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On the second day, I watched more independent and low key films which is what I expected to see at SXSW in the first place.

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The film, which is less than two minutes long, tracks a young girl's transition from child to adult via key moments in her life.

Close to 140 million people have made «decisions for Christ» after seeing the film, which ends with a low - key «altar call» segment.

As if this was almost part of a film plot, in March 2014 a burglary occurred at the office of Monsignor Vallejo of COSEA in which the thieves seemed to have the necessary keys to the building and were able to target the particular locker which held confidential documents.

«Productivity and production cost reduction are key elements to remain competitive in the commodity metallised film market which is extremely price sensitive,» says Juan Cano, sales director, Vacuum Metallizing and Coating, at Bobst Manchester.

The film's palette and set design is unmistakably sixties without lapsing into sentimentality and the use of the actual locations to film key sections of the narrative grants it a sense of historical resonance which no set could have provided.

The thin - film transistor (TFT) has been designed to replicate the junction between two neurons, known as a biological synapse, and could become a key component in the development of artificial neural networks, which could be utilised in a range of fields from robotics to computer processing.

The key to the film's performance is the highly - ordered spacing of the pores, which gives it a more mechanically robust structure without impairing the refractive index.

«The key to the film's performance is the highly - ordered spacing of the pores, which gives it a more mechanically robust structure without impairing the refractive index,» says Xu Zhang, lead author of the paper and a Ph.D. student at NC State.

The film is so contrived that a key element of Atom is that he has a «shadow» function — he can mimic another's actions in real time — which we're told is «rare» and yet turns out to be crucial to the film's climax.

Aside from the essential short prologue Hotel Chevalier, the star of the disc is Matt Zoller Seitz's 11 - minute video essay entitled «Chaos and Control,» in which the film critic discusses key ideas, motifs, and patterns in The Darjeeling Limited over edited footage of the film.

Below, sample the critical response to over a dozen key films (and a few TV series) which debuted at this year's festival.

Also impressive is director Wenders» use of his and Lisa Rinzler's shoots in Assisi, black - and - white, deliberately faded and silent film, showing an actor playing St. Francis who at the key point in his life heard God tell him to restore a dilapidated church — which I believe he did thinking that God's will is more important than his father's rage at the saint's alleged throwing away his money.

While the film touches upon its various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.

Not insignificant is the film's seamless fabric of success between Cannes and the 2012 Academy Awards, the latter of which included Haneke's drama among its vaunted finalists in several key categories.

Should you want to vacation in Sulmona in Abruzzo, Italy, which was a key filming locale, you'll find the scenic diversions intact.

More recently, Downey has appeared as an actor in key supporting roles in such films as Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997) and Magnolia (1999), and Brett Ratner's Tower Heist (2011), which he describes as just doing a favour for some friends: «I do it and I'm gone.»

And how you, in these films, work with genre — which, as you know, I think is a recurring key question with your work.

Ignoring the absurd idea that somehow the Korean resistance to the Japanese was a key to the winning of the war (which the film explicitly states at one point), the creation of noble resistance heroes (even when sometimes compromised) versus the evil Japanese villain is pure escapist nonsense that passes itself off as realism instead of the Tarantino-esque fantasy it actually is.

The film defaults to a low - key soundscape in which composer Jon Ekstrand's airy score and the low hums and drones of the space - station environment provide a sound bed for the crew's conversations.

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

Dorothea's 1940s jazz rubs shoulders with Talking Heads and Black Flag; still photography mood boards give way to psyched - out, colour - saturated «film burn» effects, which nod to the California hippie hotbed that spawned the film's other key character, William (Billy Crudup).

The Falcon scene, in which Ant - Man battles the Avenger, is a key scene not only in the film, but in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Vincent's calm, almost strenuously low - key film never gathers enough emotional momentum to become a fully dimensional romance — which might be its poignant intention.

The key problem is the decidedly dull script, which throws up a handful of decent ideas, but fails to do anything interesting with them — one of the characters is obviously meant to represent the misogynistic attitudes behind the Gamergate controversy, but the film is content just to push that to its extreme and turn him into a full - on murderous scumbag, rather than explore it in any depth.

Cecile Emeke's film features recollections from Ringgold and footage of Harlem, which is key to the artist's work.

