Sentences with phrase «fiction film directed»

A dystopian science - fiction film directed by Wes Ball and written by Noah Oppenheim and Grant Pierce Myers, it stars Dylan O'Brien and Kaya Scodelario, two relatively unknown young actors, in a 20th Century Fox production.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is a 1964 science fiction film directed by Nicholas Webster that regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made and in the «bottom 100» list on the IMDB, and also marks the first documented appearance of Mrs. Claus in a motion picture.

«Cloud Atlas», a science fiction film directed by Tom Tykwer and The Wachowskis, follows six different timelines that change after every scene.

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 is a 2014 American dystopian science fiction adventure film directed by Francis Lawrence with a screenplay by Peter Join the Revolution.

Gamer is a 2009 American science fiction action film written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor.

Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton Send and receive messages absolutely for free.

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French filmmaker Luc Besson (The Family, Brick Mansions) writes and directs Lucy, a loopy, high - concept science fiction thriller that, like most Besson efforts, is actually just a dumb and goofy action genre film masquerading as a smart and insightful one.

If a science - fiction historical epic starring Michael Fassbender and directed by Justin Kurzel isn't something worth watching, then everyone had better just give up trying to adapt games into films in the first place.

They're both produced by J.J. Abrams and directed by up - and - coming filmmakers (as were the original Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane), and all of the films so far have featured strong casts and high - concept science fiction stories.

German - born Forster has directed a string of films including The Kite Runner, adapted from the best - selling novel, and the comedy Stranger Than Fiction.

Ridley Scott, who directed «Prometheus» also directed the first film, «Alien,» argues that «Prometheus» «carries the DNA of «Alien,» but is an original piece of science fiction» (imdb.com/news).

«Pulp Fiction» filmmaker wants to direct the untitled «Trek» film, which he'll produce with J.J. Abrams

Spielberg is reportedly directing a film version of Roald Dahl's children's book «The BFG» as well as a movie adaptation of Ernest Cline's science fiction book «Ready Player One.»

With experience in production management, directing, and writing, her primary passion is creative producing in documentary and hybrid doc - fiction films.

Ingeniously using his low budget to address his ambitions, Johnson has directed, co-written (and starred in) a unique science - fiction film.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Reservoir Dogs is a 1992 film, and was the first film directed by the iconic Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained).

Etheria Film Night screens an annual showcase of the best new horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, dark comedy, and thriller films directed by women for an audience including producers, managers, show runners, distributors, and genre fans.

It's Charlie Stratton, who both wrote and directed the film, who couldn't take an old and joyless fiction and try to do what Zola never seemed able to accomplish, bring a sense of relatable naturalism.

Clive Barker has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser and Candyman series.The new movie will be directed by Robert hollocks and written by Barker, Sarah - Jane Dalby, Christian Francis, Robert Hollocks, Wolf Laine, and Mark Alan Miller.

Sean Baker directs fiction films like a documentarian hesitant to work within a journalistic framework, often casting nonprofessional actors in roles that draw upon marginalized experience.

Ridley Scott will be directing a Science - Fiction film that is not Blade Runner or Prometheus.

Sensational performances and some niftily directed moments keep writer - director Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs) from sinking this film in the quagmire of his own excess.

This Is Not a Film (directed with Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 11), shot while Panahi was under house arrest in his Tehran apartment, is a tantalizing hybrid of documentary self - portrait and contemplative fiction, at once an act of rebellion and a singular example of film as legal loophole: Panahi was effectively telling his persecutors, «You never specified that I couldn't make a film like this, because you never could have anticipated me making it.»

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

Villeneuve sat down with me for an in - depth conversation in my new video series Behind the Lens, and we covered the waterfront with topics ranging from his lifelong interest in science fiction movies, why Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey may be the greatest ever, how he came to an agreement with Ridley Scott during the filming of Blade Runner 2049, the beauty of Roger Deakins, and the darkness that permeates many of the films he directs.

Adapted from the first novel written by Michael Crichton under his real name, The Andromeda Strain combined the technology of science fiction with 1970s paranoia into a compelling, but occasionally slow - paced film directed by Robert Wise.

Interstellar is a film — specifically, a 2014 science - fiction epic, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, John Lithgow and Michael Caine.

Subsequent to Village of the Damned (1995), an uninspired remake of the 1960 classic science fiction film, Carpenter directed three films that virtually deconstruct, reinvent and cross-fertilize the western genre.

Chris Marker's iconic science fiction short, the direct inspiration for Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys but the indirect inspiration for countless other films — with time travel as the subject matter, and far beyond that simple box — turns 50 today.

