Sentences with phrase «from film history»

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The film looks at 150 years of history, and the leaders who came from it.

The fourth child and younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch went to Harvard to study film and history after graduating in 1991 from Horace Mann, an elite New York City private prep school.

In 2018, dozens of superheroes from various movies over the last nine years will come together for Avengers: Infinity War, and supposedly connect the plots of all these movies together, making the MCU one of the most ambitious projects in film history.

They would say that John has taken the same sort of spiritual «licence» with the actual events of Jesus, as a consortium of film directors might take with some heroic theme from history, an heroic theme perhaps from the Bible itself.

The Hunger Games has appeared almost from nowhere to become one of the biggest films in recent history.

He is neither a historian nor theologian, but the film, «Monumental,» shows him consumed with Christianity - and with rage over what he says has been the systematic removal of religion's role from American history.

Growing up in the second poorest county in Illinois, where many families below the poverty line depended on venison from hunting to get through the winter, the only times I saw people like me on TV were in Dukes of Hazard reruns (my own family has a storied moonshining history) and in a VHS copy of the 1974 film Where the Red Fern Grows.

It also included an evening session going beyond economics and political science to look at how times of fiscal austerity were reflected in film, cartoon and gallery art, with experts exploring these issues from the perspective of social history.

The artifacts are part of an oral history project shown in 1986 that were digitized from black - and - white film, capturing children in the Bronx from 1895 to the early 1980s, all done by Georgeen Comerford.

From engaging histories and research - driven treatises, to provocative exhibitions and popular films, to mobile applications and podcasts, Science book and media reviews feature smart commentary on a wide range of timely scientific topics.

Hemingway teamed up with Academy Award - winning producer and director Barbara Kopple and the Oprah Winfrey Network to produce the film Running from Crazy, in which Mariel confronts her family's history of mental illness as she explores the path she has taken toward well being.

From film icons Sophia Loren and Audrey Hepburn to Brooke Shields and supermodel Linda Evangelista to now Delevingne, the brow has helped define era's and «shaped» beauty history.

I love good music & enjoy going to see live bands & going to festivals I also enjoy art & urban exploring just to learn the history of a place but that comes about from watching to meany booth brothers documentaries of the unknown I also enjoy horror films And Dumfries is in Scotland

together the bizarre true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s - 1920s, which were lost for.

The most invaluable below - the - line contribution, meanwhile, comes from production designer Alex DiGerlando, who furnishes the film's broad range of Floridian boxes — big and small, flashy and fetid — with a wealth of subliminal personal and social history, even as they stand empty.

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The filmmakers went into this project insisting that all the actors do their own singing, and while «crooners» like Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth (let alone Stellan Skarsgård, who is very, very brave to have done his own singing) are not going to go down in history as much more than barely competent, star Meryl Streep, who has already proven her musical chops theatrically and previously in such films as Postcards from the Edge, is marvelous, if a bit too country - yodelish for this patently pop score.

Anyone who is interested in the history of film technology and cinema can certainly take something away from Side by Side, even if it is just learning the opinion of Robert Rodriguez or Danny Boyle.

The first few years of his career following the departure from the show were somewhat lackluster, but Smits eventually landed the role of Senator Bail Organa in the second and third Star Wars prequels, a move that would permanently cement him in film history in the minds of at least one very large fanbase.In addition to his work with the Star Wars franchise, Smits also made an inevitable return to the small - screen mid-decade with a prominent role on NBC's The West Wing during the show's 2004 - 2005 season.

just came back from reading The Subtle Knife review / essay on District 9 and it was extremely well - done, and gave a nice, quick view into South African culture / history / outlook which enhanced my memory of the film.

Features clips from the 32 greatest adult movies ever produced and in - depth interviews with the biggest stars in adult film history, like Jenna Jameson, Ron Jeremy, Marilyn Chambers, Christy Canyon, Jessica Drake, Georgina Spelvin, Allie Haze, Andrew Blake, Stoya, Constance Money and Kay Parker.

Tracing the history of adult films, from «Deep Throat» and «Devil in Miss Jones» to the high - definition, big budget movies of today, this documentary chronicles the most important, critically acclaimed and sexiest movies in history.

If you've ever taken any sort of film history class, one of the first things you'll hear from your instructor is the importance of watching films within the context of their time.

Overall, Star Wars is a magnificent film that captures not just one spirit, but multiple ideals from throughout history.

The discourse is cut together with clips from early Merchant Ivory films like Bombay Talkie and The Guru, providing an interesting platform for the way film history invariably impacts each generation differently.

That film was also the year's biggest box office flop from a major studio, boasting one of the worst opening weekends in history ($ 306,367) for a nationwide release.

