Sentences with phrase «for effective drama»

As «Frost / Nixon» continues to pop up as a formidable guild contender this awards season, I must say, despite my personal appreciation for the effective drama, I'm a little surprised.

Not exact matches

Naeem Khan knows how to bring effective drama on the runway when it's time for him to showcase his collection during NYFW.

Though her only true experience as a thief resulted in the stealing of an apple from a New York deli when directors DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter encouraged her to engage in a minor bit of thievery in preparation for her role as a shoplifter in the 2001 drama Lift, Washington ultimately proved so convincing and effective in the role that she received a nomination as Best Female Lead at the 2002 Independent Spirit Awards.

An overall effective drama, notable for its strong central performance.

Some of the most effective dramas about heads of state (for instance, The Queen or Becket) are displaced romances where the combative relationship between ruler and adviser mimics that of soul mates.

Strikingly silhouetted against the movement of streets and tunnels, central couple Murphy and Electra for once look exactly like the monumental archetypes the movie is trying to make them out to be, and as their squabbling reaches new lows of viciousness and abuse, they become riveting — proof of how much drama can depend on an effective backdrop.

Rating: 8/10 — featuring Pacino's most effective and rewarding screen performance for some time, Paterno rightly keeps its focus on its leading character while also exposing the hypocrisy and deception going on around him; an intelligent but modest drama that packs an emotional wallop when it needs to, it's also a movie that successfully avoids being exploitative or insensitive.

He's just finished wrangling a dream cast of older actors (including Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren) into an effective fighting team for Red, and now director Robert Schwentke might just be looking to bring a long - gestating drama project back from the depths of development limbo, as he's become attached like a barnacle to submarine pic Shadow Divers.

Terse writing makes for an effective, if talky, drama.

The gradually building drama is effective, however for many the pace of the film will be too slow for real enjoyment.

Ideal for drama lessons but just as effective in an English classroom... REGAN: That's a brilliant cuppa, Sis.

The observations made in this case study show that drama can be integrated into academic classrooms as an effective approach for engaging students in active participation in their learning while helping them make connections between historical and contemporary world issues.

This school faces $ 451,000 in cuts which will result in class sizes over 40 in the primary grades, loss of many highly effective teachers, along with drama and fine arts education, and a severe reduction in their ability to provide for the school's high special needs population.

Albrecht Goertz's gorgeous 503 could not have come at a worse time for BMW, as Douglas Blain explains in Drama Queen / In 1966 and All That, Steve Welsh reports from the unrivalled Goodwood Revival historic race meeting, which this year marked 50 years since Australian driver Jack Brabham won the Formula One World Championship in a car of his construction / Kit Foster tells the story of the American Underslung, the first American sports car, and examines one of the prized survivors of this pioneering but short - lived marque in Swing low, sweet chariot / In his article, Cross-Channel concours, Jörg Sierks chooses his favourites from two prestigious concours events, held on the same weekend on opposite sides of the English Channel / With the help of rarely seen archive photographs, D'Arcy Lever looks back at the highly effective trials specials built by Sydney Allard before World War Two.

Drama is not an effective method for getting your guy to do something.