Sentences with phrase «political film like»

Is that a risk in making a political film like this?

I was really looking forward to this film because in the past I've much enjoyed Italian political films like «Illustrious Corpses» and «The Mattei Affair».

Not exact matches

StarTalk airs on Monday nights at 11 p.m. ET, and features the scientist interviewing cultural and political figures like George Takei of the original «Star Trek» series, film director Christopher Nolan and former President Jimmy Carter.

Like the ghosts in the film The Sixth Sense, the Washington Republican political class only sees what they want to see.

True, Frank Wolf did not spring from the intellectual and political aristocracy of the American Founding; nor did he serve as ambassador, senator, secretary of state, and president; nor is he a crusty curmudgeon like the Adams portrayed brilliantly by Anthony Hopkins in the film Amistad.

In a film released before he hit the campaign trail, Geldof said: «I know Zac Goldsmith and I like the guy, but the plain fact is that Zac is a political failure,» he declared.

The film itself is an excellent introduction to Second Life and its use for education and persuasion — if you've never played in this virtual world, the video will give you a sense of what it's like and why people are drawn to it as a place to spread political messages.

I, on the other hand, went into the BBC newsroom the other day to find teams of young producers laughing at archive film reports from 17 years ago of a young political correspondent looking nothing like he does now.

If it was a video broadcast to the party at the conference than I could agree with that point but you can't use a short film like this as a party political broadcast and then accuse people of assuming a meaning that's wrong.

«World War Z» isn't your typical zombie movie, but rather a globe - trotting socio - political thriller that treats the zombies more like a viral disease than something out of a horror film.

A film like this needs its people to underline what it means to be human during times of political strife, but with so many bodies shoved inside the van, it's difficult to keep track of who's who and why they're mad.

A prime example of how Hollywood reflected the changing political climate: When Lewis Milestone's film was made, the Soviet Union was an ally but after WWII some of its makers removed their name, while others like writer Lilian Hellman were blacklisted.

Yet all of Marvel's phase three films and their tentative questioning of the underlying political ethos of the franchise feel like buildup for Black Panther, which in its second act comes very close to completely tearing down the Marvel Cinematic Universe en totale — and making viewers long for such a thing to happen.

But unlike the rigorous skepticism of films like Blood Simple, Fargo, and Burn After Reading, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore uses its allegorical narrative to further a simplistic political message meant to give it an aura of timely social commentary.

There are some glaring political incorrectness that borders on offensive but it comes with the time as this film's era sticks out like a me at a hip - hop.

It is also an interesting political take on the chain of command in the military, lampooning the superior officers as incompetent fools, despite having their hearts in the right place, the film manages to successfully create sympathy for Col. Berman (Ed Harris) in that despite his general inability to do the job, he is actually well liked.

The best of the odd - numbered Star Trek films, Insurrection doesn't boast nasty villains or terrible dangers but plays like a great extended TV episode, with a compelling plot that works as a smart political commentary on Western imperialism.

The portrait of Lincoln that Spielberg presents — in a film that often plays like a tense, high - spirited political thriller as influence is peddled behind the scenes and votes come down to the wire — will no doubt surprise viewers raised on a more staid version of the Great Man.

While the post 9/11 stuff works much more successfully than the socio - political setting of the Argentinean film, it still feels like unnecessary context.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

At the same time, the film does present a President who is able to lead because he is not beholden to his aides, political action committees, or corporations that got him elected — a common man who knows what it's like to be one of the people who needs someone at the top looking out for the little guys, like himself.

I'm always baffled by Roger Ebert's remarks on a negative attitude ruining a film, but I usually find that to be a perk, like with Drop Dead Gorgeous (throw all political correctness out the window and enjoy).

Overused words like rapturous and hypnotic certainly apply to Hou's technique here, even as the film jumps between eras and political realities, yet there's something so much greater and more challenging going on in Three Times than aesthetic control.

And like with so many of the great sci - fi films she worships, she's using the genre to craft spiky political and social commentary.

When you make a film with overt political satire, it seems like that casting can't be a coincidence.

Still, political rivals made hay on social media of the fact that a number of signatories are backers of the left - leaning New Democrats (NDP), including politicians like former Ontario provincial NDP leader Stephen Lewis, artists like film - maker Sarah Polley, and trade union members like Canadian Union of Public Employees president Paul Moist.

Patrick Goldstein, writing in the Los Angeles Times, argues that film critics like Roger Ebert, sophisticated in their knowledge of media presentation and human behavior, make more insightful political pundits than the usual beltway - bubble spin - docs employed by television, radio, print and online outlets.

Pacy??? This is a slow and rather boring film made by people within the media & political London bubble about people like them.

