Sentences with phrase «political films dealing»

There seems to be a current vogue for political films dealing with heavyweight subjects but Frost / Nixon eclipses efforts such as Oliver Stone's humorous but ultimately pointless Bush biopic W.

Not exact matches

Political arm - twisting and back - room dealing lead to plenty of intrigue in Steven Spielberg's film about the 16th president's efforts to pass the 13th Amendment.

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

Not For Conservative Anti-Mexican White People In Arizona Or People Who Dislike Major Stabbings: The fleshed - out theme of illegal immigration and the corporate / political exploitation of that issue, dealt with in a gut - level exploitation film style, is kind of brilliant.

One of the reasons that I love fantastic genre film is that it can often find the most relevant and interesting metaphors for dealing with issues of social life, be they cultural, political, or sexual.

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.

Produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov and starring Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton and Scoot McNairy, the new film from David Gordon Green («Undertow,» «Pineapple Express») deals with American political consultants hired to work on a Bolivian election.

Certainly when dealing with a subject who is not only alive but still serving in office (unlike Stone's earlier films about Nixon and Kennedy), it would be impossible to create a political piece that passes everyone's test of objectivity.

This is not only a political movie about campaigning for office: it is a study of character, specifically the character of Jane Bodine (Sandra Bullock), a person who is a burnout from leading previous campaigns and who comes across for a good deal of this film's 108 minutes as a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

As its closing credits indicate, Faust is intended as an epilogue to a trilogy of films Sokurov released around the turn of the century — 1999's Moloch, 2001's Taurus, and 2005's The Sun — which dealt with 20th - century political figures who were either losing power or had already lost it.

In a year filled with political noise about income inequality and the One Percent lashing out as what they might perceive as government overreach, it's pretty heartening to see a piece of mainstream pop culture embracing imagery that strikes unmistakable parallels between Collins» bruising make believe and the realities that many moviegoers who will be watching this film on opening weekend have to deal with outside the confines of the multiplex.

Still, it feels like movies like Darkest Hour and The Post, both well - made films about big, important political concerns being dealt with on a granular level, would be competing for the same votes, and neither one of them appears to have captivated wide enough segments of the audience to accumulate the votes they'll need.