Sentences with phrase «into challenging films»

Not exact matches

The popular CineYouth Film Challenge is the chance for Chicago kids to shine — whether or not they're participating in the actual film fest — and will get to break into small groups to create, film and edit short movies in the same day.

Sloppy writing gives savvy movie - cum - music fans the impression that this demographically challenged film doesn't know the difference between Nashville and Austin, or in other words, the schism which divides contemporary country music into its inimical sides: mainstream and alternative, just like rock, or any number of musical genres.

For this Jonathon Demme - directed, Denzel Washington, Meryl Street and Liev Schreiber - starring remake of the 1960s film of the same name, is that rare of beasts — a film that not only manages to entertain but which also manages to challenge and provoke its audience into thinking a little deeper about the state of the world and how it is run.

The final film presented a gargantuan challenge to its makers, who were required to juggle gigantic action scenes with emotional heft and jaunts into the metaphysical to explain its labyrinthine plot.

I recommend this film if you are into biopics, love films that are about people that challenged the law, and above all else, want to see a powerful performance from Pacino.

This is centered around series author J.K. Rowling and saga screenwriter Steve Kloves, who really just dive into every aspect of the series from book to film, all of the challenges in between and a reflection on the results.

Edward Zwick and his creative team discuss some of the challenges and also the rewards of adapting this well - documented historical event into a feature film.

Throughout the film, scenes are set up to challenge Lara on her quest and then transform her into the Tomb Raider everybody knows and loves.

Included in this program was Jia Zhang - ke's documentary I Wish I Knew (2010), made for Shanghai's World Fair, a reworking of the challenging themes of his previous films, particularly The World (2004), which explore China's rapid transformation into a global superpower and the effects on both the landscape and those who dwell within it.

The reliability of the narrative is frequently challenged: While Gillooly denies the accusations of domestic assault that the film strings into uneasily comic montage, Harding pauses while firing a rifle at her husband, insisting the anecdote we're watching is «bullshit.»

The film has also jumped into the current of black political thought and action, prompting challenging think pieces about how T'Challa and Killmonger's rift is representative of familiar ideological debates in the black community, and what the film's politics represent about the state of black America.

The film focuses on the characters and plops them into mini-adventures that challenge them and entertain the audience.

While it doesn't look like a challenge on the acting front, there will surely be some emotion in a film that dives head first into the human psyche.

Bustin» Down the Door The latest entry in the time - honored surfing documentary genre, joining the likes of «Step Into Liquid» and «Riding Giants,» this film profiles the group of brash Australians and South Africans who challenged Hawaiians at their own sport in the mid-1970s.

He wants challenge, and he wants it by turning a true - life crime story into a horror film that will elevate the genre.

What were some of the challenges you and director Gavin Hood faced in adapting Orson Scott Card's «Ender's Game» into a film?

But before we get into the chronologically - challenged bent reality of Nicolas Roeg, Sophie and Lee take a moment to look at some of this month's films, including Marvel's new mystical entry into the MCU Doctor Strange, David Yates and JK Rowling's Harry Potter spinoff prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, and the surprisingly political plastic toy adaptation Trolls.

As with any video game adaptation, there are going to be challenges when it comes to turning Shadow of the Colossus into a film.

Both of theses packages include the following extras: - Peter Jackson Invites You to the Set — Experience the film's challenges and demands, and journey alongside the director into Mirkwood, Lake - town and Dale as the movie's most intense, pivotal scenes are created.

To turn melodrama into a film watchable for two hours in the early 21st century would challenge any director — it's a hard sub-genre to sustain unless it's being ridiculed.

It also brings in the actors to talk about the film, and Days of Future Past creators Chris Claremont and Len Wein, and gets into one of the biggest challenges of the movie: scheduling the actors, many of whom are in great demand.

The real - life story that Come Sunday explores is intriguing, but it seems better suited to a documentary film or series that could delve more deeply into the intense theological debates going on, and into the history of Christian thought being challenged.

It was a big challenge to squeeze a three - hour, two - intermission play into a two - hour film, Letts told reporters after «August: Osage County» had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Some of the turns it takes — and some of the challenges the two friends are given by Colin — moves the film into very unsettling waters.

The film would organically grow into an often beautiful and responsive work, challenging and tender, that would stand as a attestation to his trust and choice in cast and creative collaborators.

I sincerely hope the film challenges people to take an introspective look at their lives and see how they fit into the world at large, and see what kinds of positive changes they can make, because in researching for this film we didn't find one person who had met Ernie who hadn't been positively influenced by him.

