Sentences with phrase «made powerful films»

The list is also missing several directors that have only made a single best - picture nominee so far, including people like Denis Villeneuve, Alfonso Cuarón, and Jean - Marc Vallée — all of whom have also made powerful films about women.

The director of one of the year's best movies — nominated for 2 Critics Choice Documentary Awards — joins me on this edition of The LCJ Q&A to talk about making the powerful film.

Not exact matches

There isn't a more powerful example of how revenge makes monsters of men in all of Eastwood's films.

Although Romero misses greatness, Julia's restrained yet powerful performance makes the film well worth viewing.

But more powerful are the film's visual embodiments of the idea that «the Spirit acts upon the body» to irradiate it, making it «more beautiful than it is»; for, Mary asks, «what is flesh alone?»

In this disturbing and powerful film, made by a Jewish journalist, director and concerned parent, the realities of the procedure and its possible after effects are revealed.

The film as Spielberg made it is haunting and powerful; perhaps it was necessary to have a one - dimensional villain in a film whose hero has so many hidden dimensions.

Harrelson and Foster have great chemistry on screen together, both give amazing performances, and go a long way in making the movie the powerful film it is.

One of the greatest and funniest horror films ever made, it has a great story and a powerful scenes with great visuals and exquisite acting, I am a big horror fan, this one is good, it is really good, although I was barging for something smaller and simpler, but it turned out to be way too different than expected!

With SLEEPWALKING, first time director William Maher (not Bill Maher - the Politically Incorrect guy) had a chance to make an extremely powerful film about the effect an abusive childhood can have on someone when they try to start their own lives.

This may be Alvarez's greatest accomplishment with the film — getting the kind of emotionally potent performances that make it a powerful and visceral film to watch.

One of the greatest and funniest horror films ever made, it has a great story and a powerful scenes with great visuals and exquisite acting, I am a big horror fan, this one is good, it is really good, although I was barging for something

It's a beautiful film with a powerful message that still manages to make us laugh just as much as move us.

All in all, the film is plenty conventional, even in a portrayal of Ancient Rome that is about as thin as a lot of the characterization, and as contrived as the melodramatics which slow down the impact of momentum almost as much as dull and draggy spells, thus making for a script whose shortcomings are challenged well enough by a powerful score, immersively beautiful visual style, solid direction, and strong lead acting for Henry Koster's «The Robe» to stand as an adequately rewarding and very intriguing study on the impact Christ had even on those who brought about his demise.

But if the modestly budgeted film (loosely based on journalist Michael Nicholson's factual narrative, «Natasha's Story») lopes along a formulaic, often heavy - handed track, its pictures and subtext make a powerful statement.

She and her film make a powerful case for deserving it.

A powerful and thoughtful film, it is also not what it at first seems, which is part of the point Polley appears to be interested in making.

Django Unchained is a long, powerful film, its dramatic brush strokes broad and colourful, its psychological points made with considerable subtlety and wit.

The Hasidic Jews» traditional dress may serve as a barrier on the street, and the film does indulge itself occasionally in playing on the incongruity of the suited and hatted men making their way around modern New York, but seeing the generalities of life reflected in such a particular setting amounts to a genuinely powerful insight into some of the universal themes of love, sacrifice and (gentle) self - improvement that are here handled with a charmingly light touch.

Poor health dogged Ford's career during the 1950s, but he still managed to create The Sun Shines Bright (1953)-- one of his favorite films, dealing with politics and race relations in the 19th century South — Mogambo (1953), and The Searchers (1956), which is considered one of the most powerful Western dramas ever made.

It makes for a powerful drama, one that has rightly been topping many critics» polls and gathering up awards, including a Golden Globe for best foreign film.

Maresco is not interested in making a political film but simply in riffing on the notion that powerful men who come out of nowhere have to be funded by someone with a clear intent to intervene in politics.

Foreign films made a splash — Michael Haneke's Funny Games, Peter Jackson's Dead Alive, and a wave of Japanese films that would have a powerful influence in the next decade of American horror.

Her speech was as powerful as Meryl Streep's was last year and watching her be elevated along with the other women and female - fronted films and shows that won made for a refreshing and progressive evening.

Accepting the World Cinema documentary directing prize, «Winnie» helmer Pascale Lamche pointedly said her film was «for those who know that history is not made by great men» — a sentiment echoed by one of the U.S. doc winners, «Step» director Amanda Lipitz, when she said, «These girls show that nothing is impossible when you surround yourself with a group of powerful women.»

sung by Mick Jones as himself in a cameo that makes a strange sort of sense within the films context of cloning; a minor character with a freckle fetish who regards Anne of Green Gables as an erotic classic; and one of the most achingly powerful evocations of longing that I have ever seen.

