Sentences with phrase «films about humans living»

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At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.

At the cutting edge of research in the life sciences, a team of scientists and animators from Japan has created an astonishing new film about the function of the human heart.

Other films challenged audiences to confront the role of humans in wildlife extinction, invited viewers to think twice about our seemingly insatiable appetites for food and fuel, and encouraged the adoption of more sustainable ways of life.

Such a strong reaction persuaded Pixar to avoid making uncannily realistic human characters — it has since focused its efforts on films about living toys, curious robots and talking cars to win Academy Awards and moviegoers» hearts.

This is a film about the human side of technology, about the philosophical implications raised by this strange and alluring new digital world we live in.

But the whole film is a missed opportunity because the situations repeatedly defy credibility, and the humor never says anything remotely fresh about human nature or the world we live in.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

«Her vision left an indelible mark on I Think We're Alone Now, which brings an extraordinarily thought provoking film about human connection to life.

Lynch isn't interested in wallowing through sadness, it's about a moment in human life rarely explored on film.

After a slow start, this film - about a former boy genius (George Clooney) and a current girl genius (Britt Robertson) traveling to a city outside time and space - becomes a delightful and thoughtful exploration of the ways in which the future, the concept and promise of it, function in human life.

As a fan of director Ridley Scott's original 1982 neo-noir sci - fi film, set in a dystopian future in which humans and androids live side - by - side, Deakins was excited about the idea of working on the long - discussed sequel.

Selected by Chile to represent the country in the Best Foreign Language category at the Oscars, this moving, funny, very human film about a middle - aged woman and the obstacles that prevent a full and rich love life has a terrific shot at making the final five nominees.

Based on his one - man show of the same name (which was in turn inspired by actual events from his life), the film is a witty, sharply written human comedy about professional rejection and the fear of commitment.

And love your life,» Krieps explains in the clip, while co-star Leslie Manville adds, «It's a film about human condition and how we all struggle to have something that makes us feel real and have purpose.»

The film is a sequel to the 2015 fantasy film about humans and monsters who lived alongside — and at odds — with each other in ancient China, making $ 390 million.

Based on his one - man show of the same name (which was in turn inspired by actual events from his life), the film is a witty and consistently funny human comedy about the fear of commitment, and hands - down my favorite movie at this year's SXSW.

The story tells the tale of a family of four - inch - tall people, called Borrowers, who live hidden about the humans or beans as they are called in the film.

Ken Loach's latest, the winner of this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes, is one of the most important films of 2016; there couldn't be a more timely moment for a film about the value of citizenship, and to issue a protest against the increasingly powerful dehumanizing forces of what you might call «client culture,» the corporate logic that reduces human lives to economic statistics or blips on screens.

Any movie like this made for the most part since the 1980s would talk the talk about showing the changes, but not show it, show it badly and / or be more sexually oppressed than not, but Russell has zero trouble from this first film he had control over himself dealing with all kinds of human sexuality, yet that freedom is incidental to character study, capturing the story and bringing it to life as he does so well here.

Indeed, the film is no longer about the monsters, who had been the stars of the first movie, but about the humans who live among them.

Dramatic films which have portrayed the «homefront» during times of war, and the subsequent problems of peacetime adjustment include William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver (1942) about a separated middle - class family couple (Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon) during the Blitz, Clarence Brown's The Human Comedy (1943) with telegram delivery boy Mickey Rooney bringing news from the front to small - town GI families back home, John Cromwell's Since You Went Away (1944) with head of family Claudette Colbert during her husband's absence, and another William Wyler poignant classic The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) with couples awkwardly brought back together forever changed after the war: Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, Fredric March and Myrna Loy, and Harold Russell and Cathy O'Donnell.

Whereas in Up we begin by being overwhelmed with truths about the human condition, then descend into a comparative banality that improves as the film goes on, ending in a close approximation of the beauty of the prologue, in Inside Out we start with silly fun that threatens to go nowhere interesting, and then slowly move towards profound meditations on the meaning of life.

Framed by the conceit that Cinderella's vermin - pals want to write a storybook about their favourite human, Cinderella II opens with a strange section aping Rebecca, continues with a strange section aping It's A Wonderful Life, and concludes with a misguided apologia of the original film's Disney - patented subtext of «beauty makes right.»

In the case of Inside Llewyn Davis, this consistent pull toward bad luck gives the film a rare sort of melancholy, one that avoids sentimentality and pity, as well as outright cynicism, to find a strange, unmistakable truth about the emotional bruises and physical suffering of life as a human or, even worse, an artist.

So the film is about the struggles of educators to create a successful inner city school that changes lives, but it's also about the people in the community and about the human condition.

Director Naomi Call will be our special guest, leading an audience Q&A after her film screens; Love Unleashed, directed by Kasey Klonsky, is a short documentary that explores the deep emotional bond between humans and their older dogs; Maybelle's Story, directed by Ellie Laks, is a short film about a cow who had a reprieve from slaughter and getting a second chance at life; Hope the Blind Goat by Shawn Bannon is a two minute long short about a goat who is rescued and given a happy life.

Through this conversation, a combination of language play, moving image and installation, Theobald explores conflicted feelings about societal conventions, the repeated cycle of human existence, and the ways that received wisdom about life, love, death, freedom and personal growth feed back into daily life through depictions in film, television and music.