Sentences with phrase «whose experiences the film»

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Taking inspiration from the personal life of his leading man (Lustig is a widowed grocer upon whose stories the screenplay is loosely based), Weinstein draws on his experience as a documentary film - maker to conjure a drama rooted in the reality of these characters and their community.

A bit more suspense would have gone a long way here, and while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been in the crowd - pleasing documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned in a slick - looking feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better films out there in terms of quality, while it's too straight - faced in execution to at least give us some choice b - movie thrills.

Young women, in particular, are profoundly influenced by films that follow girl protagonists whose stories transport them to new cultures, environments and character circumstances outside of their personal experiences within their familiar realm.

The actors — many with considerable stage experience and minimal film work — deliver strong naturalistic performances, especially leading man Lamothe, whose Roque smoothly charms the ladies and sweeps us along whenever he speaks, while holding in reserve a restive intensity we glimpse in his pensive eyes.

While «Farewell, My Queen» does boast admirable elements (more on those below) overall, despite some showy trappings it is a frustratingly empty experience, built around a character whose blankness is supposed to be a virtue, but ends up costing the film dearly in terms of identification and interest.

It's meticulously directed, the foley is as sharp and crowd pleasing as the finest Mamet dialogue, and Krasinski doesn't neglect the emotional core of the film — the family vying to survive, whose tensions, divisions and turmoil we experience in near silence, but with great expressivity and economy.

The film stars Academy Award ® nominee and Emmy ® award winning actor Greg Kinnear as Todd Burpo and co-stars Kelly Reilly as Sonja Burpo, the real - life couple whose son Colton (newcomer Connor Corum) claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience.

It is a film whose impact must be experienced in 3 - D on a theatrical screen to be fully understood.

The whole experience isn't quite as good as actually sitting down and watching a movie with Wright — whose clear enthusiasm for film and gabbing about it is pretty much unquestionable at this point — but it does make for a pretty good excuse to bust out one of our best comedies since 2000 and give it another watch.

Diane Kruger, whose new film «In the Fade» comes out Dec. 27, talked about her worst - ever auditioning experience during an interview with rising «Downsizing» actress Hong Chau for Variety «s «Actors on Actors» series.

This is a film whose overwhelming effect can only truly be experienced with the volume turned way up.

The trailer suggests otherwise, but if directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller (whose only previous experience behind the camera was on the animated film «Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs») can keep Hill on a tight leash and get the best out of Tatum, then who knows?

Meet a dynamic group of women from Pixar, whose experience and success at the studio have helped craft some of the most memorable animated films in recent history.

In several of his films, Hauff employed individuals with no prior theatre or film training and experience whose life circumstances paralleled those of his characters as actors.

Working with Marilyn Monroe must have been quite a special experience for third assistant director Colin Clark, whose brief time with the star has turned into two memoirs, and now a film, titled My Week with Marilyn.

Advertising executive Cecile (Deborah Twiss, who wrote and directed the film and upon whose real life experiences it claims to be based), therapist Jonathan (Eric Roberts «The Expendables»), and their children...

My own interest runs more toward «Goksung,» the latest from Na Hong - jin, a master of the contemporary crime thriller whose earlier films, «The Yellow Sea» and «The Chaser,» remain two of my most memorably grisly Cannes experiences.

Bluebeard — Another first time experiencing a director for me is this film by Catherine Breillat, the descriptions of whose other films don't sound appealing to me at all.

Since Director William Oldroyd's reputation is on the line with his first full - length movie, he is fortunate in starring Florence Pugh as title character, a woman whose prior film experience has been only in «The Falling,» wherein she played a charismatic pupil in a 1969 English girls» school faced with a mysterious fainting epidemic.

The Program is focused on supporting accomplished composers from a wide range of musical backgrounds, which may include composers with previous experience writing for film as well as accomplished composers working outside of film whose work is suitable for film scoring.

Schwarzenegger, whose first appearance doesn't come until more than an hour in, admittedly does provide the film with a few chuckle - worthy moments, yet such antics are hardly enough to compensate for what's otherwise a fairly interminable experience - which is a shame, certainly, given the potential afforded by the decent premise and impressive cast of comedy all - stars.

