Sentences with phrase «as social dramas»

With two exceptions — Topsy - Turvy and Vera Drake (which takes place in the 1950s)-- Leigh's films are set in contemporary urban or suburban Britain and might be described as social dramas, although even at their darkest they have a comic edge.

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They were thus «liturgical» in nature, intended for the whole community; and as, say, in the production of a drama with religious overtones, they were both religious in nature and social in character.

As one Huffington post article on the subject explained, people who are psychopaths often don't yawn when others do (one of those weird but true social behaviors), stay super calm in dangerous situations, and thrive on drama (without even showing it).

This study looks at the ways in which online social networks provide new avenues for meeting «friends of friends» or for researching potential partners before meeting them in person, as well as some of the ways in which awkwardness or «drama» can develop in these highly public venues.

Steven Bochco interview and videos from the Archive of American Television on producing, writing, and creating shows such as legal dramas Hill Street Blues Jango is about making online music social, fun and simple.

Both films integrated social issues into their narrative fabric quite naturally, even though Creed was angled more as a sports drama.

Black Panther works as both a comic book adaptation and an ambitious social commentary drama.

They never lived anywhere: the protagonists of this drama of marital stalemate embody a widespread social institution without ever reminding us of Earth as we know it.

Unusually for a drama about suffocating social and emotional repression, Disobedience lavishes attention on religious concerns; it paints Dovid as a largely sympathetic character, a man in a spiritual crisis.

Shortly after FOX announced last week that there would no fourth season of the Tom Ellis - led supernatural drama «Lucifer,» a #SaveLucifer campaign was launched as fan reaction to the cancellation stormed social media.

Pattinson, the British star of Twilight, tops the bill in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, tipped as one of the key titles to screen, while Efron takes the lead in Paperboy, the new film from Lee Daniels, whose social drama Precious was a sleeper hit two years ago.

Molly's Game (***) Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Social Network) marks his directing debut with this tense crime / drama / thriller about Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), a young woman who turns a job as a personal assistant to an obnoxious young boss into a proprietor role, organizing high - stakes Hollywood poker games that make her wealthy and hounded by the FBI.

As might be expected from a man known for detail - oriented TV dramas, The Company Men has an insider feel when it comes to how corporate layoffs work and how they affect workers of differing ages and social backgrounds.

A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, Safe functions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self - help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you can not see.

If Carry On ever decided to remake the Pink Panther series as a social - realist drama this well could be the end product, a warped farce of a farce that doesn't quite know what it is.

Both principal actors have a strong enough sense of their characters, even as they're pulled into increasingly harrowing places, to make the film a more successful one than Loach's last few, but it's still schematic and predictable, and it aggressively stacks the deck against Blake and Kattie in a way that makes it more effective as social activism, and less so as drama.

Coming from the US, I take as much as I can from films that depict a culture I am unfamiliar with, but having the opportunity to discuss the technique and story of a French drama with someone who is more than familiar with the director's work and the social commentary surrounding a film brings about a whole new understanding and experience from what I initially left the theater with.

Jason Statham takes a darker role than usual in a gritty London drama that never quite seems sure of itself, as writer - turned - director Knight mashes several huge social issues with a hint of action and a...

«THE SOCIAL NETWORK» (2010) Timberlake's best live - action performance to date comes from this Facebook origin drama — as Napster founder Sean Parker.

As the fictional landscape designer Sabine de Barra, hired to create the Rockwork Grove amphitheater at Versailles, she stands in defiance of social and aesthetic convention even while the film itself never bursts its staid costume - drama seams.

Winner of Best Picture Awards at numerous international film festivals including Sydney, Berlin and Fajr in its native Iran, as well as the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, the film is an intimate drama about conflict within and between two families of vastly different social and economic standings.

«The Social Network», David Fincher's incisive drama about the tangled creation of Facebook, dominated the 2010 awards of the Toronto Film Critics Association, winning five awards including Best Picture and Best Director.Jesse Eisenberg was named Best Actor for his performance as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, while his co-star Armie Hammer took Best Supporting Actor for -LSB-...]

John Derek co-starred in Ray's 1949 social drama Knock on Any Door and plays a variation of the same role as Davey Bishop, a young man orphaned as a child and raised by the community, passed around among the families of his small town of Madison.

David Fincher directs this social drama from a script by Aaron Sorkin titled The Social Network, with Jesse Eisenberg starring as Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckesocial drama from a script by Aaron Sorkin titled The Social Network, with Jesse Eisenberg starring as Facebook co-founder Mark ZuckeSocial Network, with Jesse Eisenberg starring as Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Getting cast in one of John Ridley's politically charged dramas comes with one caveat: Social engagement and open - mindedness are weighed as much as an authentic embodiment of his characters.

«The Social Network,» the acclaimed drama about how Harvard computer nerds created the social networking site Facebook, had been the front - runner during the awards season, winning countless critics honors, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn., New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics awards as well as the Golden Globe for dramaticSocial Network,» the acclaimed drama about how Harvard computer nerds created the social networking site Facebook, had been the front - runner during the awards season, winning countless critics honors, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn., New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics awards as well as the Golden Globe for dramaticsocial networking site Facebook, had been the front - runner during the awards season, winning countless critics honors, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn., New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics awards as well as the Golden Globe for dramatic film.

