Sentences with phrase «more films centered»

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Since launching Raleigh Construction Company (now Raleigh Enterprises) in 1955, he has acquired, developed and managed more than 11 million square feet of real estate across the globe, reimagining dormant plots of land and run - down commercial buildings as resort hotels, residential apartments, office towers, shopping centers and film studios.

Mean Streets did more than launch Scorsese's career: The film solidified his creative vision for turning a camera to stories that center around sin and grace.

Andaluz Waterbirth Center is pleased to be hosting viewings of Ricki Lake's More Business of Being Born film series.

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

E.J. McMahon, senior fellow for the conservative fiscal policy group the Empire Center, argued before the state Legislature's budget committee that ending the tax credit for films would reserve money for more permanent state tax reforms.

The church's pastor, Father Walter Tonelotto, had told the senior center's leaders that he wanted to clear out the space so he could make more money off of it by hosting film crews, the New York Post reported.

Even if the near future doesn't unfold like the 2004 climate - gone - haywire film The Day After Tomorrow, scientists need to be able to produce accurate models of what abrupt change (more likely spanning hundreds or thousands or years, rather than days) would look like and why it might occur, explains Zhengyu Liu, lead author of the study and director of the University of Wisconsin — Madison's Center for Climate Research.

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«American Wedding» is more focused than the other films, centering mostly on the crowd favorites and leaving the other less notable characters in the dust.

The direction by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Stranger Than Fiction) delivers a fast - paced zombie thriller, and with Brad Pitt front and center, there is a grounding of the film in seeming more intelligent and plausible than your typical scare flick.

The newer bond films, with Daniel Craig, are good movies, but they are not the same as the older Bond movies, the older movies center more on action and comedy while the ones with Craig focus on Action.

The metaphor for terrorist attack is so front and center it hardly bears mentioning; War of the Worlds is pure popcorn escapism of the highest order if you want it to be, or more, but it's never less than thrilling, thanks in enormous part to the film's magnificent, sternum - rattling sound design, surely another of the film's Oscar - calibrated achievements.

Jamie Foxx too is rather strong when he's given something to do, but oddly, even though his character is the center of the film, he's an afterthought in service of the more colorful DiCaprio and Waltz.

It \'s sad that not more women \'s groups are promoting this film or this issue, especially rape crisis centers.

Coming just a few short months after the release of Paul Greengrass» 9/11 film United 93, World Trade Center immediately establishes itself as a completely different animal than its counterpart - as director Oliver Stone eschews the jittery authenticity of United 93 in favor of a far more traditional, thoroughly cinematic sort of vibe.

Jolie's last film, In the Land of Blood and Honey, had more evident passion (it centered on a sadomasochistic relationship between a Serbian officer and Bosnian woman); this one often feels like rewarmed Spielberg.

What begins as a stark study of the breakdown of a marriage in a small Russian city expands into a more languid, mysterious drama about disconnected lives and failed responsibilities, centered around a missing child whose disappearance haunts the film.

While most adults in the audience will wonder why Mia would ever seriously consider a relationship with a guy who is so self - centered to get mad at her for desiring to relocate 3,000 miles away to go to the most prestigious music school in the country, the film seems to make the false presumption that younger girls will find it more romantic for the boyfriend to be upset that they will be apart and have to Skype to keep in touch (something he seems to think is the worst possible case scenario, even though he already spends several weeks a year on the road performing gigs).

WonderCon 2013: It's been a busy weekend at the Anaheim Convention Center with WonderCon highlighting a number of highly anticipated upcoming films including «Pacific Rim,» «The Conjuring,» «The Mortal Instruments» and more.

Mike White wrote and will direct the film, which centers on Brad, who despite a gainful career and happy home life, finds himself obsessed with his more successful former schoolmates.

«Kids for Cash» (2013): Prepare to be even more disgusted with the criminal justice system, as this film details the disturbing decision of a once - celebrated judge to sentence kids to outrageously long juvenile detention sentences in exchange for money from the private company building the detention center.

EXTRAS: The Blu - ray release includes a pair of featurettes on making the film, a behind - the - scenes look at the visual effects, a tour of the park's Innovation Center, a discussion between director Colin Trevorrow and star Chris Pratt, deleted scenes and more.

The film also features multiple camera angles ranging from your standard left, right and center, to the more adventurous headstock mounted camera shots and multiple drum cams showcasing drummer Charlie Benante's fancy foot and stick work.

The Center's programs encourage more women to pursue careers as storytellers, and its research agenda documents trends in women's employment, the impact of their employment on television and film content, and factors influencing the under - representation of women's voices in television and film.

Joining the ranks of The Diary of a Teenage Girl and The Edge of Seventeen as a refreshing woman - centered coming - of - age film (and offering more depth than either), Lady Bird captures a recent era with precision and a hint of nostalgia that's not distracting: Clunky flip phones and «Cry Me a River» blend right in.

