Sentences with phrase «only film centering»

Get Out was the only film centering on a person of color to score a Best Picture nomination but it showed up big in the major categories, with three additional nominations: Director, Lead Actor, and Original Screenplay.

Not exact matches

Head to your local science center and check out NASA's new short film showcasing the frozen portions of the earth known as the cryosphere, which includes not only glaciers and permafrost but also frozen lakes and rivers and areas with seasonal snowfall.

«Guess Who» is a dry comedy, a remake of the classic «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner» (1967), only this time, it has a race role reversal, where the original film was about a white family meeting a black man, this film centers around a black family meeting a white man.

Having the film centered around a very little girl isn't only just a fun way to tell a story, it also cleverly elaborates on the fears of being young and making your own stamp on this world.

And if a woman - centered film does flop, why do you blame only female filmgoers?

Isabelle's love life is at the center of the film, but there is always a sense that it's conducted in the frantic margins of her actual life, in the parentheses when her daughter — viewed only once, briefly — is staying with dad, the clock always ticking.

At the center of the film, however, is a story that not only functions as true continuation of the events in the original, allowing the characters to grow and change in different ways than the first chapter, it's surprisingly emotionally engaging and resonant.

Bang is at the center of the film (Moss appears in only a handful of scenes), and he's a sympathetic figure, a perfectly nice guy contributing to the decline of Western Civilization.

Though immigration is an issue front and center not only in Europe, but also on these shores, the company sees the feature first and foremost as an art film as opposed to a political one.

If his performance is a bit too self - contained (Terry's feeling for Alice is expressed only once, in a spontaneous, but carefully tender kiss), his effortless charisma is still sufficient to give the film a center of gravity.

Only two years after Return of the Jedi and one year after Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, this film centered itself in the middle of the golden age of blockbusters.

So it's not surprising to find him at the center of this brooding, melancholy, almost despairing X-Men film set in a future world where bad things not only might happen, they're pretty much guaranteed.

Submergence's globetrotting only succeeds at exposing the hollowness of the characters at the film's center.

It is movingly fitting that one of the only superhuman - based films centered on women (in this case, generations of women with Gugu Mbatha - Raw and her growing star power, underrated television character actor Lorraine Toussaint, and youngster Saniyya Sidney bonding and making amends while also going even further back reading ancestral passages from a handed diary) focuses -LSB-...]

San Andreas actually apes The Day After Tomorrow so closely that at times, it feels like Cuse just took the latter film's script, cut - and - replaced all instances of «storm» with «earthquake» and «runs from cold» with «runs from opening fissures,» and called it a day — like Tomorrow, the film centers on a father's unlikely determination to cross a disaster zone to save an adult child, with only a minimal idea of where his kid might be in a city approaching a population of 1 million.

McConaughey's performance at the center of this thought - provoking drama is the film's greatest asset, as he transforms himself not only into an unlikeable (defiantly, but not uncommonly, homophobic) character in Woodroof, but also has dropped a great deal of weight (a little over three dozen lbs.)

According to the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, over the past three years, only 1 to 2 percent of composers working on the top 250 films at the box office were women.

The following film introduced a corny «Man in Black» that was protecting Michael, a storyline that played front and center for the 6th film, where we learned that Michael was part of a druid cult that favored incest (oh, and that Michael only appeared when the stars aligned in a certain pattern).

It strikes a sweet balance between embarrassment and affection that the film maintains throughout — one that not only allows us to embrace this freakish figure at the center of the film but mirrors the very emotion that has made The Room a lasting cult joy.

In fact, watching terrorists crash the President's plane into a New York City skyscraper can only evoke images of Sept. 11, 2001 when viewed today, and Plissken's landing atop one of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers is another scene that takes on new significance given America's real life history in the years that followed the film's release.

Written and directed by Bobby Miller, the film stars Johnny Galecki, Anna Friel, Kyle Gallner, Anjelica Houston, and Oliver Platt; watch it here... «The Master Cleanse centers on a heartbroken man who attends a spiritual retreat, only to discover -LSB-...]

The other mom - com storylines fare only mildly better at centering their conflicts around parental relationships, which is like saying a Fast and Furious film includes a single car chase.

(That latter point also shows how the recurring sight of billboards for the Broadway musical Rent — whose tagline, «no day but today,» is not only fairly synonymous with this film's title, but whose plot also centers around life - changing interpersonal bonds forged in the isolating environment of NYC — to be another sly, savvy detail.)

The only branch of the world - renowned arts complex Lincoln Center to shine a light on the everlasting yet evolving importance of the moving image, this nonprofit organization was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international film.

Nevertheless, the film (which played at the New York and Toronto film festivals last year) isn't opening commercially in Chicago but is showing only twice at the Film Center, as the opening attraction in the tenth annual Women in the Director's Chair film and video festival.

Documentarian Laura Poitras not only offers a complete overview of all the facts but gets under the skin of the issue by closely tracking the emotional transformation of the controversial figure at the center of her film.

It's only a matter of time before Johansson will make another film putting her front and center on Oscar's radar.

