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«This year's festival goes beyond screening films about the environment as we embark on several initiatives designed to green the entire film industry,» added Paltiel.
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The development includes four gallery spaces of approximately 100 sq metres each, an area to be used for screening films about the artists, and a café on the first floor with views over the River Foyle.
Not exact matches
In addition to interviewing leading legal scholars and activists, like Angela Davis, DuVernay said she reviewed about 1,000 hours of archival footage, including of images of lynchings, cellphone videos of police abuse, and The Birth of a Nation, the 1915 D.W. Griffith film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan (and was screened at the White House for President Woodrow Wilson).
Imax screenings account for about one - third of the advanced tickets for the Star Wars film so far, and have doubled the previous pre-sales record of about $ 9 million, an Imax spokesman told the Wall Street Journal.
The Light House Cinema in Smithfield, Dublin, hosted some special cinephiles on Sunday for a screening of the film: a huge pack of pups and their owners who were ready to sit back, enjoy some popcorn and dog - friendly treats, and enjoy a movie about their favorite subject, dogs.
The series was produced by Jeff Skoll (of eBay fame) and his activist company Participant Media, And it serves to underscore once again the «you - are - there» power of VR — as opposed to the two - dimensional flat - screen experience of a film like An Inconvenient Truth — when it comes to getting out the message of urgency about climate change.
Some 200 U.S. theaters screened the Sony Pictures film despite threats of terrorism and an international cyberwar spawned by the farcical comedy about a plot to assassinate the leader of North Korea.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the latest of the Narnia Chronicles to hit the big screen, is not so much a children's story as a film about growing up... More
A new Christian film about people who have abandoned homosexual lifestyles will not screened in central London tonight, after a venue booking was cancelled.
A protest took place outside of a Northern Ireland university on Tuesday, which rejected screening a new film about «men and women moving out of homosexual practices and feelings».
A Northern Ireland university has rejected calls for a new film about people who say they left behind homosexual lifestyles to be screened at its premises.
Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.
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So they've dreamed up an event — giant screens showing Hitchcock films like «Psycho» — to help draw a crowd that doesn't care much about offense, defense or special teams.
Fusion Academy Evanston and Yellowbrick Consultation and Treatment Group are excited to present a screening of the acclaimed documentary, «Angst: Raising Awareness Around Anxiety,» a new film created to open up the conversation about anxiety and provide tools, resources, and hope.
While the screening met in Zurich initially with little interest, the film could, however, trigger a new discussion about the marketing of the multinational in this sensitive area.
This fall, we held a screening of the documentary film «No Mas Bebes» about the forced sterilization of Chicana women at County USC+LAC Hospital in the 1970s.
Imagine his embarrassment when he went back to the shop to complain about his handset, only to be told that he'd forgotten to remove the scratch resistant film from the screen, which was covering the speaker!
At 8 p.m., Sen. James Sanders and Black Spectrum Theatre Company members host a discussion and film screening about corruption allegations against black politicians, titled «Attack on Black Leaders: Corruption or Conspiracy?»
The Museum of Jewish Heritage is hosting a screening and panel discussion on «The Second Day,» a film created by former P.S. 150 student Brook Peters about the 9/11 terrorist attack and the subsequent resilience of Downtown families, teachers and students.
Funnily enough I went recently to the screening of the new film about Julian Assange, the Fifth Estate, and I was talking afterwards to Alan Rusbridger, and I said to him, and he didn't disagree, in fact he agreed, I said, «the Guardian gets the credit for basically exposing the phone hacking scandal, but if we hadn't picked it up, nothing would've happened».
«We knew we had to be better, we knew we had to be excellent,» said Brown, 89, one of about 10 Tuskegee Airmen who attended the White House screening of «Red Tails,» a film about the airmen produced by «Star Wars» creator George Lucas which opened in theaters in March 2012.
And, keeping up with the diverse schedule, Mr. Lancman is hosting a screening of Forgotten Refugees this weekend, a film about Jews expelled from Middle East and North Africa after the Second World War, which may help the candidate gain further traction in foreign policy - minded Jewish constituencies in the district.
After the screening, there will be «a discussion with the film's director, Sue Perlgut, and guests from prominent women's rights groups about what Connie's message means for us today.»
October 4: Learn about early filmmaking tech when Thomas Edison National Historic Park in West Orange, N.J., screens the 1910 film Frankenstein.
The actress Cameron Diaz probably doesn't need any introduction — you already know her from the way she lit up the screen in films like Gangs of New York, and There's Something About Mary.
