Sentences with phrase «polemical film»

It had an anonymous and authoritative voiceover, rather than the onscreen presenter you would expect to see in a polemical film.

Kino Lorber's Blu - ray beautifully illustrates the beguiling contradictions of the funniest and most polemical film of Jean - Luc Godard's career.

In that polemical film, based on the book he wrote of the same title, Navarro argues in racially tinged language that China is bent on global domination and is a threat to the US akin to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

It was, he said, part of «a season of opinionated polemical films about global warming», and was balanced by a film I had made, broadcast in the same week, for Dispatches (17).

Neither I, nor the audience, nor anyone on the production team had been told that my programme was part of «a season of opinionated polemical films about global warming», or that it would be linked to The Great Global Warming Swindle.

Not exact matches

Deniers, as both Lipstadt and Vidal - Naquet show, seem to have an endless supply of polemical tricks and dodges: they simply discount Jewish testimony out of hand as lie or fantasy; inculpatory testimony from the Nazis themselves is said to have been coerced by the triumphant Allies; documents confirming such testimony are said to be forgeries; Nazi statements and memoranda about the Final Solution are taken at face value if they are euphemistically phrased, but are interpreted as hyperbolic or figurative if they are blunt and explicit; photographs and films of executions are dismissed as fakes.

The polemical political comment in earlier films such as Komsomol, Borinage and New Earth is not comfortably integrated into other aspects of the films, and for viewers today limits these films impact.

Reading The Day After Tomorrow as a 9/11 film, in fact, adds another level of polemical discussion in that the film's Vice President Becker (Dick Cheney ringer Kenneth Welsh) emerges as the «I don't believe you» villain endemic to disaster movies and, in this way, at least partly responsible for the number of casualties suffered on behalf of his myopia.

The film doesn't assume a polemical position regarding the death penalty — either for or against — though in the context of Singaporean authoritarianism it probably would have been banned, with writer - director Boo Junfeng imprisoned, had it taken an explicitly abolitionist stance.

But Sutton's film is less polemical than poetic, albeit with a much darker effect this time.

His new film, called Where To Invade Next, is shrouded in secrecy but the title suggests another polemical take on US politics.

Working in drawing, painting, animation, installation, film and video, and employing ideas that are often subversive and polemical in nature, Sikander creates vivid works that confront and interrogate the perceptual distances between cultures while deconstructing the genre of miniature painting itself.