Sentences with phrase «as powerful drama»

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«Through unprecedented access to the players involved, he re-creates all the drama and turmoil of these turbulent days, revealing never - before - disclosed details and recounting how, motivated as often by ego and greed as by fear and self - preservation, the most powerful men and women in finance and politics decided the fate of the world's economy.»

The centuries - long drama of the religious journey of the people of Israel, as it is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, was a gigantic struggle with the immensely powerful «other» of the religious world of the ancient Near East.

He will not see the Church as an armed camp standing opposed to the camp of the evil one, both on an equal footing and equally powerful and equally absolute, both simply comprised within the unrevealed will of a God who fundamentally has remained silent about the ultimate meaning of this drama.

As in The Merchant of Venice, religious issues complicate considerations of race and ethnicity, but Shakespeare's drama again leaves an attentive audience or reader with a powerful realization of the essential humanity of the racial «other.»

And so to that magical meeting of powerful music and drama — the opera, something that I came to later in life and which I appreciate more as time goes on.

Award - winning actress Frances McDormand (Fargo) delivers a stunningly powerful performance in this darkly comic drama that has been hailed as one of the Think you know Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson better than anyone else?

Its powerful depiction of simmering racial tensions in the Jim Crow South of the 1940s, exploding into horrific violence, should boost its profile as a prestige release, the drama fueled by sentiments still troublingly relevant in contemporary America.

Another light but quite mysterious and powerful drama from Woody Allen, as simple as always..

In this belated prequel to director Brian De Palma's 1993 crime drama, gangster Carlito Brigante (Jay Hernandez) rises through the ranks of the New York underworld to establish himself as Spanish Harlem's most powerful kingpin.

In 1987, he starred as anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom alongside Kevin Kline, and though the film itself alienated some critics (Pauline Kael called it «dumbfounding»), Washington's powerful performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.Two years later, Washington netted another Best Supporting Actor nod — and won the award — for his turn as an embittered yet courageous runaway slave in the Civil War drama Glory.

A powerful drama masquerading as a western that promises slightly more than it is able to deliver.

Never before has this quote been so true as in Denial, a powerful courtroom drama recounting the trial based on the acclaimed book Denial: Holocaust History on Trial written by Dr. Deborah Lipstadt.

It's a powerful, provocative, ambitious drama set in the shadow of September 11, 2001, a marvelously messy film about the messiness of emotions and people and relationships, especially as they are tested in extreme circumstances.

Originally conceived as a comedy, «Dead Man's Shoes» is a powerful drama (although lightly peppered with gallow's humour) in which a community is revisited by the sins of its past, and forced to pay the price.

A few miscalculated scenes aside, this low - budget drama is stunningly smart and powerful, with real - as - life lead performances and a style as gripping as it is unpretentious.

As the film's tone veers back and forth between borderline TV movie and gripping drama, it's propelled by powerful turns from leads Streep and Hanks.

Powerful drama starring Edward Norton as Derek Vinyard, a violent neo-Nazi who's given a three - year sentence for attacking and killing a black youth.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

On the drama front, films as diverse as Bill Pohlad's Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy, Nanni Moretti's touchingly personal Mia Madre, and Kornél Mundruczó's White God all vied for inclusion, if ultimately edged out by the likes of Todd Haynes's flawless Carol and John Crowley's quietly powerful Brooklyn.

In This Corner of the World begins as a domestic drama about a young woman in 1930s Japan entering into an arranged marriage, and then gradually becomes a powerful drama about living during wartime.

A 45 Years within the literary world, it's a powerful drama that showcases in particular Glenn Close's luminous power as an actress - in a role that could see her in awards contention next February.

Sophie Okonedo is also in the running for her powerful performance as Winnie Mandela in the BBC4 drama Mrs Mandela.

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's powerful drama is a prime example of how a smallscale domestic crisis can stand as a microcosm for a much larger crisis within society.

A powerful allegory about environmental destruction, this richly atmospheric drama follows a teenage girl as she goes on vacation with her father, a wealthy landowner who becomes obsessed with eliminating the carp fish from his artificial lagoon.

Jacques Audiard)- North American Premiere Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, this powerful drama from director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust & Bone) follows a former Tamil Tiger soldier as he flees from the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war to begin a new life in a Parisian suburb.

Of course, Schrader has had a storied career as a director, too — his most remembered work is probably American Gigolo, but he's produced many challenging dramas that follow people at the intersection of some powerful, individual crisis.

The film has some of the greatest black and white images ever filmed, dramatic lighting and sharp shadows, everything you think of as the noir style, only instead of an urban crime drama, it's used to powerful effect to create a nightmare of a fairy tale.

But, as the adage says, truth is stranger than fiction, and this thrilling drama, based on a true incident in Chile in 2010, is a powerful testament to the resilience of men in crisis.

I love her as the devoted secretary «Miss Mead,» in the all - star soapy drama about wealthy and powerful people stuck at an airport, «The VIPs.»

Social dramas or «message films» expressed powerful lessons, such as the harsh conditions of Southern prison systems in Hell's Highway (1932) and I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), the plight of wandering groups of young boys on freight cars during the Depression in William Wellman's Wild Boys of the Road (1933), or the lawlessness of mob rule in Fritz Lang's Fury (1936), or the resourcefulness of lifer prisoner and bird expert Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) in John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz (1961), or the tale of a framed, unjustly imprisoned journalist (James Cagney) in Each Dawn I Die (1939).

Powerful drama from writer - director Kelly Reichardt («Wendy and Lucy») further establishes her as an auteur who finds poignancy in the stillness

Bob Rafelson's powerful drama stars Jack Nicholson as a Philadelphia radio DJ who is reluctantly drawn into the schemes of his unstable brother Jason, who sleeps rough in Atlantic City, does odd jobs for the mob and has a plan to get rich by building a paradise retreat on a Pacific island.

This powerful drama about two brothers who side with the Irish Republican Army in County Cork in 1920 seems as disturbingly fresh as today's news out of Iraq.

Whiplash isn't always a plausible, and sometimes oversteps its bounds as a small - scale drama, but any veering off course seems to be immediately righted with another riveting, powerful scene.

John Moran is struck by the powerful drama on offer at the tribute to Kieran Hickey, which took place as part of the 11th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (14 - 24 February 2013)

Coogler made his directorial debut with the powerful drama Fruitvale Station, in which Jordan gave a magnificent performance as Oscar Grant,

Inspired by over two hundred and fifty documented accounts of the women who fought in the Civil War while disguised as men, I Shall Be Near To You is the intimate story, in Rosetta's powerful and gorgeous voice, of the drama of marriage, one woman's amazing exploits, and the tender love story that can unfold when two partners face life's challenges side by side.

If you can learn to trade without fear of the outcome, without any judgement of yourself or the markets, as if today is the last day you will be alive and the devil be damned... it is a very powerful position and for me, my trading improved immensely when I taught myself how to take the drama out of the trade and trade from a feeling of flow and carelessness of outcome.

If the cinema of the 1950s and 60s sublimated the fear of atomic catastrophe or communist attack into interplanetary drama, the more recent work collected here uses elements of that retro sci - fi world as powerful metaphors for our deep - seated fears of the Other, the foreigner — the increasingly frequently decried «invasion» of immigrants, or just the presence of people of different skin colors and beliefs.