Sentences with phrase «age story written»

Lady Birdis a semi-autobiographical coming - of - age story written and directed by Greta Gerwig, my favorite kooky character actress.

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, director & writer) Terrific coming - of - age story written and directed by Greta Gerwig.

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anyone who has read and understood the mountains of evidence for evolution and compared it to a contradictory, fanciful, error riddled story book written by bronze age desert dwelling goat herders and come up on the side of the bible, clearly hasn't understood the science.

When I'm writing the stories about a few of these homeless and runaway teens, I'm thinking in terms of kids out on the streets without their families, kids that mostly fall into the thirteen to eighteen or twenty age group.

It wasn't just about the subject matter — although it's tricky to write about such a tender and intimate time in a person's life, to tell your own story while still holding space for stories that are so different than your own, to attempt to shepherd people well in the liminal spaces of their faith journeys — but it was also just the season of life with being pregnant with our fourth and then giving birth and suddenly having four tinies between the ages of 9 and newborn meant I had a lot less time with a lot less energy (and even less sleep!)

Hauerwas and the other essayists are on firmer ground when they write of the importance of holding on to the Christian story, which gives meaning to individual stories and provides «rich resources to make possible friendship between the elderly and, perhaps most important, becoming and remaining friends with ourselves as we age.»

you do that, personally I'm going with the scientists with the Phds, over stories written by stone age man.

religious people are some of the smartest people in the world but they still believe in a magical sky fairy and in the wors of a bronze age story book written by goat herders with no concept of science.

Time to just admit that it is a collection of stories and opinions written by men (obviously) with a bronze age mentality and understanding of the world.

Now that people are more aware of how this scheme works it might be a different story, just as how more people are now aware of how the Bible was actually written and the actual age of the universe to actually accept it as completely factual and as any kind of evidence for a god.

Another chapter in the story of Green Flash Brewing's distressed financial situation was written today as the San Diego - based company announced plans to close its Cellar 3 barrel - aging facility and taproom in Poway, California.

She began writing stories at a young age, always knowing she had a story to tell the world.

Price starts with Lloyd George and goes on to retell the familiar stories of Baldwin versus the press barons Beaverbrook and Rothermere (and his famous denunciation of them as having «power without responsibility, the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages» - in fact written by Kipling).

Thinking that I might have a hot story to write about that would reveal something deeply wrong with current cosmological models, I first queried California Institute of Technology cosmologist Kip S. Thorne, who assured me that the discrepancy was merely a problem in the current estimates of the age of the universe and that it would resolve itself in time with more data and better dating techniques.

At the age of 39, Elsayed has written a memoir — Inadmissible — telling the story of his scientific rise and fall.

At the age of 16, when I was writing one of my GCSE * English assignments, Mrs. Taylor (my teacher) wrote: «I was going to say that this is as good as any children's story in the library.

The young author learned to read at 3 and was writing stories under her mother's guidance at age 4.

But it was such a huge part of both of our lives, and we had so many stories and issues that we wanted to explore within the context of an on going series that it came back to the age old adage «write what you know.»

Appearing as the cover story of the USA Today Weekend edition, Jayson wrote about a recent study conducted by online dating sites JDate and Christian Mingle in which 1500 singles aged 21 - 50 shared their thoughts on how mobile phone technology and texting when it comes to matters of the heart.

It comes with an interesting story, rich content and well written characters that reminded us of the golden age of the genre.

Written and directed by ERs Lily Mariye, this gritty, sexually frank coming - of - age story has won 11 awards.

In his effort to make an all ages crowd - pleaser, Jackson and fellow writing team Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens sanitize the story's dark themes (none of the violence against Susie is ever shown) and attempt to negotiate a happy ending for all the protagonists, even the murdered one.

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 movie is a bit like a Russian nesting doll in that it's designed as a story within a story within a story, opening on a young girl reading a book about the titular hotel that was written by an unnamed author, portrayed at various ages by Tom Wilkinson in a brief 1985 flashback and Jude Law in 1968.

«Mud,» written and directed by Jeff Nichols («Take Shelter»), is ostensibly an adventure story about two teenage boys who stumble upon a charismatic outlaw on an island in Dewitt, Ark., but it's also a very specific type of coming - of - age story.

«Lady Bird,» written and directed by Gerwig, and starring Saoirse Ronan, is a coming - of - age story about a high school senior in Sacramento, California in 2002/03, who acts out and searches for her place even as she prepares to take wing.

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.

If I'd gone to war at the age of eighteen and come home without firing a shot, I suspect I'd have written something as vapid, grandiose, and self - conscious as Anthony Swofford's memoir Jarhead, the story of a ground war that never really materialized (and wouldn't until the son of that era's president decided to bring to climax what daddy'd coaxed to erection).

