Sentences with phrase «which features a narrative»

Prisoners is directed well, apart from its length, by French - Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (Incendies, Maelstrom), from a sometimes nifty, sometimes turgid screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski (Contraband), which features narrative twists and turns to keep the audience guessing as to what might have happened to the two young girls, and also who holds the key to the answer of their whereabouts.

Not exact matches

These are the mom - and - pop stores off which the industry tends to make the highest margins — and which have featured prominently in the narrative of West Virginia's opioid epidemic.

Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.

Let us set down three observations: (a) Mark 15:40 - 16:8 possesses several features which divide it so sharply from the Passion narrative that it could hardly have been the natural continuation of that in the stage of oral tradition, (b) this pericope, however, could not have existed in its present form as an independent tradition, (c) the pericope itself falls naturally into two parts, the first of which can exist as an independent story, but the second of which can not, for it depends upon the first.

But the single most interesting race is one in which both sides feature compelling narratives and the ultimate winner could be either side.

Over time, the Camerons» environmentalism — which features heavily in the ecological destruction narrative of Avatar — has become more and more centered around food.

This is perfectly in keeping with the style of the Broadway production, which features much more of this style than the film does, with Condon beefing up the dramatic dialogue for purposes of an easier narrative and deeper characterizations.

The jury statement: «The Alliance of Women Film Journalists presents the EDA Award for Best Female - Directed Narrative Feature to a film in which we are observers in a story told with a fully naturalistic approach.

It was the basis for Disappear, which picked up the audience award for best narrative feature at SXSW back in March of this year.

Williams, a regular Reichardt collaborator, gets the least satisfying of the three narratives, but the final 45 minutes, which also features spectacular work from Stewart, more than makes up for it.

The movie doesn't just feature quirky characters, which could have been found in any film of the time, but flat - out weird characters whose actions don't serve the narrative — they are simply weird for weird's sake.

The plot borrows many narrative elements from The Matrix, which itself, truth be told, borrowed many elements of its own from comic books and martial arts films, so it's hard to qualify this feature as a direct rip - off.

Keep the Change, which won the Best U.S. Narrative Feature, Best New Narrative Director, and the Nora Ephron Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival, opens in New York TOMORROW at the Quad Cinema, in Los Angeles on March 23rd at Laemmle Town Center and Laemmle Royal Theatre, followed by a nationwide rollout.

I saw three of the best narrative feature films I have seen all year at the Sarasota Film Festival, and two of them are getting a theatrical release, which means other viewers will be able to catch them, too.

As with many of the previous films made by the prolific Belgian duo, their tenth narrative feature reveals the devastating effects of social inequities, which brutally entangle those who too often remain fundamentally invisible and entirely unknown.

The story, which could easily have been too convoluted to follow for someone who doesn't understand British laws and government agencies, is relatively easy to follow, and features a nicely developed script by acclaimed screenwriter Steven Knight (Redemption, Dirty Pretty Things), though some all - too - convenient narrative shortcuts are taken to keep the story moving briskly, which may annoy some who prefer courtroom dramas without all of the contrived thriller elements.

A vérité style narrative featuring professional and non-professional actors, and produced with a crew made up largely of women, Newman offers a new take on the sports film which wisely avoids sentimentality and melodrama.

Lauren also recently completed collective: unconscious, a collaborative feature spearheaded by Dan Schoenbrun, which was the first omnibus to premiere in the Narrative Feature Competition at SXSW ifeature spearheaded by Dan Schoenbrun, which was the first omnibus to premiere in the Narrative Feature Competition at SXSW iFeature Competition at SXSW in 2016.

After producing multiple shorts, documentaries and experimental films, Meredith Danluck is the latest director to explore these ideas with her feature - narrative debut State Like Sleep (which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival) starring Katherine Waterston as a photographer trying to find answers to her husband (Michiel Huisman)'s recent death; co-starring Michael Shannon and Luke Evans.

Eventually Magic Mike seems to remember that, as a narrative feature film, it should have a story of some kind, which is how we come to focus on the struggles of Adam (Alex Pettyfer), a 19 - year - old college dropout who's landed on the couch of his more responsible sister Brooke (the enigmatically poker - faced beauty Cody Horn).

By the way, if you could only see half a dozen movies between now and the end of the year, you could hardly improve on the six narrative features that played both Venice and Telluride: Alexander Payne's big - idea satire «Downsizing,» which kicked off both festivals; Guillermo del Toro's terrific revisionist monster romance «The Shape of Water»; «Weekend» and «45 Years» director Andrew Haigh's spare nouveau western «Lean on Pete»; Lebanon's «The Insult» and Israel's «Foxtrot»; and «Taxi Driver» writer Paul Schrader's best movie in at least two decades, «First Reformed.»

These are the only films among his 17 features and TV dramas in which Leigh focuses the narrative on a single character.

The story of «Batkid» Miles Scott, the 5 - year - old leukemia patient who got to live his dream to be a superhero courtesy of the Make - A-Wish Foundation and much of San Francisco, is both the subject of a documentary, Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Round the World, and an upcoming narrative feature film in which Julia Roberts is set to star and produce.

As this new trailer — which is more of a behind - the - scenes glimpse at the production than a proper narrative trailer — reveals, the film will feature a new song from talented musical boy Nick Jonas.

Pellerin will star in «First Light,» which also features Stefani Scott, and will premiere at SXSW in the Narrative Spotlight Section.

