Sentences with phrase «age story filmed»

«Boyhood» is the epic coming of age story filmed over 12 years and starring Ellar Coltrane and Oscar nominees Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke.

«Boyhood,» director Richard Linklater's coming - of - age story filmed over a dozen years, was named the best film of 2014 on Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards, known as the BAFTAs.

Boyhood - Richard Linklater has created an achievement in cinema that marks the most expansive coming - of - age story film has ever seen.

Not exact matches

Sure, there's still crime - fighting and high - tech gear, as in any superhero film these days, but focusing on Parker's vulnerability, and creating a relatable coming - of - age story, seems to be what makes this Spider - Man special.

In this film and video age that emphasizes pictures, some people think that if Jesus had wanted us to take heaven seriously he would have brought along snapshots instead of telling stories.

This film tells five stories of children, ages 6 - 15, who are coping with grandfathers or grandmothers who have Alzheimer's disease.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

Gilchrist starred in the Focus Features film IT»S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY, a coming - of - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola DSTORY, a coming - of - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola Dstory from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola Davis.

It's a little bit of a musical, a little bit of a sports film, a little bit coming - of - age story.

Critics Consensus: It's sentimental, and some viewers may feel manipulated by the melodramatic final act, but The Man in the Moon offers a finely drawn coming - of - age story with an excellent cast — including Reese Witherspoon in her film debut.

Critic Consensus: It's sentimental, and some viewers may feel manipulated by the melodramatic final act, but The Man in the Moon offers a finely drawn coming - of - age story with an excellent cast — including Reese Witherspoon in her film debut.

Submarine is not just for the artsy Wes Anderson crowd, who love quirky characters and whimsical cinematography, the film appeals to everyone with it's genuine take on a coming of age story.

The film is by no means terribly long, at least when you compare it to its 1969 musical counterpart, so it's not like storytelling drags its feet for ages, but make no mistake, the fact of the matter is that plotting's structure is something of a mess that meanders along repetitiously and, well, is to be expected, because, really, where does this story have to go?

The story is faithful to the book but some of the acting and filming techniques show signs of the film's age.

Left on Purpose is a documentary film about the friendship between an aging anti-war activist who has decided that his last political act will be to take his own life and the filmmaker who is struggling to tell the story.

And the film itself loses focus as it drifts toward the conventions of the coming - of - age story and the family - dysfunction melodrama.

This film brings an extremely heartfelt story, a lovable cast, and tender dialogue that would make someone of any age smile.

This film may seem like a movie that is only full understood by someone over the age of 50, but anyone who enjoys likeable chemistry, a relaxing story, or slice - of - life storytelling, the you may just find yourself enjoying A Walk in the Woods quite a bit.

However, other then a clever way to tell a coming of age story, this film really lacked a spark.

Chen Kaige's first Chinese film since the poorly received, Hollywood - produced Killing Me Softly is based on a true story of an adolescent violin prodigy coming of age in Beijing.

This is a true story, after all, and Zamperini (who died this year at the age of 97) survived unimaginable horrors, but within the context of the film, the torture starts feeling repetitive and masochistic.

It's a coming - of - age story, but Holmer mostly eschews dialogue and standard storytelling devices; she tells her tale through movements and patterns and the way that she films them.

As David, the son of Korean immigrants, navigates his nascent desire, the film rests not on eroticism per se, but on the connective tissue it weaves among sexual and other identities: Spa Night recombines elements of the emigrant saga and the coming - of - age story into a searching, fresh - faced portrait, highlighting in the process the genres» keen correspondences.

Comic actor Bob Saget served as producer and director of this made - for - TV film, inspired by the true story of Saget's sister Gay, who died in 1994 at the age of 47.

It was neck - and - neck with its closest rival, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, David Fincher's loose adaptation of the F Scott Fitzgerald story about a man who ages backwards, each film having bagged three awards.

Gervais admits that it was designed as a feel - good film, but that hardly justifies the blandness of this utterly conventional and completely predictable coming - of - age story.

This emotional coming - of - age story follows Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered that they could communicate by immersing themselves in the world of Disney animated films.

Many of them that have premiered here over the years I've fallen in love with, but as we get new coming - of - age films every year, the stories have to evolve and stay unique in order to remain fresh.

You've aged Alice to 19, so the film turns her adventure into more of a coming - of - age story.

It's a coming - of - age story about 15 - year - old youth, adapted from a novel by film critic François Bégaudeau, who wrote and starred in Laurent Cantet's 2008 Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Class.

The perfect holiday gift for romantic comedy fans of all ages, Home Again on Blu - rayTM, DVD and Digital features a bonus commentary with the director and the producer of the film, taking viewers even deeper into the heartfelt story.

Other film front - runners include the coming - of - age story «Boyhood» and World War II code - cracking drama «The Imitation Game,» which have five nominations each, including best picture (drama).

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

The film tells the story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

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.

Telling the story through the eyes of a child is something of a genius stroke, absolutely making sense of the heightened reality in a way that some of the more recent films didn't, and the tender (but never quite precious) burgeoning romance and coming - of - age aspects are beautifully drawn.

Ana Lily Amirpour follows up her alt - cult sensation A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT with her sand - blasted, dystopian love story THE BAD BATCH; Maren Ade delivers what will be the most uncomfortable film of the festival, the desert - dry black comedy TONI ERDMANN; and Julia Ducournau's directorial debut, RAW, takes us on a cannibalistic coming - of - age shock ride that resonates long after its stunning finale.

Oddly, the respective films of Hawks's late western trilogy don't continue the same story so much as they recapitulate it, refine it, and inflect it with diverse intimations of aging.

Lady Bird, a coming - of - age story starring Saoirse Ronan that The A.V. Club's own A.A. Dowd said is «so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.»

Gerwig has made a personal film that is half coming - of - age and half mother - daughter relationship story.

«The latest big - screen iteration of the blockbuster video game isn't a film for the ages, but it's actually pretty good fun; an old - fashioned treasure - island adventure tale gilded in circa - 2018 wokeness (Lara Croft's breasts no longer command a lead supporting role) and anchored by an Oscar - winning actress far more gifted than the story requires.

For all the film's techno sophistication, which mixes motion capture, live action, and computer animation, «Ready Player One» at its heart resembles a dewy, coming - of - age love story.

Yes, I've seen some happy films this year, some of which were incredible, but films like Toy Story 2 was ground into a form that could be accessible to all ages (for the record, I actually do think that Toy Story 2 is the superior film), and The Straight Story was too serene to ever be thought of as having much zeal.

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.

A literary adaptation of a coming - of - age story, with links to Charles Dickens» classic «Great Expectations,» the film leaves you with the wish that Adamson would stick to fantasy — at least in that world there's some fun to be found.

Meanwhile, Houston - born, Austin - based Richard Linklater, known for such films as «Boyhood» and «Dazed and Confused,» showed he can tell the stories of middle - aged men in crisis in «Last Flag Flying.»

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.

A ripe romance but also a coming - of - age story, the film is as gentle, sensitive and observant in gaining insight into two people who find a deep connection.

Before SXSW kicked off, I spoke with writer / director Noah Baumbach, who shared writing credits with his wife Jennifer Jason Leigh for his latest film, GREENBERG; a coming of age story about a guy (Ben Stiller) who's way too old to be coming of age.

Most significantly, in Boyhood (2014), Linklater filmed the same actors over 12 years to tell the story of a boy as he grows from age 7 to 19.