The film itself is an adaptation from the real life experiences from Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun whose services included spiritual guidance for Death Row inmates in Louisiana's state penitentiary.

The longest notice appeared in the Detroit News, whose Tom Long wrote that the film «is decidedly a Michigan experience, and there are questions as to how it will fly in lands that know nothing of the Mackinac Bridge, pasties, and the Department of Natural Resources.»

My experience was different from the way Brown and other second - hand accounts on Twitter described the film and resultant Q&A; Petrucci, whose company has been invaluable in preserving vast swaths of B - movie history that otherwise would have been lost forever, did answer the question, even as Ziemba demurred.

«There are movies where horror is just horror for horror's sake, but sometimes supernatural things can become a key to push you out of a certain way of experiencing and seeing,» says Ana Lily Amirpour, whose visually stunning vampire film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, much like next year's cannibal - adjacent The Bad Batch, defies easy categorization.

Finally making its way into select theaters, Bahrani — whose best - known work includes Chop Shop, Goodbye Solo, and Man Push Cart — took some time to speak with me about the film, what his experience has been like working with non-actors and actors, and what he hopes his late friend Roger Ebert would have said about his film.

The film is fast - paced under the watchful eye of Director Michael Cuesta, whose experience as a producer / director has been primarily in television, but succeeds here too.

Perhaps this sequel's greatest contribution to the series» mythos is the introduction of a Council of Legendary Figures, consisting of such familiar personalities as Mother Nature (Aisha Tyler), Cupid (Kevin Pollak), the Sandman (Michael Dorn), the Easter Bunny (Jay Thomas), the Tooth Fairy (Art LaFleur), and Father Time (an uncredited Peter Boyle, whose character from the first film, Scott's boss, must have had his own Father Time Clause experience).

The Amazon pilot is but the latest small - screen project for the busy Soderbergh, who recently announced an anthology series based on his 2009 film «The Girlfriend Experience» for Starz and whose 10 - episode series «The Knick» premieres next month on Cinemax.

For experience outside the visceral, we have to rely on Scott Thomas» unrecognisable Crystal, whose foul mouth and vanity allow for the film's only discernible characterisations beyond stone faces and violent justice.

Many of these films belong to the postmodern lineage of Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962) and Alain Resnais» Je t» aime, je t» aime (1968), whose basic conceit — representing the fragmented experience of time travel using tricks of editing and narration — is especially suited to science fiction on a budget.

Writing is the expression of the writer whose fuses their life experiences and their outward observations into the written realms, whereas the film maker paints the juxposition of life into the canvas of light, sound, and picture.

Bruce Conner's iconic 1976 film «Crossroads» is presented by Thomas Dane Gallery whose Duke Street space is transformed into a cinematic experience with the projection covering an entire end wall and the soundtrack all - encompassing, immersive.

The moviemakers» efforts to sell the piece have yet to come to fruition, but the film they made of their experiences serves as an intriguing commentary on the establishment that has sprung up around a decidedly anti-establishment figure, one whose art has raked in millions of dollars... despite having been put out on the street for free.

A Manhattanite, Alex Gueron is a CUNY graduate whose postgraduate experience includes teaching Capoeira and percussion, and production and post-production work for music, video and film.

In the film installation 100 % OTHER FIBRES the protagonist is called Gavin — a poodle whose traumatic experiences and stress mean he no longer wants to exist.

Until the installation of his 1973 solid - light film, Line Describing a Cone in Chrissie Iles's Whitney exhibition Into The Light in 2001, Anthony McCall remained one of those artists whose work circulated almost entirely in the form of two or three very well - known documentary photographs: his art was immediately recognizable, canonical even, but rarely experienced firsthand.

In 2012, Chris Hope, an entertainment lawyer whose experience spans in - house and private practice roles, saw his film Hatsumi: One Grandmother's Journey Through the Japanese Canadian Internment, receive commercial release by Alliance Films.