Sentences with phrase «more black films»

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While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mBlack Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mblack actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mBlack Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Last week, Variety reported that Black Panther had already become the world's most tweeted - about movie of 2018, so far, generating more than five million tweets related to the film.

The Black Widow has evolved past her Iron Man 2 part into a far more dimensional character, proving key to the storytelling of films like The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Use clear film rather than black film because the clear plastic will transmit more solar radiation and increase the temperature of the soil.

Wondering if any more power might be available, the team turned to the film Interstellar, in which a world called Miller's planet orbits very close to a massive, spinning black hole called Gargantua.

This year included nominations of six non-white-themed films and more than 10 black actors and filmmakers after two years of severe lacking.

Apart from her roles within clothing lines Fashion with Floozie and Iris and Edie by Frostfrench and her career as an actress, Sadie is currently involved with her film company Blonde to Black Pictures, which has just completed two feature films, with many more to come.

We're gonna need a minute to process this whole situation... Okay, now we're ready to talk about the purple - and - black - and - teal lace caped gown, which shows a lot of leg and a even more side cleavage at the opening ceremony of the film festival.

• Hollywood Meets Vegas — Take a page out of a Bond film and go black - tie, or take a more relaxed stance; either works at Hollywood Casino.

These events include gospel festivals, black Hollywood movie premieres, jazz / music festivals, arts festivals, black film festivals, national conferences, black heritage tours, and more.

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Commentary 3 — The Picture - Director of Photography Darius Khondji, Prodcution Designer Arthur Max, Editor Richard Francis - Bruce, Richard Dyer and David Fincher talk about the look of the film itself, the color processes used on the print, the locations scouted for the various shots, the detail used in the studio backlot constructions, the style David wanted to achieve and succeeded in doing, the clothing, the grittiness, the absolute black Fincher always wanted in Alien 3 but could achieve until now and more.

Synopsis: In this film based on actual events, black activist Medgar Evers (James Pickens Jr.) is murdered in 1963, and much of the evidence points toward wh... [MORE]

Unlike most Marvel villains, who have little nuance as far as their evil intentions, Killmonger has a rationale for his malevolent acts, and a certain sympathy beyond this, that makes the film more a struggle for political ideas than it is just a black - and - white fight between good guys and bad guys.

If Pedro Almodóvar, especially in his early days, had directed this film, he might have brought out the black comedy inherent in the piece, which would have made both the blackness and the comedy more fully resonate.

The film isn't perfect: in some action scenes, Black Panther's suit looks more computer - generated than realistic, and the hand - to - hand combat sequences can come off more chaotic than compelling.

The idea of young black girls seeing this film and being inspired by Letitia Wright's Q - like gadget - crazed scientist Shuri or Danai Gurira's none - more - badass and effortlessly movie - stealing General Okoye is more thrilling to me than anything that happens in the actual movie.

The movie has generated record proceeds of more than $ 400 million worldwide so far, making it the highest - grossing opening for a film with a black director.

Also impressive is director Wenders» use of his and Lisa Rinzler's shoots in Assisi, black - and - white, deliberately faded and silent film, showing an actor playing St. Francis who at the key point in his life heard God tell him to restore a dilapidated church — which I believe he did thinking that God's will is more important than his father's rage at the saint's alleged throwing away his money.

Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in every one of the director's movies.Originally trained at a technical school, Hitchcock gravitated to movies through art courses and advertising, and by the mid -»20s he was making his first films.

Commercial movies like Black Beauty and The Yellow Rolls Royce have utilized the same format, and more recently, adventurous filmmakers have experimented with this structure in such films as Go and Pulp Fiction.

Jack Black, Guillermo del Toro, Jeffrey Katzenberg and more gather to present DreamWorks Animation's 2011 film slate.

Unsurprisingly, Persepolis has attracted the wrath of the Iranian government, but more captivating than the film's depictions of cultural repression (a scene where Marji, out to buy a black market Iron Maiden album, is beset by weasel - bodied female Guardians of the Revolution because she wears a jean jacket and «punk» sneakers is but one well - handled example) are its more understated portraits of Iran's intellectual elite, at once removed from the proletariat it so pompously champions and sadly delusional about the real threat of the fanatic trajectory of the revolution.

All the voice talent from the first film — including Jack Black and Angelina Jolie — are back to lend persona to the lovable heroes, but in the sequel they serve more as background to the repetitive chase and fight sequences.

Whenever the film fades to black, you steel yourself for the next chapter, in which she will have descended yet one more rung on the evolutionary ladder.