The character of the recently wealthy «capitalist bloodsucker» Anton Saitz (Gottfried John), who Elvira had the operation in hope of love from, is unseen for more than half the film's length, making it all the more powerful when he is revealed in tennis shorts and shirt impersonating Jerry Lewis on television.

The powerful film from director Gavin Hood (Tsotsi) and writer Guy Hibbert is a nail - biter as characters argue over the rules of engagement and the legality and morality of war in making a decision about a drone strike in Kenya that targets the Al - Shabaab militant group.

The film builds to its powerful climax on the strength of Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau's extraordinary pairing as Auschwitz survivors who meet in a nursing home and plan the murder of a former guard from Auschwitz with two deadlines: One due to the diminishing number of Nazi officers and perpetrators remaining alive, and other because of the dementia that has made Plummer's Zev Guttman constantly battle the growing fog and uncertainty that are slowly destroying his mental competence as Landau's Max guides him on an improbable journey.

Stars is such a smart film and with such a talented director like Boone behind the camera, it just makes the film so much more powerful than I ever expected.

It reflects the fear and paranoia over a changing culture, which makes it a particularly powerful film this year.

Gayle's disarming turn makes us instantly care about her character's fate, making her a fully realised character beyond the cliché her role might have been, and her climactic scenes in the film are extraordinarily powerful.

Hunger is a powerful motivating force, one made palpable in the first film adaptation of Suzanne Collins» bestselling, alternate - history, young - adult book series about a nation of have - nots under the boot of a fascistic ruler.

What a tedious film.Over acting, wobbly plot, dialogue at times pure drivel and a laughable ending.It really was poor.The film goes straight into a Cul de Sac and can not get out.Way too much nudity from the metro sexual looking Tilda Swinton.Her androgynous body quite turned my stomach.A redeeming feature was the glorious sunshine and powerful light of Italy.The film meanders, wobbles and finally falls down.Older people like Swinton and Fiennes should really keep their pants on at all times.It is acutely embarrassing when the oldies need to do so much nudity (l suspect it is to appease their insecurity that they might not be physically desirable anymore) Horrible attempt at film making

Both scenes are done without audible dialogue which makes them even more powerful, something silent film makers well understood.

A kind of subversive take on the traditional Noah story, Take Shelter made good on the promises of writer / director Jeff Nichols» first feature Shotgun Stories, establishing him as a powerful new voice in the film community.

When the film reaches and stretches its narrative boundaries and epic ambitious, it's about as powerful and awe - inspiring a film as has graced the screen this year, and this makes the flaws much, much easier to endure and overlook.

Because the writer knew that even if this very powerful man never gave her a job in any of his films, even if he blacklisted her from other films, she could make her own work on her own terms and thus keep a roof over her head.»

The realness of Jenkins script combined with two tour - de-force performances from Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn makes Private Life one of the most emotionally powerful films to come out of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

In this interview, we discuss the intentions, advantages and challenges that helped make TYREL such a powerful film.

Nonetheless, what makes the film memorable is the trio of powerful performances turned in by its three principals.

Scorsese knows how what a powerful sense of escapism movies can be, and this feels like one of the most personal films he has made in years.

Camera movement has deep and powerful roots — moral roots, as Godard would maintain — and it's one of the things that makes film an art.

And this brings us to the critical backlash to this film: a feeling in some quarters that for all its powerful and compelling female lead, the movie appears obtuse on race and blackness by making it a subsidiary function of the white characters» moral journey.

The music for The Golden Age is powerful and sentimental, and is as strong and vulnerable as Queen Elizabeth herself, making the collaborative score the perfect accompaniment to the film.

The Wave is a powerful and at times horrifying film that uses the natural advantage of its setting to make comment on the preconceptions and prejudices that must exist in a country still coming to terms with its past.

It's very important for us to stress that all profit we make through our Short Film Showcase section will go to making Cinephilia & Beyond a better, more powerful source of inspiration and motivation for film - lovers.

Don Cheadle succeeds in making Miles Davis relive on film, through a powerful cinematic concerto, drenched with discordant harmony.

A powerful and essential story beautifully told by debut director James Kent, Testament of Youth is old - fashioned but proper film - making with a huge truth at its core.

With their powerful moral undercurrents, minimalist acting and ascetic style, Bresson's films (Mouchette would make an excellent companion piece to The Kid with a Bike) weren't concerned so much with stories and characters as with the ideas they helped to illuminate — namely the continual war between man's baser and higher instincts, between the evils of mistrust and crime, and the virtues of charity, compassion and love.