Sentences with phrase «drama film about»

I'm very excited to finally see The Rider, director Chloe Zhao's lauded docu - drama film about a down - on - his - luck rodeo man, which I've managed to miss at every other festival it's played at — and where it's steadily gained a reputation as one of the best films of the year.

The transgender drama film about artist Lili Elbe, which bowed this year in Venice, stars Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander.

Not exact matches

The White House's disclosure about the case helped keep allegations about the president and the adult film actress in the national spotlight for a second day and marked the latest twist in the ongoing legal drama over Daniels» efforts to abandon a confidentiality agreement.

We are not talking here about meaningful banality, but about the linguisticality of the world, a world overwritten with letters, refrains, myths, parables, poems, dramas, films, stories» the «linguistic event» that connects us with Being.

Meeting the Prefect of the CDF does have an agreeable sense of drama about it — the opening scenes of a film.

We also know that when Schneiderman finishes up another stressful day at the AG's office, he likes to kick his feet up and unwind with a nice historical drama film — preferably about WW II.

If you're in the mood for a drama filled film, think about going out with your friends to go see this flick.

Cast: Andrew Scott, Fiona Glascott, Tobias Menzies, Niall Buggy, Nicholas Rowe, Michelle Fairley, Debbie Chazen, Graham Turner, Jeremy Swift Director: Dover Koshashvili Summary: Chekhov's psychological insights and piercing humor illuminate the screen in this beautifully filmed drama about Laevsky (Andrew Scott), a narcissistic civil servant whose impetuous decision to leave his married mistress, Nadya (Fiona Glascott), sparks shocking reverberations.

It turns out the real question director Roland Emmerich's movie raises isn't about how much this film's pseudo-science teases us, but how much bad drama it's willing to blow our way.

More than that, despite the surplus of violence in the pilot film, it is refreshing to see a television drama about young people in which the protagonists are doing something besides drugs, in which their concerns run deeper than clothes and dates... It could get terrific.

Perhaps Jarecki could have completely discarded the facts of the Durst story and made a stronger film about family drama and possible insanity but the fact is that his subject matter ended his true story in such an unusual way that it doesn't necessarily support a dramatic retelling.

The low - wattage, high - concept psychological drama Man Down is too misbegotten to be rescued by Shia LaBeouf's Method lead performance; in fact, the most interesting thing about it is his masochistic commitment to the film.

Although billed as a romantic comedy, this film is neither: it's a drama spanning about two decades in a marriage

In its use of flippant humour to deal with dark subject matter, the film has a similar tone to that of the satirical 1990s Holly Hunter drama, The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader - Murdering Mom (based on a similar story about a mother accused of having her daughter's classmate bumped off to improve the daughter's chances of making the cheerleading team).

Speaking of Burton, forget the Jews, because this film really looks bad for atheists, as I can see some Bible thumper saying that the most inaccurate thing in this (Snicker, snicker) Biblical drama is Burton's character feeling guilty about killing Christ.

If you make a good film, then it's worthy of talking about, just as an indie drama that's up for Oscars is.

Until a cathartically violent ending, Pearce only sporadically brings Moll's anxieties to a proper boil, as this is a film about sexual fear that's skittish about mining the drama enacted by the central couple between the figurative sheets.

Olivier then becomes intensely curious about his new student... [/ font][font = Century Gothic][/ font][font = Century Gothic] «The Son» is a tense drama that is filmed with handheld cameras, so the viewer is looking at Olivier's point of view throughout the film.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

The aspect about the film is that it really could have been an outstanding drama, considering its subject.

Owned by Starz Media, Anchor Bay released a fairly dismal slate of films in 2011, with only drama Beautiful Boy (sort of an inferior, tamer version of We Need to Talk About Kevin) scoring favorable reviews from critics — and just barely.

Underneath the drama about the country - western music business and the election campaign of an unseen, independent (populist) party candidate, the multi-faceted, beautifully - structured film is an ensemble piece, a rich mosaic and a complex tapestry.

Nor does the film ever veer off into soapy drama: forget about any shock reveals or intrigues.

If what you want is to hear people talk about Petit (including Petit), you might as well buy a copy of the memoir upon which the «The Walk» is based, or watch James Marsh's great 2008 nonfiction film «Man on Wire,» which includes so many re-enactments that it's half a drama, anyway.

As for the portions that focus on Annie's personal dramas, it's not that they're not enjoyable rather that the parts that make due on the film's title are so immensely entertaining, you'll wish the entire film had been just that, about the bridesmaids.

How those two goals intermingle and conflict is a source of drama, but mostly this film is an endless series of scenes where white men bicker inside candlelit rooms about the fate of the nation and the foolhardiness of trying to get something like this passed.

Ramin Bahrani has enjoyed the praise of critics for each of his first three films (Man Push Cart 71, Chop Shop 83, Goodbye Solo 89), so expectations were high for his latest, an Iowa farm - set drama about a family's struggles with each other and the American Dream.

