Sentences with phrase «school film around»
Notably absent the kind of condescension that can occur when an experienced filmmaker takes on a high school story, here Famuyiwa doesn't just reorient the high school film around the experience of a young black self - confessed geek, but riffs on social and class issues, and the riddles of perception versus reality during those difficult teenage years too.
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It's proving to be an exceptionally busy day for the 40 - year - old: He's already attended four fashion shows; later, he'll give a talk at NYU's Stern School of Business, and attend another show and a swanky after - party, all while a film crew from New York magazine buzzes around him for an online video piece.
They are filmed walking around all the major English Newman - related sites (Ealing, Oxford, Littlemore, the Birmingham Oratory, Maryvale, the Oratory School Reading) while discussing some leading themes in Newman's life.
The sense of being outside of time did not change when they departed two days early from school, when they spent three hours on the bus to Eugene staring out the window with their Walkman headphones on, when they wandered through the swirly paisley carpeted hotel hallways, or went in street clothes to have a walk around Autzen Stadium, where a sex scene in Animal House was filmed.
His high school coach left after football season, and no one was around to send McGregor's films to inquiring college coaches.
It remains to be seen whether growing criticism of the film will force McDonald's to back down on its plan to get it into schools around the country.
Hopefully other teachers and schools are following suit around the country, and if these students do create a film, I'll try to get a link to post here.
Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.
We went to my son's concert as school, and as I looked around everyone was filming it.
This EFL lesson is designed around a short film by Lara Lee for The School of Life titled Success, and the theme of the nature of success.
The Artist plays around with the distinction between silent and sound cinema, resulting in the superficial entertainment value of a high concept film school joke.
Following both as they team up and try to rally enough parents to take over the school and turn things around, the film becomes a sort of mums - on - a-mission movie, with Jamie and Nona leading the fight to free their government - failed children from the tyranny of the teaching unions once and for all.
Most of this expository stuff, however, serves as a weak excuse for the film's performers to have some fun acting like idiots, and there's no doubt that Old School has its fair share of inspired gags, most of them revolving around former SNL standout Ferrell.
It's not clear how autobiographical Lady Bird is — Gerwig is from Sacramento and graduated from high school around the time the film is set — but the little slice of universe she shows us feels deeply and lovingly observed.
It's no «Old School,» but it will do nicely until that film's anticipated sequel rolls around in 2011.
Broad Green has revealed a trailer for a horror film titled Wish Upon, about a teenager in high school who starts messing around with a mysterious magic box that her father brings home one day.
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The film opens with seniors playing ridiculously extreme «pranks» that are not even remotely funny, like letting a meth - fueled horse run around the school or replacing a prized baseball bat with a laptop playing pornography.
Set around 1864, the film focuses on what happens to a wounded Union soldier (Colin Farrell) when he is taken in by the sinister headmistress of a Virginia boarding school (Nicole Kidman) near the climax of the Civil War.
I've always wanted to direct, but because I didn't go to film school, I spent a lot of time doing anything I could to be around film sets.
(In French with subtitles) Man in the Chair (PG - 13 for profanity and mature themes) Drama about a troubled teen (Michael Angarano) trying to turn his life around by gaining admission to film school with the help of senior citizens living at an old folks home for film industry retirees.
There are a couple of vignettes that don't play as well as they should (the disastrous school play being an example), but then the film gets back on track, and suddenly Steve Carell is wearing a pirate shirt with the sleeves catching on fire, and everyone looks around panicking, «What the heck has happened to our family?
His new film, Free Fire, is built around a premise that is simultaneously old school and high concept: two groups of criminals in 1970s Boston arrange an arms deal in an old warehouse, things go south, guns are drawn... and they proceed to engage in a gun battle that plays out over the course of the entire movie, mostly in real time.
There's no chance of false advertising with the film's title, as the proceedings unabashedly revolve around recent high - school grad Ian (Josh Zuckerman) hopping into a 1969 Pontiac GTO and driving to have sex with a gorgeous girl he's met on the internet (Katrina Bowden).
Whedon adopted the Godfather school of thought where it was preferable but not necessary to have seen either the first film, or in this case any of the films based around some of the individual characters, like the Iron Man trilogy or Thor.
This whole film revolves around the original narrative of Zuckerman going back to school to catch up with people and it's pointless.
This time around the theme is buried underneath the surface of a high school coming - of - age film that demonstrates there is more to life than living in the spectacular now.
The festival will also screen «Without a Net,» a new documentary by Oscar - nominated filmmaker Rory Kennedy that deals with schools around the country that are technologically underserved; and a new restoration of G.W. Pabst's silent film «Pandora's Box.»
The film centers around med school dropout Wallace (Radcliffe), who strikes a close relationship with quirky animator Chantry (Kazan).
