Sentences with phrase «directed film centers»

The Paul Weitz - directed film centers on a young writer who takes a job at a homeless shelter and discovers his long - absent father seeking a bed.

The Simon Curtis - directed film centers on Maria Altman (Mirren) who is on a mission to retrieve her family's possessions stripped from them by the Nazis in World War II with the help of a young lawyer, Randol Schoenberg (Reynolds).

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According to a study from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, the number of women directing films may actually be declining, with the top 250 highest - grossing domestic films going from 7 percent in 2015 to 5 percent in 2016 being directed by women.

The actor is set to star in a film directed by veteran stunt coordinator Nick Powell (The Bourne Identity, X-Men: The Last Stand, Cinderella Man), which centers on Frank Walsh (Cage), a big game hunter for zoos who has booked passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white jaguar.

Clooney proves again that he knows how to direct intelligent films that rely on a great dialogue, and this intriguing character study is gripping from the first scene to the last, centered on a brilliant political battle and with an intense performance by the always fantastic Ryan Gosling.

The film will center on a young drug - dealing informant and was originally set to be directed by «Oblivion» helmer Joseph Kosinski.

Mike White wrote and will direct the film, which centers on Brad, who despite a gainful career and happy home life, finds himself obsessed with his more successful former schoolmates.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Agnes Varda, the queen of the French new wave, directs the film, putting herself front and center with JR, a French muralist / photographer, as they travel across the French countryside, developing a beautiful friendship as they meet various locals, photographing them and putting their faces up in the most remarkable places along the way.

There are direct references to all sorts of films, each one hitting its mark with laughter; a certain dialogue exchange centered on Home Alone is a hoot.

The film, directed by Jordan Roberts, centers on an American 8 - year - old who declares to his parents that he is actually a Mongolian goat herder born in the wrong place.

For 2016, the new Antoine Fuqua - directed film stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Byung - hun Lee and centers around a group of outlaws, mercenaries, bounty hunters and gamblers who find themselves employed by the desperate townspeople of Rose Creek who are being overrun by a villainous industrialist (played, of course, by Peter Sarsgaard).

For 2016, the new Antoine Fuqua - directed film stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Byung - hun Lee and centers around a group of outlaws, mercenaries, bounty hunters and gamblers who find themselves employed by the desperate townspeople...

In the last few years we've seen quite a few films that center around a coming of age story with a female character, directed by a female director.

Hosted by the Gene Siskel Film Center, the month - long Chicago European Union Film Festival (CEUFF) featured 15 films directed by women (15 out of 62 = ~ 25 % = a record high for this event).

These films are all stories centered on the lives of women; each written by women (with one directed by a woman); and all starring cinematic female powerhouses like Blanchett, Streep, Mulligan, Lawrence, Mara, and Bonham Carter.

Eastwood directs the film which centers on the three men who managed to subdue a man who opened fire inside a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris.

The film is directed by Norwegian director Roar Uthaug, who previously released 2015's «The Wave,» a disaster film that centered on family drama and a tsunami.

That previous film, also directed by Malcolm Lee — cousin of Spike — centered on a group of twenty - somethings, friends since college, and their interactions at the wedding of Lance (Morris Chestnut) and Mia (Monica Calhoun).

The film, directed by Joey Ally, centers around a Korean nail salon and the drama that unfolds there.

Written and directed by Bobby Miller, the film stars Johnny Galecki, Anna Friel, Kyle Gallner, Anjelica Houston, and Oliver Platt; watch it here... «The Master Cleanse centers on a heartbroken man who attends a spiritual retreat, only to discover -LSB-...]

The Ava DuVernay - directed film snagged its lead back in July, when Storm Reid boarded the classic sci - fi tale as Meg Murry, the awkward - but - average girl at the center of all the space - time travel.

Alden Ehrenreich has been front and center in films directed by the Coen brothers and Warren Beatty, but he's about to be thrown into the global spotlight with the May release of «Solo: A Star Wars Story.»

