Sentences with phrase «war films about»

Yet another one of these Iraq war films about how bad it is.

We've seen countless war films about the battlefield, filled with graphic and shocking images that depict war as the ultimate hell on earth.

Now in 2006 you made two war films about the Battle of Iwo Jima, the latter of which, Letters from Iwo Jima was in Japanese.

UPDATE: Ron Howard will take over for Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and direct the upcoming Star Wars film about Han Solo, Lucasfilm announced Thursday.

Not exact matches

To Cameron's credit, he's optimistic about the next films in the «Star Wars» franchise saying, «I wan na see what they're doing next, where they're taking it,» he said.

Lucasfilm used GoPro cameras for the upcoming film Red Tails, about World War II pilots, and countless Discovery Channel productions and news shows use the cameras to film wildlife, rescues, and storms.

As he and collaborator Lynn Novick prepare to debut their new 10 - part documentary film series The Vietnam War on September 17 on PBS stations nationwide, we spoke with the tireless documentarian about leadership, productivity, managing gigantic projects and how to achieve immortality through storytelling.

You know, I went to the cinema, back in the»70s, and saw this film about military surgeons wearing Hawaiian clothes, saving lives in a war, and I thought, «This is the neatest thing there is.

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.

We already know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens set records at the box office, but on Tuesday we will find out more about the blockbuster film's ultimate impact on Walt Disney's (dis) bottom line in the first quarter of the entertainment giant's fiscal year.

EASTWOOD: Well that was an interesting project because Steven had asked me to do Flags of Our Fathers and so I was having a meeting with him and we were talking about that war and that battle and I was going off into Iceland to film the beaches because Iceland has black sand much like Iwo Jima does.

If Hulk wasn't in «Infinity War» at all, then I think people would be right in being upset about the way the character is marketed for the film.

I'm talking about the Disney - Lucas film connection and therefore also the Star Wars franchise.

Articles about Apple's CEO, inequality, and the producer of the latest Star Wars film are among the year's most compelling.

The latest situation involves The Promise, an upcoming film (pictured above) about the Armenian genocide in World War I starring Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac.

And the British people in May 1940, as more accurately shown in a 1958 film about Dunkirk, were filled with doubts about the war.

Christian Isolationism ran so strong that in 1941, just before the war started, there was a propaganda film made to counter it about a religious contientious objector who became a war hero — «Sergeant York.»

As Fury progressed, I began to think about war films like All Quiet on the Western Front and others that might be defined as anti-war war films.

Questions such as whether torture is permissible in Tolkien's world view, whether war is glorified (with a side - debate about how the films differ from the books in this respect), and how victory and defeat are characterised, are worth considering and will encourage readers to think more deeply about LOTR and appreciate how nuanced Tolkien's treatment of these issues is.

Jurassic World joins just about every mega-budget, hotly - anticipated upcoming blockbuster (the new Star Wars, the Man of Steel Sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy, another Avengers film) to be released in the summer of 2015...

In the trailer, Fisher is preparing to film Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is helping her mother pack and talks about the way aging effects people, in reference to her mother.

During the Q & A following the film, one woman in the Sundance crowd commented, «I'm against all the recent wars that America has been involved in; so I admit I had a preconceived opinion about what I was watching.

That's Star Wars, not Trek... Ashamed I am of this you see.Anyway, wasn't John Huston the Voice in more than one old film about biblical events?

Knowing of my interest in crime fiction and detective stories my late father - in - law, John Thynne — who had supported Arsenal from before the war — was always talking about a film made in 1939 called The Arsenal Stadium Mystery.

It's not like Star Wars films are known for always having huge cliffhangers, but it was fun to talk about the possibilities after The Force Awakens.

These parents decided to film one of the conversations their daughter had about Star Wars Episode IV, giving her interpretation of the entire film, which is definitely more entertaining than the official summary of the film.

«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.

He added: «In the end, George Lucas did use the «revenge» word in one of his Star Wars films but it was about the baddies in Revenge of the Sith.

