Sentences with phrase «film means the world to»

«An actor of David Carradine's stature behind our film meant the world to us,» said executive producers Adrian Salpeter and Elizabeth Levine of Random Bench Productions.

Not exact matches

You have to give Trevorrow a lot of credit for taking on «Jurassic World»: This was a film meant to attract a huge audience that could have easily made a lot of people angry if done incorrectly.

The inchoate, messy anger of the film mirrors the free - floating frustration of our cultural moment, and I'm stunned to see activists all over the world latch onto the film's central concept by erecting billboards meant to shame politicians into action on a variety of societal issues.

Clinging to each other and a blanket after Marianne's nightmare in the last moments of the film — as on a spar in a tempest — Johan and Marianne find some home - meaning «In the Middle of the Night in a Dark House Somewhere in the World.»

It is clear, however, that films and television play a role not only in reflecting but also in contributing to a violent and mean world.

In this model, in other words, the arrangement of points would be fractal (a term also tossed out as an answer to the shape - of - the - world question), meaning that the distribution is the same whether you're talking about the macro level (the top online publishers) or the micro level (the handful of blogs and Twitter feeds about some obscure film genre).

Speaking with the Punch, the model and film producer said, «My mother raised me single - handedly and she means the world to me.

In the cucurbit world, this means faster breeding for resistance to diseases such as fusarium wilt or powdery mildew — that white film many gardeners might find killing their squash leaves, or enhancing production of carotenoids — the orange pigments associated with eye health, among other benefits.

Audiences immediately understood that Pee - Wee's Big Adventure was meant to be a nine - year - old's notion of the Perfect World; critics, to whom nothing is ever simple, insisted upon reading all sorts of motivation and subtext into the film, and suddenly Pee - Wee Herman was the darling of the wine - and - cheese crowd.

For as Mehari said in an interview at the Sundance Film Festival, where the film won the World Cinema Audience Award for drama, «Difret» (the word means «to dare» but can also refer to rape) is a work without specific evil - doers.

But unlike the rigorous skepticism of films like Blood Simple, Fargo, and Burn After Reading, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore uses its allegorical narrative to further a simplistic political message meant to give it an aura of timely social commentary.

The book's non-linear, interview - based structure meant that World War Z was going to be a challenging project from the start, but the need last year to both re-write and re-shoot the film's third act (with the budget swelling to as much as $ 200 million in the process) suggests that it is a puzzle that hasn't quite been solved by the filmmakers.

Director Paul Verhoeven, the mastermind behind so many great, giant camp films, made a large scale, NC - 17, satire on the world of the Las Vegas showgirl, but of course it wasn't meant to be funny.

I liked some aspects of the film, but the finale was bizarre, well I suppose that's to be expected; the whole film is based in a Strange parallel world and so one has to expect the bizarre and the unexplained but the way the villain was dispatched with was forced and his eye make - up was, well eye make - up when in fact it was meant to be the partial disintegration of his body... If there is a sequel it will be interesting to see where they go.

It may be surprising for you to learn that in a country with more than one billion people, the fastest growing film industry in the world, and a 10 billion rmb (1.5 billion usd) box office gross in 2010 alone, there is hardly any professional film criticism accessible to its public.When I say hardly any, I mean that there is an absence of professional film critics who work for major, national publications and media outlets, and thus a lack of regular film reviews of new Chinese movies, at least for the mass audiences.

I mean he tackles all the elements of spy and comic book world in the film, but takes it to another level.

The film deals with what it means to be a person of color in today's world, but it plays out within the confines of a fictional East African country called Wakanda.

In the film, titles such as «house,» «mother,» and «reading» emphasize how the subculture the film depicts has taken words from the straight and white worlds, and imbued them with alternate meanings, just as the «houses» serve as surrogate families for young ball - walkers whose sexual orientations have sometimes made acceptance and love within their own families hard to come by.

On first viewing, the jargon can overwhelm viewers less philosophically inclined, but in his efforts to find meaning in a series of coincidences, Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) is engaged in the same comedy as the film's viewers — desperately trying find order and meaning in a chaotic world.

It would be tough to film without turning it into a CG disaster, given the breadth and strangeness of the world it portrays (not to mention the somewhat tough to visualize magic system), but it has all kinds of awesome themes about coming to maturity and what responsibility actually means.

Sadly, and for the third straight year, it means TIFF's competitors Venice, Telluride and the New York Film Festival are seemingly landing the top world premieres of the season, especially when it comes to awards season films.

Cutting down to the chase, The Golden Child is one of those films that could have been respectable if they didn't stick in the world's hottest comedian into it, whose fans are going to expect constant wisecracks and irreverence, doing just what he did for another film originally meant to be serious, Murphy's superstar - making Beverly Hills Cop.

It's no reinvention of the musical biopic wheel by any means, but there is an adrenaline rush that comes with a film about a bunch of dirt - poor kids from Compton banding together, compromising nothing, and bending the rest of the world to their will.

