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... becom es painfully obvious that Adams is innocent.
One year after the documentary’s release, twelve years after Adams’ initial conviction, the documentary prompts a review of the case and Adams is released ...
... speed, they willingly suspended their disbelief in order to take in the visceral ride.
Herein lies the wonder of The Matrix: A film that created a virtual reality by the power of com puters argues that ...
What do post-modern sensibilities, shortwave radio static, September 11th, and alt-country-pop-rock have in com mon?
The correct answer is Wilco’s album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but I also would’ve accepted ...
Can brokenness be too familiar?
If Iran is known for anything (in America), it's not film.
Rather, our com mon assumptions are derived from the numerous sound bytes we receive from Western news outlets. ...
... Jazz, into a film. [Yes, that means this is a movie based on a book that has another book based on the making of the movie. That has to be a first.] Every book-based film will inevitably be com pared back ...
... church and a brothel, and both the holy and the unholy places bring frustration. The church is powerless as the poor com e and worship simply to get a shave and a meal; the brothel and surrounding neighborhood ...
... Oscars, you may recall the name Jennifer Lawrence...
And if you don’t, well, Lawrence plays Katniss Everdeen, the lead in the recently released Hunger Games. But her first noteworthy performance com es ...
... Teenagers live in a world of com petition, for friends, grades, college admissions. Our government works toward omniscience. Our media idolizes dramatic spectacle and tragedy.
The Hunger Games has appeal ...
... directing movies as diverse as Shane (perhaps the best Western ever), The Diary of Ann Frank, Giant (James Dean’s last movie), Woman of the Year (the first Katherine Hepburn – Spencer Tracy romantic com edy) ...
... Miles In A Thousand Years too quickly. Harold’s not simply pondering the questions: What makes for a good story? and How do I live a better story? He is dealing with the more com plex questions of: How ...
... them, and for how they used them. By so doing, they kept a powerfully creative tension between intellectual and artistic discipline and childlike curiosity which would becom e the permeating characteristic ...
... and Almost Famous to becom e a full-fledged, bona fide star; one who’s capable of carrying a film. Hoffman plays Truman Capote in the true story of an author who - while doing research for his book accounting ...
... and liberation com e to light – all with theological undertones. What happens when "choice" enters our world? Does God operate like a distant TV repairmen (played by Don Knotts)? What would our world look ...
... Descendants with Elizabeth King enjoying the waves of the Pacific Ocean by boat. It follows, however, with Mike King [George Clooney] attempting to navigate his wife’s com a (the result of that opening ...
... The Artist is a silent film about the silent (film) era. It's set in 1927. It's in black and white. And other than accom panying music, there is no sound. For many, knowing this is exactly why you haven't ...
... the film Shakespeare in Love which blurs the distinction between the life and art of “Will” Shakespeare. As a young poet fumbling for inspiration to write his next great com edy, Will inadvertently falls ...
... because of what any of us may personally believe, but because of what the com munity of people we ascribe ourselves to has done in the name of God. We have marginalized, persecuted, and hated an entire ...
... number five on the American Film Institute’s list of the top 100 American com edies. It’s number one by me. So please, go and treat yourself to a few laughs. ...
... The author—a woman approaching thirty—goes on to describe (in ecstatic prose) a fake wedding weekend. Social com mentary by post-college twentysomethings in New Orleans? No: “It was a sincere effort to ...
In addition to co-hosting Troy and Abed in the Morning, Donald Glover (aka Troy from NBC’s Com munity) has also been dabbling in the rap game under the pseudonym Childish Gambino. I might have just ...
... the price of admission alone, it is not the basis of its representation here. Rather, what Hugo brings to theaters this month (that intrigues us) is its com mitment to image, its celebration of creativity, ...
Where will your curiosity lead you? In 2006 The National Science Foundation sent documentarian Werner Herzog to the South Pole with some doubt as to whether he wouldn’t “com e up with another movie about ...
... ratting someone out was as contemptible as com mitting the original crime. These issues are at the heart of Elia Kazan’s 1954 masterpiece of corruption On the Waterfront. Marlon Brando’s character Terry ...
