Sentences with phrase «film lived down»

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But, these films are fantasy, and the problem is that we live in a time when the real people we once looked up to are continually letting us down.

Those 10 years were laced with so many failures: quitting many times over, re-writing the edits of my re-write, working back in a cubicle, working back at the dream, trying to live in a retirement home to film a documentary, relationship debacles, a fire that almost burnt down my house and every other twist and turn of «God, where are you in this?»

In her usual optimistic and humorous spirit, my sister put on her lipstick, and with her dimpled smile waved to the family members who accompanied her down the hospital corridor, wishing them a long, happy life, while her youngest daughter filmed her with her digital camera.

Nevermind the looks people might give you; you'll be glad for your headlamp in your mother - in - law's dim living room, or when your sweetie turns down the lights for the film (and you want to keep working!).

A 3 am finish in a student nightclub, hundreds of photos with hundreds of drunken undergraduates, and now a film crew to share your breakfast with: it's just another 24 hours in the baffling and yet rather brilliant life of Deidre Kelly, the latest in a long line of reality television stars who find their lives turned upside down.

He shouted «listen up all of you, I am recording this, I have your faces on film now, and I know where some of you live», at that moment he aggressively pushed the phone in someone's face and then said «and if I hear that anything is said against the holy Prophet Mohammed, I will hunt you down.»

Overall, «STEM CELL REVOLUTIONS» is a great film for anyone wanting to learn more about the history of stem cells, hear legendary researchers talk about their ground - breaking work and patients talk about how stem cell therapies have changed their lives, and still get a down - to - earth idea of what is realistically being accomplished with these cells.

Written by August Aguilar, August 26, 2016, at 7:47 p.m. Tweet to: @AugustAA92 & @elburritoblog Recently I finished a short film titled, «There's Something Down The Road,» which is an indie horror film that I had the pleasure to bring to life.

Many blockbuster films have featured a down - on - her - luck lady, from Julia Roberts in «Pretty Woman» to Jennifer Lopez in «Maid in Manhattan,» who meets a wealthy individual by chance, wins him over with her charms, and lives happily ever after.

I'm a mature male who lives in Southern Oregon, I'm down to earth, easy to communicate with, I love nature, sports, cycling, music, good films, travelling, dancing, casual or formal settings.

The opening scene, in which the two friends share a Christmas Eve donut because they're too broke to afford one for each of them, unsentimentally suggests the high - wire act that making a living on the streets can be without the film ever slowing down its electronica - soundtracked strut.

On the plus side, the film itself can't possibly live down to the expectations of idiocy engendered by its titular «pun.»

The film intersperses live interviews along with historical footage in an enticing cocktail that I am glad I imbibed; though I admit that this topic may mean more to me since I've been down around that area many a time.

His next project (which, though it doesn't begin filming until next month, is currently slotted for an end - of - year release) is a New York - set period dramedy based on the stranger - than - fiction, real - life FBI sting operation (ABSCAM) that brought down numerous crime figures and corrupt government officials in 1980.

If «The Breadwinner» were a live - action film, it would be virtually unbearable to watch, but as animation, it's not only possible, but somehow inspiring to immerse oneself in this pared - down adaptation of Deborah Ellis» well - regarded young - adult novel, about an 11 - year - old girl who must step up and care for her family after the Taliban raids her home and arrests her father (hence the title).

Tom Welles (Cage) is a family man with a modest home - based private investigation business living a simple life in Pennsylvania — until a reel of crudely shot eight millimeter film sends him down a...

True, director Jay Roach hasn't been associated with many winners recently, but a script by Eastbound & Down's Shawn Harwell and Chris Henchy, and a cast that also includes Dan Aykroyd (in his first live - action film in four years), John Lithgow, and Jason Sudeikis, is change we can believe in.

Nothing in this film is as daring as those choices — as played by Harrison Ford, Solo was a borderline antihero and the only major character in the original trilogy who had a dangerous edge, albeit one that Lucas and company immediately began sanding down — and as young Solo, Alden Ehrenriech doesn't convince as a cocky young pilot and smuggler who's been prematurely soured by a hard - knock life.

Directed by horror expert John Carpenter, Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns concerns a man who makes his living hunting down films that are often thought lost.

In reality, since we pay as much attention to the audience (it there is one - sometimes we see a private screening) and the best thumbs up or whatever we can give a film is to report that all the kidlets dragged in by their parents were bouncing up and down and having the time of their lives.

Despite an overlong and somewhat overly juvenile opening sequence, the film settles down into a beautifully animated, thoughtful meditation on various aspects of life and where they derive their origins from.

Most of the film is about a love story between down and out Andrew and epileptic Sam, who is making her way through life while keeping her disability a secret and trying to connect to someone besides her loving and yet embarrassing mother.

Most of the film is set in 1858 at Down House, where Darwin lived with his wife, Emma (Jennifer Connelly), and the couple's many children.

Succeeds where so few Hollywood movies even venture - it builds a believable life, adds just enough nervous laughter to relieve the realistic tension, and constantly escapes the dumbed - down expectations beaten into us by lesser films.

