This lesson uses an excellent
movie about friendship to help students talk about making friends and developing character.
It's
a movie about friendship, who you were and how that affects who you are, and how war changes individuals both present and decades after an experience.
2000's Wonder Boys got pigeonholed as a brainy collegiate drama, which it was, but it was also
a movie about friendship and the different metrics by which success and failure can be measured.
Instead, it's
movie about friendship.
«Original» would seem the last word one should use to describe a current kids»
movie about the friendship between a boy and his dragon that is both a remake and a sort of «E.T.» clone, but it is what it is.
Only The Young begins as
a movie about the friendship between two boys, but Elmore quickly comes to dominate a film that approaches the uncertainty and heightened emotions of youth with unexpected delicacy and compassion.
For all the hammers smashing into heads and carefully - engineered set pieces, Three Stooges is
a movie about friendship and brotherhood.
Not exact matches
Late this year, Imax announced two big
movie releases in China: Dragon Blade, starring Jackie Chan, promising a «thrilling story of heroism,
friendship and betrayal, which has never before been depicted on film,» and John Woo's The Crossing, a two - part historical epic
about the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
Most of the world saw nothing remarkable
about indie director Whit Stillman's decision to adapt Lady Susan, a relatively obscure epistolary novella by Jane Austen, into a
movie called Love &
Friendship.
The Toy Story
movies are
about friendship, loyalty and the joy of playing with toys — themes that can come to life when a child decides to have a Toy Story party on his or her birthday.
Girls often compare their
friendships to what they read
about in books, see in the
movies or watch on television.
When I want to enjoy a good old - fashioned story
about life — its trials, its happiness, and the love and
friendship that make it worthwhile — then I watch a feel - good
movie.
I am passionate
about few things in this world like:
friendship, helping others, traveling, to enjoy listening to good music, reading and watching
movies, cooking.
Hello world I'm Ghani 24 from Algeria I love sports gym and football I love music and singing I like watching
movies and going out with friends I like to know
about other countries culture and I'm here for serious relationship or
friendship if anyone interesting just write me
The Disaster Artist is an attempt to tell the story
about the making of Tommy Wiseau's The Room, and the
friendship behind it, and their dream to become famous, and make a
movie that everyone would love.
Which ties in to the
movie's ultimate message, a good one for children and adults alike, a message
about how our superficial differences ought not be any impediment to
friendship.
A boy and a girl singing some Marvin Gaye to each other, a pastryphile growing to care
about a flute - toting band geek, guys who pick on each other but who do care
about the
friendship they share... This isn't on the level of John Hughes» «80s high school
movies, but this franchise is pretty much the cream of the crop of late «90s teenxploitation.
A
movie about the importance of determination,
friendship, and team work.
By focusing on the creation of one of contemporary cinema's most beloved «so bad it's good»
movies, «The Disaster Artist» weaves a potently funny and bizarrely heartwarming story
about dreams, determination, creativity, and
friendship.
The
movie has been assembled with a cynical eye toward the Sex and the City crowd: female
friendship, weddings, fashion, and a blatant lack of concern
about real - life issues like bankrolling this sort of ceremony.
During this 1 - on - 1 phone interview with Collider, actress and filmmaker Heather Graham talked
about wanting to make a
movie celebrating women and
friendship, the biggest challenges in getting this film going, having her voice heard, as a female filmmaker, what she most enjoyed
about playing Honey, putting together this cast, funny moments on set, what she enjoyed
about the experience of directing, her hope to do it again, juggling three different writing projects, and doing the British TV series Bliss, from David Cross.
«The Peanuts
Movie» is
about friendship and staying true to yourself — those themes hitting home surprisingly hard in a sweet and moving finale.
A lot of moviegoers still believe that low quality CGI toon projects should get a pass because they're just «kid
movies» but films like Wreck - It - Ralph remind us that superior animated pictures are more than just cheep gags and one - note cliches — considering the film puts a new spin on tried - and - true stories
about friendship and heroism.
, a documentary ostensibly
about the B -
movie starlet's weird, brief
friendship with Anton Lavey, self - proclaimed head of the Church of Satan.
Both
movies are
about men in their 40s whose adult lives have been nonstop disappointments — unsatisfying romances, lost
friendships, abandonment of career ambitions.
