Sentences with phrase «films span the decades»

His films span decades and genres, from sci - fi classics to historical dramas.

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The film spans several decades, following Corinne from a young girl who half - heartedly proclaims herself to be saved by Jesus to a teenager who marries when she becomes pregnant to a woman ensconced in a deeply religious community after she and her husband come to believe that God has saved their baby.

The renowned British actor starred in more than 200 films and TV series during an illustrious career which spanned six decades.

As a professional dancer, his career spans over a decade on stage and in film and TV productions collaborating with international stars like Chaka Khan, The Weather Girls, Haddaway, and many more.

Although billed as a romantic comedy, this film is neither: it's a drama spanning about two decades in a marriage

Good things tend to come when Michael Winterbottom works with star Steve Coogan (24 Hour Party People, Tristram Shandy, The Trip), so we're happy to see Coogan starring as infamous British pornographer, club - owner, real estate developer, multi-millionaire, and so - called «King of Soho» Paul Raymond in a dramedy that spans decades and includes scenes shot in black - and - white and color, constantly changing to match the film styles of each period.

Many of those in Terrence Malick's exquisite and also exasperating new film — his fifth in a career spanning four decades — are remarkable for their grandeur: billowing volcanoes, churning geysers, hissing fumaroles, spiral nebulas seen through the eye of the Hubble space telescope.

Starting as just a child, the film spans two decades of Marjane's life as she struggles to cope with all of the difficulties that come with adolescence, the teenage years and early adulthood; coupled with the strife of her nation.

By Sloan De Forest Spanning nine decades and branded by the most trusted authority on film, Turner Classic Movies: Must - See Sci - Fi showcases 50 of the most shocking, weird, wonderful, and mind - bending movies ever made.

While the film doesn't span decades, but instead concentrates on a moretightly prescribed patch of time in Darwin's life, it still proves true an old maxim regarding cinematic postscripts: the more you feel it necessary to say in pre-end credit crawl text, the less you've probably said during the entire rest of your movie's running time.

Cianfrance asks questions about life and legacy too meandering for the film's good, resulting in an admittedly saggier middle section, but he reached way beyond the regular confines of indie cinema with Pines» episodic, decades - spanning tale, and that can not be ignored.

Some of the Things that happen over the course of the decade or so the film spans are as follows: Tomas (Franco) is already having trouble with his girlfriend Sara (Rachel McAdams) in the course of struggling to write a novel, when on the way home one evening, he's involved in an accident that brings him into the orbit of a single mother Kate (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and her young son Christopher.

Singular in its distillation of Schrader's decades - spanning preoccupations of film criticism and filmmaking as well as his religious background, First Reformed is a rare object unified in subject and style.

As the film spans over a decade we see Erik and Paul's relationship go up and down.

I enjoyed learning more about this icon, and Strong's film that spans decades.

While the film doesn't span decades, but instead concentrates on a more tightly prescribed patch of time in Darwin's life, it still proves true an old maxim regarding cinematic postscripts: the more you feel it necessary to say in pre-end credit crawl text, the less you've probably said during the entire rest of your movie's running time.

Alfre Woodard (Narrator) One of most accomplished and talented actresses of her generation, Alfre Woodard won a Best Actress Golden Globe Award for «Miss Evers» Boys,» earned an Oscar nomination for Cross Creek, and has won four Primetime Emmys (Miss Evers» Boys, Hill Street Blues, LA Law, and The Practice) in a prolific film and TV career that has spanned over three decades.

The film encompasses sweeping events spanning nearly a decade...

The film encompasses sweeping events spanning nearly a decade across multiple countries and involving a cast of hundreds.

That becomes something of a crutch in The Cut, his decade - spanning, continent - hopping look at the aftermath of the Armenian genocide, because the film's narrative requires that its embattled protagonist, a refugee named Nazaret (Tahar Rahim), navigate a whole slew of unknown territories and political ideologies over the course of a few decades in the early 20th century.

Well known for their collaboration with David Lynch, Ann Kroeber and Alan Splet's unique sound effects and design work can be heard in dozens of films spanning multiple decades from countless renowned directors including Peter Weir, Philip Kaufman, and Carroll Ballard.

