Sentences with phrase «film examines the life»

The film examines the life of Alan Turing, a codebreaker who is credited with breaking the German Enigma Code during WWII.

Morgen's film examines the life of activist, primatologist, and scientist Dr. Jane Goodall.

In addition, the Sackler Center for Arts Education at the Guggenheim Museum, in collaboration with Futurefarmers, will offer exhibition - related programs for people of various ages, ranging from hands - on workshops entitled Making Our Own Rules (in which each participant is asked to create a system of measurement — a ruler — based on the length of his / her foot) to screenings of the film Examined Life (2008) by Astra Taylor.

Not exact matches

Based on Anne Rice's best - selling novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, the film examines a time in Christ's life not typically seen on screen: His childhood.

Real - life sweethearts and film directors Ken Kwapis and Marisa Silver co-directed this throwback to the silver - screen romantic comedies of the 1940s, examining the different ways men and women view reality.

Far from your ordinary music doc, the film is loosely set in a fictional 24 hours in Cave's life as he examines his own songwriting process and transforms his music from an unformed sketch to a live show scorcher.

Weaving the lives of these three towering Roosevelts into one triumphant 14 - hour film, Burns has found another ideal prism for examining the American character and the American story.

The difference between what we can do to direct our lives and the way that our lives become directed by forces outside ourselves and often beyond our control is examined in the lives of many characters in this film.

However, when we examine 2 of his latest films (white ribbon and cache), it seems to me what stands out is his ability to use the concept of mystery and show the viewer that in cinema, as in life, there are things beyond our understanding, and nihilism isn't so bad if you can accept that.

There is a certain poignancy to a film that metaphorically examines the stages of a woman's life through each character.

A triptych illustrating the tidal ebb and flow of identity, Jenkins's film is awash in dreaminess, while still examining the life of one young man with piercing clarity.

His new film is a brilliantly devastating satire of many things, beginning with scientists who don't understand human dynamics and rising through the buzz - phrase sales - driven banality of everyday life and the widespread willingness to embrace solutions without examining their consequences.

Not to be confused with Roger Ebert's documentary Life Itself, this feature film stars Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde as a couple, and spans several decades of time examining passionate relationships and other interactions connected by a single «random moment.»

That film, which examined teenagers living in an isolated house with their overprotective parents, both fascinated its viewers and made them squirm in their seats.

But these 10 films celebrate and examine bi lives in living color — take a look!

«Love & Mercy» Chronicling the rise and fall of Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson, this film examines the musician in two starkly contrasting stages in his life.

The film examines the complex relationship between Leo Tolstoy's avid followers and his family in the final days of his life.

The way Hong deals with time means you could almost categorise his films as hard sci - fi, in particular the way he examines the counterintuitive daisy - chain effect that our actions have on the lives of others.

Over a night of gamesmanship, the title of the film is examined in shifting power dynamics between a woman who has spent her professional life subsuming her femininity for power in a traditionally masculine arena and the girl who has spent her life exploiting femininity to the same ends.

Denis Cote French Canadian auteur examines the lives of six bodybuilders in his new documentary, which has been described as a compelling companion piece to his 2012 film Bestiaire.

The Blu - ray also includes the four - part «I Remember Crimson Peak,» which looks at four key locations with short featurettes of about five minutes apiece, plus «A Primer on Gothic Romance,» «Hand Tailored Gothic» (on the film's costumes), «A Living Thing» (the longest of the featurettes, examining the creation of the mansion), and «Crimson Phantoms» (on creating the ghosts), plus bonus DVD and Ultraviolet Digital HD copies of the film.

Based on a D. H. Lawrence novel of living free in a changing Britain and how that plays out sexually in such a suppressed society, we start with two good friends (Glenda Jackson and Jennie Lindon), a rougher contact in high society (Oliver Reed) and more open, freewheeling friend (Alan Bates) examining the slowly blooming new freedoms, their connection to nature, each other and what that portends for the future in this lush, warm, personal film that holds up extremely well today and has some of the best work of all involved.

The film works as a backwards glance for those who lived in the era, certainly, but in similar fashion to Dazed and Confused — another movie very specifically rooted in time — one needn't have grown up back then to recognize the strivings and yearnings of the characters, which are examined sincerely and amusingly.