Palo Alto (R for graphic sexuality, drug and alcohol abuse, and pervasive profanity) Gia Coppola makes her writing and directorial debut with this coming - of - age drama based on a James Franco short story revolving around a clique of rebellious teens with a knack for finding trouble.

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Written and directed by Fox, it centers on Jennifer (Laura Dern), a globetrotting filmmaker and professor whose mother finds a story Jennifer wrote at age 13 depicting a «special relationship» with two adult coaches.

Age Of Ultron follows the rather hackneyed formula of «A.I. tasked with the defence of the human race decides the best course of action is to exterminate it» of The Terminator and, well, nearly every other si - fi story written since Isaac Asimov took up his pen.

Olivier Assayas has written eloquently of his complicated relationship with the film, first rejecting it and then over time coming to regard the troubled Charles as «the truest portrait» of his younger self; Assayas's most autobiographical film, Cold Water, owes a debt to The Devil, Probably, as will, perhaps, his upcoming Something in the Air, a coming - of - age story in the context of»70s youth culture.

Vince Vaughn (who wrote the story) and Owen Wilson, two Hollywood actors that have made a career playing aging adolescents, star as a couple of recently unemployed watch salesmen.

It's a notion that isn't new, with Fyodor Dostoevsky writing the classic story «The Double» ages ago, but co-writer and director Richard Ayoade takes it to absurdly comic places in his adaptation of the novella for this sophomore film.

Conceived by David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan during the writing stages of The Dark Knight Rises, the story of Man of Steel attempts to make Superman relevant to the modern age again, eschewing the traditional adventure narrative of the Richard Donner film, or the morose navel - gazing of Bryan Singer's 2006 reboot, and instead aiming to at once examine Kal - El's place in the world.

He was supposed to be receiving the script for a CGI children's film Mike White had written but instead was sent the story of a man coming to terms with his life as he takes his high school - age son on a tour of potential colleges while also grappling with the outsize successes of his own old college buddies.

She receives a series of phone calls from her mother, Nettie (Ellen Burstyn), who has found a short story Jennifer wrote at the age of 13.

MILLER»S GIRL by Jade Bartlett The story of a young precocious writer who becomes involved with her high school creative writing teacher in a dark coming - of - age drama that explores the often blurred lines of connectivity between professor and protege, child and adult.

The film is another coming of age story but is intensified by these great 80s and original songs written for the film.

Greta Gerwig, who wrote and directed one of the best coming - of - age stories The A.V. Club has seen in a while, had a typically heartwarming response to the accolades Lady Bird has received.

Since The Last Detail, Ponicsan has written a dozen more novels, one of which he adapted into a screenplay (Cinderella Liberty); meanwhile, his screenwriting credits branch out from military dramas into coming - of - age stories (Vision Quest), high - school dramas (School Ties, co-written by Dick Wolf), and political thrillers (Sydney Pollack's Random Hearts).

Paolini wrote «Eragon» at the age of fifteen, which might explain some of the knowing homage to the works of others that must have surely formed his ideas on how to tell a story.

Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (who won an Oscar for penning the 2011 tragicomedy «The Descendants») also deserve a lot of credit for writing a movie that's as smart, funny and sweet as it is incredibly heartbreaking at times, because although their coming - of - age story follows an all too familiar journey, they manage to make it feel like an entirely fresh experience.

In the film, actor Brendan Gleeson portrays cabin boy Thomas Nickerson (played at a younger age by Tom Holland), who when he is older tells the story of the ship to Herman Melville («Skyfall» actor Ben Whishaw), who wrote a book about a whale you might have heard of.

As well as hundreds of photos, there are English story writing prompts, transport across the ages and even a complete ESL topic about transport.

She finally married aged 38 to her loyal husband Chris (who continues to support Lotte by typing out her hand - written stories).

As national magazines and newspapers debate what it means to be literate in a computer age in which students butcher language in text messages and open books less and less outside the classroom, Greenhow has found a virtual creative writing boom among students spending long hours writing stories and poetry to paste on their blogs for feedback from friends, or creating videos on social issues to bring awareness to a cause.

This is not exactly the point of the arts and humanities story, but as Bauerlein points out in his blog essay «a big assumption here» is that «the best way to learn to write business correspondence at age 30 is by writing lots of business correspondence at age 17.»

The launch of edweek.org in 1996 ushered EPE into the Digital Age and created a platform for the evolution of its Education Week flagship publication into an integrated print - digital news organization that provides distinctive staff - written original reporting, a forum for a lively but civil exchange of opinion on education issues, an unequaled online archive of 30 - plus years of education coverage, high - quality content from news and information partners, interactive databases, and a host of video, multimedia, and other features that clarify complex points of policy and bring the stories of American schools, educators, students, and parents to life.