Sentences with phrase «film focuses on the years»

Writer - director John Ridley's film focuses on the year before Hendrix exploded into superstardom, when he was still honing his persona and his sound in London.

The film focuses on the years before the infamous Brown v. Board of Education decision and Marshall becoming the first African - American member of the nation's highest court.

Not exact matches

Fortune broke down some of the highlights of this year's festival, including a variety of virtual reality - focused panels and the premiere screening of Netflix's (NFLX) Pee - Wee Herman film reboot, while corporate sponsors such as McDonald's (MCD) and Samsung will also be on hand with big events.

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To celebrate this year's Earth Day theme, SB&F has selected books and films that focus on environmental issues, particularly on plastic pollution and recycling, and compiled them in an Earth Day 2018 Bibliography.

Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.

After winning an Emmy for 1978's See How She Runs, Woodward returned to feature films with the Burt Reynolds farce The End; it was her final big - screen appearance for six years; instead, she focused solely on

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.

By now a mother as well as a wife, Woodward retreated from film for two years to focus on domestic duties.

The other factor leading to Darwin's creative block was the death, seven years earlier, of his daughter Annie at age 10; in scenes where Darwin is visited by the goading spirit of Annie (newcomer Martha West) and finally in the film's keening climax in the town where she died, «Creation» seems as neurotically focused on her passing as Darwin was.

At the end of the day, when we measure the worst films of the year, shouldn't we focus on things we thought were going to be good that were all kinds of memorably awful?

For many this year, Oscar competition has focused on the family films «Hugo» and «War Horse,» which have received so much recognition from the Academy — «Hugo» leads the pack with the most nominations this year (although «The Artist» and «The Descendants» will offer stiff competition when the envelope is opened for Best Picture on Feb. 26).

Lee's latest film went to the festival with distribution already in place — in April, Focus Features set the fact - based feature for an August 10 theatrical release date, picked to reflect the one - year anniversary of the Charlottesville protests, which took place on August 12, 2017.

Ridley Scott and Scott Free London are partnering with Orchard Media and Focus Features International on a slate of six genre low - budget feature films over a period of three years.

In addition to the female focus on Cattrall and Gadon, this year's WFF had several initiatives in place to help further women in film.

Perhaps being ignored because the film is too unobtrusive and relaxed in its observations of primal human interaction to register against weightier fare at this time of year, Zachariah is at its most immediate when focused on Robbie's precise acting choices.

Oscar ® - nominated director and producer Ridley Scott (Prometheus, Blade Runner) and Scott Free London are partnering with Orchard Media and Focus Features International on a slate of six genre low - budget feature films over a period of three years.

Every year since 2003, the Sundance Film Festival awards the Alfred P. Sloan Prize to a «feature film that focuses on science or technology as a theme, or depicts a scientist, engineer, or mathematician -LSB-...]

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.

The writer - director's unique focus on responsibility — and its limits — led to the creation of the year's most haunting and original film.

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.

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.

In Chloé Zhao's resoundingly human film The Rider, the narrative is framed as both documentary and drama focused on 20 - year - old rising rodeo star Brady Blackburn (played by Brady Jandreau) as he undergoes a crisis of identity.

The film in turn focuses on the early years of Dahmer, before he became a notorious murderer, when he was a shy, alcoholic teen who could never quite fit in.

One of my favorite films out of this year's Fantastic Fest was a short documentary called Brimstone & Glory, which focuses on the National Pyrotechnics Festival of Tultepec, Mexico, basically the firework capital of the world.

Starring an excellent cast (George Clooney, Matt Damon, John Goodman, and Cate Blanchett), the film focuses on a group of men from the United States, Great Britain and France, who are moved by their love of art to recover the masterpieces that were on the verge of being destroyed by the war, or stolen by the Nazis (and the Soviets), in the waning years of World War II.

The film stars Kevin Kline as silver screen legend Errol Flynn, focusing on his later years when he struck up a relationship with 15 - year - old aspiring actress Beverly Aadland (Dakota Fanning), threatening his image in the press.

A chronological leap advances the narrative seven years, and the reckless romanticism of the film's first half drops away to reveal a chillier, calmer work focused more explicitly on scientific inquiry.

