Sentences with phrase «place against the film»

There's plenty of Marvel comic relief as well, which often seems out of place against the film's the dour atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Set against the backdrop of the Catskill Mountains, the drive - in shows the best classic films and is the perfect place to meet up with friends for a night under the stars.

Huntsman is cutting against the grain with his online strategy, using an unconventional web presence that places a heavy emphasis on Internet videos that look a bit like they came from the outtake reel of a documentary film.

Perez, and directors Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, also know that the tightly controlled light comedy taking place among the film's ensemble only works if the chaos it's contrasted against isn't truly chaotic.

Apart from this revival of interest in specialized film titles, what stands out is the way distributors placed their films for maximum impact against intense peak holiday competition.

By placing at the centre of the narrative a white woman who believes she belongs to the land, against a set of people who see her presence as oppressive and who want to brutalise her, yet who also carry out acts of violence against one another, Denis returns to the core themes of her earlier films (such as Chocolat, 1988)-- the highly problematic issues inherent in the processes of colonisation and decolonisation (2).

Or maybe it's because she's married to Lou that she can't stop thinking of Daniel... Following up «Away from Her,» Polley's second film is sharply dividing critics and audience in Toronto: Many find it simultaneously exhilarating and depressing; others find it ugly and hateful; a third faction seems to be kicking against the film not for how it says what it says, but, instead, for what it says in the first place.

Alexander Payne's Downsizing opened the Venice Film Festival and while the film itself is a polarizing, uneven story, it boasts a powerful, touching and funny performance by Hong Chau who plays an immigrant and activist who protests the Vietnamese government's acts against her small village and ends up shrunken and placed in a TV set at a Target store in...

Considering how important agriculture is to both families» fates, however, «Mudbound» conspicuously lacks the hardy fight against the elements so brilliantly captured in films such as «The River» and «Places in the Heart,» where determined characters take a stand to save their crop.

Both principal actors have a strong enough sense of their characters, even as they're pulled into increasingly harrowing places, to make the film a more successful one than Loach's last few, but it's still schematic and predictable, and it aggressively stacks the deck against Blake and Kattie in a way that makes it more effective as social activism, and less so as drama.

The film debuted Friday against xXx: The Return of Xander Cage, a Vin Diesel - starring action flick that garnered $ 20 million for second place at the domestic box office.

Crowe's new film is being judged against his last narrative feature, «Elizabethtown,» and from there, there's no place to go but up.

Supervised by cinematographer Robert Elswit, the transfer helps to highlight the Nevada desert as an integral piece of the entire film given how many scenes take place against the sprawling landscape.

The arguments for and against fracking are numerous: there is even a group of residents from Armstrong County in Pennsylvania where photography took place, that protest the film, accusing the film studios who aimed their cameras in their backyards that the movie would be fair to the drillers.

The film looks beautiful, much of the action taking place against a desolate and snowy background, and some unusual camera angles add to the visual impression.

BEST FOREIGN FILM I've Loved You So Long BEST FEMALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE: The Secret Life Of Bees BEST UNRELEASED MOVIE: How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES: Nothing But The Truth BEST MUSIC: Cadillac Records BEST ANIMATED FEMALE: Eve: WALL - E BEST FAMILY FILM WALL - E LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Meryl Streep ACTING AND ACTIVISM: Natalie Portman ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women: Changeling JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America: Ballast KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman's place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity: Battle In Seattle COURAGE IN ACTING: Deidra Edwards in DisFigured: For redefining conventional standards of female physical beauty and pride on screen, and promoting positive images of big bodied woFILM I've Loved You So Long BEST FEMALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE: The Secret Life Of Bees BEST UNRELEASED MOVIE: How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES: Nothing But The Truth BEST MUSIC: Cadillac Records BEST ANIMATED FEMALE: Eve: WALL - E BEST FAMILY FILM WALL - E LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Meryl Streep ACTING AND ACTIVISM: Natalie Portman ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women: Changeling JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America: Ballast KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman's place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity: Battle In Seattle COURAGE IN ACTING: Deidra Edwards in DisFigured: For redefining conventional standards of female physical beauty and pride on screen, and promoting positive images of big bodied woFILM WALL - E LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Meryl Streep ACTING AND ACTIVISM: Natalie Portman ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women: Changeling JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America: Ballast KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman's place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity: Battle In Seattle COURAGE IN ACTING: Deidra Edwards in DisFigured: For redefining conventional standards of female physical beauty and pride on screen, and promoting positive images of big bodied wofilm that most passionately opposes violence against women: Changeling JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America: Ballast KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman's place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity: Battle In Seattle COURAGE IN ACTING: Deidra Edwards in DisFigured: For redefining conventional standards of female physical beauty and pride on screen, and promoting positive images of big bodied women.

