Sentences with phrase «acclaimed film about»

One would think that Peirce, who directed an acclaimed film about a bullied misfit who would be persecuted for being different in Boys Don't Cry, would be a natural fit for the material.

Citizenfour, Laura Poitras» acclaimed film about Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal, won best documentary.

When Spotlight, the critically acclaimed film about the Boston Globe's investigation into clergy sexual abuse, won best picture at this year's Oscars, producer Michael Sugar accepted the award with a message: This film gave a voice to survivors and this Oscar amplifies that voice which we hope....

Not exact matches

Some projects have gone on to critical acclaim, too: About 10 % of the films at Sundance this year, for instance, have Kickstarter roots.

And now, after months of showings to audiences all over North America, from the AmDocs film festival in Palm Springs to Hot Docs in Toronto, acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger's buzzed - about documentary is now available on Netflix, streaming to its 75 million members worldwide.

Fusion Academy Evanston and Yellowbrick Consultation and Treatment Group are excited to present a screening of the acclaimed documentary, «Angst: Raising Awareness Around Anxiety,» a new film created to open up the conversation about anxiety and provide tools, resources, and hope.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

The fact is that critically acclaimed films, whether about men or women, sometimes succeed and sometimes fail.

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After appearing in about a half a dozen or so critically - acclaimed films in 2015, including «Far from the Madding Crowd» and «A Little Chaos,» brooding Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts...

The latest film from already - acclaimed Belgian brothers Jean - Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Two Days, One Night stars the not - so - working - class - but - still - beautiful Marion Cotillard as a working - class woman about to lose her job, desperate to convince her co-workers to keep her on board.

Happy to report news that one of the must buzzed about, highly acclaimed, incredibly weird, original, and impressive films coming out of the Cannes Film Festival has been bought.

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.

Sean Rom talks to director Tran Anh Hung about his filmmaking process, adapting Murakami's acclaimed novel Norwegian Wood to screen and presenting sensuality on film.

Adding excitement to the project beyond all the thinkpieces the media can run about what this means for diversity in cinema is the fact that Black Panther is written and directed by Ryan Coogler, a young filmmaker who followed his acclaimed debut Fruitvale Station with a successful studio film in the endearing Creed.

After About Elly and The Salesman I've decided to complete my Asghar Farhadi trilogy by ending on probably his most widely received and critically acclaimed film, A Separation.

After appearing in about a half a dozen or so critically - acclaimed films in 2015, including «Far from the Madding Crowd» and «A Little Chaos,» brooding Belgian actor

Nicole Kidman talks about her role in the upcoming film «Rabbit Hole» directed by John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) from a script by acclaimed playwright David Lindsay - Abaire, adapted from his Pulitzer Prize - winning play.

Of course, the film — or, as Monáe calls it, an «emotion picture» — also heavily echoes The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's chilling 1985 novel about a conservative future society, which was adapted into a 1990 film and is now an acclaimed, Emmy - winning Hulu series starring Elisabeth Moss as an enslaved woman compelled to serve as a child - bearer for the government's elite.

His first few film roles, as a hooligan who harasses Ben Kingsley in «Gandhi» and as Captain Bligh's (Anthony Hopkins) loyal right - hand man, John Fryer, in «The Bounty,» don't really signal that Day - Lewis was about to become one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation.

The Red Balloon and White Mane have been acclaimed throughout the world as two of the finest films ever made for — and about — children.

Not to be confused with Samuel L. Jackson's other snake movie, «Black Snake Moan» is the sophomore effort from writer / director Craig Brewer, whose debut film «Hustle & Flow» (another movie about a Southern musician battling his inner demons) earned the director critical acclaim in 2005 as one of the generation's most promising young talents.

Undoubtedly acclaimed filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg has had a somewhat fractured relationship with directing films in the English language, his previous two attempts, It's All About Love (2003) and Dear Wendy (2005), mercilessly panned by critics and audiences.

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-...]

Rolling Stone recently spoke with Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, portraying T'Challa (Black Panther), as he covers the publication's March 2018 issue, as well as director Ryan Coogler — as both detail more about the highly - acclaimed film and its impact, with it being the first Marvel Studios movie to put a person of color in the lead role and to feature a mostly black cast.

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Since its October release, the film has earned critical acclaim in nearly equal measure with warnings about its unflinching...

