Sentences with phrase «film about a woman played»

There is a short film that inspired The Nancy Starling (the fictional movie within Their Finest), which is a short film about a woman played by Peggy Ashcroft, who goes to help rescue her husband from Dunkirk (Channel Incident, 1940).

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Along with another early silent - screen actress, Mae Marsh, Clifford would turn up in about every other Ford film, usually playing pioneer women.

The feature, Actors in Search of a Story, applauds the entire cast of the film (right down to the woman who plays Harold's psychologist for about two minutes of screen time), Building the Team profiles director Marc Forster and some of his crew, and Words on a Page focuses on budding young screenwriter Zach Helm.

Like most Wilde plays, it has been made into film and for television numerous times, although this version isn't a strict adaptation, causing the name to be changed, rightfully, to use a part of the play's secondary title, «A Play About a Good Woman&raqplay's secondary title, «A Play About a Good Woman&raqPlay About a Good Woman».

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

While the film touches upon its various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.

Claire Bloom talks about playing «a woman attracted to a woman» and the fact that Harris avoided a friendship during filming to maintain friction between their characters.

It has a strong woman at the heart of the film, played by Sally Hawkins, and it's «saying something though about a larger world about immigration, about what's foreign to us, about what scares us,» Travers said.

During this 1 - on - 1 phone interview with Collider, actress and filmmaker Heather Graham talked about wanting to make a movie celebrating women and friendship, the biggest challenges in getting this film going, having her voice heard, as a female filmmaker, what she most enjoyed about playing Honey, putting together this cast, funny moments on set, what she enjoyed about the experience of directing, her hope to do it again, juggling three different writing projects, and doing the British TV series Bliss, from David Cross.

Often as the film plays out I found myself just wanting to shove the ungrateful, delirious woman in a home and hear more about supporting characters like Frances de la Tour's nosey neighbor Ursula Vaughan Williams.

«Toast» enjoys what is likely the best comic performance of veteran British actress Helena Bonham Carter in the role of Joan Potter, a cleaning woman who becomes the second wife of Nigel's dad, played by Ken Stott, and stepmother of nine - year old Slater who morphs suddenly about two - thirds into the film as the older Nigel Slater, played by Freddie Highmore.

Princess Cyd is his most accomplished film yet, about a young woman named Cyd (Jessie Pinnick) who finds herself attracted to Katie (Malic White), a barista, while visiting her Aunt Miranda (Rebecca Spence, playing a character modeled on the author Marilynne Robinson) in Chicago.

The earlier film was about a man playing a cruel joke on a woman; this one, which is otherwise totally different, is about a woman playing a cruel joke on a man.

At a time when Hollywood couldn't be more sensitive about the sexual abuse meted out by powerful men, this is a film about the very worst sexual violence against women, with McDormand playing a grieving and furiously angry mother still mourning her pretty daughter, who was raped and murdered by an unknown attacker.

by Walter Chaw Three short films about three women and the men who mistreat them, Rebecca Miller's DV triptych Personal Velocity: Three Portraits is a fine - looking film that plays a little like Catherine Breillat - lite — a series of iterations of Yeats's «Leda and the Swan» that suggest the evil that men do to women only makes women stronger.

There's been a lot of discussion about how Allen's proclivity toward May - December relationships mirror his own personal life, and quite frankly, it's getting a bit exhausting watching the director indulge his fantasy of beautiful young women falling in love with older men, especially now that he's no longer playing the lead in his films.

As the film heads into awards season following a summer release, talk will presumably build about which of the women leads the film, but any such debate should be nipped in the bud: Moore and Bening are as democratic a partnership as the characters they play, each performance informing the other to an equal extent as they intricately map out their roles in the parenting game.

But with its flat presentation and dearth of any riveting moments, the film plays more like an after - school special about the pitfalls of teen decision - making than it does a documentary about young women struggling to make something more of their lives.

La Strada — The great Giulietta Masina stars in this Federico Fellini film about a young woman sold off by her family to be the wife of a traveling strongman, played by a dubbed - into - Italian Anthony Quinn.

Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

Hepburn's official final film before entering semi-retirement was Wait Until Dark, Terence Young's lean, nerve - racking adaptation of Frederick Knott's popular stage play about a newly blind woman, Susy, trying to outwit a trio of drug - dealing thugs (played in the film by Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, and Jack Weston).

His previous film, «In the Company of Men,» was about two men who play a cruel trick on a woman.

