Sentences with phrase «narrative films based»

In addition to the Best Documentary category (in which the Oscar - winning Amy has been nominated alongside similarly urgent films like the campus rape exposé The Hunting Ground), there will also be a True Story category devoted to narrative films based on actual events.

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In this documentary, plant - based diets are also shown to have a significant impact on our environment — the film subtly evolves from a narrative around nutrition and into a discussion around climate change, arguing that the decision to reduce meat consumption is perhaps the most profound choice an individual can make to reduce their impact on the earth.

The film, which is based on a television series (which was itself a spinoff from the Wallace & Gromit franchise), boasts a tremendously appealing stop - motion animation style that's heightened by an assortment of affable characters, and it's worth noting, too, that the movie's total absence of dialogue in no way hinders one's ability to get caught up in the briskly - paced narrative.

But if the modestly budgeted film (loosely based on journalist Michael Nicholson's factual narrative, «Natasha's Story») lopes along a formulaic, often heavy - handed track, its pictures and subtext make a powerful statement.

Still, Antal is a spectacular genre filmmaker reminiscent of Jacques Tourneur in the sense that you recognize his films based on their atmosphere, moody compositions, and elegantly streamlined narratives.

Cinematographer Lachlan Milne's sweeping, colorful panoramas and a chapter - based narrative structure gives Hunt for the Wilderpeople the feel of a storybook fable, but thanks to the warm - hearted dynamic between Ricky and Hec, even the film's most whimsical moments carry a sense of real underlying pain: Both of these characters are outsiders ultimately looking for a home to call their own.

Lee Smith's cutting, while taking some blame for the film's initial narrative stalling, is crisp and fluid on a scene - to - scene basis.

The narrative of impossible love is based on real events, though Khan, the only surviving witness to many of those events, excoriated the film without seeing it as «completely wrong... all based on hypotheses and gossip.»

Those same things could arguably be said about the MCU and its ability to guarantee a base viewership by littering a narrative arch amongst so many puzzle piece films.

Feeding into the narrative that Americans love movies about the financial institutions they hate, the film is based on former investment banker John...

Speaking to Variety's chief film critic Scott Foundas, Mann discusses growing up in Chicago, becoming interested in crime stories, the visual ideas he had for the film, the nonfiction book he discarded but still credited, the influence of real criminals and past films (particularly his eye - opening time shooting The Jericho Mile in Folsom Prison), choosing Tangerine Dream to do the score (a decision he still second guesses), the film's writing (including basing characters on real crime figures), casting, explosive stunts, changes made from the shooting script, and the modernist narrative.

From literally the very first second of the film where Will Arnett's gravelly voiced title character provides a hilarious narrative guide to the opening credits, there's silliness to spare, and much of it is based on Batman's self - absorbed tough - guy persona.

Based on a short film of the same name, it's arguable that Amirpour puts a greater emphasis on mood and atmosphere than she does narrative, and «AGWHAAN» does not possess the layered existential laments and insights that Jarmusch's film does.

Based on a book of short stories by James Franco (who co-stars in the film), the film features interconnected narratives involving a soccer player (Emma Roberts) getting...

BeFilm is a New York Based film festival that focuses on short form documentary, experimental, narrative, animation and 3D films.

But the simplicity and and elegance of this tight countdown of growing dread is unfortunately undercut by some questionable narrative decisions that tug at the leash of the film's factual basis.

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I must admit I haven't read the Max Brooks book that the film is based on, but I understand from friends who have that the tweaks in voice and narrative structure still result in a blast of a film.

The ultimate haptic heroine of the AFI FEST was the unnamed protagonist of Krotkaya (A Gentle Creature), the third narrative film of the Berlin - based Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitza.45 The Russian title is that of the original short story by Dostoyevsky (1876) about a meek young woman inexplicably committing suicide, but, in its country of production (France), the film is called Une Femme douce — like the 1969 adaptation of the same story by Robert Bresson directed.

Based on André Aciman's beautiful novel of the same name, the film illustrates a narrative of grueling desire and devastating passion.

In an attempt to possibly avoid the faith - based film curse, its dubious ideologies and a fear of alienating cynical audiences, Captive bolsters the emotional relationship between a psychotic murderer and drug addict, the crucial religious connotations within the narrative, subdued and prosaic.

As well as creating the basis for the cross-continent antics that follow — run - ins with a drug baron (Tomer Sisley, Sleepless Night) and his enforcer (Matthew Willig, The Employer), and unlikely friendships with fellow travellers (Parks and Recreation's Nick Offerman, The Dictator's Kathryn Hahn and Castle's Molly Quinn) among them — this short scene also provides the foundation for the film's thematic arc, one as obvious and over-stated as its narrative.

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Bresson's films are frequently based on literary texts; Hanoun, by way of contrast, begins Une simple histoire with a title card that signals his concern with narrative film's documentary possibilities:

The film, which is based on a narrative poem by Joseph Moncure March, plays out in real time, beginning shortly before the fight, ending shortly after it.

