Sentences with phrase «into film history»

As Dellsperger slips his players into film history he somehow reasserts the reader as writer, wresting control from the dominating media and allowing for more erratic forms of beauty.

These idols, who had diminished agency even in their most famous starring roles, are given a degree of authorial control through Bismuth's conceptual interventions into film history.

The movie also digs (as much as an 80 - minute film can dig) primarily into The Wrong Man, Vertigo, and Psycho, using each film to illustrate not only Hitchcock's technique, but also where those films fall into film history.

Thankfully, every now and then, they find a way into film history, and, if history is to continue repeating itself, Bennett Miller is sure to be the filmmaker who will bring them to us.

Cicely Tyson's legend is being cemented into film history.

Not exact matches

Yet, just as the original Star Wars films gave us a tantalising glimpse into the history of the main characters, so Chesterton leaves us in no doubt that his own childhood was of immense importance to the development of his ideas.

Natural Products Expo East attendees can catch a screening of a new film that digs into the history of and controversy over the alternative system of medicine.

His work is widely anthologized and includes the childhood memoir Unstrung Heroes — which was turned into an eponymous 1995 film, directed by Diane Keaton — the urban history Ghosty Men: The Strange But True Story of the Collyer Brothers and the «crypto - memoir» Fairway To Hell.

Not only did Hayes end the game with either 3 or 3.5 sacks (pretty sure one of his half sacks may be turned into a full sack after film review), but he accomplished this while taking down Russell Wilson, one of the league's most elusive quarterbacks, maybe in in NFL history.

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.

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.

In the first, the former Scientologists describe how they got into Scientology; the second act recounts the history of Scientology and the author of Dianetics, and in the final act, the film airs allegations of the abuse of church members and misconduct by its leadership, particularly David Miscavige, who is accused of intimidating, beating, imprisoning, and exploiting subordinates.

But the film embraces cultural specificity in a way that no other Pixar production has before, combining the studio's customary emotional directness with a deep dive into a great nation's art, music, history, and customs.

If it were a two - hour film, Wormwood might be a brilliant, uneasy dive into dark CIA history, and its long - term ramifications for family members whose loved ones were sacrificed for the nebulous cause of «national security.»

Kushner also smoothly weaves the wording of the 13th Amendment into the film without making it sound like an obligatory history lesson.

It may try to force too much information into too little time if you don't know about the history and technology of film, but this documentary romanticizes the art with such passion and finesse that it stands as a reaffirmation of the power of movies and the importance of understanding their history and possible future.

But the film takes a nosedive into overbaked melodramatics when it dusts off the history books and veers in all directions to tell its crooked tale (blurring fact and fiction) of the iron - clad will of the strong monarch (voicing that the good fight was for God and country) and how she defeated the Spanish Armada and brought a long and fruitful time of peace and prosperity to her country.

The Playlist gives the «largely harmless and tame, but also shallow and uninvolving» film a «C» grade, and Indiewire seconds that, claiming «The story comes across like a quest to turn history into entertainment, and as a result it lacks any lasting value.»

Filmed in part to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the legendary switch - hitter's death, this film tells the remarkable tale of the athlete who overcame constant, nagging injuries to blast 536 home runs out of the ballpark over the course of 18 unforgettable seasons and swing his way into the history books.

Already, the film's almost - straight - to - DVD production history has passed into legend.

Rather than make a standard biopic about the most famous First Lady in American history, this film centres on just a few days in her life to offer some telling insights not only into the...

The more you think about the choices the filmmakers put into a movie and the more deeply you place the results (intended or otherwise) into context, the better you can talk about to a movie in terms of how it worked and the more you can actually write about a film while respecting the filmmaking process and the history of film.

Christian Petzold's Phoenix never luxuriates in all this film history, but rather channels the artifice and affect it embodies into new insights.

Standing beside him for Topsy - Turvy as ever, spinning history into clothing and clothing into character, was Hemming, who won an Oscar for her work on the film — out next week on Criterion Blu - ray and DVD.

The film recounts the real events of April 2010, when the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded into flames, causing the worst oil - spill in US history.

KNUCKLE / Ireland, United Kingdom (Director: Ian Palmer)-- An epic 12 - year journey into the brutal and secretive world of Irish Traveler bare - knuckle fighting, this film follows a history of violent feuding between rival clans.

