Looking back I actually started thinking about some sort of career in film when I accepted my first «Film Extra» job in Chicago working on the film, The Express, (2007) a true
historical film centered on Ernie Davis the first African - American to win the Heisman Trophy in 1961.
Not exact matches
«Enemy at the Gates» is a decently engrossing, suspenseful war
film centered around a
historical duel that took place between a Russian and German sniper.
It may have been the
film's humble nature that kept it out of the Oscar spotlight; the
film centers on two people uncomfortably trying to shrug off their own
historical significance instead of owning it in the way that the women of Hidden Figures did.
Not to mention the fact that the entire premise of the
films center around a flagrant disregard for the actual
historical mythical tradition surrounding the leprechaun.
At the
film's
center, though, Portman's character impresses as both a clever theoretical construction (the wife of a president who devoted her time in the White House to resuscitating the memories of presidents past, finding herself suddenly assuming the role of assuring her own husband's
historical memory) and a figure of immense emotional weight.
The Imitation Game: A wonderful mix of exciting
historical mystery and heartfelt examination of the complicated man at the mystery's
center, The Imitation Game is a
film about secrets boasting an Oscar - worthy performance from Benedict Cumberbatch.