The past few weeks has been a blessing for the upcoming release of Love, Simon (directed by Greg Berlanti), the new young - adult adaptation centered around Simon Spier and his one little secret that sets the film in motion.

«Take Shelter,» written and directed by Jeff Nichols, is a prescient film in this time of perpetual natural disasters, as it centers around a man preparing for a storm that may or may not come.

As for Richardson, he directs with his typical subtlety confident hand, smartly keeping Finney front and center at all times, staging a number of sensational sequences that are so gosh darn entertaining bringing up aspects of the film one doesn't particularly care for or tend to think are all that good ends up feeling like nothing short of a colossal waste of time.

The Wrap is reporting that the upcoming second Star Wars Anthology film, which will now not be directed by Josh Trank, will center around the beloved character, the intergalactic bounty hunter Boba Fett!

An American crime film directed by Scott Cooper («Out Of the Furnace»), «Black Mass» centers on the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who turned FBI Informant.

The Talent: This is the writing / directing debut of the film's helmer Randy Moore, with TV character actor Roy Abramsohn as the father at the center.

It's also worth noting that earlier Thursday, the San Diego State Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film released its annual report on the state of the film industry and found that the percentage of women directing films in the domestic top 205 for box office actually dropped in 2016, down from 9 to only 7 percent.

Written and directed by Larry Cohen (The Stuff), the 1974 horror film It's Alive centered on...

In this year's annual bid Kosovo Cinematography Center (KCC) supports 17 films, which consist of 7 features including The House produced by Bujar Kabashi, written and directed by Lendita Zeqiraj, known for her short Balcony.

Fresh from Melissa introducing the film at the Pickford Film Center in Bellingham, we talk about three versions of True Grit: the 1968 novel by Charles Portis, the 1969 film version directed by Henry Hathaway and starring John Wayne, Kim Darby and Glen Campbell, and the 2010 adaptation by the Coen Brothers, with Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld and Matt Damon.

Kurt Voelker (Park) wrote and will direct the film, which centers on a widower and his 17 - year - old son who move from a small northern California town to Los Angeles, where their lives are transformed by a wry old friend and two extraordinary women.

Art Basel Film Library In a dedicated film viewing room within the Miami Beach Convention Center's exhibition halls, an extended selection of over 120 selected works, also curated by Gryn, will be presented for individual, viewer - directed private screening.

In 1998, she founded Aurora Picture Show in Houston, Texas and directed the center for film, video and new media performance for 10 years.

At the center of this exhibition is The Task — a film directed by Ledare during a three - day conference that he organized in Chicago that was structured according to the Tavistock method — a project that involved recruiting 30 participants, securing the collaboration of 10 psychologists trained in the method, and directing a film crew.

He directed Reset, a short film played by Giovanni Ludeno and Carlo Cerciello, presented at Lincoln Center in New York and it was the winner of the famous Raindance Film Festival (London UK).

Dash Shaw (BFA 2005 Illustration) Author, animator and cartoonist; published works include Cosplayers 1 & 2, Doctors, New School, 3 New Stories, The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D., Bottomless Belly Button all published by Fantagraphics; New Jobs published by Uncivilized Books; BodyWorld published by Pantheon; Bottomless Belly Button was named Publishers Weekly's best graphic novel and one of Entertainment Weekly's top 10 books; New School was voted One the Best Books of 2013 by National Public Radio; animated short Seraph selected for 2013 Sundance Film Festival; animated series The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. aired on IFC.com (2009); solo exhibition of original writings and storyboards at Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center (2008); solo exhibition at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (2010); Harvey Award nominee: Best Graphic Album for Bottomless Belly Button (2009); Ignatz Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Story for Galactic Funnels (2008); drawings featured in the film Rabbit Hole (2010); Sundance Writing and Directing Labs Fellow (2010); Cullman Center Fellow (2014).