Sentences with phrase «life subject of the film»

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His NOOMA DVDs short films reflecting on subjects such as suffering and forgiveness were being played in the living rooms of thousands of small groups.

Inspired by the film Return to Zero — the first Hollywood film to tackle the taboo subject of stillbirth — this is a poignant, inspiring anthology that offers much - needed insight into the unique, shattering, and life - changing experience of losing a child.

«Once I received the script and became engaged related to the subject matter that is a worldwide problem related to people of color, I felt compelled and appreciative to be a part of bringing to life a film about the epidemic of skin bleaching in both impoverished and wealthy nations,» said Vicker.

We should be thankful that Darwin's life story has made it to the big screen, yet even before Annie has died, the film shows its scorn for the ability of the audience to appreciate the subject matter.

«You will edit this program as you see fit,» says Jackie, the subject of a documentary film series that has attempted to capture her life since she was 7 years old.

Played in the film by Christian Bale, Eklund was a subject of the 1995 HBO documentary titled High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell, which chronicled the day - to - day lives of three crack addicts in Lowell, MassachussLives in Lowell, which chronicled the day - to - day lives of three crack addicts in Lowell, Massachusslives of three crack addicts in Lowell, Massachussetts.

Paramount has chosen quality over quantity for the Blu - ray release of «The Fighter,» with a strong collection of bonus material headlined by an audio commentary with director David O. Russell where he discusses the filming of the movie and how it compares to its real - life subjects.

Currently the subject of a retrospective at the National Film Theatre and riding high on the strength of The Tree of Life, his fifth film in 37 years and winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Terrence Malick is an American visionary and cinematic poet.

The new film about Salinger's career, Rebel in the Rye, is a work of searing mediocrity about an author who was horrified by the very idea of mediocrity, eventually sealing himself away from public life rather than subject his work to mainstream scrutiny.

Pellington and screenwriter Alex Ross Perry make their point within the film's first few minutes and keep making it — establishing that, yes, certain objects obviously do matter to us as harbingers of the narratives we assemble out of the incidents in our lives — as if they're the first artists to broach the subject.

Denis's film may conceivable be dismissed as a slender diversion in some quarters — notably, that quadrant of society (and, still, the film industry) that regards the inner lives of women of a certain age as a subject of secondary concern.

Gillespie smartly uses the known and builds upon it with context and some style, using «modern day» Tonya, Jeff and LaVona among others as interview subjects for a documentary of sorts that frames the film, but also has the characters speak into the camera in non-interview segments to help give Tonya some humanity, or at least make sure you have a better idea about all of her story and life coming out and you did going in.

But these are esoteric points of interest that will intrigue mostly those who've seen too many films in their life and actively seek out strange and opaque takes on familiar subject matter.

Many of the live action films in Disney's catalog have been subjected to a compromised presentation on DVD; they were filmed for widescreen exhibition, the DVDs reformat them for 4x3 television dimensions.

Look at Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, and this review's subject, Escape from New York: That's quite a run of films that are well remembered by many fans today, even if they didn't all set the box office ablaze.

Yet the horrific circumstances of his chemical castration and the very real realities of his life as a gay man are sidestepped by the faux thriller set - up of the film, a device that conveniently allows a heterosexual writer like Moore (who's Oscar acceptance speech granted us insight into how his version of Turing lacks any on - screen interiority as a gay man) to touch upon the subject as a clichéd trope.

For one thing, the recent track record of these late summer dramas is decidedly mixed - while The Help indeed connected with Oscar, Lee Daniels» The Butler's summer box office went unrecognized by the Academy, and it is the latter film that Get On Up seems to resemble more, what with it being a biopic that attempts to tell the entire life story of its subject, which, as discussed in the previous installment in regards to Unbroken, is a questionable proposition with today's Academy.

Chris Cooper, Oscar winner for Adaptation and star of the new film Married Life, is the most recent interview subject in my MSN interview feature.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

In his first film since There Will Be Blood, director Paul Thomas Anderson explores a challenging subject in the birth of a religion that has exerted influence on American life, especially in the entertainment industry.

Josh doesn't fully buy into Jamie's documentary idea — tracking down an old high school friend who submits a Facebook friend request for a filmed candid real life encounter — but he goes along for the ride and is surprised to see the project take a life of its own, when the subject turns out to be a decorated Army veteran traumatized by his experiences in Afghanistan.

A common film formula found in 1980's slapstick comedies is the riches - to - rags storyline in which a wealthy character is subjected to living like a member of a lower class.

What did work and showed the potential the film had if it could get away from the conventional treatment of its subject, was the extraneous artistic shots of Frida's paintings brought to life in a surreal manner ala MTV filming techniques.

Jigsaw, the torture porn icon infamous for subjecting those he deems bad or not knowing the true worth of a life, makes his comeback with an eponymous film that wishes it could be as thoughtful, slick, or as good at slaying as, say, Beyoncé.

