Sentences with phrase «historical biopics»

From Clayton Dillard's introduction to Slant Magazine's Top 25 Films of 2014:» In a year when The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game offer a most banal and repressive sort of historical biopic treatment for their respective subjects (and are being largely celebrated nonetheless), it becomes ever more important to draw lines in the cinematic sand to understand what we talk about when we talk about movies.

Critic Consensus: Amazing Grace is your quintessential historical biopic: stately, noble, and with plenty of electrifying performances.

The pitch: An elaborate historical biopic chronicling the rise and fall of Ida Dalser, an ardent follower of Mussolini who would end up marrying the Fascist leader, only to be written out of biography altogether.

Having proved his acting for both fiery soulfulness and stoic secrecy in historical biopics, Boseman brings T'Challa the glance and the aura of a person others can trust and rely on in desperate times.

Better yet, think Duel in the Sun with placeholder Michael Curtiz, a man who never met a stationary camera he didn't romance, as evidenced by his bloated historical biopic Francis of Assisi.

Too much else about «Selma,» however, is in the stiff historical biopic tradition.

HUNGER and SHAME's acclaimed director Steve McQueen looks to past in the forthcoming historical biopic 12 YEARS A SLAVE.

This poignant historical biopic is based on the 1853 autobiography «Twelve Years a Slave» by the real Solomon Northup.

Michael Apted's 2006 historical biopic Amazing Grace, about William Wilberforce's campaign to end the slave trade in the British Empire, far more effectively expressed the political mood of the era as well as exploring how Wilberforce's private and public life affected each other.

The Wilson Yip films, starring Donnie Yen, follow a more conventional historical biopic structure with the great man caught in the sweep of historic events leading to triumph and tragedy; while Wong Kar - wai's The Grandmaster uses Ip as a conduit to explore the passing of one age of China's history into another, with martial arts serving a metaphorical purpose.

Whatever the motivation, the combination of Barney Gumble's poignant art - house film on addiction and Burns» Cecil B. Demille - inspired historical biopic A Burns for All Seasons has made this a perennial favorite.

MUBI kicks off a week dedicated to the Oscars with Richard Attenborough's landmark historical biopic.

Since that film, there have been a string of high - budget films that faltered at the box office including Matthew McConaughey's historical biopic Free State of Jones, Steven Spielberg's children's fantasy The BFG and the action - packed sequel The Huntsman: Winter's War.

The film suffers from a lack of invention, and over saturation of historical biopics, especially in the realm of politics.

Critics Consensus: Amazing Grace is your quintessential historical biopic: stately, noble, and with plenty of electrifying performances.

The Grandmaster (PG - 13 for violence, profanity, smoking and brief drug use) Historical biopic chronicling the life and times of sensei Yip Man (Tony Leung), founder of the karate school attended by the legendary Bruce Lee.

You can expect the kind of respectful approach common in historical biopics, but don't let that lull you.

The stereotype of an Oscar movie is an overlong, stale, historical biopic.

After being named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1998, he landed the role of his father in Steal This Movie, the historical biopic starring Vincent D'Onofrio as»60s activist Abbie Hoffman.

Unfolding between the 1920s - 40s, this historical biopic about the polyamorous relationship between Harvard professor William Marston (Luke Evans), his wife Elizabeth (Rebecca Hall) and their student - turned - lifelong - lover Olive (Bella Heathcote) involved eight years of research as well as consultations with the S&M community.

Leave it to Hong Kong maestro Wong Kar Wai (In the Mood for Love) to reinvent both the historical biopic and Chinese kung fu action movie in one fell swoop.

Ostensibly, «The Danish Girl» is a historical biopic about this courageous transgender figure, but in reality, it's more a love - conquers - all tale in which Lili's wife, Gerda, serves as the emotional core.

The co-writter, director and producer of the historical biopic, First They Killed My Father, which has been honored with the 2017 Best Foreign Film By or About Women award from the Women Film Critics Circle

Angelina Jolie co-wrote, directed and produced the historical biopic, First They Killed My Father, which has been honored with the 2017 Best Foreign Film By or About Women award from the Women Film Critics Circle.

It's also something of a warm - up for Miyazaki's final film, The Wind Rises, a historical biopic about a Japanese aeronautical engineer.

The Wind Rises may be a historical biopic about an aeronautical engineer, but in the hands of animator Hayao Miyazaki, it's less about nuts and bolts than it is about the force of nature.

Cromwell, Ken Hughes» historical biopic, was both an artistic and commercial flop, but it nonetheless was nominated for two Oscars and won one.

The Academy loves themselves some historical biopics, so expect First Man to be in the running for several Oscars if it's any good.

The list includes «Colette,» a historical biopic with Keira Knightley as the famed French novelist; «Monsters and Men,» a drama about police brutality that features John David Washington (son of Denzel); «Wildlife,» a coming - of - age story that marks the directorial debut of Paul Dano; and «The Catcher Was a Spy,» a historical thriller with Paul Rudd.

Scott has been busy reshooting parts of his historical biopic All the Money in the World, having to recast Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer after the former's sexual assault scandal broke.

Finally, I decided not to make a historical biopic but to tell a personal story, sharing my own perspectives and challenges as an Iranian woman director attempting to make a film about an iconic Egyptian singer.»