Being originally intended as part of a six part series though, the film focuses solely on his early years, beginning with Napoleon as a boy, leading a large scale snowball fight and being bullied for his stony countenance.

Titled The Hero's Awakening, the movie is being produced through the Russos» Anthem production studio, which they founded earlier this year to focus on making films for China's massive, highly lucrative movie market.

Eventually Magic Mike seems to remember that, as a narrative feature film, it should have a story of some kind, which is how we come to focus on the struggles of Adam (Alex Pettyfer), a 19 - year - old college dropout who's landed on the couch of his more responsible sister Brooke (the enigmatically poker - faced beauty Cody Horn).

A 15 - year veteran of film and television, her credits include directing and producing for HBO, A&E, MTV, and the PBS series Need to Know, which focused on issues of prison reform and juvenile justice.

The new film keeps the focus on his formative years, not the political battles he'd choose during the second half of his life.

Baggage Claim: One of the most creatively - inert films of the year, this comedy focuses on a flight attendant named Montana Moore (Paula Patton), who is looking for Mr. Right.

I'll leave out any negative reviews, because I'd rather focus on the mainly positive responses I had to this year's selections (in other words, I did see more films than the ones listed below).

Mike Leigh's Another Year is a rare film in that it focuses on a happily married couple nearing retirement age.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

That rather sad fact, which is not uncommon, is one of the reasons that Johnson and Koch are proud that a festival run primarily by women regularly includes films with women directors — seven this year, including «Toni Erdmann» — along with features that focus on female characters such as «Jackie,» Kelly Reinhardt's «Certain Women» and Kelly Fremon Craig's coming - of - age comedy «The Edge of Seventeen.»

Tara Wood will direct the Quentin Tarantino documentary which follows her work on last year's similarly themed 21 Years: Richard Linklater, which focussed on the US director of films like Slacker, Before Sunrise and Boyhood.

The film focuses on two working - class junkies, Spoon (Tupac Shakur) and Stretch (Tim Roth), who decide to enter a drug rehabilitation programme after their housemate and fellow jazz - cum - poetry bandmate, Cookie (a brilliantly sassy Thandie Newton), overdoses after trying heroin for the first time on New Year's Eve.

Though we're all currently focused on the promising summer movie season at hand, production is scheduled to get underway on another high profile film later this year.

This film is a thought provoking, raw and emotional story focused on a mother whose daughters murderer still remains unknown a year after it happened.

When reviewing Right Now, Wrong Then two years ago I listed the Hong Sang - soo tropes and while his traditional visual style is present this film is firmly focussed on its female lead and not on a bumbling romantic male.

Fox Searchlight has released a new behind - the - scenes featurette for director Steve McQueen's immensely powerful drama 12 Years a Slave, this time focusing on the film's fantastic ensemble cast.

Over 3,000 actors auditioned to play Han Solo in Disney's upcoming Star Wars spin - off film focusing on the iconic character's younger years, but it was 26 - year - old Alden Ehrenreich — a rising star, but not a household name yet — who bagged the massive role in July 2016.

In the years since his passing, however, there has been a gradual reappraisal of Demy's cinematic legacy, spurred on in no small part by the efforts of Varda, who has helped to keep the flame alive by supervising restorations and reissues of his films as well as directing both «Jacquot de Nantes,» a 1991 biopic focused on his early years, and the 1995 documentary «The World of Jacques Demy.»

The film, which is scheduled to begin shooting in Australia next year, will focus on Jason Momoa's Aquaman and Amber Heard's Mera after their appearance together in Justice League.

As I touched on earlier, I'm actually glad that I didn't get to many new movies this year, because I liked being able (forced) to focus on the cult films that make up the backbone of MRFH.

Even The Price of Salt — her second novel, adapted last year, by film director Todd Haynes, as Carol — was more than merely a lesbian love story (certainly a bold enough literary statement for 1952, when it was first published), occupying, in its intense focus on desire and its consequences, similar territory to Highsmith's thrillers about killers.

The For the Love of Film Blogathon is now in its third year, with bloggers focusing on a specific aspect of film preservation, with the intent to raise awareness and funds for the National Film Preservation Foundation.