Sentences with phrase «films centered on»

He is also a highly celebrated filmmaker, particularly of films centered on single subjects including Basquiat (1996); Before Night Falls (2000, based on the memoir of writer Reinaldo Arenas); and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007, based on the life of actor and author Jean - Dominque Bauby).

From his career - defining start with the Coen Brothers on 1984's «Blood Simple,» Burwell's music's has prolifically pushed the emotional possibilities of the art, no more so now than with three films centered on the theme of children.

But this year's slate also featured several films centered on relationships between older women and younger men: Hannah Fidel's A Teacher, which concerns an affair between a high school teacher and a student; Liz W. Garcia's The Lifeguard, in which Kristen Bell takes up with a teenage boy; and Two Mothers, in which Robin Wright and Naomi Watts are friends who each get with the other's teenage son.

It is movingly fitting that one of the only superhuman - based films centered on women (in this case, generations of women with Gugu Mbatha - Raw and her growing star power, underrated television character actor Lorraine Toussaint, and youngster Saniyya Sidney bonding and making amends while also going even further back reading ancestral passages from a handed diary) focuses -LSB-...]

Another year, another batch of superhero films centered on white men.

This week, Marvel announced plans to release a film centered on its Black Panther character in 2017, to be played by Chadwick Boseman.

Part relationship drama, part intellectual discourse, the film centers on a philology professor - played by actual philology professor Raffaele Pinto - and the women surrounding him: his wife and students.

The film centers on a restless thirtysomething New Yorker named Cal (Billy Crudup) who one day drives off into the open road, leaving his wife and infant son behind.

The film centers on child actor turned waiter Andrew, who comes back to his home state of New Jersey for the funeral of his father.

The film centers on two brothers — one (Joaquin Phoenix) a druggie and the manager of a shady nightclub, the other (Mark Wahlberg) a cop with a broomstick up his butt.

The film centers on a beautiful, strong - willed woman, who, frustrated by ongoing injustice at home, leaves the United States after meeting Jude, an American doctor who runs a remote medical mission within the Ottoman Empire — a world both exotic and dangerous, and on the brink of what is about to become the first World War.

Written by blogger / playwright Chiara Atik, the film centers on the titular supernatural services provider, who...

The film centers on a man (Hunnam) threatening to jump from the ledge of a building by noon, and the people down below who are trying to get to the bottom of what's going on.

Directed by Karyn Kusama («Girlfight,» «Jennifer's Body»), the film centers on Will (Logan Marshall - Green), who shows up at a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife Eden (Tammy Blanchard) and her new husband David (Michiel Huisman).

The film centers on the childhood of Mason played by the relatively unknown Ellar Coltrane (Hallettsville, 2009) who began filming this movie as a child TV commercial actor after he and his family agreed to this unorthodox filming schedule.

The film centers on a college student in Mexico who is conned into playing a supernatural version of Truth or Dare.

A Star Wars Anthology spin - off film centered on a younger smuggler, will reportedly be their next effort behind the camera.

The Simon Curtis - directed film centers on Maria Altman (Mirren) who is on a mission to retrieve her family's possessions stripped from them by the Nazis in World War II with the help of a young lawyer, Randol Schoenberg (Reynolds).

Set during a wintery spring in Wyoming, the film centers on Cory Lambert, played by Jeremy Renner (on a break from Avenging,) who plays a hunter.

Playing out like a southern fried Ocean's Eleven, this film centers on brothers Channing Tatum and Adam Driver who team up to rob a NASCAR event at Charlotte Motor Speedway, with the help of their sister (Riley Keough) and an incarcerated explosions expert (Daniel Craig).

The film centers on Churchill's boisterous resistance to the invading German armies, and the disquiet that provokes within his party, which still has a substantial contingent hoping to sue for peace.

Based on the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, the film centers on Simon (Nick Robinson), a high - school teenager with a pretty chill life.

The film centers on Ethan (Mark Duplass) and Sophie (Elisabeth Moss), a couple currently experiencing a rough patch in their marriage.