Among the highlights include the world premiere of Chris Evans» directorial debut «Before We Go» (formerly «1:30 Train»), dueling Anna Kendrick films in dark drama «Cake» and musical adaptation «The Last Five Years,» ensemble comedy «This is Where I Leave You» starring Corey Stoll, Adam Driver and more, Jason Reitman's «Men, Women and Children» with Ansel Elgort, Kaitin Dever and others, and «99 Homes,» Ramin Bahrani's financial world set drama which also serves as the first film outside of «The Amazing Spider - Man» franchise for Andrew Garfield since «The Social Network.»

HONORABLE MENTIONS: ANIMATION «Kubo and the Two Strings» — Laika's most daring, innovative film yet «My Life as a Zucchini» — About little kids but not for little kids; a bold, 70 - minute feature from Switzerland «Sing» — Delightful and triumphant, with terrific voice performances and song renditions «Trolls» — I can't stop the positive feelings I've had about this DreamWorks musical since I saw it 3 months ago «Zootopia» — Disney's live - action crime drama / social commentary disguised in animated form has one of the year's best screenplays

Some authors have pointed to a distinct house style in the 1930s (see Thomas Schatz and Paul Grainge), when MGM's Leo the Lion symbolized the opulence and grandeur of musicals (The Brodway Melody of 1938) and epics (Mutiny on the Bounty); Warner Bros. distributed «gritty,» social dramas and gangster films; Universal produced low - budget horror films (Dracula); and Paramount's distinctly «European» flavor, employing emigree directors such as Josef von Sternberg and Ernst Lubitsch.

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As he proved in 1999's underrated war drama / western / satire / heist / action film / comedy / political thriller / social conscience movie Three Kings, Russell is a master at defying genre.

This three - disc set boxes up Shoot First, Die Later (1974), a ruthless crime drama starring Luc Merenda as a corrupt cop on a mission of righteous vengeance (previously released as a stand - alone disc), with two disc debuts: Naked Violence (1969), a juvenile delinquent cop drama by way of social commentary, and Kidnap Syndicate (1975), a revenge thriller with Merenda, this time playing an innocent bystander roused to take justice into his own hands.

It's one of the most Germanic of Lang's American movies, one of the strongest social message dramas of the»30s, and as obvious a precursor of»40s film noir as Lang's 1931 masterpiece «M.» With Walter Brennan, Bruce Cabot, Walter Abel and Frank Albertson.

This year's best screenplay award is a tie, with Nader Saeivar winning for her work on Jafar Panahi's 3 Faces, in which the director and actress Behnaz Jafari travel to the Iranian countryside in search of a distressed teenaged girl; and Alice Rohrwacher, for Happy as Lazzaro, the tale of a simpleton that blends magic realism and social drama.

Best known for his acting credits, including In America and the cocky detective in Hot Fuzz, Paddy Considine elevates the British social drama into something more than your average miserable affair, tapping into the grandeur of Western archetypes as Joseph (I am sure there is a biblical parable in there somewhere as well) tries to do one right thing in a maddening world.

The social metaphor is as bold as the title suggests, but the drama is painted in muted, human tones and detailed strokes of pain.

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).

Both were earnest, thoughtful social dramas that posited them as a young, two - headed John Sayles.

Never released on VHS, rarely seen on TV or cable (and even then only in pan-and-scan versions) or revived in the dwindling repertory circuit, this film has not received its due as a masterpiece of American social drama in large part because it's been so damnably difficult to see.

It works as a murder mystery, a comedy of manners, a human drama, and a social commentary simply by providing a rich tapestry of characters and relationships, status and class.

Pam Grady: Diary of a Teenage Girl star Bel Powley adds further evidence that she is one of the most talented actors working today with a pitch - perfect performance as a precocious adolescent, a recent Harvard graduate, grappling with social isolation, troubling memories, and long - standing family drama in this character - driven drama.

The film, directed by acclaimed theater director Matthew Warchus (who just this week was appointed Kevin Spacey «s successor as the artistic director of the Old Vic Theater in London), has that mix of social issues drama, culture clash, old people doing unlikely things, and Bill Nighy that so often proves a middlebrow crowd - pleaser.

The slow burn of drama, the crisply printed words, the flash of the screen as you share a particularly moving passage on social media.

You get «social media» followers for all your matches, and you do get choices as to who you want to face, but there is no drama here.

Imitation of Life considers the context of racial politics over the last fifteen years in the US and Europe, focusing on artists whose work uses (melo) drama as a form of social, political and institutional critique.

Jill Mulleady (b. 1980) will treat Freedman Fitzpatrick's booth as a stage for a social drama enacted through a set of six new paintings that create a mise - en - scène.

She has wide experience of teaching and lecturing in drama, dramatherapy and speech communication, and has also worked as a child psychotherapist, family therapist and dramatherapist for Social Services and NHS Trusts.

The techniques offered in Evocative Strategies in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy are informed by an integration of psychoanalytic and attachment theories and can be integrated into a variety of therapy methods including evidenced - based cognitive - behavioral, social learning, family systems, emotion - focused, Ericksonian, solution - focused approaches, gestalt, psychodynamic, narrative approaches, play therapy, and creative arts therapies such as art, music and drama.