Sentences with phrase «ordinary film about»

At first glance, the film, with its lovingly appointed interiors and its excerpts of poetry on the soundtrack, might strike you as a dull and dutiful enshrinement of Dickinson's brilliance, another ordinary film about an extraordinary artist.

Critical accolades notwithstanding, this is a rather ordinary film about an ordinary man who met an extraordinary one, or at least claimed to.

Without that, all we're left with is just an ordinary film about an ordinary man, and for about 80 % of the film's running length, it sure feels like it.

Not exact matches

This is the movie trailer for The Ordinary Radicals, a film about a...

Many viewers will be turned off by the film altogether, as it is surreal and stylized, with even ordinary conversations about ordinary things getting the Wes Anderson treatment.

A film about ordinary people - perhaps they get a bit angrier about their lot in life than some of us do.

In short, Wonderland is an extraordinary film, as entertaining as it is observant, about ordinary people.

So says professional killer Jackie Cogan at one point in Killing Them Softly, the third film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik - and considering the filmmaker's efforts to establish a connection between the events in the movie and the economic crisis started in the late 2000s thanks to the greed and lack of scruples of Wall Street, it is easy to see Cogan as an ordinary employee of any company complaining about the lack of vision of his bosses and, on the other hand, the big bankers as Armani - dressing versions of the violent mobsters who inhabit the crime section of the newspapers.

Directed by veteran filmmaker Martin Campbell (who will be helming Green Lantern next), it's a revenge film about a father who discovers his murdered daughter's life was anything but ordinary.

Whilst Jane Campion has a tradition of making films about women in a men's world, I felt this film failed to be a hard hitting feminist discourse, mainly because the story was so ordinary.

Liman and his successor, Paul Greengrass, reasoned that deliberately chaotic shooting and editing could transform an otherwise ordinary fistfight or rooftop sprint into something disorienting and, when done well, pretty exciting, and the Bourne films handle that sort of cut - and - paste mania better than just about any film not directed by Tony Scott.

Who else could've made an interesting film about an uninteresting man if not Leigh, the expert of finding gloriousness in moments of ordinary being?

One thing we need to know about African - American experience is the minutiae: there should be films that present the ordinary, everyday reality of these lives in forms that resist cliché and hyperbole, refuse to glamorize, mystify, or stereotype.

The film is about Mitch Rapp, an «ordinary every day all - American athlete and scholar» recruited by the CIA, becoming one of the best assassins they've ever seen, but he gets into trouble on an assignment in Beirut.

In a sense, the film could be about the ordinary non-combatant people of Iraq — or, pick your war.

While in other Hollywood - produced films about perversions of authority on the high seas, such as the various versions of Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd, 1935; Lewis Milestone, 1962) or Billy Budd (Peter Ustinov, 1962), a comparatively ordinary voyage is complicated by the disastrously warped personality of a deranged (thus, socially maladjusted) captain (Charles Laughton, Trevor Howard, Peter Ustinov), in Botany Bay the obscure and torturous solipsism of the captain colours every aspect of the voyage: he does not stand out as exemplary, but instead characterizes the «transportation» process itself.

And yet, within these seemingly ordinary films lie everything you'll ever need to know about finding a partner, winning their heart and living happily ever after.

We've seen hundreds of films about the Second World War, usually focussing on those on the front line, or the millions of minorities who lost their lives under the Nazi regime, yet films focussing on the ordinary German civilians seem to be few and far between.

Hirokazu Kore - eda — who won the top prize at the Cannes film festival Saturday — is Japan's answer to Ken Loach, a director whose stories about struggling ordinary people never fail to touch.

His pitch was picked up by Fox 2000, and the film will reportedly be about «an ordinary woman» who accomplishes some kind of heroic act and becomes famous.

While there have been many films about interracial relationships already, Something New brings enough of its newness to keep this from feeling stale and ordinary, Recommended for open - minded romantic comedy lovers, especially those interested in films with a thematic racial context bound to provoke thought and discussion.

In an ordinary year, Three Billboards, which won the Toronto audience award, the Globes, the SAG, and just won the London Film Critics is looked down upon by the film critics for its lack of political attention to police brutality — which is a serious subject, even though the film's main thrust is about broken, fucked up people fumbling towards some kind of redemption (which they never find).

This film is not just about a man wanting the attention of a girl, it's about an ordinary man who finally discovers the courage to leap into the extraordinary adventure that is life.Traveling the world in his search, taking risks and conquering new challenges.

But at the end of the day, they are just ordinary people like you and me, who are not affiliated with Nintendo, only difference is they're speaking out about what their thinking and most of the time, film themselves doing it.

In a clever little pentagon - shaped film installation, sane - seeming, lovely, ordinary people, talk about being kidnapped by mysterious forces and escaping from abuse and mind control.

«Mr. Gore's movie, asserting a «consensus» and «settled science» in agreement about human - caused global warming, conveyed the claims about human - caused global warming to ordinary movie goers and to public school children, to whom the film was widely distributed.

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