Sentences with phrase «issue film»

This mix of issue film and character profile is, like its predecessor, glossy and digestible in its execution, a well - produced, informative, engaging and encouraging feature.

Part social issue film, part thriller, the doc is full of complexities and gray areas that are embodied by a truly bizarre and elusive character.

The biggest issue this film faces is that the main focus is almost too basic for a feature length film.

That leaves some of the other social justice / hot button issue films perhaps on the outside looking in.

One of the other glaring issues the film suffers from is that it feels very two dimensional with only a few scenes near the beginning that actually implement the use of 3D.

Fox issued the film on disc in December of 2002, but as is not uncommon for family films, it was treated with little regard, receiving a fullscreen and dubbed - only presentation and being accompanied by no bonus features.

Two of those are deceptively angry issue films with modest budgets and ensemble casts, two are action - packed spectaculars featuring big stars, big vistas, and big box - office returns.

A new lab will soon launch in New York City designed to support growing startups working in the augmented and virtual reality fields, making it the first publicly - funded initiative of its kind in the U.S.. It's a joint effort between the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), which issues filming permits and facilitates film and media production throughout the city.

Mr. Berardini's packed documentary makes its case early and often, perhaps too often, but it's more chilling than your average issue film.

Frequently, race - issue films act as if black victims of racism don't matter at all; Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom (1987), about South African leader Stephen Biko, is focused almost entirely on Kevin Kline's fleeing journalist.

What seems to be a queer issue film morphs into a rich thematic brew depicting how family, sexuality and time are all bound up in defining one another.

Here's a laundry list of issues the film includes or makes reference to: rape, suicide, homosexuality, arranged marriages, the caste system, fairness creams, harassment, vigilante justice, and more.

Unfortunately, the efforts of this star powered cast are not enough to overshadow other issues the film presents.

Betty is currently on the Board of Directors of Deep Dish TV and Third World Newsreel, two progressive media arts centers that distributes and exhibits social issue films.

With a continuation hitting theaters nine years later with Cate Blanchett in the title role once again, Universal has decided to issue the film on HD - DVD and they have done a nice job.

These filmmakers really to feel like they care about this incredible story, but the big issue this film has is that it should have waited a little longer to be made, because it does not have enough material to fill it's running time.

In 2014, he founded Participant Media, a production company that finances and produces social - issue films and documentaries.

Sometimes it wants to be a straight biography, whereas on other occasions it comes across more like an issues film that wants to trumpet the virtues of the First Amendment.

It's not an issues film, though it evokes matters of institutional racism and power, corruption, and cultural assimilation.

The very fact that this movie tries, dynamically, to do the same will itself outrage some viewers: Social - issue films are supposed to be square, dull, and single - note.

Asser's screenplay tackles issues like foster care abuse, prison homosexuality and administrative corruption, but always through the lens of Eric and Neville's relationship; Starred Up never feels like an issues film.

This is not an «issue film» — it's a character study.

Let us know the questions / concerns / comments you have about the issues these films raise and the culture we are presenting them in.

Million Dollar Baby can get away with clichés, however, because instead of Jimmy Cagney or John Garfield in boxing trunks, it has Hilary Swank, and it pivots on issues films of the 1940s wouldn't touch.

Coogler easily could have gone down this path and made Fruitvale Station into an issue film writ large, but represses this approach, opting instead for a more personal look at the man at the center of the story.

This is an issue film, an important story well - told, and an actor's paradise.

Before I start talking about «Cartel Land,» the film, I have to disclose that given the fact that I was born in Mexico, grew up there, and left before the outbursts of cartel - related violence started, I have a personal, if divided, perspective on the issue this film discusses.

A film like Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro is certainly a «social issue film» — and Peck is one of the most activist of directors — but it's also a movie that, through Samuel L. Jackson's whispered, first - person narration of James Baldwin's words, and through its collagelike use of footage, creates a dreamlike state, pulling you into its world through the filmmaking itself.

«The Florida Project,» the director says, was an effort to go further in packaging an issue film as an entertainment.

Deal with the issues the film raises together as adults, and then prepare for conversations with the students.