Sentences with phrase «talking about the film program»

This was a coup because, mainly, they were talking about the film program.

Not exact matches

Lastly is the formidably entertaining «Mechanics: Technologies of a Fantastic World» (17 mins., HD), in which James Kakalios, a Minnesota - based physics professor who served as technical advisor on Watchmen as part of the National Academy of Sciences and Engineering's «Hollywood matchmaking» program, talks about the credibility or lack thereof of the film's science.

Despite the contemporary setting for the film — it's described in the official festival program as «A Big Chill for our current social media moment» — its depiction of gender roles are a few further decades behind still, with female characters assuming domestic roles as an excuse to steal away and talk about men and destiny.

We went on to talk about the process she uses to program her festival's dynamic indie films; why she includes indie cartoons in the mix (and how she discovered The Bum Family); and the non-intuitive, but decidedly wonderful, idea to honor both John Sayles and Tommy Chong at this year's festival, Chong on opening night and Sayles at the Sierra Spirit Awards and gala on May 27).

Apichatpong Weerasethakul talks to Paul Dallas from BOMB Magazine about the conceptual links between his art and films, and the work Fireworks (Archives), an installation recently shown at Wavelengths, the experimental program at the Toronto International Film Festival.