The film, which predominantly takes place on one train, focuses on one man (Evans), who is attempting a revolution against the despotic leaders of the train.

If everything continues to fall into place behind the scenes, then Martinez will quickly make himself more than useful in the production of Wolverine 3, and provide a score against which the film's actors will find room to perform and further develop their individual characters.

While the main focus of the film deals with the infamous bailout that took place late last year, he also finds a huge amount of sins committed against those with less by those with more.

Set in «Rome» — a place unsure whether it is a nameless poverty - stricken Eastern European country or the UK — the film opens with it's unhappy citizens plotting against Caius Martius (Ralph Fiennes), an Army General who's withholding grain from them.

The entire film takes place on one night, so there is a nice against - the - clock backdrop that keeps up the pace, even as the film flits from the North Pole to Toronto to the Pacific Ocean to Africa and, finally, to England.

The film places an emphasis on blood over flesh when it comes to Jennifer (and Needy as well, in a childhood flashback of the girls featuring either a kissing - a-cut-to-make-it-better or forming - a-blood-bond-via-quick-blood-sucking you'll - have - to - decide move by Needy on Jennifer's cut palm which may or may not form a psychic connection between the girls, you'll have to decide on that, too), which in turn draws one away from demonic connections towards vampiric ones, which sets Cody against Whedon; a battle Cody can't really hope to win.

The films must be placed at specific angles against the teeth with the mouth both open and closed to get the best diagnostic shots, and an animal's instinct is to chew and swallow anything it feels on its tongue.

Located in the vibrant heart of the SoMA district, W San Francisco is a gathering place for the stylish, showcasing film screenings, fashion shows, art exhibitions, and music events against a backdrop of spectacular city skyline views.

Set against the backdrop of storied and iconic Hotel del Coronado, featured in Marilyn Monroe's 1958 film «Some Like it Hot,» Coronado is the quintessential San Diego postcard experience and a great place for a romantic getaway or a fun - filled family beach vacation.

However, while recent reports suggest headway is finally being made on production, and that the finished article might not be as disastrous as other famous video game - film adaptations, there are, nevertheless, plenty of arguments against making an Uncharted movie in the first place.

Adopting, tongue - in - cheek, the style of early silent films, Monkman places Hollywood under scrutiny as another perpetrator of inaccurate and damaging stereotypes: the heroic, macho cowboy, pitted against the blood - thirsty Red Indian, or «noble» savage.

The 2 - channel video installation Black Moon / Mirrored Malle places an original 1975 interview with Louis Malle about his film «Black Moon» against a shot - for - shot version in which the artist herself plays Malle, enacting a gendered battle of authorship and doubled future within the present.

Another film has the OHO group manoeuvring a large truck tyre from one place to another, in a performance of stupendous effort, scrabbling against the inertia of a dumb object — that familiar comedic trope of the little man and the big machine.

An open letter, written in 2012 by the sculptor's daughter Mary Moore and others, including film director Danny Boyle and the Tate's Sir Nicholas Serota, said selling the piece was «against the spirit of Henry Moore's original sale to London County Council at a favourable price on the understanding that it would be placed in east London».

As Poitras has explained, she found herself placed on a us «watch - list» for her Iraq films, detained dozens of times at the border and was told that, should she decline to share information about her art work, the authorities would simply use their wizardry to harvest her electronics against her will.

The NSTA turned down the offer on the grounds that the NSTA has a 2001 policy against «product endorsement», and a fear that distributing the film would place «unnecessary risk upon the [NSTA] capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporters.»

Set against the backdrop of one of the wildest places on Earth, this year's film is called «African Cats.»

14.03.2012, Cathy Ashley, Family Rights Group Chief Executive, has spoken out against government plans to draw up score cards for the speed with which local authorities are placing children for adoption... 06.03.2012, New film helps families and professionals deal with child protection conferences... 09.02.2012, In response to the record numbers of children being referred into care, Cathy Ashley, Chief Executive of Family Rights Group commented...