Sentences with phrase «of short stories features»

This radiant collection of short stories features a set of flawed yet sympathetic women in a whole mess of compromising positions....

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This collection of short stories by a National Book award - winning writer, «feature telepathic zoo animals, a zealous toy collector and an eavesdropping Abraham Lincoln,» reports the FT.. Other commentators agree it's a whole lot of fun, while still managing to be moving and insightful.

Match has introduced video elements on a few of its properties — Match.com now has a «stories» feature, and Tinder users in certain countries can experiment with short «loops» — but video is still relatively uncommon in the online - dating world.

The short stories fare better, from the stories of The Company She Keeps to «The Cicerone,» a Jamesian tale of Americans in Europe that features a biting portrait of Peggy Guggenheim.

«Long story short, this guy is a walking encyclopedia of the features of these pieces of equipment, and [he] understands how these features are relevant to the applications,» he continues.

The latest feature we're introducing is «Three in Five», a chance to catch up with some of the biggest (and smallest) stories in a short space of time.

The three short pieces feature «SouthSide Sailor Scouts» (think: Beyonce - meets - Selena - meets song, dance and stories), Peter Carpenter's «Rituals of Abundance for Lean Times # 7: Divisions of Labor» (one part humorous and two parts conversation starter) and The Hypocrites» «Midsummer Dream» (a retelling of Shakespeare's most popular comedy as told by four actors, who also double as production designers).

But long story short, the main difference is that we just keep improving our models to offer more of the features moms and dads want.

NOVA also produces digital short features for Facebook (the program has more than a million Facebook followers) and posts lots of stories on its NOVA Next online site that are quite separate from the content of its broadcast programs.

Looking back, my own favourites are simple, short reports, such as, «Last days of the Spike», a feature about the closure of an institution for the homeless, and a page 1 news story, «Schools escape clause 28 in «gay ban» fiasco», which upset a bunch of bigots.

I posted a short video of myself on my stories explaining that I wanted them to help me choose my outfit for fashion week and shared photos of two coat options — so as not to give away the whole look — and I then used Instagram's handy poll feature to ask my followers if I should wear a furry black and grey jacket with cropped sleeves or if I should opt for a teddy bear style - eggplant colored coat.

Match.com also revealed it would be launching a stories feature this summer, allowing singles to stitch together short video clips to form a dating profile story, limited to 60 seconds, that can be a mixture of photos and video, and can include a voiceover.

Deniz Gamze Ergüven, who makes her feature debut as writer - director after a couple of short films, tells the story exclusively from the girls» point of view — both emotionally, as they have all our sympathy, and physically, as almost nothing happens that one of them could not be seeing.

He was adamant that the story premise of Free Fire could not be done as a feature film and was, at best, the sort of material for a 20 - minute shoot - em - up short.

It's trippier than «Ex Machina,» and Garland makes a valiant go of its concerns, but «Annihilation» feels like a short - story amount of story pulled and twisted into feature length.

The children's book it's based on is something like 30 pages long — far too short to be adapted into a feature — and it has no story to speak of.

The story campaign entertains and the multiplayer modes entice you to come back after the credits roll, but the out - of - place melee segments, polish issues, and dropped features from the first game make it fall short.

Her feature - length debut, 2013's «It Felt Like Love,» focused on the bumpy trajectory of an introverted teenage woman exploring her urges with dangerous results; with the markedly similar «Beach Rats,» Hittman brings the same tropes to the plight of a young man in a film that has the precision of a great short story and the uneasiness of body horror.

This film features adaptations of three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe.

In extending a short story to feature length without embellishing it — at least in the plotting — Loktev suffuses the film with the kind of intimate, microscopic detail and observation that's more common to literature than cinema.

Based on short stories from the 2009 collection «Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It» by American writer Maile Meloy, Reichardt's latest feature, Certain Women, displays the struggle for connection of three women whose loneliness mirrors the economic and spiritual malaise gripping a part of 21st century America.

The battling factions are core to the story, which features weapons use, stabbings and hand - to - hand combat with blood effects, although the visuals stop short of becoming explicit.

For whatever reason, Warner Brothers packaged Jammin'the Blues, one of the greatest short films ever made, alongside Michael Curtiz's feature length Passage to Marseille (1944), a thoroughly mediocre military melodrama so desperate to replicate the success of Curtiz's earlier masterpiece Casablanca (1942) that it reuses most of the principal cast and some of the same story beats about lovers torn apart by war and self - centered anti-heroes who come to learn the importance of self - sacrifice.

A brief yet action packed little story that looks at what happens to the Chitauri weapons following the events of AVENGERS, it's a fun little bonus, though unlike the previous Marvel One - Shots from the THOR & CAPTAIN AMERICA Blu - ray releases, it does suffer due to the lack of Clark Gregg as agent Phil Coulson, who previously helped bridge the gap between the feature films and the shorts.

Official Synopsis: A series of interconnected short films follows a washed - up producer as he pitches insane story lines featuring some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

But while «On Chesil Beach» offers the conventional pleasures of an engaging story and handsome production values and actors, this debut feature from Dominic Cooke falls short of its potential.

The best biopics always feature a short snippet of an iconic person's life and there is plenty of drama in the story with Travers ultimately being disappointed with the film version of «Mary Poppins».

