Sentences with phrase «film biography of»

, 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.

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.

In 1991, Downey was cast in «Chaplin,» a film biography of the legendary comedian and filmmaker.

Not exact matches

While Jobs's treatment of his first child, Lisa, was deemed to be seriously lacking (with good reason) in Walter Isaacson's biography Steve Jobs, and the silver screen film adaptation that followed, he apparently had changed his parenting ways with the three children he raised with his wife Laurene Powell Jobs.

Compared to major studio projects like the forthcoming Aaron Sorkin adaption of Walter Isaacson's popular biography of Jobs, this film was made on a shoestring, with an estimated budget of just $ 8.5 million.

The film would be based on the biography Steve McQueen: The Life And Legend Of A Hollywood Icon, in which author Marshall Terrill spent a decade researching McQueen's life, career and death.

Then, Scorsese's next film, Kundun (a biography of the 14th Dalai Lama), set the stage for the religious tones of what would become a passion project for him: a film adaptation of Silence, the 1966 novel by Shusaku Endo.

The novel is built like a missionary biography, one with the at - times brutal feel of a Scorsese film.

As a result these films can be more powerful than any number of biographies or academic books in shaping how we view politicians and their lives.

Science Talk correspondent John Pavlus talks with Jon Amiel, director of the new Darwin biography movie Creation, and with Randal Keynes, Darwin's great - great - grandson and one of the film's scriptwriters.

Eve wrote a biography of her mother, Madame Curie, which was a worldwide bestseller in the 1930s and was adapted to make a Hollywood feature film in 1943.

At age seven, her performance in the 2001 film I Am Sam earned her a 18 January 2018... Freddie Highmore news, gossip, photos of Freddie Highmore, biography, Freddie Highmore girlfriend list 2016.

Find a complete list of 2014's major film awards and nominations from dozens of professional organizations and critic associations, as well as a running 2 February 2018... Tessa Virtue news, gossip, photos of Tessa Virtue, biography, Tessa Virtue boyfriend list 2016.

This biography of Aaliyah provides detailed information about Friends and family remember the short, remarkable life of music and film's Aaliyah who died on August 25th, 2001.

Watson is known around the world as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film franchise based on 17 January 2018... Emma Watson news, gossip, photos of Emma Watson, biography, Emma Watson boyfriend list 2016.

But only now is the film's director Nick Cassavetes revealing one of the biggest secrets from 18 January 2018... Ryan Gosling news, gossip, photos of Ryan Gosling, biography, Ryan Gosling girlfriend list 2016.

Sometimes it wants to be a straight biography, whereas on other occasions it comes across more like an issues film that wants to trumpet the virtues of the First Amendment.

This is by far the most compelling aspect of the film; it's the only time we get something from Rebel in the Rye that doesn't seem extracted from a Cliff Notes biography.

At times The Express couldn't decide whether it was telling a story of racial tensions, a general inspirational sports film or the tragic biography of Ernie Davis

The sports biography has maintained its status of being one of the most popular genres in the American film industry today by emphasizing the main character preparing for an important game.

If these films ultimately didn't provide Hayek with a role that would draw attention to her genuine talent, this would soon change with the long awaited biography of tragic artist Frida Kahlo.

Adapted by Tony Kushner partly from Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 biography Team of Rivals, the two - and - a-half-hour film begins in 1865 when Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis) is urgently trying to get the 13th Amendment passed to abolish slavery.

Actress Mary Field kept her private life such a well - guarded secret that not even her most devoted fans (including several film historians who've attempted to write biographies of the actress) have ever been able to find out anything about her background.

Biography: Liv Tyler, daughter of rock star legend Steven Tyler, is an American film actress most known for playing the role of Arwen Undomiel in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy.

This film really plays out as a biography of the life of Robert S McNamara, former secretary of defence for both Kennedy and Johnson administrations.

Biography: Initially, Owen carved out a career in television: in 1988 Owen starred as Gideon Sarn in a BBC television production of Precious Bane and the Channel 4 film Vroom before the 1990s saw him become a regular on stage and television in the UK, notably his lead role in the ITV series Chancer followed by an appearance in the Thames Television production of Lorna Doone.

Biography: Meryl Streep is considered by many film critics to be the best living actress of all time and her fourteen Academy Award nominations (2 wins), 21 Golden Globe nominations (6 wins) and 3 Primetime Emmy nominations (2 wins) certainly credit this.

Adapted from the 2010 bestselling biography by Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand, the film follows the life story of Louis Zamperini (1917 - 2014), an Italian - American whose resilience made him emblematic of the stoical virtues of the «greatest generation».

