Sentences with phrase «drama about the journalists»
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Steven Spielberg's exhilarating drama «The Post» is about a subject that's dear to the heart of journalists: themselves!
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INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Hunting Party (Unrated) Fact - based drama about the return to Bosnia of three journalists (Richard Gere, Terrence Howard and Jesse Eisenberg) five years after the ethnic cleansing to track down the most wanted war criminal (Ljubomir Kerekes) still at - large.
Stewart decision to make a drama about the imprisonment of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari — who fielded questions alongside him, as did the Mexican actor who plays him, Gael Garcia Bernal — was instigated when an appearance Bahari made in a filmed comedy sketch on «The Daily Show» was used against him when the Islamic regime accused him of being a traitor and American secret agent.
Needless to say, a historical drama directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep is pretty much the Platonic ideal of awards season wild cards, even before you factor in the extent to which a movie about the journalists who declassified the Pentagon Papers might dovetail with current events (every vote is a vote against «fake news»).
, COWBOYS, the directorial debut of Jacques Audiard's A Prophet and Rust and Bone co-writer Thomas Bidegain; the breathtaking ethnographic Colombian Amazon odyssey EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT; James Ponsoldt's THE END OF THE TOUR starring Jason Segel as writer David Foster Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky in this engrossing two - hander; Writer - Director Jayro Bustamante's IXCANUL VOLCANO, the European Premiere Stevan Riley's enthralling Marlon Brando documentary LISTEN TO ME MARLON; Jia Zhangke's ambitious, astute and humane MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART; the European Premiere of Sylvia Chang's often - ethereal magic - realist drama love story, MURMUR OF THE HEARTS; the European Premiere of THE NEW CLASSMATE about a single mum in India battling to ensure her daughter's future; SEMBÈNE!
Out of the competition, the international highlights were El Clan (The Clan, Pablo Trapero), an effective if derivative Argentinian political drama / gangster film heavily influenced by Scorsese's Goodfellas; L'avenir (Things to Come, Mia Hansen - Løve), a fine if rather low - key drama helped enormously by Isabelle Huppert's lead performance; and, best of all, Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine, a truly disturbing mixture of fiction and documentary concerning the attempt to make a movie about the tragic suicide of Florida journalist Christine Chubbuck, who shot herself on live television back in 1974.
Best Drama: The Shape of Water Best Comedy: I, Tonya Best Horror or Science Fiction Film: Get Out Best Action Film: Star Wars: The Last Jedi Best Actor: Daniel Kaluuya for Get Out Best Actress: Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water Best Director: Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water Best Experimental Film: Faces Places Most Underrated Film: Brigsby Bear Worst Film of the Year: The Mummy About the Internet Film Critic Society The Internet Film Critic Society is an international association of online film critics and journalists.
Heartfelt lessons about bullying and self - esteem are shoehorned into a contrived and predictable narrative structure in this mildly nostalgic coming - of - age drama adapted from a novel by journalist Robert Lipsyte.
And the studio is clearly being preemptive about avoiding drama this year, pulling «Three Billboards» from a planned opening night Fantastic Fest screening amid discord over the employment of a controversial former journalist.
Sarah's Key (PG - 13 for mature themes and disturbing images) Holocaust drama, set in present - day Paris, about an investigative journalist's (Kristin Scott Thomas) research the story of how the family of a 10 year - old girl (Melusine Mayance) was torn asunder by the roundup of Jews in occupied France during World War II.
Billions, a drama series about power politics set in New York City's present - day financial industry, is written and executive - produced by Brian Koppelman and David Levien (Ocean's Thirteen), and financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin.
I'll be visiting several countries from five continents from the comfort of a cosy cinema screen in London — to South Africa for John Trengove's drama set amongst, and starring members of, the Eastern Cape's Xhosa tribe, The Wound; to Afghanistan for radio journalist Sonia Kronlund's profile of the country's most popular movie personality, Salim Shaheen, in The Prince of Nothingwood, and to Chile for A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio's critically - praised movie about a bereaved transgender woman.
Warren Beatty's drama about the radical journalist John Reed has an unusual twist.
Sound of My Voice (Unrated) Mind control drama about an investigative journalist (Christopher Denham) who, with the help of his girlfriend (Nicole Vicius), infiltrates a religious cult only to fall under the spell of the charismatic leader (Brit Marling) he had hoped to expose as a charlatan.
About midway through Tom McCarthy's award - winning newspaper drama Spotlight, one of the film's crusading journalists makes a shocking discovery: Right down the block from where his children live and play is a rehab house for Catholic priests — a place, in other words, where disgraced clergymen lay low after the church...
I also flipped for an Austrian coming - of - age drama, and I can't stop thinking about two very upsetting films - one about a terrible shooting in Norway, the other about a journalist falling in love with an ISIS recruiter over the internet.