Sentences with phrase «of fictional film»

In a recent project, Hunting for Pheasants, currently on view at Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA, Tomaszewski created a series of fictional film posters based on famous assassinations and installed them within a space negotiated by threading through a knee - high maze.

Not exact matches

How production designer Hannah Beachler brought the fictional land of Wakanda to life in the hit film Black Panther.

«The Interview,» the Sony Pictures film about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, opened in more than 300 movie theaters across the United States on Christmas Day, drawing many sell - out audiences and statements by patrons that they were championing freedom of expression.

Black Panther is the first standalone film to focus on the titular character, the superhero alias of King T'Challa of the fictional country Wakanda, portrayed by actor Chadwick Boseman.

This one will be hard to stomach if you actually watch it, but as one of the first ever «found - footage» horror movies, about a fictional documentary crew shooting a film in the Amazon, it has been hugely influential.

(Avnet said the studio created a real website to build a mythology for the film's titular «Sickhouse,» a fictional home they gave a frightening backstory, while encouraging the movie's stars to casually drop mentions of the fake legend in the days leading up to the Snapchat release.)

The people who claimed responsibility for the hack have said on Internet postings that they were incensed by the Sony Pictures film «The Interview,» a comedy about a fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The nickname came from a fictional terrorist in the 1971 Frederick Forsyth novel, «The Day of the Jackal,» which was turned into a popular film.

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

The film features a fictional, highly - advanced African country known as Wakanda, whose vast wealth and prosperity are derived almost exclusively from the mining of a rare, fantastical metal called vibranium.

Most laughable of all the film's many fictional scenes dressed up as fact is a visit by Mr. Churchill to the London Subway.

«Deep down we all hoped that people would come to see a film about a fictional country on the continent of Africa, made up of a cast of people of African descent.

I bet I'll end up CNN faster than a Michael Moore interview of his next fictional film.

The actual road isn't exactly fictional — the images come from the set and soundstage of the Harry Potter films at Warner Bros..

THERE IS nothing saccharine about Sugar, a film that traces the journey of fictional Dominican pitcher Miguel (Sugar) Santos as he tries to yank his family out of poverty with his killer curveball and major league aspirations.

• The sequence was filmed at Heinz Field last August in front of 10,000 extras who were asked to wear Steelers black and gold — which are also the fictional Gotham Rogues» colors.

Theresa May is said to have been presented with a «Love Actually» moment this week: taking Hugh Grant's lead and giving President Trump the sort of tongue lashing the fictional US president received in the film.

The imagining of fictional cityscapes and buildings have influenced the built environment, much in the same way as architecture captures the imagination of film makers and movie goers everywhere.

The film presents a fictional virus, a construct devised by Columbia University epidemiologist Ian Lipkin, vectoring its way across the planet, killing millions of the fecklessly unprepared and leaving social havoc and innumerable bodies in its wake.

Directed by Berlin - based filmmaker Felix Randau, the $ 4 million film is a fictional account of Ötzi's life, all in an invented language with no subtitles.

«We are now a step closer to the implementation of a fictional idea for a smart contact lens in the films, like «Minority Report» and «Mission: Impossible.»

No, Sophie is fictional, as are all of the characters in our film.

The film, a fusion of documentary and drama directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, is a fictional re-creation of the 20,000 th day of Mr. Cave's life, when he started recording his 2013 album, «Push the Sky Away.»

This wry, wonderfully detailed film catches the enormous imbalance of a morose teen with no life experience other than the thousands of fictional and pop - culture references that fill his head and his room: A sketch of Woody Allen's head hangs over Oliver's bed.

Working with Hollywood producers John Chambers (John Goodman) and Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin), Mendez created an entirely fictional feature film production with the name of «Argo.»

But rather than get an answer to this riddle, you'll be even more dumbfounded, because the fictional billionaire in Miguel Arteta's film from Mike White's screenplay is your basic narcissist who might be on the wavelength of people in his 0.1 % circle of Americans but could hardly win the vote of the down - and - out.

