Sentences with phrase «films about the search»

Armed with an intimate tale and the true grit of Jandreau's teeth, The Rider is the best film about searching for a new identity in the wreckage of the American dream since Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (2008).

More importantly than anything, it cuts close to the bone, with much of the film feeling like Gilliam confronting his own mortality: «for all the film's flaws, it feels like a very personal and moving piece of work as Qohen moves towards some kind of acceptance that his time on Earth will be brief in the grand scale of things... it's not so much a film about a search for a meaning, as an embrace of meaningless, and it's fascinating in that respect.»

Two great films about the search for meaning in the face of death.

The project was already in the development stages as a film about the search for Bin Laden but the news of his killing, to be quite blunt, gave it the perfect conclusion.

«The Debt» is based on a 2007 Israeli film about the search for a character called the «Butcher of Birkenau».

Not exact matches

Following the release of Hollywood blockbuster Silence, John Dougill tells Sam Hailes about his book In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians (SPCK) which unpacks the history behind the film

The people who have made and released the film have a special agenda, search about them and you will discover their aims.

In fact - I came to this blog because I had searched for «microbirth» to learn more about the background to the film, and it came up high in the search results.

In the film, Zoe plays a distressed single mother in search of answers about the origin of her son's allergies and sickness.

Excited by this review by Mark Sisson of the forthcoming film In Search Of The Perfect Human Diet Mark also has some interesting stuff to say about the benefits of taking a personal retreat - something I enjoy doing from time to time, and need -LSB-...]

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The feature, Actors in Search of a Story, applauds the entire cast of the film (right down to the woman who plays Harold's psychologist for about two minutes of screen time), Building the Team profiles director Marc Forster and some of his crew, and Words on a Page focuses on budding young screenwriter Zach Helm.

The unique combination of reviews, news, and user discussion — all accessed through MRQE's search portal — allows any user to read and add to the Internet's most comprehensive collection of opinion about film.

Brooklyn is one of the best films ever made about leaving one's homeland in search of a better life, and forging a new path.

The Strongest Man is an unpretentious, somewhat familiar yet delightful film about a well - meaning Miami lunk in search of himself (and his stolen wheels).

This is an intense, thoughtful film about family, obsession and man's search for grace in a world gone mad.

It is almost a guaranteed certainty that those engrossed by Marshall will head home afterward and open a few Google searches and Wikipedia pages to learn more about the work of Thurgood Marshall (heck, give this film a sequel or a series).

It is no surprise that the master of cinematic homage's makes a film that is part Western part blaxploitation film about a slave in search of his wife and revenge.

Unexpected nods for dark horse «Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,» about a son's search for meaning in his father's death, include both a supporting actor and best film nomination.

Compounded with the question of Boyd's testimony, the search for JT builds a palpable tension in the film that has the potential to be broken at any moment, should Boyd, Owen or Bill tell the truth about their involvement in the tragedies.

In this sense, the film feels like a drolly amusing riff on David Fincher's 2007 classic, Zodiac, itself about the folly of searching for finite truth.

For top dramatic pictures, the selections made by the HFPA's fewer than 100 voters were the historical drama «12 Years a Slave»; the Somali piracy thriller «Captain Phillips»; the 3 - D space spectacle «Gravity»; «Philomena,» about a mother's search for her son; and the car racing film «Rush.»

I have to admit I was scared at times, searching every dark corner for the «thing» that I was sure was about to leap out, but I didn't feel the film deserved my fear.

The film tells the true story of a Japanese POW camp who searches out the man who tortured him, and stars two previous Oscar - winners, Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, with a classy supporting cast also including Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgard and Hiroyuki Sanada (in a supporting turn we've already heard some buzz about).

It will take audiences by surprise, but this is a well - crafted film about a man doing some much - needed soul - searching.

Other films from Cannes making their US debut at Telluride include the Russian «Loveless,» directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, about an unhappy couple searching for their son, and winner of Cannes» Jury Prize; «A Man of Integrity,» by Mohammad Rasoulof, set in corrupt Iranian society, which won the Grand Prize of the Un Certain Regard section; «The Rider,» by Chloe Zhao, about a badly injured young South Dakotan rodeo rider, which won the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, of the Director's Fortnight; «Tesnota (Closeness),» about a Jewish family forced to try to ransom their son and his new bride, also in Un Certain Regard, by Kantemir Balagov; and Barbet Schroeder's documentary about a Buddhist monk, «Le venerable W.»

The nationwide search is on for actors to play the leading roles in the new sci - fi Steven Spielberg film about video games and competition.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 2, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Lorax (PG for mild epithets) Danny DeVito stars as the title character in this animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic about an idealistic 12 year - old (Zac Efron), raised in an artificial reality, who searches for a real tree in order to impress the girl of his dreams (Taylor Swift).

