Sentences with phrase «autobiographical film about»

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.

Another autobiographical film about the war, John Boorman's «Hope and Glory,» detailed the experience of his family in suburban London during the Blitz and garnered five Academy Award nominations, including best picture.

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).

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Told in flashback, the film consists of Chaplin's responses to questioning by fictional publisher George Hayden, who wants to know about the parts left out of the legend's autobiographical book.

Sadly, the film, which was adapted by The Artist's Michel Hazanavicius from Wiazemsky's autobiographical novel Un An Après, seems more interested in pastiching Godard's own movies than saying anything interesting about the couple.

When prompted about her directorial debut, Chocolat (1988), Denis details some of the autobiographical connections between the film and her personal history but also amusingly reveals her distaste for a certain bit of «bullshit» dialogue.

An audio commentary with writer / director Mike Mills and a 15 - minute making - of featurette talk about the autobiographical nature of the film.

Wong: I wouldn't really say I'm a grandmaster, so there's nothing autobiographical about the film.

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

There were many incredible submissions, but we could only pick 3 winners: The first prize went out to UCLA TFT student Mark Columbus for The Battle of the Jazz Guitarist, an autobiographical short film about the complicated relationship between father and son.