«This was billed as a
movie about making the «best worst»
movie ever made, but in fact it's a story
about friendship.
And as with most Rogen
movies, it's
about friendship and growing up; as the star gets older, he's been finding new ways to come of age every four or five years.
This
movie about a boy's «doomed
friendship» with a teenage cancer sufferer is original, honest and genuinely funny.
But while the choices Rosa makes in that regard drive the
movie to its dramatic conclusion, there's not that much in the film
about her, or even
about the
friendship.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For
movies opening November 7, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (PG - 13 for mature themes) Holocaust drama
about the 8 year - old son (Asa Butterfield) of a concentration camp commander (David Thewlis) whose forbidden
friendship with a Jewish boy (Jack Scanlon) interned on the other side of the fence leads to devastating consequences.
And there are few
movies of betrayal as strong as Shadow of a Doubt,
about the troubled
friendship between a small town girl (Teresa Wright) and her namesake uncle (Joseph Cotten) who is perhaps a serial killer.
At the film's recent press day in Los Angeles, Waugh and stunt coordinator Lance Gilbert talked
about their longtime
friendship and professional relationship, what it was like growing up together on the sets of «Smokey and the Bandit,» «Vanishing Point,» «The Blues Brothers» and «Bullitt,» why Waugh considers Gilbert one of the best stunt coordinators in the world, the challenges they faced pulling off practical stunts and capturing amazing action sequences realistically in - camera without CGI enhancement, and the entertaining Easter eggs they included as a homage to the classic car - culture
movies of another era.
READINGS Books
about all aspects of filmmaking and film culture Hank and Jim: The Fifty - Year
Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart by Scott Eyman, reviewed by Steven Mears; Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face by Michael Tapper, reviewed by Justin Stewart; Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great
Movies by Andrew DeGraff, reviewed by Chloe Lizotte
It's a conflict most evident in the
movie's awkward and slightly unsatisfying coda, which attempts to shoehorn in at least one message —
about temperance and tolerance and
friendship and adventure — too many.
The mentor - pupil / close
friendship bond that develops between William and Lester is the staple that holds the pages of this film together, and what I found coolest
about this
movie.
In that sense, Paterson is another wise, wonderful Jarmusch
movie about the importance of
friendship and love in this sad and beautiful world.
The Post is a humdinger of a historical journalism tale that manages to be
about many things — women and power, competition,
friendship, and most of all the First Amendment — while also being a rollicking, enjoyable time at the
movies.
And it manages to be
about many things — women and power, competition,
friendship, and most of all the First Amendment — while also being a rollicking, enjoyable time at the
movies.
The book and the
movie it inspired are
about family and
friendship and, above all, the importance of choosing to be kind.
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It falls significantly short of that, and as a melodrama
about the tragedy of lost
friendship, the
movie simply never convinces us that these two men were, are, or ever should have been friends in the first place.
There is a sense of generic exhaustion
about the Chick Flick, and an uncertainty in the current gender order that means ensemble casts and female
friendship movies take precedence.
After years of anticipation, speeches
about friendship, and long - promised Sia cameos, the first trailer for My Little Pony: The
Movie has finally arrived.
As it turns out, this
movie is really
about the budding
friendship between two girls and their joint overcoming of clique - fueled teenage drama.
It's really a
movie about jealousy,
about male competitiveness and
friendship and
about the mind of an artist and the loneliness common to such pursuits.
Thus begins Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, a quirky flick
about movie making,
friendship and cancer.
Based on the best - selling tell - all book
about the making of the cult - classic disasterpiece The Room, «The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad
Movie Ever Made», by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, and written for the screen by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of
friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds.
Hearing the cast of «Sisters» talk
about making the
movie is not just amazing but also so inspiring to see creative women in entertainment have real solid
friendships forged by comedy war fire.
Dealing with four relationships on the fritz — to say nothing of the
friendships and rivalries within the group as a whole — is more than enough
movie without adding potty - training jokes, a humping yoga instructor, improvised riffs
about Applebee's, and a Guitar Hero showdown that doubles as a commercial.
At the root of the best modern sex comedies and
movies about arrested adolescents learning to man up is male
friendships, something that is always taken for granted in the same films.