Sentences with phrase «kitchen sink drama»

Pierre David's early productions spanned genres, from documentary (A Child Like Any Other, 1972) and kitchen sink drama (Les colombes, 1972) to broad comedy (J'ai mon voyage, 1973) and prestige pic (Je t» aime, 1974, with the late Jeanne Moreau).

Down Terrace is a surprising film, fitting in more to the kitchen sink drama mould of British filmmaking than the thumping soundtrack and bravado of Guy Richie's criminal visions.

Watching her over the last 18 months has been like seeing a children's animation turn into a bleak kitchen sink drama.

No doubt Allen looked to British kitchen sink dramas and the work of -LSB-...]

Broadcaster Stuart Maconie discusses John Schlesinger's A Kind of Loving in the Northern context of the British New Wave / kitchen sink dramas, which changed the way that the working classes were being portrayed in film.

Without the merest hint of a steadicam (another great surprise, seeing as they're part and parcel of kitchen sink dramas it would appear), Considine concentrates on the individuals and the transitions they make.

But in the early 1960s, British films surged with working - class talent, making gritty, funny kitchen sink dramas

Not exact matches

There isn't enough of that exciting «kitchen sink» messiness in this otherwise conventional «prestige» drama.

This is both a reminder of British sexual mores in the darker days of the Fifties and one of the first attempts in a genre that was later referred to as kitchen - sink drama.

It's magical realism mixed with kitchen - sink drama, seasoned by a haunting sense of history as a sentient entity.

That play ushered in a new era in British theater, often qualified as «kitchen - sink drama,» which featured «angry young men» railing at the confines of working - class and lower - middle - class life in the Britain of the fifties and early sixties.

But ultimately, there isn't enough of that exciting «kitchen sink» messiness in this otherwise conventional «prestige» drama.

Modern day successors to Oldman's superlative kitchen - sink drama can be found in the form of Shane Meadows» work, as well as Paddy Considine's own debut feature from 2011, Tyrannosaur.

Despite its British kitchen - sink drama tag, Eben Bolter's (Greyhawk) cinematography transcends the dreek and grey tone often associated with the genre, into something quite exquisite.

Playing out like a Ken Loach, kitchen - sink drama, this is a grim and unflinching look at poverty and addiction.

Very much a kitchen - sink drama — the family kitchen is the dramatic hub for much of the film — shot in a more or less documentary style and featuring terrific performances by nonprofessionals, the film takes a no - frills dramatic approach that could be roughly located on a Cassavetes - Dardennes spectrum, and uses it to intensely revealing and moving effect.

The film flags somewhat in the moments it loses sight of its politics; but, while the balance between kitchen - sink drama and colonial analysis is sometimes uneven, the civil war background provides enough tension to carry some of the film's weaker moments.

To be sure, all but the Competition's worst (Paolo Sorrentino's self - indulgent, arthritic Youth) had some redeeming facet — from Tim Roth's quietly contained performance as a home nurse in Michel Franco's unpleasantly antiseptic Chronic (the Best Screenplay winner) to the everything - but - the - kitchen - sink turn by Emmanuelle Bercot (shared Best Actress prize) in Maïwenn's overwrought relationship drama Mon Roi, possibly my festival guilty pleasure, if such a thing is necessary.

Zero - budget British thriller which has a preposterous hi - tech espionage plot, despite looking as dingy and grey as any kitchen - sink drama.

SHAUN OF THE DEAD is a crisp and lethally funny blend of B - movie monsters and those «kitchen sink» dramas from Britain's theatrical renaissance of the late 50s and early 60s.

Perhaps the most widely polarizing film in recent memory, Kill List, a kitchen - sink drama meets surreal cult horror hybrid, confirmed at least one thing for everyone who walked out of the theater, both awed and annoyed alike: Whether for good or for ill, Ben Wheatley is one of Britain's most interesting contemporary filmmakers.

In the end, Warrior is a kitchen - sink drama first and an MMA movie second.

Corbijn's first film Control, a biopic about Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, displayed a distinctive European influence with the film feeling like something Swedish director Ingmar Bergman would have made if he were to have made an English kitchen - sink drama.

Marsan, a veteran of Mike Leigh's kitchen - sink dramas, is one of the pub - crawling pals.

Tom Courtenay, most famous perhaps for his portrayal in «Dr. Zhivago» and known for social - realist «kitchen sink» drama of the sixties, turns in a performance (did I say «restrained»?)

His use of a spaghetti western theme throughout a «kitchen - sink» family drama is a wonderful touch though.