Sentences with phrase «british drama film»

He will star in Kingsman: The Secret Service as Gary «Eggsy» Unwin in February 2015 and will be a part of the upcoming British drama film Testament of Youth as Edward Brittain.

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Last Chance Harvey is a 2008 British - American romantic drama film written and directed by Joel Hopkins.

Based on a popular British television drama, this 1957 film features a riveting performance from Yvonne Mitchell as a housewife who can't keep house.

Somebody really needs to tell the British film industry there's more to film than just costume dramas and gangster movies.

Joined a youth drama group at age 11 and was soon cast in a film (as a rape victim in the2000 drama Complicity); and appeared in a British children's TV series (My Barmy Aunt Boomerang) at age 13.

Foreign - language films and documentaries are Kino Lorber's twin specialties, though this year it also released a trio of British dramas (which doesn't quite count as a foreign - language) from director Joanna Hogg: Archipelago, Unrelated, and Exhibition.

From 2007 — 2013, Wilson starred in various British Television films and miniseries, including MISS MARPLE: NEMESIS, BBC's CAPTURING MARY, SMALL ISLAND, THE DOCTOR WHO HEARS VOICES, THE PRISONER, and the Emmy ® - nominated and Golden Globe ® - winning crime drama, LUTHER.

Pattinson, the British star of Twilight, tops the bill in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, tipped as one of the key titles to screen, while Efron takes the lead in Paperboy, the new film from Lee Daniels, whose social drama Precious was a sleeper hit two years ago.

After a stellar career in student drama at Oxford, he had joined the BBC, but he was soon also writing film criticism and, in 1956, was one of the founders, along with Karel Reisz and Lindsay Anderson, of the Free Cinema movement, espousing a cinema free of commercial and political constraints and using a personal style to capture working - class life and popular culture, which had been ignored by traditional British cinema.

The World War II drama Churchill is set for release in the UK next Friday, June 16th, and thanks to Lionsgate UK we've got an exclusive clip from the film, which features Brian Cox as the legendary British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Miranda Richardson as his wife Clementine.

«BPM,» «God's Own Country,» and «Call Me By Your Name»: Though the handsomely crafted, Italian - set «Call Me By Your Name» has gotten all the critical attention, two other films about young gay men coming to terms with themselves in much harsher environments — the French «BPM» is set at the height of the AIDS crisis in Paris while the contemporary British drama «God's Own Country» is set in a grim, rural northern England — are both more haunting and powerful.

Fans of well - acted period dramas and good gothic mysteries should consider tuning in but the film will be of particular interest to anyone curious about the origins of modern British horror cinema.

She may be the last relatively untapped figure in British heritage cinema's well - worn library of queenly narratives, but she has once more been passed over for the privilege of fronting the latest middlebrow, true - life royal drama, fast becoming an annual fixture on the UK film calendar.

It won best film at the British Academy Film Awards, best drama at the Golden Globes and best ensemble at the Screen...

The 54 - year - old director left a successful run in British theater and television to tackle a striking range of genres on film: horror, romantic comedy, family drama, thriller, dark comedy, among others.

The big gala presentations range from upcoming comic book geekery with Green Lantern to Nicholas Winding Refn's thriller Drive (fresh off rave reviews from Cannes) to the premiere of Richard Linklater's latest Bernie, with stops along the way for indie dramas (A Better Life), British genre films (Attack the Block), action thrillers (The Devil's Double), and Guillermo Del Toro - produced scary fun (Don't Be Afraid of the Dark).

While British films can sometimes be regarded with great affection at home, they rarely do well abroad — unless they happen to be the sort of strait - laced Bonham Carter historical dramas or soppy Hugh Grant contemporary rom - coms that pander to comfortable stereotypes for a foreign market.

British independent film award shortlist also includes Mike Leigh biopic Mr Turner and «honour killing» drama Catch Me Daddy

Inventive British filmmaker Barnard takes on Oscar Wilde's children's story with the same artistic creativity that made her previous film, the edgy drama - doc The Arbor, such a triumph.

There's a lot of talent on - screen in this British crime drama by editor - turned - director Andrew Hulme, but the film never quite resolves itself into something meaningful.

Its literary origins might seem to suggest a film entrenched in the traditions of British costume drama.

The set features eight films all together, including two of his early British thrillers (the classic Sabotage with Sylvia Sidney and lighter and lesser Young and Innocent), his World War II drama Lifeboat and all four films made for David Selznick: the Gothic classic Rebecca (Hitchcock's only film to win an Oscar for Best Picture), the Gregory Peck films Spellbound and The Paradine Case, and the romantic masterpiece Notorious.

Fans of micro-budgeted British indies will probably love this offbeat semi-romantic drama, but the fact remains that the film is mopey and contrived, with performances that never quite ring true.

A stark, brutal, yet tender prison drama starring Jack O'Connell as a violent inmate sent to the same lock - up as his jailbird father (Ben Mendelsohn), the film's shot through with a raw energy and authenticity that's closer to «A Prophet» than to most other British films in the genre, with Mackenzie making the movie feel like he's bottled up a hurricane of tension, which at any second could kick through the screen at you and hit you with a sock full of snooker balls.

