Sentences with phrase «films about american»

Beyond Measure rises above the other recent films about American education for two reasons.

I liked it less than Black Hawk Down but maybe better than Zero Dark Thirty, two other films about American military intervention and its vast superiority that could only arouse the same audience member who sees a hero in Gordon Gekko and Hud before him.

Students of this form of narrated diary will surely link it to Martin Scorsese's own richly immersive «Personal Journey» essay films about American and Italian cinema, and they indeed inspired Tavernier to do his own.

Rosamund Pike has been set to portray Marie Colvin in the untitled film about the American reporter who worked in conflict zones including Chechnya, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, where she lost her left eye in 2001.

The sexually explicit film about an American man falling for a Parisian prostitute may earn itself an NC - 17 rating.

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

If Stanley Kubrick had made a film about American slavery, it might have looked and moved somewhat like this one, always thinking about shots as shots and scenes as scenes and themes as themes, yet always tying every element, whether central or marginal, to the film's emotional spine: a tale of what it means, physically, to be enslaved as opposed to free.

Well, a film about an American assassin living abroad carries its own connotation - but I don't think any of us are really sure what the life of a Canadian assassin is all aboot.

It's a film about an American TV star who is framed by the American media system.

A striking film about American poverty as told through the eyes of some rambunctious, foul - mouthed children who live in a run - down motel near the happiest place on Earth.

As the epically bratty Moonee in Sean Baker's grim, gloriously shot film about American poverty, she's in nearly every scene — and you miss her every second she's not there.

Now, the film's star, Daniel Kaluuya, has responded to a criticism from actor Samuel L. Jackson, who recently questioned why a British man was cast in a film about American racism.

Yet this as much a film about eco-terrorism as Meek's Cutoff was a film about the American gold rush, operating as a rich, sui generic parable for any and all acts of violence, whether micro scale such as the one chronicled here, or those sanctioned by governments with a view to being executed in foreign climes.

What can another film about American malfeasance in its War on Terror add to our knowledge and disapproval?

Not exact matches

«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..

Still, he was particular about which projects he brought to that level, noting that he made his 2014 short film «Quay,» about the American stop - motion animators, independently.

All the statistics about attendees indicate that horror films are still solid date movies» and, in an American society where an ever - increasing percentage of young men and women are staying unmarried longer and having children later, the appeal of thrills that entertain without forcing one to think too hard is expanded to a larger market.

We can even say this film is about what was really good about American popular art in that time before the Sixties (that does not include the annoying songs of Mary Poppins).

(CNN)- The deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans amid protests against a film that denigrates Islam has sparked global discussion and debate about whether there is a line between free speech and hate speech and, if so, where it lies.

If somebody made a film about how African Americans or Jews were subhuman and released it on the web and into theaters, it would be protected by the first ammendment.

CNN: Reaction to anti-Islam film fuels debate on free speech versus hate speech The deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans amid protests against a film that denigrates Islam has sparked global discussion and debate about whether there is a line between free speech and hate speech and, if so, where it lies.

Is being jewish your nationality or your religion??? It, s my understanding that these players are American??? So is there going to be a film about Baptists, Lutherans, and Catholics in baseball???

Back in 2012, a short film called Montauk from filmmaker Charlie Kessler garnered some attention at The Hamptons Film Festival for its intriguing sci - fi story about a government research lab conducting strange experiments outside of a small American town (which leads to a bunch of weird stuff happening, including a child going missing and a monster from another dimension being released).

I would bet that the gay neighbor in the 1999 film American Beauty, who, it is implied, loves guns, collects Nazi trinkets, and turns to murder all because he represses his own urges, formed more people's views about how to regard homosexuals than did the entire decade's research into psychosexuality by the whole scientific community.

Each film depicted the cold detachment of the U.S. military, the government's disregard for its young working and middle class boys, and the unraveling of American ideologies about home and country.