Maybe lovers of bad movies will turn this into a cult film with the challenge: you have to see this and tell me what you think.

There was talk about recasting the role of Tony Stark in fear of «challenging» negotiations with Downey Jr., but now Marvel confirms that he's locked for the pair of films, the first of which is scheduled to go into production in March of 2014 and hit theaters on May 1, 2015.

The visionary director's first film, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, exploded into the cinema world last year, delighting critics with its fresh and imaginative (not to mention, challenging) storytelling.

At a recent roundtable interview, Anderson and production designer Adam Stockhausen talked about how the project first came together, what inspired the story, the influence of Viennese writer Stefan Zweig's work on the multi-layered storytelling approach, their collaboration on the vision for the movie, how they created this rich, lush cinematic world and brought the audience into it, how Anderson cultivated a communal atmosphere on set and made available a large selection of books and films to the cast during production, Stockhausen's favorite day of shooting, and the challenge of using different aspect ratios.

In «Life: In Zero G,» the cast and crew dive into the challenges of filming an entire film mimicking zero gravity.

: In Zero G,» the cast and crew dive into the challenges of filming an entire film mimicking zero gravity.

That's because his performance helps elevate a film that is part transport disaster flick, part courtroom procedural - as the crash is investigated by sceptical authorities challenging the decision not to head to a nearby airport - into something better than the sum of its parts.

Let the Games Begin: A Look at The Ringer (7 minutes) isnt your typical featurette, as it focuses solely on the challenge of making the film and the work which went into making it a positive experience.

Isaacs carries the film by succeeding at the formidable challenge of turning a dude who is kind of an asshole into a genuinely likeable character.

For those who appreciate an obscure and unlikely collecting challenge, know that this is the seventh film admitted into Focus Features» Four - Star Collection, following Brokeback Mountain, Atonement, Milk, Sin Nombre, Away We Go, and A Serious Man.

In Teller, he finds a pupil just obsessive enough to take the challenge and fight back, leading to an unrelenting game of psychological warfare between the two characters that takes the film into dark and unexpected places.

4:30 am (21st)-- TCM — Alex in Wonderland A very self - reflexive New Hollywood film about a director who wants to make a challenging film but is being pushed by the studio into making a commercial one.

Though Nicholas Hoult is certainly up the challenge of tackling a character as despicably ambitious as Stelfox, the script fails to make him interesting, which becomes a bigger and bigger problem as the film spirals into very dark territory.

A rigorously shaped essayistic journey into the iconography and culture of war, Battles bravely carves an observational argument from various countries propagandistic efforts to form a worthy challenge to André Bazin's famed thesis that there's perhaps no such thing as an anti-war film.

Still riding high and somehow undeterred by the challenges of Apocalypse Now, Coppola poured himself into his next film, 1982's One from the Heart.

The style of the movie however, is challenging to put into words since all the film's action is timed with the beat of the music the protagonist (Elgort) is listening to, even the windshield wipes of the car he drives.

Some of it's funny and about 95 % of it didn't make it into the film, but it's still a bit of an endurance challenge to spend so much time on three people talking in a long shot.

We first meet the adult Goodman snatching away comfort from a grieving mother at a live clairvoyant show — and with that the film begins its line of enquiry into confronting harsh truths and challenging beliefs.

The film, which is touring in a new digital restoration for its 50th anniversary, is a classic of European art cinema, a minimalist manifesto, and the easiest entry point into the challenging anti-Masterpiece Theatre of Straub and Huillet, a husband - wife duo who co-directed more than 30 films (all of which can be loosely categorized as «adaptations») before Huillet's death in 2006.

The obvious challenge that comes with creating a full - length theatrical feature from a weekly cartoon is molding the familiar style of the 15 - minute episodes into an 80 - minute film with one substantial storyline.

The Endless This highly effective, psychological horror film concerns two ex-cult members who return to their apocalyptic commune, only to get trapped into supernatural time loops that challenge their memories of the past.

And while this subject matter can be challenging, it's alluring at the same time and draws the viewer into the film.

I caught up with writer - director Lauren Wolkstein for a quick chat recently to talk about the challenges of adapting a short story into a feature - length film and how she managed to maintain the mystery and thrill of the original short.

Written by «The Queen» scribe Peter Morgan, «Hereafter» incorporates real - world events into its fictional story, including Eastwood's biggest filming challenge: The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.