Sentences with phrase «film is a frank»

The film is a frank and disturbing look at four individuals constantly hampered by their next fix.

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To be frank, the film is a hive of buzzing sermon illustrations (as illustrated in the box).

Some of those parents turn off if they think they're being lectured to, so we tried to craft a film that is frank, informative and accessible.

May I Be frank is a health film that follow's Frank Ferrante, a 54 yr old Italian from New York on his journey from being obese, out of shape and unhealthy to being healthy, vibrant and thin again.

To be frank, the film industry caught up pretty early on as far back as the 90s.

The film is fast paced and extremely entertaining, while also being very down to earth, frank, and intelligent.

What's not so expected, what comes as something bordering on shock, of a gratifying kind, is how much else the film takes on in this buoyant and mercilessly frank look at Bradlee's life and career.

Those uncomfortable with teen sexuality, however, should be aware that the film is supposedly very frank in its treatment of the topic.

For a film that was apparently intended for families or all - age audiences, this one is surprisingly frank in its depiction of early teen sexuality.

In the early 1970s, cult filmmaker Jess Franco inspired by the Hammer horror films being made in the UK revisited the iconic monsters of yesteryear, placing them in the castles and crypts of the Spanish countryside, and bracketing the thrills with scenes of frank eroticism.

All the participants are frank and funny but tell a rather different tale of the film's making than the one in «Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.»

If this film poses any questions that aren't simply redundant at this point, it's the film's frank look at age and the abrasive acknowledgement of time that one has when you reach the point where there needs to be a roll call in the morning to assure the plucky hotel owner that you're still breathing.

The Squid and the Whale is a sometimes difficult film to watch, but that's only because it is often frank and honest in its portrayal of four very confused, somewhat maladjusted people.

We have absolutely no clue how this one will turn out, but to be perfectly frank the film had us at «R - rated 3D - animated sausage comedy».

That is what you expect because you've seen too many of those historical films with frank and cloying melodrama, artificial conflict, and steep dramatic license.

We went on to discuss the unexpectedly spiritual side of film that is bold, frank, and direct about sex, as well as Hunt's prolific life on the other side of the camera.

To his credit, the director was quite frank with the fan, stating that they should avoid it if they want to come into the film completely clean, although he did end his tweet on a tantalizing note.

Simultaneously an examination of the processes of effective activism and a deeply felt romance, B.P.M. is one of the most refreshingly frank queer films we've seen in many years, both about politics and about sex.

FRANK MILLER»S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR is the follow up to Rodriguez and Miller's 2005 groundbreaking film, FRANK MILLER»S SIN CITY.

He is also one of the least interesting things about the original film, to be frank.

Austrian film - maker Michael Haneke has often been open to the charge of obscurity, ambivalence and obliquity, but no one has ever accused him of suggesting that life is other than a vale of tears best endured by honesty, love, unremitting work and a frank recognition of its essentially tragic nature.

Kepesh is introspective, but frank; his voice over is frequently very funny, and the fact that the film stars Dennis «Mad Bomber from Speed» Hopper as a Pulitzer Prize winning poet -LRB-!)

Sutherland's Dr. Kahn has much insight about standing up to bullies, for reasons that reveal themselves late in the film, yet his wisdom is less specifically useful than brutally frank.

To be frank, The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter is definitely the worst film Hill and McBride have made together, but if you're a longtime fan, there's still plenty to giggle at here.

Bachelorette is funny and wonderfully frank and, if Headland's film doesn't quite have material to burn, then there are enough belly laughs and she - did - not - just - say - that moments to satisfy.

The film is nicely balanced between sweet fish - out - of - water comedy and frantic interstellar epic, and includes a surprisingly frank allegorical treatment of 9/11 and the ensuing wars in the Middle East.

Arguably Spike Lee's best film (although some might make the case for She's Got ta Have It, Four Little Girls, Bamboozled, School Daze or The Original Kings of Comedy), this refreshingly - frank exploration of black - white relations earned Spike his first Academy Award nomination (in the Original Screenplay category).

Although this film contains no depictions of sexual activity beyond some brief kissing, there are frequent, frank and often lengthy discussions on self - pleasuring, sexual arousal, the inappropriate manhandling of women and the intention to copulate.

