Sentences with phrase «drama as a genre»
It might be time for the film industry to investigate the thriller / cop - drama as a genre.
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Interactive drama as a genre lends itself to thriller and horror style games because of the nature investment in the characters and their development.
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Nor are there separate articles on literary forms and genres» such as fiction, drama, poetry» all of which have gone through interesting and important changes and developments in Islamic lands in the modern period.
Also known as: Marriage Over Love Marriage Without Love Marriage Without Dating Let's Get Married: Genre: Romance Comedy Drama: Written by: Joo Hwa - mi Marriage Contract: Episode 5 by LollyPip.
Also known as: Marriage Over Love Marriage Without Love Marriage Without Dating Let's Get Married: Genre: Romance Comedy Drama: Written by: Joo Hwa - mi
Title: 후아유 / Hoo Ah Yoo; Genre: Fantasy, romance, horror, melodrama, mystery, thriller, action; Episodes: 16; Broadcast network: tvN Ji Jin - Hee (June 24, 1971), or Jin - Hee Ji, is a South Korean actor best known for his roles as lead actor in various South Korean drama series, which
Title: 지금은 연애중 / Jigeumeun Yeonaejung; Also known as: Dating Now; Genre: Drama, romance; Episodes: 16; Broadcast network: SBS (Redirected from We are Dating Now) We Are Dating Now is a 2002 South Korean television series starring Chae Rim and So Ji - sub.
Title: 지금은 연애중 / Jigeumeun Yeonaejung; Also known as: Dating Now; Genre: Drama, romance; Episodes: 16; Broadcast network: SBS
Genre: Drama Question: How many of you consider your pets as family members and not just animals?
This is both a reminder of British sexual mores in the darker days of the Fifties and one of the first attempts in a genre that was later referred to as kitchen - sink drama.
I don't like musicals except those that are diegetic (great movies like «Purple Rain», «Saturday Night Fever», «American Graffiti» are naturalistic music driven dramas not fantastical as is the traditional sense of the genre) but saw this as
I don't like musicals except those that are diegetic (great movies like «Purple Rain», «Saturday Night Fever», «American Graffiti» are naturalistic music driven dramas not fantastical as is the traditional sense of the genre) but saw this as a consolation on the day, so if you like musicals this might be your cup of tea.
Undervalued as a genre filmmaker and perhaps overexposed as the standard - bearer of «serious» Hollywood filmmaking, Spielberg's most vexing feature may be the double - edged hyper - reality that his best tricks bring to bear on historical drama.
This decade has seen a significant increase in what can only be described a «prestige genre,» a Sci - Fi or Fantasy film that is treated as serious drama and, usually, with a distinctly more artistic vision than traditional commercial fare.
The drama received a straight - to - series order from HBO, and has been pitched as «an anthological horror series that reclaims genre storytelling from the African - American perspective.»
Language: English Genre: Drama / Biography MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Taylor Hackford Actors: Jamie Foxx, Regina King, Harry J. Lennix Plot: The biopic of Ray Charles, from childhood to success as a musician.
Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG Director: John Frankenheimer Actors: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter Plot: As an inmate at Leavenworth prison, Robert Stroud has a series of confrontations with the guards and with the other convicts.
Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Bill Pohlad Actors: Paul Dano, John Cusack, Elizabeth Banks Plot: Follows the life of reclusive «Beach Boy» Brian Wilson - from he early years as an influential musician, through his nervous breakdown and relationship with controversial therapist Dr. Eugene Landy and redemption with his wife Melinda.
Language: English Genre: Drama / Biography MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Ron Howard Actors: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany Plot: A genius mathematician takes a job as a code breaker during the cold war where he recluses himself to those around him, including his wife.
Language: English Genre: Drama / Biography MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Ron Howard Actors: Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti Plot: The Biography of James Braddock as he boxed his way through the depression to face off against boxing champion Max Baer.
Language: English Genre: Drama / Biography MPAA rating: G Director: Fred Zinnemann Actors: Orson Welles, John Hurt, Paul Scofield Plot: The struggle of Thomas More to stand up to the corrupt king as a divorce is decreed and rejected.
Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG Director: Michael Apted Actors: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm Plot: Autobiography of country music legend Loretta Lynn as she rises from poverty and homemaking to face the uphill battle of making it in the industry.
Language: English Genre: Drama / Biography MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Garth Davis Actors: Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Nicole Kidman Plot: As a five - year - old, young Saroo finds himself alone on the bustling streets of Calcutta, separated from his family and far from home.
Genre exercises, moral parables, inter-generational dramas, naturalist kid movies — all have had as their theme the gap between working and upper classes, the benefits of opportunity and the toll of its absence.
Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Steven Spielberg Actors: Daniel Day - Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones Plot: Steven Spielberg's long - in - the - work biography of the sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, as he presides over nation, and family, during the Civil War.
The YA novel explosion over the past few years has seen the genre blow up at the box office, with sci - fi action dramas such as Twilight, The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner pulling in big business.
Language: English Genre: Drama / Biography MPAA rating: R Director: Martin Scorsese Actors: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty Plot: A middle weight boxer, who is emotionally unstable, rises to the top over time, but takes a tumble as his life continues.
