Sentences with phrase «moving film which»

Selma is a powerful and moving film which has been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.

«Departures» is a beautiful, quietly moving film which hits the mark precisely because it does not try to be too ambitious in telling the simple story of a man finding his way in the world.

This week - long odyssey adds up to a very moving film which is surprisingly human considering the lead characters.

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.

Not exact matches

While Meghan was on a break from filming, The Sun reported that she had «virtually moved in» with Harry to his place in a small apartment on the grounds of Kensington Palace, which serves as Will and Kate's home.

Fox's decision to finally move forward with the film followed a years - long process in which Reynolds, director Tim Miller, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had to fight through various obstacles (including the box office failure of another Reynolds superhero movie, 2011's Green Lantern) to get the movie made.

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.

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?»

I'm not sure the film even needs such a premise to be effective, (in fact, it may distract from the main point a bit... and I hate to think there are people who need it to be reversed in order to empathize), for what really moved me was its depiction of bullying, which is based on real reports from LGBT kids.

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.»

Now, he looks ginormous on film, but he still moves with cat - like agility, which is crazy.

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.

Move around however you need to for the perfect shot with the Wingsland, which cancels out the motion in the film.

Using this biologically accurate model of how dynein moves the microtubules within the axoneme, Ingber and Reilly created a short film called «The Beginning,» which draws parallels between sperm swimming toward an egg and spaceships flying toward a planet in space, giving an artistic bent to a scientific topic.

These days, medical X-rays come in multiple formats: plain film used in dental exams and doctors» offices; fluoroscopy, which bounces a continuous X-ray beam off contrast agents you've either injected or ingested, providing a moving real - time image of arteries and intestines; and the computed tomography (CT) scan, which couples a powerful computer with a circular array of extremely sensitive detectors to turn X-rays into detailed cross sections of the body.

The team also placed the adhesive film on the feet of a miniature robot, which moved with ease up a 30 - degree incline.

A number of this year's films sought to draw specific attention to climate change, a move organizers» hoped would help the festival «serve as a signpost» on the route to the 2015 United Nations Climate Conference, which will be held later this year in Paris, France.

Already moving on from La La Land, the romantic musical which is picking up nominations and awards left right and centre this year, Emma needed to prepare for her role as tennis player Billie Jean King in Fox Searchlight's up - coming film Battle of the Sexes.

The founders, Stephanie Danan and Justin Kern both hail from the world of film (one a producer and the other a screenwriter, respectively), which makes sense given that there is a cinematic quality to their collections — the individual pieces tend to move beautifully.

At almost three hours long the film does feel overstretched, with a set - up period of at least 45 minutes which moves at a languorous pace as it doles out arguably unneeded exposition and character motivation.

The action sequences, which are few and far between, do lack the exhilaration that was to be found in the first two Spider - Man films (which contain the similar light tone to the Iron Man films) but the star power and snappy dialogue keeps the film briskly moving along.

Fans may not like the CGI zombies, but unlike the video game creatures in I am Legend (2007), these are more filmed actor - CGI tweaked hybrids; their believability is really dependent on how much viewers will accept the virus as a fast - moving bug which immediately transforms a host into a rabid sprinter with super-strength (not unlike 28 Days Later).

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.

Continuing my study of the Oscar - nominated films of 1938, we move to «Boys Town,» which I found engaging but not inspiring.

In fact, the film starts off with one of the more moving images I have seen in American cinema in which during an unveiling of a statue celebrating America's peace and prosperity, a crowd is stunned to find a homeless man, our tramp, sleeping on the monument.

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).

He made his first feature film, Four Day's Wonder, in 1937 for Universal, but most of his work for the next two years was for Republic Pictures, after which he moved to Columbia Pictures, where his most notable pictures were several entries in the Lone Wolf mystery series, and The Adventures of Martin Eden, based on Jack London's book.

Released in theatres on August 24,1966, «Fantastic Voyage» was not only a film of authentic wonder but a science fiction masterpiece with amazing special effects... the team enters the body of a man where they see first hand the oceans of life within the human body that contains the «corpuscles», «the heart», «the lungs» and other features of the human body through which the crew move through are exquisitely designed in great detail with artistic quality.

What we end up with is a film of great potential which never really gets into gear, and whose ideas are skimmed over for the sake of moving forward.

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 question of whose disobedience, and what kind of disobedience it is, are at the heart of this absorbing and moving love story from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, his English language debut, following very quickly on the heels of his film A Fantastic Woman which has been a festival - circuit hit this year.

The actors are really just playing themselves as far as their line delivery goes and the plot really doesn't go anywhere new, especially since the opening scene of the film rewinds through the entire film, showing every action beat, which was a really bizarre move.

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.

She continued her music career and eventually moved to acting, making her film debut in Sparkle (2012), which was Whitney Houston's film final role.

It's a film that you expect to open in limited release and expand, but after a Sundance premiere, Focus Features is actually debuting it wide today, the Friday that used to launch the summer movie season (which the moving of Avengers: Infinity War kicked off a week early this year).

Most of the family films churned out today are so junky it's almost a shock to find one in which the animals never spout sassy one - liners, or show off their hilarious hip - hop moves.

The film offers basic, practical and obvious ideas for moving forward, which makes the symbolism of bookending the film with a simple problem - solving experiment involving chimps and building blocks hard to miss: we're perhaps not as smart in a practical sense as our less evolved simian cousins.

The premise is surprisingly human; rather than using the ghost - story which accompanies the apartment that the protagonist (Jennifer Connelly) and her daughter (Ariel Gage) move into as its main focus, the film concentrates more on a custody battle between she and her ex-husband (Dougray Scott).

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.

Anderson's seventh feature film is a groovy, richly funny stoner romp that has less in common with «The Big Lebowski» than with the strain of fatalistic,»70s - era California noirs («Chinatown,» «The Long Goodbye,» «Night Moves») in which the question of «whodunit?»

But I digress, moving on to this film, which falls into the average / below average pile.

Things are soon dire — which is Jolie's cue throughout the film to move in on Louis's face as he recalls symbolic moments in his life.

It's highly regarded (as are all of his films) which got me interested, on top of the sci - fi focus, but it also sounded like it might be the slowest moving and most bleak title of his oeuvre.

Focus Features, which originally had the film slated for October 2, 2015 and then January 22, 2016, has moved it again to the more promising date of March 4, 2016.

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.

Best known for his animation work in films such as Ponyo, Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away, he stays fairly true to Mary Norton's 1952 children's novel The Borrowers upon which the movie is based.

Eisenbergwas recently cast as Lex Luthor in Batman vs. Superman, which begins filming this summer, so there's a good chance that he will move straight on to the Now You See Me sequel immediately afterwards.

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.

Having a film depicting homemade collagen injections and the destructive power of the father for an opening night film was a brave move, one which had everyone talking about it for weeks afterwards, which (coupled with the moving standing ovation at the conclusion of the film) I believe is the sign of a successful opening night film.