Kaminski and Spielberg don't go all the way to black and white, but the 1.85 image (giving the film a more intimate scope than the expected epic 2.35:1) bleeds the bright colors down to the green - and - brown elements and overcasts the smoky skies.

While the film's first stretch may have undertones more fitting of The Black Stallion than the studied introspection of the human condition that Haigh has come to be known for (45 Years), it is the cautious intensity of Charlie Plummer's Charley Thompson which carries us through to some of its more potent moments.

More, this is an unusually «dark» film in the literal sense, with many a lowly / dimly - lit or nearly - black interior scene, but even in those dark moments detail and solidity of colors, shapes, and figures is impeccable.

The women in Black Panther are all impressively realized and suitably badass, one more indication of the film's advanced level of storytelling.

Black Panther's cast and creators trod carefully around the movie's connection to current politics in the press conference attended by Screen Rant, with Chadwick Boseman saying that anything that seems like a reference is just coincidence, and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige saying that «things have happened in the world which make the film seem more relevant.»

«Chadwick Boseman was only recently confirmed to be entering the Marvel universe as the emphatic superhero the Black Panther, and while such news left many a film fan scratching their heads as to who this young actor is, it should be a question that's easier to answer when James Brown biopic Get On Up has been released; such is the sheer brilliance of the electric performance by this talented star»... Read More»

The film starts promisingly, opening with a foreboding shot of a girl wandering through Griffith Park, scored with ominous guitar squalls courtesy of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, who composed the film's score, setting the tone for a film much weirder and more interesting than the one that follows.

It transcends merely bad, merely tedious, merely irksome and plummets into that very special category of film, the one that so tries and tortures its audience that, emerging again from the soul - sucking black hole of celluloid disaster, it no longer fears... Read More»

Despite a fairly stodgy first half, once Nicholson and Beatty decide to knock off Stockard Channing the film more successfully transitions into the kind of black comic farce the Coen brothers based their career on in the mid-1990s (they have openly acknowledged its influence).

Unafraid to inhabit the ragged edges, she captures the black comedy that's at the core of this gritty independent drama, making audiences ache for more LaVona while keeping Rogers» original idea for the film intact.

Thanks to Michael Moriarty, Karen Black, and Laurene Landon, the film is a successful continuation of what went before except with a bit more of a wink to the action.

Unfortunately this script feels like nothing more than a vehicle for Black who cavorts, chatters and cracks jokes through the biggest chunk of this film — as well as exposing some of his posterior.

The comedy is broad, and this is certainly more multiplex - friendly than Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, however, so those who hold that earlier Black film in high regard might be left feeling a bit unfulfilled.

Silver Linings Playbook was also up for quite a few gold men at last year's Oscars, including Best Picture, but winning Best Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards is a more fitting accolade for this black sheep film about, well, black sheep.

Marvel Studios has released the first full length trailer for the upcoming Black Panther film starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, Andy Serkis, Martin Freeman, Lupita Nyong «o, and many more.

See Also: There's not a lot comparable to «The Lobster» in Farrell's (or anyone's) filmography, but to see him ugly up to more grotesque effect, you could always check out «Horrible Bosses» which is fun enough until it loses steam, while the black comic vein of Lanthimos» film is maybe closest to a more surreal take on Farrell's collaborations with Martin McDonagh («In Bruges» and «Seven Psychopaths») inasmuch as it's close to anything at all.

What results is a kind of photographic negative of the comparably more pastel - hued Annie Hall, a mellow, grayscale romantic melodrama with a liberal dosage of one - liners that would be taken for chemical impurities if the film weren't also manifestly abstracted by Gordon Willis's world - class black - and - white cinematography.

Captain America: Civil War was smart enough to act as a soft origin story for Black Panther, using a handful of well - placed scenes to introduce the character among the melee of the rest of the film, so that when Black Panther proper came out, we were already more or less up to speed.

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

Still, even Blade's success wasn't enough to get more top - tier black superheroes films on the big screen.

It's when Whedon indulges his more esoteric instincts that the film really hits its stride, particularly with a series of spell - induced nightmares shared by Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson).

If you like Robert Altman's films more than Tyler Perry's, are you not black enough?

More than any other film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Panther addresses the world today in ways that, while not distracting from the action and adventure, fills the movie with deeper meaning and moral weight.

Last night, my wife, daughter and I took in Black Narcissus at the AFI Silver and enjoyed it as much as we always have (only more so because it was in the gorgeous main theater projected on a huge screen) and afterwards I started thinking about movies with very famous scenes, so famous that most casual film goers might know it (or have a vague sense of familiarity with it) even if they don't know the movie.

After The Asset bites off two of his fingers, he gets them reattached, but we see them turn black and more infected as the film progresses.