Sentences with phrase «historical drama film»

Gladiator is a 2000 epic historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott and written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson....

In 2017, Will Tilston played in Simon Curtis's historical drama film «Goodbye Christopher Robin».

The Duellists is a 1977 historical drama film and the directorial debut of Ridley Scott.

We also know that when Schneiderman finishes up another stressful day at the AG's office, he likes to kick his feet up and unwind with a nice historical drama film — preferably about WW II.

Not exact matches

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

Whether it's the latest superhero reboot, science fiction thriller or historical epic drama, the effects - driven juggernaut that powers the modern film industry seems to continually overlook subaquatic cinema.

Adonaijah Owiriwa and Izu Ojukwu's movie, «76» a 2016 Nigerian historical fiction drama film which stars Ramsey Nouah, Chidi Mokeme, Rita Dominic and Ibinabo Fiberesima, won in five categories, which includes, Best Actress in Drama / TV / Movies (Rita Dominic), Best Director (Izu Ojukwu), Best Art Director (Pat Nebo), Best Costume Designer (Pat Egwurdrama film which stars Ramsey Nouah, Chidi Mokeme, Rita Dominic and Ibinabo Fiberesima, won in five categories, which includes, Best Actress in Drama / TV / Movies (Rita Dominic), Best Director (Izu Ojukwu), Best Art Director (Pat Nebo), Best Costume Designer (Pat EgwurDrama / TV / Movies (Rita Dominic), Best Director (Izu Ojukwu), Best Art Director (Pat Nebo), Best Costume Designer (Pat Egwurube).

And so we made this curious film, a historical drama set in the future.

Plus, the historical accuracy Nazis would escalate their anti-Enigma comments if Turing has been placed in the spy drama that ensues in the rest of the film, not to mention the love triangle.

It's a film that often calls attention to its own self - importance and falters when compared to Spielberg's best historical dramas like «Munich» and «Lincoln,» movies that earn their messages instead of just stating them.

Last year saw A Dangerous Method 76, his first historical drama, come to theaters; the year ahead will bring Cronenberg back to modern times as he attempts the difficult task of translating Don DeLillo's 2003 novel Cosmopolis to film.

I'm not used to historical dramas having sequels — it's a privilege usually reserved for the less wordy and more spectacular of Hollywood films.

During his unprecedented twenty - seven - year tenure at Warner Bros., he directed swashbuckling adventures, westerns, musicals, war epics, historical dramas, horror films, melodramas, comedies, and film noir masterpieces.

In television, Sutherland won both Emmy and Golden Globe awards as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the HBO film Citizen X, and he won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Clark Clifford, advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson, in the HBO historical drama Path to War.

The politics that shape the film's second half remain more vague than they should be, although that helps this film be more of a human drama than an historical one.

But it seems to me that these historical dramas that you have recently made are simultaneously critiques of the sort of historical films that have recently been produced in Germany.

Writer - director Roland Joffé has built a career on narratives of white men in foreign territories, with films like The Killing Fields, The Mission, and City of Joy being notable (and tiresome) examples of a distinctly middlebrow breed of the historical drama that locates subaltern longing through an imperialist lens.

His new film is another historical drama, though with a bit lighter tone due to its music, dance, and coming - of - age / romance elements.

Language: Russian Genre: Drama / Biography MPAA rating: NR Director: Andrei Tarkovsky Actors: Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya Plot: A Russian man in his 40s is going to die - he reflects back on growing up during WWII, his adolescence and family in a film that mixes flashbacks with historical footage to tell a personal story but also explore the story of Russia itself.

The 12 nominations for «The King's Speech» — including crucial nods in key categories such as Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay — means Tom Hooper's historical drama (and not David Fincher's Facebook film) is -LSB-...]

It's the kind of costume drama that BAFTA usually eats up, about an important historical event, and an excellent film to boot, except of course, it's about a black woman, and directed by a black woman, so why would it be nominated?

For top dramatic pictures, the selections made by the HFPA's fewer than 100 voters were the historical drama «12 Years a Slave»; the Somali piracy thriller «Captain Phillips»; the 3 - D space spectacle «Gravity»; «Philomena,» about a mother's search for her son; and the car racing film «Rush.»

Compared to other historical dramas, the look of the film works well enough but isn't all that impressive.

Is this intended to be a devoutly Christian film a la God's Not Dead, or is it more of a historical drama using Biblical figures?

Approached more like a war film than a historical drama, Bigelow's latest movie is harrowing, upsetting, and demands to be seen.

On the import front comes a couple of Asian action films — the Hong Kong gangster drama «Triad Underworld» (Palisades Tartan) and Malaysian historical spectacle «Clash of Empires» (Image)-- plus Amos Gitai's «Carmel» (Kino Lorber) from Israel and «The Colors of the Mountains» (Film Movement) from Colombia.

