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For her Civil War drama The Beguiled, Coppola defended her decision to nix the black character who had played a major part in the source novel by explaining she didn't want to include a token slave character without properly fleshing the character out.

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Ms. Broderick also worked on the script of «Glory,» the 1989 Civil War drama, which starred her son as a young commander in charge of an all - black regiment.

The basics: Written and directed by Gary Ross («The Hunger Games»), this fact - based Civil War drama tells the story of Newton Knight, a disillusioned Confederate Army deserter who, with the help of escaped slaves and like - minded Southern farmers, rises up against the Confederacy.

For the girls and the women of Sofia Coppola's elegantly spare, psychosexual Civil War drama The Beguiled, this daily broadcast from the front lines — muffled by the foliage, accompanying the...

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This is The Beguiled, directed by Sofia Coppola, an American Civil War drama, involving a fleeing Union soldier who finds haven in a prim girls» boarding school, adapted from the novel of the same name by Thomas Cullinan, but more famously known as a troublingly brilliant film from 1971 by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page.

«Mercy Street» (PBS): The Civil War drama starring osh Radnor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Gary Cole and Cherry Jones follows two nurses on opposing sides of the battle lines.

Adam Sandler's dysfunctional family, Sophia Coppola's Civil War drama and Seijun Suzuki's back catalogue are all coming to streaming services this month

Ahead of its release on Friday, STX Entertainment has released a five minute preview from director Gary Ross» upcoming Civil War drama Free State of Jones which features Matthew McConaughey and Jacob Lofland; watch it below after the official synopsis... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Free State of Jones Set during the Civil War, The Free State of -LSB-...]

2017's «The Beguiled» was a change of pace from Coppola's usual routine — a remake of a 1971 gothic Civil War drama that starred Clint Eastwood as an injured Yankee soldier held captive by teachers and students at a Southern school for girls.

Pedro Almodovar's jury, which included the likes of Jessica Chastain, Will Smith, and Paolo Sorrentino, also named Sophia Coppola best director for The Beguiled, a remake of the 1971 Civil War drama - thriller.

We first introduced the key art for the Civil War drama Echoes of War about a month ago but it was lacking a certain something.

Meanwhile, STX Entertainment has pushed its Civil War drama The Free State of Jones from March 11, 2016 to May 13, 2016.

Civil War drama «The Free State of Jones», starring Matthew McConaughey, has entered production and will hit theaters in March 2016.

Matthew McConaughey wants to free the slaves or die tryin» in this civics lesson of a Civil War drama

Meanwhile, STX Entertainment has moved its Civil War drama Free State of Jones — starring Matthew McConaughey and Gugu Mbatha - Raw — from May 13, 2016, to June 24, 2016.

Sophia Coppola's remake of the 1971 classic teams up some of our best working actresses — Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst, to name two — for this Civil War drama, and things get wild.

New images reveal the cast in their southern gothic period dress for director Sofia Coppola's upcoming Civil War drama, The Beguiled.

STX Entertainment has released the new trailer for the Civil War drama Free State of Jones and we have it for you below!

In 1987, he starred as anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom alongside Kevin Kline, and though the film itself alienated some critics (Pauline Kael called it «dumbfounding»), Washington's powerful performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.Two years later, Washington netted another Best Supporting Actor nod — and won the award — for his turn as an embittered yet courageous runaway slave in the Civil War drama Glory.

He followed that up with a well - received part in 2001's Last Orders and parlayed his success into a supporting role in Anthony Minghella's 2003 star - studded Civil War drama Cold Mountain.

Netflix was also shut out in the award show's film categories, with the streaming service's original feature film Mudbound failing to win either of its two nominations, while the Cambodian Civil War drama First They Killed My Father also fell short in the foreign film category.

Civil War dramas tend to be critical darlings (i.e. «Gone With the Wind,» «Lincoln,» «12 Years a Slave») but reviewers are calling Matthew McConaughey's «Free State of Jones» «tone - deaf» and a «drab drama.»

Not exact matches

As the drama develops the jury, with Athena decisive vote, decides to reject vengeance, and thus avoids a civil war, and corrects what is evil in their society.

The movie is a drama based on the experiences of Agu (played by Abraham Attah), a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed West African country.

Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro returns to the phantasmagorical cinema that defined such early fare as Cronos and The Devil's Backbone with this haunting fantasy - drama set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and detailing the strange journeys of an imaginative young girl who may be the mythical princess of an underground kingdom.

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.

