Sentences with phrase «age comedy directed»

The 42nd Toronto film festival was notable for its strong showing of female talent — not least an endearing coming - of - age comedy directed by Greta Gerwig

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Coming - of - age comedy «Red Oaks» is directed by David Gordon Green («Pineapple Express») and produced by Steven Soderbergh.

The comedy, directed by Aardman fixture Nick Park, centers on Dug (voice of Eddie Redmayne), a late - Stone Age cave man who lives in a lush valley with a tribe of bungling rubes and an adorable pet hog.

The romantic comedy Try Seventeen is a coming - of - age tale directed by Jeffrey Porter.

-- Claudia Puig, NPR NOMINATED FOR 5 ACADEMY AWARDS ® INCLUDING BEST MOTION PICTURE AND BEST DIRECTING The Critically Acclaimed Coming - of - Age Comedy Arrives on Blu - ray ™ Combo Pack and DVD March 6 from Lionsgate SA... [Read More]

But Post, who broke into directing in 1950, managed to build a résumé that could have belonged to a golden - age Hollywood journeyman like Michael Curtiz, who in 1935 knocked out a labor drama, a workplace romance, and an action picture in rapid succession, along with a Perry Mason programmer, a gangster comedy, and part of an Al Jolson — Ruby Keeler backstage musical that somehow burned through three directors.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The surreal L.A. - based coming - of - age comedy is written by author and Vice.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, and it follows Araki directing a number of episodes of the Soderbergh - produced Red Oaks series for Amazon.

Kelly Fremon Craig writes and directs this coming - of - age comedy in her directorial debut.

After collaborating on comedies like Tammy and The Boss (both starring McCarthy and directed by Falcone), the pair is at it again with Life of the Party, co-writing this story of a middle - aged mother who returns to college after her husband asks for a divorce.

Coming - of - age comedy Red Oaks is directed by David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Joe) and produced by Steven Soderbergh and stars Craig Roberts (Submarine) as a tennis coach in a 1980s country club.

Current and upcoming domestic releases from Focus include Victoria & Abdul, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Judi Dench as Queen Victoria; Darkest Hour, directed by Joe Wright and starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill; the untitled Entebbe project, a gripping political thriller directed by José Padilha and starring Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl; Jason Reitman's new comedy Tully, starring Charlize Theron and written by Diablo Cody; Lenny Abrahamson» atmospheric thriller The Little Stranger; Joel Edgerton's coming - of - age and coming - out drama Boy Erased starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe; Mary, Queen of Scots with Saoirse Ronan as Mary and Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I; and the untitled new film from Paul Thomas Anderson starring Daniel Day - Lewis.

The first (and only) feature directed by a promising young writer - director named Steve Gordon, who died the following year of a heart attack at age 44, the first Arthur was hardly a masterpiece, but it was a highly enjoyable comedy of manners done in a style that, even at the time, seemed quaintly old - fashioned.

Greta Gerwig's semiautobiographical comedy is miraculously free of the usual coming - of - age quirk; the star of Frances Ha is only behind the camera this time, writing and directing, but she's clearly arrived at a kind of wisdom via distance.

SIN BIN, directed by Billy Federighi (USA, 2012) Jury Statement: For being a unique re-imagining of a classic coming - of - age comedy with quirky style and a witty, quotable script.

Now she's making her feature directing debut with the romantic - comedy, coming of age...

Now she's making her feature directing debut with the romantic - comedy, coming of age film Carrie Pilby.