Sentences with phrase «real focus of this film»

That's all well and good, but the real focus of this film is the raging hormones of the teenage witches and wizards, cluelessly falling in love, and unknowingly breaking each other's hearts.

Not exact matches

Our screen - driven existence actually makes our love of real things, i.e. vinyl records, paper, and film photography even more important, refined and focused as a human society.

Very much a character study, with most of the focus mostly on Bjorn Borg (played by Sverrir Gudnason)-- notably, the film was titled Borg in Sweden — and his meticulous, robotlike preparation pitted against the wild - child spirit of John McEnroe, who was seemingly perfectly stunt cast with real - life powder keg Shia LaBeouf.

Based on a real - life story of a tobacco - company research scientist (Russell Crowe) and the ramifications of his decision to disclose industry secrets to the American public on an episode of 60 Minutes, it was a moody, intense affair that many critics touted as one of the year's best films; it netted 7 Oscar nominations in the process.Mann was back in the Academy Award hunt two year's later with Ali, a biopic of the beloved boxer Muhammad Ali that focused on both his athletic accomplishments and his political battles.

Brian De Palma demonstrates the drawbacks of a film - school education by overexploiting every cornball trick of style in the book: slow motion, split screen long takes, and soft focus abound, all to no real point... He's an overachiever — which might not make for good movies, but at least he's seldom dull.

The home video release of the film will also include 8 deleted scenes, a featurette chronicling the film's production, and a featurette focused on the real - world people that inspired its key characters.

Based on the true story behind the Perron family's terrifying haunting of their Rhode Island farmhouse in 1971, the film focused on real - life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren's efforts to rid the house of the demonic presence of the witch Bathsheba.

Focused only slightly differently is «San Andreas: The Real Fault Line» (6 mins., HD), which spends its opening moments very superficially discussing the real threat of earthquakes in California before delving into the production tricks behind the film's earth - shaking scenes, like a restaurant set designed so that everything visible in the frame is shaking except the floor itself, since it was being prowled by a Steadicam operaReal Fault Line» (6 mins., HD), which spends its opening moments very superficially discussing the real threat of earthquakes in California before delving into the production tricks behind the film's earth - shaking scenes, like a restaurant set designed so that everything visible in the frame is shaking except the floor itself, since it was being prowled by a Steadicam operareal threat of earthquakes in California before delving into the production tricks behind the film's earth - shaking scenes, like a restaurant set designed so that everything visible in the frame is shaking except the floor itself, since it was being prowled by a Steadicam operator.

The film is directed by Australian filmmaker Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl; United States of Tara) and stars Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street, Focus) as Tonya.

Aguilar: The film focuses on the issue of obesity, do you think this is a real social problem in Mexico or are the unrealistic beauty standards placed by the media what turn into a problem?

By focusing on the people who made the movies, these spoofs managed to avoid, intentionally or unintentionally, any real analysis of the films their characters made.

The film is based on the real - life relationship of Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, focusing on how the couple first met and how a life - threatening...

There is a step by step look into the film processing technique used to achieve the sun - blasted look of the Mexican scenes; a demonstration of the editing choices and process of three scenes narrated by editor Stephen Mirrione (watching each scene become subtly sharpened and focused through each successive cut is a real education in the art of editing); and an instructional look at the art and technique of sound editing, hosted by sound editor Larry Blake.

Carolyn Seide's 2016 article, also from The A.V. Club, focuses on the character of Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale) stating that «the film's real twist is that it ultimately cares far more about Arthur than it does about [Brian] Slade.»

I found his essay to be insightful and a nice addition to the companion as he focuses on the themes of being a mercenary as both a character in a film and as an actor in real life.

Supporting Actor (I really try, but don't always succeed, to focus on the SMALLER parts that blow me away): Christina Bale — The Fighter — amazingly appealing and interesting as a real scum bag — he makes him fascinating, understandable, and sympathetic AND he does so with flair and power Andrew Garfield — Never Let Me Go — I know, I'm supposed to prefer him in Social Network, but I didn't — in fact, he sort of didn't do it for me in that film but in Never Let Me Go he was moving and had a lost, hopeless but yearning aura about him that I found very haunting Mark Ruffalo — Kids Are All Right — very joyous, very charming, very sexy, and totally believable — he made me want to sleep with him and then have a nice long heart to heart with him too!

Taking elements of the crime genre the film's real focus is on the corrosive nature of a dysfunctional family.

The blindingly real portrayal of the life of Gerda (played by Alicia Vikander), the wife of the artist who experiments with female identity and then decides to change gender, should have been the focus of the film, not the story of Lili / Elbe (Eddie Redmayne).

Thankfully, not much screen time is given over to this sub-plot, and the film focuses mostly where it should — on the burgeoning relationships between Paco and Ernesto, and Ernesto and Paco's mum, not to mention the well - played balancing act of having the village play for comic relief without descending into any real clichés.

These Marvel films have a pretty serious glass ceiling, whether it's because of their unrelenting desire to focus more on what is to come than what is currently happening, the samey directorial styles and color palettes or the thematic foundation rarely taking any real chances, but it is refreshing to see a film flirt with breaking through, even if it falls short doing so.

