Sentences with phrase «dramatic film about»

A powerhouse cast is featured in a dramatic film about the legal battle over whether to find in favor of the boxing champ in his appeal for conscientious objector status in the military draft.

He also starred in and received a Golden Globe Award nomination for HBO's dramatic film about the Lindberg baby kidnapping, «Crime of the Century» directed by Mark Rydell.

Not exact matches

Also coming up is the his appearance in the independent dramatic thriller film «Emanuel and the Truth about Fishes,.»

Now, while most of these films look grand in scale, emotional to the core in the dramatic department, and visually awesome... if you think about it, they're all kind of doing the same thing.

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.

Then, over the course of a series of more dramatic rebellions, the film reveals more about Moll's past, her capacity to justify violence, and the very real possibility that she might allow a serial killer to get away with his crimes, just so she can be with someone who says he loves her.

The first feature from Rupert Goold, artistic director of London's Almeida Theatre, the film owes a dramatic and stylistic debt to Capote, another stage veteran's big - screen debut about the complicated relationship between a prisoner facing a murder rap and the writer looking to capitalize on his experiences.

This film is about Jonathan's life, and what led these two dramatic story arcs to intersect on that fateful day.

It is unlikely for you ever to be able to say the words «Les Misérables» and have people know that you are talking about the 1998 dramatic film.

What might hurt the film, and what some have already complained about in the press area at Cannes, is a sense of dramatic inertness.

The film is based on Nathaniel Philbrick's best - selling book about the dramatic true journey of the Essex.

«This a fresh and original film from Gianni Zanasi about accepting yourself and others — dramatic, amusing and entertaining with a twist of mystery,» said a jury of four European exhibitors, adjudicating the award.

Sharing honors from the Society Dramatic Authors and Composers, given annually to a French film in Fortnight, were two very different tales of romantic possibility in Paris: Philippe Garrel's black - and - white «Lover for a Day» («L'Amant d'un Jour»), about a 23 - year - old woman who learns that her father is dating a girl her age, and Claire Denis» «Let the Sunshine In» («Un Beau Soleil Intérieur»), starring Juliette Binoche as a divorced artist looking for love in many of the wrong places.

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.

In spite of its failings on the dramatic level, Disco is still a very entertaining film, thanks to an appealing cast (which also includes Beckinsale's Much Ado About Nothing love interest, Robert Sean Leonard, and a briefly - seen Jennifer Beals) and those wordy discussions.

Add to that a few dramatic elements, and you have a movie that is thoroughly engaging and above all worth seeing for viewers that are skeptical about these sorts of films.

Regardless of whether the real story is too retouched or the quite good level of production, this musical commits the sin I hate most about musicals and that affected my enjoyment a lot, besides that any dramatic weight is thrown out the window and the film never gets momentum or a real rumbling scene.

But that's not the big surprise about the film: this story of an arrogant, over-the-hill slugger (Mac) who comes out of retirement to chalk up his 3000th hit is more of a serious sports film than a knee - slapping comedy, and Mac gets a rare opportunity to showcase his true dramatic range as an actor.

For top dramatic pictures, the selections made by the HFPA's fewer than 100 voters were the historical drama «12 Years a Slave»; the Somali piracy thriller «Captain Phillips»; the 3 - D space spectacle «Gravity»; «Philomena,» about a mother's search for her son; and the car racing film «Rush.»

She is completely fascinating in her first scene, performing a dramatic monologue about immigration while standing inside a corporate grocery store, and just as curious in the next, silently mashing her face into a pile of cheese curls while filming herself with an iPhone.

This is blood, sweat and tears acting of the highest order from Gyllenhaal, but considering the film is fundamentally about a father trying to reconnect with his daughter, it's frustrating how little opportunity he's given to flex his dramatic muscle.

The rugged flow and quiet struggles of daily life — whether among the children of recent immigrants or those who grew up there and never left — also come with unchallenged traditional ideas about sex and gender, and they seem as deeply woven into the film's visual texture as into its dramatic framework.»

Israeli writer - director Elite Zexer's Sand Storm, a smart and sensitive film about Bedouin women learning to live within the patriarchy, won the World Cinema Dramatic Competition Grand Jury Prize -LSB-...]

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

But the filmmakers adhere too prominently to the tropes of the sports genre, all leading up to the big, dramatic encounter at the end, whereas tonally it felt the film may have benefited from avoiding such an approach — for while a necessity Billie Jean King took place in the match, the entire endeavour was more about putting Bobby Riggs in his place rather than to prove herself as an athlete.

A new boxing drama, Hands of Stone, about notorious champ Roberto Durán (played by Carlos's Edgar Ramírez), is now in theaters; start with these films for a fuller dramatic experience.

