Sentences with phrase «moving film by»

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There's outrage around the world over a surveillance video filmed last month that captures the horrific scene of a toddler getting crushed by a slow - moving S.U.V..

Readers of Solzhenitsyn's «Repentance and Self - Limitation in the Life of Nations,» which dared to defend as essentially correct the common feature of ordinary speech that depicts nations as capable of guilt, repentance, and a «spiritual life,» will understand why, as will viewers moved by Nelson's Mandela core message in the film Invictus.

«Elysium ``, the theme song by Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard, and Klaus Badelt from the film «Gladiator ``... a very moving piece, started playing.

The movie is the brainchild of retail mogul Mart Green, who heard Steve Saint and Mincaye speak at a conference in 1999 and was so moved by the story that he decided to turn it into a film — two films, actually; the companion documentary, Beyond the Gates of Splendor, released last year.

It appears to me that instead of giving the audience a true appreciation of the hazards inherent in mountain climbing and the skills developed to reduce these hazards (which could be done by an imaginative presentation of true climbing techniques) the producers have ignored the advice of Gaston Rebuffat, their climbing consultant, and filmed a series of ridiculous rock - climbing moves.

Policemen with riot shields moved in to quell the trouble and footage filmed by United's players showed them cowering on the floor as they coach came under attack.

I'm not a movie critic, although sometimes, when I'm deeply moved by a film, I wish I was.

The budget included other goodies popular with Democratic fund - raisers, including the continuation of $ 445 million in tax credits for film and television — a move praised by Hollywood donors.

But whilst the question of how to coordinate behavioural change is important, I did come out of the film feeling that we are not really going to get anywhere quickly enough if those who are moved by the issue do not themselves take sizeable steps, as individuals.

Sir Mike was a panellist at the SLF's Conference fringe meeting «Overcoming crisis: How to move towards a more ethical capitalism», and part of the Dispatches programme was filmed during the fringe meeting and can be seen by following the link below:

The powers that be, whom he double - crossed, pursue him throughout this fast - moving, casually violent film (punctuated by Ahnold's trademark Austrian - accented one - liners).

However, the team also filmed flowers from five species frequented by the moth and found they don't move back and forth fast enough for this slower response to be a problem.

The rebellion, in a dark place, moves into a positive and hopeful direction by the end of the film.

The «Footloose» remake, much like the original film, follows Ren (now played by Kenny Wormald) as he moves from a northern city to a small southern town.

The film's an attempt by Aardman and co-producers DreamWorks to move in on territory usually ruled by Pixar.

American Pie Presents The Naked Mile's latter half, as a result, moves along at a plodding pace that's compounded by an episodic structure, as the movie lurches from one ill - conceived set - piece to the next with little thought towards momentum or consistency - which inevitably does confirm the film's place as just another interminable waste of time designed to cash in on the original trilogy's success.

House of Sand and Fog is a ponderous, slow moving film which, if you allow yourself to take the time and let yourself fall into the excellent characterizations by Connelly and Kingsley, becomes a ponderous film with a killer ending that, even if you see it coming a mile away, is still a killer ending worth sitting for.

Perhaps in the early 1930s when the film is set, things were not so radically different for women than they were in the early, pre-suffragette 1890s when Oscar Wilde wrote his play — but, without wishing to suggest that the battle of the sexes is now definitely over, things have certainly moved on, and the film's preoccupations with womanly virtue and womanly repute is of more historical interest than contemporary relevance, leaving the distinct impression that this «updating» of Wilde has been done only by half measures.

A moving soundtrack by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder further complements the film's evocative nature.

The inclusion of a handful of compelling moments within the film's second half - ie one of the soldiers moves higher and higher on the mountain to hopefully get a radio signal - are rendered moot by the otherwise uninvolving, bland atmosphere, while the needlessly padded - out final stretch, which just seems to go on forever, is sure to test the resolve of even the most patient viewer (and this is to say nothing of the seemingly endless closing credits).

Director Sylvain White, whose last film was the equally unnecessary I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, manages to take the joy out of a dance movie by jerking the camera around and speeding up the dance moves so much.

I would argue the latter as I believe that even without prior knowledge of the artists involved, anyone can understand the majesty of «Eleanor Rigby» or be significantly moved by Charlie Chaplin's 1931 film «City Lights.»

