Sentences with phrase «suburban world of the film»

Gay marriage and same - sex parenthood in the suburban world of the film are shown as facts of modern American life, represented with a cheerful wholesomeness that could appeal to various ideological leanings.

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A massive asteroid is three weeks away from impact with Earth (a TV - news voiceover at the start of the film describes the failure of an Armageddon - like space mission to obliterate the thing), and the world — or at least Southern California subbing for suburban New Jersey — copes, or doesn't, with imminent demise.

John Cameron Mitchell, director of the acclaimed films Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Shortbus takes us to an exotic and unusual world: suburban London in the late 70s.

So when AI moves away from the placid confines of the suburban Swinton home and into the wild and woolly world of such locales as the neon - drenched, hedonistic urban center known as Rouge City or — in the film's most stunning sight — a Manhattan that is all but completely submerged in water, Osment's David remains a captivating companion on an increasingly strange and surreal journey.

In these works, everyday objects take on uncanny properties, as in Two Holes of Water No. 3, 1966, where suburban station wagons wrapped in plastic become mobile TV and film projectors, or in Prune Flat, 1965, in which a single lightbulb descends from above, its brightness washing out the piece's projected 16 - mm footage and restoring three - dimensionality to the world onstage.