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The Pixar director's last film centered around an old man grieving for the loss of his beloved wife and then finding a way to move on by flying his house to South America using balloons.

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The show — which was filmed last month at New York's Lexington Avenue Armory and featured performers Selena Gomez and The Weeknd, as well as Kendall Jenner and Gigi Haddid on the runway — is an important part of L Brands» (LB) efforts to keep its Victoria's Secret brand at the center of pop culture.

Last year, women comprised a meager 7 percent of directors for the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & Film.

Yates Center knows who ate supper in the backyard last night, who had a new thermostat installed, who did or did not make his contribution to the Quarterback Club for buying films of the high school games, who takes cream in his coffee.

The actor is set to star in a film directed by veteran stunt coordinator Nick Powell (The Bourne Identity, X-Men: The Last Stand, Cinderella Man), which centers on Frank Walsh (Cage), a big game hunter for zoos who has booked passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white jaguar.

The film, which was previewed last week in a theater in the Capitol Visitor's Center, starts out by blaming the food industry for the obesity epidemic.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, amid a breach with Miner over the budgetary struggles of Upstate cities, showed up at last year's speech - and grabbed the main spotlight - in announcing plans for a film production center in DeWitt.

Last Saturday I spent the morning with the Tresemme team at Lincoln Center doing a little filming and trying out some new hair styles.

Writer Tracy Letts and director William Friedkin provided some much - needed insight during the Q&A at the film's screening last week at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Though he made a pair of low - budget film noirs, Kubrick made his first professional studio movie with The Killing, a tautly - paced heist thriller centered on Johnny Clay, a veteran criminal (Sterling Hayden) planning one last heist before settling down to marriage.

Clooney proves again that he knows how to direct intelligent films that rely on a great dialogue, and this intriguing character study is gripping from the first scene to the last, centered on a brilliant political battle and with an intense performance by the always fantastic Ryan Gosling.

The full influence of Schindler's List goes far beyond the last two decades of Holocaust films, or any film centered around the genocide of a particular people for that matter, each one bringing up its own distinct yet vaguely familiar atrocities.

After getting overshadowed by Forest Whitaker in «The Last King of Scotland,» James McAvoy takes center stage here with a nimble, natural performance that beautifully navigates both the humor and sincerity of the film.

Jolie's last film, In the Land of Blood and Honey, had more evident passion (it centered on a sadomasochistic relationship between a Serbian officer and Bosnian woman); this one often feels like rewarmed Spielberg.

Ejiofor is at the center of an embarrassment of acting talent throughout this film with even smaller roles occupied by the likes of Brad Pitt, Michael K Williams, Paul Giamatti, Paul Dano, and last year's Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild).

His last decade of films «W.» (too soon), «World Trade Center» (way too soon), «Alexander» (a disaster) and the sequel to his 1987 «Wall Street» proved he is completely out of touch with what modern audiences want in a cinematic experience.

«The film draws on Hannah Kent's 2013 novel of the same name, and centers on Agnes Magnusdottir (Lawrence), the last woman to be publicly executed in Iceland in 1830.

Director Paul Thomas Anderson, who helmed two of the most original films of the last five years, has fashioned a nearly flawless hat trick: a unique treatise on love and anguish centered on a truly unlikely star.

It can't be entirely coincidental that last year's breakout horror film, The Babadook, was centered around the frustrating and intimate relationship of a mother and her child and this year's best horror film — it's true, I'm putting it in writing — is very similarly themed.

In the last few years we've seen quite a few films that center around a coming of age story with a female character, directed by a female director.

But thanks to a promising trailer, and appearances in both the TIFF and Telluride line - ups, the film's certainly been the center of plenty of talk in the last few weeks.

It strikes a sweet balance between embarrassment and affection that the film maintains throughout — one that not only allows us to embrace this freakish figure at the center of the film but mirrors the very emotion that has made The Room a lasting cult joy.

Nevertheless, the film (which played at the New York and Toronto film festivals last year) isn't opening commercially in Chicago but is showing only twice at the Film Center, as the opening attraction in the tenth annual Women in the Director's Chair film and video festival.

Over the last few weeks a pair of very different films that both center around folk stories have arrived on Blu - ray in the US.

The film, a retelling of the story of Job centered around the conflict between a mechanic and the corrupt local mayor, is apparently more ambitious than its predecessor, and producers confirmed last month that they're targeting a Cannes premiere, so this looks like a good bet.

The film, which was released in UK cinemas last week after debuting at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, centers on a reluctant woman who must spend time with her estranged father when he comes for a surprise visit.

Veteran theatre star Michael Stuhlbarg suddenly found himself front and center in the film world with last fall's A Serious Man.

Mike Leigh's film Mr. Turner centers on the last twenty - five years of the life of the acclaimed 19th century English landscape painter, J.M.W. Turner.

