Sentences with phrase «love for film through»

Tonkin charts Greene's love for film through the decades — from his years as a famed film critic (during which he wrote, Tonkin says, «perhaps the most notorious notice in the history of film criticism» about Shirley Temple) to his days as a movie insider and collaborator with such luminaries as Alexander Korda, Alberto Cavacanti, and, of course, Reed, with whom he made his most lasting mark on the medium.

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This is because her life radiates beauty: through her hospitality to friends and strangers alike, through her joyful laugh, through her care of those in need, through her passion for education, through her love of framing things on film through the lens of a camera, through her ability to be patient with her doofus husband, through her genuine love for God, through her sacrificial generosity to those with less than we have, and even through her stubborn refusal to let me get away with any of my trademark snark.

There's an amusing love triangle (certainly more involving than what was witnessed in the recent «Twilight» saga), commentary on waning humanism through tyrannical rule, and an unveiling of the supremely negative influences of politically slanted media, primarily as it defines celebrity — but it's all buried deep beneath basic adventures of wilderness survival that are curiously manipulated back into the script for a twist and return to the first film's plot.

This is beautiful film, and a terrible one: devastating to stick out, and yet one of the most remarkable romances ever made, for it takes The Movies» pursuit of love straight through to the very end, through its most profound expression of adoration.

Whereas the latter film explored heavy emotions like loss evenly and with purpose, Love Liza's interest seems to be dragging you through the mud for an hour and a half with little to offer for it.

The cast and crew's love for their material seethes through every frame, unlike in the only Scorsese film I would call work - for - hire (the bleary The Color of Money).

For instance, first the Little Miss Perfect virgin Corey (Liv Tyler, still wearing her schoolgirl outfit from the Aerosmith video «Crazy») has her plan to offer herself to sleaze idol Rex Manning (a typecast Maxwell Caulfield) blow up in her face, then Corey's best male friend, A.J. (Johnny Whitworth), ruins what they have by telling her he loves her, then the filmmakers decide, out of the blue and halfway through the film at this point, that Corey is addicted to diet pills.

The film, which clearly shows David Cronenberg's love for body horror running through the family, revolves around a man (Caleb Landry - Jones) working for a company who inject paying customers with the same viruses as famous celebrities.

Director Ryan Coogler through Marvel's official social media pages, shared a thank you note for the fans across the globe, for their love and support, that made Marvel's first black standalone superhero film, such a mammoth hit.

Considered one of the greatest films of the 21st century so far, Wong Kar - wai's In the Mood for Love is, as its title suggests, also a remarkable mediation on love and pains one goes through to catch up for missed momeLove is, as its title suggests, also a remarkable mediation on love and pains one goes through to catch up for missed momelove and pains one goes through to catch up for missed moments.

With «Stuck In Love» due for a limited release on July 5th, Wolff and Liberato took the time to sit down and run through the challenges and highlights of making the film.

Schindler's List Year: 1993 Directed by: Steven Spielberg Starring: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley Why it's essential: Spielberg finally broke through the weird «populist we love but can't quite hand a trophy to» bubble that the Academy had imposed on him for almost two decades with this essentially bulletproof Oscar movie: an impeccably filmed, gorgeous - looking, harrowing - as - hell Holocaust movie with a message that was easy to get behind.

In the Mood for Love continues Wong's tradition of capturing moments within a potentially isolating and disconnected environment and bears resemblance to his other 1960s homage Days of Being Wild, which is believed (through Wong's own statements on both films and popular perception) to be the first instalment to In the Mood for Love.

Of the six features on this set, all but Playtime make their respective American Blu - ray debuts and two appear on disc for the first time in the U.S.. From his debut feature Jour de Fête (1949) to the birth of both M. Hulot and the distinctive Tati directorial approach in his brilliant and loving Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) through the sublime Playtime (1967) to his post-script feature Parade (1974), this set presents the development of an artist who took comedy seriously and sculpted his films like works of kinetic art driven by eccentric engines of personality.

Luckily the film was made by an extremely small and intimate group of people — a labor of love for all involved who continue to be dedicated and see the film through.»

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystilove and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystiLOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystilove, loss, memory and the mystical.

If the finale verges on a rehash of themes in The Wrestler (sacrifice everything for the thing that you love), the film nevertheless has a forceful directness that cuts through its murky ambiguities.

Director / Screenwriter (and part - time comic book writer) Joss Whedon's love for comics is apparent right from the start with an opening act that would be the climax in many action films and carries through to one of the more spectacular final battle scenes you're likely to see for years to come.

His wide - ranging movie love shines through in the film's formal precision and romantic yearning, qualities that call to mind Wong's Chungking Express and In the Mood for Llove shines through in the film's formal precision and romantic yearning, qualities that call to mind Wong's Chungking Express and In the Mood for LoveLove.

And it's that kind of spirit that runs all the way through Other People, a film that is bursting with love and care for its characters, even (especially) when they're screwing up, pushing people away, feeling sorry for themselves.