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.

In the first biography of this colorful, instinctual artist, Alan K. Rode illuminates the life and work of one of the film industry's most complex figures.

Written and directed by Mark Abraham, and based on the book «Hank Williams: The Biography,» the films traces the life and career of Williams, whose quick climb to fame led to his untimely death at age 29.

The film comes from a place of deep admiration for MIA, but unlike more fawning biographies, it makes a convincing case that this admiration is well earned.

Language: English Genre: Documentary / Biography MPAA rating: R Director: Steve James Actors: Roger Ebert, Werner Herzog, Martin Scorsese Plot: A look at the life and cultural impact of Roger Ebert, one of the world's renowned film critics and social commentators - from his Pulitzer Prize film reviews, to his long career with Gene Siskel to his late - life battle with cancer - it a both a poignant and insightful look into Ebert's world.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Nora Ephron Actors: Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci Plot: The film follows Powell, a government employee who decides to cook her way through legendary cook Julia Child's classic cookbook, «Mastering the Art of French Cooking» in one year's time out of her small Queens kitchen.

Since they first collaborated on 2002's Far From Heaven, Ed Lachman has been an integral part of Todd Haynes» core team, serving as cinematographer on films as complex as the director's experimental 2007 Bob Dylan biography I'm Not There or as straightforward as 2015's Patricia Highsmith adaptation Carol.

Language: Japanese Genre: Anime / Biography MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Hayao Miyazaki Actors: Hideaki Anno, Jun Kunimura, Mirai Shida Plot: Hayao Miyazaki's latest film focuses on the life of Jiro Horikoshi - the man responsible for the design of the Japanese Zero fighter that saw much use in WWII.

Language: Russian Genre: Drama / Biography MPAA rating: NR Director: Andrei Tarkovsky Actors: Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya Plot: A Russian man in his 40s is going to die - he reflects back on growing up during WWII, his adolescence and family in a film that mixes flashbacks with historical footage to tell a personal story but also explore the story of Russia itself.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Crime MPAA rating: NR Director: Richard Fleischer Actors: Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell Plot: This film is based on the trial of Leopold and Loeb in the 1920s.

Angelina Jolie's second film as a director is based on the biography of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic athlete and World War II veteran.

It's clearly early days — there's as yet no word if the film will be a straight - up biography of Ebert or something more wide - reaching about cinema, but either way it's exciting news.

Found on the film's 1999 DVD but unsurprisingly absent here are a couple of minor text - based extras: production notes and long since dated on - screen biographies of the cast and filmmakers.

After that fake - doc opening, the film flashes back to forty years earlier, to flesh out Harding's biography, to provide some incontrovertible data (all of which is intermittently commented on by the mock - vérité versions of the principal cast).

Neither film is the historical biography you expect: Barnum's bootstrap entrepreneurship is romanticized into a family - friendly movie musical starring Hugh Jackman, strutting about among an America's Got Talent array of motley performers who represent some trendy demography.

Blu - ray extras on The Mark of Zorro include audio commentary by film critic Richard Schickel; the A&E Biography episode «Tyrone Power: The Last Idol»; and trailers for two other Power pictures, Rawhide and Witness for the Prosecution.

Using traditional research methods (reading old books) and non-traditional film processes (boiling old books) Gatten's films trace the contours of private lives and public histories, combining philosophy, biography, and poetry with experiments in cinematic forms and narrative structures.

(p. 37) Yet, whereas Daire sees Mauprat as a dynamic, complex, and ostensibly queer studio film (the gender play he notes in the biography), Keller sees the film as a «costume drama [that] lacks almost entirely the vigour described by Epstein about the effects of cinema on an audience.»

Payne's film, written by fellow Nebraskan Bob Nelson, also offers a biography of its central character delivered by unusual means, in this case a mosaic compiled one piece at a time from former friends, enemies, and lovers of Woody (Best Actor winner Bruce Dern), on the road from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska with his son David (SNL alum Will Forte).

Clint Eastwood has directed a sly war film that, on the surface, is a laudatory biography of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in American history, but is, in fact, a shrewd critique of the warrior mentality.

Director Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) and screenwriter Susan Coyne (in her feature debut) adapt Les Stanford's book with a mix of fantasy and biography, never making the commitment to either that might have elevated the film beyond merely pleasant holiday distraction.

Filmmaker Sally Potter combines the experimental tools and feminist approach of her earlier films with art - house style and more conventional narrative storytelling to find the cinematic counterpart to Virginia Woolf's writing in this 1992 adaptation of Woolf's novel «Orlando: A Biography.»