James Franco and «The Disaster Artist,» his acclaimed new film about Tommy Wiseau's cult classic, «The Room,» had a momentous Monday morning.

Gabrielle's impressive film credits include the critically - acclaimed «Cadillac Records,» «The Perfect Holiday,» «Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls,»» «Bad Boys II,» «Breakin» All the Rules,» «Deliver Us From Eva,» «Bring It On,» «Two Can Play That Game,» «Love & Basketball,» «Cradle to the Grave,» «Ten Things I Hate About You,» «The Brothers,» «The Honeymooners,» «Meet Dave» and «She's All That.»

Like his last film, the under - appreciated and costly The Walk, Robert Zemeckis» The Women Of Marwen is a true story about an eccentric artistic vision that's already been told in an acclaimed documentary — in this case, 2010's Marwencol.

There's something conceptually intriguing about an acclaimed film - maker following up on something made over 40 years earlier by another acclaimed film - maker.

Sean Baker, director of the critically acclaimed «Tangerine,» chats with Backstage about how shooting an entire film on his cellphone affected his relationship with his actors, and the modern way he cast the visually stunning film.

The Salesman (or Forushande) is both written and directed by prominent Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, of many acclaimed films previously including About Elly, A Separation (which was nominated for Best Screenplay in 2011), and The Past.

The script, by Brian Duffield, appeared on the 2011 Black List, and a film was set in motion in 2012 with Natalie Portman, Michael Fassbender and acclaimed «We Need to Talk About Kevin» director Lynne Ramsay attached to star and direct, respectively.

With About Elly, the familiar elements of his filmmaking coalesced into a tour de force mystery thriller that, despite the formally impeccable, universally acclaimed A Separation, remains the filmmaker's best film.

If you can accept critically - acclaimed, but mostly historically inaccurate and somewhat anachronistic, films like Jesus Christ Superstar, Gladiator, and Braveheart, perhaps you might be able to cut Marie Antoinette the slack necessary, allowing the artistic license to properly engage you as a story about a young girl struggling to find herself, leaving everything she was behind her and uncertain of just what to be, only to finally emerge to the rest of the world as a historical figure larger than life.

Pilgrim Hill (2012) evoked critical acclaim from Ireland and abroad was the most talked about film of that year, resulting in writer / director Gerard Barrett winning Rising Star Award at the IFTAs.

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.

Weekend — Andrew Haigh's the 2011 film of two young gay men who meet, have sex and talk — got all the acclaim a few years back, casting a long shadow over Tom Shkolnik's underseen 2012 movie about a struggling stand - up comic (Edward Hogg) torn between his female roommate (Elisa Lasowski) and the boyfriend he met on the night bus (Nathan Stewart - Jarrett).

McGarvey has won IFTA Awards for Best Cinematography in 2005 for adventure film Sahara and most recently for the acclaimed adaptation of We Need to Talk About Kevin.

«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.

It's hard to believe but presently, whenever you ask young people who Liam Neeson is, they tend to quote his action films and not know or forget about his critically acclaimed films, including Schindler's List, Michael Collins, Rob Roy and others.

What really has people hot and bothered about «The Hangover» being nominated is that this film is a raunchy, ode to man - boyhood that is not exactly a touching artsy comedy like the critically acclaimed «Little Miss Sunshine» and «Juno,» who both worked their poignant indie charms to garner accolades.

«Life Itself,» the acclaimed documentary directed by Steve James about iconic film critic Roger Ebert, will receive the award for Best Documentary at the African American Film Critics Association's awards gala on Wednesday, February 4th, at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood, California.

Finally following up his acclaimed 2006 debut Reprise, director Joachim Trier returns with a beautiful and uplifting film about drug addiction, depression and existential angst.

2016 was a terrific year for film, and overall there were few big surprises, as most of the more acclaimed films got multiple nominations, led by a record - tying 14 awards (matching «Titanic» and «All About Eve») for the musical «La La Land,» starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

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.

This acclaimed indie film about a precocious Cincinnati girl added Los Angeles this week and continues to show appeal as well as strong reviews in its early dates.

The star of Jeune Femme talks to Demetrios Matheou about her breakthrough role in feature debut director Léonor Serraille's acclaimed film.

This critically acclaimed film is about a single mother doing her best to raise her 8 - year old son while taking care of her wayward brother.