But if it may not sound quite right, the production certainly looks splendid, with the natural live - action backdrops (filmed in England's Lake District as well as in Sydney, Australia) doing idyllic justice to Potter's world, while the CGI hits impressively photorealistic fresh heights — right down to the rabbit fur that oscillates convincingly in those gentle country breezes.

The mother figure whom Eddie finds in porn queen Amber Waves (Julianne Moore) makes her living by going down on his mammoth member, and the father figure, porn director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), films the transaction.

Meanwhile, as his / her story unfolds in linear fashion at first, the film starts looping back to reveal a complicated patter of a life lived in overlapping eras, crossing paths in ways that send our tragic figure down that path as if fated.

The American remake of the French Canadian film Starbuck features Vince Vaughn as affable underachiever David Wozniak, whose mundane life is turned upside down when he finds out that he fathered 533 children through sperm donations he made twenty years earlier.

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

Vittorio Storaro comments at some length on the color symbolism in Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, which he shot, demonstrating more critical insight into how the film works and what it's about than we are likely to find in reviews, and there are similarly revealing commentaries from Michael Chapman about the iconographic and stylistic sources of Raging Bull (Life magazine and the photographs of Weegee) and from Hall about the role played by chance in the lighting of a scene from In Cold Blood, where the shadows of raindrops appear to be running down Robert Blake's face.

A lot of focus on his personal life without actually telling you anything, in my opinion let the film down, especially as there was a lot more that could have been included as far as his relationship with Winnie was concerned.

Something many teens might enjoy about the film is the idealized portrayal of the «way cool» (for adults, they will be «way too cool to believe») parents, Kat (Enos, Sabotage) and Denny (Leonard, The Shaggy Dog), who grew up in the punk rock scene, only to settle down and live a straight - laced life, though still instilling a sense of individuality and fun in their own children.

Not only did they invite half of the film press down to the event, complete with fireworks and a screening of the original movie, but they live - streamed a Q&A with the cast.

Doug Liman offers another explanation as to why he stepped down from directing Warner Bros.» planned live action Justice League Dark film.

Based on a 2007 Israeli film of the same name, The Debt traces the lives of three young Mossad agents whose mission it was to track down, kidnap and hand over to officials a Nazi war criminal known as «The Surgeon of Birkeanu» (Jesper Christensen, Everlasting Moments).

The first film charted a story about a group of male strippers, believing that they were living the good life, but as they fell deeper down the rabbit hole, they realised their lives were hollow.

Josh doesn't fully buy into Jamie's documentary idea — tracking down an old high school friend who submits a Facebook friend request for a filmed candid real life encounter — but he goes along for the ride and is surprised to see the project take a life of its own, when the subject turns out to be a decorated Army veteran traumatized by his experiences in Afghanistan.

The film tells the story of a rocker who decides to change his life after discovering a letter that was written to him by John Lennon, prompting him to try and track down his biological son.

I sat down with the real - life heroes, now actors, to discuss the fascinating concept of them playing themselves, what they learned about themselves and each other after doing so, and what the film says about bringing a community together to conquer despair.

Following Lin Sutherland, one of Australia's most passionate wildlife film makers, Crater of Life takes people to the heart of one of Australia's best kept wildlife secrets as she tracks down some of Australia's most unusual, rare and magnificent animals.

Full of humor, romance and everyday family drama, the film exposes the complexities of a couple living with Down Syndrome and the family eager to support them.

Scherfig directs the film with a light touch that brings the period to vivid life and never bogs down in the intensity of wartorn Britain, recognising the reality while undermining it with brittle humour and messy romance.

This emphasis on behavioral naturalism — as well as his penchant for orchestrating overlapping dialogue — imbues his films with a down - to - earth, lived - in feeling.

In the film, Joaquin Phoenix stars as a traumatized veteran who is unafraid of violence and takes on tracking down missing girls for a living.

Consequently, the film feels both overstuffed and undernourished, as if it had either been rushed to the screen or pared down from a much more ambitious film about love, Hawaii, space, and how we live now.

This very film could be seen as Rock's reinvention and even if he doesn't have one defining role he's trying to live down, he is clearly pursuing artistic relevance, something of a challenge given his track record in film.

Like many films made around this period, there is a slice - of - life attitude, showing you the ups and down of the work place, never really in a hurry to get to the main point.

As a film about breaking down taboos and exploring the life and experience of a young woman growing up in the early 1960s, the film is invaluable, a snapshot of life at a tumultuous period of transition.

On the live - action side, winner «The New Tenants» raised the ire of many, but the down - and - dirty film stars Vincent D'Onofrio and Kevin Corrigan.

Academy Award - winning director Ang Lee and author Yann Martel will sit down with Film Society of Lincoln Center Program Director Richard Peña for a discussion of the film adaptation of Martell's Man Booker Prize - winning book LIFE OF PI on Friday, September 28 at 12:00 pm (ET).