It's not the first time that a studio has released a Frank Sinatra movie collection in conjunction with his birthday, but Warner Bros.» five - disc set — which spans two decades in the singer - turned - actor's film career — is the first one to ever be released on Blu - ray.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 7, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Atonement (R for profanity, sexuality and disturbing war images) Decades - spanning romance drama, opening in England in 1935, about the budding relationship between a rich girl (Keira Knightley) and the son (James McAvoy) of her family's maid aborted when he is falsely accused of a crime by her jealous younger sister (Saoirse Ronan).

One of the most accomplished Foley artists in Hollywood, Hecker has contributed to more than 200 films in a career spanning almost three decades.

Not to be confused with Roger Ebert's documentary Life Itself, this feature film stars Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde as a couple, and spans several decades of time examining passionate relationships and other interactions connected by a single «random moment.»

The film might make an interesting double feature with Jia Zhangke's flawed but ambitious Mountains May Depart, which similarly investigates the relationship between the past and the present; spanning decades, countries, and aspect ratios, the film finds Jia again diagnosing the effects of globalism — this time on a wife, her husband, and her son.

For decades, movie audiences have loved his work in films spanning just about every genre: Poltergeist, Stir Crazy, All The Right Moves, The Family Stone and The Proposal.

With a film career spanning across five decades and an Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe and more on his mantle, there's very little Michael Douglas hasn't done yet.

Friedkin, whose career has spanned six decades, has a new film in theaters next week, the documentary The Devil and Father Amorth.

Spanning nine decades and branded by the most trusted authority on film, Turner Classic Movies: Must - See Sci - Fi showcases 50 of the most shocking, weird, wonderful, and mind - bending movies ever made.

By the time «One Day,» a decades - spanning nonromance, gets around to making one of its main characters seem like an actual human, the film's just about over.

For his narrative feature film debut, Oranges and Sunshine, director Jim Loach chose to tackle a sprawling tale of warped governmental policy, spanning three decades and involving the forced deportation of British kids to Australia.

With more than 140 film credits spanning six decades, Canadian - born Sutherland began his career with small roles in British and Italian films before his breakthrough in The Dirty Dozen.

Scorsese's film spans several decades, and he's employing Rogue One — style CGI to de-age the actors in the film.

Everyone) on board to tell this decade - spanning tale of an apocalyptic fight against the darkness, this film is definitely playing for keeps in a crowded superhero market.

Spanning several decades and multiple intersecting lives, it's at once an ambitious, intelligent and occasionally brave film that shows how we are all connected and how even the most negative action can have a positive reaction.

Over the course of a career that spans three decades Frank Henelotter has made his bones in the exploitation subgenre of horror films.

Plans and plotlines that span decades, over the course of dozens of films give Marvel a leg up when it comes to character and backstory.

The film tells the love story of a couple played by Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde, told through multiple generations and spanning both decades and continents.

Bolstered by a sacked cast that includes both rising and established stars like Laura Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Ritter, Common, and Elizabeth Debicki, the film follows successful journalist Jennifer (Dern), who is forced to grapple with an experience that spans decades and leaves her nearly a stranger to herself.

The film Almost a decade in the making before it finally premiered in 2010, Cianfrance's sobering antiromance spans five years, cutting between a couple's magical first days together and the weekend that might prove to be the end of the line.

Sure, Stanley Kubrick had a great film in nearly every genre, others like John Ford are synonymous with Westerns and Woody Allen with a well - written comedy, but take someone like Paul Thomas Anderson, whose oeuvre spans the decades and lifetimes of his misanthropic characters, oftentimes creating an entirely new universe within a specific period or era.

In a film career spanning over three decades, he has brought to the screen some of the most complex and interesting female protagonists in the history of cinema.

The third part in a triptych that spans a decade, Brotherhood is the latest from that one - man UK film industry better known as Noel Clarke.

Prior to the aughts the wait between Malick features spanned decades, now he's released two films in about three years (Tree of Life, To the Wonder).

The Fault in Our Stars helmer Josh Boone wrote the script for the film, which is set in New York City in the 1980s and follows two college friends who fall in love with the same girl, creating a decade - spanning, very unique love story between the threesome.

His movie career spans decades, and he's had his hand in many classic films, from «Gandhi» to «War Games.»

In a career that spanned five decades and more than thirty films, he demonstrated remarkable versatility, with credits ranging from Neil Simon comedies (The Out - o...

May 14, 2018 • Margot Kidder's acting career spanned decades, from TV series in the late 1960s to seven films in the past five years.

The film centers on a couple (Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde) that lead a multi generational love story spanning both decades and continents, from the streets of New York to the Spanish...