Sentences with phrase «film presented the city»

Treating the city as an imaginary global «non-place», the film presents the city as a homogenized, estranged and alienating environment to inhabit and asks questions about what domestic life might look like in the future.

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And before that, Cortez will present his research in Girona, Spain — a medieval city whose ancient passageways and Mediterranean seaside were filming locations last summer for the popular HBO series «Game of Thrones.»

Covering a transformative year in Hendrix's life from 1966 - 67, in which he went from a New York City backing musician to making his mark in London's music scene up until his Monterey Pop triumph, the film presents an intimate portrait of the sensitive young musician on the verge of becoming a rock legend.

Present by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Media & Entertainment Commissioner Cynthia López, the Made in NY Awards celebrated the city's most influential film, TV, and theater.

The Las Vegas company builds its rankings by presenting opening - day audiences with survey cards after seeing a film, compiling scores from tests in five randomly selected cities.

Actress Noël Wells from the film «The Incredible Jessica James» poses for a portrait at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Getty Images Portrait Studio presented by DIRECTV on January 21, 2017 in Park City, Utah.

Global Citizen: What overall challenges presented themselves that were similar or different between filming «Cartel Land» and «City of Ghosts»?

Casting himself as a heavy in his own film, Haley gets several of the film's more flowery, belabored passages, though he fares better with these than Edi Gathegi (better known as the dreadlocked vampire in the first Twilight film) as the kidnapped son of a black criminal lynchpin (presented so unenthusiastically it makes the crime syndicate run by Harry Belafonte in Altman's Kansas City seem more like Scorsese).

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

Jessica Yellin presented the award to the teams involved with four films dealing with Syria: «City of Ghosts», «Cries from Syria», «Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS», and «Last Men in Aleppo.»

An extensive selection of work from across the world is presented including the World Premieres of William English's HEATED GLOVES and THE HOST, in which director Miranda Pennell delves deeper into her past and her late parents» involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP); Ben Rivers» THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS, the feature element of Ben's current Artangel installation at BBC White City; EVENT FOR A STAGE by Tacita Dean, a filmed presentation of her live theatrical happening in collaboration with actor Stephen Dillane at the 2014 Sydney Biennial; the European Premiere of Omer Fast's REMAINDER, a London - set thriller adapted from Tom McCarthy's acclaimed novel of the same name; the European Premiere of INVENTION which highlights the possibilities of camera movement and the development of artistic apparatus and Kevin Jerome Everson's PARK LANES, set in an American bowling alley over the course of a day.

Michelle Morgan from the film «L.A. Times» poses for a portrait at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Getty Images Portrait Studio presented by DIRECTV on January 20, 2017 in Park City, Utah.

Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.

The film becomes an effective dialogue not only between the characters themselves, but also between these characters and their city, and the Catalan past and present.

Actress Elle Fanning from the film «Sidney Hall» poses for a portrait at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Getty Images Portrait Studio presented by DIRECTV on January 23, 2017 in Park City, Utah.

Actor Peter Dinklage from the film «Rememory» poses for a portrait at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Getty Images Portrait Studio presented by DIRECTV on January 23, 2017 in Park City, Utah.

The film presents the pivotal years of change in a boy's life growing up in one of the most dangerous and economically depressed cities in the US.

Ireland On Sunday presents the Irish premiere of new Irish short film «Tax City», a dark and gritty journey into the heart of the London homeless community.

Danny Strong from the film «Rebel in the Rye» poses for a portrait at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Getty Images Portrait Studio presented by DIRECTV on January 24, 2017 in Park City, Utah.

Pom Klementieff from the film «Ingrid Goes West» poses for a portrait at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Getty Images Portrait Studio presented by DIRECTV on January 21, 2017 in Park City, Utah.

Tim Robbins from the film «Marjorie Prime» poses for a portrait at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Getty Images Portrait Studio presented by DIRECTV on January 23, 2017 in Park City, Utah.

As for the possibility of further expansion beyond Park City, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and London (where it has been presenting a film and music festival for several years), Groth is noncommittal.

The Gotham Independent Film Awards by IFP, selected by distinguished juries and presented in New York City, the home of independent film, are the first honors of the film awards season.

Robert Guediguian While it's no surprise to find Marseille based Robert Guediguian present another film in his beloved city, The House by the Sea, featuring his usual cadre of actors, promises to be a bluntly potent tale of familial discord as a group of relatives gather over the deathbed of a dying patriarch.

After the Festival ends, Sundance Institute presents complimentary screenings of award - winning films to Locals in Salt Lake, Park City, and Sundance Resort.

After Dark Horrorfest 4: 8 Films to Die For (Lionsgate)-- Lionsgate's After Dark Horrorfest is an annual event, presenting a handful of horror films from the film festival circuit that have not secured a theatrical release (but are usually more interesting than many horror films that do) in cities across the nation, followed by a DVD release that brings them to the rest of the country.