Special Features Andrei Tarkovsky's short film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's «The Killers,» made when he was a student in 1956 Interview from 2002 with writer Stuart M. Kaminsky about both films Piece from 2002 in which actor Stacy Keach reads Hemingway's short story «Screen Directors»» Playhouse radio adaptation from 1949 of the 1946 film, starring Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters Interview from 2002 with actor Clu Gulager Audio excerpt from director Don Siegel's autobiography, «A Siegel Film,» read by actor and director Hampton Fancher Trailers PLUS: Essays by novelist Jonathan Lethem and critic Geoffrey O'Brien

For the supplemental materials, there's an excerpt from the documentary Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema; Blow - Up of «Blow - Up», a new documentary about the film; two interviews with David Hemmings, one on the set of Only When I Larf from 1968, and the other on the TV show City Lights from 1977; 50 Years of Blow - Up: Vanessa Redgrave / Philippe Garner, a 2016 SHOWstudio interview; an interview with actress Jane Birkin from 1989; Antonioni's Hypnotic Vision, featuring two separate pieces about the film: Modernism and Photography; both the teaser and theatrical trailers for the film; and a 68 - page insert booklet containing an essay on the film by David Forgacs, an updated 1966 account of the film's shooting by Stig Björkman, a set of questionnaires that the director distributed to photographers and painters while developing the film, the 1959 Julio Cortázar short story on which the film is loosely based, and restoration details.

Like the others, Berlin, I Love You will feature short stories of romance, this time set in the German capital.

Maclean's long - awaited second feature is based on American novelist Denis Johnson's collection of short stories of the same title.

Based on a James Joyce short story featured in The Dubliners, The Dead (1987) is one of his most exquisite works, a perfect cinematic short story attuned to the rituals and touchy relationships of family and friends gathering in early twentieth century Dublin to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany.

Misher's previous credits include It's Kind of a Funny Story and The Scorpion King, while Muschietti is coming off his feature directorial debut with Mama (after first directing a short film of the same name).

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...

Heder has most recently been writing and story editing on Orange Is The New Black, and Tallulah marks her feature writing / directing debut, after a couple of short films.

We started it thinking it would be a short film and then it tuned into a six - year feature film because of the multiple story arcs.»

Extras: Two audio commentaries from 2003, one featuring director Ken Russell and the other screenwriter and producer Larry Kramer; segments from a 2007 interview with Russell for the BAFTA Los Angeles Heritage Archive; «A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible,» Russell's 1989 biopic on his own life and career; interview from 1976 with actor Glenda Jackson; interviews with Kramer and actors Alan Bates and Jennie Linden from the set; new interviews with director of photography Billy Williams and editor Michael Bradsell; «Second Best,» a 1972 short film based on a D. H. Lawrence story, produced by and starring Bates; trailer; an essay by scholar Linda Ruth Williams.

Cielo Description: The first feature from Alison McAlpine, director of the beautiful 2008 «nonfiction ghost story» short Second Sight, is a dialogue with the heavens — in this case, the heavens above Read More →

The Eyes of My Mother feels like a short story / film that was inappropriately stretched into a feature.

The Film Comment Presents section, an annual feature at NYFF for the last five years, will present Sergei Loznitsa's «A Gentle Creature,» a new film inspired by a Dostoevsky short story, along with a series of panels and discussions.

Stonehearst Asylum gets its origin from a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, «The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether», which has somehow been beefed up to a sprawling 112 - minute feature stacked with a formidable selection of British thespians.

As an example, see if anything here comes as a surprise: Warmind includes a small number of short story missions that feature new palette - swapped bad guys and an inconsequential and borderline incoherent story.

The best short films, like the best short stories, have the power and scope of feature - length films.

There's a whole raft of supplementary content, some on the same disc as the feature (the Day & Night short that complemented Toy Story 3's theatrical release, for example), but most on a separate second BD disc.

The three - disc Blu - ray edition features the 69 - minute «Secrets of The Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey,» which chronicles the production from the development of the story through filming, and a collection of shorter featurettes, all under ten minutes apiece.

Also ported over are features on the history and development of «Tarzan,» among them segments on the Deep Canvas Process, Production Progression Demonstration, three publicity trailers, From Burroughs to Disney, an Early Presentation Reel, a short feature on the Research Trip to Uganda, six segments on creating The Characters of Tarzan, a three - minute bit on The Making of the Music, Building the Story and Storyboard to Film featurettes, 10 minutes of deleted and alternate scenes, and a couple tidbits on the international / intercontinental aspects of «Tarzan.»

The film, based on a series of short stories from Maile Meloy, features a remarkable quartet of women including Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams and newcomer Lily Gladstone.

A delightful debut that's all the more valuable for giving a voice to an underrepresented segment of the female Turkish population, Erguven's debut directorial feature (she has a few credits as an actor and a couple of short films prior to this) is a lovely story of spirited girlhood and rebellion.

Partisan marks the feature directing debut of Ariel Kleiman, who made the short films Young Love and Deeper than Yesterday, and this coming - of - age story looks like a compelling tale.

There isn't enough story here to sustain a full - length feature, and Shyamalan probably would have been better served making this the first short in an anthology film (indeed, it is rather reminiscent of a «Twilight Zone» episode, «Five Characters in Search of an Exit»), rather than stretch it out with weaker side stories and needless characters.