Glass composes a key piece of music which is utilized during the film's finest scene, acting as a perverse type of intimate moment between Charlie and his niece.

Probably the biggest is an over-reliance on the original Star Wars trilogy which is evident in the way the key plot points and character arcs in The Force Awakens unfold in situations strikingly similar ways to those in earlier films.

She was a key driver behind the film's engagement strategy, which was recognized with the PUMA Impact Award.

The key to Cameraperson's triumph is that nothing in the film was created with the knowledge of being used for this purpose, which leaves the footage itself — shot for movies directed by the likes of Laura Poitras, Kirby Dick, Amir Bar - Lev, Gini Reticker, Moore, and many others — uncompromised by manipulation or intentionality.

One of the key scenes in «Nebraska» comes fairly late in the film, when Woody and his wife and two sons (Forte and «Breaking Bad's» Bob Odenkirk) wander through the abandoned house in which he grew up.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri leads the way in nominations for the Screen Actors Guild awards, historically one of the key indicators of which films will triumph at the Oscars.

In describing what attracted him to Brad Pitt's new film, World War Z, a global action drama in which UN investigator Gerry Lane (Pitt) leads a desperate attempt to stop humanity coming to an un-dead end, director Marc Forster is clear that the universality of the threat was key.

This is a key element he explored in the film, with African characters from the fictional country of Wakanda, which has never been colonized or even had any trade relationships with western countries, and African - American characters, who reflect the stress of living in a country still confronting racial divides.

There are a couple of familiar key tracks here (Hank Levy «s, which gives the film its title, and Duke Ellington «s «Caravan,» among them), but an overwhelming amount of the music in the film is original and from composer Justin Hurwitz, who played in a band with Chazelle at Harvard.

The film, which is set in a dystopian present, follows angelic gargoyles and satanic demons who are caught in a war for the ultimate power — the secret to immortality — and only Frankenstein's creation holds the key.

The involvement of so many real musical luminaries (in particular Aerosmith's Steven Tyler in a key rôle as himself, and Outkast's André Benjamin eating up his scenes as trigger - happy gangsta Dabu) may bring a certain postmodern edge to the proceedings, but it also goes some way to explaining the film's gently - gently approach to the record industry — an industry which would be unlikely to release its stars to a project that was aiming to score any real hits against it.

He has been a talented and effective trainer of horses, and some of the film's most moving scenes show him at this work, which he deeply loves, and which may be the key to his future.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

He has been a talented and effective trainer of horses, and some of the film's most moving scene show him at this work, which he deeply loves, and which may be the key to his future.

Key & Peele's Jordan Peele transitions from comedy to horror with the new film Get Out, which he wrote and directed.

Comics / actors Jordan Peele and Keegan - Michael Key star in the film, which was also written by and directed by «Key & Peele» veterans making the leap into features.

Well, it seems now he is getting his greatly deserved time to shine as not only the director of The Last Jedi, which stands among the best of the Star Wars films, but he has also been given the keys to create an entirely new trilogy from scratch.

Jacob Tremblay, Keegan - Michael Key, Sterling K. Brown, Olivia Munn, Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Thomas Jane, Augusto Aguilera, Edward James Olmos, Jake Busey, Alfie Allen and Yvonne Strahovski star in the film which opens September 14th.

In interrogating popular critical approaches, Davies identifies several key themes, which were all to some degree common currency by the time of the film's release, and which would crystallise around it.

This remarkable film, which shockingly stumbled on to the Russian Olympic athlete doping scandal, led to the banning of the Russian team from the Winter Olympics and resulted in the film's key subject and whistleblower, Grigory Rodchenkov, being put into a U.S. witness relocation program.

They settled for a period gangster film loosely based on Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key (also the inspiration for Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars) with elements from the author's Red Harvest (which gave Blood Simple its title) thrown in as well.

Egoyan's films often follow non-linear plot - structures, in which events are placed out of sequence in order to elicit specific emotional reactions from the audience by withholding key information.

Yet as a film, «Sarah's Key» is not a masterpiece like «Schindler's List» or the superior «Incendies», which also struggles with survivor's guilt.

Disc 1 contains an excellent transfer of the film, capturing the director and cinematographer's chiaroscuro lighting scheme, which combines various shades of darkness with stylish sets and compositions reminiscent of key comic book artists.