Sentences with phrase «film history as»

One of the best depictions of strengths overuse in film history as the film portrays a dystopian society divided by factions (similar to the VIA virtues) in which the people in each faction must solely use only one virtue (e.g., courage, wisdom, humanity) which therefore leads to virtue overuse and many problems.

If you like film history as I do, then this is the one for you.

It is always fun to listen to Scorsese talk about film history as he seems so passionate about it and has this unbelievable wealth of knowledge about so many films.

Although the trend may have begun with Kill Bill, this year will undoubtedly go down in film history as the year of the eyeball.

Coogler's success with Black Panther both secures his place in film history as a wunderkind and ensures that he'll continue to be one of today's most sought - after young directors.

Katherine's Heburn character BRINGING UP BABY should enter film history as THE MOST UNLIKABABLE FEMALE LEAD IN A COMEDY EVER MADE.

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp may well be poised to go down in film history as one of the famous actor - director duets.

Few modern filmmakers are as knowledgeable and impassioned about film history as Guillermo del Toro, whose newly crowned Best Picture winner, «The Shape of Water,» is — let's face it — a TCM's lover's wet dream.

Released on April 7, 1993, «The Sandlot» has since cemented its place in film history as the quintessential kids sports movie.

Shoes (Milestone, Blu - ray, DVD) The Dumb Girl of Portici (Milestone, Blu - ray, DVD) The Covered Wagon (Kino Lorber, Blu - ray, DVD) Lois Weber holds a place in film history as the first major woman film director in Hollywood.

Lois Weber holds a place in film history as the first major woman film director in Hollywood.

Through this series, programmed by film scholar Michael Raine, American audiences may be surprised to discover that the roots of the movie musical in Japan are nearly as intertwined with the rest of the country's film history as they are in the U.S.

However, for all lovers of Bruce Lee, kung fu flicks, and revivalists of Seventies cool, it's a quintessential film, indispensable in its genre and firmly implanted forever in film history as the one that set the mold, even if future endeavors would top it in terms of breathtaking action, daring stunts, and more substantial stories.

Some of the titles, like parts one and two of Olympia, Leni Riefenstahl's 1938 ode to German athletic excellence, are as essential to film history as they are to charting the history of the competition itself.

Robert Kramer will probably go down in film history as the premier director of political dissidence cinema that nobody ever heard of.

Not exact matches

Few films in celluloid history have been as eagerly anticipated as the first installment in the «Star Wars» prequel trilogy, 1999's «The Phantom Menace.»

Spielberg has since gone on to win a reputation as one of the greatest directors in history, but «ET» is most likely to remain his most beloved film.

His legacy as one of the world's greatest race car drivers in history lives on in a film directed by Asif Kapadia.

For anyone who cherishes the Scriptures as passionate presentations of God at work in history, this film is dead at its core.

They would say that John has taken the same sort of spiritual «licence» with the actual events of Jesus, as a consortium of film directors might take with some heroic theme from history, an heroic theme perhaps from the Bible itself.

That Avatar «s melodramatic attacks on corporate interests and its defense of simple, natural living come packaged as one of the most expensive, and probably the most technically advanced, corporate films in history would seem to indicate that only quality bigger than the movie's stupidity is its head - in - the - clouds hypocrisy.

Yet, just as the original Star Wars films gave us a tantalising glimpse into the history of the main characters, so Chesterton leaves us in no doubt that his own childhood was of immense importance to the development of his ideas.

With you on the film vs digital, I have my mom's old camera as well and I love carrying something with history.

A few months ago I learned of a local company who were allowed to save and caringly salvage the remains of the factory and actually are being filmed as part of a new series on the History Channel called «Abandoned».

Sam's history as a film and TV Director / Producer of quality children's content positions her as the perfect person to guide the «Ruby's Studio» product line toward its goal of becoming a childhood staple for a new generation.

The film sheds light on one of the most private royals of recent years who overcame great personal struggles, reluctantly accepting his place as King and uniting his country, providing faith and hope through one of the darkest periods of modern history, the Second World War.

The vast collection of sources is what makes the film, despite the bafflingly poor sound quality of some of the interviews, as it provides colourful detail to what would otherwise be a straightforward history of social tumult.

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

Hemingway teamed up with Academy Award - winning producer and director Barbara Kopple and the Oprah Winfrey Network to produce the film Running from Crazy, in which Mariel confronts her family's history of mental illness as she explores the path she has taken toward well being.