«Curandero» also comes presented by Robert Rodriguez («Sin City», «Machete», «Planet Terror»), who wrote and co-produced this film.

These days the Empire is better known as the Kansas City Alamo Drafthouse and this Sunday, September 7, the Alamo is presenting a double - feature performance of both films, beginning at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are just $ 15.00

After debuting at Sundance, select short films will be presented as a traveling program at 75 theaters in the U.S. and Canada, and short films and filmmakers take part in regional Master Classes geared towards supporting emerging shorts - makers in several cities.

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In that film, the characters wrote off the plot with a crooked grin and a sarcastic chuckle, and the effects themselves often existed just to present a gag (a giant cartoon logo made of marshmallow that terrorized New York City with a happy smile on its face, for example).

The setting is present - day New York City, yet the film's ultra-gritty, gutter - level milieu instantly recalls the past masters of Gotham pulp: Abel Ferrara, Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese.

Presented in a handheld style that gives the impression of a wartime documentary, this unorthodox take on the traditional combat film feels as if screenwriter Christopher Bertolini simply dusted off an old script in which Nazis invaded a major American city and replaced Hitler's henchmen with bio-mechanical Martians.

«The Lucky Specials,» Discovery Learning Alliance's latest feature - length film, was presented in private screenings in cities around the world, in February and March 2017.

Off Beat presents photographs taken in New York City in 2008 and 2009, when A-chan began working with black and white film.

Each film presents the camera as a means of a poetic and critical examination of city life.

Yto Barrada was born in Paris in 1971 and grew up in Tangier, Morocco, a city whose complex colonial history and present generation's restricted mobility she reveals through sculpture, photography, and film.

2014 Iconic, Presented by Sean Kelly at the 26th Annual ADAA Show Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace film premier at the Reel Artists Film Festival, Toronto, Canada FIFA World Cup Brazil Official Art Print Edition 2011 Art Production Fund, New York City Taxicab Project, USA Parallel Perceptions, New York City Opera Project, USA

To celebrate the release of Isle of Dogs, director Wes Anderson has teamed up with The Store X at 180 The Strand to present an exhibition exploring the meticulously crafted dystopian world of Megasaki — the fictional Japanese city in which the film is set.

• February 25 - 27, Anthology Film Archives Presents Newly - Restored Prints of Rudy Burckhardt's «Money» (1968) and «The Climate of New York» (1948)-- Screenings of recently restored prints of the classic Burckhardt films «Money» (1968), in which renowned dance critic Edwin Denby leads a cast of «60s art - and poetry - world stars, and «The Climate of New York» (1948), in which Burckhardt paints a portrait of the city and its inhabitants in luminous black - and - white and saturated color.

Free Play is presented as part of PERFORMA 05, the first biennial of visual art performance in New York City, which will take place November 3 - 21, 2005, and include a multidisciplinary program of live visual art performances, film screenings, lectures, and exhibitions.

Ballroom Marfa's Co-Founders, Virginia Lebermann and Fairfax Dorn, along with the Board of Trustees, kindly request that you mark your calendar and make plans to join us in New York City to commemorate ten years of presenting art, film, performance and music in West Texas and beyond.

Over its three week - run, Performa 09's innovative program will break down the boundaries between visual art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, film, television, radio, graphic design, and the culinary arts, presenting over 110 events in collaboration with a consortium of more than 80 of the city's leading arts institutions, 40 curators from around the world, and a network of public and private venues throughout the city.

Communicating Vessels) at Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL) in México City presents more than 120 artworks from key figures of the Surrrealist art movement including paintings, photographs, sculptures and films.

Pablo Sigg's film Der Wille zur Macht presented at A Proposition by Montserrat Albores Gleason at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City 27 April 2013 at 3 pm

Away from the main settings for the national pavilions — the gardens (Giardini) and the docks (Arsenale) of the city's Castello area — the British Council presents a powerful, site - specific film installation by Scotland's representative Rachel Maclean, in the darkness of the Chiesa di Santa Caterina.

Curated by Anderson himself, the exhibition presents the intricate sets that make up the city of Megasaki where the film is based, alongside the original puppets of the canine characters who live there.

As explained on the website of the present - day Studio One, «Steen's Studio One was one of the earliest alternative arts spaces in the city, presenting exhibitions, lectures, film screenings, musicians, and performances [and] inspired Charles Gallagher to open DiverseWorks in 1982.»

Dec 15 2004 — Jan 29, 2005 Each video presents a singular character performing a simple action: a figure on a skateboard filmed from the back in a car, a young girl playing guitar on a traffic circle in the suburbs of Paris, a swimmer, a New York doorman as he progresses through the city at night.

Christoph Adler presents a film on Christopher Thomas's «Paris City of Light» photographic series