Sentences with phrase «drama of the first film»

In spite of strong production values, it's strictly tailored to young viewers, lacking any of the edge and most of the drama of the first film.

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Netflix was also shut out in the award show's film categories, with the streaming service's original feature film Mudbound failing to win either of its two nominations, while the Cambodian Civil War drama First They Killed My Father also fell short in the foreign film category.

This Oscar - winning intense drama is the first in a trilogy of films by respected writer / director Ingmar Bergman.

Her first American film was Island in the Sun (1956) for Fox, and then Owens was loaned out to Warner Bros. to play opposite Marlon Brando in the drama Sayonara (1957), one of the most critically acclaimed movies of the year.

I never saw the first Bad Lieutenant film, but this one was presented as a dark drama, centered around the murder of an immigrant family, but that really wasn't the focus of this film.

Last year saw A Dangerous Method 76, his first historical drama, come to theaters; the year ahead will bring Cronenberg back to modern times as he attempts the difficult task of translating Don DeLillo's 2003 novel Cosmopolis to film.

The two also became acquainted with novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala around this time; Jhabvala would become irrevocably associated with the two, acting as the screenwriter for all but a handful of their films.The trio's first films were set in India, dramas concerned with questions of cultural interplay, personal identity, and physical and emotional isolation.

His first film was the Pearl White serial The Exploits of Elaine, after which he rose to stardom in a series of adventure films and romantic dramas.

Like many first - time writer - directors, she packs five films» worth of drama, crises and revelations into one, and often lapses into sitcom triteness.

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.

It marked the director's first collaboration with Grégoire Colin, a dark - eyed, arresting young actor whom Denis would also employ to great effect in both Nénette et Boni and Beau Travail.The former film, made in 1996, was another coming - of - age drama that centered on the relationship between a lovelorn young man (Colin) and his rebellious, pregnant 15 - year - old sister (Alice Houri).

The first film, «Dynamite Fists,» is a black - and - white takeoff of such boxing dramas as Golden Boy.

The first half of this post war - time drama is a straight propaganda piece, filmed in newsreel style, showing how the plucky ladies and chaps of the OSS were trained to sock it to the dreaded hun.

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.

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 MirreOf 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 Mirreof 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.

It is not uncommon for a first - time director to overplay the drama of a film, and in particular, overplay the pauses between lines.

We quickly flashback to see what caused the drama, catching the audience up with most of the principal characters from the first film, and then the story is allowed to go forward from there.

In the first half of the film, the cloistered spaces of the Kittredge apartment and other limited locations are deployed to impressive effect to underscore the unabashed theatricality of the unfolding drama.

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.

It's basically a filmed play, and the drama itself is problematic (Tennessee Williams - lite), but oh what performances are given by Cher (in her first great screen role) as the no - nonsense waitress Sissy, Sandy Dennis as the delusional Mona and Karen Black as the mysterious Joanne who arrives halfway through the film and upends the lives of the women who used to know her as Joe.

Other films that have chosen to show in Telluride (with a possible first stop in Venice) include Cary Fukunaga's Netflix drama Beasts of No Nation; the Brie Larson - starring Room, based on Emma Donoghue's bestseller; Tom McCarthy's ensemble drama Spotlight, starring Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams; Legend, in which Tom Hardy plays the Kray twins, who ruled London's gangland during the 1950s and 1960s; and Remember, which, ironically, is directed by one of Canada's most famous auteurs, Atom Egoyan.

Her first film of the year is the Australian drama Strangerland, where she plays a woman searching for her missing children in the outback.

«Pieces» is an indie crime drama and is based on a short film of the same name that Taylor made which was first shown in 2014 at the Palm Springs International ShortFest.

Bartle narrates the opening of the film, commenting on how he has difficulty putting his memories together in the right order, and so Moors adopts that time - jumping technique for the first half of his drama.

Enter Colin Trevorrow, who's first film Safety Not Included was a mix of comedy, drama and time - travel adventure.

His third film, Mean Streets, is surely his first, as the director teams up with Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro for a fiery crime drama about a small - time gambler who enlists the help of a friend, who's a rising star in the New York mafia, to help him get out of debt.

As he did in his first two sturdy efforts behind the camera, the Boston - set crime dramas Gone Baby Gone and The Town, Affleck exhibits admirable restraint in creating the moral landscape of this film, and he aids himself by working with actors who are adept with the subtleties of sighs and flinches, who can stumble into patches of either light or darkness with equal ease.

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.

Ahead of its U.S. release later this month, Early Autumn and Indie Rights have released a UK trailer of director Shannon Alexander's comedic drama The Misguided, which features Golden Globe nominee Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why) in her first film role, alongside Caleb Galati, Steven J. Mihaljevich and Jasmine Nibali.