There was his untimely death at 37 (from a cocktail of cocaine and sleeping pills), the way he was found (still clutching a cigarette), the number of filmed works (44), his lovers (countless men and women), his great loves (three men) his abuses (drugs, alcohol, food, people) and, stringing all together, a seer's ability to atone for his bleakest deeds by creating films shot through with emotional integrity.

The enduring and healing power of love, the strength of the human will, living for the moment — these are a few of the themes Cameron covers, but instead of coming off as blatantly preachy (which, in some of his previous films, he comes dangerously close to), he addresses these issues with careful subtlety, expressing them mostly through the characters and their actions rather than explicitly written dialogue (with the exception of a few words of wisdom dispensed by Jack).

As for the film, it's a modest little charmer about a middle - aged housewife re-connecting with her brooding teenage son through their shared love of music.

They also talk about the hoops they have to go through in raising financing for their films, with Noé revealing how he got funding for his upcoming, explicit «Love» with just a few posters.

Heard has been on the verge of breaking out for a while, starting with her starring role in All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, moving through her clothes - free scenes in The Informers, and films like Zombieland, The Ward, Drive Angry and The Rum Diary.

It's a given in these types of films that a straight man in drag will inevitably fall for a woman, except that he can not reveal his love without giving up his identity, and when that happens, she has a hard time forgiving him without him jumping through hurdles to win her back.

Film critics and movie lovers alike wade through scores of yawners hoping for one or two masterpieces that remind us why we fell in love with the experience of watching a film in the company of people we like.

Ghostbusters has been one of my favorite films for quite some time, and it was one of the first movies that I grew to love through video viewings.

The film evokes a love for the golden age of animation, represented through the construction of Roger Rabbit himself, who embodies Disney's high - quality animation, Warner Bros.» character design, and Tex Avery's sense of humor.

For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon III, which runs from Sunday, May 13 through Friday, May 18, 2012, is dedicated to helping the National Film Preservation Foundation raise money to score and stream the recently unearthed reels of The White Shadow, a silent film from director Graham Cutts that young Alfred Hitchcock worked on as screenwriter, production designer, editor, and assistant director, for all to enjFor the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon III, which runs from Sunday, May 13 through Friday, May 18, 2012, is dedicated to helping the National Film Preservation Foundation raise money to score and stream the recently unearthed reels of The White Shadow, a silent film from director Graham Cutts that young Alfred Hitchcock worked on as screenwriter, production designer, editor, and assistant director, for all to enjfor all to enjoy.

Abrams loves the idea that this provides a through - line between completely unrelated works of art, and that idea inspired the process for this series of films.

Folks exposed to Chan for the first time through his American films would be surprised to learn that the man used to be in films that didn't require him to mock his accent, sing in staged karaoke moments, and play Uncle Tom straight man to such bright lights as Lucy Liu, Chris Tucker, and now Love Hewitt.

As for his «redemption'through the love of a good woman: she's a doting doormat who even apologises for his mistakes, and he's so peremptory about getting what he wants that the film comes over as unthinkingly sexist.

Complicating the matter is their mutual love for their daughter who goes through the majority of the film oblivious to the underlying fissures of their family unit.

Even before you factor in his love for ghosts, fauns and kaiju, thick currents of feeling have always run through Guillermo del Toro's finest films.

The measure of a film like this comes through how much we can identify with the main character, and though her nonconformist views on life and love are radically different than what most would opt for themselves, she makes a certain sense in this uncertain world.

The film is not so much concerned with plot as it is mood and character, which Wong deftly fleshes out through the characters» bizarre and quirks: 223 eats cans of pineapple only with the expiration date of May 1 (his birthday and the «expiration date» of his love for May) and jogs so «there will be no water left for tears»; 663 holds conversations with objects in his apartment, trying to «cheer» them up; and Faye does practically everything to the strains of «California Dreamin».»

The poignancy of the film comes from these unspoken desires — for understanding, compassion, or, if one wants to put it bluntly, love — that are communicated through more prurient methods, from Razmik's quick sexual encounters to Sin - Dee's physical manifestation of jealousy over the loss of what she believed to be a genuine romance.

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The NY Cat Film Festival ™, a celebration of our love for cats, illustrated through film, has named Winn Feline Foundation (Winn) the festival's national beneficiary, helping the foundation support lifesaving cat health research.

Presented at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan on December 9 and 10, these two exciting film festivals offer something for every cat and dog lover through a series of artfully curated films featuring dogs, cats, and the humans who love them.

Join us for a celebration through film of the love between dogs, and their people - and the animal welfare...

Eat, Pray, Love has become a classic movie for people looking to find themselves through travel, and there is no better film location to find yourself in than the chilled - out Hindu minority island of Bali, Indonesia.

And while we do love the Andaz, the Park Hyatt Tokyo (famous from the filming of Lost in Translation) is another great choice for using your certificates when you're passing through Japan.

The Rose's exhibition included large - scale canvases like Love and Violence (1965)-- in which a man grabs a woman by the throat, while frames from a horror film unfold below against a blood - red background — as well as photo and video documentation from the 1960s through the 1980s of Drexler's theater pieces, which premiered at such avant - garde New York venues as the Judson Poets» Theater and Theater for the New City.