The dissection of a real life legal case from every possible point of view may be the main subject from Barbet Schroeder's «Reversal of Fortune» but the heart of the film unquestionably resides in one of the most amazing acting performances in the history of cinema: Jeremy Iron's portrayal of Claus Von Bulow

(And even that film remains devoted at all times to chronicling the life of its subject, conscientious objector Desmond T. Doss.

The subject of the film is an unknown photographer whose art has been compared to the masters, though she never exhibited her work and little is known about her life.

Far from a conventional biopic, Davies's marvelous film about the life and death of Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) takes great care never to overplay the brilliance of its subject, taking her genius as a given.

The film does a neat job of exploring the life and times of its subject, George W. Bush as man whose lack of drive or ambition beyond the vague «something in baseball» becomes the basis of his life's journey.

The story of «Batkid» Miles Scott, the 5 - year - old leukemia patient who got to live his dream to be a superhero courtesy of the Make - A-Wish Foundation and much of San Francisco, is both the subject of a documentary, Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Round the World, and an upcoming narrative feature film in which Julia Roberts is set to star and produce.

Of course Terence Davies's first film based on the life of a historical figure would take as its subject someone who once began a poem: «I'm NobodOf course Terence Davies's first film based on the life of a historical figure would take as its subject someone who once began a poem: «I'm Nobodof a historical figure would take as its subject someone who once began a poem: «I'm Nobody!

While on the subject of bringing the novel to life, I want to talk about the visuals of the film.

They try to tell the whole life span of their subject making the film feel rushed and a bit generic in its approach.

The difficult little brother of the independent cinema world is coming off a mostly unsuccessful attempt to return to former glories with 2009's «Happiness» semi-sequel «Life in Wartime,» and had promised lighter fare for his latest, «Dark Horse,» claiming that for the first time in his career that he wanted to make a film without pedophilia, or masturbation, or any of the taboo - breaking subjects that he made his name with.

Personally, I've never had much interest in any Youtube curiosities beyond their 15 minutes of fame, but that wasn't the case with director Ben Steinbauer who was compelled to track down Jack Rebney not only to learn the back story of the filming of the automobile ad, but to make a bio-pic chronicling his subject's life both before and since.

Elegantly directed by James Ivory (of Merchant Ivory fame), Maurice is filmed in cool, somber palette befitting its subject of lives kept hidden in shadows.

Like the recent Capote, the film chooses to focus on one specific event in its subject's career, rather than stumbling through a condensed Cliff's Notes version of his entire life.

Taking on the considerable task of directing, writing and starring in his film, Everett lavishes great care on a subject he clearly holds in high esteem, and to his credit, does not shy away from painting a less - than - glamorous portrait of an aging Wilde, syphilitic and lecherous as he lives out his exile in Europe following his scandalous imprisonment for gross indecency.

Apropos of its subject matter — Viggo Mortensen plays a father of six living in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest — the film has just released a striking new poster for Father's Day designed by Shepard Fairey in collaboration with Studio Number One.

The Guardian's own offering (6x9: An Immersive Experience of Solitary Confinement) and the New York Times's films showed how journalism is continuing to harness the technology to bring subjects — such as solitary confinement — to life.

In many of his films, as in many of Wong's, the subject is time — the romance and poetry of moments ticking by, the wonder and anguish of living through and then remembering an hour or a day.

Real - life World War II hero Audie Murphy played himself in the film classic To Hell and Back in 1955 (Murphy also played several other roles in films throughout his career); and in relation to lighter subject matter, shock jock Howard Stern, as well as his sidekick, Robin Quivers, played themselves in the big - screen adaptation of Stern's book Private Parts in 1997.

The film's kid - friendly presentation, in which the bears are personified, is highly reminiscent of the True - Life Adventures films that won Walt Disney a number of Two - Reel Short Subject and Documentary Feature Academy Awards in the 1950s.

But the cats are the stars of the show, and they were cited and honored at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards as among the most compelling living subjects in this year's crop of documentary films.

The latest reflection on Steve Jobs» life seems overly eager to compensate for all the hero worship of past films on its subject.

This much, at least, we know: Who Framed Roger Rabbit belongs to that category of slick and ironic and star - studded Hollywood film that takes as its subject Hollywood and moviemaking and life in Los Angeles, like A Star Is Born or Sunset Boulevard or Singin» in the Rain, like Barton Fink or Boogie Nights or The Player.

While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and sugarcane were harvested and processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»

Will Smith made his first major appearance of 2016 over the weekend in California alongside the real - life subject of the actor's latest film, Concussion, Dr Bennet Omalu.

The new film about rapper Tupac Shakur isn't quite worthy of its subject's remarkable life.

These are pretty heavy subjects for any child to face, but the film is better off for not talking down to kids and teaching them that death and loss are part of life.