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# 144, filed Sept. 19, 2010), gives a poignant reminder to all debtor bankruptcy attorneys representing individuals in Chapter 11 proceedings: you represent the bankruptcy estate, not the individual.

The intimate project by Chicago - based photographer Lisa Lindvay gives a poignant look at her family coping with mental illness.

His work gives poignant testament to our contemporary condition in which our desire for intimacy and human contact is filtered through the solitude of the screen».

Bana's personal account gives a poignant human face to a nearly six - year conflict pitting President Bashar al - Assad against rebels seeking to oust him, in which hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and millions forced from their homes.

Riz Ahmed gives a poignant, career - making performance as Rick, Bloom's assistant, the only one who has anything resembling a moral compass.

Mexican TV and film star Bichir gives a poignant performance, but he's distinctly more European than the cholos and Chicano laborers on the sketchy edges of the hero's plight.

Dwight Anderson gives us a poignant example of this facet of the tragedy of alcoholism.

To some degree it can be remembered and memory gives poignant pleasure.

Here is a franchise revival done right: with wisdom, grace, and passion — all of those qualities especially evident in its final scene, a rehash of Rocky's famous run up the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps, but given a poignant autumnal twist.

In fact, until she becomes a legitimate inspirational source for Donna, giving poignant and helpful speeches in difficult times, she's the most amusing thing in the movie.

Walker made the responsible decision to create a Living Trust for his daughter while giving a poignant final life lesson: You're never too young to start your Estate Planning.

Not exact matches

Many wouldn't think a conversation with a lawyer would be fun, but given how quickly video games are changing thanks to digital distribution and interaction over the Internet, Gagne is covering some particularly poignant areas.

While I'm sure there are fascinating aspects to how war and even pornography affect education, the most poignant — I think — is food technology, given its role in paving the way for countries to become prosperous.

Whether you're a seasoned host looking for renewed inspiration or a nervous newbie not sure where to begin, these personal stories, practical ideas, and poignant insights will give you the confidence you need to see your home as the most likely location for changing the world around you, one open door at a time.

The Synod's task, then, will be to offer pastoral solutions to those suffering from loneliness, or from broken hearts and homes — solutions that illuminate rather than obscure the values to which their hardship gives radiant, poignant witness.

It is a poignant story of people trying to hold on to their faith and community, but finally coming to terms with changes to which royal power gave the appearance of inevitability.

The stories give insight into the values of ancient cultures in ways far more poignant and illuminating than archeological artifacts.

Since we had just eaten together, «give us this day our daily bread,» was particularly poignant, but it was what came next that overwhelmed me.

His message comes at a poignant time, given the current academic fervour over the perceived decline of the US in the face the rise of China, and was both sobering and hopeful in tone.

He's indicated a more poignant speech was given at Notre Dame, when his father outlined his position on abortion as a Catholic Democrat.

«I'm a little bit feeling like I'm 22 years old again, running around, trying excessive numbers of dresses on and things like that,» she said, adding that, while stressful, the experience had been especially poignant, given the circumstances.

Dr Vallejo - Marin said: «The fact that the new polyploid involves a non-native plant is poignant, given the fact that human activities are transporting all sorts of animal and plant species well beyond their native habitats.

As Allen's execution date closes in, the documentary gives an especially poignant portrait of her friendship with the never flagging legal investigator David Presson.

Poignant and powerful, 96 Minutes gives us an insight into not just what happens but why it happens, in the belly of urban America when young men drift into bad company

The overall result is not exactly dull, but given the talent and potential here, should have been more poignant and memorable.

Perhaps not a concept album so much as a journey through the heart of the seventies, Daft Punk's best work so far opens with the terrifically uplifting «Give Life Back to Music», before dissolving into quieter, more poignant pieces such as «Game of Love» and «Within».

They speak about the 230 page synopsis that Darwin has given the scientific community and in a poignant moment, Thomas Huxley points out that Darwin does not understand the full implications of his theories.

They've given us the sweetest taboo: «Menashe» is a fascinating, poignant and rare glimpse into the world of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, starring members of the Hasidic community.