The only other of the competition films I saw was History's Future, directed by Fiona Tan and written by Tan and the film critic Jonathan Romney, an obscure science fiction tale that is also partly an essay film on contemporary Europe.

Escape From Los Angeles (1996), Vampires (1998) and Ghosts From Mars (2001) are horror and science fiction films, but at their core they encompass the narrative construction and mythological structure of the westerns directed by John Ford, Sergio Leone and his much admired Howard Hawks.

The infamous striptease sequence has been restored (having been cut out of the theatrical release as part of a clever «scene missing» gag), which compounds the film's phony pro-feminism, but makes up for it with snappy directing reminiscent of the Twist contest from Pulp Fiction.

Jason Statham (Spy, Furious 7, The Expendables films) and award - winning Chinese actress Li Bingbing (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Forbidden Kingdom, The Message) star in the science fiction action thriller The Meg, directed by Jon Turteltaub (the National Treasure movies, Last Vegas).

Now, from the total «WTF Files,» comes word, via Variety, that Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Stranger Than Fiction) has signed on to direct the 22nd James Bond film, and will soon begin work with Paul Haggis on a draft of the original screenplay by Neil Purvis and Robert Wade, with shooting on the film to commence in December for a release from Sony early next November.

Christopher Robin is directed by German filmmaker Marc Forster, of the films Loungers, Everything Put Together, Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland, Stay, Stranger Than Fiction, The Kite Runner, Quantum of Solace, Machine Gun Preacher, World War Z, and All I See Is You previously.

Based on a popular graphic novel by Marasume Shirow and directed by Rupert Sanders («Snow White and the Huntsman»), Ghost in the Shell is a visually stunning experience with a fine core performance by Scarlett Johansson («Captain America: Civil War»), but it borrows so much of other, mostly better science fiction films and TV series, that charges of grand larceny should be levied against writers William Wheeler («Queen of Katwe»), Ehren Kruger («Transformers: Age of Extinction») and Jamie Moss («Street Kings»).

Science - fiction is well - represented at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival with the short film «The Escape,» written and directed by...

He wrote the original screenplay and the Tony Scott - directed film hit the scene between «Reservoir Dogs» and «Pulp Fiction.»

Written and directed by Joseph Kosinski (of Tron Legacy fame), Oblivion is one of the more fascinating and frustrating science fiction films in recent memory.

The flagship of the Festival, section Oficial Fantàstic, presents some of the most eagerly awaited movies of the year, such as Only God Forgives by Nicolas Winding Refn - director of Valhalla Rising and Drive; Jim Jarmusch's latest film Only Lovers Left Alive, an eternal love story between two vampires; A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III, a surrealist comedy by the hand of Roman Coppola; The Congress, a spectacular adaptation of Stanislaw Lem directed by Ari Folman - responsible for Vals with Bashir -, that combines animation with a science - fiction story starring Robin Wright and Harvey Keitel; Sitges 2013 will also represent the return of Kiyoshi Kurosawa to the fantastique genre with Real.

In one stranger - than - fiction occurrence, Albert attends the premiere of the film «The Heart is Deceitful,» directed by and starring Asia Argento, based on her book, but is banished from the red carpet, while Savannah, as «JT,» basks in the limelight.

Ever since John Cassavetes started directing movies, indie films have wrestled with the tension between fiction and nonfiction.

After a decade of roles in Australian TV shows and films, Bana gained Hollywood's attention by playing the role of American Delta Force Sergeant Norm «Hoot» Hooten in Black Hawk Down (2001), the lead role as Bruce Banner in the Ang Lee directed film Hulk (2003), Prince Hector in the movie Troy (2004), the lead in Steven Spielberg's Munich (2005), and the villain Nero in the science - fiction film Star Trek (2009).

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ponsoldt will be directing a film adaptation of Inconstant Moon, an award - winning science fiction short story from author Larry Niven, for -LSB-...]

The masterfully done science fiction film her features a remarkable performance from Joaquin Phoenix and a moving, intelligent story directed with restraint by Spike Jonze.

Amma Asante (A Way of Life) directs this Austen-esque period piece, based a few true events, though most of the film is a work of fanciful fiction.

These narrative films ``... would help to break ground in Hollywood in terms of funding women storytellers and women who were directing the films...» The 2018 Sundance Film Festival will premiere three Gamechanger films: The Tale, a story about sexual abuse written and directed by Jennifer Fox; Nancy, a dramatic story blurring the lines of fact and fiction written and directed by Christina Choe; and The Long Dumb Road, a road trip movie filled with detours and bumps along the way, written and directed by Hannah Fidell.

RidleyScott, who directed two of the most important science - fiction films sinceStanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey, Alien and Blade Runner, had a hand in SF longbefore he became a director.