Sentences with phrase «fictional film this year»

Not exact matches

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

A literal minute after dropping their senior - year daughter back at fictional Decatur University (the movie was filmed in the Atlanta area), Deanna (McCarthy) receives news from her husband (Matt Walsh) that he's in love with a real estate agent (Julie Bowen).

A fictional film made with the same group of actors over a twelve year period, Boyhood is certainly something to look out for.

It happened this weekend: The BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS (of which I am a veteran member) met for the 37th time and voted Paul Thomas Anderson's PHANTOM THREAD (which a significant number of critics have not yet seen) starring Daniel Day - Lewis in his ostensible farewell performance as a fictional couturier, the BEST FILM of the year.

The film was shot over the course of a dozen years, sales with the main actors returning to their roles once a year in an a grandiose attempt to capture one child's fictional growth.

The best Iranian film in years, invisible in its own country save for a series of screenings at the latest Fajr Film Festival, a sum of Banietemad's work (both fictional and documentary): characters from some of her earlier films meet and have complex, intimate interactions over the landscape of contemporary Tehran.

45 Years may only be his second fictional feature film, after 2011's Weekend, but British director Andrew Haigh has already established himself as a man who creates characters that feel ripped from the real world.

Set on a fictional island off New England in 1965, the film tells the story of two 12 - year - old outsiders, Suzy (Kara Hayward) and Sam (Jared Gilman) who run away together.

In the film, 19 - year - old Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller, «The Spectacular Now»), an ambitious drumming student enrolled at the prestigious Shaffer Conservatory of Music (fictional) in midtown Manhattan, comes under the tutelage of Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons, «Contraband»), a high - ranking instructor who is well - known for pushing his students to the limits of their endurance and beyond.

Detailing director Wes Anderson's upcoming stop - motion film Isle of Dogs, Jenny Brewer explains that it's «set in Japan, 20 years in the future, in the fictional city of Megasaki, where the corrupt mayor Kobayashi — a cat lover with a vendetta for all dogs — exiles all the furry fiends to Trash Island, the city's rubbish dump.

After nearly six years of filming, The Walking Dead crew has really settled into its adoptive home of Senoia, the small Georgia town that's stood in for the fictional Woodbury and Alexandria Safe Zone.

It's pretty well known that filmmaker Richard Linklater and his four central actors — Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke as the parents, Lorelei Linklater (the director's daughter) as the older sister, and Ellar Coltrane as Mason — shot the film over the course of 12 years to watch not just Mason but everyone in the fictional family grow up and evolve over time.

It's now common knowledge that filmmaker Richard Linklater and his four central actors — Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke as the parents, Lorelei Linklater (the director's daughter) as the older sister, and Ellar Coltrane as Mason — shot the film over the course of 12 years to watch not just Mason but everyone in the fictional family grow up and evolve over time.

And here are the five most disappointing films of the year: On the Road (Michael Winterbottom's Wolf Alice tour movie can't even find something interesting in its fictional subplot), Hampstead (a painfully strained romantic comedy set in a twee version of London), The Book of Henry (Colin Trevorrow missteps with this convoluted thriller), The Snowman (Michael Fassbender struggles to sustain this lifeless Scandinavian mystery) and Pitch Perfect 3 (it's painful to watch the Bellas try their hand at action - comedy).

Whether fictional or based in reality, it's rare for a year to pass without some kind of film about filmmaking, from classics like «Sunset Boulevard» and «Mulholland Drive» to, uh, not - classics like «Hitchcock.»

This is a fictional film rather than a documentary on several of the movie theater shootings that occurred over the past few years.

Continuing a series that was introduced in London earlier this year, these linear compositions are created by employing an accumulation of references from fictional communal spaces that are depicted in films, paintings, and books.

The prize is awarded for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation in the year preceding 24 April, and up for consideration this year are Spartacus Chetwynd's «carnivalesque» installation at Sadie Coles HQ; Luke Fowler's immersive film exploring the life and work of Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing; Paul Noble's painstakingly crafted drawings of the fictional cityscape Nobson Newtown; and Elizabeth Price's trilogy of video installations at BALTIC.