Sentences with phrase «ordinary people in his films»

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And the audience can relate to Lindsay's ordinary person life, as opposed to the paranoid matrix that Snowden and the other tech types in the film inhabit.

But Frayling hopes that film can serve science better, eliminating «mad, bad» images, educating the public in the reality of what science does, and showing scientists as ordinary people.

Hong crafts his films as if he's simply watching ordinary people, while simultaneously layering his gimmickry over average - seeming lives in order to reveal broader truths.

For those of you who were distressed to hear that the remake of «Death Wish» was having its original Thanksgiving release date bumped and despaired that you might have to go through the entire holiday season without seeing a single film in which an ordinary person turns vigilante when the police and the courts fail to provide any sense of justice, «In the Fade» may come as a reliein which an ordinary person turns vigilante when the police and the courts fail to provide any sense of justice, «In the Fade» may come as a relieIn the Fade» may come as a relief.

Levinson has a deft touch with ordinary people and places, and the film's early scenes, especially, take care of business in a satisfying, sideways fashion, developing character with exposition and finding every avenue for real - world humor.

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.

Donald Sutherland is one of the most respected, prolific and versatile of motion picture actors, with an astonishing resume of well over one hundred and fifty films, including such classics as Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen; Robert Altman's M * A * S * H; John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust; Robert Redford's Ordinary People; Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900; Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now with Julie Christie; Alan Pakula's Klute with Jane Fonda; Federico Fellini's Fellini's Casanova and in Brian Hutton» sKelly's Heroes with Clint Eastwood, who later directed him in Space Cowboys.

His films often offer an extraordinary slice of life in the city of Naples, portraying the experiences of ordinary people poised between disillusion and hope.

Written by Luke Davies, nominated for «Lion» in 2016, the film looks to make a splash a la «Ordinary People» in 1980.

The film involves linking and overlapping stories that explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people's lives.

The film starts with video surveillance public cameras filming a rather ordinary day at a busy market in London, at least until a truck full of explosives drives in and detonates, taking with it over 100 innocent people.

The performances here are effective because the actors are playing ordinary people trapped in an extraordinary scenario (The film is based on a true story).

In many ways, these harrowing films have become the tentpole events for dramas delivered in the heart of awards season; ordinary people overcoming an excruciating experience to emerge scarred but unbowed («12 Years A Slave,» «Wild,» «Gravity,» et alIn many ways, these harrowing films have become the tentpole events for dramas delivered in the heart of awards season; ordinary people overcoming an excruciating experience to emerge scarred but unbowed («12 Years A Slave,» «Wild,» «Gravity,» et alin the heart of awards season; ordinary people overcoming an excruciating experience to emerge scarred but unbowed («12 Years A Slave,» «Wild,» «Gravity,» et al).

There's some ridiculous stunts in this film, and it kind of pisses you off when there's no logic or reasoning behind why such feats can be accomplished by these ordinary people.

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

A great film, depicts some real characters of ordinary people in the biggest genocide by starvation in human history, perpetrated by Kremlin.

Where Edgar Wright's film created a string of smart, funny and imaginative sequences in which his assorted collection of ordinary people encounter and defeat the zombies, Hoene's film never displays the same level of wit and quickly becomes repetitive.

The film production process was rather tough, ordinary people must not be able to feel that, in particular during the training.

Davies» films have always supplied strong female roles (think Gena Rowlands in «The Neon Bible,» Gillian Anderson in «The House of Mirth» and Rachel Weisz in «The Deep Blue Sea») and this story, which followed an ordinary farm girl in the 1910s with a dream of being a teacher, who begins to assert her independence in the face of cruelties dealt by people ranging from her abusive father (Peter Mullan) to the initially sweet young man (Kevin Guthrie) who falls in love with her marries her, only to come back from the horrors of World War I irrevocably changed.

The big finale in Civil War, however, involves only a couple of characters — again, the movie goes refreshingly small — and the life - and - death stakes are grave, because the film has done such a good job of stressing these (mostly) ordinary people instead of their suits.

And only five films in movie history have won Best Picture without a craft nomination: The Broadway Melody (1929), Grand Hotel (1932), It Happened One Night (1934), Annie Hall (1977), and Ordinary People (1980).

Since then he has starred in such varied films as M * A * S * H, Don't Look Now, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Ordinary People.

No film has won Best Picture at the Oscars ® without also having received at least a Best Editing nomination since ORDINARY PEOPLE in 1981.

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).

It marks something of a departure for director Mike Leigh; his films typically chronicle the lives of ordinary, working - class people in the present day, although he has visited the past on two occasions before, 1999's Gilbert and Sullivan biopic Topsy - Turvy and 2004's Vera Drake, the fictional story of an abortionist in 1950s London.

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.

Ordinary people would feel involved in fixing this mess by covering large areas of the ground with white film.