Sentences with phrase «autobiographical film»

The writer - director, Babak Shokrian, has made an erratic autobiographical film about juggling artistic ambitions and family expectations in L.A.'s close - knit Iranian Jewish community.

The Big Red One is Fuller's most autobiographical film, at once an old - fashioned war thriller and a portrait of the insanity and senseless destruction of combat, and the most expensive and ambitious production of his career.

Davies made his reputation with a series of autobiographical films — the two distributed in the States were «Distant Voices, Still Lives» and «The Long Day Closes» — that were as brutally depressing as they were aesthetically striking.

Charlotte Prodger Artforum International; March 1, 2016; Long, Declan; 700 + words TEMPLE BAR GALLERY & STUDIOSCharlotte Prodger's Stoneymollan Trail, 2015, the sole work in her first Dublin show, is a dense, elliptical, fitfully autobiographical film essay.

Charlotte Prodger: Temple Bar Gallery & Studios Artforum International; March 1, 2016; Long, Declan; 700 + words DUBLIN Charlotte Prodger TEMPLE BAR GALLERY & STUDIOS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Charlotte Prodger's Stoneymollan Trail, 2015, the sole work in her first Dublin show, is a dense, elliptical, fitfully autobiographical film essay.

Again (like my last year's Number 1 The Tree of Life) a very personal, obviously autobiographical film.

Apatow pours much of himself into the no - doubt somewhat autobiographical film, and it's telling that he casts his own wife, Mann, and two daughters in the movie.

In Carla Simon's touching autobiographical film, six - year - old Frida (Laia Artigas) looks on in silence as the last objects from her recently deceased mother's apartment in Barcelona are placed in boxes.

A largely autobiographical film based on the real - life events of its two central actors and screenplay writers, Valérie Donzelli and Jérémie Elkaïm, Declaration of War is a brave piece of filmmaking that deals with a young couple Romeo (Elkaïm) and Juliette (Donzelli) whose life is turned inside out when their two - year - old baby boy, Adam, is diagnosed with a brain tumour.

The Festival also presented tributes to director Catherine Hardwicke, with a screening of her latest film Miss You Already; acclaimed actor Sir Ian McKellen; and Oscar ® - winning documentarian Marcel Ophuls, with autobiographical film Ain't Misbehavin».

His comments about the actors are interesting, as are some of his personal asides about how autobiographical the film is.

Spanning the two Lower East Side venues that make up Downs & Ross (formerly Tomorrow Gallery and Hester, respectively), Crespo's solo exhibition explores the artist's unique, deep - seated relationship to these conjoined twins with a feature - length autobiographical film, prints on stretched satin, and translucent window - hung pieces featuring naturalistic digital renderings of the Hensels that the artist drew using a tablet.

Emin released few autobiographical films, focusing on her troubled childhood and teenage years.

Tris Vonna - Michell's weirdly rambling, surging, and digressive autobiographical film - cum - slideshows would work better as radio or as a kind of stand - up monologue, in the manner of the late Spalding Gray.

The first segment also recalls his 1985 autobiographical film about his adolescence, A Time to Live and a Time to Die, the second recalls his 1998 Flowers of Shanghai (set in a ritzy Shanghai bordello during the 1880s), and the third his 2001 Millennium Mambo (a mainly contemporary film starring Shu Qi).

A Serious Man is the Coens» most autobiographical film to date, and their most emphatically, if not always flatteringly, Jewish.

Davies — who began his career as a master of autobiographical films but has since shifted to very personal literary adaptations like The House Of Mirth and The Deep Blue Sea — has zero intention of bringing this world to life.

Like his earlier shorts, Distant Voices was an autobiographical film about growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s, beautiful but somber and almost heartbreaking in its portrait of a family living in fear of its angry, alcoholic father.

Ingmar Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander as his swan song, and it is the legendary director's warmest and most autobiographical film, a four - time Academy Award — winning triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality.

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.

Almost Famous was his most autobiographical film.

Suffused with both enchantment and melancholy, this autobiographical film takes on the perspective of a quiet, lonely boy growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s.

The truth is, no matter how well - intentioned and autobiographical this film may be, it is constructed in a most clumsy manner.

Mor, focusing on Kozyra's project for an autobiographical film, will be juxtaposed with her ongoing project Looking for Jesus, a documentary film in which Kozyra is not an actor, but a spectator who investigates the effects and «faces» of the Jerusalem syndrome through the eyes and actions of people who believe themselves to be present - day Messiahs.

The other shortlisted artists were Canadian - born printmaker Ciara Phillips, Tris Vonna - Michell, who made an autobiographical film called Finding Chopin: Dans l'Essex, and James Richards, who made Rosebud, a film bearing the show's only content warning, which mingled monochrome images of a budgie on a chain, censored photos from Japanese library books and small flowers caressing a man's penis and sphincter.

Although writer / director Woody Allen has long maintained that Annie Hall wasn't an autobiographical film about his relationship with star Diane Keaton, she claimed otherwise.

Although writer / director Woody Allen has long maintained that Annie Hall wasn't an autobiographical film about his relationship with star Diane Keaton,