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Julian Barnes’s furtive and masterly book, The Sense of an Ending, fits within that broad, 21st century movement of someone trying to make sense of reality (well, at least it’s becom e massively popular ...
... to do with what you’re selling. Now com bine these two steps and viola! You've got yourself a sweet com mercial…at least that seems to be the formula of the most recently popular ads.
The trend seems ...
... absolutely), refers to Aristotle when speaking of morality—and manages to sound like your father (virtue is its own reward), and becom es a materialist when referencing the universal. Our bodies, he argues, ...
What if we were not alone, really?
Let’s play the “What if?” game for a minute. What if there was life on another planet? (Seen this film already.) What if we could com municate with other planets? (Nothing ...
... for it to happen.”
“It,” of course, is the twist.
In 1869, Phonney Martin was described as an “extremely hard pitcher to hit for the ball never com es in a straight line‚ but in a tantalizing curve.” ...
Where do decisions com e from? Most of us will never face the spectacular decision which confronted the monks of Tibhirine. Based on events in Algeria in 1995, OfGods and Men is the story of a grave ...
When does advertising becom e art?
Each weekday morning I pass a tree that gives me pause. It is an old maple, thick in branch and deep in root – its limbs extend across a street that probably ...
... "I could've painted that," you should ask him, "why didn't you then?" Miike Snow's Silvia [youtube:http://www.youtube.com /watch?v=aZO1nMuZSnI] ...
... about it; the characters seem as real as friends, the plot contrived by the heavens. Story, McKee notes, is simply metaphor for life. Each author designs his or her story to com municate how life works. ...
What would it feel like to be famous?
Com e on, admit it, you’ve fantasized about the idea. Wouldn’t it be fun and exhilarating as well as surreal? Along the way you’d realize fame is a prison of sorts, ...
... story that shows the power of eyes that see. The Social Network and Moneyball have one important thing in com mon: Aaron Sorkin. If you ever wondered why screenwriting has its own Oscar category, people ...
... in character on and off-set, brought a limitless fever to the film. Com pared to Citizen Kane for its ability to capture the essence of a power-obsessed man in early 20th century America, only the generations ...
... new angle, or it would be if Dead Poets Society never happened); it means struggling to find the right com position, the perfect light; it means publishing the eight photos out of 25,000 that tell a story. ...
Who decides whether or not you are loved?
HappyThanksYouMorePlease, the 2011 Indi Film by Josh Radnor, takes a stab at answering this question with just the right com bination of intention and lightheartedness. ...
Where is the beauty?
Contrast is often a gateway to experiences in wonder. When beauty is placed alongside grit. When com passion is juxtaposed to injustice. When love is tethered to pain. Biutiful is ...
... we travel along the line of vision that the author, or poet, or director creates for us, and com e to see things anew. Our vision is renewed: we see things more clearly as they are.
Our best storytellers ...
... a glimpse and a hope of com ing restoration; a restoration culminated in the movie’s rather unexpected conclusion.
Not only does Gilbert Grape have a stacked cast of actors, it portrays the possibility ...
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Naturally, any piece of art does carry with it a certain *gasp* ideology, because it com es from a woman or a man with certain opinions, a certain message they wish to convey—even if that message can ...
... choices that land him opposite of the law and thus locked up. It is within a com munity of inmates and wardens [pretty much all old men] that the story unfolds. Despite the fact they never appear on screen, ...
Are our stories separate or one? My eldest daughter (an avid reader and advocate of good story) continues to offer “free” com mentary during my weekend television viewings. “Why are you always watching ...
... Pixar formula.
As we continue to explore the nature of wonder through art and film (on this site and rednow.com ), we continue to recognize the deep connection between art and personal expression. L’Illusionniste ...
... Inside the New York Times have little to do with deadlines, caffeine, and ungodly work hours. The film instead documents the com plex ideological and economic grappling at play within traditional (print, ...
... story along its tracks, it quickly becom es clear that Steven Speilberg not only produced this film, he breathed his unique take on how kids think, talk, wonder, and explore into it. Super 8 is the closets ...
... wisdom to prod and com fort adventuresome filmgoers. Some will find it tedious and overreaching. But those who surrender to the resplendent images may find the experience unexpectedly healing.
Countless ...
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