Sentences with phrase «whose life the movie»

As composed by Ella Milch - Sheriff, on whose life the movie is partly based, the choral concert work brings together a haunted past with a plea for healing, making «Past Life» an especially resonant soundtrack in a powerful repertoire that hinges upon the emotional devastation wreaked by The Holocaust..

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NEW YORK (AP)-- George Romero, whose classic «Night of the Living Dead» and other horror films turned zombie movies into social commentaries and who saw his flesh - devouring undead spawn countless imitators, remakes and homages, has died.

So let's say this movie is about a woman whose life was shaped by love of her father; the making of the film Mary Poppins (as well as the writing of the book) is about her coming to terms with the truth about personal love and death and all that.

Like Delaine Moore, a 43 - year - old Calgary mom of three who has written about her sexual explorations post-divorce and whose book, The Secret Sex Life of a Single Mom, is also being turned into a TV movie.

The summer movie season's first live - action family comedy event stars Jim Carrey, whose chilly relationship with his family heats up after he inherits six adorable, lovable and mischievous penguins.

In a 2001 article, U.S. News & World Report called Lanza the «living embodiment» of the fictional genius in the movie Good Will Hunting, whose Massachusetts accent is as thick as Lanza's own.

I'm a single mum who is quite playful and working hard everyday to have a good life with my son... Can't wait to find a soul mate whose gonna be my bet friend and lover... I love the outdoors mostly cuz I'm q grown woman and love to cook, grill outdoor I also enjoy the movies

The movie is so discreet and respectful that, outside the classroom, within whose walls the glory of French literature and language triumph, it never quite comes to life.

James Horner gives Perelman want he needs for a movie whose star is the powerhouse acting of Ben Kingsley and the powder - keg premise of two house owners who equally deserve the property they are fighting over with their lives over.

Nicely played by Violante Placido (whose mother, the actress Simonetta Stefanelli, played Michael Corleone's ill - fated Italian wife in «The Godfather»), Clara's presence brings some life to both Jack's existence and the movie as a whole, but don't get your hopes up.

Mikkelsen, a 47 - year - old A-list Danish performer whose résumé includes «Casino Royale,» «Prague,» and «King Arthur» and who in this movie carries out a hot affair with 24 - year - old Alicia Vikander, makes the chemistry believable despite being in real life of different generations.

The movie turns on a series of revelations about the characters, whose hushed, intimate narration — split between Laura, Jamie, Ronsel, Hap, and Florence — reveals rich inner lives.

Jordan, as a swaggering anti-hero whose tragedy grounds «Black Panther» in lived pain, just about steals the movie.

Abbott contributes a smart, soulful performance, but Nixon keeps threatening to walk away with the movie as the mother, who can't get enough of life and whose physical decay is colored by rage, defiance, and terror.

Here is a movie about a man whose life was defined by a daring, unprecedented and now un-repeatable artistic feat (transforming boxy skyscrapers into a stage high above North America's largest city) and who achieved that feat by trusting in his training and bravery and will.

I don't know what director Angelina Jolie thinks her movie Unbroken is, but the last thing it seems to be is the story of Louis Zamperini, the Olympian and war hero whose life story was told in Laura Hillenbrand's New York Times - bestselling book «Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption ``.

The movie dwells on Darwin's troubled personal life, I suppose to make him relatable to viewers, who may not share his rare genius, but who probably know someone whose spouse is a pain in the rear end.

You watch it thinking: There's a reason why Tracy and Hepburn movies never hinged on therapy, and didn't feature actors whose exteriors looked a lot more exciting than their inner lives.

One of the most famous of the Saturday Night Live political players is George Double - ya himself, Will Ferrell, whose new movie The Campaign attempts to deliver a similarly satirical take on the ridiculousness that is American politics, but in a dirtier, and — dare I say it — more hilarious way.

Herzfeld, whose career somehow lived to fight another day after his 1983 debut feature, «Two of a Kind» — a spectacular Hollywood turkey that imagined John Travolta and Olivia Newton - John as a failed inventor and bank teller chosen by the angels to restore God's faith in mankind — is a master of unintentional kitsch, and most of his latest plays out like a Mel Brooks or Zucker Brothers parody movie minus the actual jokes.

This is the auteur's second project to utilize the real - life passing of time as a storytelling device, following his Before series (whose latest entry, Before Midnight, was my favorite film of 2013), a trio of romance movies separated by 9 years each starring Hawke and Julie Delpy.

Happily, writer - director Mike White, whose métier is quirky movies like «Year of the Dog» in which a secretary's life changes when her dog dies, is not so arty this time.

Alessandro Nivola mostly just scowls as Terry Hobbs, whose wife, Pam (Reese Witherspoon), serves as the movie's emotional fulcrum, while firebrand John Mark Byers (Kevin Durand) comes across as far less demonstrative than his real - life counterpart.

For a movie whose title explains it all, it works better than I had expected it to and just goes to show that we live in a day and age where anyone can be a viral celeb.

The two styles never quite mesh, though, and the movie starts to feel Frankensteinish; it's partly a female buddy movie, it's partly a romantic comedy, it's partly a Superbad - style R - rated comedy, and partly a tender character study of a woman whose life is falling apart around her.

Clearly, not every juxtaposition of live - action humans and computer - generated critters can be as seamless as «Paddington 2,» a movie whose genuine wit and sense of wonderment feel ever more like a balm by comparison.

