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... to create, judge, and justify reality?
The Thin Blue Line reminds and inspires us that films do matter; that they have the ability to change our stories and the world.
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... Reports of Iran's emerging nuclear program. Stories of Iran's conflict with neighboring states. And accounts of various abuses midst the theocratic rule.
And here lies the beauty of foreign films. We ...
... just real life, real hopes, real failures and successes lived in front of a camera.
There are a lot of great documentaries out there. There are also a lot of great sports movies based on true stories . ...
... modern films that go for heartwarming with overly orchestrated music and long, sentimental camera shots, I Remember Mama delivers heartwarming by telling a great story.
I watch movies for the stories . ...
... a plate of warm cookies and a glass of cold milk: How does embracing death affect the way you live life? What kind of stories does our world need most? It’s Lent. For millions of people around the world, ...
The Oscars will be awarded here in a couple of weeks and The Artist (fortunately) has a decent shot at winning it all. Here's why. Hollywood loves stories about Hollywood. From A Star is Born to Sunset ...
... population. And if we haven’t participated, we have stood by in apathy and fear. In this film you meet five people with unique and diverse backgrounds, cultures, and stories as homosexuals. The first ...
... year or forty ago (or, for some of us, last week)? As Tony remembers old images and feelings, he finds long-forgotten memories rise to the surface. He comes to the realization that the stories he has told ...
... alternative to the raw monstrousness of Daniel Plainview. We’re left wondering about how a man (or woman) is made, about what basic material holds sway in the end, about the hopes and stories we tell ourselves ...
... late-night parties and members of the opposite sex. Photographers? Well, no one tells stories about photographers, because we’re all photographers in the 21st century. We’re all carrying around our equipment ...
... his film, which is all about moving from young adulthood to adulthood, with the statement that writing short stories is not the same thing as writing longer form narratives. Is this what it is to become ...
... human experiences – living homeless in NYC, serving disabled orphans in Peru, and befriending lepers in Ghana. In the midst of these stories , you hear the voices and thoughts of several people (humanitarian ...
How does story change our perception and treatment of people?
Stories are vehicles for vision. They are dust rags and power-washers for the silt that settles in our souls. When we listen to a story, ...
Are our stories separate or one? My eldest daughter (an avid reader and advocate of good story) continues to offer “free” commentary during my weekend television viewings. “Why are you always watching ...
Is there reconciliation in the story?
We live in an era where Pixar rules the animated box office. In many ways, rightly so. However, Pixar’s look, style, and integrated stories have left American culture ...
... rest of the NYT can muster. News is inescapably narrative, and the story either told well or poorly, thoroughly or narrowly, truthfully or deceitfully. What kinds of stories are we listening to, and how ...
... stories have started with the problem of pain. We wonder why the innocent suffer. Why do bad things happen to good people? The Tree of Life opens with quotations from the book of Job. In the biblical ...
... No, this commercial simply tells the story about something unique that happened to a small town of people in Canada.
We are drawn to stories infused with meaning and inspiration and these stories have ...
... trafficking. As we each write our own code on top of this movement, as we tell our own stories to uniquely respond to this issue, we will be creating music, both in spirit and purpose. We must come together ...
... young to have known stories kept in books. Most of Eli's pursuers are more interested in his rations of water, chap-stick and old KFC towelettes than in his actual treasure. But there are some who remember, ...
... Huswit explores how manufacturing design and the objects we use every day without even thinking about them affect our lives and become a part of our stories .
This begins to make sense once you realize ...
... for those reasons I loved this movie. Julie & Julia is the weaving together of two stories : Julie Powell’s and Julia Child’s. Amy Adams plays Julie Powell, a young married woman in New York who takes ...
No one creates films quite like Charlie Kaufman. Best known for his screenplay for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kaufman constructs stories filled with strange details that demand his audience ...
I love moments in films. The bus scene in Almost Famous. John Cusack holding up the boombox. Falling Slowly being played in the back of a music store. While they don't tell the whole stories they are a ...
... own beliefs. After countless movies and books and stories telling me that if I am good, good things will come to me, I begin to truly believe it. Yet, it's so simple and often, so untrue. Terrible trial ...
... fall apart if minor details are left out; an argument does. More than this, stories engage our senses. They open the door to our imagination, maybe not so much letting us access it as letting it access ...
... these odd affectless creatures on the margins of the stories , yet who at the same time give the Marvel Universe so much of its fascination. The Watcher is essentially a novelist of the cosmos, constantly ...
... We fell 4 stories . A "safety" cable caught us 2 feet before we hit the bottom. (I love safety cables.) After celebrating the fact that we were all still alive, we waited a memorable 25 minutes before the ...
... fought in Nam. My father was too young he went to school and met my mom. He heard Dad always told us stories around dinner time. And there’s one he told when I was young that sticks out in my ...
... of literary circles have come to see narrative theory as important (whether they know it or not) not just for discussions of Charles Dickens' novels, but as important for how we view our own stories and ...
... was for the most part the same. Still 4 stories . Still lots of glass. Still buy this, buy that.
Having been doing a little "wondering about consumerism" recently - my entrance into the Galleria was ...
... day is done As we've written our stories to entertain These notions of glory and bull market gain The teleprompt flutters, the power surge brings An easy speed message falls into routine Providence blinked, ...
... perhaps it will help a bit. Three Stories of Grace At the very heart of the Christian faith is the death of Jesus on the ...
... grows up hearing and reading stories about the James gang. He idolizes Jesse as a modern day Robin Hood, stealing from the wealthy to provide for those on the losing side of the war. In reality, Pitt ...
... stories that grab hold of us are the stories that are able to recreate moments as images of sight, sound, smell, emotion, etc. and allow us as the listeners/readers to connect these images. It is the ...
... film, and why I fell in love with it, is because it is really about the process of searching. And while searching is normally relegated to high school/coming of age stories , it is not because most people ...
