Sentences with phrase «as memoir films»

Not exact matches

Many in Hollywood say they see the spiritual - memoir - turned - movie as the next hot genre, suggesting there are ongoing talks about turning Lauren Winner's «Girl Meets God» into a romantic comedy, Ian Cron's «Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me» into an action flick, Anne Lamott's «Traveling Mercies» into an indie road trip film, Kathleen Norris» «The Cloister Walk» into something really creepy involving monks.»

Helmed by seasoned director Rory Kennedy (Last Days in Vietnam, A Boy's Life), the film takes a pretty straightforward and linear approach to Hamilton's narrative — a living, breathing memoir — beginning with his childhood days as a towheaded beach rat who chose pro surfer Bill Hamilton to be his dad.

If what you want is to hear people talk about Petit (including Petit), you might as well buy a copy of the memoir upon which the «The Walk» is based, or watch James Marsh's great 2008 nonfiction film «Man on Wire,» which includes so many re-enactments that it's half a drama, anyway.

Based on Petit's memoir (yes, he's alive), the film is presented as a recollection, with Joseph Gordon - Levitt narrating, sometimes in voice - over, but often directly to the audience.

The film, based on journalist Mary Mapes» memoir, «Truth and Duty: The Press, the President and the Privilege of Power,» follows the story of Mapes (Cate Blanchett, «Cinderella») and her time spent as producer of CBS's «60 Minutes» during the George W. Bush administration.

When it comes to his latest directorial effort, an adaptation of cartoonist John Callahan «s memoir Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, the movie is undoubtedly remarkable, but it's due to the performances Van Sant pulls from his actors rather than the film as a whole.

But that's where she finds herself as the director of «First They Killed My Father,» the Netflix film based on Loung Ung's memoir about growing up in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime.

THE GENERAL is perhaps Buster Keaton's best - known films, is inspired by a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War, as adapted from the memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.

When Robert Redford originally purchased the rights to Bill Bryson's 1998 memoir A Walk in the Woods, he intended it as a reunion film for himself and his lifelong friend Paul Newman.

«I can not tell you, as much as I thought the memoir and Solomon's words and work was special, I had no concept until I saw the movie for the first time,» said the film's screenwriter, John Ridley, accepting the prize in that category as he referred to protagonist Solomon Northup.

Based on Molly Bloom's memoir Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High - Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker, the film stars Jessica Chastain as the titular character alongside Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong, Chris O'Dowd, and Bill Camp; watch it below after the official synopsis...

She burst onto the scene with a memoir about her brief career working as a stripper before winning an Oscar for her work on Juno, one of the finest films released in a great year for cinema, 2007.

My Week With Marilyn Based on the memoir of a young man who worked as an assistant to Laurence Olivier during the making of «The Prince and the Showgirl,» this film delivers in all the ways one might expect - as an insider story and as an evocation of the period.

Life Itself, based upon the 2012 memoir of the same title written by legendary film critic Roger Ebert, was also honored today as Best Documentary by the National Board of Review.

Lone Survivor is based on the best - selling memoir by Marcus Luttrell (Played in the film by Mark Wahlberg, 2 Guns) about his ordeal in 2005 as a Navy SEAL who must fight for survival with three of his fellow frogmen in the mountains of Afghanistan when their mission, dubbed Operation Red Wings, is compromised, resulting in the Taliban in the area hunting them down.

Incredibly, ace - auteur Julian Schnabel adapted that memoir into a breathtaking, lyrical, haunting film that is as much his creation as Bauby's.

Tough As They Come film: Sylvester Stallone to direct Adam Driver in true story of Travis Mills, based on his 2015 memoir.

The film is based on Solomon Northup's memoir about his life in slavery after being abducted as a free man in New York.

Well, in the case of one of its stars, Greg Sestero, he started at the beginning and told the story of the film's creation, as well as the start of his friendship with Wiseau, in his memoir The Disaster Artist.

Starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, whose memoir the film is based upon and written by Jason Hall, American Sniper charts his four tours of duty in Iraq after September 11th where he became the most deadly sniper in military history.

Offering up an amusing look at the creative process and the day - to - day production of the movie, much of the script was based on actual recordings that were made during the filming of «The Room» as well as the memoir by Wiseau's co-star and friend Greg Sistero (Dave Franco).

Adderall casts Franco as Stephen Elliott, a New York author whose «true crime memoir» of the same name is the basis of the film.

Based on Roger's 2011 memoir and directed by Hoop Dreams» Steve James, the film traces the outspoken film critic's professional and personal journey from Pulitzer Prize - winning writer at the Chicago Sun - Times to his rise as a beloved TV movie reviewer alongside Gene Siskel and, ultimately, to his 11 - year battle with thyroid cancer, which ended in April when he died at age 70.

