Sentences with phrase «british films directed»

Some of the biggest black entertainers in comedy today who aren't Tyler Perry come together in Death at a Funeral, which African - Americanizes a 2007 British film directed by Frank Oz.

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The film is part of a curious new trend of British works on American racial issues, following last year's British - directed 12 Years a Slave.

The Long and the Short and the Tall (released as Jungle Fighters in the USA and Canada) is a 1961 British war film directed by Leslie Norman, which stars «Short man syndrome» is a condition in which a person has to deal with a feeling of inadequacy which can come from a lack of height — or a perceived lack

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

She made her film debut in the Welsh - set comedy Valley of Song, but was too direct and intense to fit comfortably into leading roles in 1950s British films.

Phyllida Lloyd makes her feature film directorial debut an uneven one; she's a leading British theatre director who is noted for her work in opera and directed the original stage production.

British filmmaker Malcolm Needs writes and directs the gangster film Charlie, based on the real - life case of criminal gang boss Charlie Richardson.

Filmed on location in Italy and Spain and shot in brilliant Todd - AO and Color and directed by the great British director Carol Reed, Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison (in their first and only film together) give two of the screen's best performances.

An actor in British theater while still a teenager, Scottish - born Frank Lloyd came to the U.S. in 1913, and after acting in films he turned to writing and directing.

Most recently in 2013, Friend co-stared as Oliver Baumer in STARRED UP, directed by David Mackenzie; the film was nominated for eight British Independent Film Awards.

The film, directed by British filmmaker Andrea Arnold, follows an alienated 15 - year old girl as she forms a relationship with her mother's boyfriend.

Written by David Hare (The Reader) and directed by Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard, Temple Grandin), the film vigorously conveys the tense story of Lipstadt's legal battle with British historian David Irving, of whom she was accused of libel.

After completing the second and third films in his Pusher crime saga, and before embarking on the production of his 2008 biopic Bronson, Nicolas Winding Refn directed a feature - length episode of the British ITV television show Agatha Christie's Marple (also known as Marple) entitled «Nemesis».

Award - winning British director Edgar Wright is best known in the United States for his feature films Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World; he also directed the UK hit television series Spaced.

During this 1 - on - 1 phone interview with Collider, actress and filmmaker Heather Graham talked about wanting to make a movie celebrating women and friendship, the biggest challenges in getting this film going, having her voice heard, as a female filmmaker, what she most enjoyed about playing Honey, putting together this cast, funny moments on set, what she enjoyed about the experience of directing, her hope to do it again, juggling three different writing projects, and doing the British TV series Bliss, from David Cross.

Written and directed by Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse, the film stars Michael Caine as a British - Caribbean dictator who seeks refuge with his teenage American pen pal (Odeya Rush) after a military coup; check it out here... DEAR DICTATOR focuses on Tatiana (Odeya Rush), -LSB-...]

Baby Driver is both written and directed by British filmmaker / wizard extraordinaire Edgar Wright (follow him @edgarwright), of the films A Fistful of Fingers, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and The World's End previously.

The film, which is being sold at the Berlin Film Festival, will be written and directed by Jonathan Lynn, and explores «what happens when an American groom suggests to his British bride the night before their wedding that they should consider a pre-nuptial agreement, a press release explained.»

Bookies» favourite The Lobster, a British co-production directed by Greek film - maker Yorgos Lanthimos, took the Prix du Jury (or third prize) for his satire about single people who must find a mate within 45 days or be turned into a wild animal.

Based on Ian McEwan's novella and directed by Dominic Cooke, longtime artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre, this is a film about British sex in the 1960s, just before the sexual revolution.

On Michael Reeves and British gothic film [New York Times] Credited with directing three déclassé horror movies, dead from an overdose of barbiturates at 25, the British filmmaker Michael Reeves (1943 - 1969) is a quintessential cult figure.

Skilfully written, directed and acted, this offbeat British period film tells a story that catches...

The film, directed by Yonebayashi (When Marnie Was There), is based upon British author Mary Stewart's book -LSB-...]

Neil Calloway looks at the rise in British World War II movies... This week brought the news that Ridley Scott would be directing a film set during the Battle of Britain.

