Sentences with phrase «moving film about»

Steve McQueen won the Cannes Golden Camera award in 2008 with Hunger, a moving film about Irish hunger - striker Bobby Sands.

The TV set plays Thomas's moving film about her mother, «Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman,» offering a back story that gives the initially silly pair of shining Crocs a new emotional heft.

It is the cleverly used archive footage that really fascinates — though not nearly so effectively as similar material did in John Amkomfrah's moving film about the social thinker Stuart Hall, showing at the current Liverpool Biennial.

Berg and Wahlberg have made an extremely moving film about the strength of community and the power of resilience.

In her corner: Reese does her best dramatic work in a very fine moving film about a woman who has let her life slip away But... enthusiasm does nt seem to be there for the film

The pairing of animator Claude Barras and screenwriter Céline Sciamma results in a wonderfully moving film about anxiety and community.

Mike Leigh's masterpiece, a funny and moving film about Gilbert & Sullivan's creation of THE MIKADO.

INNOCENCE (Grade: B): This is an oddly moving film about rediscovered passion in late age.

In a Hollywood cinema landscape that still mostly revolves around white hegemony, Ryan Coogler's Creed was a huge breath of fresh air, a motivational, moving film about a black man that didn't involve poverty or gangs.

Rachel Getting Married («a warm - hearted, tender, and tremendously moving film about a raging misanthrope, and a low - key, gloriously life - sized masterpiece.»)

«Moonlight is a profoundly moving film about growing up as a gay man in disguise, a difficult and damaging journey that's realised with staggering care and delicacy and one that will resonate with anyone who has had to do the same.

«It's a very moving film about self - delusion — something that we all suffer from.»

It's a sentimental, deeply moving film about mostly nice and loving people.

The snub of this moving film about a group of Chinese women and their American - raised daughters shocked Roger Ebert.

Little Women» is a moving film about the making of a sensitive writer and the maturation of a small - town girl who transcends her milieu and at the same time retains its heritage.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

This is a beautiful, tender, moving film about love and dedication and patience, and will leave you with tears in your eyes, as long as you still have a beating heart inside your chest.

If you can see past the rain of blood, Raw is a gorgeously moving film about fear and adolescence — albeit one best viewed on an empty stomach.

A very deep and moving film about the Detroit riots.

Not much happens in The Midwife, but its depth and texture make this a moving film about families, time passing and shared history — and the handful of scenes in the maternity unit where Claire works, five or six little miracles of birth, somehow add to its sense of a life as mysterious and precious.

Not exact matches

We've made about five other films, but in the intervening years, the show business industry has moved entirely toward movies where the main characters have capes and tights.

A protest took place outside of a Northern Ireland university on Tuesday, which rejected screening a new film about «men and women moving out of homosexual practices and feelings».

So perhaps Ms. Peeters» film can tell us some things about us as well — it does not hesitate, after all, to move its camera from the harassing men onto the various soft - porn advertisements that also haunt the streets of Brussels, and ask the old - fashioned feminist question, one which Ms. Brown's magazine actively mocked and undermined, «How can we be respected when images like this are displayed and circulated?»

When he was called to talk about his film, he was in the process of moving furniture out of his house, which he sold to help finance the filming of «Blue Like Jazz.»

Later i saw his film about the invasion of Iraq and was quite moved, as was the rest of the audience (one of the few films that got applause in the theatre).

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

One of the film's crucial tenets is that we need to move past our tendencies to cling onto «outdated ideas about nutrition.»

«The film is broken down and all that, and the in - person thing is more about to see, well, is this guy really this fast, or is this guy really gonna move this way, or is he really shaped this way?

The 40 - year - old was only 18 when the move to the Bulls came about, and to understand the cultural differences that was about to become a reality for him, he tuned in to Sky Movies to watch the Bradford based film Rita, Sue and Bob too.

I am still amazed at the capacity of our political leaders to take vital decisions about the future of our country when they must have been much more exhausted than I was and when everywhere they moved they were filmed, not just on the ground but from the air as well.

David and Samantha Cameron have been filmed speaking about their trips to hospital with son Ivan, in a rare move for the couple.

Conservative, Plaid Cymru and Liberal Democrat AMs backed the move but Labour AMs were concerned about the impact of the filming.

Additional useful links The city of Lund website Lund International Citizen Hub website Business Region Skåne's website on moving to the region Watch a short film about the innovative region on the Interreg Europe website

Moving forward, I am excited about our April projects and determined to film a little more for the old YouTube channel.

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It really works the momentum of this film moves quick and only mildly slow when it needs to explain science to the people who don't understand much about it.

This is a slow moving film, about a mess of a man doing up things.

I would not recommend this film to most people - but if you're up for a VERY non-narrative film (think two and a half hour poem) about life's most serious questions, then you might find Tree of Life (especially the 2nd act) one of the most beautiful and moving films you'll see this year.

Everything about this film moves at a very solid pace and you feel like it is giving you a slice of life at this moment in their lives.

The most accurate thing about this movie is the title because it is real labor to watch this slow moving, boring film.

Right when you think the film is about to kick into gear and start moving faster, it flashes back to a moment from the past where two character talk for extensive periods of time.

Well the film was wide release, so it makes sense there wasn't an entirety of focus on the specifics, but I still think it would have worked better if it was more like the trailers professed intentions; doco style, with vignettes of alien / human scenes that emphasized and helped explain, not found footage either, like for example, after talking about Wikus in the past tense, it could focus on him for a bit then move on, but it stuck with him, and the film changed gears, I just thought it would have been better to focus on other things, as opposed to dumbing the plot down to one man and his battle against the evil government / corporation, and still stay in the doco style, it could have worked, no?

This film, ultimately, is about the need mankind has to transcend its limited thinking and move into dimensions that are greater than its narrow aims.

That aspect of the film is clearly in a fight with all the «why did you come here» Syd Field motivational padding between its troubling setpieces, and it's a very studio - suit move to assume that the only way to give «meaning» to a film is to have people talk about it.

Fish - out - of - water stories can become tiresome very quickly if they're not anchored itoeither a witty script or good performances, but at the very least., most films which go down this route at least make an effort to emphasise the differences in culture, even if it's just a passing, off - hand comment about how fast people move or the fact that there's no phone signal.

With the addition that it's a fairly slow moving film, I can see many viewers complaining about this picture and stirring up controversy.

Honestly, I felt this to be a very slow - moving and pedestrian film about the Vatican during the 60s.

A serious, large - budget treatment of Rabe's exploits and a moving, terrific film about trying to maintain one's decency amidst horrors.

This film could have been so much more, but Cleveland, as it is portrayed here, is the same as any other American city, there are no comments or reflections about how Danny DeVito succeeds where the dashing Paul Rudd fails, and... well, Jack just moves into the garage, rather spontaneously and without much attention paid to the failure of the film's principal marriage.

It was a bold move that didn't work out so well for the Indiana Jones franchise, but here it was one of the most interesting things about this film.