Sentences with phrase «first dramatic film»

Back for his first dramatic film role in six years, Cannon highlights the benefits of his unconventional rise in the entertainment industry, what he learned working under the prolific Spike Lee, and what he feels audiences should really be upset about.

The first dramatic film by Woody Allen comes to high definition on 14th February 2017.

Variety reports that Anchorman «s Adam McKay will direct his first dramatic film with The Big Shot, based on the book written by Michael Lewis of Moneyball fame.

Not exact matches

Abby Epstein, the director of Lake's documentary, said she planned on having her first child at home, but complications gave the film an unexpectedly dramatic climax.

After the first third of the film, the rest drags, some of the punch lines flop and dramatic moments that attempt to diversify the film's humor aren't emotional.

The first feature from Rupert Goold, artistic director of London's Almeida Theatre, the film owes a dramatic and stylistic debt to Capote, another stage veteran's big - screen debut about the complicated relationship between a prisoner facing a murder rap and the writer looking to capitalize on his experiences.

Historically important as the first CinemaScope feature film, 20th Century - Fox's The Robe is fine dramatic entertainment in its own right.

But, in all fairness, the first is simply a matter of dramatic license, which any film would and does undertake when confronted with adapting real life, or even a novel, to the screen.

Fourth: the first half (idiotic toilet humour, animals masturbating etc.) is suddenly pushed out of the way to make way for a very emotive and dramatic second half which makes the film feel incredibly awkward... and do you know what?

(His first two films were featured at Ebertfest, where Nichols told us that Michael Shannon, who played intensely dramatic roles in his earlier films, brings comic relief to «Mud.»)

The first films were very visually colorful and narratively dramatic, with big things happening and characters rising to heroic levels.

The first film was a fairly brilliant meditation on the American dream, and while Magic Mike XXL appears to be a more playful film, I'm hoping that dramatic hook remains intact.

Yan caught Warner Bros. / DC's attention with her first feature film, Dead Pigs, which won the World Cinema Dramatic Award For Ensemble Acting at Sundance.

She was a 2016 Sundance Feature Film Creative Producing Fellow with the film Monsters and Men, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature.

The first half of the film, charting our heroine's domestic problems, are mostly just depressing, And the film's third act seems to have been stuck on just to give the story a dramatic conclusion.

One of the biggest discoveries and best films of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival is a Belgian dramatic feature titled Girl, from first - time filmmaker Lukas Dhont.

At the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, she became the first African - American woman to win the Best Director prize for her second feature film, Middle of Nowhere (US Dramatic Competition).

In the first year of the Academy Awards, there were two awards for directorship: one for direction of a dramatic film, another for comedy direction.

She is completely fascinating in her first scene, performing a dramatic monologue about immigration while standing inside a corporate grocery store, and just as curious in the next, silently mashing her face into a pile of cheese curls while filming herself with an iPhone.

As written by its trio of writers (with Jessica Goldberg joined by first time screenwriters Katie Nehara and Justin Shilton), its dramatic possibilities are severely downplayed, instead attempting to reflect meaning off intertextual echoes borrowed from Chekov's The Cherry Orchard (the play being staged within the film).

Dern isn't required to do much except look utterly lost for most of the film, while Forte feels completely out of place in his first dramatic role.

Set between the two World Wars and inspired by actual events, «Bitter Harvest» is the first major dramatic film to convey the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by Joseph Stalin that killed millions in Ukraine.

For his first London film, however, he chose the dramatic register to portray sexual impulses as antagonistic to the upper class and pernicious for its aspirants.

The animated family adventure film The Adventures of Tintin arrives first on December 23rd, followed by what appears to be his awards contender for the year, the dramatic and uplifting War Horse.

The trailer also lets everyone know that this film will go back to the more dramatic tone of the first «Cars» film rather than the light - hearted spy romp that was «Cars 2».

That makes this film even more dramatic and intense throughout than the first film.

Melinda and Melinda: Two playwrights each construct a different scenario from the same premise — one comic, one dramatic — and we see both in Woody Allen's first film since «Deconstructing Harry» (1997) that's not dull, flawed, overly nostalgic or some deadly combination of all three.

