Sentences with phrase «films set in»

During GI, there is also a programme of six screenings of Ottinger's feature - length films beginning on Monday 23 April with Ticket of No Return (1979), the first of her films set in Berlin.

«Period piece» refers to films set in an earlier time period, that offer a cinematic snapshot of a historical moment, such as Charlie Chaplin's «Modern Times».

Shown here as part of a series about films set in Bed - Stuy, this screening will be introduced by Brandon Harris, who, after the screening, will sign copies of his new book, Making Rent in Bed - Stuy.

A couple of days ago SEGA released 3 short films set in the Yakuza universe showing you the legend of Kazuma Kiryu from the perspective of some of the people that had their lives changed by him...

Activison Blizzard Studios is set to begin work on «Skylanders Academy», a TV series based on the popular toys - to - life game, along with a series of films set in the Call of Duty universe.

It's simple stuff with a gritty attitude and just about every other standard adjective one could use to describe films set in Iraq and focusing on war.

Here is a current list of TV series and films set in Morocco on Netflix streaming in the US; many are also available in other countries.

Two new films set in the world of rare books, both crime thrillers, are coming in 2018.

Fortunately, we all may continue to absorb ourselves in the world of Harry Potter (forever and ever), because J.K. Rowling has agreed to write a series of films set in her wizarding world.

Rowling was set as the screenwriter of this brand new prequel franchise, and we'd be getting a new series of films set in the Wizarding World that A. Don't try to reboot or rework the brilliant Harry Potter saga and B. Offer new insights into characters we only heard about in the original series.

Much of the story of Ain't Them Bodies Saints is inferred from Bradford Young's well composed cinematography rather than the script, as much of the dialogue's intelligibility is rendered moot by Affleck's mumbling drawl, not uncommon in films set in Texas.

Akher ayam el madina (In the Last Days of the City, Tamer El Said, 2016) tied with Eshtebak (Clash, Mohamed Diab, 2016) Two completely different Egyptian films set in different eras but the two films end up having a dialogue with each other.

Warner Bros., the studio behind films set in the «Potter» universe, isn't the only studio to bring back recent hit films.

I'm a little trepidatious about the prospect of more films set in this universe, but the world building is great, and it works effectively as both a standalone film and a worthy sequel to the quintessential cult film.

Since his 2007 debut with Shotgun Stories, starring Michael Shannon, Jeff Nichols from Little Rock, Arkansas, still only 38, has made a whole series of stunningly good indie films set in the American South.

Several films set in the American Pie continuity were released.

Moreover, if there must be more films set in this universe, then they should at least try and offer something new and exciting.

The only one of his films set in the present day, Safe stars Julianne Moore in one of her earliest upper - class California housewife roles.

His approach is completely straight - faced, giving high school kids similar, somewhat anachronistic, stylized dialogue, speaking to each other in a sophisticated and mannered fashion, and adding a depth and maturity not commonly associated with films set in high school.

Set in a small Spanish village somewhere outside Madrid, it at least affords Farhadi the opportunity to engage with a more socially open and vivacious milieu than his films set in Iran typically allow.

Its star, Keira Knightley, has already made waves criticising contemporary cinema's obsession with rape, saying she found historical characters «inspiring» and that she avoids films set in the modern day as «the female characters nearly always get raped».

A collection of passages by various critics and writers on recent Australian films set in suburbia.

Spartacus — This classic of Hollywood's obsession with films set in Ancient Rome started as an Anthony Mann film and ended up directed by Stanley Kubrick and feels like a weird combination of those two very different directors and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

Though associated with heritage films set in Britain's imperial past, producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala have collaborated on a variety of masterfully constructed literary adaptations since the early 1960s.

I don't know what to say, other than, if Disney has been making a lot of steps in the right direction overall as a company, with features like Moana, and Star Wars, and (finally if late to the table) Marvel films, then asking for every movie, including period films set in Europe, might be over-correcting the ship.

Jackson goes all out to try to deliver the most epic, most prolonged battle sequences in any of the six films set in Middle Earth, but in so doing, he's lost sight of what Tolkien's book is supposed to be about.

Dream works: two films set in or around the Disney universe that attempt to captivate and connect

Author J.K. Rowling has confirmed that five more films set in the Harry Potter universe will follow Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

20th Century Fox has had recent success with more adult - oriented films set in the X-Men universe, such as the R - rated Deadpool and Logan.

Alien is revered as one of the greatest horror films of all time, as well as one of the greatest films set in space, so what happens when the director of the film that originated the franchise returns to it to provide us back - story about one of the biggest monster movie icons more than three decades after the fact?

Projected on the same blank wall, Hoberman presented a double feature of «The Butler» and «White House Down,» two films set in the White House, and concerned with President Obama's presidency.

The director recently told Vanity Fair that she's hoping to make a cycle of films set in the California capital, settling on a quartet as a good, even number.

Both movies used rock music in films set in centuries without electricity.

A couple of other films set in this era are Prince of the City and Serpico, and though the tone and look may be familiar, Chandor's approach is unique.

For the most part, O'Connor has made films set in heavily populated cities around the modern era.

The British film academy threw a bunch of nominations at a trio of films set in America: «The Shape of Water,» «Three Billboards,» and «Blade Runner 2049.»

For the most part Assayas was tight - lipped about the project, but he did stress that after two films set in the 1970s he was ready to do something «radically different.»

Many films set in the poorest parts of Africa treat the people there as downtrodden victims, but Bad Black — made by and for the proudly self - proclaimed «ghetto people» — overflows with excitement and affection, both for American action movies and for Uganda itself.

Taking inspiration from author Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet, Gerwig is planning to make three more films set in Sacramento.

Most films set in Africa, she says,...

Not dissimilar to Rosemary's Baby, the made - for - TV The Glow was supposed to have aired during the fall of 2001, but for various reasons (including an unofficial post-9 / 11 moratorium on suspense films set in New York) the film did not make its Fox Network bow until August 30, 2002.

Fewer follows ups have been more anticipated than The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first in a new trilogy of films set in the much beloved Middle Earth, previously seen in the hugely successful Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Keira Knightley has claimed she rarely chooses to act in films set in the modern day because «female characters nearly always get raped».

Nintendo is nearing a deal with production studio Illumination Entertainment on an animated film set in the world of Super Mario Brothers, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday that cited anonymous sources.

According to Deadline, Judd Apatow will produce a new «film set in...

Ender's Game (12A) It's a film set in the future but this vision of it doesn't see gender balance on the horizon.

However, in the fifth film set in the 1920 - 30s, the Dark Side is still present as scientists and doctors continued record brain damage in football players» and boxers» head injuries using terms like «Punch Drink,» Dementia pugilistica, and even CTE (Yes, the term was used before Omalu was even born).

Plot: The film set in post-WWII Germany and focuses on a warcrime trial of the former lover of a law student Michael Berg nearly a decade after his affair with the older woman ended.

Unlike Theresa May, I've got an enormous media profile, thanks to being portrayed as the bad guy in literally every film set in the North of England for the last 30 years.

In recent experiments, the team began by scanning a mock film set in 3D using infrared sensors.