After two and a half perfectly acceptable hours of pimps, hos, bum shots and gunshots, there's suddenly a slushy, soft - focus tribute to one of the film's stars, the hip - hop producer Dr Dre (real name Andre Young), now 50.

The film is loosely based on a string of real French robberies from the early 1980s, but director Oliver Marchal doesn't bend over backwards trying to conform to some detailed procedural schematic, and the material benefits from a gritty, streamlined telling that keeps the focus first and foremost on the characters and not the ancillary mayhem that surrounds them and that they later cause.

The real trick of the film, though, is the way Legrand subtly shifts perspective from this outsider point - of - view of Antoine to a more subjective one, first by focusing attention on Julien's interactions with his father, then by letting us see him through Miriam's un-blinkered eyes.

8:00 pm — TCM — My Darling Clementine John Ford's version of the famous confrontation at the OK Corral actually focuses more on Wyatt Earp's fictional romance with the fictional Clementine than on the real - life Earp / Clanton feud, but history aside, this is one of the greatest and most poetic westerns on film, proving yet again Ford's mastery of the genre and of cinema.

11:30 am — TCM — My Darling Clementine John Ford's version of the famous confrontation at the OK Corral actually focuses more on Wyatt Earp's fictional romance with the fictional Clementine than on the real - life Earp / Clanton feud, but history aside, this is one of the greatest and most poetic westerns on film, proving yet again Ford's mastery of the genre and of cinema.

8:00 am — Fox Movie Channel — My Darling Clementine John Ford's version of the famous confrontation at the OK Corral actually focuses more on Wyatt Earp's fictional romance with the fictional Clementine than on the real - life Earp / Clanton feud, but history aside, this is one of the greatest and most poetic westerns on film, proving yet again Ford's mastery of the genre and of cinema.

«The Madness, Misery, and Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe» (9:50) focuses on the real author, with biographical remarks from Poe museum curator Chris Semtner and St. Christopher's School writer in residence Ron Smith complemented by old photographs and documents, abundant clips from the film, and brief remarks from the screenwriters.

There are no character revelations, no sense of arc, no focus, and no real reason for this film to exist at all.

The home release also features a commentary track with many of the principal's involvement in the film's creation, a gag reel, and of course, lots of focus on the real Tommy.

The film does focus on and recreate a lot of famous real - life moments, though.

The film focuses mostly on the dream and the determination and to an extent the toll that takes on real life, rather than the nitty gritty of water collecting and toilets.

Focus Features released just a few days ago the first trailer for The Zookeeper's Wife, a film that tells the real - life story of Antonina Zabinska and Jan Zabinski, a Polish zookeeper couple who helped save many lives during the Nazi invasion of Poland in World War II.

Most of you should now know that RUSH is Ron Howard's new film that focuses on the real - life story of Austrian Formula 1 champion driver Niki Lauda (played here by Daniel Bruhl) and the 1976 crash that almost claimed his life.

The story of the fight for women's right to vote is definitely a cinematically rich one but Sarah Gavron's film focuses on the fictional character of Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan) instead of the real women on the dangerous frontline of the fight.

Focus Features delivered its teaser poster for the new Jeff Nichols film Loving, about the real - life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), whose civil rights case, Loving...

Slow pacing on top of subdued performances and a misappropriation of the film's focus, turned us into the real victims of this film.

The film is at its best when it focuses on Bening, who embraces all the contradictions of her character and makes them real.

With commanding performances by the two leads, solid musical numbers that set the tone for the real - life drama well, and Mangold's excellent ability to keep focus on what's really important, Walk the Line becomes a film that nearly all viewers will be able to relate to and enjoy, and not just fans of Johnny Cash and his music.

Most of you should now know that RUSH is Ron Howard's new film that focuses on the real - life story of Austrian Formula 1 champion...

A particularly muted Elmore Leonard adaptation, Daniel Schechter's Life of Crime has real value in its cast and their skillful performances, but the remaining elements of the film, while not disastrous, lack focus

Mimi Leder's film focused on the very real possibility of complete extinction and posed the question of who should survive.

Her subjects are real, but any information gleaned is in spite of Nashashibi's «alienation» techniques, as she runs the film backwards, focuses on apparently irrelevant details and cuts whenever there's any danger of emotional engagement.

A wide range of authors — curators, artists and historians of art, architecture and film — focus on topics that have been largely neglected, such as the architectural models that posit real or imaginary sites as models for ethical inquiry and mechanisms of control.

Dr. Gabriele Finaldi, Director, The National Gallery said: «Tacita Dean acts as both artist and curator in the National Gallery exhibition, focusing her, and our, attention to the fascinating quality of objects, real, painted and filmed, from the origins of still life to now.»

6:04 p.m. Updated There are much more important things to focus on than an utterly misconceived mini movie blowing up kids to recruit carbon cutters, so it's welcome that Eugenie Harvey, the director of the 10:10 UK group that commissioned the film, has moved toward closure by issuing a real apology (text below).

Say if near the end of the film, parents are arguing, Jake is menaced by zombie and injures himself which causes he and his parents to focus on the real cause of his distress... Maybe, I du n no.