Sentences with phrase «love story of the film»

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I haven't read much of his horror but loved the short stories that became Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me on film.

At the same time, the film harks back to Disney's first - ever fairy - tale feature, 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with its story of a princess in disguise living hidden in a forest; a villainess with access to supernatural powers; a supporting cast of lovable eccentrics; frolicking animal friends; and a handsome prince who awakens the heroine from a deathlike sleep with love's first kiss.

That curve ball was just one of the memories I recalled as my wife, our 12 - year - old son and I watched «Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story,» a film directed by Peter Miller, written by New York Times sportswriter Ira Berkow and narrated by actor Dustin Hoffman.

Steven Spielberg's film follows the story of a highly advanced robotic boy who longs to become a «real» person in order to regain the love of his human mother.

Nicolas Gonda, To the Wonder's producer, says that «In many ways this story contemplates and explores the aspects of love that I really haven't seen explored on film before.

The marketing for the film is sickening: posited as «an incredible fairytale love story,» encouraged as a date - night movie, and set to release just in time for Valentine's Day, Fifty Shades barrels ahead without an ounce of self - awareness — or, perhaps, of conscience.

We love Disney movies and animated films in general because of how dynamic the art form is and how it can uniquely tell different kinds of stories that live - action ones can't.

For their prizes, each was given a branded VFL Ghana bag containing; an android kiddy tablet, 10 exercise books, an Ewe — English Dictionary, Epistles to my Bubune (collections of letters), The Bloody Ingrate (story book), Nsempiisms (A collection of poetry, storytelling and satire), Love brewed in the African Pot (Africa's sensational film hit — Now a comic strip), This is Ghana (Tourism book), a food flask, a cutlery set, a portable radio set and a watch.

However, Mr Barnbrook, a former teacher, denied the suggestion that HMS Discovery: A Love Story had a specifically gay focus, saying: «It's an art film, end of sStory had a specifically gay focus, saying: «It's an art film, end of storystory.

Frayling conveys a deep love and knowledge of film, but he readily admits that his medium has produced totally ridiculous science stories.

Back to the film... What I love about Forks Over Knives is, in addition to hearing from incredible doctors like Colin Campbell (author of The China Study) and Caldwell Esselstyn, is that the film tells inspiring stories of real people, from all walks of life, who've embraced a plant - based diet and have thus reversed chronic health conditions like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.

Every aspect of the film had me engrossed in the characters» stories and I honestly fell in love with the romance story.

The film is based on one of Thomas Hardy's warmest novels, focusing on the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene and her blossoming love stories with three suitors — but what is often overlooked are her idyllic surroundings.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

While a considerable number of women favor tear - jerkers or love stories, men find their enjoyment from action films or adult entertainment like Adult Avenue DVD's.

Submarine is not just for the artsy Wes Anderson crowd, who love quirky characters and whimsical cinematography, the film appeals to everyone with it's genuine take on a coming of age story.

The soundtrack and songs were really tonally perfect, though I didn't see the film as a love story so much as an off - balance depiction of an already degraded and misunderstood group of people.

So it turns out that it doesn't matter that all the promo material on the film — TV ads, trailers, everything — reveals the story's twist — Lincoln and Jordan and all their fellow citizens aren't survivors of a global disaster but rich people's insurance policies — because all that happens after the secret is revealed is that Bay can finally get down to doing what he loves to do: Stomp and crash and burn and destroy as Lincoln and Jordan escape into the real world — just 20 minutes into our future — and must be recaptured.

As much as I loved Inglourious Basterds, that film was a series of digressions from the main plot, but this film is actually centered on the story he lays out at the beginning.

In my History of Documentary film course, the classes were always split: there were those who loved it and those who hated it because it didn't tell a story.

The film explores the couple's story as they try to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.

This is a tear jerker film of the upteenth degree but as others have said, this is a story about sisters and true love.

I still love this film to this day and I recommend it to anyone with kids or to someone who wants to watch a great story that doesn't care if it is in the form of a 60's Disney cartoon.

From his early life to his journeys from New York, Cuba, and Paris, Crane's story and that of the loves that defined him is told with imaginative empathy, and with a no holds barred performance - in a film as introspective, rebellious, heartbreaking, and honest as Crane himself.

It does have a few holes story wise, but the performances from Granger and Walker alone make this worthy of a view, and it is not hard to fall in love with how Hitchcock shoots his films, as well as the music he selects to raise the hair on the back of your neck at the precise, appropriate time.

While The Big Sick isn't always a complete success — it's another film bearing the name of Judd Apatow (he produced with Barry Mendel) that could stand to lose 15 or 20 minutes — it's the kind of sweetly funny love story that's so bizarre that it has to be real.

