapport both in their shared cultural deprivation and fondness for a little girl who never knew a world before the one she calls home, the ironically dubbed Comfort community.

In an examination of the film in New York Times Magazine, writer, Carvell Wallace, recalls that the last instance he recalled of a similar community response for a film, was during Ryan Coogler's debut film, Fruitvale Station, which told the harrowing story of the last few hours of Oscar Grant's life.

The very idea that there are movies, such as «Citizen Kane», which are hailed universally as undisputed masterpieces, goes to show that at least a portion of film critic community functions as a hive mind.

During the event, Natalie was presented with Max Mara «s Face of the Future Award, which honors an actress who is experiencing a turning point in her career in the film and television and recognizes her contributions to the community and outstanding personal achievements.

For such reasons, this year, while drawing attention to the importance of documentaries, I selected films which evoke questions of aesthetics within the community of Korean independent documentary filmmaking.

Providing an action hero for that community would've given this film a greater purpose beyond just being a really solid thriller which is a bit of a disappointment.

-- Members of Seattle's film and critical community have voted and nominations for the 2015 Seattle Film Awards, which honor the best...

The film depicts how two young poets are compelled to battle parents, doctors, and the cultural consensus to maintain their relationship which is considered dangerous by the community because...

-- Members of Seattle's film and critical community have voted and nominations for the 2015 Seattle Film Awards, which honor the best work in film for 2015, have been announced.

At face value KHNH does indeed have a fairly rote Hindi film set - up with three central players: Naina Catherine Kapur (Preity Zinta), a sullen twentysomething whose life and household has been in disarray since a devastating family tragedy; her best friend Rohit Patel (Saif Ali Khan), would - be slick ladies» man but all - around good guy; and Aman Mathur (Shahrukh Khan), Naina's freshly - arrived neighbor, whose upbeat and generous nature will come to affect the lives of all he encounters in his new community, not least of which Rohit and especially Naina.

blackfilm.com is an online resource which links the Black film community while cultivating national and international audiences interested in their work.

(Esti's look drew some complaints from the real Orthodox community in which the film was set — to them the character seemed a caricature.)

The movie, which opens Friday but made its Houston debut Saturday night as part of a day - long community event celebrating the film sponsored by the Houston Museum of African American Culture that also included a welcome from Democratic congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, actually has its start in «Captain America: Civil War» two years ago.

My favorite Altman film is still McCabe and Mrs. Miller (which also focuses on the inner workings and separate classes of a relatively closed and remote community), followed by The Long Goodbye (in spite of its forced ending) and California Split (in spite of its casual homophobia)-- all three released in the early 70s.

It recalls one of Sirk's most famous films, All That Heaven Allows, in which a rich widow falls in love with her beautiful gardener (played by Rock Hudson) and becomes the pariah of her rich, conservative community.

We just heard about Vincent Cassel joining the cast of Bourne 5, and now we've got a new trailer for Partisan, the creepy - looking film that features Cassel as a sort of cult leader who acts as head of a closed community and trains young urchins to do his bidding, which is often violent.

The Art of Film is an annual fundraising event during which Dallas film lovers gather to celebrate talent within the film community.

For a film that has literally exploded into cinemas from absolutely nowhere, and with very little publicity, even through communications with critics and throughout the film community, this «spiritual sequel» to the Matt Reeves directed 2008 monster flick, which arrived in similar fashion, could just topple it in terms of its the edge - of - the - seat - ness.

Shinesparkers continued to support the various creative efforts of the community, such as the MetroidHQthon, which raised thousands of dollars for charity, and was responsible for helping the Metroid fan film «The Sky Calls» obtain enough votes to go into production.

The film crew actually arranged for it to be fixed up, for which the local community, which hasn't used the church for a while, was overwhelming grateful.

TUGG, which allows communities to «lobby» for a screening of a film in a local theater, is also involved.

Not many films take a positive look on the black neighbourhoods in America and try to make it look like a real community, other than maybe a Spike Lee film, which is something that this movie does well.

The film, which will be called The Limehouse Golem, is set in 1880s London, where a series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe the crimes are the work of a golem, a mystical creature from Jewish folklore that is created from inanimate matter, typically dust or mud.

Such is the display of fair - weathered faith in Joshua Marston's fourth feature film, Come Sunday, which relates the true trials and travails of evangelical Bishop Carlton Pearson, who in the late 1990s caused waves amongst his religious community in Tulsa, Oklahoma when he announced God spoke to him and confirmed all souls are eligible to be received in heaven, whether they accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior or not (which also negates the threat of hell, a punishment which has kept communities frozen in antiquated fear - based decision making for centuries).

That is, of course, until 2012's The Hunt, his engrossing film starring Mads Mikkelsen, which centers on a man who becomes the target of persecution in his small community after being wrongly accused of sexually assaulting a child.

Embrey Family Foundation joined the Institute's community of foundation supporters in 2014 and provides valuable general operating support for our work year - round, which enables us to allocate funds where they are needed most, and to focus our attention on developing new initiatives as we provide leadership to the fields of film, theatre, and new and interactive media.

Entertainment Weekly Published: April 27, 2018 Award - winning actress Rachel McAdams talks about her new film, Disobedience, shot in London, which explores a lesbian relationship in an Orthodox Jewish community.

John Moran on a film chronicling the gay community's response in the USA to the AIDS epidemic, which screened at the recent GAZE Film Festival.

I have a huge soft spot for films which probe niche professions, societies or communities.