Based on Jane Hawking's second memoir, the film begins as a young doctoral student falls for a medeival poetry major and, despite the death sentence of a medical diagnosis, marries.

In the tradition of Jonathan Lethem's They Live monograph and the 33 1/3 series of longform album reviews, Miracle Mile offers a mix of cultural commentary, film criticism, and memoir as Walter dissects Miracle Mile's therapeutic function in his life following a traumatic event in the summer of 1989.

An adaptation of a memoir, the»80s - set film largely looks to be a chance for Annette Bening to deliver an awards - bait turn as real - life aging film star Gloria Grahame, who falls in love with a decades - younger actor (Jamie Bell), providing a much - needed gender swap on the usual May - December romances offered up by Hollywood.

While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and sugarcane were harvested and processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»

The Brad Pitt - produced film, which is already generating awards buzz, is based on the memoir Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff and stars Steve Carrell as Chalamet's father.

Jolie also directed the film and co-wrote the screenplay with Ung, who also serves as executive producer and whose gripping memoir the film is based upon.

Hornby's memoir of his life as an obsessive fan of the Arsenal football club was adapted into not one, but two films.

The Glass Castle: This misbegotten adaptation of Jeannette Walls» memoir is about as far away from Destin Daniel Cretton's masterful previous film, Short Term 12, as one could possibly imagine.

His memoir, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend, is out in November, and he's earning huge buzz for playing a drugged - out dentist in the upcoming Paul Thomas Anderson film, Inherent Vice.

Based on the memoir of the same name by Molly Bloom and adapted by Sorkin himself, the film follows a young woman as she goes from an Olympic athlete to running an exclusive high - stakes private poker game catering to Hollywood's finest, athletes, billionaires, politicians, and financial titans.

The trouble is that while the printed memoir available at Amazon for under eleven dollars may be filled with reminiscence, the book, unlike the movie, comes across principally as a celebration of life while the film is a dreary downer, however filled with Slawimir Idziak's hallucinatory scenes.

Working from a script by John Ridley (Red Tails, U Turn), who adapts Northup's own incredible memoir published in 1853, McQueen creates a powerful effect by not making the film «epic» or by proclaiming itself an «pretentiously important issues movie», but by keeping the emphasis on the characters and their individual stories much more so than as a film meant to cover the topic of slavery as a whole.

The film is based on Vera Brittain's First World War memoir of the same name and stars Alicia Vikander as Vera Brittain and Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington as her fiancé, Roland Leighton.

Atwell, meanwhile, will also soon appear as Cinderella's mother in a new version of the classic fairytale directed by Kenneth Branagh, and is currently filming Testament of Youth, a BBC Films adaptation of Vera Brittain's devastating first world war memoir which also stars Alicia Vikander, Dominic West and Emily Watson.

The film is based on Vera Brittain's First World War memoir of the same name and stars Alicia Vikander as Vera Brittain.

And the story gets even stranger when you tell it, as Franco does, from the perspective of Wiseau's friend and collaborator, Greg Sestero; Franco's film is based on Sestero's memoir The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, which he co-wrote with Tom Bissell.

On Tuesday, I'll moderate a Vanity Fair screening of Paul McGuigan's Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, with McGuigan, Annette Bening, and Jamie Bell on hand at NeueHouse, as well as Paul Turner, whose memoir of his unlikely love affair with Gloria Grahame supplied the film's source material.

The film is based on Garrad Conley's Boy Erased: A Memoir, and sees Hedges portraying Conley, who as a teenager was outed to his parents and was given the choice of -LSB-...]

Driver will play the role in a film based on Mills» memoir, Tough As They Come.

Addario will discuss her memoir It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War, which is being produced as a feature film starring Jennifer Lawrence by Steven Spielberg.

«As a director with over 100 credits in film and TV,» said Magar in an interview with GoodEReader, «it's been a wild and crazy journey which the memoir details, including how my first producer turned out to be a Mafia assassin, how I almost decapitated a young Drew Barrymore right after ET, and how I came close to derailing James Cameron's illustrious career.

Starring Reese Witherspoon as Strayed, the film adaptation of her memoir is set for a December 5 opening.

It is even competing with the big houses in New York to pay top dollar for authors, as it did when it ponied up $ 800,000 to acquire a memoir by the film director Penny Marshall.

Das and Sharma have included painting, sculpture and film works by 16 artists, including Krishna and Judy Blum Reddy, Nirode Mazumdar (from whose memoir the show gets its title), Zarina Hashmi, Akbar Padamsee, and even film editor Lila Lakshmanan, who worked with Jean - Luc Godard for over nearly a decade on some of his most famous films, such as À bout de soufflé (Breathless, 1960) and, Une femme est une femme (A Woman is a Woman, 1961).

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