Soderbergh directed Gray twice, first in the 1993 Great Depression drama King of the Hill and then in the 1996 film Gray's Anatomy.

The first of three tremendous directorial debuts on this list, Jennifer Kent «s The Babadook is the best horror film of the year, and a solid emotional drama even beyond it's terrifying nature.

«The Big Short» plays spoiler Another reason films such as «Carol» and «Straight Outta» likely couldn't garner enough first place votes is because of the unexpected last minute release of Adam McKay's 2008 economic collapse drama.

«One of the reasons I was so excited to be in this film,» Tessa Thompson told Collider in a recent interview, «is I remember seeing the first Thor film and being like, «Oh my God, it's a Shakespeare family drama.»

Not long after, he signed on to direct the coming - of - age drama Lowriders, and today the first trailer for that film has arrived.

The terror began as anticipation, thanks to the fact that Ken Lonergan's Margaret is one of my favourite films of all time, a drama with few peers that hit a high note on first impression and sustained it for six years.

«The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: Him & Her» Why It Could Be A Contender: One of the most ambitious films of the festival season, and one we've had our eye on for a little while, «The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby» is a two - part, three - hour drama from first - time writer / director Ned BensoOf Eleanor Rigby: Him & Her» Why It Could Be A Contender: One of the most ambitious films of the festival season, and one we've had our eye on for a little while, «The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby» is a two - part, three - hour drama from first - time writer / director Ned Bensoof the most ambitious films of the festival season, and one we've had our eye on for a little while, «The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby» is a two - part, three - hour drama from first - time writer / director Ned Bensoof the festival season, and one we've had our eye on for a little while, «The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby» is a two - part, three - hour drama from first - time writer / director Ned BensoOf Eleanor Rigby» is a two - part, three - hour drama from first - time writer / director Ned Benson.

The first section of the podcast my guest, Gold Rush Gang member Matt Dinn, and I talk about the impact of this on the current landscape of the Oscar race, specifically to The Weinstein Company's awards efforts and the surprising news last week that Ridley Scott would cut Kevin Spacey out of his Getty kidnapping drama All the Money in the World, replace him with Christopher Plummer (the actor he originally wanted for the role of Getty) and the race to do this and keep the film's December 22nd release date.

One of the most celebrated auteurs of the»50s and»60s, Brooks» first major triumph was the 1955 inner - city school drama «Blackboard Jungle,» a bold rock - and - roll film that was a huge showcase for a little - known Sidney Poitier.

Yet, the film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a psychological drama, rather than in a scary horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.

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.

Hence when a film entitled I Love You Phillip Morris comes around, you can be forgiven for thinking that you're in for a satire along the lines of Jason Reitman's first feature Thank You For Smoking, or a whistle - blower drama akin to Michael Mann's Oscar - nominated The Insider.

After all, he's a certified director now after being at the helm of his first feature film, The Hollars, a family drama that we loved at Sundance and is coming to limited theaters starting this weekend.

Winner of the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Hou Hsiao - hsien's («Flight of the Red Balloon») first film in eight years, The Assassin (Nie yin niang), may initially seem out of character for a director whose previous work has been in realistic social dramas set in a contemporary historical context.

What You Need To Know: Brimful of ambition, the intriguing concept of making two interlocking but distinct films out of a single relationship drama is certainly novel and the fact that it has overcome potential distribution difficulties, and tricky marketing conundrums to get made at all is a clear signal that someone up there has great faith in the scripts, and in first - time writer / director Ned Benson.

Like many horror sequels attempt and fail to accomplish, The Conjuring 2 takes careful stock of the characters it introduced in the first film, in this case within a nightmarish prelude, building on existing relationship with modest drama and vivid consternation.

Whether or not that's an accurate overview of the first wave released in October 2008, which included the sub-Gilda noir exotica Affair in Trinidad with Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth, the racketeer drama The Garment Jungle with Lee J. Cobb and Sidney Lumet's witty 1971 heist film The Anderson Tapes, it's a downright disingenuous appellation for at least some of the films released under that brand on DVD this week.

If you are a fan of the comics and the first movie or love film noir crime dramas, then Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is definitely worth checking out, especially in 3D, but take my advice and watch the original first or you won't be able to appreciate nuances of the second.

The stop - motion animation drama played to a clunky, awkward Q&A when I saw its North American premiere at Telluride, but now that people will have seen the film in droves by Sundance 2016, one can imagine this will be an indeed special event, the first big meeting of the cult following Johnson and Kaufman's film so richly deserves.