Sentences with phrase «running theme of the film»

The running theme of the film is the relationship between the legacy of Persian / Iranian culture — which, as seen in the quoted passages of these poets, was rife with the celebration of wine, women, and the life of the senses — with Iran in 1999.

Not exact matches

But there's an unexpected religious theme running through the movie, as the Coens skewer the ways Hollywood tries to put the transcendent onscreen (disclaimer spotted in the credits: «This film contains no visual depiction of the Godhead»).

The storytelling either lazes out something awful or tries much too hard, hammering on and on with its themes, a couple of which are very problematic, for although the aforementioned themes about misunderstanding people and trying to find a better path in life are reasonably worthy, there are underlining themes about the benefits of taking advantage of the vulnerable, and about running away from certain conflicts that are just about offensive, that is, when you look deep enough into this film to spots its sorry intentions.

In any other film, such an approach would feel like a massive let - down - and considering Miyazaki's running theme of pacifism, it seems like an odd thing to build towards.

The primary theme of the film, «feeling connected to yourself,» is poorly developed and far too oblique to sustain it for its 160 minute running time.

Instead it feels like a culmination of themes that ran through the Before films, Tape (2001), Dazed and Confused (1993), and even School of Rock (2003).

• Angst regarding Big Brother aside, there is a more fundamental theme of mid-life crisis and ennui running throughout the film.

The film makes little sense and isn't explained in any fashion, it just happens cos it happens basically, director Cox manages to combine an Ed Wood level of sci - fi with a kind of urban punk ghetto gang theme running through it at the same time.

Wild Tales Director: Damián Szifron Running time: 122 minutes Certificate: R A collection of darkly funny tales from Argentina, revolving around themes of anger and revenge, which was nominated for the best foreign language film Oscar.

Variations on a theme running through this year's strongest five films in the Best Director category — Gravity, American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave, Nebraska and The Wolf of Wall Street — all spring from the notion that the main...

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.

Alice and Simon represent different interactions teachers can have with their pupils, highlighting a major story current running beneath the film's grander themes of loss and immigration, modern teaching.

So he was there to represent not only the movie but also movies in theatres, a running theme to CinemaCon as the industry tries to deal with the encroachment of streaming services on the film business.

In spite of its lengthy running time and the darkness of its themes, the film is frequently very funny.

Stars: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe, Travis Tope, William Fichtner, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Judd Hirsch, Nicolas Wright (also a co-writer of the script), Jessie Usher, Brent Spiner, Vivica A. Fox, Angelababy, Chin Han, Deobia Oparei and Sela Ward Director: Roland Emmerich Scriptwriters: Nicolas Wright (one of the stars in the film) and James A. Woods Composers: Harold Kloser and Thomas Wanker Cinematographer: Markus Forderer 20th Century Fox Rating: PG 13 with fantasy / science fiction violence and themed material Running Length: 120 minutes

On the one hand, these remakes speak to the fact of Hitchcock's timeless themes in his films, while on the other hand it points out that Hollywood has perhaps run out of ideas when even a remake of a middling Hitchcock film is one of the better thrillers to come out in recent years.

The Blu - ray and DVD editions both feature a new interview with film critic David Thomson, who offers a crash course introduction to the art and themes of Hawks (it runs about 17 minutes), the new 20 - minute program «Howard Hawks and His Aviation Movies» with film scholars Craig Barron and Ben Burtt, and excerpts from Peter Bogdanovich's 1972 interviews with Howard Hawks (audio only, about 19 minutes), plus the 1939 «Lux radio Theatre» adaptation of the film with stars Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Richard Barthelmess, and Thomas Mitchell all reprising their roles, and the trailer.

In Tom Stoppard «s spectacularly good script (I suspect the quality of which has been overlooked because so few film critics have actually read the book), it has a jumping off point that more than any previous take, digs into the themes of the novel — the many forms that love takes, artificial metropolitan life vs. simple pastoral life — and allows the peripheral characters their moment in the sun, while still keeping the running time at around a brisk two hours.

Sexual awkwardness among people bonded in holy matrimony is the running theme of this recent Sundance fave, written and directed by Patrick Brice (Creep) and produced by discomfort - loving indie filmmaker Mark Duplass (who's been down this road many times in films he and his brother, Jay, have directed).

Looking back over my reviews of Kevin Smith (Zack and Miri, Clerks II) films in the past, one common theme runs throughout: Kevin Smith is a much better writer than he is a director.

We do get the quite familiar shots of bystanders running down the street, glancing back in fear — a must for any monster movie, and it should be noted that Godzilla films have a legacy of multiple creatures, as well as the man versus nature theme.

The film does not dramatize or analyze; it's simply a reflection on its themes, which run as simple as the uniting power of music to the deeper implications of love — lost and never realized.

One of the city's most historic cinemas is Le Champo, which runs regular retrospectives and is famous for «Les nuits du Champo»; a midnight session where $ 15 gets you three themed films on the trot and breakfast in the morning.

Season four of Fortnite has a running movie theme throughout, and plenty of sets and props have appeared throughout the map, including 10 film cameras in different locations.

the «First Run Limited Edition» version that comes with a copy of the game, a 120 minute UMD with outtakes, 420 minute making - of and «fashion collection» (that's code for video of the girls in their bikinis) DVD set, a set of pics, a Team 4 special DVD (because there are some many of them the girls are divided up into «teams»), 48 small posters, a download code for 48 different custom themes, and a Blu - ray film of all cut - scenes from the first game.

The connection between raw material and its consumption by the immaterial systems of global capitalism is the main theme running through Metal, a group show of five artists at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, which forms part of the AV Festival, a biennial programme of art, film and music in the northeast of England, now in its sixth iteration.

Among his most significant themes are: the relationship between art and language (as in the film La Pluie, in which water runs down pages erasing the text written by the artist); the status of the work of art and of criticism in the museum (il Musée d'art moderne — Département des Aigles of 1968 is a museum in which some of the works exhibited are accompanied by the warning «This is not a work of art»); and the play between reality and fiction.

The theme of sacrifice runs throughout the film.

FilmStruck, one of the best streaming services around, has a new set of films with a running theme — cops undercover.