Sentences with phrase «films about my generation»

One of the best films about my generation's inability to handle love and our emotions.

Not exact matches

If you're passionate about trade unions and want to help get a whole new generation of young workers involved in the union movement, this film is for you.

Boston, MA About Blog «Project Upland» is a film initiative to capture the essence of Upland Hunting and seeks to inspire a future generation of upland bird hunters.

Giving needed life lessons to the new / younger generation, while still caring about it's older audience, this film balances the old and the new in such an interesting way.

«The film is very much about family, specifically the importance of remembering family and passing along stories to future generations so that people aren't forgotten and lost to time,» director Lee Unkrich told Vanity Fair at the Morelia International Film Festival in Mexico on Friday evening, where the picture opened the event with its world premiere.

You Were Never Really Here This grim, artful New York crime thriller about a tormented thug - for - hire (a rivetingly contained Joaquin Phoenix) confirms writer - director Lynne Ramsay («We Need to Talk About Kevin») as one of the most exciting and exacting film stylists of her generaabout a tormented thug - for - hire (a rivetingly contained Joaquin Phoenix) confirms writer - director Lynne Ramsay («We Need to Talk About Kevin») as one of the most exciting and exacting film stylists of her generaAbout Kevin») as one of the most exciting and exacting film stylists of her generation.

Practically every month, films filled with technological advancements and sterling storytelling are creating a generation of young moviegoers wise about genres and styles, and fortunate enough to be able to pick and choose.

The biggest surprise for Miike fans and musical lovers alike is that for all the black humor of this deliriously bizarre fantasy «Happiness» is a warmhearted film about sacrifice, support and four generations of family togetherness.

Made at the end of the»70s, it is a film about that transition between the era of support and love and the Me Generation of the»80s.

Some of my best friends and I were sitting around and we hatched an idea to drive around the U.S. for three months interviewing kids from all walks of life to figure out what our generation is about [which became the film Our Time (2009)-RSB-.

His first few film roles, as a hooligan who harasses Ben Kingsley in «Gandhi» and as Captain Bligh's (Anthony Hopkins) loyal right - hand man, John Fryer, in «The Bounty,» don't really signal that Day - Lewis was about to become one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation.

If «Lincoln» the film is a portrait of the difficult process of moving the needle forward even slightly, Lincoln the performance is about how historic figures attempt to wrestle with the possibility that their every action and failure will have consequences that affect generations of people.

Not to be confused with Samuel L. Jackson's other snake movie, «Black Snake Moan» is the sophomore effort from writer / director Craig Brewer, whose debut film «Hustle & Flow» (another movie about a Southern musician battling his inner demons) earned the director critical acclaim in 2005 as one of the generation's most promising young talents.

I agree with the consensus that Jaws is just about perfect and to that I will add so is Jurassic Park, a film whose excellence I expect to be acknowledged universally within a generation.

So while Vernon, Florida has become something of a Medium Cool for a new generation of film brats (All the Real Girls director David Gordon Green cites the work as one of his all - timers), The Thin Blue Line has become the moment that many point to as the definitive modern reintroduction to the debate about the matter of degrees that separates fiction from non-fiction cinema.

While he talks, I can't decide what's more telling: the fact that Lanthimos, the most talented Greek director of his generation, has just made a film about dead people; or the fact that he's now quit Greece to live in Britain instead.

It's a film that should touch moviegoers of all generations no matter if you lived through these events or are young and in school learning about them for the first time.

We've sat through an entire generation of fantasy and science fiction films about a protagonist gifted with extraordinary powers who first Resists, then Accepts The Call, which almost always involves saving the world, defeating a powerful villain, and re-establishing the status quo.

From director Johannes Schmid comes this charming film about two Germans from different generations discovering long - long family ties in the Poland.

Chronicling this fictionalized fight for the soul of Chile, the film reveals itself as an underdog story about the «generation gap,» pitting youthful optimism against aging tyrrany, hope against repression.

Michael Fassbender may be of the one of the most talented and reliable actors of his generation but the same can't always be said about some of his film choices.

It becomes a rather beautiful film about different generations of women from the same family and how they're not quite the strangers they think they are.

The film, directed by James Ivory, cross-cuts between two generations as Anne (Julie Christie) searches for answers about the long - ago affair between her Aunt Olivia (Greta Scacchi) and an Indian prince (Shashi Kapoor).

«This film was made as an answer to my own questions about how and why we have become the most incarcerated nation in the world, how and why we regard some of our citizens as innately criminal, and how and why good people allow this injustice to happen generation after generation.

[Scott Pilgrim] does what everyone our age has been dreaming about: achieves the first all encompassing film of the joystick generation.