Watching Gangster Squad put me even more in mind of The Untouchables with a climax centered on a set of hotel steps that reminded me of The Untouchables» famous sequence in Union Station (itself an homage to the Odessa Steps sequence in Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkim), but it had been long enough since I watched The Untouchables that I didn't even realize how very many things Gangster Squad stole from DePalma's film.

Like most Apatow productions, Forgetting Sarah Marshall runs a bit long for a romantic comedy, and given that most of the film centers around a familiar plot that doesn't take that much effort to relate, it's easy to have winnowed down a few lulls for a more potent comedy.

When it comes to this crop of nominees, there seems to be a movement towards bigger, stronger, more popular casting and films like Adam McKay's The Big Short and Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant — the former a dramatic comedy centered around the collapse of the housing and credit bubble of 2008, the latter a brooding take on life on the frontier in 19th century America — epitomize star - studded casts.

Now take that haunting soundtrack and place it over cinematography that brings out maximum creepiness from every environment of the Swiss Alps located healing center, whether it be recreational spa rooms, hydrotherapy pools, wide - open outdoor areas intended for leisurely sports, or underground catacombs hiding unholy secrets and more nastiness, and the result is what will undoubtedly be one of the most atmospheric and hypnotic films of 2017.

Unfortunately, the film focuses on this bland character and her unbelievable relationships with Steve and Ben (plus an extremely sad scene involving a chicken), when centering on the Baker family dynamics or the men's friendship would have been more interesting.

Yet these touches of humanity far below the ocean's surface make this film a much more reverent monument to the many who perished than did Cameron's romance centered blockbuster.

You've seen more nuanced treatises on illegal immigration, but Jonás Cuarón's thriller, which premiered at Toronto and will serve as the L.A. film festival's closing - night offering, is a harrowingly visceral experience, centered around a cat - and - mouse game between a well - matched Gael Garcia Bernal and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

Centering mostly around a struggling artist (Wes Bentley) and his mysterious new benefactor (Frank Langella), the film touches on themes of loneliness, family and social need, but doesn't sketch out its characters in interesting or dynamic enough fashion to ever blossom into anything more than a meditative curio.

The earlier film's sobering perspective on the cynical and self - centered point of view of a budding novelist is replaced by a more aesthetically prismatic consideration of two female friends at a pained crossroads.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Fassbender dives deep into evil to find his character, and along with Ejiofor, Sarah Paulsen (who plays Fassbender's icy wife), and Lupita Nyong» o (who plays slave Patsey, the center of the two most incredible scenes in the film), provide more Oscar worthy performances than any one movie can expect.

Given the resultant complete void at the center of the story, we focus far more attention on the actual Scandinavian in the film — Swedish actress Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina)-- who plays Einar / Lili's long - suffering wife, Gerda.

You'd think that The Shape of Water remains too undeniably weird to have any shot at awards, and I think that the stuffy Academy that decided to go with The King's Speech over The Social Network or Black Swan (yep, still bitter) might not have given much more than token nominations for an inter-species romance monster movie, but the Academy has gotten younger and more diverse in the years since then, allowing for some more left of center films to get a boost.

But while there isn't much to distinguish Born To Be Blue's dramatic stakes from any number of stories about self - destructive, self - centered artists (or «movies about jazz musicians,» as they're more commonly known), the film is given a spark of life by the inspired casting of Ethan Hawke.

It speaks to a schism at the center of the film: the 1920s are just far more interesting and engaging than the 70s.

Today's Edinburgh talk may have centered on festival opener «Away We Go» (more on that to come), but the day's real delight was «Mary and Max» (*** 1/2), an alternately disarming and disconcerting feature debut from claymation maestro Adam Elliot, who won a 2003 Academy Award for his short «Harvey Krumpet,» and carries that film's decidedly -LSB-...]

That said, the film is still great, it is very funny, it's much more about Joseph Gordon - Levitt giving a great performance than it is Seth Rogen taking over, and it has a heart and a good story at the center, which is the most important.

The sci - fi film that centers on the discovery of a second Earth was one of the more buzzed about films at the festival this past January, winning the Special Jury Prize and securing distribution from Fox Searchlight.

This majority of the film is also more centered on Pitt, without much brought to the film by the actor.

As entertainment goes, the latest Bond works a great deal like Jason X — the tenth Friday the 13th film — except that Die Another Day has more implied sex, a higher body count, and a pace so deadening that it didn't even occur to me until well after the credits had finished to wonder why Epcot Center was in Iceland and why the bad guys were headquartered there.

The sci - fi film that centers on the discovery of a second Earth was one of the more buzzed about films at the festival this...

Centered on a disturbing mystery, the film takes constant, bizarre and unsettled shifts to comedy throughout, making it far more uncomfortable to watch than it should be.

From his career - defining start with the Coen Brothers on 1984's «Blood Simple,» Burwell's music's has prolifically pushed the emotional possibilities of the art, no more so now than with three films centered on the theme of children.

We have practically come full circle because the next time we will likely hear more about the film is at the 2013 Expo, set to take place at the Anaheim Convention Center in August.

And whenever Eugene's surgical gigs take center stage, the film takes a more blackly comic route.