Sentences with phrase «british war drama»

World War I British war drama Journey's End heads to U.S. theaters in New York and L.A., with a marching band planned for its New York location.

Good Deed Entertainment VP of Acquisitions and Distribution Kristin Harris covered the P&I screening of British war drama, Journey's End at last year's Toronto Film Festival where it premiered.

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.

Not exact matches

In one of the later season's of Foyle's War, (a British crime drama set in the 1940's, which I highly recommend, by the way, if you enjoy murder mysteries and period wartime dramas) there was an episode where the character of Sam is seen discussing shoes with a coworker.

Roberta Hanley made her feature directorial debut with this British drama based on the play by Jeff Noon about a civil war in the near future.

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.

Jack O'Connell (Starred Up) leads this war drama as a young British soldier, left in a daze when his unit accidentally abandons him on the hectic streets of Belfast at the height of the Troubles.

But its marrying of a location and a sense of time and space seems more predictive of his later masterpiece The River (1951), a reflective drama following an isolated British family living on the banks of the Ganges in India, than it does anything that came out of Italy in the aftermath of World War Two.

British star Mark Rylance won the best supporting Oscar for his role of KGB agent Rudolf Abel in Steven Spielberg's Cold War - set drama «Bridge of Spies».

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.

Over the past two decades, their collaboration has yielded some of the most powerful works in contemporary British cinema, including The Wind That Shakes the Barley (now streaming on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck in a limited engagement), which chronicles the lives of two brothers during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, and last year's Palme d'Or — winning drama I, Daniel Blake, which skewers the brutal bureaucracy of the British welfare system.

Over the past forty - plus years, the British filmmaker has put together one of the most diverse and innovative filmographies you can imagine — from her early experimental work, to her fourth - wall - breaking classic of gender fluidity, Orlando (1992), to the minimalist dance - romance The Tango Lesson (1997), in which she played herself, to the Cold War coming - of - age drama Ginger & Rosa (2012).

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.

British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay returns with this concise, poetic and violent drama in which Joaquin Phoenix plays a troubled US war veteran

Jack O'Connell (Starred Up) leads this war drama as a young British soldier, left in a daze when his unit accidentally abandons him on the hectic...

Oldman can currently be seen alongside Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James in «The Darkest Hour» as World War II British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and at the weekend he won the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama prize at the Golden Globes and he has also been nominated for the Leading Actor gong at this year's BAFTA Film Awards.

At once hugely influential — there is no Paul Greengrass without Clarke — and still relatively obscure, Clarke is singular among the British social realists, owing to his adaptability to a variety of sub-genres (within this sampling you will find women's pictures, war movies, prison dramas, documentaries, and even an hour - long about a dystopian roller rink) and a blazing empathy for the downtrodden that seem to go hand - on - hand.

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.

A classic British memoir gets the full costume drama treatment with this beautifully crafted World War I drama, although it never quite transcends the «beloved book» tone, remaining so worthy that it only rarely springs to life.

On TV he starred in the second season of In Treatment and had a recurring role in Hot in Cleveland, and he made his final screen appearance in the final season of the British crime drama Foyle's War (2015).

Not so much a sequel as another stultifying character drama set in a world overrun by aliens, this 10 - years - later spinoff switches directors and genres, as first - timer Tom Green (building on experience from British TV's «Misfits» and «Blackout») helms a taxingly over-earnest war movie set in an unspecified Middle Eastern country, where American soldiers deal with insurgents while the menacing MTRs (as they're now called) lumber about in the background.

British World War Two biopic «The Imitation Game» garnered eight nominations, including best actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, while Iraq war portrait «American Sniper» and Golden Globe winner for best drama, «Boyhood,» each earned sWar Two biopic «The Imitation Game» garnered eight nominations, including best actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, while Iraq war portrait «American Sniper» and Golden Globe winner for best drama, «Boyhood,» each earned swar portrait «American Sniper» and Golden Globe winner for best drama, «Boyhood,» each earned six.

The Morten Tyldum — directed drama stars Benedict Cumberbatch as British cryptologist Alan Turing, who helped crack Nazi codes during World War II.

Sam Claflin, Asa Butterfield, and Paul Bettany star in this tense drama about the lives of British soldiers in a First World War dugout, based on R.C. Sherriff's classic play.