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Morning blessings are recited, but only the ones Gitai finds controversial. the rest are conveniently omitted.
The brief existence of The Sex Pistols and the making of this film after the controversial, groundbreaking English punk band's break-up both happened before I was born.
"Escape of the Island Women" (an alternate title that isn't even listed here) clearly wanted to become another notorious and controversial woman-in-prison classic, but it totally lacks the brutality of one.
If you do not like a film that is odd and controversial like Mulholland Dr., you are seen as "not getting it."
These films are uncompromising in their content and use their controversial nature to expose very serious problems in modern youth.
Child death and horror movies will always remain a sensitive & controversial combination and therefore it is my personal opinion that every movie that shows the courage to revolve on this topic should receive some extra attention from horror fans.
Of course, like in the case of "Wicked Little Things", controversial themes don't always guarantee a good film.
This is a much publicised and controversial miniseries, here in Australia.
Could be, should be, funny, edgy, even controversial, or at least interesting, and yet...
"Let's make a movie about one of the greatest and most controversial athletic coaches of the modern era!
The film could never beat Stanley Kubrick's geniousness when it comes to controversial matters, weirdness and originality in movies.
As an ancient movie fan, I had heard much about the controversial movie CALIGULA assessed ambiguously as one of the most realistic epics by some and as one of the most disgusting porn movies by others.
In the end, I said to myself "This is one of the movies that one may really hate" ... I am aware that a movie may be controversial but I had never expected that CALIGULA would go that far in removing all limits of taste.
The controversial subject matter was a good concept.
The so-called jokes are completely haphazard, and 'controversial' for no other point than trying very (very) hard to be controversial.
Helmed by controversial director Michael Moore, the show would begin, in the exact same manor as this show, with Moore interacting with the audience, and introducing segments, namely short documentaries and skits, which had been put together in an attempt to provoke thoughts about current issues.
Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke star in this controversial story of a wall street exec and an art gallery employee who hook up and begin a very experimental sexual relationship.While the acting by Rourke and Basinger is ok, the flim doesn't allow their characters to truly form.
When you make a film with a killer-kids premise, there are two effective ways to approach it; you can either make it as realistic as possible, creating believable characters and situations, or you can make it as fun as possible by playing it for laughs (something which the makers of "Silent Night, Deadly Night" did, for example, on an equally controversial subject: a killer Santa).
He is too much of an Icon to tackle such a delicate and controversial topic let alone the role itself.
Weeks after my order confirmation it finally arrived and I was extremely excited to finally be sitting in front of my TV ready to watch a film that sounded so interesting and controversial and filmed in an area of the world where so many good movies are.
For such a controversial man, Darwin lived the most conventional life.
In my opinion, a good documentary - especially one dealing with controversial political issues - should be informative and as unbiased as possible.
A terrible deception: controversial film, winner of the Teddy in Berlin 2003, Mil nubes de paz turned out to be a fiasco.
Sometimes the Academy doesn't recognize the potential of some films, or doesn't nominate them because they are controversial or strong.
I read the book "The Piano Teacher" by Elfriede Jelinek, the controversial Nobel Prize winner in literature that the film is based on and after reading it I saw the film again.
'Water' (2005), the final part of Toronto-based Indian film-director Deepa Mehta's elemental trilogy has been finally completed, almost ten years after the release of the very first controversial element, 'Fire' (1996), which was followed with a slightly lesser controversial sequel '1947: Earth' (1998).
"The Moon Is Blue" director Otto Preminger tackled even more taboo subject matter in his controversial 1955 release "The Man with the Golden Arm." Whereas he had incensed the Motion Picture Association of America with his use of the words "virgin" and "mistress" in his mild 1953 comedy "The Moon Is Blue," Preminger went far beyond what any movie had attempted with "The Man with the Golden Arm" since Dick Powell made his law and order epic "To the Ends of the Earth"(1946) about thwarting the international traffic in narcotics.
Directed by a controversial artist as Gilles Mimouni, it could be considered a little homage to the Cinema masterworks.
This is so effective because it allows the viewer to form his own opinions on the death penalty, one of the most controversial subjects of our time, without being unfairly manipulated in either direction.
My curiosity and patience to finally see this controversial film, which now has been released on DVD for the first time in the UK, has been more than rewarded.
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