From the sands of Iwo Jima, to the rocky cliffs at Normandy, brush up on history with these best - reviewed, all time classic World War II films.

Made with the full support and cooperation of the Royal Air Force, Battle for the Skies is the definitive film history of the RAF from the early days of the Air Battalion and the Royal Flying Corps right up to its role in the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars.

Someday in film - history textbooks, they'll write about the arc that began with the mid-aughts shedding of the «alt -» from alt - comedy.

Tracing the history of food production in the United States, the film charts how farming has gone from local and sustainable to a corporate Frankenstein monster that offers cheap eggs, meat, and dairy at a steep cost: the exploitation of animals; the risky use of antibiotics and hormones; and the pollution of our air, soil, and water.

And, aside from a conclusion I won't spoil except to say that it plays exactly like the meta - film twist at the end of Altman's THE PLAYER, Spielberg can't resist to inject a Gumpian «brush with history» as then Assistant Attorney General Rehnquist, a future Justice of the Supreme Court, calls to advise Bradlee the publication of the papers is prohibited by the Espionage Act of 1917 — just a beat too late to stop the story going to print.

FLIX ® is a celebration of all things cinema, from knee - slapping comedy to face - slapping film noir, get ready to experience the history of Hollywood, one classic at a time.

Lincoln often appears in the film as the irresistible monument to folksy decency that we know from the simplified myths of our school history books, and Spielberg exploits these scenes for all their iconic worth, often visualizing the president as a ghostly totem burdened by the secret knowledge of his pivotal destiny in the story of American reform.

He did not simply depart from the facts of history, inventing, in the title characters, a squad of mostly Jewish - American killers led by a United States Army lieutenant from Tennessee; he rewrote the past in the vivid, visceral language of film fantasy.

The digging party, with its suggestions of film - noir plot twists and resonances, fulfills its violent implications with the arrival of a rough - hewn neighbor (played by the majestically stolid character actor Tom Bower), who tries to dissuade Tim from the excavation with allusions to uneasy spirits, evil history, and «the Chicago Hall of Fame.»

Ptolemy is not a particularly interesting history professor, given as he is to vague philosophical - sounding intonations about the greatness of Mr.. The Great, but that doesn't stop Stone from using him as a narrator throughout the film, both on screen and in voice - over.

And he draws from this an unpretentious, enormously likable film that plays with history both seriously and mischievously.

This is a film not about an icon of history, but about a president who was scorned by some of his political opponents as just a hayseed from the backwoods.

From the fly - on - the - wall, cinéma - vérité style of the»60s to a more aggressive, advocacy approach in the mid -»70s, «Mixtape» is a wide slice of nonfiction film history.

Del Toro's commentary track finishes off the extras and, as expected, is filled with the director speaking about influences and inspirations for the film whether from art or film history.

From the Studio: The film details the inspiring exploits of Michael Edwards, better known as «Eddie the Eagle,» the most famous ski jumper in British history.

If you only know the film from a few melodic snippets and one Austrian helicopter shot, clear an evening and sit down with one of the seminal works of cinema history.

Deathwatch presents a sweeping history of on - screen death, from the silent film era to recent Hollywood blockbusters.

One of the film's strategies is to pair the voice of Samuel L. Jackson intoning selections from Baldwin's writing with relevant images salvaged from American history, including segments that highlight the white supremacy encoded in Hollywood narratives.

Alas, my heart sank when I realized that the film I was about to see was not a remake of the 1995 forgotten Cindy Crawford - William Baldwin classic but a in fact change of pace low - key political drama from the go to high concept action film - maker of the past decade, Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr & Mrs Smith) focusing on the Plame Affair, one of the key scandals in recent American political history.

One of the most prolific film artists in Hollywood history, the German - born art director Hans Dreier worked on more than five hundred films from 1919 to 1951, amassing twenty - three Academy Award nominations and three Oscars.

Whereas Cemetery of Splendour moves at a slow, fittingly oneiric pace, Guy Maddin's The Forbidden Room wildly careens from one episodic fragment of its re-imagined film history to another.

Mike Carey's novel and screenplay takes ideas from superhero films like «X-Men» and expects the audience to already know quite a bit of zombie history from other films.

Upon man meeting the man who was The Shape in Halloween IIat an intimate screening of the film in Williamsburg, Virginia (you can read about it here), I was simply in awe, not only of his entertaining storytelling style but also candid humor and unbelievably impressive wealth of tales from some of the most iconic movies sets in history.

Peary builds his film as a sort of history lesson on the rise and development of film criticism from the early days prior to the release of The Birth of a Nation, the Sarris / Kael war, to Bowsley Crowther's 27 - year reign as top critic at The New York Times and even touching a little on the New World of the internet where everyone has the potential to be a critic.