About the California Film Institute The non-profit California Film Institute celebrates and promotes film as art and education through year - round programming at the non-profit independent theatre, Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, presentation of the acclaimed Mill Valley Film Festival and cultivation of the next generation of filmmakers and audiences through CFI Education programs.

And indeed, Eden, in its all discontinuous fluidity, feels very much like a night - life pendant to Something in the Air (12), the film about the post - ’68 generation by MHL's partner Olivier Assayas (and in which de Givry and Conzelmann acted).

For a new generation, the film, directed by William Friedkin from an Oscar - winning script by William Peter Blatty, who wrote the novel, will stir the same debate: Is the film a provocation about the nature of good and evil, or horror claptrap?

Experimental in its approach, candid about sex, and vicious in its attacks on American conformity and consumerism («Plastics»), the film, adapted by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham from Charles Webb's book, also became a rallying cry for the period's youth, widening the generation gap and emerging as one of the biggest box office smashes of its decade.

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About the California Film Institute The non-profit California Film Institute celebrates and promotes film as art and education through the presentation of the Mill Valley Film Festival, year - round exhibitions at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, film distribution by CFI Releasing, and the CFI Education program, building the next generation of filmmakers and audiences.

The film is exceptionally written — every line of dialogue sounds like something a person might actually say and, as someone who was a high school senior in 2002, it felt so authentic that I thought I was watching a documentary about my generation's coming - of - age instead of a comedy - drama from the co-writer of Frances Ha and Mistress America.

There are also a couple of free events: «Restoring Star Trek: The Next Generation» on Friday is a presentation about the digital remastering of the TV (and prologue to the double feature of the TV episode Space Seed and the feature film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn later that evening), and The Making of Olympia on Saturday, a rare 1937 behind - the - scene documentary directed by Riefenstahl's technical assistant Rudolf Schaad.

She spoke of making the jump from indie films to a major studio, cleared up separate rumors about Lindsay Lohan and Dean Jones, and elaborated on her intentions for dusting Herbie off for the NASCAR circuit and a new generation of moviegoers.

Sean Baker Sean Baker was the film - maker who gave us Tangerine, a movie about trans experiences which he filmed mostly on his iPhone, inspiring a new generation of digital film - makers.

I will admit that, generally speaking, I find these lists by critics to be annoying in that they almost tell you more about a generation that reports on and writes about film than they do the films themselves but I'm finding it hard to find fault with this list.

It didn't quite matter so much, though, because that film was more about a generational conflict, a fear of growing up that's shared between the generations, and the way such attitudes are just a means of covering up insecurities and apprehensions about oneself.

Pixar delivers another winner to add to their already impressive collection of animated classics that will entertain generations to come with a real commitment to depth in characterizations and story above and beyond their gorgeously rendered 3D animation, which is about as photorealistic in WALL - E as I've seen in a film to date.

We see a documentary about the professional rivalry and growing friendship between Ebert and his late sparring partner Gene Siskel, whose nationally syndicated television show brought film criticism into many homes and inspired a few generations of film lovers — myself included — to watch movies with a critical but appreciating eye.

Studio execs from 20th Century Fox met with Oscar consultants a few days ago to mull this question: What happens when the year's most acclaimed acting turn to date comes in a movie that skews about two generations too young for most film academy members?

Only a few morsels of the film's trailer are needed to be fired up about this film, aptly taking us into the next generation of fighters.

Younger audience members, and certainly future generations, will wonder what this film was supposed to be about.

by Jefferson Robbins Before it became a lazily - applied shorthand for my generation in particular, Slacker was a film about doom.

The Beat Generation is a time that has been captured on film again and again, yet something about it has remained mysterious and appealing to newer audiences.

Like all Ozu films, this is about the modern family and the way different generations interact.

You can tell from the beginning that this film is about the passing of the baton to a new generation of characters.

It also aims to promote youth awareness about modern media forms, as well as to foster and nurture a future promising generation of creative artists in media and film.

It also aims to educate the next generation about film, and give youngsters a chance to see the best of Arab and international cinema, so as to build a strong national film industry.

at Rob Tufnell, London; Maid in Heaven / En Plein Air in Hell (My Beautiful Dark and Twisted Cheeto Problem) at White Cube Masons Yard, London; Eustachy Kossakowski and Goshka Macuga: Report from the Exhibition at Kate McGarry, London; GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Hayley Tompkins: Digital Light Pools at the Common Guild, Glasgow; Douglas Gordon: Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now, at Glasgow Museum of Modern Art; Mood Is Made / Temperature Is Taken at Glasgow Sculpture Studios.

Her current show and recent films — about decay, beauty and nostalgia — mark her out as one of the best of her generation argues Brian Dillon