Sentences with phrase «film biography»
A "film biography" refers to a movie that tells the story of a real-life person's life. It shows their experiences, achievements, and challenges in a dramatic and entertaining way. Full definition
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«Lovelace,» the new film biography of the woman who starred in the most famous porn film of all time, «Deep Throat,» struggles to find novelty in a story that plays as depressingly familiar.
A boyhood glimpse of the Wild Man of Borneo (at the Coney Island Midway, of course) set him on a circuitous and rocky course — one so movingly charted by a new film biography.
Because of a tie in voting, the guild nominated a sixth film for best cast, the Ray Charles film biography Ray.
Johnny Depp is «Ed Wood» (Touchstone), the angora loving, cross-dressing cult director in Tim Burton's loving film biography, perhaps the most loving portrait of a filmmaker ever put on screen.
Not since Pialat's Van Gogh has an appropriate film biography come out of France.
I've never really understood the artistic benefit to filming a biography after a spectacular documentary on that person has already been produced, made the rounds, and racked up awards.
Four other films followed with three nominations: the Howard Hughes film biography The Aviator; Finding Neverland, tracing the creative roots of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan; Hotel Rwanda, the real - life tale of an innkeeper sheltering refugees from genocide; and the boxing saga Million Dollar Baby.
Feature - length documentary debutant Sophie Huber's filmed biography of character actor Harry Dean Stanton achieves the precise laconic, abstract, existential depth and grace one associates with the man himself.
Until its last ten minutes or so, this filmed biography of controversial recording star Jerry Lee Lewis plays like a live - action cartoon.
One year later, Cooper scored in another film biography, Pride of the Yankees.
But at the same time the film traffics in the pseudo-psychological mumbo - jumbo that is the standard folk religion of the film biography, and undermines its interest in reason by dabbling in emotive pop occultism.
However, this film biography is most notably a story of the abuse Linda endured, not only from the porn industry itself, but at the hands of her husband Chuck Traynor, during their turbulent 6 year relationship.
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This majestically asinine film elides or ignores much of the circus founder's life, and turns what's left to such hash that calling the film a biography seems rather generous — but then, I doubt that director Michael Gracey and his collaborators would expect anybody to call it that, so maybe it's bad faith to criticize the movie entirely on those grounds.
In 1991, Downey was cast in «Chaplin,» a film biography of the legendary comedian and filmmaker.
Soracha Pelan Ó Treasaigh caught up with director Robert Weide to find out more about his film biography of Woody Allen, which is released in cinemas this Friday, 8th June.
, Mario Van Peebles» re-creation of father Melvin's struggle to make the 1970s black - power flick Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song; Kinsey, a film biography of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, with Liam Neeson in the title role; and Primer, a twisting techno - thriller that won the top dramatic honor at last winter's Sundance Film Festival.
But whether serving a film biography or a solo theatre venture, Dickinson seems somehow to elude aesthetic capture, or maybe it's just that she turns out to be as oblique as the landscape of her most enduring poems.
Movie producer Jane Chadwick's plan to film the biography of World War II hero Hal Lord means outing him, and that's more than the rabid members of the Freedom Network will tolerate.
She is the author of two film biographies (Mae West & Sidney Poitier) and the ghostwriter of Captain Kangaroo's autobiography, Growing Up Happy (Doubleday, 1989).
In addition, a film biography detailing Parks» life, Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks, will be screened.
After his death, a film biography entitled Basquiat was made, directed by Julian Schnabel, with actor Jeffrey Wright playing Basquiat.
Comcast Corp. (CMCSA)'s Universal Pictures is picking up plans to produce a film biography of Apple Inc. (AAPL) co-founder Steve Jobs less than a week after Sony Corp. (6758) put the project up for sale.