Margot Robbie is terrific, and her natural charm makes Daphne tolerable, but though the film introduced some motivation for Daphne, it does not follow through on examining her inner life the way Alan's is examined.

In the tradition of classic horror films such as «Night of the Living Dead» and «The Stepford Wives,» Jordan Peele's terrifyingly trenchant movie, a socially charged thriller, examines the ugly truths hiding beneath the lie of a post-racial America.

We follow in almost real time a handful of individuals forced to make split - second decisions after this incomprehensible event that would change their lives and forever alter our world's landscape: the young doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital, the chief of the Dallas Secret Service, the unwitting cameraman who captured what has become the most watched and examined film in history, the FBI Agents who had gunman Lee Harvey Oswald within their grasp and Vice President Lyndon Johnson who had to take control of a country in a moment's notice.

The western genre, long associated either with American film and the lone cowboy holding fast to independence in a changing landscape, or the spaghetti western, in which European directors examined more forcefully the often insidious nature of the more corrupt side of the cowboy / frontier life, is given fresh eyes in Five Fingers for Marseilles.

Taking overt stylistic cues from previous Robbie projects The Big Short and The Wolf of Wall Street, there's a brash dynamism to the film, which examines Tonya's turbulent upbringing and personal life, «The Incident» which ended her career, and the lasting impact for almost all parties involved.

In a place where the land beneath one's feet is transient, the means to make a living becomes everything and Sarangi has made a fine film by examining the life of one boy in depth — over time, through his family and in his dealings across the water.

Every aspect of a film will be examined to see if it lives up to the tough list of requirements we demand from our art now: good people behind the movie?

Anton Corbijn's new film, «Life,» attempts to examine the relationship between Stock and Dean, or more broadly between photographer and subject.

(In English and French with subtitles) INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Ajami (Unrated) Ethnic tensions abound in this «Crash» - like, slice - of - life ensemble drama examining around the deteriorating state of Palestinian - Jewish relations in the ancient, Israeli seacoast city of Jaffa.

In the second lesson, students will get a better sense of the historical context of Emmett Till's life and death as they examine the choices made by people highlighted in the film.

A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.

The film requires that we begin to examine the root of all problems facing animals, the primary and difficult truth we must accept before proceeding effectively in creating a more compassionate and responsible world — that some life is not respected for its inherent value, but rather for its desirability or usefulness to us.

This film will also inspire people to examine their own lives to determine how they can make a difference by speaking for those who have no voice.

The Misunderstood Fish» examines the history and biology of sharks through art, fossils, film and life - size replicas.

She examines how new technological tools can impact our social life, our ideas about individual identity, and our relationship with the real and virtual world using photography, film, video, computer - based art and performance.

Finally, Ben Rivers» film takes us into a «distant paradise» and examines the intimate, everyday life of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu.

These animations, artist moving image, documentary and feature films examine how experiences, memories, and desires of our lived environments are (re) invented and (re) imagined on - screen.

With her latest work, Barbara Hammer, who is known for films about lesbian life, history, and sexuality that draw upon avant - garde tradition, examines the little - known aspects of the life of the Pulitzer Prize — winning American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911 — 1979).

The film examines the pioneering life and work of artist, musician, and educator, Tony Conrad, and this special iteration of The Un-Private Collection series highlights both his extraordinary career and his influence on the work of Broad collection artists including Mike Kelley, Robert Longo, and Tony Oursler.

Opening with Picabia's solid early Cubist paintings which quickly diffused various critics» claims of painterly illiteracy, the show plows ahead through Picabia's scintillating obsession with Dada, examines his short - lived fascination with film, explores cutting edge experiments with Renaissance and Transparency painting techniques, shows his controversial war - time figurative paintings, and ends (rather deflatedly) with his return to Abstraction.

Gordon works with film, video, photographs, objects and texts, examining issues such as memory and identity, good and evil, life and death.

His film and performance work is heavily influenced by the rhythms of stand - up comedy — he was described by one critic as a «stand - up conceptual artist» — and examines some of the more problematic aspects of contemporary life in an amusing and disarming way.