Sentences with phrase «acclaimed drama film»
Richard Linklater is open to making a «Boyhood» sequel.The director of the critically - acclaimed drama film starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette...
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In 2016, critics cited the Oscars» snub of Netflix's critically acclaimed drama «Beasts of No Nation» as evidence that the industry was «turned off» by Netflix's business model, which debuts films on the streaming service simultaneously with theatrical releases.
Award - winning film maker, Cary Joji Fukunaga has issued a statement requesting for his critically acclaimed war drama, «Beasts Of No Nation'to be removed from the 2015 Ghana Movie Awards nominations announced on Friday afternoon in Accra, Ghana.
Danish director Thomas Vinterberg has been on a bit of a losing streak since his acclaimed 1998 film The Celebration, but The Hunt landed on several best - of - 2012 lists a year ago, and this summer's U.S. release found many critics hailing the drama as a return to form.
She appeared in a number of series, including the popular crime drama Cracker and such costume extravaganzas as Jane Eyre and Emma.Morton became known to an international film audience in 1997, when she won wide acclaim for her wrenching, fearless portrayal of a young woman driven to promiscuous behavior by the death of her mother in Carine Adler's Under the Skin.
Her first American film was Island in the Sun (1956) for Fox, and then Owens was loaned out to Warner Bros. to play opposite Marlon Brando in the drama Sayonara (1957), one of the most critically acclaimed movies of the year.
Her film work includes THE GREEN MILE, A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, and TOMBSTONE, to name a few, but she is perhaps best known for playing Trixie in the critically acclaimed television drama DEADWOOD, and was nominated for a SAG Award ® for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in drama DEADWOOD, and was nominated for a SAG Award ® for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in Drama Series in 2007.
In 2010, he co-starred in the highly acclaimed Australian crime - drama Animal Kingdom and lent his voice to the animated film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole.
Other recent films include PRISONERS opposite Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal; OBLIVION, opposite Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman; the blockbuster OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Freeman and Aaron Eckhart; Robert Zemeckis's critically acclaimed drama FLIGHT, with Denzel Washington; THE EQUALIZER which reunited her with both Fuqua and Washington.
Enough Said is a romantic comedy - drama from Nicole Holofcener, the writer - director of other critically acclaimed films exploring the daily travails of mostly upper middle - class affluent women (and men) in such as Lovely & Amazing and Friends with Money — something that invites comparisons to the works of Woody Allen often.
A UK poster has arrived online for the upcoming drama Denial along with a featurette which sees director Mick Jackson, stars Rachel Weisz and Timothy Spall, and author of Denial: Holocaust History on Trial, Deborah Lipstadt discussing the film; take a look below... Based on the acclaimed book Denial: Holocaust History on Trial, Denial recounts Deborah E. -LSB-...]
It Comes at Night: Director Trey Edward Schults follows his acclaimed drama «Krisha» with a horror film about an isolated family battling an unnatural force.
Since then, Explosions in the Sky have become a de rigueur soundtrack presence, their sounds appearing in films ranging from the acclaimed 2008 drama The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to Shopgirl.
Coming off two critically acclaimed films — the family drama «Summer Hours» and the epic terrorist thriller «Carlos» — his next effort marks another gear change for the director who refuses to be pinned down to any one genre or style.
This week on streaming video, we've got Bryan Singer's return to the X-Men franchise, an underseen animated film, an indie comedy, an acclaimed coming - of - age film from Sweden, and a retro space drama currently in theaters.
We've seen variations on this before but acclaimed film - maker Cate Shortland, who gained plaudits for less genre - influenced dramas such as Somersault and Lore, manages to combine artful direction with seat - edge suspense, elevating the material to something quite special.
«Boyhood,» Richard Linklater's acclaimed coming - of - age drama shot over a 12 - year period, was named best film of 2014 on Monday by the New York Film Critics Circle.
The first trailer for upcoming music - drama Boychoir — the latest film from acclaimed director François Girard (The Red Violin, Thirty Two Films About Glenn Gould)-- has been released online by Informant Media, along with a new poster which we have for you here... In the film, 12 - year - old newcomer Garrett Wareing plays Stet, a rebellious -LSB-...]
He spreads himself around so much (TV, film, comedies, dramas) that his talent hasn't gotten the acclaim of, say, Wes Anderson, but Green is the real deal.
When writer / director Paul Thomas Anderson made his acclaimed drama «The Master» (2012), he originally intended to shoot roughly 20 % of his tale of an alienated young man (Joaquin Phoenix) falling under the spell of the charismatic leader of a new religious movement (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in 70 mm, but wound up shooting nearly the entire thing in the process (the first narrative film to do so since the aforementioned «Hamlet»).
From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never seen and the drama is all in the conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades of film history and hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.
In the film, the writer of such acclaimed dramas as After the Wedding, In a Better World, Red Road, and Brothers, investigates the knotty and perverse family tree that two troubled, dysfunctional, eccentric brothers living on a remote Danish island belong to.
From Academy Award - nominated screenwriter JOHN LOGAN (Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo, Skyfall) and acclaimed, Tony Award - winning director MICHAEL GRANDAGE in his feature film debut, comes Genius, a stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between the world - renowned book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and the larger - than - life literary giant Thomas Wolfe.
Among the four major dramas to center on working class Boston types at the end of 2010 and into 2011, I'd rank The Company Men alongside the Hilary Swank lawyer film Conviction, both a far cry from the appealing heights of The Fighter and Affleck's acclaimed hit The Town.
