Sentences with phrase «drama type film»

Not exact matches

One has to question just how formulaic this epic Roman drama is, because the formula was still fresh by the time this film came along, establishing certain tropes that would be shamelessly slammed into by future epics of this type time and again, and yet, outside of what would go on to become conventions, this film does most of what you'd expect, with a predictable narrative, storytelling style, dialogue, and, for that matter, portrayal of Ancient Rome.

The film itself is an offbeat little drama, that doesn't follow the conventions of it type.

In the tradition of the platoon drama, they represent different types — the young Student, the hearty Bavarian, the protective Lieutenant, and the married man Karl (the only one to be called by name)-- and have bonded as friends under fire, but the film chronicles the way the war grinds them up and leaves them dead or broken.

As it stands, the film's approach hovers halfway between a conscientious community mosaic — of the type John Sayles excelled in at his peak — and a more linear issue drama of the «A Civil Action» variety, though it lack the specificity of character and process, respectively, that marks the best films in either subgenre.

Among the four major dramas to center on working class Boston types at the end of 2010 and into 2011, I'd rank The Company Men alongside the Hilary Swank lawyer film Conviction, both a far cry from the appealing heights of The Fighter and Affleck's acclaimed hit The Town.

There is an elegance and aesthetic beauty to the film that plays very well to the type of drama that The Painted Veil is — mysterious, romantic, and pessimistically bleak.

Chris has done this incredible thing where the sequel, the way he described it to me, elevates the movie from being a horror movie — and I wouldn't even say it's just a horror movie because it's a horror, comedy, rom - com drama — into a Back to the Future type of genre film where the sequel joins us right from where we left off, it explains a lot of things in the first one that didn't get explained, and it elevates everything.

I expected a character drama and subtle coming - of - age type thing, but this trailer really makes the film seem blahhhhhh.

At once oversimplified and overcomplicated — the type of film where shadowy elites cackle sinisterly while meeting at an abandoned carnival in broad daylight — The Crash fumbles between bad diatribe and bad domestic drama, complete with subplots about absent parents and childhood cancer.

The acting is rather good for a film of this type and while completely manipulative, as you'd expect, it still deals up some rather good drama and emotion.

Also, a majority of the few studio films that are directed by women tend to be comedies or light dramas, which are not the types of films that often get nominated for Academy Awards.

Same time, even if director Tom Hooper's film doesn't blossom into the type of drama it arguably should have been, it's depth, maturity, intelligence and sensitivity as it pertains to looking at the Transgender coming out experience deserves to be applauded.

The romantic drama The English Patient is the type of historical film that is often labeled «Oscar bait.»

Both types of films come in a variety of forms or genre - hybrids: sci - fi or space, thrillers, crime - drama, war, horror, westerns, etc..

As a wuxia film (a particular type of fantastical drama / action film involving Chinese martial artists and set in deep history), its loveliest resonances are found its finely executed martial arts sequences, costuming and period setting, as well as the still charisma of Shu Qi's performance.

WHY: As far as WWII movies go, this stodgy historical drama is pretty forgettable, dragged down by a sappy, East - meets - West romantic subplot that's become all too common with these types of films.

That film reportedly was a valuable lesson in the type of movie he didn't want to make, and Greengrass returned to real - life drama in 2002 with «Bloody Sunday,» a film which, while financed by Granada TV, premiered in Sundance where it won the audience award, and played Berlin, tying with «Spirited Away» for the Golden Bear.

This type of film was a departure for Bergman from his more heavy - handed dramas, and one that seemed to stem from events in Bergman's personal life.