Sentences with phrase «docudrama with»

Now in his third docudrama with director Peter Berg — after starring roles in «Lone Survivor» and «Deepwater Horizon» that showed less versatility than virtual interchangeability — Mark Wahlberg is not quite the hero of «Patriots Day.»

It is a great docudrama with great performances by Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi, both of whom may get Oscar nominations for Lead and Supporting roles.

Critic Consensus: In Cold Blood is a classic docudrama with a fictional thriller's grip — and a pair of terrific lead performances from Robert Blake and Scott Wilson.

Critics Consensus: In Cold Blood is a classic docudrama with a fictional thriller's grip — and a pair of terrific lead performances from Robert Blake and Scott Wilson.

Not exact matches

An international furor has erupted over the Oscar - bound docudrama «Hilary and Jackie,» with friends and musical colleagues of the late cellist Jacqueline du Pre condemning the highly acclaimed drama as...

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 LGBT - based docudrama was aired with the intention to bring attention to the struggles of closeted young adults in North America.

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's a heady, jam - packed docudrama that, with confidence and great filmmaking verve (though not what you'd call an excess of nuance), tells a vital American story of history, journalism, politics, and the way those things came together over a couple of fateful weeks -LSB-...]

In pushing the film into gonzo - style comedy instead of melodrama or pure docudrama, Gillespie successfully navigates a very tricky line — this is, after all, a story filled with domestic abuse and violence, something that shouldn't be played for laughs but is also not the focus of the story.

But he's unlikely to set the Berlinale competition on fire with this ponderous, sometimes ludicrous, number that goes through all the docudrama motions to pretty flat effect.

Synopsis: Director Richard Linklater teams with writer Skip Hollandsworth for this darkly comic docudrama detailing the unusual friendship between a likable... [MORE]

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

It's a heady, jam - packed docudrama that, with confidence and great filmmaking verve (though not what you'd call an excess of nuance), tells a vital American story of history, journalism, politics, and the way those things came together over a couple of fateful weeks in the summer of 1971.

The movie is shot in a raw, TV docudrama - like street style with abrupt and constricted camera movement and shifting points of view.

Critic Consensus: Kate Plays Christine blurs genres — and the line between fact and reality — with a cleverly provocative docudrama look at newscaster Christine Chubbuck's life and death.

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.

Dramatic momentum is sacrificed in the scrambled script (based on journalist Bryan Burrough's book and written by Mann with Ann Biderman and Ronan Bennett), which attempts to blend docudrama, social history and fanciful romance.

That's not to say the performance wasn't great and that the film wasn't one of the best of the year — it just wasn't the type of film that garners awards for its actors as it was far more concerned with docudrama authenticity than it was with giving its actors full - bore characters to develop.

Boyle, the visionary behind Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and his Oscar - winning Slumdog Millionaire, pumps every frame of 127 Hours with cinematic adrenaline that declares war on the dull gravity of docudrama.

Music Within (R for profanity, sexual reference and drug use) Docudrama chronicles the true story of Richard Pimentel (Ron Livingston) a severely hearing - impaired Vietnam vet who returns from the war to dedicate his life to speaking out on behalf of Americans with disabilities.

The film is marred by a visually static format — it mostly consists of a long interview with each of the two principals — and by its cheesy spy - movie score and docudrama reenactments.

This competent unauthorised docudrama interweaves the stories of the CIA's trackers and the Navy Seals who carried out the attack on the Bin Laden compound and also deals with their local Pakistani assistants who got thrown to the lions.

I'm not a fan of docudramas, but with Citizen Lane I'll make an exception.

It isn't surprising, then, to hear Mann discuss that film in docudrama terms with lots of talking and exposition.

British director Paul Greengrass helmed this gripping docudrama that mixes depictions of real - life events (with some of the actual participants) and a good amount of believable and terrifying speculative fiction.

At Venice, Oli found that the film kicks off with «an almost docudrama - like feeling to proceedings,» before a second half that «shifts effortlessly into a portrait of guilt.»

A made - for - TV docudrama that breeds Edward Dmytryk's The Caine Mutiny with Rob Reiner's A Few Good Men, A Glimpse of Hell impresses only with its dedication to mediocrity.

However, even they are sure to walk away from the theater unsatisfied with a movie that noticeably lacks the only real ingredient these affirmational Young Adult docudramas need to be successful: the slightest hint of sincerity.

This geographic intimacy is captured vividly by cinematographer Hélène Louvart, who also shot «The Wonders» and documentaries «Pina» and «The Beaches of Agnès,» (among others; whether capturing a boardwalk fireworks show or the thick clouds of a vape bar, «Beach Rats» has an experiential, almost docudrama aesthetic whose lived - in authenticity is in keeping with that of the film as a whole.

One Day You'll Understand (Unrated) Holocuast docudrama, based on Jerome Clement's autobiographical novel, set in the Eighties, recounting a Frenchman's (Hippolyte Girardot) obsession with determining what happened to his Jewish grandparents who perished in a concentration camp during World War II.

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.

This tick - tock docudrama, which re-teams the director with Hanks while adding a game Meryl Streep to the mix for the first time, isn't exactly front - page material.

Bigelow and Boal have even handily bested that fine previous effort with a masterful bit of docudrama worthy of the historical significance it will forever hold.

Grittily and realistically photographed by Rachel Morrison with a fly - on - the - wall docudrama approach, «Fruitvale Station» is vivid and compelling alone as a slice - of - life leading up to the fateful moment.

There are some early scenes in Somalia that are obviously fictionalized, set up to draw a contrast between the environs of the Somalis with that of Americans, which makes Captain Phillips more a Hollywood story based on a real life event than a docudrama.

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

Director Paul Greengrass has a knack for dramatizing real - life events (as evidenced in «Bloody Sunday» and the excellent «United 93»), and that success continues with «Captain Phillips,» throwing the audience right into the middle of the action docudrama - style in order to best capture the intensity of the situation.

None of Meryl Streep's vehicles have entered the cultural lexicon with quite the same measure of gleefully ubiquitous parody that has surrounded and even overshadowed Fred Schepisi's 1988 docudrama

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).

«The Railway Man» was also adapted in 1995 for the British television documentary and docudrama series, «Everyman», with an episode called «Prisoners in Time».

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It is a sort of docudrama following the Moss family through their daily life of commutes and gymnastic classes and shopping at the power center, with commentary by the always articulate planner Ken Greenberg, new urbanist Andreas Duany, philosopher Mark Kingwell and, of course, Jim Kunstler at his best.