Sentences with phrase «films about slavery»

Two noted films about Slavery and the end of it are in this year's Oscar race.

This may be one of the most accurate and brutal films about slavery ever made.

Of course, it's a coincidence that Django Unchained arrives in the same season as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the second of two Spielberg films about slavery (after 1997's Amistad) that never expose audiences to the harsh realities of plantation life?

Though she is doubtless beautiful and creative, he is less than enamoured with the encounter, as she panned his latest film Uprize (a film about slavery in Haiti).

Not exact matches

Michael Fassbender, who portrays the most sadistic of Northup's three masters in the film, has little patience for the oft - heard notion that it is time for America to forget about its horrific history with slavery.

The film talks about how the issue of modern slavery was first uncovered by the Sunday Times reporter George Arbuthnott, whose investigative journalism showed the true scale of the problem in Britain today.

«Django Unchained» is «Blazing Saddles» with a body count, a positively incendiary entertainment about America's greatest shame, the personal and social toll of slavery, and like Tarantino's last film, «Inglourious Basterds,» this is a case of history being remixed in a way that makes more emotional sense to Tarantino as a storyteller.

Not to say that Tarantino takes slavery lightly, I don't feel that way at all about the film, but I laughed or smiled far more than I thought I would have.

A film about the passage of a change to a legal document generates less intrigue, even if the revision in question outlawed slavery and came alongside the end of the longest and deadliest war fought on American soil.

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

That so few mainstream films have been made about slavery in America is also a testament to the power of denial.

What most impresses me about the film is the way it shows how slavery distorts humanity on all levels.

The film is based on Solomon Northup's memoir about his life in slavery after being abducted as a free man in New York.

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.

Steve McQueen's brutal drama about slavery is 2/5 to win best film over American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Gravity and Philomena.

At the Hay Festival in Wales over the weekend WillIam Nicholson, the screenwriter for «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» — the Nelson Mandela biopic that starred Idris Elba and boasted a weepy U2 song — bravely stood up and blamed his film's failure (both its mixed critical reception and its paltry stateside grosses) on the U.S. audiences being «so exhausted feeling guilty about slavery that I don't think there was much left over to be nice about our film.»

While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and sugarcane were harvested and processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»

After talking about how his next film would continue playing in the southern America / slavery playground that Django Unchained dabbled, Quentin Tarantino revealed that the title of his much anticipated new film would be The Hateful Eight.

Before «12 Years a Slave,» there were only a handful of significant films made about slavery in the United States — «Roots,» «Amistad,» «Mandingo,» and «The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman» come to mind.

Much more than a film about 19th century slavery in America, this sharply well - told true story has a lot to say about the world we live in today.

In the upcoming film True Story, Jonah Hill stars as real - life journalist Michael Finkel, who was fired from The New York Times Magazine in 2001 for falsifying details in a story about child slavery in Africa.

In other words: yes, it's as good as you've heard, and is most likely the best film ever made about slavery.

12 Years a Slave is no less carnal in its inquiries — it is, in its most literal sense, a film about bodies bought and sold — but its context and purposes are so much weightier that they tether McQueen's gifts, enabling him to transcend «arty» and produce a work of genuine, unmistakable art. 12 Years a Slave is likely the most painful, clear - eyed feature ever made about American slavery.

What it's about amounts to the year's most incisive slavery film (SeaWorld as plantation) and hood movie (SeaWorld as whale ghetto).

The film by Steven Spielberg about Abraham Lincoln's struggle to abolish slavery is based on writer Doris Kearns Goodwin's book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.»

His next film, it appears, is to be about actual slavery.»

The film is getting a lot of buzz about how brutal the depiction of slavery is.

Students learn about American slavery in the textbook and by doing dialectical journals with two films, Ships of Slaves and Unchained Memories.

In a conversation with film director, Brian Redondo, artist Doreen Garner shares the motivation driving her sculptural practice: to educate viewers about suppressed racist histories embedded in the foundations of a nation built on slavery.

Other programs speak to and animate the myriad issues she raises in her work, including several screenings, among them, Ava DuVernay's film «The 13th,» which links the legacy of slavery, the criminalization of African Americans, and the mass incarceration boom; book discussions about the new graphic novel «Black Panther» by Ta - Nehisi Coates; and a panel conversation about «Art, Activism, Race, and the Law.»