Quentin Tarantino's second film cemented itself into pop culture history when it came out in 1994, and for good reason.

Telsey + Company's L.A. office — based Tiffany Little Canfield, who cast the new «Mary Poppins,» has a long history of musical series and films (in addition to the SAG award — winning «This Is Us»), so hers might be the room to get into.

For a film based upon a dysfunctional family's struggle across America to enter their daughter into a beauty pageant — Little Miss Sunshine should go down in history as a modern classic; an absolutely wonderful cinematic release.

For a film based upon a dysfunctional family's struggle across America to enter their daughter into a beauty pageant — Little Miss Sunshine should go down in history as a

Penn comes across like he knows he's slumming, which is unfortunate, while the film never digs into the history of Los Angeles.

The film quickly traces the history of the footwear from its utilitarian beginnings up to the 1980s, when sneakers started to come into their own as a uniform of the burgeoning hip - hop scene, as evidenced by Run-D.M.C.

Ridley Scott's latest film, the fact - based period drama «All the Money in the World,» is destined for the Hollywood history books, thanks to its on - the - fly recasting, super-snappy reshoots, and quick rush into theaters mere weeks after one - time star Kevin Spacey was entirely excised from the film.

Spielberg is excellent in his direction as he distills what seems like a complex history lesson into an engaging film as he did in Bridge of Spies (2015) and Lincoln (2012).

Next, «A Movie Miracle» (12:23) finds director Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) admiring the film mostly on a technical basis and putting it into the context of animation history.

Director Takeshi Nozue's long history with FF has made for this transition into film script a seamless move.

Turning a rarely dramatised chapter of British history into a riotously grisly romp, this film starts out strongly as an exploration of people power then soon degenerates into a series of increasingly gory clashes.After signing...

It's a film that may work differently for you, but I kept trying to find my way into it as history or art and never quite could find either.

He offers insight into the history of the film, his filmmaking process, his inspirations, the benefits of shooting on film, and much more.

One may recall that, at the end of the original film, the changes to history made Lou into a rock star who became a technology mogul.

The role (written by Joe Eszterhas, a few years before he turned into a punchline) is one - dimensional, and the film (directed by Costa - Gavras) has largely been forgotten, but Lange manages to dig in and find a few gut - wrenching moments as her character struggles to come to terms with a grim family history.

As much as everyone in Hollywood likes to deflect responsibility for putting words into action, the Oscars and the film industry share a symbiotic relationship; one can not make significant progress against history unless the other moves forward, too.

But it really takes unique talents to make a film like this, which doesn't rely upon hullabaloo or history to bore its way into your heart and tickle your soul.

Joss Whedon's hotly - anticipated project will be the first time in history that Barbara Gordon has stepped into live - action films and it is sure to be a landmark superhero film.

But returning collaborator Rachel Weisz promises that, despite hewing to English history fairly closely, the film is another bleakly funny trip into a «Yorgosian dystopia,» a phrase so immediately evocative it proves the director is ready for the adjective treatment.

Bryan Fogel's film sees the director set out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, only for a chance meeting with a Russian scientist to transform his story from a personal experiment into a geopolitical thriller involving dirty urine, unexplained death, and Olympic Gold — exposing the biggest scandal in sports history.

I'm not sure anyone in movie history runs as well as Widmark runs in this film, pulling Donald O'Connor - esque twists and turns that send his limbs flailing about in silhouette, and then ducking around a corner and pressing himself flat against the wall, as though wishing he could disappear into the bricks themselves.

More a core part of modern - day myth than film history, the Rocky series has morphed into something sweaty and slightly embarrassing: an endless series of wisdom grunts, anthemic trumpet fanfares, politically symbolic opponents and Reagan - era showdowns.

«The film will offer the viewer a unique look into two larger - than - life figures who served as the catalysts for one of the most defining moments in our history, the end of the Cold War,» said Scott Free prexy Ridley Scott («Black Rain»), who serves as one of the producers.

If the film feels Old Hollywood in that the stars are pretty, the heroes are tough, and the sex is good but the brutality is better, then excavate the ways that this period in our history dissolves into period noir: shells of men entrusted with the rebuilding of our society, with dangerous women and effete men (abortion rights and gay marriage vs. the evacuation of civil rights and ground wars in the Middle East) embodying the greater peril.