Instead it's a stately account of the behind - the - scenes legislative drama that Abraham Lincoln had to negotiate to get the slavery - abolishing 13th Amendment passed through Congress before the four - year Civil War's imminent end.

Written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole (a veteran of Marvel Studios» bygone in - house writers program), Black Panther combines many of the best elements of MCU films past, including: the Shakespearean royal family drama of the Thor movies, the political thriller elements of Civil War and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and even the sci - fi tech aspects of the Iron Man films.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Steven Spielberg Actors: Daniel Day - Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones Plot: Steven Spielberg's long - in - the - work biography of the sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, as he presides over nation, and family, during the Civil War.

Sofia Djama's debut feature employs this multi-layered narrative to craft a stirring drama that illuminates the generational states of unrest left in the wake of the Algerian Civil War.

Released: June 23 Cast: Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Colin Farrell Director: Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) Why it's great: This remake of the 1971 Clint Eastwood - Geraldine Page drama returns to the Farnsworth seminary, a haven for proper young women avoiding the corruption of Civil War.

Claire Denis resolutely refuses to make simple movies, so this intense drama set during a civil war in central Africa feels somewhat elusive as it concentrates on emotions rather than plotting.

The movie is a sequel to Trueba's 1998 drama «The Girl Of Your Dreams,» also starring Cruz and set during the Spanish Civil War.

Sometimes these crises are played for laughs (e.g. Peter Quill's insistence on being called «Star - Lord» in Guardians Of The Galaxy) and sometimes for drama, as in the three movies centered on Chris Evans» heroic Captain America (Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War), which follow his journey from Hitler - slugging song - and - dance propaganda act to fugitive.

Sacred Deer is the second arthouse flick this year — after Sofia Coppola's Civil War - era drama The Beguiled — to pair Farrell and Kidman.

More importantly, as Captain America: Civil War proves, they can balance a full - to - bursting line - up of superheroes and what is essentially three different movies — an extension of Winter Soldier's espionage vibe, an Avengers movie in everything but name, and a PTSD psychological drama — while still delivering something coherent, character - driven and more satisfying than the a series of things - blowed - up - real - good set pieces.

Shot on quasi-grainy digital at close range and evenly lit in autumnal tones, Zachary Treitz's Civil War - set Men Go to Battle lacks the polish and bombast of much costlier historical dramas.

And she is set to co-star opposite Matthew McConaughey in The Free State of Jones, a Civil War action - drama written and directed by Gary Ross which be released next May.

The film flags somewhat in the moments it loses sight of its politics; but, while the balance between kitchen - sink drama and colonial analysis is sometimes uneven, the civil war background provides enough tension to carry some of the film's weaker moments.

Similar to Winter Solider, Civil War also has trouble delivering a satisfying payoff to the intriguing questions and dilemmas that it presents during its first act; but again like its predecessor, Civil War helps to make up the difference in this respect by serving up compelling character - driven drama / conflict during its third act.

Other heroes, like Ant - Man, do their part by balancing the tone of «Civil War» between drama and light - hearted action instead of overdosing on seriousness like «BvS.»

Harrowing, violent and deeply disturbing, this realistic drama about children fighting in Liberia's grisly civil war (1999 - 2003) is not only a strong story, but it has wide resonance as a look at young people living...

If the collision of Madeleine with George's kin or the tragedy that re-ties the ties that bind seem contrived, consider that the film is possibly best read as a drama writ large on a Southern canvas, one splashed, like the Ann Wood paintings produced especially for the film, with the ghosts of slavery and the Civil War.

She brings her film journalist expertise to this month's reviews, which include Christopher Nolan's World War II drama Dunkirk, Sofia Coppola's civil war era remake The Beguiled, the Planet of the Apes prequel - sequel War For the Planet of the Apes, and the Marvel Studio's new iteration of the Spider - man character, Spider - man: HomecomiWar II drama Dunkirk, Sofia Coppola's civil war era remake The Beguiled, the Planet of the Apes prequel - sequel War For the Planet of the Apes, and the Marvel Studio's new iteration of the Spider - man character, Spider - man: Homecomiwar era remake The Beguiled, the Planet of the Apes prequel - sequel War For the Planet of the Apes, and the Marvel Studio's new iteration of the Spider - man character, Spider - man: HomecomiWar For the Planet of the Apes, and the Marvel Studio's new iteration of the Spider - man character, Spider - man: Homecoming.

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.

The director hasn't made an epic Civil War story — it's mostly reserved in tone and scope — but it's not without its visceral moments when it comes to both the battle sequences and the drama.

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