In a less esoteric sense, the film is arguably the first major studio release since Carnal Knowledge to attempt a dysfunctional comedy about fucking that's so frank and unapologetic in regards to the destructive prurience of the male gaze.

Yet somehow, despite the frank depiction of PTSD, the film is also more fun than almost anything else in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Adapted from the autobiography of escapee Robert E. Burns, it skates about some specifics, never naming the state which claps the hero into grand guignol prison camps (the book was called I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang) but is eye - openingly frank for a film of its vintage.

With its frank discussion of female bodily functions and a balanced commentary on the shackles of modern twentysomething womanhood (neuroses, immaturity and all), the film is so much more than its third act abortion - themed twist.

Fifty years after Guess Who's Coming to Dinner jolted moviegoers with its frank depiction of interracial romance, moviemakers still find potency in the topic, with new films Get Out and A United Kingdom exploring the ramifications of diverse love.

And yet, the frank sex - speak in the film is guaranteed to stymie most audience members at least once.

Such is Herbert Ross» Pennies from Heaven (1981), a film that is both deeply jaded and yet incredibly frank about its emotions, essentially becoming a commentary on escapism and the painful compromise between reality and fantasy.

Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume Three collects six features by the enormously prolific director from that era (and two documentaries) on a four - disc set, and they are something else, films strewn with wild melodrama, romantic triangles, brawny action and some of the sexiest scenes of heavy petting and passionate smooching you've seen out of old Hollywood, with more frank sexuality more suggested than shown but there is no mistaking the suggestions.

When The Squid and the Whale comes at last to a scene of a child regarding an object of repressed fear with frank wonder, rather than taking the easy analytical road by speaking of the phallic whale vs. the devouring squid, I think it's closer to the mark to see Baumbach himself gazing up at his film and wondering how it is that parts of his childhood could look so mundane freed from his skull.

With startlingly frank insights and an intimate portrayal of the artistic process, this film examines what makes us who we are and celebrates the transformative power of the creative spirit.

«there's nothing all that remarkable about his Direction, which, to be frank, should be expected of a Streep film at this point.»

Set in 1991 amidst the beginnings of civil war in Yugoslavia, this is a brutal film, in every right way: an antidote to the CNN - ification of war news, here is a frank, realistic depiction of total, practically apocalyptic war, one in which civilians and journalists are targeted and an entire nation is laid ruin.

Scenes from other nominated films were projected: Dr. Strangelove delighted with frank laughs, Beckett ignited a bonfire of applause.

Fellow jury member, British screenwriter Hanif Kureishi, proved quite frank during the press conference, remarking that some of the films were «very long» and «very weird.»

In a frank and accessible dialogue, Mark Harris, film historian and Vulture columnist, Eric Hynes, critic, journalist, and Associate Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image, talk to FILM COMMENT Digital Editor Violet Lucca about the writers and larger cultural trends (be it the rise of VHS or social media) that have shaped their own approaches to the medfilm historian and Vulture columnist, Eric Hynes, critic, journalist, and Associate Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image, talk to FILM COMMENT Digital Editor Violet Lucca about the writers and larger cultural trends (be it the rise of VHS or social media) that have shaped their own approaches to the medFilm at the Museum of the Moving Image, talk to FILM COMMENT Digital Editor Violet Lucca about the writers and larger cultural trends (be it the rise of VHS or social media) that have shaped their own approaches to the medFILM COMMENT Digital Editor Violet Lucca about the writers and larger cultural trends (be it the rise of VHS or social media) that have shaped their own approaches to the medium.

Yet somehow I preferred ninety minutes of that to The Sweetest Thing: Blair is winningly frank («I'm doing Merchant Ivory movies from now on») and self - deprecating, and since everybody was recorded after the film died a quick death at the box office, there are no delusions of grandeur on parade.

What doesn't: Parents of young children should know that the film's PG - 13 rating is awfully generous, given the subject matter at hand and the frank manner in which it is handled.

When photographer and film director Larry Clark published his first photobook in 1971, it wasn't Tulsa's frank depiction of drug - use, sexuality, and violence that caused a stir.

This special program is presented in collaboration with Harlem Stage as a part of AFROPUNK The Takeover - Harlem, a week - long series of events featuring live musical performances, film screenings, comedy shows, jam sessions and frank discussions on identity, art and protest.