Sentences with phrase «docudrama about»

Set in Paris in the early 1990s, this terrific drama is a large - canvas, richly coloured docudrama about the early members of the French branch of Act Up, the Aids activism group.

It shuttles between a portrait of a marriage, to docudrama about the filming of a masterpiece, to a deep examination of Hitchock's psyche through his conversations with the ghost of Ed Gein (really).

An analytical docudrama about the career of the superwholesome pop singer and her death as a result of her anorexia nervosa, the film uses Barbie - like dolls (not actual Barbie dolls, as is often reported) in dollhouselike settings to portray the Carpenter family.

Oliver Stone's docudrama about paralyzed Vietnam vet Ron Kovic, who tries to reconcile memories of his idealistic youth with his post-war disillusionment.

Compton is a docudrama about the creation of rap group N.W.A..

In the alternate moral universe of the Pusher trilogy, a micro-epic docudrama about the Copenhagen drug scene from Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, Frank (Kim Bodnia), the lowly dope dealer in the series» first entry, is correct: He didn't do anything wrong.

People v. the State of Illusion Former trial attorney Austin Vickers gathers some of the world's experts in this docudrama about stress, reality, perceptions, beliefs and imagination.

Jurgen Ureña's gentle, meditative docudrama about transsexual prostitutes is worthy of wider recognition.

«American Made» is the best - reviewed Tom Cruise movie in ages, a crackling, witty drug trade docudrama about a hot shot pilot who gets himself in the middle of the Iran / Contra Scandal, and Reagan Administration extra-legal shenanigans that flooded the country... Continue reading →

Clio Barnard's remarkable debut, which paved the way for the equally excellent The Selfish Giant, is an ambitious, experimental docudrama about playwright Andrea Dunbar.

Stephen Frears)-- World Premiere Stephen Frears (The Queen, Philomena) directs Ben Foster in this docudrama about disgraced cycling champion Lance Armstrong's doping scandal and downfall.

Rather than a United 93-esque docudrama about the landing, we open on its aftermath, with Sully and co-pilot Jeff Skiles (Aaron Eckhart) holed into the New York City Mariott hotel and wheeled out for a number of talk show appearances.

When I saw the advertisement for «An Adventure in Space and Time», I thought it was another «Doctor Who» special or documentary, I had no idea that it was a docudrama about the origin of the show itself.

For years, Steven Soderbergh was set on a docudrama about the affair between Liberace and his young lover, Scott Wilson, as his next feature film.

Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly and Karen Meagher, in a stunning debut performance, star in this graphic docudrama about the effects of a nuclear attack on the working - class city of Sheffield, England as the fabric of society unravels.

Daniel Radcliffe stars as Rockstar Games co-founder Sam Houser in the docudrama about the fight over «Grand Theft Auto» and sex and violence in video games.

This downbeat docudrama about the ravages of the crisis on a remote rural community is impressive for the dignified and unpretentious distance it assumes in respect to its characters.

The actor would star in the docudrama about the clashes between Rockstar Games co-founder Sam Houser and a lawyer who sought to ban violence in video games.

Nonetheless, it's a film worth mentioning more than once: Clio Barnard's remarkable debut, which paved the way for the equally excellent The Selfish Giant, is an ambitious, experimental docudrama about playwright Andrea Dunbar.

Roy directed the TV special An Evening at Dangerfield's, and later wrote and directed Burt's Bikers, a docudrama about Down's Syndrome children narrated by Academy Award winner Glanda Jackson.

This inventive, episodic indie about a Senegalese immigrant employed as a Seattle bike cop suggested interesting things to come from Devor, who proceeded to make an avant - garde docudrama about a man fucked to death by a horse.

Certainly those in the mood for hard - hitting docudrama about investigative journalism and its ethical tradeoffs, combining elements of «All the President's Men» and «The Year of Living Dangerously,» will also get their fix from «The Insider.»

German radicals Wilfried Bose (Daniel Bruhl) and Brigitte Kuhlmann (Rosamund Pike) foment a hostage crisis in «7 Days in Entebbe,» a docudrama about the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight ultimately grounded in Entebbe, Uganda.

Critic Consensus: Though its politics are as obvious as its outcome, American Violet is an earnest docudrama about the justice system with a powerful performance from Nicole Behairie.

It is a docudrama about the Nashville scene.

I personally loved lots of science and wildlife programmes, but I can link my own determination to go into research to a docudrama about the discovery of the structure of DNA.

Not exact matches

On its first night, the channel led with the satirical docudrama A Very Social Secretary about the affair between David Blunkett, the former British Home Secretary, and Kimberly Quinn.

The Disaster Artist deservingly stands in the great tradition of films about filmmaking, both doc and docudrama.

This docudrama re-creates events in the life of Jesus Christ and raises questions about the legitimacy of the famed Shroud of Turin.

A docudrama that may have an outcome we already know, but is a loud lesson about truth, justice and the Texas Way.

Recouping after 2010's annoyingly unfunny «Dinner for Schmucks» and returning to his political interests after his recent HBO docudrama «Game Change» about Sarah Palin, director Jay Roach and screenwriters Chris Henchy («The Other Guys») and Shawn Harwell (HBO's «Eastbound and Down») have no pretense of making a smart, spiky political satire with teeth.

Cool rationale over tired melodrama and methodical storytelling as opposed to cheap set pieces are the key factors in Steven Soderbergh's docudrama - thriller Contagion, a disturbingly realistic movie about a relentless viral outbreak that may do for sales of hand sanitizer and surgical masks what anthrax did for duct tape and plastic sheeting in the early... Continue reading →

The iconoclastic director has made presidential docudramas before (JFK and Nixon), but W. is the first about one still in office.

I Can Only Imagine (PG for mature themes and some violence) Faith - based docudrama chronicling the untold true story behind «I Can Only Imagine,» the band MercyMe's double - platinum hit about the power of forgiveness which became the best - selling, contemporary Christian song of all time.

I understand that the desire it to give the scene a docudrama sense (like The Bourne Effect), and there is some logic to film scenes about the aftermath of war that way, to draw connections to the wars and rebellions we've seen on TV and the internet.

The film is a hybrid — part western, part docudrama, part biopic about a young cowboy whose days on the rodeo circuit come to a crashing halt when he suffers a devastating injury.

Tracey Lockett is a hard - hitting, and, at times, harrowing docudrama, inspired by a true story about a young girl's experience of being blackmailed, bullied and physically assaulted through social networking sites.

Next up was the narrative feature The Creep Behind the Camera, an edgy dark comedy / docudrama that told the story about the making of The Creeping Terror, arguably the worst monster movie ever made.