Sentences with phrase «white film community»

Get Out is kind of a miracle of a hit, one that isn't exclusive to the mostly white film community, but one that made $ 175 million on a $ 5 million budget.

Not exact matches

But when a Second Lifer who calls himself Nimrod Yaffle tried to log in to the community earlier his year, he discovered his avatar had been sequestered in a surreal, isolated landscape: infinite rows of corn, spread out under a dark sky, with nothing else in sight except a small red tractor and a black - and - white television set playing the 1940 film Boy in Court.

No film this year, however, addresses the matter with more thematic exactitude and near - scientific scrutiny than Michael Haneke's grimly riveting «The White Ribbon,» a film which differs from the ones previously mentioned by taking an entire community, as opposed to a solitary family, as its allegorical subject.

He also spoke eloquently on how the image of the tragic black hero, or the flawless black hero, reflects the culture's problem with processing a marginal community as just a group of human beings, and why he didn't want the characters, white and black, in his film to be easily categorized or glibly understood.

Released to simultaneous acclaim and disdain in both the Black and White communities, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song temporarily took over the top box office position from the year's number one grossing film, the $ 50 million earning Love Story (Arthur Hiller, 1970).

That Ford's film does not directly deal with LGBT issues, but with his brother's murder by a white man who was never brought to trial is significant for a community so often typecast.

The movie is based on Hillary Jordan's novel of the same name and follows the unlikely friendship of two World War Two veterans, one white and one black, as they return from war and find common ground as their families face difficulty in their local community, and the actress signed up for the film in the hope the director could turn the story into something «big and epic».

Ezra Edelman's five - part documentary film O.J.: Made in America explores two parallel historical narratives: 1) The story of post-Watts race relations in Los Angeles, specifically the tensions between the LAPD and the black community; and 2) the story of a preternaturally talented black athlete who sought to shed his racial identity to achieve «white» success, only for him to reclaim it at a crucial moment.

Haynes» film stars Julianne Moore as Carol White, a 1980s Californian housewife who becomes increasingly allergic to everyday domestic products and routine activities, eventually moving to an enclosed community in New Mexico.

Now installed at MUAC, the piece is centred around a silent, black - and - white film that narrates the story of a migrant family who is lynched by the community to which they've migrated — a timeless scenario which, according to the artist, metaphorically points to the breakdown of the state, and the rise of vigilante justice.

He had progressive ambitions — creating «spatial films» in the museum galleries with photographic reproductions of famous African American figures, videos of members of the Harlem community, and recordings of jazz music — but not a single artwork by a black (or white) artist was included.