Sentences with phrase «earlier films the mother»

Le Week - End marks the fourth collaboration between writer Hanif Kureishi and director Roger Michell, and it mines similar territory as their earlier films The Mother (2003) and Venus (2006), which also dealt with the challenges of late - middle / old age.

Not exact matches

Contradicting earlier views that good parenting is simply «good mothering,» recent observational research using films and slow motion analysis, shows that good parenting includes two parenting approaches.

Trained as a physician, Kirschstein attributed her early interest in scientific research, a filmed interview indicates, in part to a serious illness her mother suffered during Kirschstein's girlhood.

Mala, born Ray Wise to an Anglo trader and an Eskimo mother in Alaska, played leads in a number of Hollywood action films from the early»30s through the early»50s.

An Argentine native who spent her formative years exiled to Spain, Cecilia Roth was a regular in Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's early films and a star in Argentina long before she became an international critics» darling as the title character in Almodóvar's Oscar - winner All About My Mother (1999).

The film gives Harding partial control of her own, jaw - dropping story, from her early days in thrall to an abusive mother, to the domino - chain of associations which led to her rival Nancy Kerrigan being clubbed in the knee, when she left her Detroit practice rink in January of that Winter Olympics year.

Tandy Cronyn's earliest film appearance was in the obscure agit - prop comedy Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970); she has since been seen in such productions as All Night Long (1981), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), and the made - for - TV The Story Lady (1991), in which she co-starred with her mother, Jessica Tandy.

An indie film that was lavishly praised and won the Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, rolls along in the well - rutted, dusty tire tracks of other mother - and - daughter road trip

The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf's life — such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan's (Jean - Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid -»40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the»50s; Piaf's abandonment as a young girl by her contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizations — dazzling audiences in the process.

(35) For Jodorowsky, the film drew upon his own childhood memories of the circus, and his «terrible» relationship with his mother, who allegedly tried to live through him and with whom he had little physical affection; characters with dominating or pseudo-incestual maternal relationships have figured into virtually all of his earlier films.

A&E's Bates Motel is inching closer toward resembling Alfred Hitchcock's 1960's classic Psycho, the film that serves as inspiration for this modern - day prequel of sorts that examines the motel in its early days when Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) was still in high school and his mother, Norma (Vera Farmiga), was still breathing.

If you've seen «Lady Bird,» which is an early awards favorite — on Thursday, the New York Film Critics Circle named it best film and gave Ronan the best actress award, and on Monday she picked up a Gotham Award — it might come as somewhat of a surprise that she's had such an idyllic relationship with her own mother.

Early in the film, the «Father» (each member is either referred to as a «Father» or «Mother) of the convent questions the church's place in present day Western Europe.

Meatballs Part II is only notable for early film appearances from future stars Paul Reubens (Pee - Wee's Big Adventure, Cheech & Chong's Next Movie) and John Larroquette (Richie Rich, «Night Court»), and look quick for comedienne Elayne Boosler playing mother to a young Nancy Glass («Inside Edition», «American Journal») in one scene.

The film, about the titular champion ice skater who later embroiled herself in a plot to break the leg of her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, world - premiered at TIFF earlier this month to enthusiastic reviews from movie critics, with particular praise — and Oscar buzz — brewing for Robbie and Allison Janney, who plays Harding's mother, LaVonda Golden.

It's hardly the revelatory concept that Writer / Director Robert Benton (best known for one of my all time favorite — and earliest film memory Kramer Vs. Kramer — to this day my mother still calls me a «spoiled little shit» because of that movie) came up with.

Meanwhile, Danny Elfman revealed that he'll be incorporating John Williams» iconic Superman theme into his score for a specific moment in the film, while Zack Snyder shared some storyboards of a Mother Box being buried, Geoff Johns revealed that Ezra Miller's Flash has been a fan favourite of the early screenings to date, and some early concept art for The Flash's costume arrived online, complete with an enormous codpiece that would make Joel Schumacher proud...

Earlier in December, Lin Shaye was interviewed by Daily Dead regarding the details about Insidious: Chapter 4, where she revealed that the film will show more details about her paranormal investigator character Elise Rainier, and introduce audiences to her mother and father.

This early scene in the film, with the dirty, hateful mother laying among the detritus of the market — fish heads and guts and the such - as the child is born, and just as quickly discarded, is the first indication of how the director is going to be conveying the smells of the film.

An uncommonly tedious effort, House at the End of the Street follows Jennifer Lawrence's Elissa as she and her mother (Elisabeth Shue's Sarah) move to a small town where a young girl murdered her parents years earlier - with the film eventually detailing the mystery surrounding said young girl's only surviving relative (Max Thieriot's Ryan).

The film's protagonist is Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand), a blue - collar mother from the titular town of Ebbing, Missouri, whose daughter was raped and murdered seven months earlier.

Early on he effectively blends despair for the loss of his wife and mother to his daughter with indeterminate anger; later in the film he delivers as a man straddling the divide between the sane and the criminally insane.

Based on an early 1961 stage musical by Langston Hughes, the film tells the story of a single mother in Harlem sending her teenage son to visit her parents in Baltimore for the holidays.

Born Nee Alicia Christian Foster in 1962 in Los Angeles, Jodie was raised by her film publicist mother, who helped in finding her acting work at an early age.

Like Valentine's Day in 2010 and New Year's Eve in 2011, prescription his latest film features a star - studded cast, approved multiple story - lines and sitcom - style comedy and like the feedback of those earlier films, the Mother's Day reviews have not been kind.

And my mother took advantage of it from an early age...» Profound monologues like this are the theme of choice in Prozac Nation, an ambiguous film with a colorful history starring Christina Ricci as the «anti-heroine» Elizabeth Wurtzel.

He has a kinship in this way with Deep Red's Marcus (a pianist), a man in a pursuit coded as feminine, and there's the intimation early on that the central tension of the film will again be a race between a masculine means of detection (effected (affected) by a woman, Rose, who reads a book about the Mothers as prologue to the film) and a feminine means of intuition (swooning Mark's maybe - encounter with the beautiful Mater Lachrymarum — the mother of tears — in the middle of a music class).

Kelly's iconic feminist work Post-Partum Document (1973 — 79) is resurfaced in a show devoted to her early photographs, films, and prototypes from the 1970s, tracing the first six years of her son's life and the intimate relationship between mother and child.

The exhibition features «Couldn't Capture Death», the artist's film of her mother's dying, which premiered at the 2007 Venice Biennale, and accompanying the works on view is a soundtrack composed of selected excerpts from Monique's diaries, which she kept from the early 1980s through 2000.