Sentences with phrase «of film school students»

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In the film, dozens of Japanese high - school students are placed on an island, given weapons, and forced to kill one another until one person remains.

So I'd suggest adding this terrific film to the curriculum of every Catholic (and indeed every Christian) high school in North America, to remind students what happened in their parents» lifetimes and to inspire them to moral greatness themselves.

The 2009 biographical film about a black high school student adopted by a white Christian family is rated PG - 13 and became something of an evangelical darling when it released, receiving endorsements from Christianity Today and Focus on the Family.

The Houston Press: San Benito Teacher Replaced After Bizarre Classroom Rant About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, UFOs & The Apocalypse A ninth - grade teacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to YouTube.

The L.A. Times has just posted a lengthy expose outlining what several women say was pattern of inappropriate behavior by Franco, who also helped operate a film school called Studio 4, and would offer students the opportunity to star in some of Franco's own projects.

When I made it for a large group of chefs, foodies, nutritionists, dietitians, a marketing maven, art director and budding film school student, everyone wanted to know about the recipe and the nutritionist and the dietitian were torn between who was going to get to take the leftovers home.

Based on the classic film, School Of Rock brings Dewey Finn and his students to life, as they set out to win Battle of the BandOf Rock brings Dewey Finn and his students to life, as they set out to win Battle of the Bandof the Bands.

In the film, leaders from all sides of the school food debate, including government officials, school foodservice experts, activists, and students, weigh in on the program and discuss ways to continue nourishing America's children for another 60 years.

Inspired by the Oscar - winning film «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» Kat Sullivan, a former Emma Willard student who was raped by her history teacher at the elite Troy private school, rented out three electronic billboards — one of which is in Albany — to highlight her experience and support the Child Victims Act.

A combination of Buffalo public, private and charter school students gathered to watch an award - winning anti-bullying film Thursday.

Where possible, I have tried to film actual examples of geographic phenomena, as too many school textbooks are too theoretical for students to really get a true understanding.

I am crazy enough to decide after many years of work for the same company that life is about making dreams come true - which led me to becoming a film school student at the age of 30; — RRB - This is what I am actually loo..

A 2001 study of high school students conducted by Harvard University found Look, I should first say that I don't have any problem with Internet pornography or adult film actresses.

Exposing a different side of Shrek (only brief buttock nudity is seen), the movie sidesteps some of the sexual innuendos played out in previous films, however it depicts a group of high school students stumbling out of a smoke - filled chariot where they've been sharing a joint between classes.

Unlike the previous generation of American filmmakers, Tarantino learned his craft from his days as a video clerk, rather than as a film school student.

She is determined to nurture «from the inside» a project of civil rights education, but her Guarani - speaking high - school students resist her civics lessons - and she quickly learns that gaining their trust won't be an easy task.These subtly illuminating encounters reverberate in the aftermath of the central event of the film - a harrowing sexual assault by a group of young men.

In addition, one of the organization's core values is identifying new talent and nurturing young filmmakers by awarding promising talent with «Directorial Debut» and «Breakthrough Actor» awards as well as grants to rising film students and by facilitating community outreach through the support of organizations such as The Ghetto Film School, Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, and Educational Video Center.

Both films follow a group of students (in 1980, Maureen Teefy, Irene Cara, Paul McCrane, and Barry Miller are the stand outs, in 2009, it's Kay Panabaker, Naturi Naughton, Walter Perez, and Paul Iacono) through their four years at a prestigious New York performance arts school where they learn to act, sing and dance.

The inspiration of the story came from an article Michael Ardnt (who wrote the film) read in a newspaper, where Arnold Schwarzenegger was quoted speaking to a group of high school students: «If there's one thing in this world I hate, it's losers.

The Strangers In about as simple a horror film premise as a high school screenwriting student might come up with, this night out with Scott Speedman («Felicity,» «Anamorph») and Liv Tyler («The Lord of the Rings» series) hits the standard horror buttons to ensure a spectrum of shocks so that inveterate genre fans won't won't be demanding their money back.

Even the film's petty villains — a pair of fellow female students narcissistically absorbed in their own beauty in a failed effort to age up that tired high school trope — are mean simply for the sake of being mean, not driven by any pathos or motivation beyond Deanna being... older, I guess?

The existence of God becomes a major concern for the film's protagonist, 10 - year - old Catholic school student Joshua Beal (newcomer Joseph Cross, in a promising debut) after his beloved grandfather (Robert Loggia) dies of bone marrow cancer.

It's not the most promising way to kick things off (Brewer uses it to illustrate the deadly, post-party car crash that incites the no - song - and - dance law in the film's setting of Bomont, Tennessee), but its poor impression doesn't last long, as Brewer makes quick work of establishing a liberal and plausible adolescent atmosphere in which Big & Rich can be listened to just after Wiz Khalifa, an antagonist is offhandedly chewed out for using the word «fag,» and the black students nearly outnumber the white students in the high school hallways.