Later, God the Father takes on the form of a Native American wiseman (Graham Greene), and leads Mack on a New - Agey «healing trail to bring closure to [his] journey» — the most egregious example of racial essentialism in a film that takes shallow assumptions about foreign cultures as its starting point.

Of course this show is not going to represent 100 % of muslims in america, just like when they film a show about asians, african americans or any other race it doesn't represent all those people in that race.

Like they say about the pirates code in the seminal American film Pirates of the Caribbean, this method is based on what you'd call «guidelines» rather than actual «rules.»

Up until now Cool Runnings, the 1993 film about the»88 Jamaican bobsled team, has been just about the lone touchstone of the sport for most Americans.

When Mea Robinson - Davis recently needed a few foreign films for her class about Latin - American authors, she didn't want to wait for Netflix to mail her the movies.

See, Ricki Lake made a movie about her choice, and the ACOG and AMA aren't too happy about it: ACOG released a statement, which was in turn supported in a resolution Tuesday by the American Medical Association, which said «There has been much attention in the media by celebrities having home deliveries» and which singles out Ricki Lake's film «The Business of Being Born» as part of the problem.

A film about the late Thurgood Marshall, the first African - American to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, will be shot in Buffalo beginning next month.

Two African American producers based in Atlanta have been filming the SpelBots to make a documentary about the team and their experiences at the RoboCup events.

Co-screenwriter Jon Spaihts speaks with Scientific American about the Alien universe and humanity's quest for knowledge in Scott's latest film

A documentary made about Okinawa showed a 100 year old villager with better fitness levels than an entire film crew less than half her age, a 96 year old martial artist who beat a 36 year old boxing champion (on national American television live) and even a 105 year old woman who easily killed poisonous snakes.

About Blog Tom and Jerry - is an American animated series of short films created in 1940, by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American What: Father of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is hailed in the mainstream

The Anthology of American Folk Music is a six - album compilation released in 1952 by Folkways Records (catalogue FP 251, FP 252, and FP 253), comprising Offers news, comment and features about the British arts scene with sections on books, films, music, theatre, art and architecture.

Wes Bentley was a relative newcomer to film when he starred in Sam Mendes» American Beauty (1999), but his haunting portrayal of the battered, enigmatic Ricky Fitts made him one of the most talked about young actors of the year.

Don't bother to see this film unless you expect to be tested in film class about the Coens» serial dissertation on American cinema.

While physical newspapers may not be as much a part of American life as they used to be, the occasional films about their publication - such as «Zodiac,» «State of Play,» and «Spotlight» - continue to enthrall.

Now comes The American, a European - set film from photographer - turned - director Anton Corbijn (he made Control, about Joy Division's Ian Curtis), a thriller based on a 1990 Martin Booth novel that promises some high - toned excitement, and a chance to see the dark side of George Clooney - that is, the side that isn't being a handsome scamp or earnest humanitarian.

One of the great American films: a romance about the tug between savagery and civilization that continues to define this country.

Featuring a racist plot and negative stereotypes about the Arab world, this film reflected the American fear of the Middle East prevalent in the early»80s.

Following on a decade from when former American Vice President, Al Gore alerted the world about the threats of Global Warming and their impacts on our planet and our lives, it seems all too real now that another one of these films didn't really need to be made.

The whole film consists of the heroes running around African desert whilst being shot at by various people really, there is a silly plot about trying to find a buried American civil war ironclad warship and also a plot about stopping most of the African water supply getting poisoned.

Another well made true factual sporting film about an all star black American football star in the 50's / 60's when racism was a very hot cookie in the States.

American Fable is ambitious, maybe too much so sometimes, but there's an intense pleasure in the boldness of the film's style, its confidence in what it is about.

It's one of the best independent American films of the last decade, playing on current concerns about the future of the planet.

While Hawks» film was about good men standing up to outsiders to defend a town in the name of American ideals, Carpenter's film seems to be about democracy and its practical implications.