Sentences with phrase «ways fictional films»

Not exact matches

The imagining of fictional cityscapes and buildings have influenced the built environment, much in the same way as architecture captures the imagination of film makers and movie goers everywhere.

The film presents a fictional virus, a construct devised by Columbia University epidemiologist Ian Lipkin, vectoring its way across the planet, killing millions of the fecklessly unprepared and leaving social havoc and innumerable bodies in its wake.

While it's about a young child facing her father's fading health and an impending environmental disaster (not to mention a herd of prehistoric monsters migrating ominously towards them) in a fictional part of the U.S. called «The Bathtub,» the emotionally rousing «Beasts of the Southern Wild» is simply an inspiring and celebratory look at love, loss and life that's moving and passionate in the way few films are these days (read our review).

In a way, this film about a sleeper agent is a sleeper film, initially taking place in the small, fictional, nothing - ever - happens town of Lima, West Virginia, before turning it into a battlefield.

Though it has a lot of fun playing with slasher tropes and cinema in general (showing the way Max and her friends are affected by elements like musical cues, monochromatic flashback sequences and slow motion within the fictional movie), the film isn't funny or scary enough, ultimately becoming a victim of its own satire due to its insistence on preserving the genre's traditionally bad acting and writing.

We're a long way from McDonagh's last film, Seven Psychopaths, which was a gleefully glib (albeit frequently hilarious) meta cartoon crime caper, like what Charlie Kaufman might make if assigned to write a Tarantino knockoff with his fictional brother Donald.

Cruz's presence at the Berlinale will come by way of a special screening (ie, non-competitive) of The Queen of Spain, her and director Fernando Trueba's follow - up to The Girl of Your Dreams, the 1998 film about a fictional Spanish screen star who attracts the attention of Josef Goebbels.

It's easy to sit back and judge fictional characters, but at no point do any of them make an obviously stupid decision, and much of the film plays out as a thriller as we root for the strong - willed young women to find a way out of captivity.

Aside from the teaser trailer that was released alongside Brave way back in June, the campaign for the film has mostly involved viral marketing which included a ridiculously detailed college website for the fictional school.

The reason why it hasn't is simple: Emmet is a completely fictional character, and the documentary - style talking head introductions to the film's individual vignettes (by jazz historians and enthusiasts, including Allen himself) go a long way in convincing the audience of the film's truth.

[To Jolie] In a way like your film too, revealing a culture and an environment that has a pretty heightened degree of authenticity, meaning the documentary but at the same time, there are composite characters and there are fictional elements.

The movie then gives way to the fictional world of the film proper as Levy, playing an artist named David, meets and falls in love with a young Hungarian woman named Enci, enacted by Bordán.

Accompanied by a harmoniously juxtaposing score by Lesley Barber, the film uses music to break the horrors of it's fictional realities in a way where we can handle it's dramatic themes without turning into a puddle of tears.

It's contrived in places but the message of the film resonates strongly in the final hour in exploring the way authors infuse their personal lives with their fictional works.

Ataman's film Journey to the Moon is especially engaging in the way it crafts a fictional story interwoven with a documentary style interview of Turkish scholars.