Sentences with phrase «dramatic film»

What should win here for me is 50/50, a really funny and dramatic film with some great writing and performances.

I love doing action, and love doing dramatic films, but I have never been able to combine them.

A clear communicator with direction experience in both documentary and dramatic film productions.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for Dramatic films at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, Alfonso - Gomez Rejon's Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is endearing, touching, and surprisingly hilarious.

The tense and topical film about the creation of Facebook won best dramatic film as well as a directing award for David Fincher, a screenplay award for Aaron Sorkin and an original score win for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

The 39 year old has made his name in dramatic films with roles in movies like End of Watch, Shooter and Fury, so he was worried he would mess up as the sidekick of Ant - Man's alter ego, Scott Lang, played by Paul Rudd.

Sumich and others had hoped J.J. would break the surface of the ocean close to the ship to grab a breath of air, and thus provide a final bit of dramatic film footage of this one - of - a-kind event.

Winner of both the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature and the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival,... Read More

Back for his first dramatic film role in six years, Cannon highlights the benefits of his unconventional rise in the entertainment industry, what he learned working under the prolific Spike Lee, and what he feels audiences should really be upset about.

Muylaert delivers a subtle yet beautiful dramatic film about family and second chances.

Sure, I've enjoyed seeing Sandler demonstrate his acting abilities in more dramatic films like Reign Over Me, Funny People, and Punch - Drunk Love.

Winner of both the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature and the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, FRUITVALE STATION follows the true story of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a 22 - year - old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air.

His first dramatic film role did not come until 1999, when he appeared in Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday, playing an American footballer who liked to party.

But a new dramatic film from the BBC looks to depict their lives and the creation of their most famous game.

Best Picture: Three of the past five years have seen the festival's Grand Jury Prize for best U.S. dramatic film get a nomination for best picture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» did not).

Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, BITTER HARVEST is the first major dramatic film to convey the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by Joseph Stalin that killed millions in Ukraine.

This Hollywood setting had a few backstories like any other dramatic film.

The first dramatic film by Woody Allen comes to high definition on 14th February 2017.

EC: Yeah, they don't want to make «Dodgeball,» they want to make a very real, dramatic film so the idea has been to get, for lack of a better term, more dramatic actors than comedic actors.

As a kid, the Exodus story was a feel - good story of liberation that provided the backdrop for a riveting dramatic film and for my pastor's equally captivating sermons.

This expertly made, highly dramatic film achieves must - see status for the inevitable light it sheds on the persistence of toxic racial hatreds not just in Hungary but worldwide.

The explosion - filled summer blockbusters will soon be fading from multiplexes, and in will flow a number of smaller, more dramatic films poised to dominate the Oscar conversation as the awards machine gets up and running.

Even in the deep dramatic films, we've found there's a real concerted effort to look at empathy for dark subjects and the characters in them.»

Ruffalo, one of the great dramatic film actors of his age, has never been, to put it charitably, the funniest screen presence, but he acquits himself admirably.

After catching the attention of critics and fans with acclaimed performances in the TV series Kingdom and the dark dramatic film Goat, Nick Jonas is turning to action comedy with Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,...

The humanistic tone of this film gives it qualities of weighty dramatic films, by tackling racial and social parallels to the ones that actually take place between the whites and blacks in South Africa.

Rogen has only done a handful of dramatic roles throughout the course of his career (Take this Waltz and 50/50), but he is certainly a very talented comedic actor who would most likely be more than capable of giving a strong performance in a largely dramatic film.

could be good, I have bad associations with Wahlberg in that hairstyle from Invincible... actually that is what scares me, I don't like Wahlberg in an overly dramatic roles and I don't like Jackson directing an overly dramatic film... could be touchy

A blot on Hollywood is that, until now, with «Selma,» no feature - length dramatic film has ever been made about Martin Luther King, Jr..

Comedian Sarah Silverman is a complete revelation in her first leading dramatic film role as an upper class soccer mom with daddy issues and a serious drug problem in I Smile Back.

Wilderpeople's comedic tone, in particular, gave the film's creative team license to playfully experiment with using sound and music in a much more assertive way than they would have in a typical dramatic film.

It's an unusual dramatic film for them both — although there's a great deal of twisted laughs in the mix — and the «Saturday Night Live» alumni rise to the challenge spectacularly.

PARK CITY, Utah — «Girlfight,» Karyn Kusama's story of a tough Brooklyn girl who wants to be a boxer, and «You Can Count on Me,» Kenneth Lonergan's story of an orphaned brother and sister who uneasily get to know each other as adults, shared the grand jury prize for best dramatic film here Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival.

«Up in the Air» generally has been considered a comedy, but its inclusion in the drama category could give it more weight as a potential favorite for the Academy Awards, where dramatic films tend to dominate.

To me some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies.

But it's still frustrating to see so few dramatic films try to grapple with real and direct political action.

Dramatic films often center around the theme of journalism, the world of reporters and news.

The Weinstein Company unveiled its upcoming slate on Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, with an embarrassment of riches in dramatic films starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett coming this year.

Workman is the writer and director of an independent dramatic film, A HOUSE ON A HILL, which stars Phillip Baker Hall, Laura San Giacomo, and Henry Rollins.

«True Story,» with Jonah Hill and James Franco, right, is a true - crime dramatic film that raises questions about whether any telling of a tale can truly be trusted.

The George Clooney starrer was joined in the best dramatic film category by Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, and Precious.

The Soloist is not the exaggeratedly dramatic film others of its kin have shamelessly become.

HBO said he «opens up about his bittersweet childhood and lifelong obsession with moviemaking, his precocious early work as a TV «wunderkind,» his rise to fame through an incredible string of blockbusters, his later forays into more serious dramatic films, and the personal and professional relationships he's cultivated through the years.»

Although Bernard says that he is not particularly swayed by Sundance audience reactions, the Miles Teller drummer drama happened to be a case where his taste aligned with Sundance goers — just this weekend, the film won both the grand jury and audience awards in the U.S. dramatic film competition.

This haunting version by Nouela achieves added poignancy with dramatic film clips.

TVGB: The Godfather films are some of the most powerful and dramatic films around.