This is perhaps the movie's most inspired wild card, though it also means that the world of the film begins at times to become infused with magical realism.

Jake Johnson sent in a video as he's currently filming Jurassic World (I mean honestly, what is that movie even going to be like with all these comedians?!)

In a world where media doesn't just mean film and TV, but includes musical shorts, digital series, and promo videos, there are plenty of opportunities to show the world what you can do.

The building's look and history was updated for its big screen debut in the 2016 film Doctor Strange, becoming just one of three protective sanctums located around the world, the trio of which formed a protective barrier around the Earth meant to ward off powerful, otherworldly magic.

By no means a great film, Santa Clause 3 nonetheless takes us back to a fun world and allows us to revisit interesting characters.

Based on the Lissa Evans novel Their Finest Hour and a Half, Scherfig's film tells a behind - the - scenes story (with a witty script by Gaby Chiappe) about a group of filmmakers tasked with creating effective World War II propaganda films, meant to inspire resoluteness in the people of Britain and to sway American public opinion toward joining the war.

Matt Johnson writes, stars and directs as a young boy who retreats into the fantasy world of film, starring in the movies that run constantly in his head as a means to escape the constant torment and bullying inflicted on him by his peers.

As the IndieWire team argued in the run up to this year's Sundance, the best case scenario for filmmakers looking to sell their films at the festival was to draw Amazon's interest because it meant the best of both worlds — deep SVOD pockets, with a promise of full theatrical release.

If there is one film to reaffirm the meaning of film criticism, that seeks to define the inimitable bliss of true cinema, that holds a mirror at the world and asks us to seek out foreign — even dissenting — opinions, this is it.»

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For «Kon - Tiki» to have that when it goes traveling around the world, it really means everything for the film.

«There's something so universal about the human condition of growing up with siblings and parents, with how we maneuver through the world over time — you can't not relate to it on some level, which means the response to this film has been fun and heartfelt and kind of beautiful,» Richard Linklater said of «Boyhood's» 12 year journey.

Further muddying King Arthur: Legend of The Sword are the film's desperate attempts to establish a sprawling world of magic, knights and monsters for the additional movies it's meant to spawn.

That means bringing in stars like The Get Down's Justice Smith to film in the real world, as Detective Pikachu and the other Pokemon are added in digitally in post-production.

It's World War II London, and Cartin's in search of a creative outlet as well as a way to support herself and her artist husband, which means she's going to take this job, helping to write a script for a film that, in Swain's words, will «capture the public imagination and trust.»

The Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary was presented to: Michal Marczak for his film All These Sleepless Nights / Poland — What does it mean to be awake in a world that seems satisfied to be asWorld Cinema Documentary was presented to: Michal Marczak for his film All These Sleepless Nights / Poland — What does it mean to be awake in a world that seems satisfied to be asworld that seems satisfied to be asleep?

Just because you can't go to the French Riviera doesn't mean you can't enjoy some of the recent highlights of the world's most vaunted film festival

This means that come awards season, we don't have an organization to announce to the world our city's pick for the best film of the year.

Rewinding to the Deep South of the 1850s means that, for the first time since his colour - coded debut Reservoir Dogs, this is a Tarantino film set in a man's world.

Like his other explorations into the world of magicians in efforts such as The Curse of the Jade Scorpion and Scoop (and New York Stories» Oedipus Wrecks), it's merely meant to entertain, and occasionally dabbles with interesting themes as the icing on the top of this sumptuous dessert of a film.

With the former film, Dmytryk sees himself possessed by madness; with the latter, he sees himself at the mercy of a world obsessed with rituals emptied of their meaning — and all the things he loves betrayed by his dogged fidelity to an older code of ethics.

«Their Finest» is a movie about making a movie, specifically a glossy propaganda film meant to bolster morale in Britain in the darkest days of the Second World War.

The film focuses on Lina's relationship with Siham, her stern aunt's 18 - year - old Syrian maid, on whom she develops a crush and who introduces her to the world of the opposite sex while using her as a means to abscond for clandestine dates.

The film, opening Friday in Los Angeles, tracks the unrequited Rev. Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke), a hard - drinking, soul - scarred preacher with suicidal tendencies who has lost life's meaning until he meets an ecoterrorist whose aim to save the world inspires him.

Surprisingly, in spite of world events of continual concern and alarm, this year turned out to be quite an exciting year in terms of films released in the United States (often meaning that foreign or independent films were made in the previous year, but found distribution this year).

Both films revolve around themes of trust, loyalty, honor, and a Machiavellian principle of the ends justifying the means to make the world a better place, at least from the perspective of the participants.

But if the world that del Toro builds reflects his usual attention to surprise and detail, the characters that populate it too often feel rote, crammed into roles whose metaphorical meaning too often feels simplistic and bluntly at odds with the rest of the film's subtlety.