Sentences with phrase «very human drama»

Mr. Hooper does a remarkable job of creating a very human drama out of a historical period and event.

One program, «Inside Einstein's Mind,» succeeded not only because it dealt in a convincing way with the complexities of theoretical physics, but also because it revealed a very human drama as Einstein raced to complete his general theory of relativity in 1915, even as the world seemed to be falling apart during World War I as was his marriage.

Knowing the usual professional hazard of becoming hardened to the very human dramas that first moved him to the ministry, he will beware lest he add to it the conscious hardening that serves as defense against pain and loss.

Not exact matches

Instead, it's an example of another very human tendency leaders need to guard against — we often forget to properly appreciate low - drama, super high achievers until after they've left us.

The creation at large is not simply a stage upon which the one significant drama, namely human life, is acted out; on the contrary, it is all significant so that the very «stars in their courses» are important and have their place in what God is doing in the creation.

But this particular drama had its own mercurial character, in part reflecting the complicated, very human Desmond Tutu.

When you are raising tiny humans very rarely can you make it right through to bedtime without some kind of drama, just don't let those difficult moments be the only thing you remember about your day when you are finally dragging yourself up to bed that night.

Real Steel's human drama is wrought between deadbeat dad Charlie (Hugh Jackman), his abandoned but headstrong son Max (Dakota Goyo, who resembles Jake Lloyd but at the very least has better dance moves), and love interest Bailey Tallet (Lost's Evangeline Lilly).

By contrast, the very fine character actor Catherine Keener is excellent as his no - nonsense partner: she's every inch the believable special agent, controlled, efficient, dedicated, human but highly disciplined (as was, come to think of it, Clint Eastwood in the far superior Secret Service drama «In the Line of Fire»).

Though this is a drama first and foremost, true to form he blends in liberal doses of humour (both visual gags and subtle, character - based material), showing the very human frailties of the lead characters but never ridiculing them.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

I'm very drawn to the big drama that all humans have to deal with, which is becoming an autonomous human being, which is almost impossible.»

It's been a decade since Cantet won the Palme D'Or for his drama The Class; his accomplished and very promising early films (Time Out, Human Resources) now seem a lifetime away, while neither his English - language Joyce Carol Oates adaptation Foxfire nor the subsequent Return To Ithaca ever actually opened in the United States.

While details about the new Darabont script are few and far between, he did reveal the Legendary Pictures release will explore some «very compelling human drama.»

And Farhadi is careful never to get in the way, simply letting tremendous actors play out a very identifiable human drama, one that remains truly cinematic while barely even venturing outside.

The strangest and most uncompromising of all musician biopics, Jean - Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's 1968 debut feature, The Chronicle Of Anna Magdalena Bach disregards most conventions of costume drama to ask some very human questions about history, what it takes to be an artist, and what movies can tell us about ourselves.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Another Earth (Unrated) Redemption drama about an MIT student (Brit Marling) and an accomplished composer (William Mapother) whose paths cross in tragic fashion on the very same night of the discovery of a mirror planet populated by duplicates of every human on Earth.

A loose remake of Jacques Deray's La Piscine (1969), this fascinating character drama is alive in a very sensual way, zeroing in on atmosphere and environment and the way they react with humans.

She initially proffers a fastidious, Melvillian crime picture with special attention given to manual processes rather than human drama, but then elegantly pulls the focus back (with the help of a very subtle twist) in the second half to reveal that the caper at the film's centre was only included for context.

It's filled with very special human drama that transcends the education film genre and is better than any fictional film that I've ever seen about schools.

During the 30 - 40 hours of main campaign gaming (which I'm so very close to finishing), Watch Dogs twists and turns with loads of genuinely interesting human drama and neat ideas like, why hasn't anyone thought of this before?

The effect is of the entire ensemble gathering in a pre-arranged spot to witness a human drama — often a love affair — play out before their very eyes.

Be it drama or comedy alike, exploring existential philosophical or simply very personal ideas and thoughts on the human condition and working from deep down my own emotional pipeline.»

The human figure and the very particular figure of her husband created a challenge to one of the core aspects of her approach in the studio — that of doubt that haunts every brush stroke, and something new to her work happens in these portraits that is different than the encounter with landscape: in the first portrait of Bill, in the hospital, the overworking or overthinking becomes a powerful expression of the drama of the human body pushed to the limit of survival, where «overworking» is an embodiment of flesh itself in flux.

«These are real people getting real divorces — or at least attempting to get real divorces — and it has all of the human drama of this significant process all condensed down into a very short period of time,» said Mickey Stern, co-chief executive of Base Productions.

It's worth pointing out here, though, that without this very human, built - in variety of perceptions we would have no great art, music, drama, or even cosmology to excite, awaken, inform, and inspire people.