Sentences with phrase «film focuses on the stories»

Out of those, 800 testifying from 1996 to 1998, the film focuses on stories of about ten persons, including a White victim.

The film focuses on the stories of a select group of individuals who live there.

The film focuses on the story of how...

This film focuses on the story of «The Mysterious Island».

The film focuses on the story of how the famous male exotic dancers started after Paul Snider and Somen «Steve» Banerjee expanded the Chippendales nightclub.

The film focuses on the stories of the individuals who testified before the nation's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to investigate violations of human rights in South Africa and beyond its borders between 1960 and 1994.

Not exact matches

Sure, there's still crime - fighting and high - tech gear, as in any superhero film these days, but focusing on Parker's vulnerability, and creating a relatable coming - of - age story, seems to be what makes this Spider - Man special.

Yet Collins» stories aren't paedaphobic pulp fiction, and Gary Ross» film adaptation doesn't focus on the brutality of the idea.

This list is limited to those that focus mainly on Jesus» life story as told in the Gospels; thus, it does not include films about characters who are only peripherally connected to Jesus, such as Ben - Hur (1925, 1959).

In this film, even the worst people imaginable are given story arcs that transcend political correctness, or even a sense of justice, focusing on the challenges of sorrow, anger, and other seemingly unbearable emotions.

The film is based on one of Thomas Hardy's warmest novels, focusing on the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene and her blossoming love stories with three suitors — but what is often overlooked are her idyllic surroundings.

There was the film, You've Got Mail, but it only focused on one love story.

The feature, Actors in Search of a Story, applauds the entire cast of the film (right down to the woman who plays Harold's psychologist for about two minutes of screen time), Building the Team profiles director Marc Forster and some of his crew, and Words on a Page focuses on budding young screenwriter Zach Helm.

Nevertheless, despite the frequent confusion that accompanies the watching of these films, the long view reveals a series that has remained focused on characters, feeling and filmmaking craft, while often telling this classically inspired story with wit and nuance.

The 3:47 «Meet Katie» focuses on the story of the furry little yak who just steals her scenes in the film, as the creators talk about the development of the character from a background drawing to full - fledged cult hero.

Because the original Jungle Book was a collection of short stories, any successful film version should either focus on one particular story, or else find some way of joining them together.

The film follows the usual trajectory of such a familiar tale, but its focus is on the beats in between such a story's big moments.

By focusing on the specific (and frequently heartbreaking) stories of the aforementioned parents, former Congresswoman and gun - violence survivor Gabrielle Giffords, and Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts — who was motivated to action by Newtown and unwittingly sparked a grassroots movement on Facebook — the film lays out the gaping holes in the system where regulations are needed, and offers hopeful examples of activism in the face of what often feels like an insurmountable problem.

Too many critics talk about the cinematography of the film, who cares about the skylines, odd view points, etc let us just focus on the story and the message of the movie.

It is best to go into this movie as blind as possible because it is better to experience the film rather than read about it later, but the story focuses on biologist Lena (Natalie Portman) and a team of scientists who venture into a strange force - field - like area that mysteriously appears on Earth.

Smaug is expected to cover much of the remaining story in J. R. R. Tolkien's original novel, highlighted by a major battle with the titular dragon, while the third film (There and Back Again, due July 18, 2014) will focus on the Battle of Five Armies as well as materials found in Tolkien's notes and appendices.

The film's increasingly unnerving story mostly unfolds with minimal flair, intensely focused as it is on its steely and enigmatic protagonist.

But though the film's publicity and advanced buzz focus on Weisz's Ronit Krushka — a woman whose return to the cloistered London Jewish community she exiled herself from causes disturbances in the field — Ronit's story is not where the most involving parts of the drama lie.

With an unhurried pace and a focus on character over action or plot, this film takes us into the mind and life of a hardened assassin and follows the story to its natural conclusion.

The premise is surprisingly human; rather than using the ghost - story which accompanies the apartment that the protagonist (Jennifer Connelly) and her daughter (Ariel Gage) move into as its main focus, the film concentrates more on a custody battle between she and her ex-husband (Dougray Scott).

Her feature - length debut, 2013's «It Felt Like Love,» focused on the bumpy trajectory of an introverted teenage woman exploring her urges with dangerous results; with the markedly similar «Beach Rats,» Hittman brings the same tropes to the plight of a young man in a film that has the precision of a great short story and the uneasiness of body horror.