Broadcaster Stuart Maconie discusses John Schlesinger's A Kind of Loving in the Northern context of the British New Wave / kitchen sink dramas, which changed the way that the working classes were being portrayed in film.

«The mixture of glamour, glory, drama and — occasionally — embarrassment and hiccup holds a unique place in the British film calendar.

Coming - of - age drama Call Me By Your Name took the adapted screenplay award, while Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was also named outstanding British film.

The British actor's own replacement, Bradley Cooper, left owing to prior commitments to David O Russell's conman drama American Hustle, and the film was eventually completed with Ewan McGregor in the role.

The British actress will soon be seen in the Wachowski's sci - fi movie «Jupiter Ascending» and the Keanu Reeves courtroom drama «The Whole Truth,» and she's currently filming Sony's Untitled NFL Concussion Drama with Will Sdrama «The Whole Truth,» and she's currently filming Sony's Untitled NFL Concussion Drama with Will SDrama with Will Smith.

With post-modern, intertextual references to films like POINT BREAK and BAD BOYS II, they proceed to blend the Michael Bay and John Woo - isms we've become so familiar with into the tropes of small town, British crime drama such as MIDSOMER MURDERS.

Jawbone review: Johnny Harris leads the cast and scripts this ultra-gritty British drama which truly is one of the stand - out British films of the...

British stage director Rupert Goold makes his film debut with this unusual drama, a mood piece he also wrote with David Kajganich from Michael Finkel's tell - all book.

Classically - trained British actress Emily Mortimer has taken on everything from screwball comedy to historical drama to teen slasher films.

Also new this week: «Blank City» (Kino Lorber), a documentary on the «No Wave» movement of DIY films in New York City in the eighties (Blu - ray and DVD); Nicolas Roeg's «Track 29» (Image), with Theresa Russell and Gary Oldman; «A Town Like Alice» (VCI) and «Carve Her Name with Pride» (VCI), two British war dramas starring Virginia McKenna.

Telling a story from a rarely examined period of British history, this pre-war drama is a bundle of suspense, mystery and personal emotion that's beautifully filmed and sharply played by a first - rate cast.Anne (Garai) is...

We flit seamlessly from a gritty British teen drama vibe, to an underwater daydream, to a farcical send up of a film noir.

After tracing how the discoveries of Turing's World War II decoding machine led to the modern computer, Cumberbatch clarified that the Morten Tyldum - directed film «is not a period drama» but is «utterly relevant» now because of its discussion of Joan Clarke's (Keira Knightley) plight in a male - dominated workplace, as well as Turing's secret homosexual status, for which he was punished by the British government and eventually triggered his suicide.

Perhaps the only thing the British film industry loves more than a lavish period drama is a lavish period drama biopic.

Down Terrace is a surprising film, fitting in more to the kitchen sink drama mould of British filmmaking than the thumping soundtrack and bravado of Guy Richie's criminal visions.

Other New Releases this week: the British comic drama «The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,» the pop concert film «Katy Perry The Movie Part of Me,» the Oscar - nominated, music - infused animated feature «Chico & Rita,» and «Hysteria» and «The Do - Deca - Pentathlon.»

Ken Loach's acclaimed 1995 film marks a rare departure from the director's traditional British milieu, instead focusing on the Spanish Civil War — but his signature realist style brings a raw quality to the historical drama.

But in the early 1960s, British films surged with working - class talent, making gritty, funny kitchen sink dramas

While Russell largely fails to make dramatic connections and bring us into the inner world of his characters» conflicted desires, he succeeds mightily in making a film of often breathtaking beauty that balances the conventions of the British costume drama with his experimental proclivities.

A depiction of sexual discovery and inner pain that was as rugged as the windswept Yorkshire landscape it's set against, Francis Lee's drama was one of the best British films of recent years.

PAUL GREENGRASS» harrowing 9/11 drama UNITED 93 was named film of the year by British critics last night (08FEB07).

Written and directed by Terrence Malick («Badlands,» «Days of Heaven,» «The Thin Red Line»), «The New World,» the eagerly anticipated period drama set during the pivotal founding of the Jamestown colony by the British in 1607 and the inevitable clash between English settlers and Native Americans, proves to be, if not a major disappointment (thanks to Malick's visual lyricism, obsessive attention to period detail, appealing leads, including newcomer Q'Orianka Kilcher as Pocahontas and a surprisingly restrained Colin Farrell as John Smith), a disappointing film nonetheless.

A sequel was inevitable after the success of the first Marigold Hotel film, a charming comedy - drama based on a novel about a group of British senior citizens who retire to India and experience various forms of culture shock.

Things acclaimed British director Mike Leigh is known for: wry comedy - drama poking at ordinary lives and the class system, a compassionate yet sharp take on the human condition, his almost unique working method that involves workshopping and improvising for months with his cast before a frame of film is shot.

On the menu are political British Gangster dramas, Nazi propaganda films, Art - Giallo hommages, silent comedies, a knuckle - biter suspense spectacular, the Bard with music «n guns, more 80s nostalgia and TVs Party Down.

Nearly 20 years after The Long Day Closes finished an acclaimed cycle of films, both nostalgic and unsparing, which mined his working - class postwar boyhood, he enters into a marriage of his sensibilities with those of Rattigan, king of the pre - «angry» British theater, and alchemizes the drama into something stranger and more unsettled.