Sentences with phrase «age film set»

Screenwriter / director Greta Gerwig has wrought a gem of a coming - of - age film set in 2002.

Moonlight, Barry Jenkins's mesmerizing coming - of - age film set against the Miami crack epidemic, prevailed at the 89th annual Academy Awards, winning best picture over frontrunner La La Land, after it briefly lost to La La Land.

Adventureland — Harmless coming of age film set in an amusement park.

Redford returns to the director's chair in this critically acclaimed coming - of - age film set during World War I and the Great Depression.

As the 1980s began she felt increasingly on the margins of the film industry, although she later co-wrote the script for Claire Denis's coming - of - age film set in 60s France, US Go Home (1994), and also directed a number of well - regarded television documentaries, such as Les Anges 1943, Histoire d'un Film (2004), on Bresson's Les Anges du Péché.

Not exact matches

From the Inside Out - «Making Avengers: Age of Ultron»: A 20 - minute video going back 18 months showing what it was like on set of the film in Italy and Seoul, Sourth Korea; a look at the Avengers Tower; some of the behind - the - scenes early visual effects of Ultron; early concept work for Quicksilver, the Hulk, and Vision; and more.

A new Ron Perlman movie is filming in Syracuse this week; crews set up scenes for filming «Asher,» starring Perlman as an aging hitman who seeks redemption, last night and early this morning.

Miles Ahead is a film that showcases the soulful filmmaking capable by Don Cheadle and it sets an example of great cinema for ages to come.

At least I now know what my tolerance level will be like for the eventual European coming - of - age horror film set at a waxing station.

The star - studded heist caper «Widows,» from director Steve McQueen and set to begin filming in Chicago this month, is looking to hire two sets of twin infants — one set biracial (unspecified), the other white — who are between the ages of 3 months and 6 months, according to a flyer posted by 4 Star Casting, which specializes in background actors, aka extras.

The Criterion Collection capped one of their most exciting and prolific years to date with the release of 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912 - 2012, a box set for the ages that spans 53 films and 41 editions of the Olympic Games.

Set in London, «Exhibition» focuses on a middle - aged married couple, known only in the film as D (Albertine) and H (Gillick).

His inclination towards dimly - lit, noirish landscapes works for him as the film is primarily set in that age, likewise his skills as a jazz pianist work for him in scoring the film.

Rogue One still has a month of filming to go and is supposed to be set between Episode II and Episode IV, making this new Han Solo age accurate for a cameo in the movie.

The film runs for a taut 83 minutes, and part of what's impressive about it is how economically, in a wholly unobtrusive way, it sets up the conflict between the two leading characters, an executive and a woman roughly half her age.

As with The Hudsucker Proxy, it harkens back to the golden age of the screwball, though this time out the Coens dispensed with the stylized 1930s / 1950s tone and setting, instead placing the film in the present day.

In While We're Young, Baumbach's most accessible comedy yet, the Frances Ha film - maker sets his sights on the generation gap and gets to grips with ageing.

The film finds the actress in a coming - of - age tale set in the English countryside, against the backdrop of World War III, and Ronan described it as «just the most beautiful story.

To the film's credit, the Oedipal set - up of Dan's boss being a kid almost the same age as his own daughter, Alex (Johansson), stays mostly in the subtext, while the contrivance of a romance blossoming between Carter and Alex is handled with a few moments of elbows - and - angles courtship that deserve a film of their own.

Our stage has been well and truly set for a film that can be seen almost as a companion piece to Roger Michell's Le Week - End and which explores ageing, regret and the rocky foundations on which even the most enduring marriages are set.

There is nothing conspicuously revolutionary about the «The Kids Are All Right», a sleek, smart, enormously entertaining film about a middle - aged lesbian couple (played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) whose teenage kids seek out the sperm donor who is their biological father (Mark Ruffalo); it has big - name actors, a sun - dappled Los Angeles setting, and the feel of a classic Hollywood comedy at its snappiest.

A coming - of - age story set in 2002 Sacramento, the film could very easily have fallen into the trappings of a subgenre that has been expanding for decades, but Gerwig's film is littered with pitch - perfect drama, humor, and emotion that makes it far greater than the sum of its parts.

The result is a drab road trip film, a cross between Grumpy Old Men and National Lampoon's Vacation, as the aged Bryson (Robert Redford) and his crude former buddy Katz (Nick Nolte) set out to hike the Appalachian Trail.

This film can be seen almost as a companion piece to Roger Michell's Le Week - End and which explores ageing, regret and the rocky foundations on which even the most enduring marriages are set

«Armed and Underground: Production Design» (7 mins., 1080i / 16x9) brings production designer Jon Gary Steele into the interview mix for an insider's view of the film's carefully - aged sets (the industrial - site exterior was a real location in Fontana, CA, but the massive interior was built on a soundstage), while «Crash Course: Stunts» (11 mins., 1080i / 16x9) taps stunt coordinator Lance Gilbert to tell, among other stories, the one about crawling around on the floor with his kids» Hot Wheels cars to plan the armoured - truck chase scene with Antal.