Then we have Roger Michell's Hyde Park on Hudson, a similarly historical piece on arguably just as important a president that replaces captivating political wheeling and dealing with tedious jaunts to the countryside in a film so devoid of any spark that it feels like watching someone's boring vacation videos.

August: Osage County and Philomena weren't expected to show up [here], but Fruitvale Station and Lee Daniels» The Butler seem like natural fits for the producers to acknowledge, what with one being a breakout film with real world political heft, and the other a surprise box office smash that took A LOT of producer wrangling to get financed and made.

Andrey Zvyagintsev's majestic portrait of casual political corruption has been almost universally praised, and even managed to win over a skeptic like myself, who disliked all his previous films.

When Marvel is willing to really embrace genre — for example, when Thor felt like an»80s fantasy, or Captain America felt like a 70s political thriller (or 40s war film)-- I think they are at their best.

Stan is likely best known for his role in the Marvel movies as Bucky Barnes / The Winter Soldier, but his career has spanned from Gossip Girl to underrated TV gems like NBC's ill - fated Kings and USA's Political Animals to films like Ricki and the Flash, The Martian, and The Bronze, where he played a hyper - competitive gymnastics coach with his eyes on the Olympics.

Also, the film tries to address some kind of political and social issues about big corporations in bed with world governments regarding natural resources like clean water.

Like those earlier films (both directed by Roland Joffe), there is a strong social consciousness and political content, but Menges also brings a subdued dramatic atmosphere and rich visual sensibility to the film, layering scenes with telling details that illustrate the conditions of life in this place and time.

Like the great political thrillers of 1970s New Hollywood cinema, the film's suspense is two-fold, lying within the execution of the characters» schemes and the interference of moral questions.

Solondz agreed to an interview upon the release of his fifth feature, Palindromes (he asks folks not to track down his directorial debut, Fear, Anxiety & Depression, which my editor, Bill, describes as something like a satire of Solondz films), another picture garnering an extreme amount of political fallout following the similarly - tumultuous receptions to his Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, and Storytelling.

Nat Rogers makes a pretty good case - and oh such lovely graphics - that Oscar doesn't like to reward Meryl Streep when she stars in political films: The cynicism comes from another more political place, too.

At the recent press day, Tarantino and his actors talked about the advantages of shooting in 70 mm, how a Tarantino set differs from other movie sets, how Leigh and Russell played off each other while chained at the hip for 4-1/2 months, why Russell remained in character after his character met his demise, the decision to stay close to the script, Tarantino and Jackson's take on race relations in America, why a period film affords a filmmaker the opportunity to comment on the present in ways a present day film does not, what their filmmaking adventure was like for the veteran actors who have been with Tarantino from the beginning, and why Tarantino doesn't mind dancing on the edge of political correctness.

Given Penn's real life political proclivities and his busted romantic affair with Theron, the film will surely carry personal influences... just like Godard's Mepris.

Other films carried the torch for film as a medium for social justice: the angry, bracing I, Daniel Blake, Spotlight — which played like the taut political thrillers made by Pakula and Lumet in the 70s — and Katharine Round's lucid expose of the effects of inequality, The Divide.

A big part of the reason why comes from the film playing more like a comical character study with a world events backdrop, letting us see the craziness that would be front page headlines through the filtered and skewed view of a man whose own political views stemmed more through favors and paybacks than through heartfelt convictions.

Like Miller's previous Mad Max efforts, this film dusts up some political and environmental gripes, but he's never been so pointed about his concerns.

15) «The Dark Knight Rises» /» The Avengers» There seems to be a certain disproportionately noisy section of the internet that seem to think that picking between the hit superhero films of 2012 is like following a Glasgow football team or an American political party — you're either with Marvel or DC, and as such, you either like «The Avengers,» or «The Dark Knight Rises,» with the other automatically becoming the worst thing in the history of mankind.

A landmark collaboration between writer H. G. Wells, producer Alexander Korda, and designer and director William Cameron Menzies, Things to Come is a science fiction film like no other, a prescient political work that predicts a century of turmoil and progress.

At a time when there's so much incertainty in the US political climate, a film like «The Post» arrives to remind us all of the importance of whistle - blowers.

And, for sure, HBO still invests in original films, usually with some kind of true - life or political bent, like Jay Roach's great «Recount» (2008) and «Game Change» (2012).

But where recent films like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and A Most Wanted Man are absorbing, smartly crafted espionage dramas, Red Sparrow only manages to bring the same amount of intrigue in short bursts and does so without making any significant statements about the current political landscape, despite how deeply ingrained the Russian narrative is in today's 24 - hour news cycle.

It would be horrible to make a political film, or anything like that, but just to tell a nasty story and let the rest take care of itself.

Get Out: «I liked it, but I think I liked it more for the political reasons than as a film.