For her second narrative feature Los Perros, which premiered in Le Semane de Critique at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Marcela tells the story of an upper - class housewife whose complicated relationship with her horse - riding instructor forces her to confront her family's complicity in the oppressive regime that gave her a life of privilege.

CBS Films have released a trailer for writer - director Demetri Martin's upcoming comedy Dean., which was honoured with the Best Narrative Feature award at last year's Tribeca Film Festival and sees Martin starring in the cast alongside Kevin Kline, Gillian Jacobs, and Mary Steenburgen; take a look at the trailer below after the official synopsis... Writer / Director / Comedian Demetri -LSB-...]

The strong characterizations are aided by the overall narrative featured in Tales of Hearts — which, true to its name, tells a bit more of a personal, emotional tale than you'd expect from the series.

Among the winners are feature - length narrative filmmakers Kelly Daniela Norris and T. W. Pittman's for «Nakom,» Daniel Levin for «Bagatelle,» Daniel Laabs for «Jules of Light and Dark,» and Paul Gordon for «Wolves,» which was also given the new Powered by Dell Technology Grant which includes state - of - the - art equipment from Dell.

Using the same actors over that time span allows for an authenticity of experience in a narrative feature not seen before, the effect of which is to invest even the smallest, most mundane of moments with a profound, revelatory, nature.

An older title brought back into circulation is All Day's expanded DVD release of Ganja and Hess (1983), which features an overly appreciative commentary with the director, co-star, cinematographer, and the film's composer, Sam Waymon, bubbling about a seminal work by independent black filmmakers that's either a lost masterpiece, or an indulgent, narrative mess to some.

Previously, the pair co-wrote and co-directed the feature film Fort Tilden, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Narrative Feature at the 2014 SXSW Film Fefeature film Fort Tilden, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Narrative Feature at the 2014 SXSW Film FeFeature at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival.

Outside of the talking heads segments, which feature some of the most delightfully edited interweaving into the narrative, is a film that wants to do more than just tell us this story of expensive books and robbery.

The Rover is the second narrative feature from Australian writer - director David Michôd (Animal Kingdom, which also starred Guy Pearce).

My first big project I tried to do which I failed at was a feature documentary right after college which was actually a narrative.

Los Angeles, CA — May 14, 2018 — The Orchard announced today that the company has acquired North American rights to Eva Vives» feature directorial debut All About Nina, which had its world premiere in the U.S. Narrative Competition at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival last month.

Jim Jarmusch's seventh narrative feature, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, which I've seen three times, may be a failure, if only because most of its characters are never developed far enough beyond their mythic profiles to live independently of them.

Blake Williams Former IONCINEMA.com contributor and short filmmaker Blake Williams embarks on his first narrative feature, Prototype, which premiered at Locarno and has received comparisons to Lynch.

(And I haven't even mentioned the framing narrative, which features an impossibly wizened Tonto telling his story to a young boy at a carnival in 1933 San Francisco...) Yet there's a certain goofy grandeur to the movie's first half or so.

But that's easily debunked — just look at Pixar's roster, which features a number of magic - feather narratives but also includes stories largely about family, friendship, and growing older.

While promoting Megan Leavey (which is a solid rental), she talked about how she brought Blackfish director Gabriela Cowperthwaite on board to direct that movie in her narrative feature debut.

The most recent addition to his series is Chilean director Marcela Said's 2013 narrative feature debut, The Summer of Flying Fish, which he first discovered while serving on a jury at a film festival.

Two years ago, Derek Cianfrance made his narrative feature debut with the emotionally - charged, uncomfortable - yet - beautiful romantic drama Blue Valentine, which was about the despair and devastation of romantic relationships and the pain they leave behind.

Though I've listed a few of my favourite feature length narrative films of 2017, I find myself going to the movies less and less, and becoming bored with narrative cinema and narrative in general, with the exception of all the great international films of the past, many of which are available in Blu - ray and / or streaming platforms.

A summer movie event that has literally been a decade in the making, Avengers: Infinity War is the new capstone of Marvel Studios» ambitious master plan to bring the majority of their comic book heroes to cinematic life — not in separate, stand - alone films, but rather in an intricate web of interlocking narratives, each of which features various plot points and isolated moments (some buried within or after the closing credits) that have laid the groundwork for the events depicted here.

Next to a wealth of competitive game modes, in which players pursue dominance of the rankings, Warface features unique and narrative driven Co-Op missions.

Unfortunately, it turns out to be Briony's story that is most important to the central thematic implications of the narrative's scope, but we don't realize it until the epilogue, which features Vanessa Redgrave reminiscing about the past on television.

In a similar style to his previous feature Beginners (which earned Christopher Plummer an Oscar in 2012), the director foregoes a straight narrative in favour of creating a movie which feels almost like someone warmly re-living the vital moments of their life, a visual poem or essay about the influences — the era, the people you know, the music and literature you consume — that shape one's identity.

Adding to that is the complication that this is simultaneously a documentary, a narrative, and a behind the scenes feature, which may be just too many things for Borgli to deliver effectively.

Klinger's cine - literacy is well known to those familiar with his writing and programming, but what's special about Porto, especially as a debut narrative feature, is the relative internalization of its influences, which feel secondary to its larger grappling with a timeless emotional enigma: namely, infatuation, and the question of how such a mighty force can also be so fleeting.