PG - 13 films account for nearly two - thirds of the smoking scenes adolescents see on the big screen, according to the two - year study, which surveyed roughly 5,000 children ages 10 to 14 about the movies they'd seen and whether they'd ever tried a cigarette.
Even though she was at a screening for a film about Yves Saint Laurent, Olivia opted for a rather eclectic look from other fashionable sources.
The head of Summer Screen events took central stage to introduce the film, and tell us about other similar events being run by the British Film Institute this summer.
Early in my challenge I had heard about the Summer Screen series at Somerset House, and keen to include one of the evenings in my 30 Dates by 30 Challenge, I posted on Facebook to ask if anyone had a friend who might like to go and watch an outdoor film with me.
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Along with another early silent - screen actress, Mae Marsh, Clifford would turn up in about every other Ford film, usually playing pioneer women.
The feature, Actors in Search of a Story, applauds the entire cast of the film (right down to the woman who plays Harold's psychologist for about two minutes of screen time), Building the Team profiles director Marc Forster and some of his crew, and Words on a Page focuses on budding young screenwriter Zach Helm.
A note about the 3D effect and IMAX, I'm afraid I did not really see the film at its full potential as the «IMAX» theater selected for the screening is a pale imitation of the flagship IMAX theater in uptown Manhattan.
Cast: Andrew Scott, Fiona Glascott, Tobias Menzies, Niall Buggy, Nicholas Rowe, Michelle Fairley, Debbie Chazen, Graham Turner, Jeremy Swift Director: Dover Koshashvili Summary: Chekhov's psychological insights and piercing humor illuminate the screen in this beautifully filmed drama about Laevsky (Andrew Scott), a narcissistic civil servant whose impetuous decision to leave his married mistress, Nadya (Fiona Glascott), sparks shocking reverberations.
While there's nothing remarkable about the way director Gary Fleder has brought The Express to the screen, this is a solid film that does justice to Davis» legacy.
How good or bad the standards are, is up to you, but the film tricks you into thinking that it's about internet addiction, an ailment that maybe even some of us suffer, but it's actually about online videogames, MMORPGs to be more specific, and that's what you should expect, a movie about Videogame Junkies, young people throwing their life away just to stay a couple of hours more in front of the screen.
But as an ideological jukebox movie about 20th century art, this film should interest festivals and spaces in the art world that haven't yet featured the 13 - screen version.
And now, director / star James Franco has brought the equally bizarre real - life story behind the movie's creation to the big screen with «The Disaster Artist» - proving that, at the very least, good films can definitely be made about bad movies.
Below, find out what critics are saying about all of this year's notable festival debuts, including films that screened out of competition or as part of the parallel Directors» Fortnight and International Critics» Week programs.
His new film, screening in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival, combines his skills at narrative and documentary filmmaking to create a brutal mockumentary of loosely connected vignettes about the propaganda - and conflict - riddled Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.
Despite the efforts of a strong ensemble cast — featuring Bruce Dern, John Ortiz, Ellen Burstyn, Nick Offerman, Jon Hamm, Catherine Keener and Patton Oswalt — the film fails to drive home its point, about the power of the stuff we leave behind when we die, with the same emotional punch that the people on - screen seem to be telegraphing: grief, longing, regret, resentment and sundry other flavors of moroseness.
From Page To Screen — A Round Table Discussion: (20:27) Nate Moore, the film's executive producer, casually hosts a gathering of writers to talk about the film.
What is most interesting about the film are the number of cameos from famous stars of stage and screen including Rodgers and Hammerstein who perform There's Music in You.
The thing that hits you first about this film is it looks sharp, the opening credits are damn nice and Murphy looks his coolest since «Beverly Hills», its a slow builder for sure but with Wincott as the baddie with his raspy devilish voice it keeps you glued to the screen.
The first feature from Rupert Goold, artistic director of London's Almeida Theatre, the film owes a dramatic and stylistic debt to Capote, another stage veteran's big - screen debut about the complicated relationship between a prisoner facing a murder rap and the writer looking to capitalize on his experiences.
Becoming Chaz is undoubtedly one of the most thought - provoking films you will see on any screen this year, a frankly chronicled tale of Chaz's life as a transgender man that opens a more than occasionally mind - blowing conversation about the essentials of gender, and subsequently, sexuality.
Filmmaker Greg MacGillivray, a specialist in gigantic - screen nature movies including «The Living Sea,» is up to date in his use of 70 mm IMAX film, but he's stuck in the past about how to tell a story.