Following the events of the first film, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Taylor Johnson) has retired from being the vigilante, Kick Ass, and has returned to life as a high - school student while Mindy Macready (Chloe Grace Moretz) is struggling being a student pining to return to life as Hit Girl.

The film tells the story of a young and brilliant veterinarian student, Justine (played with surprising depth by Garance Marillier), who must adapt to the extreme hazing that goes on at her school.

The Toby Maguire films featured a Peter Parker that was a Teenager in high school for all of about 20 minutes of the first movie before a time jump happened and he became a college student and then later seemingly just an adult.

Set in the»60s, that halcyon era of political action and cultural definition evoked in Sayles» first film, this story of an ambitious Jewish high school student's affair with a dapper Italian - American petty criminal renders assimilationist concerns through the tender prism of a love story.

Based on the nonfiction book compiled by Long Beach high school teacher Erin Gruwell from the writings of her economically - challenged and scholastically - underserved students taken from their diaries, Freedom Writers is a formula feel - good film about one teacher's near - quixotic quest to get her students to learn something about themselves, and about others, in order to not be swallowed up by the negativity surrounding them.

The film sees Kalu take on a community leadership role as traditional Hawaian burial sites are disturbed; Kalu's status Kumu sees her teach her male high school students as they prepare for a end of performance, accompanied by sixth grade tomboy Ho'onani, who is also «in the middle» like Kalu.

I certainly don't think my own career as a high - school teacher, a student at a fine college, now a film reviewer could attract the kind of crowd that Donald Trump seems to dig up.

Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

Biracial, militant radical film student Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) hosts a controversial radio show called Dear White People where she routinely calls out the racist practices of her school and its White student body.

When I shot one of my first 16 mm short films as a student, the light meter that I checked out from school was broken.

Boxcar Bertha (Twilight Time, Blu - ray)-- Martin Scorsese was just another college film school grad with a student feature under his belt (Who's That Knocking at My Door) when producer Roger Corman tapped him to direct AIP's entry in the Bonnie and Clyde craze of depression era gangster films.

Adrien Brody is currently shooting Detachment in New York (Queens and Long Island), a film that chronicles the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students as told through the eye of a substitute teacher.

This Picnic draws from the same source material as Weir's seminal 1975 film: the fallout of the Valentine's Day 1900 disappearance and presumed death of three students and a teacher from the Appleyard College girls school.

Starring Saoirse Ronan as the eponymous high school student over her senior year as she navigates filial, romantic, and platonic relationships in the staid environs of Sacramento, it is one of the sweetest and most deeply felt films of the year.

On Wednesday night, March 16 at 5 pm, the Napa Valley Film Festival presented the 2015 Jury award winning film Romeo is Bleeding to an audience of roughly 200 Napa Valley community members, including teachers, high school students, and parents.

As the most socially relevant genre film of the year, The Dirties should be (but won't) essential viewing for every teacher, school administrator and high school student in the country.

And for every Superbad, there are four or five lesser films like Project X. And sure, occasionally you'll get a high school movie that actually has something to say about the academic and societal pressures of being a student (Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow is a great example), but even that focused primarily on male characters.

The New York Film Academy is a purveyor of great cinematography of any genre, but faculty staff at the filmmaking school particularly enjoy a good film noir, especially when using it to teach students the nuances of expressionism.

Directed by Lewie Kloster, a student at NYU Tisch School of the Arts where the film's subject works as a professor, Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy is an animated audio recording of Christine as she recounts her affinity for cigarettes.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening September 25, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Fame (PG for mature themes, teen drinking, sexuality and mild epithets) Remake of the 1980 classic revolving around the aspirations of students at NYC's School for the Performing Arts as they prepare for professional careers in dance, music and acting.

Charlize Theron, meanwhile, presented Allen Daviau — an Oscar nominee for films like E.T., The Color Purple, The Empire of the Sun and Bugsy — with the Lifetime Achievement Award, while the ASC John Alonzo Heritage Award — named in honor of the cinematographer of such classics as Harold and Maude, Norma Rae and Scarface — was presented to a pair of student filmmakers, Brian Melton from the North Carolina School of the Arts and Lyle Vincent from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

A minor character in the first film, Remi's the lead here: An entomologist working as an inner - city school teacher, she's shocked to discover the bug men are back and valiantly protects a pair of students against them.

The Sundance Institute George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation Student Screenings Program offers Utah high school and junior high students the opportunity to participate in one of the world's top film festivals.

The film, which chronicles the rise to prominence of a band consisting of three high - school students and Robert «Fish» Fishman (Mr. Wilson), nearly works in spite of itself.

Meanwhile, though she may not be a particularly strong student (her school adviser cracks up when Lady Bird simply mentions Yale), the film never condescends to any of her dreams, be they falling in love or wishing to surround herself with kindred spirits in someplace like New York City.

The film centres on high - school student Charley Brewster (Star Trek's Anton Yelchin), who correctly suspects that his mysterious next - door neighbour, Jerry (Colin Farrell), is a vampire responsible for a string of murders.

A coming - of - age film about a California high school student who seeks to escape from her family and small town by going to college in New York.