While Brashear is based on a real - life person and Sunday is a fictional character (a composite of various embodied obstacles in Brashear's Navy career), in George (Soul Food) Tillman Jr.'s film, they come together in a neatly choreographed dance of righteous nobility in the face of ignorance and fear.

It won two jury awards at Sundance, and arguably an appreciation for Nick Cave the artist would influence any viewer's perception of 20,000 Days On Earth, but what really affects ones viewing of this film is entering into it and viewing it as a documentary disguised as a fictional film, or a fictional film disguised as a documentary.

Will Gluck's Peter Rabbit opens as one might expect for an animated / live - action film based on the misadventures of Beatrix Potter's beloved fictional animal character: with a flock of birds gliding through the sky and singing a pretty little tune worthy of Julie Andrews.

He started out in 1963 by producing a fictional feature film, The Cool World, an examination of the lives of Harlem teenagers.

In any other fictional film if you have bad characters, underdeveloped elements, and sloppy narrative you simply get a bad piece of fiction.

A lonely Japanese woman (Rinko Kikuchi) becomes convinced that a satchel of money buried and lost in a fictional film, is in fact, real.

First fictional film about the 3/11 tsunami that devastated the Northeast coast of Japan, directed by the L'enfant terrible of Japanese Cinema - Sion Sono.

It's a horror flick afraid of its own audience, as lost in its own geography as the fictional film crew in The Blair Witch Project.

Whether historically based or completely fictional, three films since 2011 have focused on the life and times of Abraham Lincoln.

Forest Whitaker might have turned in an Academy Award - worthy performance as Idi Amin in «King of Scotland» but it was McAvoy in a fictional role that kept the film bio on its unsteady dramatic feet.

Told in flashback, the film consists of Chaplin's responses to questioning by fictional publisher George Hayden, who wants to know about the parts left out of the legend's autobiographical book.

An incoherent film presenting a fictional story that does little to do justice to one of the world's greatest scientists.

It's an extremely silly device that pulls you out of the film every time it cuts back to him, although Petit is so self - absorbed and flamboyant (constantly jostling to be the center of attention) that it makes perfect sense that even his fictional self would be this theatrical.

The pulp - fictional hero is inhabited by the charismatic Andy Lau who, together with Chinese stars Bingbing Li, Ms. Lau and Tony Leung Ka - fai, makes Detective Dee the most purely entertaining film of our vanishing summer.

And the woes of the film's fictional African country aren't anything we haven't seen before.

German / Austrian director Michael Haneke has become notorious for making films that are, essentially, extended meditations on discomfort, in which the lives of his fictional characters are marred by unspeakable violence and the minds of the audience are jarred by self - reflexive story twists.

Taken a from a point of narration by Chaplin during an interview with a fictional character played by Hopkins the film simply takes you through Chaplin's life from one event to another although with many gaps.

Hoffman's presence as a familiar face gives us a personality to latch onto, that of the man whose support in countless fictional films we relied upon.

Excerpts from the note read — «I am struggling to find the words to express my gratitude at this moment, but I will try... Deep down we all hoped that people would come to see a film about a fictional country on the continent of Africa, made up of a cast of people of African descent.

They are films that are either documentaries or real life dramas that take the basic true elements of a story and put it in a fictional setting.

It's not that the film is hard to follow, it's just that writer - director - star Ben Affleck took the «everything and the kitchen sink» approach to telling the two - hour - plus story of fictional mobster Joe Coughlin, and it didn't work.

Yet what the film lacks is the substance of its progenitor, the concreteness of a certain visual grammar and narrative originality The Matrix used to transform itself into a work of surprising science - fictional elegance.

Legendary film composer John Williams, the man behind the music for all six Star Wars films and master of the science fictional leitmotif, will return to score Star Wars: Episode VII!

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.