On the dramatic film side, I could have lived without Jerusha Hess's «Austenland,» a feather - light dingbat comedy about a Jane Austen - themed resort in England.

How the film's compelling star Jennifer Lawrence may feel about this sentiment is another matter, but this is a tale that, like any number of fanciful genre outings, both pulls you in with its intriguing central dramatic situation and pushes you out with some mightily far - fetched plot contrivances.

But while there isn't much to distinguish Born To Be Blue's dramatic stakes from any number of stories about self - destructive, self - centered artists (or «movies about jazz musicians,» as they're more commonly known), the film is given a spark of life by the inspired casting of Ethan Hawke.

This dramatic short film about a son's desperate quest to help his sick father is set to debut April 22nd on the JASH Youtube channel.

Julia Stiles stars as the title character in «Blue,» a new web series produced by the YouTube channel Wigs, which is described as «a digital channel producing high - end, original, scripted dramatic series and short films about the lives of women.»

«The Social Network,» the acclaimed drama about how Harvard computer nerds created the social networking site Facebook, had been the front - runner during the awards season, winning countless critics honors, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn., New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics awards as well as the Golden Globe for dramatic film.

What I like in Frederick Wiseman movies is that he's filming a whole layer of content, but he's adding a layer of decisions about how to structure the film, where to cut, that doesn't relate to relaying dramatic information.

For all those worried about it being too juvenile and not up to the dramatic standard of Wall - E or Up... you are failing to see that the trailers are meant to sell the film to the biggest possible audience and the first people they need to rope in are the younger crowd.

But while the choices Rosa makes in that regard drive the movie to its dramatic conclusion, there's not that much in the film about her, or even about the friendship.

This dramatic and introspective Canadian movie about a Civil War vet making his way through a zombie apocalypse plays like a 19th century feature film version of The Walking Dead.

Other examples of historical characters in biographies in the 1930 - 40s included Norman Taurog's children's dramatic film Young Tom Edison (1940) about the famed inventor (Mickey Rooney), The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939), the historical drama Marie Antoinette (1938) about the famous Austrian princess who married future King Louis XVI, Michael Curtiz» costume drama The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), and Mervyn LeRoy's oft - nominated Madame Curie (1943) with Greer Garson as the title character researching radioactivity with her husband Pierre (Walter Pidgeon).

Fortunately, the two filmmakers have a dramatic tale to tell about the travails of delivering a film with outstanding production values and name actors for a remarkably low six - figure budget.

Of the dramatic films that I saw, and, like everybody else, I missed a slew of likely contenders, the best was probably Nicole Holofcener's «Please Give,» a pleasant enough comedy about a married Manhattan couple, played by Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt, who resell estate - sale furniture.

Oh yeah, that's right, because sitting through a film about competitive butter carving sounds as appealing as sitting through a movie starring the Kardashians in dramatic roles.

«The film satisfies the dramatic and salacious stuff that interested me, but it also had an emotional resonance to it that I felt didn't just make it a dark and nihilistic story,» Edgerton told Entertainment Weekly about the project.

Oscar - winning filmmaker Daniel Junge (About Face) and Oscar - nominated filmmaker Kief Davidson (Open Heart) made a dramatic turn in the tone and style with their new film, Beyond the Brick: A LEGO Brickumentary.

• Patrick Goldstein defends his paper's perceived hit campaign against «The Hurt Locker,» calls quoted second - hand information that wasn't properly vetted «the most in - depth piece written about the film's complex mixture of questionable dramatic license and vivid authenticity.»

Funny folks Jack Black and Sarah Silverman take dramatic turns in feature films; Bobcat Goldthwait premieres a documentary about comic Barry Crimmins; and comedian Tig Notaro stars in her own documentary, «Tig.»

Because of his dramatic weight loss for that film some questions naturally arose about his ability to regain not only weight but pure muscle - fifteen pounds of it.

The scene in which she writes the title song for and about Johnny is the film's dramatic and musical high point.

Chappaquiddick is, at its best, a reminder of what a unique, and largely unexplored, character Ted Kennedy can be on film; to compare him to our scandal - riddled president, or any other politician, does a disservice to what are hopefully many more dramatic stories about Kennedy to come.

Mind you, it's also a film I think is great too, but it also uses violence as a dramatic crescendo whereas «Bluebird» is much more honest and less melodramatic about the organic and natural direction where the narrative needs to take these characters.

Then there is the unobtrusive cinematography by Sam Levy, which also has moments of fancy in overhead shots but can also keep a distance in movingly dramatic scenes that allow the actors all the space they need to perform, which may be a bonus about having an actress at the helm of the film.

Affleck talks about the actors and the choices which were made to give the film a realistic and dramatic tone.