In the mid-1980s, Paul Moorcraft, then a war correspondent, journeyed with a film crew into Afghanistan to produce a documentary about the fifth anniversary of the Soviet invasion.

In this wide - ranging, humorous talk, Seth Shostak takes a look at Star Wars and other science fiction films from the point of view of a skeptical scientist, tells stories about the movies he has been asked to advise, and muses about aliens from space and how we might make contact with them.

Many of the pre-release stories about World War Z were about its over-inflated budget (reports suggest upwards of $ 250 million) and a variety of production problems that would probably sink most films.

The whole film consists of the heroes running around African desert whilst being shot at by various people really, there is a silly plot about trying to find a buried American civil war ironclad warship and also a plot about stopping most of the African water supply getting poisoned.

Just as films about misunderstood benevolent aliens in the 1950s (The Day the Earth Stood Still, It Came from Outer Space) were calling for an end to the Cold War us - and - them mentality, District 9 is likewise making a strong statement about the damage that can be done when refugees are treated with suspicion before being given any compassion.

Much like his other epic films about war, Spielberg paints a picture words can never portray.

Spielberg and his screenwriter, Robert Rodat, have done a subtle and rather beautiful thing: They have made a philosophical film about war almost entirely in terms of action.

Her latest Polish film, the tough, unsentimental In Darkness, brings together themes from two of the most highly regarded movies about the second world war, Wajda's Kanal, about Nazi troops pursuing resistance workers through the Warsaw sewers in 1944, and Schindler's List, Spielberg's true story of the quixotic German industrialist who saved the lives of more than 1,000 Jewish workers in wartime Poland.

«World War Z» plays a bit like a series of separate films and the juncture where the new final act was grafted onto the proceedings is unmistakable, but unless you knew about the film's troubled past, you'd never guess it existed.

In particular, Chaplin's impassioned speech at the end of the film about war, love and peace.

The basics have been well - publicized: The film, shot in black and white, is about a German Nazi who took over a factory in Poland during World War II and talked his powerful acquaintances into allowing him to use cheap labor, in the form of Jewish workers.

Except for Grand Moff Tarkin, who was basically a bunch of Peter Cushing - shaped pixels, none of the major players were people we knew; most of them were characters we'd never heard of, the grunts and redshirts of the galactic war, and that meant anything could happen to them, and that the film didn't have to set aside a certain amount of space for enacting things we'd heard about but never seen dramatized.

As vital, disturbing, and powerful now as it was when it was written and filmed, All Quiet on the Western Front is an excellent film about war and both its inhumanity — the moments when people are turned into monsters and pawns — and its humanity — the moments when despite the contexts people attempt to regain their decency.

A film about the passage of a change to a legal document generates less intrigue, even if the revision in question outlawed slavery and came alongside the end of the longest and deadliest war fought on American soil.

Very powerful film which poses a lot of moral questions about the consequences of the American government's campaign to empower anti-communist governments during the Cold War but instead we empowered a brutal regime, and the fallout of this caused a million person genocide that took place

He composed the music for all three of Lucas» Star Wars films, and for just about all of Spielberg's films, from Sugarland Express (1974) to Saving Private Ryan (1998).

That film is to 2001 what a first grader's essay about summer vacation is to «War and Peace.»

Heineman has crafted a film about the barbarism of war, in which ideology blinds its adherents from recognizing the common humanity of others.

Steven Spielberg's sturdy, gripping film is about the «Pentagon Papers,» a secret history of the Vietnam War which the government compiled, laying out the schemes, blunders and lies to cover all that up, and which that government never wanted to see the light of day — especially not while the national nightmare of Vietnam was still going on.

Under the Shadow is a chilling film about the horrors of war, the suppression of women under the guise of religion, superstition, and the supernatural.

The breathtaking, richly eloquent, and visually - poetic film - deliberately filmed at a slow pace - about space travel and the discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence (many years before Star Wars (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)-RRB-, was based on the published 1951 short story The Sentinel, written in 1948 by English science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.