A charming, witty, passionate romantic drama about a love transcending space and time, Somewhere In Time is an old - fashioned film in the best sense of that term.

A cross between François Truffaut's sometimes - harrowing dramas about childhood and a Steven Spielberg fantasy, Gondry's film abounds with sentiment - without falling prey to sentimentality.

Of the world premieres, the major gets for Toronto include Freeheld, Peter Sollett's LGBT drama starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page; Stonewall, Roland Emmerich's drama about the birth of the gay rights movement; Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van, which is rumored to feature an awards - worthy performance from Maggie Smith; Jay Roach's film Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston as the famed Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted in the 1940s; Terence Davies's anticipated follow - up to The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song; Charlie Kaufman's first stop - motion film, Anomalisa; and Eye in the Sky, Gavin Hood's thriller about piloted aircraft warfare, starring Aaron Paul and Helen Mirren.

While the film's melodramatic conclusion threatens to undo the goodwill of its first two thirds, it's mostly an intelligent, engaging, and sometimes darkly funny drama about the process — and cost — of 21st century warfare.

The festival programme continues until Sunday 20 November with a number of other film and documentary premieres, including Driving with Selvi, the story of a former child bride, who escapes her violent marriage and becomes South India's first female taxi driver and The Innocents a compelling French drama about a young doctor becoming the sole hope for an isolated convent.

Despite this being a film about Sherlock Holmes, the fact that it's not much of a mystery may disappoint die - hard fans, but as an astute drama it's more than worth a look because Ian McKellen...

It seems that lost in all the talk about computers, and space travel, and the harshness of space, etc., we have somehow lost the essential drama that is the centre of the film: Dave Bowman's existential condition as he stumbles into old age and is later transfigured once again into a child.

As for The Danish Girl, his timely period drama about the first known trans person, Focus Features — the company distributing the film — has by all accounts made the surprising decision to debut the film in Venice (it's listed as making a North American premiere in Toronto).

What begins as a stark study of the breakdown of a marriage in a small Russian city expands into a more languid, mysterious drama about disconnected lives and failed responsibilities, centered around a missing child whose disappearance haunts the film.

The film is Martin Scorsese's period drama Silence, about Jesuit priests facing persecution in 17th century Japan.

We don't get a whole lot of the comedy in the trailer, which makes the film seem like a fairly straightforward drama about a woman's spiritual battles.

Alas, my heart sank when I realized that the film I was about to see was not a remake of the 1995 forgotten Cindy Crawford - William Baldwin classic but a in fact change of pace low - key political drama from the go to high concept action film - maker of the past decade, Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr & Mrs Smith) focusing on the Plame Affair, one of the key scandals in recent American political history.

One quibble I have with the film is that it occasionally gets confused whether it wants to be a serious drama or a comedy - but that's just a minor complaint to be made about an otherwise tremendously effective film.

Brilliantly structured as a contemporary chamber drama about loving your neighbours in the first part and, in the second, as a dreamy silent film re-imagining of their heretofore unknown histories, this is the rare critical darling that's as warm as it is intelligent.

Yet the 2009 Oscars, for all their glitz and glamour, look likely to be remembered chiefly for their celebration of one film: a drama about homeless oprhans in one of the world's most impoverished regions.

Towne prepped what would have been a big - budget endeavor by helming the smaller - scale drama «Personal Best,» about female track - and - field athletes, but in order to be allowed to complete the film, Towne had to give Warner Bros. the rights to his beloved «Greystoke» script.

It's a powerful, provocative, ambitious drama set in the shadow of September 11, 2001, a marvelously messy film about the messiness of emotions and people and relationships, especially as they are tested in extreme circumstances.

I Love Dick, part autobiography, part meta - study of gender, is a love - triangle drama about a dissatisfied film - maker (Kathryn Hahn), her professor husband (Griffin Dunne) and the unnervingly charming Dick (Kevin Bacon), an infamous academic who neither of them can stay away from.

It Comes at Night: Director Trey Edward Schults follows his acclaimed drama «Krisha» with a horror film about an isolated family battling an unnatural force.

An important film for star Jennifer Aniston, showcasing a depth previously untapped, this quietly impactful comedy drama about small town disappointment also allowed Reilly to shine as her misunderstood husband.

The drama about the last chapter of a long marriage, which stars two veteran French actors (Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) and premiered at May's Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Palme d'Or), was claimed by Austria because the Academy's rules dictate that a film's nationality is dependent not on the language that is primarily spoken in the film or the origins of the stars, but rather on the origins of the majority of the film's principal behind - the - scenes talent — the writer, director, and producer.

EXCLUSIVE: Eye in the Sky — the drama about drone strikes — is so timely that distributor Bleecker Street is using President Barack Obama's speech about the new technology as the voice - over for the film's TV spot, which is debuting tonight during the Republican debate (watch it above).

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.