The film centers on three crooks who set out to find buried treasure alongside a «grizzled old outlaw» (I'm guessing that's Nelson).

This is Sofia Coppola's third film centering on the loneliness of being female and surrounded by a world that knows how to use you but not how to value and understand you.»

And while most of that film centered on the sexual tension between a publishing heiress and the photographer sent to fetch her from an alien - ridden «infected zone,» the world its characters inhabited and their ultimate goal were both defined by a looming alien threat.

The Accountant has somewhat of an original premise as I've never quite seen an action film centered on an autistic assassin / accountant.

The film centers on an aging alcoholic father who decides to take a road trip from Montana...

The film centers on a divorced couple (Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton) who are forced to pretend like they're still married when their adopted son's...

«Beauty and the Beast» and «The Huntsman: Winter's War» scribe Evan Spiliotopoulos is in talks to pen the script for a film centered on popular G.I. Joe character Snake Eyes at Paramount Pictures.

Set in the Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church at the dawn of the twentieth century, Altman's film centers on the relationship between wayward gambler John McCabe (Beatty) and cockney brothel madam Constance Miller (Christie), who partner up to provide the town with a high - class whorehouse.

The film centers on the 1968 equal - rights strike by female workers at the Ford Dagenham factory in East London, with Sally Hawkins reportedly as its Norma Rae figure.

For example, one facet of the film centers on the government's attempt at saving «important» pieces of art and culture throughout the world.

The film centers on a successful graphic designer (Charlie Sheen) whose fame and fortune have made him irresistible...

It may have been the film's humble nature that kept it out of the Oscar spotlight; the film centers on two people uncomfortably trying to shrug off their own historical significance instead of owning it in the way that the women of Hidden Figures did.

Featuring a memorable ensemble cast of both British and American actors, the film centers on a group of reckless criminals that inadvertently become involved in a labyrinth - like plot full of two - timing back stabbers set to the tone of Ritchie's trademark comic violence and tongue in cheek humor.

The film centers on the dilemma of trying to maintain an honorable tradition in the face of a state of modern apathy and the way two people on the opposite sides of a generational gap try to return the culture to its old ways.

The film centers on Sheriff Ray Owens (Schwarzenegger), a former LAPD narcotics officer who moves out to the quiet border town of Sommerton Junction.

Set in early 1990s pre-Giuliani New York, this film centers on Tommy (Michael Pitt) and Rosie (Nina Arianda), a young Queens couple in love and short on cash.

The film centers on Clancy's popular protagonist Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst who in previous films based on Clancy's work has investigated a renegade Soviet submarine (The Hunt for Red October), protected his family from IRA members (Patriot Games), and helped bring an end to a Colombian drug cartel (Clear and Present Danger).

Returning to his native tongue for the first time in a decade, the film centers on Uxbal (Javier Bardem), a working class father who's diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer.

Warner Bros. is also developing a film centered on Dick Grayson - the original Robin - and the superhero he became after leaving Batman and Gotham, Nightwing.

Living up to its title, the film centers on Frank (James Caan), a Chicago man who owns a car dealership and a bar, but really makes his living as a skilled safe - cracker who steals diamonds.

Much of the rest of the film centers on the coverup, that «alibi» and efforts by the Kennedy machine to craft a story that will rescue the senator from a career - ending disaster.

Martel's previous films center on men, there are no heroes here, and dirt is everywhere.

Twenty - three years before Paul Blart first scooted around on his Segway, a film centered on a rather different mall security guard on wheels.

Looking back I actually started thinking about some sort of career in film when I accepted my first «Film Extra» job in Chicago working on the film, The Express, (2007) a true historical film centered on Ernie Davis the first African - American to win the Heisman Trophy in 1961.

The film centers on two young brothers Tommy (Ryan Jones) and Eric (Nathan Varnson) who are enjoying their summer by exploring the woods, wrestling around with friends, and discovering old abandoned houses.

Based on the book by Andy Weir, the film centers on «an astronaut who becomes stranded on Mars and must figure out how to stay alive long enough to get back home.»

The film centers on Alison Miller, whose father is in jail, while her mother had left when she was young.