The Legend of Tarzan feels like the sequel to a much more interesting film... I wish Yates would have just focused on the elements of Tarzan's story that made it so interesting in the first place instead of foolhardily trying to modernize it.

Based on a real - life story of a tobacco - company research scientist (Russell Crowe) and the ramifications of his decision to disclose industry secrets to the American public on an episode of 60 Minutes, it was a moody, intense affair that many critics touted as one of the year's best films; it netted 7 Oscar nominations in the process.Mann was back in the Academy Award hunt two year's later with Ali, a biopic of the beloved boxer Muhammad Ali that focused on both his athletic accomplishments and his political battles.

Luckily, Holland's film focusses on a rather unusual true story from Poland during the atrocities of the Second World War rather than the well - told tales of the concentration camps (as obviously important and powerful as they are).

While Ponsoldt said at the Q&A that this wasn't on purpose or even the focus of the story, The Spectacular Now is his third feature film that deals with alcoholism.

It has been a brilliant strategy to refrain from using any images of Batman in the trade ads for this film, focusing on Bruce Wayne throughout, ushering the story through further as a character piece, not a superhero extravaganza.

While the latter focuses on the pavement - pounding reporting of its titular news team, Vanderbilt's film is more about Mapes herself and how one of the biggest stories of her career turned out to be the end of it.

Like their previous film Lenny Cooke, sibling directors Benny and Joshua Safdie focus on a true story in Heaven Knows What, only this time they shoot it as a feature narrative instead of a documentary.

«The Deathly Hallows, Part 1: Behind the Story Featurettes» is an 80 minutes feature that is split into fourteen mini featurettes focusing on the film's production and nine of these are new to the film.

The visual pyrotechnics are nicely balanced with a focus on the emotional beats of the story and the film works largely because its three young principals have finally learnt how to act.

From the beginning, Roger was inspired to see Coppola's films with a unique perspective — to focus on the young boys on the fringes of the story, and to talk about the idea of adolescence.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

The story focuses on his relationship with actress Anne Wiazemsky, who first starred in his 1967 film La Chinoise before dating him for several years.

Being a Jim Carrey film, there are some funny moments in the movie, but the story really focuses on a man who is living a lie and slowly beginning to realize that.

While ostensibly the story of white residents like Gilles, who splits his year between Iqaluit and Montreal, much of the film focuses on the Inuk residents — especially Noah (Natar Ungalaaq), a friend of Gilles who grows close to Carmen.

This may be the story of miserable, lovelorn people, but the film focuses on the characters» self - involvement to such an extent that it becomes almost absurd.

Like Jolie, the writers also do a good job of compartmentalizing each piece of the story so that it feels like a fresh chapter with renewed interest, while also keeping the focus on the emotional / spiritual arc of Louis as a consistent throughline, so that the movie's climax (which is much more metaphoric and spiritual than literal) has significant impact and satisfies in an iconic and moving way that is hard for any film to pull off.

Where the film excels, however, is director William Wyler's measured tone, which accepts the story's focus — of gradual changes and carnage on the home front — and uses lengthy sequences emphasizing actor reactions.

Set in 1998 and derived from a news story of that time, the film starts out by focusing on twenty - four - year - old tomboy Ilana (a strikingly charismatic debut by Darya Zhovnar), who works in the garage of her mechanic father.

Chbosky achieves this by not falling to the temptation of focusing the film on Auggie's travails, but like author R J Palacio did, telling his story from his as well as the eyes of other youngsters around him.

Based on the true story behind the Perron family's terrifying haunting of their Rhode Island farmhouse in 1971, the film focused on real - life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren's efforts to rid the house of the demonic presence of the witch Bathsheba.

The film is a friendship story, focusing on the strange purgatory that is the summer between high school and college.

Focusing on Pixar, the initial discussion centres on Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995), and the «Hyper - Real» aesthetic formed in that film.

I came to it with little knowledge of the Beach Boys and their story, and the film focuses on their pre-Pet Sounds era, it's recording, Brian's discintegration afterward and then Brian's later life.

And even though the film focuses exclusively on Ferguson and Michael Brown, the story is so immense that some parts feel neglected or simply not investigated enough.