With a sneaky comic tone swerving between earnest compassion and snarky derision, a middle - aged protagonist chewed up by ennui, and a colorful array of character actors populating a kitsch - Americana setting, «Downsizing» has all the hallmarks of an Alexander Payne film.

That approach includes focusing the spotlight on Evans» character (who leads a rebellion aboard a futuristic train that houses much of humanity in the film's wintery dystopian setting), in order to better utilize his star power as a selling point - in addition to emphasizing the movie's action beats, as accompanied by the expected dramatic musical cues in the post-Inception age of trailers.

So to me, the movie is simply a coming - of - age story set in a world I'd not yet seen depicted in film.

, which shows black - and - white B - roll footage of an aged Curtiz (this was one of his last films) directing his actors on the set.

Set against the backdrop of a summer of cicadas and swimming pools, the film blends elements of up - beat teenage melodrama with the strange gravity of classic coming of age stories.

A few set photos have popped up of Meryl Streep in the Diablo Cody - penned film about an aging rocker (played by Streep) trying to reconnect with her kids.

Now, Mark Wahlberg is set to join the cast and crew of the feature film after finishing Transformers: Age of Extinction for Paramount.

EXCLUSIVE: Caitlin Stasey, Lindsey Morgan and Zoe Levin are set to co-star in Edward Burns coming - of - age film Summertime, which will begin shooting next month in New York.

The film is set in 1930s Hollywood and follows a young man (Jesse Eisenberg) who arrives in Los Angeles hoping to break into the film industry, only to fall in love and get swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

Setting it evocatively in George W Bush's America of the early 2000s, hardly a rosy age for American politics or mass nostalgia, courts a kind of bittersweet nostalgia that's hitting many right in the tear ducts: soft but sober, it's a film about how bad things were before we knew how bad they were going to get.

Coming - of - age adventure follows 20 - year - old Lucy (Solo), a small - town girl from Ohio — who has never kissed a boy, never had a job and never really had friends — who discovers the delightfully bizarre films of the legendary Italian filmmaker and sets off on a journey across Italy to find him.

Iconic: The film, which has been tipped for Oscars success is set in 2002, and tells the story of an artistically inclined seventeen - year - old girl, who comes of age in Sacramento, California

A harsh coming - of - age story set in a dreamlike, re-imagined, post-modern wild west, McLean's film manages to sidestep the arid ironies of most modern westerns on its way to far more interesting territory.

Although this isn't a serious film, it bounces off serious coming - of - age issues (like losing your virginity, the perfect analog to the vampire mythos) in ways that make sense and add to the gathering doom that ties all the tautly - paced, beautifully - staged set - pieces together.

Marvel's first Phase Three film, following the culmination of Phase Two in next year's AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON, was originally set for release on 31st July, 2015 after moving up from an August 2015 release.

The film is a modern coming - of - age drama about a young woman named Maggie (Iseult Casey) who sets off on a road - trip from Ireland to London with her boyfriend Andy (Shane Murray - Corcoran) in order to have an abortion.

But Focus will need to make some nifty marketing moves to reach them; despite the age and appeal of the cast, the dialogue is often expressed in a kind of stylized formality, while art house touches like a scene backdropped by «Ave Maria» and an upper - crust manor setting can belie the film's quicker, looser rhythms.

The company also has a multi-year streaming deal with Amazon Prime, which sets it up for some security in the digital age, in addition to a $ 40 million VOD deal with DirecTV for joint acquisitions, which provides a cushion for films that may not be strong enough to stand shoulder - to - shoulder with A24's main slate.

When the plot switches back to New York — Allen's once - favored stomping grounds before he moved things abroad for a while, starting with Match Point, in 2005 — we get a different setting and a different woman (Blake Lively, The Age of Adaline) with some passable moments and others that recall better scenes in earlier films.

But the film's pulsating sense of life and self - discovery, set against the backdrop of an underprivileged black neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris, can't be forgotten, especially for its discovery of Karidja Toure as Marieme, the girl whose coming of age we witness in such painfully authentic fashion.

As in many coming - of - age films, she's seen shedding her small town self for a new version of herself in the big city, all the more significant as she's finally letting go of the expectations of others — her mother, her boyfriends — and setting them for herself.

Set in the industry city of Manaus, the film follows a middle - aged security guard contemplating the imminent loneliness he'll experience once his daughter leaves for medical school.

The contrast between the 8 mm home - movie footage that opens the film and the subsequent scene showing Murray's bookstore in its final throes sets the thematic stage: Fading Gigolo is intended to be as much about aging as it is about love and sex.

Both are films by respected indie directors raised in Arkansas, both are set in the south (Mississippi here), both have a ne'er - do - well antihero role model for a teen boy coming of age.

The Man in the Moon (1991), the final film directed by Robert Mulligan, is a coming of age drama that rivals even The Notebook, a love story that sets the stage for the trials and tribulations -LSB-...]