After some opening images — a shadowy blond figure, complete with trench coat and heels, dumping a corpse off a bridge — that immediately frame its tale of moneyed madness through the greasy lens of B - movie schlock, the film moves to an aging Durst (here renamed David Marks and played by Ryan Gosling) on the witness stand.

The film is a deep character study of Riggan Thomson played by a moving and stellar Michael Keaton a once - time big movie star struggling to regain importance in his contemporary setting while trying to establish himself as an artist worthy of praise and to get rid of his «Birdman» image.

If there's any bit of you that can buy int this aspect of the film, then I promise that you will be emotionally moved by the final act.

This was indeed one of the top ten films of 1985 and to understand on its golden 30th anniversary why this movie moved audiences so deeply and why the greatness of this masterpiece was not by perfection or logic but by heart.

The pair keep the film moving at a fast enough pace to keep the audiences from coming completely bored with the film, even if Goold's script can't seem to keep up with the tension created by Franco and Hill.

Below are the films released by each individual distributor during 2015, ordered by average Metascore (beginning with the major studios as a group and then moving on to the smaller companies).

Moving from box office champ to box office chump in the span of a year, Sony (which releases films under the labels Columbia, TriStar, and Screen Gems) saw its global receipts decline by over a billion dollars from 2012 to 2013.

The pure joy he inspires in people provides enough emotion to fill an entire film, and even audiences that are in no way religious will likely be quite moved by the raw power of devotion — both from his followers and the pope himself.

After the family moved to California, Von Teese became even more immersed in film culture, and eventually studied costume design in college, preparing for a career in styling period films.Von Teese began working at a local strip club when she was 18, but was disappointed by the lack of style and creativity shown by most of the dancers.

The film is by turns engaging, funny, sad and at times almost unbearably moving.

The film can be smothered by the obligations of its plot, but it's still beautiful and original, extremely funny, and sometimes very moving.

That said, the film is considerably more commercial (and splattery) than Gray's last, The Yards, which was slow, almost groggy: The light seemed unable to pass through air thickened by corruption; the protagonist (Wahlberg again) moved through the bowels of Queens like a somnambulist.

Guest spots on NYPD Blue, CSI, Touched by an Angel, JAG, Judging Amy, and Nip / Tuck followed, as well as an appearance in the film Bring It On and voice work in Howl's Moving Castle.

The film is so full of ideas and so dense that its narrative splinters, moving tangentially, and ultimately is weighed down by its rant and rhetoric.

A dauntingly versatile character actress by the 1980s, Lu racked up several impressive film and TV credits, including her chilling portrayal of the Dowager Empress in The Last Emperor (1987) and her moving performance as natural - born «survivor» An Mei in The Joy Luck Club (1993).

Recut by the studio and generally considered to be a failure, it's nevertheless an oddly moving film that sticks obstinately and agreeably in the mind.

I was also moved by the sophisticated themes of the film.

By limiting the amount of time you have to question the more bizarre aspects of the character, the film simply tells you to deal with it, and move on.

Keanu Reeves, by comparison, seems stiffer than usual as the film's ostensible romantic lead, even as he continues to move as gracefully as ever.

Compare its plot to those of the classic Gothic novels and films in which a young, naïve woman marries a mysterious man, moves into his ancestral home where she is greeted by sinister domestic staff, and goes on to find clues that suggest a horrible family secret.

In 2007, he was the only non-US film critic to be invited by the Museum of the Moving Image and The New York Times to participate on a week - long seminar on Film Criticism.

The film shows her Eilis moving into a boarding home run by Mrs. Kehoe (Julie Walters), landing a job and taking night classes thanks to help from Father Flood (Jim Broadbent), and falling in love with an Italian boy named Tony (Emory Cohen).

After appearing in a number of short films, Turner made the move to television by landing the lead role in the 2012 British miniseries Leaving, playing a young man caught in a relationship with a married woman nearly twice his age.

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.

THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS By Kent Jones With the help of Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, and Anjelica Huston, not to mention his usual partner in crime Owen Wilson, Wes Anderson has fashioned an epic comedy of loss in a poetically reconstructed Manhattan, a film that's both outrageously funny and deeply moving.

While the sequel was greenlit by distributors 20th Century Fox before the first film had even been released, Deadpool 2 now appears to be moving forward with production.

An infatuation complicated by Ruby's history, the film isn't strictly a romance but the themes of love, in all its forms, help keep the pace moving.

Since we're a couple of years out from the film's set release, Marvel is making more moves to fill out the cast by bringing back one of the most entertaining parts of the film: Michael Pena.