Where Rhinoceros Eyes is about dreaming, The Dreamers is about waking up, and while the conversation about our multifoliate relationship to our art is endlessly fruitful, it's both dispiriting and hopeful that when one of film's brightest lights begins to dim, searching the streets for an angry fix as it were, others are hungry to howl in his place.

A film about the great lengths a person will go to after experiencing traumatic events, Jordan's search for closure and loss of confidence in her job is beautifully acted by Berry.

This strange, experimental film about an alien (David Bowie) who comes to Earth in search of water for his dying planet is experimental and strange in all the ways your expecting, and at least twelve that you're not.

If you're searching for new clues about The Last Jedi, look no further, as these Force Friday sets could very well represent scenes from the upcoming film.

Walton Goggins, who plays the villain in this year's Tomb Raider film, opens up about his character's motivations as he clashes with Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) over the contents of a tomb he has spent the last seven years searching for.

The second narrative, told in words and set in 1977, chronicles Ben (played in the film by Oakes Fegley) as he travels to Manhattan in search of clues about his long - lost father.

Alas, the production runs out of gas as it approaches the final half hour, which is filled with the usual bits of soul - searching angst we've grown accustomed to from films about decadent parties full of vacuous people.

And the 2012 edition brought with films that were talked about for the rest of the year including «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» «Safety Not Guaranteed,» «Middle Of Nowhere,» «The Sessions,» «Searching For Sugar Man,» «Smashed,» «Room 237» and many others.

With Liman's latest film, The Wall, about to arrive in theaters, I re-watched and ranked Liman's movies, which have a surprisingly consistent tendency to be both wildly entertaining and compellingly thoughtful.I should note that Getting In, Liman's first film, which IMDB lists as a video - only release, is genuinely tough to see these days and after a lengthy search, I wasn't able to find a decent copy on home video to screen for this piece.

Production was put on hold as Fox searched for a new director and the studio pushed back the film's release date by about four months.

However, in a film about a teen with Down syndrome who has suffered a tragedy and is searching for something that doesn't exist, the circumstances rapidly devolve from quirky to creepy to preposterous.

Other stars in the beloved family adventure film about a group of outcasts in search of underground treasure include Corey Feldman, Martha Plimpton, Kerri Green Josh Brolin.

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).

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening August 7, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (PG - 13 for mayhem and graphic violence) Action - oriented thriller about an elite team of gadget - equipped, military spies who venture to the ends of the Earth in search of the international arms dealer (Christopher Eccleston) masterminding a diabolical plot to plunge the planet into complete chaos.

From his second feature, 2008's Tony Manero, about a Saturday Night Fever - obsessed killer in»70s Chile, up to his forthcoming film, the poetic Neruda (out in the UK in April), Larraín has made character studies that trust audiences to search the sweep of a film for meaning, using the formal potential of cinema to explore what people are like, rather than saddling an actor with revelatory baggage.

Washington, D.C. — In a historic year for African - Americans in films, in front of and behind the camera, the year's biggest winner at the 17th Annual Black Reel Awards was the small and intimate coming - of - age story of a young boy growing up in a tumultuous, yet nurturing community environment, searching for answers about his sexual identity in Barry Jenkins» cinematic masterwork, Moonlight.

«Inherent Vice,» Dec. 12 Five - time Oscar - nominated director Paul Thomas Anderson has adapted Thomas Pynchon's novel about a Los Angeles detective during the drug - addled era of the»70s and his search for his missing, former girlfriend for this part crime comedy, part noir film.

Fatherland is really two films hobbled together: the first half being Drittemann's search for self - identity and purpose in his new environment; the second half being a bizarre almost - thriller about Drittemann and a mysterious French - Dutch journalist Emma (Fabienne Babe) tracking down his long - lost father in the bucolic English countryside.

The film — about a vigilante searching for his missing brother — earned one Oscar voter's seal of approval: Jeff Bridges.

Now the BBC, in conjunction with the Science Channel, will produce a movie «about the search for what caused the 1985 Challenger Space Shuttle explosion» and they've rounded up a pair of American actors to lead the procedural film: William Hurt and Bruce Greenwood.

Mississippi Grind is a nostalgic film, its characters forever in search of those bounteous good times of the past, that are purely in their minds, while its makers are looking back to a certain type of free - ranging, melancholic, narratively loose American movie, the sort we think of when we get dewy - eyed about the Seventies.

The big Audience Award winners are: Burden, a story about a former Klansman being taken in by a Reverend starring Garrett Hedlund & Forest Whitaker, from director Andrew Heckler; The Sentence, a documentary by Rudy Valdez; and Search, the computer screen film (read my review) directed by Aneesh Chaganty.