Sentences with phrase «gritty social realism»

It sometimes feels that the British film industry only makes about three or four different kinds of movies: dreadful gangster films that rarely get a release abroad, gritty social realism pictures, period costume dramas, and semi-quirky comedies with a tearjerking side, exemplified by something like «Billy Elliot» or «The Full Monty,» but more often turning out like «Calendar Girls» or «Song For Marion.»

Here, Loach's film takes an abrupt turn from his customary gritty social realism to gently zany caper movie.

A mysterious and intimate fable in the guise of gritty social realism, simply and powerfully acted.

Not exact matches

Lush Life is an Xray of the street in the age of no broken windows and «quality of life» squads, from a writer whose «tough, gritty brand of social realism... reads like a movie in prose» (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).

In New York, he studied with Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League in the 1940s, and became attuned to Marsh's gritty brand of social realism, honed during the Depression.

The origins of Social Realism lie in the Ashcan School painters, who in the first decades of the 20th century depicted the commonplace, gritty, and unglamorous realities of city life.