Based on their 2013 short film, Cargo isn't totally free of narrative stretch marks, with some of its intriguing world - building elements, including references to fracking and land exploitation, coming off slightly under - imagined.

«Whitney» Kevin Macdonald (Midnight Screenings) The director of fact - based narrative films («The Last King of Scotland») and documentaries («One Day in September») turns his sights to the glorious art and tragic life of Whitney Houston for one of a small number of documentaries in the Cannes lineup.

Plus, the narrative for one film or another could shift based on the Oscar nominations — if Jordan Peele or Greta Gerwig are snubbed in Best Director, might that galvanize support behind their film in the Best Picture race («The Argo Effect»)?

The film is not an act of journalism, although its dramatized narrative of events, according to the film's coda, is based on the best available testimony of people involved.

That The Prophet may encourage habit - based viewers to broaden their tastes even a little bit after watching the film more than makes up for the occasional kinks in its overall narrative design.

After this run of deeply ruminative, small - scale works, one last major film was still to come; Akerman's final narrative feature film, La folie Almayer (Almayer's Folly, 2011), based on the 1895 novel by Joseph Conrad.

«LETTING GO» A homage to science fiction, this Los Angeles - based short film is seeking two male leads to take the charge in a narrative about «one possible interpretation of the future.»

Brad Pitt and Emma Thompson, will narrate the film... Marcel Ophüls is planning a film about Ernst Lubitsch to star Dustin Hoffman, with Jeanne Moreau as Lubitsch's private secretary... Errol Morris is underway on Holland, Michigan, a narrative feature starring Naomi Watts, Bryan Cranston, and Edgar Ramirez... David Fincher is re-teaming with producer Scott Rudin and writer Aaron Sorkin on a Steve Jobs biopic based on Walter Isaacson's biography and structured around three pivotal moments in Jobs's life... Hot from HBO's True Detective, Cary Fukunaga is directing Idris Elba in Beasts of No Nation, a drama about child soldiers in Ghana...

The film, which won Tribeca's top narrative competition prize, lacks Offside's sense of reckless comedy, but it's similarly specific and intriguing about the role of young women within a single culture — not just Israel's, or even the military, but within this particular Army base, with its complicated relationships and low expectations — while commenting on gender as a larger construct outside these individual walls.

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Red Hook Summer, Lee's latest and the first narrative film he's written (or co-written, in this case with novelist James McBride, who also wrote Lee's little - loved Miracle At St. Anna and the novel it was based upon) since the unholy mess that was 2004's She Hate Me, illustrates why even Lee's fans (including myself) are right to view his intensely personal projects with profound skepticism.

(What's interesting to note, however, is that Trachtenberg's career really began to build traction after he released a short film based on the video game Portal; that game's narrative has more than a few things in common with 10 Cloverfield Lane «s, which I found intriguing.)

Chilean - born Ruiz is a director whose love of storytelling and narrative play is often more engaging than the films themselves but with Mysteries of Lisbon, an epic based on a classic Portuguese novel (one yet untranslated into English), his engagement with the characters and their defining stories guides his direction, and his graceful camerawork and unerring eye for images both classical (like paintings in a cinematic frame) and fluid (his camera moves with purpose and grace) are in the service of the trajectories of the characters.

There is a great narrative associated to Thunder Road: it serves as a brilliant proof of concept project as it was based on the Sundance Grand Jury prize winning short, and serves as a reminder that in this era, regardless of a small budget or limited means — that if you've got a great idea and a team of creative collaborators, you can make a feature film in the month of November and win a major film festival five months later.

I'm sure I watched this movie missing some vital narrative information (I had to run over some plot details with a friend before writing this), but I honestly can't remember the last movie based on source material that felt as impenetrable to an outsider as this film does.

My colleagues at the website Hammer to Nail (where I am lead film critic) have watched the narratives Lemon (a meditation on race and gender starring Michael Cera and Nia Long), Person to Person (a dreamy murder mystery, also with Michael Cera) and the aforementioned Sylvio (based on a popular series of short videos from the «Simply Sylvio» Vine account), and praised them, so I am eager to check them out, myself.

The strong narrative really is a great addition to the series, and I wouldn't be surprised if the Silent Hill film is made based on this game.

If you like the Planet of the Apes reboot films then this game should be on your list of games to experience, for everyone else, if you like cover - based shooters or narrative - driven games then be sure to check it out!

The story missions are all based on sequences from the films with only a little narrative exposition to introduce them and not much else to connect them.

The final game is Brave, based on the Disney Pixar film that explores, while expanding the narrative of the film.

As gamers make matches, cards called CineBits appear along the bottom of the screen, relating to individual movie stars (based on real actors and actresses), narrative pieces and even film bonuses (like happy endings or pre-launch buzz).

The films and photographs that James Collins produced in the 1970s were very much of their moment: like other proponents of so - called Story Art (an overlooked movement that deserves more attention) such as Bill Beckley, Mac Adams and Peter Hutchinson, he created explicitly narrative images in a photographic - based practice.

Brian Bress, a Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker, creates absurd, circularly narrative films driven by the circumstances of a bizarre cast of ridiculously...