Insights from the Cinematic World: life

The Legend of Tarzan

From Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures comes the action adventure “The Legend of Tarzan,” starring Alexander Skarsgård as the legendary character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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Captain Fantastic

An unconventional family leaves its wilderness home and tries to adapt to the world outside the forests of the Pacific Northwest in Captain Fantastic, a humorous, challenging and ultimately moving drama from writer and director Matt Ross.

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Me Before You

Based on the critically acclaimed, bestselling novel by Jojo Moyes, Me Before You stars Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin, under the direction of renowned theatre director Thea Sharrock, making her feature film directorial debut.

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Song of Lahore

Beyond introducing Western audiences to a rich and ancient musical tradition they may not have experienced before, the film Song of Lahore presents a more nuanced story about Pakistani people than is typically depicted in the media.

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High-Rise

HIGH-RISE an interpretation of J.G. Ballard’s novel written in 1975 stars Hiddleston as Dr. Robert Laing, the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class.

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Terence Davies

As a filmmaker, Terence Davies is noted for his recurring themes of emotional endurance, the influence of memory on everyday life and the potentially crippling effects of dogmatic religiosity on the emotional life of individuals and societies.

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Sunset Song is Terence Davies’ intimate epic of hope, tragedy and love at the dawning of the Great War.

Sunset Song

A young woman’s endurance against the hardships of rural Scottish life, based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, told with gritty poetic realism by Britain’s greatest living auteur.

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