Both of these films show individuals who are reassembling the narrative, making an attempt at the reconstruction and restoration of memory - as - history, however incomplete.

I studied an Arts Degree with drama and screen as my majors, so I have an extensive knowledge of theatre and film history which never comes in handy.

This unashamedly English film where Hugh Grant plays the sweet and bumbling Charles was made on a relatively low - budget by Hollywood standards, but has gone down in history as one of the best rom - coms of all time — and is certainly one of NZ's favourites.

This unashamedly English film where Hugh Grant plays the sweet and bumbling Charles, was made on a relatively low - budget by Hollywood standards, but has gone down in history as one of the best rom - coms of all time.

This unashamedly English film where Hugh Grant plays the sweet and bumbling Charles, was made on a relatively low - budget by Hollywood standards, but has gone down in history as one of the best rom coms of all time.

The venue also has a touch of history as this was the setting where Joanne Harris wrote her book «Chocolat», which later became a famous film.

Housed in an art deco building almost as interesting as the exhibits within, here you can find 100 years of Australia's film history and sound recordings preserved for posterity.

Just as history repeats itself, there's a fair bit of repeating in Rian Johnson's exciting new film Looper.

The most invaluable below - the - line contribution, meanwhile, comes from production designer Alex DiGerlando, who furnishes the film's broad range of Floridian boxes — big and small, flashy and fetid — with a wealth of subliminal personal and social history, even as they stand empty.

«Django Unchained» is «Blazing Saddles» with a body count, a positively incendiary entertainment about America's greatest shame, the personal and social toll of slavery, and like Tarantino's last film, «Inglourious Basterds,» this is a case of history being remixed in a way that makes more emotional sense to Tarantino as a storyteller.

This film isn't designed as a multiplex - buster, but anyone with a taste for motorsport history will find it irresistible.

The filmmakers went into this project insisting that all the actors do their own singing, and while «crooners» like Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth (let alone Stellan Skarsgård, who is very, very brave to have done his own singing) are not going to go down in history as much more than barely competent, star Meryl Streep, who has already proven her musical chops theatrically and previously in such films as Postcards from the Edge, is marvelous, if a bit too country - yodelish for this patently pop score.

While the film's reach exceeds its grasp when it comes to deconstructing the western genre and the real life history that it reflects, Hostiles nevertheless makes for a respectable mood piece, as well as an acting showcase for its main leads.

I was not one of A Beautiful Mind's historical accuracy Nazis, who used the film's marginalization of the real John Nash as a way to bash the film (for my money, it was the horrid screenplay and direction that made it such a painful film to watch, not its artistic rewriting of history), though the erasing of Turing in Enigma is rather distressing.

While I'm a Born Liar assumes too much knowledge of Fellini's oeuvre and place in film history to be of much use as an general introduction... the legendary director's enthusiastic participation makes it a must - see for buffs.

Upon exiting my second viewing on a cloudy matinee Sunday, I found that Malick's vision had rendered our world drab and cheap — as if, assuming we assign The New World a certain legitimacy as history, Captain Christopher Newport's (Christopher Plummer) warnings to his fellow settlers in the film had fallen on deaf ears, allowing America to grow up stunted, deformed, tainted, and gross.

Deadpan, the film allows us to register the difference between T'Challa and Erik as an African and an African American — Erik being burdened by the traumas and injustices of American history in a way T'Challa is not.

In addition, he appeared in AMERICAN HISTORY X, co-starred in the OCEAN»S ELEVEN trilogy, and appeared in the 2011 feature film CONTAGION, as well as the 2012 Fox Searchlight feature RUBY SPARKS.

Though when he originally concieved an adaptation of the timeless tale of Pinocchio Benigni envisioned the film as starring himself with famed director Federico Fellini at the helm, the director's death left Benigni the director of what would be one of the most expensive films in Italian film history.

Although Lassie may seem like a unusual film for Morton to appear in, she has a history of working in family friendly fare having provided the voice for Ruby in the Max and Ruby animated television series based on the popular children's books by Rosemary Wells.In 2007 she appeared as Mary Stuart in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and appeared in the Ian Curtis biopic Control.

That is the point of the film: this is meant to be an overview of the history of the Internet and a buffet of tidbits about how interconnected life has changed us as individuals and humanity as a civilization.