Ten years later, working from an adaptation of the caper novel by W.R. Burnett scripted in collaboration with the author, he essentially launched the heist film as a genre of its own and set the blueprint that all subsequent heist dramas built upon.
Invoking both Hitchcock's grasp of psychological drama and Spielberg's genre storytelling precision, producer JJ Abrams and first - time director Dan Trachtenberg don't so much forge a followup to but rather adopt as a reference point the 2008 found - footage monster movie Cloverfield.
Miike clearly enjoys shaking up movie genres, and the first half of this film is an impeccable samurai costume drama, as we learn about the characters and the politically charged situation through encounters that add increasing levels of urgency, plus a few grisly Miike touches.
We've seen variations on this before but acclaimed film - maker Cate Shortland, who gained plaudits for less genre - influenced dramas such as Somersault and Lore, manages to combine artful direction with seat - edge suspense, elevating the material to something quite special.
Following the success of 1971's Dirty Harry (a role The Duke turned down), Wayne set out to make his own modern Police dramas as the Western genre's peak had come and gone.
Despite devoting roughly half its running time to Ian and Sofi's relationship, I Origins is ultimately not a romance, or at least, not only a romance: As the plot advances, Cahill's film reveals new incarnations of itself in a variety of genre trappings — sci - fi parable, grisly medical drama, globe - trotting thriller, and even, in one bizarre and possibly genius scene, a Saw-esque horror flick.
Language: English Genre: Adventure / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Rob Reiner Actors: River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Kiefer Sutherland Plot: A group of young friends go on a journey from their home town to try to discover the missing body of a young boy as they encounter real life problems - they put their maturity to the test.
Jason Clarke and Blake Lively star in this genre bending psycho - sexual drama as a couple whose marriage is thrown out of balance when a new surgery allows Lively's character the ability to regain her eyesight.
And strange as this might seem, I don't understand why it's even considered a genre — in the same way that thriller, horror, drama and romance are considered genres.
Language: English Genre: Drama / Action MPAA rating: R Director: Quentin Tarantino Actors: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah Plot: The bride continues her vengeance against her old «tribe» as she battles her way through them one by one, in which none of them are easy.
As familiar with genre fare as straightforward drama, Mary Elizabeth Winstead tells SPINOFF abou kicking her career into a new gear with several intriguing projectAs familiar with genre fare as straightforward drama, Mary Elizabeth Winstead tells SPINOFF abou kicking her career into a new gear with several intriguing projectas straightforward drama, Mary Elizabeth Winstead tells SPINOFF abou kicking her career into a new gear with several intriguing projects.
Language: English Genre: Adventure / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Mel Gibson Actors: Mel Gibson, James Robinson, Brendan Gleeson Plot: Mel Gibson's first official movie as producer paints a tragic, and sometimes beautiful, picture of what sacrifices must be made for freedom.
And that's a shame, because the only outright drama that Miller made is as deft and compelling as his genre work, a tear - jerking true story about two parents giving up everything to find a cure for their son's disease.
For some Anglo - Saxon spectators who only discovered Assayas with Irma Vep (1996), a worn - out cliché reigns supreme — that there would be «two Olivier Assayas»: one exquisitely crafting intimate family or relationship dramas, such as Fin août, début septembre (Late August, Early September, 1998) or L'Heure d'été (Summer Hours, 2008); and one coining genre fictions sweeping several countries and dealing head - on with globalisation: demonlover (2002) or Boarding Gate (2007).
This decade has seen a significant increase in what can only be described a «prestige genre,» a Sci - Fi or Fantasy film that is treated as serious drama and, usually, with a distinctly more artistic vision than...
Language: English Genre: Adventure / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Ridley Scott Actors: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen Plot: Maximus, a general and friend of Caesar, is sold as a slave by the new emperor to protect his thrown from Maximus who is the chosen heir.
The film is the latest true - story based projected directed by Bennett Miller; part psychological drama / thriller, part sports drama, Foxcatcher reads as being a hybrid of genre tropes presents in Miller's previous biographical features, Capote and Moneyball.
A stark, brutal, yet tender prison drama starring Jack O'Connell as a violent inmate sent to the same lock - up as his jailbird father (Ben Mendelsohn), the film's shot through with a raw energy and authenticity that's closer to «A Prophet» than to most other British films in the genre, with Mackenzie making the movie feel like he's bottled up a hurricane of tension, which at any second could kick through the screen at you and hit you with a sock full of snooker balls.
As a family drama, The Black Balloon is a strong feature, though I am getting slightly tired of the genre's preponderance in the Australian film industry.
After her Academy Award - winning turn in the harrowing drama «Room,» the 27 - year - old actress has been sampling a string of new genres, from co-starring opposite a monster movie icon in the recent blockbuster «Kong: Skull Island» to her upcoming stint as a superheroine in Marvel Studios» «Captain Marvel.»
From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never seen and the drama is all in the conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades of film history and hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.
Language: English Genre: Action / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: John McTiernan Actors: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Irons Plot: McClane is back trying to stop terrorists, only this time he has to play games as a bomb squad with an unwanting friend (Jackson) around NYC.
The Assassin will mark Hou's first endeavor into the martial arts genre, as his career up until this point has been largely been composed of contemplative minimalist dramas.