Other films that we admire, but didn't quite make the cut included Alison Mclean «s «Jesus» Son» featuring awesome performances by Billy Crudup and Samatha Morton as drug - addict adult - lescents in the 1970s, Stephen Daldry «s celebratory boyhood - meets - ballet drama, «Billy Elliot,» Lars Von Trier's comedic docu - like dogme film «Idioterne» («The Idiots,» made in 1998 but only released in the U.S. in 2000), Steven Soderbergh «s economic and no - nonsense «Erin Brockovich,» Stephen Frears «manchild, record store - centered love story, «High Fidelity,» Terence Davies ««The House of Mirth» featuring an excellent Gillian Anderson turn, and perhaps Neil LaBute «s best film, tellingly one he didn't write, the dreamy and odd, «Nurse Betty.»

I can only imagine what Dunkirk looks and sounds like on a huge digital IMAX screen, or projected in the detail - rich 70 mm film format (as it will be at one theater in the KC area — AMC Town Center 20).

Seeing the Dora Milaje working together at the film's center — and knowing this is only the beginning of their story — has proven a thrill for many viewers.

«The film centers on an antiques collector who inherits a house from his estranged mother only to discover that she had been living in a shrine devoted to a mysterious cult of angels.

The film centers on four lifelong friends (Thomas Jane, Rob Lowe, Jeremy Piven, and Christian McKay) that gather for their annual get - together in Big Sur, only...

It's also worth noting that earlier Thursday, the San Diego State Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film released its annual report on the state of the film industry and found that the percentage of women directing films in the domestic top 205 for box office actually dropped in 2016, down from 9 to only 7 percent.

That the cast is played by actual teenagers (centered on the dramatically challenged Justice) and some barely in their twenties instead of older actors who only pass as teens to those years removed from high school underscores the film's target and its limited appeal for adult audiences, who can easily enjoy films like Mean Girls and Superbad.

Despite evidence to the contrary, both here and on our main site, you may be forgiven for thinking the folks at the Film Society of Lincoln Center are the only ones throwing a film festival right now.

Casting Willem Dafoe as the moral center and largely only established star in the film (he's collected a slew of award - season recognition alone including from the Golden Globes, SAG and Critics» Choice), Baker went for fresh faces in order to give a grounded, sincere sense of drama, specifically Bria Vinaite and Prince, who play a mother and young daughter, respectively, dancing at the end of a string to make ends meet.

Like the Staten Island educator at the center of this film, The Kindergarten Teacher pushes boundaries and crosses lines as it navigates its way through a tricky story of a five - year - old boy (newcomer Parker Sevak), who shows an unreal gift for poetry, and his teacher, Lisa (a career - best performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also one of the film's producers), who struggles in her adult - education class to be a poet as well, if only to add a bit of culture to a home life that offers her little by way of intellectual stimulation.

As someone who used to sit on the floor of his bedroom and obsessively - compulsively organize his comics collection across multiple long boxes, I can still remember a time when the only remotely decent superhero films were the ones centered on Superman and Batman.

The most enthusiastically received discovery in the competition was not a film, but an actor — Austrian Christoph Waltz, previously known only in his own country for stage, television, and film appearances, who proved the galvanizing center of Quentin Tarantino's ambitious World War II adventure yarn, «Inglourious Basterds.»

According to Production Weekly, director Josh Boone's film is being referred to as «Growing Pains,» which seems only fitting, as the story centers on the teen students at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters as they come into their own.

The Dolby 5.1 soundtrack is fine, with no problems to report on, though the mix is largely front / center - based and only really boosted by Ford's bird hunting scene and plenty of female pop tunes (full list here; despite the film's title and tagline, there's as much as Oasis here as in Definitely Maybe, which is none).

Only Dean's girlfriend Cadence (Maika Monroe, strong as the film's moral center) really supports him without reservation; she's the observant outsider who can see through all the familial drama and suggest that there's something darker underneath Henry's business practices when she tags along to help him sell seeds.

Black Panther may be Coogler's first superhero movie, but in truth, the heroes at the center of his films, including Oscar Grant, have always felt bigger than their real - life counterparts, if only because of Coogler's willingness to lean into treating them like the heroes of a movie.

The only known details of the film's plot, via its IMDb description, are that it centers on a group of scientists that must survive on an isolated space station when an experiment involving a particle accelerator results in something horrific.

Clearly, some teachers — like those who are blogging and podcasting with their students (see Room 208 as an example), or those who are engaged in creating documentary films with their students (see the Educational Video Center as an example)-- are already making this shift, and our support could only enhance what they are already doing.

Only while watching the film a third time, did it dawn on me that, with the capability of 360 - degree video, it was completely possible to turn my head and not look at the gro - tesque sight in the center of the film.

Wexner Center members save on film tickets and enjoy member - only film screenings.

Stop by the member table or bar during the films to get yours (cash only); mugs are also available at the Wexner Center Store and Seventh Son Brewing.

Only while watching the film a third time, did it dawn on me that, with the capability of 360 - degree video, it was completely possible to turn my head and not look at the grotesque sight in the center of the film.

→ Cindy Sherman at Wexner Center In finding an artist to close out its year of showing only women artists — 37 in total — the Wexner Center for the Arts could hardly do better than Cindy Sherman, who has spent her decades - long career in photography and film presenting a multitude of women.