Donald Sutherland as Mr. Bennet delivers a fine performance, and is given the film's best line and most poignant moment seconds before the credits roll.

Once again, the filmmakers were given free reign to create a short film about death in all its many forms and the results are at turns shocking, hilarious, vile, surprising, beautiful, reprehensible, poignant, disturbing, but most of all, mind - melting fun.

The subtle on - screen chemistry between father and son gives this sweet and poignant drama a solid emotional base.

Writer / director Mike White recognizes that innate contradiction and reconciles it in the biting satire «Brad's Status,» giving Stiller a juicy role that's sharply funny and surprisingly poignant.

What to expect: The biopic gives Benedict Cumberbatch (pictured) a poignant, showy role as Turing.

Mental illness, poverty and self - discovery tick every box on the Oscar contender checklist as The Soloist screams «I'm so poignant — give me an Oscar!»

Gorgeously presented, emotionally resonant, and superbly constructed, it is a subtle, poignant, and ultimately moving story of two people who start off by giving up on past loves to explore a newfound life, but instead, end up giving past lives in order to explore newfound love.

The feature films nominated for Best Film this year are «Frank» which gives an insight into the weird and wonderful world of the enigmatic musician; the gritty urban family drama of «Glassland»; the raw, moving and honest «I Used to Live Here»; the feel good true - life story of «Noble»; the poignant and sensitive exploration of mental health in «Patrick's Day», and the beautiful Irish animated fantasy «Song of the Sea»; Three of the Best Films also get nominations for Best Director; Lenny Abrahamson for «Frank»; Gerard Barrett «Glassland» and Terry McMahon for «Patrick's Day», with John Carney also in that category for the musical drama «Begin Again».

The music boosts the magnitude of the moment, giving the viewer a more poignant interpretation.

Walsh wisely gives her actors space to convey Maud and Everett's moments of deep pain and everyday joy, bringing their simple life — which many might dismiss as poor or dismal — to poignant life.

«While it's a consistently entertaining and often poignant film which addresses a wide range of issues under the stealth cover of humour, I, Tonya also gives Robbie the chance — her first, really — to show her full range as an actress.

The story looks messy and boring, with some b - list celebrities thrown in just for fun, and no real attention given to truly making this a poignant yet funny drama about an important topic.

Yet the most interesting thing happened in the interim between the two versions: the world of film has changed and audiences are more apt to expect the unexpected and the original point of Funny Games has become moot, or more accurately has given way to a more poignant underlying theme.

The rather curiously titled Fish Tank gives an account of a seemingly poignant time in young Mia's (Katie Jarvis) life, when she spends her days blindly trying to overcome her limiting circumstances.

This theme that the dead live on through the memories of the living gives «Coco» its poignant power, and that power makes this movie uniquely memorable.

TONI ERDMANN Boy oh boy does this movie build fantastically to some wonderfully funny and poignant moments... The duet between the father and daughter had the audience break into spontaneous applause while the team event gave us all, um, some new approaches towards getting people to REALLY know each other better.

Cast against type as a creative writing professor at a Pittsburgh college, Michael Douglas gives one of his funniest performances in this adaptation of writer Michael Chabon's poignant campus novel.

Poignant, maybe, is the observation that the audience for Knoxville's «Jackass» is the very audience that needs a little sensitivity training — better would be the question of whether the picture succeeds in deflating bigotry or, more likely, giving the jerk - offs of the world a cluster of disabled people to laugh at.

The messages that the drama give are just that poignant.

If, however, like me, you feel that its poignant, plaintive beginnings give way to an overwrought, ostentatious conclusion — well, you have a long 157 minutes ahead of you.

Yet even amidst the playful and poignant, as also manifested in slight but suitable supporting characters (voiced by the recognisable likes of Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, Joel Murray and scene - stealer Charlie Day), Monsters University seems more an excuse to give Mike and Sulley something to do rather than giving audiences a reason to care.

This is Kazan's preferred cut, with the more downbeat ending, which gives full power to Blanche's wrenchingly poignant last line «I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.»