While British films can sometimes be regarded with great affection at home, they rarely do well abroad — unless they happen to be the sort of strait - laced Bonham Carter historical dramas or soppy Hugh Grant contemporary rom - coms that pander to comfortable stereotypes for a foreign market.

Jennifer Lawrence had once planned to reunite with her Hunger Games director Gary Ross for the historical drama Burial Rites, but now that film is coming to life with Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino at the helm.

Norwegian writer Petter Skavland, who penned the screenplay for 2012 historical drama Kon - Tiki, has written the film.

Inspired by the true - life events confronting Abraham Lincoln and his monumental moral and political challenge to amend the United States Constitution to permanently abolish slavery, and based in part on the book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln» by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lincoln is a rich and compelling historical and human drama that has been hailed as one of the best film of the year.

It may not be Wright's best film (that honor likely goes to Atonement) nor is it his most exciting (I'm a huge Hannah stan personally) and it's very far from his lower - tier material (The Soloist, Pan) but Darkest Hour sees the English auteur flexing his muscles in new and exciting ways, turning historical nonfiction into a calculated character study, an intoxicating courtroom drama and an electrifying thriller in its own right.

Winner of the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Hou Hsiao - hsien's («Flight of the Red Balloon») first film in eight years, The Assassin (Nie yin niang), may initially seem out of character for a director whose previous work has been in realistic social dramas set in a contemporary historical context.

Landesman's handle on this film is mostly solid, and there are swell performances all around — this is one of those historical dramas where every supporting character is someone you «know.»

Ambitious historical dramas, animated films, ensemble capers, epic fantasies... all have yielded their fair share of star - studded casts.

He's also proud of his two new films, the subtle romantic comedy «Tumbledown,» which opens Friday, and the historical drama «Race,» opening Feb. 19, in which he plays the coach of famed African American athlete Jesse Owens (Stephan James), who won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics in 1936.

«Straight Outta Compton» standout Jason Mitchell proves that film was no fluke in «Pariah» filmmaker Dee Rees» powerful historical drama, which hits Netflix Friday.

Classically - trained British actress Emily Mortimer has taken on everything from screwball comedy to historical drama to teen slasher films.

Before he went a bit silly, John Milius did direct a couple of fine films - the taut crime drama Dillinger, and then the sweeping historical adventure The Wind and the Lion, which tells the story of President Roosevelt (the first) sending in troops to rescue an American family taken hostage by a Moroccan chieftain played by Sean Connery.

Highlights include the new Keanu Reeves - fronted film from director Eli Roth, Knock, Knock and the feature directorial debut of new The Crow director Corin Hardy, The Hallow, as well as Spotlight consideration for films that have previously premiered elsewhere like the Andrew Garfield - fronted housing crisis drama 99 Homes and the historical drama» 71, starring Jack O'Connell.

Other examples of historical characters in biographies in the 1930 - 40s included Norman Taurog's children's dramatic film Young Tom Edison (1940) about the famed inventor (Mickey Rooney), The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939), the historical drama Marie Antoinette (1938) about the famous Austrian princess who married future King Louis XVI, Michael Curtiz» costume drama The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), and Mervyn LeRoy's oft - nominated Madame Curie (1943) with Greer Garson as the title character researching radioactivity with her husband Pierre (Walter Pidgeon).

Clearly, female filmmakers don't make only rom - coms; they also make historical dramas, adaptions of novels, musicals, animated films and workplace films.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 1911 (Unrated) Jackie Chan directed and stars in this historical drama recounting the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty which led to the founding of the Republic of China.

Here, he talks about his short film, American, a historical drama about the above - mentioned roundup and relocation of over 100,000 Japanese - American citizens during World War II.

Hell, it's a point I've made multiple times over the years, and since Harris includes in the latter category the sort of costume dramas and comparatively straightforward historical narratives that more or less dominated the upper ranks of Slant's top 25 films of the year — namely A Quiet Passion, Phantom Thread, and The Lost City of Z — we self - servingly agree.

This is in no way even a partial view of the scope of the film (which plays like a miniseries but is cinematic in nearly every other way), which encompasses historical fiction, religion, migration, infidelity, camp, drama, comedy, Prospect Park, and Antartica in its vastness.

It's a safe bet that the acclaimed historical drama will steamroll through the Spirits, securing nominations for film, director Steve McQueen, actors Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong» o and writer John Ridley.

The film marks the first foray into CGI - heavy blockbusters for Ava DuVernay, who has garnered widespread acclaim for both her historical drama (Selma) and documentary work (13th).

«We're generally very selective about our historical dramas; our audience gravitates more towards contemporary portrayals so we have to make sure we have a very special film on our hands for this genre,» noted Lundberg.

Brendan Coyle (John Bates): Plays English politician Augustine Birrell in the historical Irish film drama «The Rising.»

The film represents an Academy sweet spot; much like «The King's Speech,» or «Ghandi,» it's a literate historical drama with visual panache.