Sentences with phrase «basic film drama»

Director and writer, Kenneth Lonergan, has a background as a playwright so I shouldn't be surprised that brooding drama and interpersonal look into the story's character's make for something more than the basic film drama.

Not exact matches

They are films that are either documentaries or real life dramas that take the basic true elements of a story and put it in a fictional setting.

It's not just the jarring score or the way Perry's camera lingers distrustfully on both Catherine and Virginia that make Queen of the Earth so evocative of its predecessors - Perry's film is more than the basic components of psychological drama.

While the basic premise is essentially your typical boxing plot, the film turns out to be very special due to the strong writing and superb acting, as well as a nicely paced drama directed by the extremely talented David O. Russell.

My biggest heros in this art are Bernard Herrmann («Psycho», «Taxi Driver», «Citizen Kane», «Vertigo») and Jerry Goldsmith («The Omen», «Poltergeist», «Basic Instinct»,» Papillon»), both of whom were pioneers in understanding the psychology of film and communicating drama through music, and I'm doing my best to follow in their example, and try to be one of the more considerate film composers out there... so, I was anxious to hear back if they agreed I hit the bullseye, blind.

The film works on three basic levels, as a comedy, a cat - and - mouse chase, and a family drama.

So perhaps Every Thing Will Be Fine is supposed to be the director's back - to - basics movie, putting him in the mode of the»50s Hollywood dramas (see: Alexandre Desplat's throwback score) that haunted his early German films like dreams — and maybe Wenders has just depleted whatever basics he could go back to.

To be fair, some aspects of his basic argument are sound — the term «adult film» is now exclusively related to... well, adult films of a more illicit nature, not mature dramas like Don't Look Now.