Sentences with phrase «drama film written»

Palme d'Or winner, The Square is a satirical drama film written and directed by Ruben Östlund and starring Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West and Terry Notary.

Synopsis: Kalakalappu 2 is an upcoming Indian Tamil - language comedy - drama film written and directed by Sundar C and produced by Kushboo, which is a sequel to the 2012 film Kalakalappu

Last Chance Harvey is a 2008 British - American romantic drama film written and directed by Joel Hopkins.

Black Snake Moan is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Craig Brewer, and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, and Justin Timberlake.

Sisters & Brothers is a 2011 Canadian drama film written and directed by Carl Bessai.

Not exact matches

The drama, opening in theaters Nov. 23, stars Warren Beatty, who also wrote and directed the film.

But APPJAG members also support UK film, drama, writing and other music genres.

For National Public Radio and LA Theater Works Alma performed in the radio versions of Zoot Suit and Nilo Cruz's Pultizer Prize winning play Anna in the Tropics opposite Jimmy Smits.As a 25 year member of El Teatro Campesino (ETC) founded by Luis Valdez, she has appeared in landmark ETC productions of; Zoot Suit, both the film and play (1979 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award - Best Play); Corridos, both the TV version (1987 Peabody Award) and play; I Don't Have to Show You Any Stinking Badges; and Mummified Deer (Back Stage West «Honorable Mention» for her role as Mama Chu), all written and directed by Valdez.Ms.

Skilfully written and directed, the film is an involving drama, even if it's overly worthy and sentimental.

The writing here is terrific, and the film is one of the most memorable and entertaining dramas in recent memory.

All in all a highly successful film, and recommended for anyone who wants a well made, smartly written comedic drama.

They always say «write what you know», and although I have no knowledge of Colangelo's background, either she lived in a place like this or she has the greatest imagination any filmmaker has ever had, because this film feels like a true story dripping with drama.

Written by Coogler and Joe Robert Cole (a veteran of Marvel Studios» bygone in - house writers program), Black Panther combines many of the best elements of MCU films past, including: the Shakespearean royal family drama of the Thor movies, the political thriller elements of Civil War and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and even the sci - fi tech aspects of the Iron Man films.

Kushner first encountered the challenge of fact - based drama when he wrote the screenplay for Spielberg's 2005 film «Munich,» which recounted the terrorist attacks at the 1972 Olympics and their aftermath.

Though Nashville won just a single Oscar and a single Golden Globe, each for Best Original Song (for «I'm Easy», written and performed by Carradine), it was nominated for five of the former and eleven of the latter, which even bestowed two nominations each on Tomlin and Blakley, actresses making their film debuts, while classifying the film as a drama (back when true musicals weren't so rare).

You're made aware a drama teacher has written the story as the film continues, especially through the emotive, yet seemingly action-less dialogue spoken.

After a stellar career in student drama at Oxford, he had joined the BBC, but he was soon also writing film criticism and, in 1956, was one of the founders, along with Karel Reisz and Lindsay Anderson, of the Free Cinema movement, espousing a cinema free of commercial and political constraints and using a personal style to capture working - class life and popular culture, which had been ignored by traditional British cinema.

What is more, the film brings a vivid immediacy to events which goes beyond anything on the written page, be it the face - to - face drama of Jed's dialogues with Joe (conducted in the novel mostly through letters and phone - calls), or the occasional brilliant reds (the balloon, blood, etc.) that flash from the film's otherwise subdued palette, signifying all at once eroticism, danger and passion with a visual economy reminiscent of the colour - codings of Zhang Yimou.

There is a very clear sense in which I am being unfair to The Congress as I am writing about a dramatic film rather than a philosophical essay but Folman's decision to critique dramatic artifice whilst engaging in dramatic artifice means that The Congress draws your attention away from the drama and towards the film's flawed philosophical argument.

Director Brad Furman's film, which John Romano wrote based on the Michael Connelly novel, has the slick, disposable feel of the sort of legal drama you could find any night of the week on primetime TV.

Based on a book with the same title written by Matthew Quick, the movie «Silver Linings Playbook» is a 2012 American rom - com drama that is written and directed by David O. Russell (also the director of the film «The Fighter», an Oscar - winning boxing drama).

Deadline writes that the one - hour drama will «honor the original film while adding its own unique brand of grit, pulp, sex and violence.»

Anyway, Open Road is on a roll — they already shared great success on The Grey, End of Watch, Chef and recently Nightcrawler, and their upcoming slate is looking good too, with Triple Nine, the upcoming crime - drama heist film directed by John Hillcoat and written by Matt Cook.

Written and directed by Chloe Zhao, this film is a «docu - drama» hybrid, meaning it's a fictional feature film but uses real documentary elements.

While the basic premise is essentially your typical boxing plot, the film turns out to be very special due to the strong writing and superb acting, as well as a nicely paced drama directed by the extremely talented David O. Russell.

Even though the latter film didn't offer anything worth writing home about, his other turn behind the camera was a solid drama.

SY: Speaking of Andrea, he made his feature film writing and directorial debuts on the drama.

Norwegian writer Petter Skavland, who penned the screenplay for 2012 historical drama Kon - Tiki, has written the film.