Real - life stuntwoman Zoe Bell (who doubled for Uma Thurman in «Kill Bill» and Lucy Lawless in «Xena: Warrior Princess») and Tracie Thoms (whose role would have been played by Pam Grier or Samuel L. Jackson in any other movie) deliver great performances throughout their half of the film, but it's Kurt Russell who walks away with «Death Proof» as Stuntman Mike, yet another excellent addition to his rogue's gallery of classic characters.

Perhaps that's because there are oodles of better movies that feature an ingratiating wacko whose presence ultimately teaches the hero life lessons.

And this might be some kind of meta - trolling of this movie's villain, Josh Brolin, whose real - life stepmother is Barbra Streisand, the star of Yentl.

But it doesn't matter; the pleasure of this movie is in Cody's sly barbs (the rich brother - in - law's wife has a dog named Prosecco, and a kid whose talent - show skill is Pilates) and in Theron's soulful, lived - in performance.

On the civilian front, Mason Weaver (Brie Larson) is a tough, sexy «photojournalist» (a job that exists in the movies, not so much in real life) who senses the story of a lifetime, and Bill has also hired a tracker: former British special forces guy James Conrad (Hiddleston) whose alpha chops are established at the very beginning with a perfunctory fight in a bar.

Sing Street: Feel - good movie in which an Irish boy, whose family life is less than desirable, forms a band in the 1980s.

Indeed, both Queirós, whose film There Was Once Brasilia won special mention in the festival's Signs of Life section, and the Brazilian directing team Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, whose socially driven horror movie Good Manners took home the Special Jury Prize, referenced Andrade as an ever - vital figure for today's Brazilian political cinema.

The vast technical background necessary for creating cinematic stories, illuminating interviews with the greatest living filmmakers, in - depth analyses of high quality movies... The material provided by Cahiers du Cinéma, Sight & Sound, Cinemagic, Cinefantastique and many others has inspired thousands of people to dedicate their lives to filmmaking, and thanks to the wonders of modern technology, these priceless cultural beams of historic value and prime educational significance continue to inspire, astonish and enlighten us, bringing up a new generation of artists who might persevere and thrive to one day fill the shoes of the likes of Orson Welles, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Jean - Pierre Melville, Agnes Varda, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher and dozens of others whose work continually delight and move us in every way possible.

Both movies are about men in their 40s whose adult lives have been nonstop disappointments — unsatisfying romances, lost friendships, abandonment of career ambitions.

Then finally he put together his last film, Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog [1995], with Mimi Rogers, Jesse Bradford and Bruce Davison, a movie that was set and shot in the area of British Columbia where he was living, that has two boy characters who are named after his own sons, and which sadly turned out to be a film whose release he didn't see.

Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.

It might have been easy to overlook as a piece of controversy - garnering, conspiratorial intrigue if not for the fact that the movie goes to great lengths to paint the late humanitarian, philanthropist, and, at the time of her death, formerly official member of the Royal Family as an unstable and petty woman whose every action is motivated by a need to be loved by someone — anyone — who could look past the drama of her life and accept her for the, well, unstable and petty woman she knows she is.

You'll discover a whole new version of the old fairytale in this Hallmark made - for - TV movie where the tall tale comes to life after an enormous skeleton is unearthed at the family estate of a wealthy businessman whose first name is Jack — of course!

Los Angeles — Elizabeth Taylor, the violet - eyed film goddess whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life and enduring fame and glamour made her one of the last of the old - fashioned movie stars and a template for the modern celebrity, died Wednesday.

WHY: Though it may be based on a story by red - hot Norwegian crime author Jo Nesbo (whose novel «Headhunters» was adapted into the excellent and underseen movie of the same name), «Jackpot» fails to live up to his reputation.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 18, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS Limitless (PG - 13 for profanity, mature themes, violence, sexuality and disturbing images) Bradley Cooper stars in this action thriller about a frustrated writer whose life is transformed after he is introduced to a top - secret, smart drug which enables him to use 100 % of his brain.

Less brilliantly, the movie continues to focus on the patent battle between Edison and Westinghouse and not on Tesla, whose story is that of a persecuted genius and ends with one of the smartest people who has ever lived in love with a pigeon.

The star studded movie — Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Mila Kunis, Matthias Schoenaerts, Zoe Saldana, Marion Cotillard and James Caan — tells the story of two estranged brothers, one a criminal, the other a cop, whose lives come crashing together when the ex-con is released and starts plotting his next score.

As with the previous entries in Marshall's holiday movies, this one follows a cast of characters whose lives and stories are intertwined by way of convenient connections.

After a horrendous auto accident in the current year takes the life of Amanda Cartwright (Malin Ackerman) whose bond with her daughter Max Cartwright (Taissa Farmiga) is obvious, Max ultimately comes out of her funk, attending a slasher movie «Camp Bloodbath» with her pals on the anniversary of the accident.

The movie stars Kwang - rok Oh as a fisherman whose life is altered when he makes an unexpected catch.

It takes roughly two minutes to get completely sucked into true - life filmmaking odyssey of Sandi Tan, whose life - story is bound to make for somebody's new favorite movie.

He doesn't just carry the movie as Jack, a boy whose life exists within four walls; the movie itself folds his curiosity and imaginative spirit into its visual vocabulary.

Vivian is intrigued by Arthur (Don Johnson, whose real - life daughter, Dakota, stars in the movie version of 50 Shades).