Yet such is the power of film -- and the supportive power of this film's pounding hip-hoppish sound track -- that "Tsotsi" dispels most misgivings as its hero works his tortuous way toward redemption.
Never mind that she spends the entire film having power being handed to her and then taken away from her by other men.
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It also likes companies that are working on making smaller batteries, like Qynergy, a New Mexico-based company working on radioisotope batteries, and Infinite Power Solutions, a Colorado developer of thin-film batteries that can power RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tracking chips.
By changing the sequence of two scenes, Cassidy gave the film an added power -- which made all the difference to how his performance was perceived, Holbrook says.
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The experience also presents a vivid reminder of the unique power of film, in the right hands, to elevate, inspire, delight, and persuade.
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The state she governs has a miniscule Brahmin population - 3% - and is famous for voting film stars, dancers and film directors to political power.
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While bashing Wall Street is easy, popular, and profitable, the Academy appears uninterested in using the power of film to pursue social justices that might offend the political sensibilities of its members.
Smart, funny, fearless and brazen, he's the go-to kid in Bahman Ghobadi's "Turtles Can Fly, " a film of sometimes hallucinatory power set in Iraqi Kurdistan on the eve of the second Iraq war.
It's above all to Ms. Watson's portrayal of Janet, a heart-rending blend of steel and pathos, and to Dominic West, who brings a serial killer to convincing life onscreen, that this film owes its great power.
But "Spirit" evokes, through its poetic spirit, the mysterious power of silent film.
The film is in part about the power of music to travel, and to inspire, in unpredictable ways.
Nanosolar announced Thursday that it had signed contracts to supply up to one gigawatt of its thin-film photovoltaic panels to European solar power plant builders over the next three to six years.
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Nevertheless the film has the honesty and raw emotional power to thaw the most frigid heart.
They were able to recapture and translate a genre onto tablet with the power of video, old film noir footage, archived interviews, music, and more.
The wings are covered with a sheet of thin-film solar panels, which produce less power than the polycrystalline solar panels found on buildings, but are very lightweight.
Suntech Power is currently pursuing thin film technology, a low cost PV technology that involves depositing several thin layers of silicon or more complex materials on a substrate such as glass to make a PV cell.
Through the power of story as expressed through film, television, theater, digital media and animation, our value is of profound importance and benefit to the world.
This is why Bookeen's engineers optimized the power management of the laminated light guide film used in the FrontLight technology.
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The transparent photovoltaic film can be installed on most smartphones to generate power while still allowing users to operate their device.
The film was also a triumph of concept over star power, as it represented the appeal of the idea versus the movie star.
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His primary point in making the film was to explore what happens when money and power come to a rural community that has neither.
While the plot may recall other allegorical crossings (such as the one that the Knight, the Squire and the circus family undertake in Ingmar Bergman's film "The Seventh Seal"), the power of Blackburn's book lies in her language and in her ability to conjure images that are at once spooky and heart-rending.
No other film artist operated as skillfully as he did under cover of darkness, and this seventy-nine-minute film noir from 1948 shows off his night vision at peak power.
The real refrain of this disturbingly graceful film, though, is that only in being granted the power to hurt, and the chance to wield it, can we ever hope to rekindle the fires of youth.
Disney executives reiterated that they would like to use the power of those movies to try and collapse the current film windowing system.
The prospect of getting a piece of that growth has fueled the stocks of companies such as Sunpower, the leader in producing traditional silicon solar-power panels, and First Solar, whose thin-film solar panels are cheaper to manufacture but are less efficient.
The two companies are at the forefront of this technology which is tipped to replace TFT (thin film transistor) LCDs because OELDs can be made thinner and use less power while delivering a picture that is as good if not better as a TFT.
But this film, with its prickly characters and its complicated plot, rips along with tension and power.
The continuing power of the Lost Cause romance can even be seen in a more recent film such as Gettysburg, which in the ending frames shows the fate of the various major characters.
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