The question of whose disobedience, and what kind of disobedience it is, are at the heart of this absorbing and moving love story from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, his English language debut, following very quickly on the heels of his film A Fantastic Woman which has been a festival - circuit hit this year.

A love story between Tina, a customs agent with an extraordinary sense of smell, and Vore, who introduces her to her true self, the film is «mesmerising in its initial oddness and develops into a complex, richly satisfying piece of storytelling in which all the seemingly jagged, awkward edges eventually fit smoothly together,» according to Allan Hunter of Screen Daily.

This film of delicate emotional nuance recounts an enchanting but sad love story set in England in the early 1960s, just before the sexual revolution re-dealt the cards.

Director Karel Reisz and screenwriter Robert Getchell create a tightly woven drama with two strong main characters and a number of fine supporting roles, and the love story at the film's center is convincing.

«Slumdog Millionaire» is a somewhat predictable but lovely film, combining a honest look at poverty in India with one of the best love stories of recent years.

And she sees her film as a love story, too, of a sort too rarely seen onscreen: a man and woman who trust each other as colleagues.

The love story - supposedly the backbone of the film - is rather tepid.

Hampton's mixing of thriller and love story, cinematic coincidence and historical fact makes this film flawed but fascinating.

As a bonus, what seems like a film for sports fans turns into a touching love story, which does not suffer from a bad case of the cutes.

With this second film, the story is pulling in more of the Katniss» motivation (less romance, more protecting those she loves at any cost) and the societal politics that was such an important undercurrent of the book series.

Her feature - length debut, 2013's «It Felt Like Love,» focused on the bumpy trajectory of an introverted teenage woman exploring her urges with dangerous results; with the markedly similar «Beach Rats,» Hittman brings the same tropes to the plight of a young man in a film that has the precision of a great short story and the uneasiness of body horror.

Most of the film is about a love story between down and out Andrew and epileptic Sam, who is making her way through life while keeping her disability a secret and trying to connect to someone besides her loving and yet embarrassing mother.

Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston had chemistry from the beginning, and it could (and should) be argued that the true «love story» of the Thor films is not between Thor and somnambulistic Jane Foster.

Nicolas Roeg conducts the film in two different, alternate story lines: one, the «love» story of the two characters; the other, the «present», in which Milena is taken into an emergency room with a medication overdose, as Alex waits outside smoking cigarette after cigarette and reluctantly answering a police inspector's questions.

By pulling in Brian De Palma to direct, having the legendary Robert Towne, join red - hot David Koepp and the ever - amazing Steven Zaillian to write the story, the film helped launch a revival of the genre like nothing since the Roger Moore trilogy of The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker and For Your Eyes Only.

The non-Rhode Island portion of the film that introduces a sociopathic albino, a profoundly implausible love story and subplot involving a country club (that's not «sub» enough) is wrought with pleas for laughter.

While TRANSCENDENCE tried to incorporate a love story in order to give it some humanity, Besson skips over any romance in favor of keeping the film tight and lean (it runs a mere ninety minutes with credits), but strangely winds up being a far more compelling film.

«Great Italian Director's Collection» (Lorber Films) features Michelangelo Antonioni's debut feature «Story of a Love Affair» (1950), the anthology film «Boccaccio» 70» (1962) with contributions by Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Vittoria De Sica and Mario Monicelli, and Monicelli's «Casanova» 70» (1966).

Pictures film «Red Riding Hood» by director Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, The Nativity Story) and starring Lukas Haas (Inception, Crazy Eyes), Amanda Seyfried (Big Love, Dear John), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Michael Shanks (Smallville).

Oscar has always loved films based on true stories — 100 out of 485 Best Picture nominees since 1927 would qualify — but never more than this year.

- The fallout from the Sony email hack continues, with Sony Pictures» new film chief Tom Rothman being put to the test with the interstellar love story Passengers, set to star Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt under the direction of «The Imitation Game's» Morten Tyldum.

This Disney animated film delivers on both, bringing together all sorts of video game characters that we know and love, as well as just being a great film with superb voice work, an interesting story, great characters, gorgeous animation, clever humor, and a great big heart.

The song's style doesn't try to match the 1940s setting of the film, but does capture the power of the story, and the hope that comes when people learn how to love one another.

Here's two new TV trailers for the upcoming film «Red Riding Hood» by director Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown, Twilight, The Nativity Story) and starring Lukas Haas (Inception, Crazy Eyes), Amanda Seyfried (Big Love, Dear John), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut) and Michael Shanks (Smallville).