Sentences with phrase «major events in the film»

Close Criterion collaborator and friend James Quandt, longtime senior programmer at the Cinematheque Ontario and whose theatrical traveling retrospectives are always major events in the film world, is in the spotlight this week in a new, far - reaching...

However, this also makes a couple of major events in the film move a bit too quickly while also oversimplifying certain aspects of the plot in terms of the sheer magnitude of its implications.

Not exact matches

While I can enjoy «life story» films, they tend to end up as little more than «greatest hits reels»; they zip through major events in a brisk, superficial way that usually lacks depth.

Presented in rough - looking standard definition, it asks whether the Captain is a ghost or real (a question that is never in doubt in the movie), while celebrating this as a major event film anticipated from the moment the novel was published.

20th Century Fox hosted a major event on the set of the new Independence Day movie filming in Albuquerque, New Mexico at this very moment.

Set between the two World Wars and inspired by actual events, «Bitter Harvest» is the first major dramatic film to convey the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by Joseph Stalin that killed millions in Ukraine.

As always the recent drop of a major Marvel movie in theaters sent Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fans into a tailspin, wondering how the show would incorporate the major events of the film.

With Montrealer Jay Baruchel heading up opening film THE SORCERER»S APPRENTICE, and SCOTT PILGRIM coming in at the festival's tail end, the Canadians are representing in a major way at this year's event!

The film doesn't flow as well as its major theme would suggest, but it does hint at a truly devastating conclusion: how needless those events were given Earth's insignificance in the ever - expanding cosmos.

At a time when the British press is haranguing about an injunction into a celebrity threesome, we can take heart in the fact that Laura Poitras» latest film shows the vital role that journalism still plays in shaping the narrative around major world events.

The Last Airbender is hopelessly overambitious, attempting to squeeze in all the major events from the 20 or so half hour - long episodes that make up the first season of the show into a 99 minute long feature film.

The print media, Life magazine, the New York Times and others, hound Zapruder for use of the disturbing images he captured, and he struggles with his responsibility for such powerful pictures.The Kennedy assassination was a major media event, and Walter Cronkite's and other broadcasters» recurrent commentary, along with TV news footage, play a prominent role in the film, tying the various elements together.

I raise this issue because movies, especially Hollywood major motion picture films, have the power to affect, on a mass scale, the audience perception on reality — especially a movie that bases its entire plot on a real historical event such as we can see in Argo.

The film is set in 1938, near the beginning of the Shōwa era in Japan, a tempestuous period that ended in 1989 with Hirohito's death and included such major traumatic events as the Sino - Japanese War, WWII, and the Allied occupation of Japan.

Unlike those other two James films, which focus as much or more on James's killer, this film is more of a straight biopic, as, after a opening sequence establishing a robbery gone wrong and James's mother lying sick in bed, various characters relate the major events of James's life in 15 minute episodes.

The events in Wakanda look to be a major part of the film, further strengthening the movie's ties to Hickman's comic.

HEADLINERS Big names, big talent: Headliners bring star power to SXSW, featuring red carpet premieres and gala film events with some major and rising names in cinema.

Trinidad + Tobago film festival: Events take place September 20 - 27, 2016 on both islands, but major venues are in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

Birmingham is a city which has embraced its surrounding communities — Digbeth, Moseley and Kings Heath all play a major part in housing its overflowing creativity and with the creation of the new library and accompanying film and literary events, now more than ever there is something for everyone.»

In that role he oversaw the BBC's coverage of major international cultural events including the Cannes and Sundance film festivals, the Chicago Architecture Biennial and Art Basel Hong Kong.

The museum is a major new center for the arts on campus and in the Research Triangle area, with leading - edge art exhibitions and dynamic programs, including Family Days, performing arts events, lectures, film series and social gatherings.

Isaac Julien on His Film Installation PLAYTIME Artforum Exploring the premise that migration is driven by the pursuit of capital, Isaac Julien's seven - screen film installation focuses on six characters, archetypes based in three cities defined by major financial events and trends — London, Dubai and Reykjavik, Iceland.

The presentation of this eagerly awaited film work in IMMA's historic Great Hall, a major event in the Irish visual art calendar, is one of a number of new initiatives to mark the Museum's 15th anniversary.

Another major event in their pre-bitcoin days was the now - infamous legal battle with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, documented in the 2010 film The Social Network.