Since retiring from show business, Day has devoted herself to her first love with the Doris Day Animal Foundation.This documentary details her dramatic life story and career, guided by Doris along with famous friends (Betty White, Clint Eastwood) and admirers (film critics Roger Ebert and Molly Haskell).

Pictures» dramatic thriller «Unforgettable» is the first film in the director's chair for veteran producer Denise Di Novi («Crazy, Stupid,...

Pictures» dramatic thriller «Unforgettable» is the first film in the director's chair for veteran producer Denise Di Novi («Crazy, Stupid, Love,» «Focus»).

But Michôd also sandbags himself with a charisma - free hero, whose most dramatic act in the first two - thirds of the film is scraping the burned bits off his toast.

The complexity of the screenplay by Seth Grossman really starts to build after the first thirty minutes of the film and steps out of the calm, leading into something very dramatic and emotional, which surprised me.

Presenting the world premieres of sixteen narrative feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film.

Purportedly a heist film — we know almost immediately that the story is headed in this direction — the movie surprisingly has most of its dramatic tension in the first half, during the scenes between Gal and Logan.

Tatum and Hill are great together, and as happens in the first film, the narrative too quickly splits the guys apart with a strained dramatic arc that drops the funny and drags out the middle stretch of the picture far too long.

It almost entirely duplicates the same dramatic notes and plot points of the first «Star Wars» film for both good and bad effect.

For all those worried about it being too juvenile and not up to the dramatic standard of Wall - E or Up... you are failing to see that the trailers are meant to sell the film to the biggest possible audience and the first people they need to rope in are the younger crowd.

For the first time this is a film that I think truly deserves the preferred «performance capture» label over the more commonly used «motion capture» one, as the Na «vi do come off not so much as computer - generated creations (see: any Robert Zemeckis - directed mo - cap endeavor) than true (pardon the pun) avatars for genuine dramatic performances.

Written by Bob Nelson (the first time Payne wasn't directly involved in writing a film he's directed), the comedic drama stars Bruce Dern (who won best actor at Cannes and is a shoo - in for his first Oscar nomination in over 35 years) and Will Forte (of «Saturday Night Live» fame, pulling off a largely dramatic role) as a father and son road tripping it from Montana to Nebraska to claim the alleged prize money the mentally deteriorating father thinks he's won.

8:00 pm — TCM — The Wizard of Oz Breakout role for Judy Garland, one of the earlier Technicolor films (and one of the first to mix black and white with Technicolor to dramatic effect), and one of the few adaptations where the film is better than the book.

(A few close - ups in the film's first third admittedly feel rather Wellesian, but King often recognized the dramatic impact of the close - up and holding on an actor's face.)

According to the festival, 2,051 dramatic films and 1,573 documentaries were submitted, of which 121 features — 58 by first - time directors — made the cut.

The film stars Betty Grable (singer, dancer and pin - up legend in her first dramatic role) and Carole Landis as sisters Jill and Vicky Lynn, who quickly shed their homespun sensibilities as they fend for themselves in New York City.

Joachim Trier's first English - language film and third feature, «Louder Than Bombs,» is heavy in dramatic material...

But «Devil's Knot,» the first dramatic feature film to take on the issue, has a few things securing our attention.

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Once Forman stages his first recreation of bits from Kaufman's standup act, the film sets into cruise control, offering reenactment after reenactment of keystone events and performances in Kaufman's career (including his infamous «feud» with wrestler Jerry Lawler), with few moments of downtime in between and even less dramatic momentum to string it all together.

Singer's first feature film, Public Access, was co-winner of the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival.

First is Sting's dramatic Oscar - nominated end credits anthem «My Funny Friend and Me» (2:54), presented as a hybrid of a music video and the artist's reflections about working on the film (a sterilized abbreviation of production, to be sure).

This is McKay's first dramatic turn after directing broad comedies like Anchorman, and The Other Guys, and he handles the change well, infusing the film with much needed levity when needed.