Sentence examples for engaging cinema from inspiring English sources

In the classical Vodou tradition, zombies are hardly the stuff of engaging cinema (Wes Craven's being an obvious exception to that rule).

Yet for the most part, truth is sacrificed for the greater good of engaging cinema; Turing's real-life "Bombe" may have been encased in a neat Bakelite box, but the audience needs to see its wires spreading out like entrails, mapping the complexities of its creator's mind.

Whether it's Ayesha's award-worthy performance or Shreyas' amusing moments, the credit marks pile up in favor of the director who has made engaging cinema".

Landing with a thud in 17th place, heist thriller Deadfall predictably failed to engage cinema audiences.

A member of the Communist Party until 1958, he was a partisan of [politically] engaged cinema and took a stand against Cahiers du Cinéma and the filmmakers of the New Wave, whose politique des auteurs and rightist tendencies he denounced.

The creator of 32 films, from classics like "Kes" (1969) to "My Name Is Joe" (1998), he remains dedicated to a politically engaged cinema set in a recognizable world, an ideal at odds with the film industries of the United States and Britain.

The "Modern Times" DVD includes, among a wealth of other extras, an interview with the Belgian filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, whose own socially engaged cinema finds many intersections with Chaplin's.

Pros: More centrally located than its local multiplex rivals, it's a model of a smart, modern, engaged cinema, run by people who care passionately about what they're showing, and how they're showing it.

That eventually led to an invitation to write the screenplay of "Assault on the Pay Train," a commercial success in 1962 and one of the first films of the gritty, socially engaged Cinema Novo to win attention and awards at international festivals.

The Los Angeles Film Festival isn't an A-list festival nor does it claim to be – but it's a growing, respected showcase that can draw top directors and ably cater to a local thirst for engaging innovative cinema.

In 1946, Zohra appeared in Dharti Ke Lal (Children of the Earth), a film about the Bengal famine of 1943 that formed part of a new wave of socially engaged Indian cinema.