Sentences with phrase «film movement seemed»

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Although at times Scenes seems to be administering the physic of the consciousness movement in rather heavy doses, the film is too complex to be dismissed as a celebration of «How to Save Your Own Life» in the mode of Erica Jong, Jerry Rubin or Gail Sheehy.

As you watch film about the Attica prison riots, which may have been touched off by a racial incident, the segment goes on way too long and seems to stray from the notion of a Black Power movement.

But even there, the present political situation seemed the focus, with films on Margaret Thatcher's legacy (Generation Right) and the far - right movement (Angry, White and Proud).

It seems the Nouvelle Vague will not go away, and we may wonder if there has been any other film movement in history - from Neorealism to Dogme, from...

Following a single father who works as a human billboard in Taipei, and his left - to - their - own - devices kids, with the presence of their mother represented by three different actresses, the film has the barest thread of story (Tsai has admitted that he no longer has any real interest in narrative), and seems determined to provoke less patient audience members into walking out, with a series of shots that last upwards of ten minutes without all that much movement in them.

When it comes to this crop of nominees, there seems to be a movement towards bigger, stronger, more popular casting and films like Adam McKay's The Big Short and Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant — the former a dramatic comedy centered around the collapse of the housing and credit bubble of 2008, the latter a brooding take on life on the frontier in 19th century America — epitomize star - studded casts.

With their slogan - like typography, they seem tailor - made for the #MeToo movement — which opposes sexual violence amid allegations of sexual harassment within the film industry.

I don't love every one of those films, but together, they certainly seemed as if they were the foundation for a serious independent - film movement.

Coming at a moment when manifestos, having ceased to spearhead artistic movements, seem ripe for reinvention, Manifesto Marathon collects statements and declarations of all kinds from artists and contributors from the worlds of literature, design, science, philosophy, music and film.

Through the words and stories of these historically significant figures, the film retraces the history and the heritage of the movement, as they take us back to that time when everything seemed possible.

The environmental movement seemed to have a leader in former Vice President Al Gore, whose documentary film An Inconvenient Truth had raised more awareness of the issue than McKibben's books ever could.