«The Social Network,» the acclaimed drama about how Harvard computer nerds created the social networking site Facebook, had been the front - runner during the awards season, winning countless critics honors, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn., New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics awards as well as the Golden Globe for dramatic film.
The acclaimed director is to direct Loving, a new drama that Nichols has written himself, and is set to start filming in September.
Todd Haynes» Carol is a film about love and longing, the latter of which is a feeling Chicago cinephiles know all too well, as they've been looking forward to seeing the acclaimed director's latest drama for quite some time.
Earlier this month it was announced that filming on season two of HBO's acclaimed drama series Big Little Lies is slated to begin in the Spring of 2018, and now The Washington Post has revealed that director Jean - Marc Vallee won't be returning to helm any further episodes.
The Gist: After garnering a screenplay Oscar nomination for the vastly underrated 2011 Wall Street drama «Margin Call», Chandor returned last year with a subtler, but nonetheless acclaimed film, «All is Lost,» starring a silent Robert Redford.
It's a safe bet that the acclaimed historical drama will steamroll through the Spirits, securing nominations for film, director Steve McQueen, actors Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong» o and writer John Ridley.
Durkin's first film since the critically - acclaimed drama Martha Marcy May Marlene will feature Law as a businessman who brings his American wife and kids home to Britain to pursue new business opportunities, only to be plunged into the despair as their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
Dawn replaces Wyatt with Matt Reeves, who after years of toiling in B - movies (e.g.. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory) and television (he created the WB college drama «Felicity»), began commanding feature film respect with both his lucrative no - name 2008 monster movie Cloverfield and the acclaimed but poorly - attended Let Me In, a 2010 remake of the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In.
The film marks the first foray into CGI - heavy blockbusters for Ava DuVernay, who has garnered widespread acclaim for both her historical drama (Selma) and documentary work (13th).
If you've never seen any of Haynes's films before, you're missing out, especially if you like twentieth century American history and Critically Acclaimed Dramas With Strong Female Leads, as Netflix might phrase it.
I wouldn't give it the classic status that the film's wide critical acclaim suggests, but it's an appealing drama that finds Lasse Hallström's natural filmmaking at its purest.
But the Academy otherwise spread the wealth among a largely worthy set of intimate dramas and critically acclaimed genre films.
2014 didn't have a cult film in the making like What We Do in the Shadows, or a true sleeper like Straight Outta Compton (or Spy, for that matter), or a blockbuster hitting the sweet spot for audiences and critics alike like Mad Max has done, or a traditional standalone nonfranchise blockbuster like The Martian, or an animated film with the acclaim of Inside Out, or a little horror movie that could like It Follows, or an unexpected independent drama that ran forever like Room....2015 was a year like 1999 or 1994.
Robert Patrick (WALK THE LINE), Ray Stevenson («Dexter»), Frances O'Connor (THE HUNTER), and Katherine LaNasa («Deception») co-star in the acclaimed comedy / drama that Twitch Film calls «A perfect film for a lazy summer day with near - perfect performances across the board!»
Scorsese's next film, The Irishman, is being produced by Netflix for $ 100 million, after his last effort, the critically acclaimed but dense and difficult religious drama Silence, made a paltry box - office impact in December 2016.
The drama marks writer - director M. Night Shyamalan's return to the captivating grip of his some of his most acclaimed films, including «The Sixth Sense,» «Unbreakable» and «Signs.»
Wright, 21, will appear in Urban Hymn, a coming - of - age drama out later this year that has been directed by Michael Caton - Jones, whose films include the acclaimed wartime drama Memphis Belle.
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.
The acclaimed indie filmmaker behind Man Push Cart and 99 Homes tackles the India - based rags - to - riches crime - drama with hopes to start filming in India later this year.
What can be said about the crime drama considering the star and director were arguing throughout and the studio never backed the acclaimed director is that the stylish minor film though mawkish, turned out better than expected.
Working with some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers in both independent and studio films, Gyllenhaal starred in Ang Lee's classic «Brokeback Mountain,» for which he received an Oscar ® nomination and won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor; Bong Joon - ho's «Okja;» David Ayer's «End of Watch;» Antoine Fuqua's boxing drama «Southpaw;» Dennis Villeneuve's highly acclaimed films «Prisoners» and «Enemy;» Richard Kelly's cult hit «Donnie Darko;» David Fincher's «Zodiac;» Sam Mendes» «Jarhead;» Nicole Holofcener's «Lovely and Amazing;» Ed Zwick's «Love and Other Drugs,» for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, and Tom Ford's «Nocturnal Animals,» for which he earned a BAFTA nomination.
While writer - director Ramin Bahrani has continued to explore the dark underbelly of the American dream, he didn't quite nail the shift from his acclaimed, gritty early films («Man Push Cart,» «Chop Shop»), known for their casts of unknowns and shot - on - the - streets aesthetic, to 2012's «At Any Price,» which suffered from the miscasting of Zac Efron as a hard - drinking stock - car racer in a glossy drama about failing farms.
2005 saw Banderas winning the acclaimed Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award for his role in the musical Nine, which is based on the film 8 1/2.
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.
Peter Yates, director of the acclaimed films Bullitt and Breaking Away, has a hard time handling the sometimes jarring mix of zany comedy and deadly serious drama, never really making a real impact in either department enough for the tone to gel.
Yasujiro Ozu has been acclaimed as the most «Japanese» of Japanese film directors for his sedate, contemplative family dramas and subdued comedies, but he began his career as a director of lively silent films more indebted to Hollywood style than the quiet restraint and rigorous simplicity of his future films.