The Criterion debut of the film features a new video interviews with Ballhaus and the original featurette «Outsiders» featuring new interviews with actors Margit Carstensen, Eva Mattes, Katrin Schaake, and Hanna Schygulla, plus a new interview with film scholar Jane Shattuc about director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the film, and the 1992 documentary Role Play: Women on Fassbinder, originally made for German TV and featuring interviews with Carstensen, Schygulla, and actors Irm Hermann and Rosel Zech.

I spoke with the supremely talented Rebecca Hall, who plays Elizabeth Marston in Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, and she had a lot to say about why she believes the film is so important.

For Timothée Chalamet, who plays Lady Bird's mansplaining crush, Kyle, Gerwig encouraged viewings of Éric Rohmer films to study «young men talking at women about their ideas.»

Steve Carell could compete in two rival films: Robert Zemeckis's «The Women of Marwen,» based on the 2010 documentary «Marwencol» about a designer who creates a miniature fantasy world as a way to recover from a devastating attack, and «Beautiful Boy,» in which he plays the father of a drug addict (Timothée Chalamet).

At a roundtable interview, DeWitt discussed her research for the role, how playing a real - life person informed her approach to the character, what it was like meeting the real Sue Webb, what she enjoyed most about working with Renner, what she learned about journalists and their determination to get to the truth of their story, her new film «Men, Women & Children» directed by Jason Reitman, and her upcoming projects: Joe Swanberg's «Digging for Fire,» Sam Raimi's remake of «Poltergeist» with Sam Rockwell, and a small part in the TV mini-series «Olive Kitteridge.»

Summary: «Queen of Katwe» is a warm and inspiring film about a strong woman's success playing chess.

Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.

The film's best scene, has transsexual performer Angie Stardust and transvestite Tara O'Hara, playing themselves, arguing about whether surgery is necessary to be a woman.

The 26 - year - old actress plays a woman caught up in a passionate lesbian love affair in new film «Sunshine Clearing» and is excited about reaching a new fan base,...

He also said that the women are «more important» than the men in Wakanda, and he would be into making a film just about the characters played by Lupita Nyong» o, Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett and Gurira.

A disquieting «Salo «- esque trailer got initial buzz growing about the film in which Browning plays a student who drifts into prostitution and finds her niche as a woman who is drugged into sleep while men do to her what she can't remember the next morning.

And instead of the scandalous love triangle of historical record, the film plays out more as a drama about a young woman working out a complex escape from male - dominated society.

About a third of the way into Duck Butter, Miguel Arteta's latest film — co-written by its star, Alia Shawkat — Naima (Shawkat) tells her new love interest Sergio (a woman, despite the male - sounding name, played by Laia Costa) that she once hooked up with a man who had been her pen pal.

Beneath the credits for I, Tonya, a grainy video of Tonya plays, nailing the difficult triple axel move at the 1991 U.S. Figure Skating Championship (making her the first American woman to do so in a competition), which the film dramatizes about 40 minutes into its run time.

You can check out the play - by - play of my reactions over at my Instagram (short video reviews and a highlighted story called Cloverfield Noob), but what really fascinated me about these films were the women.

Eisenberg's choices in playing Mike without a trace of irony works in the film's favor, as does Stewart's grittiness and edge as a woman who refuses to take it lying down when the world is trying to kill the man she loves, or when he starts cracking up about the possibility that he might be a robot and not a human being.

Highlights include Neshat's moving film, Rapture, 1999, a two - screen, black - and - white video projection in which an allegorical narrative about the stark divide between Muslim men and women plays out on opposing walls.

As a Jazz lover, I was in heaven lying back in my chair, watching an off - the - wall film of two women having a conversation inside a fridge about Jazz, while behind my head vinyl played a conversation about saxophonist Ornette Coleman and Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock.

The TV set plays Thomas's moving film about her mother, «Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman,» offering a back story that gives the initially silly pair of shining Crocs a new emotional heft.

FILM REVIEW: My Art Written, directed by and starring Laurie Simmons Opens in LA January 19 Laemmle Ahyra Fine Arts Theatre, Beverly Hills By Shana Nys Dambrot Laurie Simmons basically plays herself in this wry, pensive narrative about a woman artist in her 60s who is moved to confront metrics of success, agencies of authorship,...

Although I've never seen the film, I learned from a Google search that Dancer in the Dark is about a woman (played by Bjork) who is slowly going blind and (spoiler alert) dies at the gallows after she is convicted of murder and treason.

Her material has also been played as background music on a Fox series about women in extreme sports and CBC radio, and she's also appeared in a B.C. Institute of Technology film, doing a spot as a singer in the background of a scene.