Sentences with phrase «for films about»

We care more for programmes about polar bear families than for films about people living in rural Ethopia.

With her latest work, Barbara Hammer, who is known for films about lesbian life, history, and sexuality that draw upon avant - garde tradition, examines the little - known aspects of the life of the Pulitzer Prize — winning American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911 — 1979).

There began my lifelong affinity for films about messy family dynamics, but none have ever been able to grab me the way Little Miss Sunshine did.

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi may have faltered at the box office this year but that doesn't mean that there's not a market for films about true heroes.

And yet the fact remains that I saw a great deal of movies this year and loved very few of them, in part because so many of the prestige pictures («Boyhood,» «Birdman») left me cold, and in part because it was such an excruciatingly paltry year for films about girls and women.

It's been a good few months for films about journalism, what with Spotlight winning the Oscar for Best Picture and Truth doing such a decent job of detailing the controversial decline and fall of veteran American news anchor Dan Rather.

Today was a day for films about people stirring things up in their families and communities, and about British films stirring things up here at the festival.

Is there still a need for films about the events of WWII in 2015?

Known for films about masculinity and violence such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Departed, Scorsese's protagonists in the past have been disturbed and / or criminal men, and as a director he has become associated with tales of gangsters and stories of NYC's underbelly.

Released during the early days of the comic book move boom, The Incredibles remains a high watermark for films about superheroes.

She has a huge passion for films about sex - from smut to high art.

Originally intended as a vehicle for Marlon Brando, the property was shelved until Brando's The Wild One (1953) opened floodgates for films about crazy mixed - up teens.

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Even though she was at a screening for a film about Yves Saint Laurent, Olivia opted for a rather eclectic look from other fashionable sources.

So when I saw a preview for a film about a woman who finds a dog and he becomes her constant companion I knew I had to see it: Darling Companion.

I think Scorsese was an inspired choice for a film about a woman's independence, because the proceedings avoid being weepy treacle, and are instead quite gritty, like most of his «typical» films.

Oddly, for a film about triumph over adversity, there's nothing as uplifting as the opening and closing jogs along a windswept beach.

This is not the expected path for a film about magic; it's saying, essentially, «You don't need it.

The urgency might seem odd for a film about events of almost 50 years ago, but for the parallels with today's tussle over history in all its drafts, first, second and final.

Ironically for a film about pushing the boundaries of sexual pleasure, there has always been the sense that the Fifty Shades franchise has played it too safe.

For a film about tragedy writ large, Parkland manages to convey a deeper message of reconciliation and redemption, and it ends on a hopeful note.

Trumbo wrote the screenplay for a film about the meeting of Cortes and the Aztecs, originally titled Montezuma, in the 1960s.

Given the recent flood of sexual abuse allegations and the continued struggle for equality between the sexes, now really feels like the right time for a film about Gloria Steinem, a galvanizing figure in the feminist movement.

For a film about a man that can't go anywhere, this is still a pleasant trip in itself.

For a film about a holiday, it's notably lacking in a final destination.

Ironically for a film about taxonomy, Annihilation refuses to be categorised: is it science fiction, or horror, or a psychedelic safari?

For a film about space - and - time - traveling agents that encounter various alien species and criminals, Besson's content focusing on Valerian and Laureline's awkward romance.

For a film about people living on the fringe in a squalid bubble, «The Florida Project» has a dreamy innocence and ends on an extremely moving note that's somewhat hopeful.

Plans for a film about the daredevil Evel Knievel are revving up with Channing Tatum in negotiations with Columbia Pictures to star and produce.

For a film about a woman who enjoys the the act of sex without actually being able to achieve orgasm, it's fittingly ironic how The Oh in Ohio manages to make us sense amusement without actually getting us to laugh out loud.

I realize that I'm in the minority of people who don't think this isn't really that good of a movie, although I'll admit, it did hold my interest enough for me to think it still worthwhile, which for a film about chess means it deserves at least some props.

Despite a passable grade, given the stretched - out feel to the movie, with, for a film about a nationwide revolution, the feeling that it's a bit small in terms of scope, this is a clear example of why splitting the final book into two films, while financially smart, is quite a bad choice for fans, who deserve to feel fired up when going into the fourth and final film in the franchise.

But queerness has never looked so bland, and for a film about a sexual revolution, pleasurable sex is conspicuously absent: Indeed, most of the shockingly few sex scenes result in the protagonist, the white, all - American, conspicuously attractive Danny (Jeremy Irvine), so ashamed by his apparent debasement — he briefly resorts to tricking for cash — that he's literally brought to tears while having his dick sucked.

«Low - key for a film about famous figures with larger than life personalities, but quite moving thanks to its use of restraint» — Andrew Parker, The Gate

That's quite fitting for a film about a man that constantly views and reviews things he's seen before to make sense of it all.

However, «The Monuments Men,» also directed by Clooney, looks tonally very different from those relatively serious - minded political thrillers, with the rather fine trailer showcasing an unusually gentle, humorous tone for a film about World War II.

Despite reports of audience members fainting during the film's TIFF screening, «Raw» is surprisingly palatable for a film about cannibalism, and a lot of that has to do with Marillier, who delivers one of the year's great breakout performances.

«Shopping» — New Zealand was the setting for this film about a young guy looking for an identity in a teenage wasteland.

In early 2017, the Oscar nominee bought out a Hidden Figures screening in Los Angeles and invited families who couldn't afford to purchase tickets for the film about the pioneering black female mathematicians involved in NASA's earliest efforts.

For a film about early onset Alzheimer's, this is a remarkably wry, honest and even hopeful drama, anchored by another staggeringly sensitive performance by Julianne Moore.

Redford picked up an Oscar nomination as Best Director for this film about the 1950s quiz show scandals, with Ralph Fiennes as a telegenic and WASPy college professor who's fed answers to keep him on the show longer.

This makes him the obvious but worst choice for a film about the single most mythologized figure in our short history.

For a film about time travel and fate, its a sly choice because this is the beginning of the Bush dynasty - how different would America be if Dukakis had won.

It's partly about the Godard - Gorin British Sounds (1969) tour, with transcripts from some of the stops along the way, and it's also got the screenplay for a film about the Marin County shootout; it's dedicated to George Jackson.

«An oddly enjoyable experience for a film about overcoming suicidal urges... sustains this light touch remarkably well» — Jim Slotek, Original - Cin

Fittingly, for a film about the danger of sudden spikes in volume, the sound design is sophisticated.

While that hasn't stopped previous films from scoring wins here, the last time I thought the Academy would go for a film about people living in and around landfills, surviving off the detritus they find there (2006's Documentary Short Subject nominee Recycled Life), I lost an Oscar pool.

It's also just been announced that she will work again with Pedro Almodovar for another film about two lovers on an airplane.

Production Weekly Tweets that British director Rupert Wainwright has cast Sharon Stone, Adrian Brody and Kurt Russell in Waco for a film about the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound that he's written with investigative...

Director Kathryn Bigelow is teaming up for a third time with screenwriter Mark Boal, who penned The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, for a film about the «12th Street Riot» which sent shockwaves across America in the summer of» 67.