Sentence examples for sobering films from inspiring English sources

The Sundance Film Festival, which gets under way Thursday in Park City, Utah, has long had a reputation for showcasing dark, sobering films.

One of the most sobering films of the cold war era was his 1964 adaptation of Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler's novel, "Fail-Safe," a taut examination of the threat of accidental nuclear war, with Henry Fonda as the president of the United States and a young Larry Hagman as his Russian-speaking interpreter.

So far, they have met with some success, giving Ms. Davis's sobering film some positive moments.

By filling in an overlooked part of black history, this sobering film enhances our understanding of why race issues have proved so intractable.

The extent of the need around the world is so enormous and overwhelming that the efforts of the doctors in this sobering film seem both vitally necessary and woefully inadequate.

See his sobering film of his two plus hour bike and transit trip to the office on YouTube.

Neil Genzliger of The New York Times wrote of the film that "by filling in an overlooked part of black history, this sobering film enhances our understanding of why race issues have proved so intractable".

Review of "Bronco Bullfrog", a smashing and sobering Cockney film, the debut of director Barney Platts-Mills.

The New Yorker, June 10 , 1972P. 95 Review of "Bronco Bullfrog", a smashing and sobering Cockney film, the debut of director Barney Platts-Mills.

By Penelope Gilliatt The New Yorker, June 10 , 1972P. 95 Review of "Bronco Bullfrog", a smashing and sobering Cockney film, the debut of director Barney Platts-Mills.

And "Snowden" is, by Mr. Stone's standards, a strikingly sober film.