Also in the prestige category of films we haven't seen yet but have Oscar bait written all over them: Boy Erased, the drama about a young Christian man who goes through gay conversion therapy.

Written and directed by Chloe Zhao, this film is a «docu - drama» hybrid, and this trailer plays that up by pointing out «true stories», and «real people.»

David Robert Mitchell's first film was The Myth Of The American Sleepover, a sensitive teenage relationships drama, and he has a knack for writing and directing youngsters.

Comedy and drama blend beautifully in «Their Finest,» the story of a woman (Gemma Arterton) in WWII London hired to write dialogue for propaganda films.

TWC went to bat with the MPAA to change its initial R - rating for its drama, 3 Generations, soliciting the help of GLAAD, which wrote an open letter of support for the film, which centers on a trans youth.

That period drama also marked the start of a productive phase in Mankiewicz's career, which saw him helming twelve 20th Century Fox films, many of which he also wrote, in just over six years.

Over the course of his career, Demme has captured a variety of human emotions and experiences, whether in his thrillers, dramas or rock concert documentaries, and he returns to the big screen once again with the deeply human, honest and heartfelt film, «Ricki and the Flash,» written by fellow Oscar winner Diablo Cody («Juno»).

Ahead of its US release next month, Amazon has unveiled a poster and trailer for the upcoming biographical drama Crown Heights, Written and directed by Matt Ruskin, the film tell the story Colin Warner, who was wrongfully imprisoned for murder in 1980 and stars Lakeith Stanfield, Bill Camp, Nestor Carbonell, and Nnamdi Asomugha; check them out below... -LSB-...]

Maika Monroe and Jeremy Allen White have been set to star in Shotgun, a romantic drama / offbeat comedy indie film that was written and will be directed by Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency co-star Hannah Marks and Joey Power in their feature directorial debuts.

British stage director Rupert Goold makes his film debut with this unusual drama, a mood piece he also wrote with David Kajganich from Michael Finkel's tell - all book.

The script for the musical drama, whose music and lyrics were written by Stephen Sondheim, as he composed the Broadway play, was penned by first - time feature film writer, James Lapine.

That this moody drama is the last film of James Gandolfini should not overshadow coverage of what looks like a terrific crime thriller, written by Dennis Lehane and directed by Michaël R Roskam, whose Bullhead was a very sturdy Belgian Oscar nominee a few years back.

The acclaimed director is to direct Loving, a new drama that Nichols has written himself, and is set to start filming in September.

The film finds Bigelow (and regular writing collaborator Mark Boal) returning to the mix of drama and real events that has served her well in the past (particularly in the likes of Zero Dark Thirty) and she has a cast that includes John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, Tyler James Williams, Jason Mitchell, Jacob Latimore, Malcom David Kelly, John Krasinski, Will Poulter, Kaitlyn Dever and Jack Reynor.

A Brooklyn crime drama with this cast, directed by Roskam and written by Lehane in his first feature screenplay (he's written some for HBO shows The Wire and Boardwalk Empire) should have been an event film for me, but The Drop ultimately remains a little too undercooked and over-familiar to amount to more than the sum of its parts.

He can also go beyond the caricature written and deliver on the drama required in his confrontation with Voldemort, I mean, Ralph Fiennes in the Expressionist part of the film.

Written by Bob Nelson (the first time Payne wasn't directly involved in writing a film he's directed), the comedic drama stars Bruce Dern (who won best actor at Cannes and is a shoo - in for his first Oscar nomination in over 35 years) and Will Forte (of «Saturday Night Live» fame, pulling off a largely dramatic role) as a father and son road tripping it from Montana to Nebraska to claim the alleged prize money the mentally deteriorating father thinks he's won.

Gladiator is a 2000 epic historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott and written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson....

Florian Gallenberger, the German director whose highly praised period drama John Rabe won four Lolas at the German film awards in 2009, will take charge of the cameras and write the screenplay with Torsten Wenzel.

Yes, it sheds light on the homeless and offers them humanity when they're virtually written off by society, but the footage has the music, marital drama, and religious indicators lingering in the backdrop that one might expect from a cliched faith - based film about miracles and turning to God.

He brings that success to his writing / directing film debut, The Company Men, a recession relevant drama that has stunning cast of four Oscar winners — Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Costner, and Chris Cooper.

Other films that we admire, but didn't quite make the cut included Alison Mclean «s «Jesus» Son» featuring awesome performances by Billy Crudup and Samatha Morton as drug - addict adult - lescents in the 1970s, Stephen Daldry «s celebratory boyhood - meets - ballet drama, «Billy Elliot,» Lars Von Trier's comedic docu - like dogme film «Idioterne» («The Idiots,» made in 1998 but only released in the U.S. in 2000), Steven Soderbergh «s economic and no - nonsense «Erin Brockovich,» Stephen Frears «manchild, record store - centered love story, «High Fidelity,» Terence Davies ««The House of Mirth» featuring an excellent Gillian Anderson turn, and perhaps Neil LaBute «s best film, tellingly one he didn't write, the dreamy and odd, «Nurse Betty.»