Picking up where the last film left off, X-Men: The Last Stand centers around both the introduction and widespread manufacture of a gene - altering, so - called cure for mutancy and the reincarnation, in a more powerful and purely instinctual form, of Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), now known as Phoelast film left off, X-Men: The Last Stand centers around both the introduction and widespread manufacture of a gene - altering, so - called cure for mutancy and the reincarnation, in a more powerful and purely instinctual form, of Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), now known as PhoeLast Stand centers around both the introduction and widespread manufacture of a gene - altering, so - called cure for mutancy and the reincarnation, in a more powerful and purely instinctual form, of Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), now known as Phoenix.

A Film Society Lincoln Center Q & A (28:22) from last fall's New York Film Festival sees Dennis Lim interviewing director Laura Poitras about the film,

The three highest - grossing films last year all centered female protagonists.

Without diving into plot details, the new film centers on the Jedi mentor relationship between Luke and Rey, while the last remnants of the Resistance do their damndest to escape a First Order that's perilously close to wrapping its fingers around their throats.

The other issue is that the last two times films explicitly centered around the world of fashion have competed in the costume design category that should've been a cakewalk for them, both ended up losing to regal frocks and fancy frills.

The film, which stars Treat Williams and closed the Sarasota Film Festival last weekend, concerns a burned - out representative from Maine named Charlie Winship, who finds himself at the center of controversy after footage is televised in which he fails to rise for the Pledge of Allegiance on the floor of the House.

Last month he announced he would be donating the entire fee he earned from Woody Allen's upcoming film A Rainy Day in New York to charities Time's Up, the LGBT Community Center in New York, and Rainn [the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network].

The film, Kiarostami's follow - up to last year's Euro - set «Certified Copy,» centers on a young Japanese woman who finances her studies through prostitution, and her relationship with a brilliant, elderly academic, who is also one of her clients.

The struggle between these opposing forces has always been at the center of the «Star Wars» universe, and it provides the backbone for the excellent, epic eighth film in the series, «The Last Jedi.»

After a chronological career recap of Kaufman's peaks and valleys, plus some speculation about his checking in under an assumed name at Cedar Sinai Medical Center (all narrated by Maloney in lame, droopy - dog fashion), the film finally, in its last 15 minutes or so, comes alive, spotlighting an interview with Kaufman's brother, and actually asking him what he thinks of both his brother's life and these conspiracy theories.

Akin to the Titanfall 2 DLC release model, EA announced that post launch, Battlefront 2 will be supporting free themed DLC centered around the films starting with Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi due out December 2017.

Last week I took note that there was some discussion going on about Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros, and decided to center today's article around those two films.

In the last room of Regen Projects is a sculptural theatre entitled Range Week, where the earlier movies Center Jenny (filmed at Fitch and Trecartin's Los Angeles - based studio) and Junior War (a movie Trecartin pieced together from footage he shot while in high school) are shown.

Following this last award she had the possibility to work on her next film during a residency at the eponymous French Cultural Center.

JA And a new film The Great Silence (2014), centers on the world's largest radio telescope, located in Esperanza, Puerto Rico, home to the last remaining wild population of a critically endangered species of parrots.

Screening: Larry Clark's The Smell of Us at the Film Society of Lincoln Center Following his show of gritty, uncomfortable black - and - white photography last summer at Luhring Augustine, Clark is coming out with a new film called The Smell of Us.

In conjunction with Ira Sachs» short film Last Address, an elegiac tribute to New York City artists who died of AIDS, a window installation honoring many of the artists in the film — including Keith Haring, Peter Hujar, Ron Vawter, Jim Lyons, Cookie Mueller, Charles Ludlam, Ethyl Eichelberger, and others — will be on view until Friday, October 8 at NYU's Kimmel Center, at the corner of West.

According to the IndieWIRE Box Office Table, Drawing Restraint 9 was the second - highest grossing indie film (per screen) last weekend, racking up just over $ 18,000 at the IFC Film Center.

These films are the last to be screened in conjunction with the spring Lewis Center film course «World on a Wire: 12 Films, 12 Filmmakers,» taught by Princeton Arts Fellow and faculty member Pacho Velez.

In addition to the group show Isolated Fictions (which opened last Friday and features works by Deb Sokolow,  Carmen Price,  Jason Dunda,  Amanda Browder,  Nadine Nakanishi,  Rebecca Mir and Nick Butcher), a reading by Adam Levin, a performance evening centered around world - based art, a screening curated by Eric Fleischauer and Jesse McLean, and the third installment of the Now Itâ $ ™ s Dark experimental film and music series are all on the agenda.

He was awarded a Wexner Center Residency Award last year and is currently working on a new film and a touring exhibition that debuts at the Wexner in May 2012.

For the last ten years his production company, Sorkin Productions LLC, has created films for non-profit organizations, academic institutions, government and corporate clients including the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Army, U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, Center for U.S. Global Engagement, and International Foundation for Electoral Systems among others.