Sentences with phrase «other fictional film»

In any other fictional film if you have bad characters, underdeveloped elements, and sloppy narrative you simply get a bad piece of fiction.

Not exact matches

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

This wry, wonderfully detailed film catches the enormous imbalance of a morose teen with no life experience other than the thousands of fictional and pop - culture references that fill his head and his room: A sketch of Woody Allen's head hangs over Oliver's bed.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

It's not so much a crossover as a mosaic, and it sets out — among other impossible tasks — to shuffle the colourful, light - hearted hijinks of James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy films and Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok with the angstier, despairing, politicised tone of the Russo brothers» Captain America sequels, while at the same time reconciling the science - fictional and magical worlds of Iron Man, Black Panther, the Hulk and Dr Strange.

The film is book - ended by two intense battle scenes — one factual, the other fictional.

While based on true events, 5 Days of War contains blatant fictional elements which stick out like a sore thumb, including Hollywood - style split - second timing and other contrived scenarios that damage the film's integrity.

But arguably the most cunning reference of all is right there in the title, which conjures J.J. Hunsecker, the newspaper columnist played by Burt Lancaster in The Sweet Smell of Success — a film co-written by none other than Clifford Odets, whose fictional doppleganger the Coens tormented with such glee in Barton Fink.

There are a number of real historical figures portrayed in the film, including William Randolph Hearst, Nelson Rockerfeller, Orson Welles, Diego Rivera, Frieda Kahlo, and lesser knowns like Hazel Huffman, Hallie Flanagan and others that all interact with the fictional characters in the movie.

They are very much related and feed into each other as the film addresses the differences between past and present and the fine line between reality and fantasy with one fictional story even serving as a metaphor for another.

Based on Linklater's time throwing around a baseball at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, the film follows a group of baseball players at a fictional Texas university that pass the time partying and putting each other through hazing situations.

Selah and the Spades: an Overture (2014), the multi-media exploration into the dynamism of teenagehood in a fictional small town that her first feature film is based on, has been profiled by Filmmaker Magazine and IndieWire, and the feature film has gone on to receive development grants and support from Cinereach, the Leeway Foundation, and Small But Mighty Arts, among others.

No other film, fictional or otherwise, more fully restores — poetically, with antic humor — our city's loss as does James Marsh's stunner.

Stitching together story elements from «A Star is Born,» «Sunset Boulevard,» and others, as well as characters inspired by real - life silent film stars John Gilbert and Charles Chaplin (and others), and recycling music wholesale from later films (most notably, Bernard Hermann's score for «Vertigo»), «The Artist» bears an unmistakable resemblance to Woody Allen's «Zelig,» another nostalgic movie that wove together real - life incidents with fictional recreations.

These lineages can spread beyond games: plenty of book and film influences create imaginative patterns that are then sustained in the fictional worlds of games — from the utter dependence of Halo: Combat Evolved upon James Cameron's Aliens to the massive debt Dungeons & Dragons owes to Tolkien, Moorcock, and the other twentieth century fantasy writers.

And I am still struggling with the other «fictional» elements of the piece, which are given even freer play in Akomfrah's more recent films.

This captivating, three - channel video installation encompasses fictional narrative, natural history documentary, and film essay, referencing Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) and Heathcote Williams's poem Whale Nation (1988), among others.

The prize is awarded for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation in the year preceding 24 April, and up for consideration this year are Spartacus Chetwynd's «carnivalesque» installation at Sadie Coles HQ; Luke Fowler's immersive film exploring the life and work of Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing; Paul Noble's painstakingly crafted drawings of the fictional cityscape Nobson Newtown; and Elizabeth Price's trilogy of video installations at BALTIC.

In the show at the Barbican's Curve gallery, von Wedemeyer has created and collected a series of films — some factual and some fictional, others a confused amalgamation of both — that explores our ability to make contact with others, and the difficulty of truth, myth and the media.