All in all, the David Yates - directed film starring Eddie Redmayne as British «magizoologist» Newt Scamander in 1920s New York has had an assuredly strong start to launch its next four movies.

With the style of directing and the way the script was written, this film wasn't trying to be something it was not; it was simply being a light British comedic romance.

The film will be directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Revolutionary Road) and will have Daniel Craig reprise his role as the legendary British secret agent.

«Ex Machina» marks the directing debut of British writer Alex Garland, who wrote the Danny Boyle films «28 Days Later» and «Sunshine» and — at age 26 — wrote the novel that was the basis of Boyle's film «The Beach.»

British screenwriter Jack Thorne has joined the film, which is slated to be directed by Colin Trevorrow and begin filming in 2018.

The film, directed by Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse, tells the story of a British - Caribbean dictator (Michael Caine) who flees his island nation for refuge in America with his pen pal, Darlene's daughter Tatiana (Odeya Rush).

Today, we have a new clip from British - Indian supernatural horror film The other Side of the Door, which is written and directed by indie filmmaker Johannes...

Andrew Haigh to direct film about late British fashion designer preparing for 2009 show in which he revisited his most famous designs

Matthew Hope directed the 2011 British action film The Veteran starring Toby Kebbell as a veteran of the War in Afghanistan.

Hence, it's «some douchebag's film,» starring «God's perfect idiot,» along with «a hot chick,» «a British villain,» and more — all brought to you by the writers (a.k.a. «the real heroes here») and directed by «an overpaid tool.»

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.

Kept grounded and British, each chapter of the story being directed by the same two directors, Nyman and Dyson's power is keeping their film under constant control.

In 1961 Jarre's music career experienced a major change when British film producer Sam Spiegel asked him to write the score for the 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean.

And since I know you like Nicolas Roeg's films — especially Don't Look Now (1973) and Bad Timing (1980)-- you know Walkabout was directed by an Englishman with a screenplay by a British playwright, Edward Bond.

True Detective's Cary Fukunaga directs British star in the first competition film to screen at this year's Venice film festival — and the first awards contender from Netflix's new cinema division

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is both written and directed by British filmmaker Martin McDonagh, of the films In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths previously.

Though The Red Shoes is possibly the most popular and visually entrancing dance film of all time, the producing, directing, and writing team of the British Michael Powell and the Hungarian Emeric Pressburger created numerous other odes to the power of art and the imagination, always going against the realist strain of British cinema.

Tackling «vital issues such as fake news, the undermining of political protest, the battle between present and future superpowers, the future of democracy itself», the series is directed by William Oldroyd, making his TV debut after his independent film «Lady Macbeth» won five British Independent Film Awards and is in the running for two BAFTAs next week.

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.

Perhaps it is incoherent with Kapur's directing approach, but the film manages to evade the «stuffy British TV» feel and is not boring, yet it seems somewhat anti-climactic when its 124 minutes is over.

British film TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY directed by Tomas Alfredson is nominated for Film of the Year, British Film of the Year, Screenwriter of the Year, Actor of the Year, British Actor of the Year and The Sky 3D Award for Technical Achievement, whilst DRIVE — directed by fellow Scandinavian Nicolas Winding Refn — is nominated for Film of the Year, Director of the Year, Actor of the Year, Supporting Actor of the Year, The Moët & Chandon Award for British Actress of the Year and The Sky 3D Award for Technical Achievement.

«Mister Johnson,» now directed by Bruce Beresford in his first film since «Driving Miss Daisy,» tells the story of an African civil servant, known to all as Mister Johnson, who works as a clerk in the office of the British district administrator.

If there is a successor to the great Hollywood costume designer Edith Head, it is Sandy Powell, the British designer of six films directed by Martin Scorsese, three each by Todd Haynes and Neil Jordan, and others by the likes of Derek Jarman, Sally...

Arguably the best of Hitchcock's early British films — he was only 35 when he directed it — this is the movie in which we first spot a slew of Hitchisms.

Their line of descendants, cut short in the film because, as the villains, they both get killed, is the line of the British monarchy, a more or less direct descent from Cerdic to Alfred the Great to William the Conquerer, Henry VIII, and the present Elizabeth II.

The film version of Murder On The Orient Express, which is directed by and starring the British icon Kenneth Branagh, is just weeks away,...