Despite which aspects of the film are true the film revolves around Rebecca (Katie Chang), a teenager in high school who has an obsession with celebrities and their lifestyles.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 3, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Adventureland (R for profanity, sexuality and drug use) Retro romantic comedy, set in Pittsburgh in 1987, revolving around the plight of a grad school - bound virgin (Jesse Eisenberg) forced by his family's financial woes to take a minimum - wage job at an amusement park the summer before he's supposed to start at Columbia.
On the surface, The D Train looks like the archetypal Jack Black film as in previous outings like School Of Rock, he plays a small - town lummox who lies, cheats and alienates everybody around him but writer - directors Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul smartly play on the actors manic misanthrope persona to deliver something surprisingly subversive.
The film's at its best in the early sections, filling out the details of the world with nice little character moments for Mildred Dunnock as the school teacher who doesn't get the principal job, Russ Tamblyn as the sensitive shy boy next door and Diane Varsi as the main character, a girl smart enough to see the hypocrisy around her and want to get out of town as fast as she possibly can.
More shocking than funny, the film revolves around a couple of lifelong platonic friends (Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen) who have been roommates since graduating from high school.
The film is an adaptation of the Jesse Andrews novel of the same name and revolves around a Criterion Collection - obsessed high school senior (Thomas Mann) who is talked into spending time with an acquaintance classmate (Olivia Cooke) who has recently been diagnosed with cancer.
We look forward to uniting with other film lovers from around the Metroplex to celebrate great filmmaking and empower future filmmakers through camps, high school programs, and the Dallas International Film Festival.»
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening September 25, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Fame (PG for mature themes, teen drinking, sexuality and mild epithets) Remake of the 1980 classic revolving around the aspirations of students at NYC's School for the Performing Arts as they prepare for professional careers in dance, music and acting.
The film jumps around chronologically, but settles on the friendship of our three leads, formed in childhood at the Christian school where military - obsessed Spencer (William Jennings) and his best friend Alek (Bryce Gheisar) meet fellow principal's office fixture Anthony (Paul - Mikél Williams).
Cameron Crowe crafts one of his best films around the end - of - high - school ennui and the uncertainties that come with that time in your life, but Say Anything... is aging faster than you might think, despite its many classic lines and moments.
And unlike a movie like We Were Soldiers - which never became anything more than an old - school, John Wayne-esque «let's rally around our troops» type of war film - Harrison's Flowers feels brutally realistic.
The worst possible marriage of film school navel gazing and the pretensions of a creative writing program, «Listen Up Philip» asks us to waste our time watching two successful, but utterly loathsome writers as they alienate everyone around them, including the women who (astonishingly) love them.
Gary Ross borrowed from the Paul Greengrass school of direction when filming the original — lots of shakycam and quick - cutting — but Chasing Fire director Francis Lawrence takes a different approach, allowing his camera to glide smoothly around the action so that the viewer can take it all in, and while the violence still feels overly - sanitized, at least it's comprehensible.
It was the weirdest thing because I never went to film school, I never studied cinema, I didn't know cinematic history or anything, and suddenly, in a very short period of time, I'm on this aircraft carrier with these robots and Bruce Dern trying to figure it out and having all these guys around me to help.
The personification of all of his mother's fear, guilt and anxiety about motherhood, Kevin's arrival signals the abrupt end of a once carefree life for Eva (Tilda Swinton)-- and the film subsequently deals with the story of Kevin's youthful progress towards a catastrophically violent incident at his high - school that has devastating, and fatal, repercussions for everyone around him.
Judged on its own, without Criterion's stamp of approval, the cult that's gathered around Equinox since its 1967 bow as The Equinox would be seen as lowbrow Philistines, but slot this baby in as # 338 in a collection of films that, for the most part, wouldn't trip many controversy meters in regards to the «masterpiece» criteria and suddenly an entire school of film criticism — the school that actually has enough faith in film to describe sublimity outside of the irreproachable canon, and enough faith in itself to remark upon it when it's uncovered — is given a shot in the arm.
The film revolves around the storylines of three high school friends who each love their jobs - save for their respective evil bosses.
Alas, I heard more than one festgoer refer to the film that revolves around a contentious yet loving relationship between a flinty high - school senior (two - time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan) and her disapproving mother, as «the one about LBJ's wife.»
Gerwig, like her film's character, is from Sacramento, and she graduated high school around the same time.
The screenplay tries to mix things up with Andrew's school sweetheart (Akerman), who lurks quietly around the edge of the film waiting for her moment.
By the time he picks up his adorable and precocious niece from school and drives her around while she talks about the trouble she's having making a short film for her class under Iran's expansive media guidelines, the intent is clear.