Sentences with phrase «narrative drama film»

In many ways, Mercury 13 feels like a blueprint for a feature narrative drama film.

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Formulaic, cheesy with its fluff and histrionics, - to the point of superficializing a sense of narrative weight, and inconsistent with its tone, pacing and overall structure, this film falls as a pretty forgettable war drama, flavored up by the decent visual style, worthy subject matter, lively direction and endearing performances which secure Jesse Hibbs» «To Hell and Back» as an almost thoroughly entertaining and sometimes effective, if ultimately underwhelming account of Audie Murphy's struggles as a farm boy - turned - military man.

One has to question just how formulaic this epic Roman drama is, because the formula was still fresh by the time this film came along, establishing certain tropes that would be shamelessly slammed into by future epics of this type time and again, and yet, outside of what would go on to become conventions, this film does most of what you'd expect, with a predictable narrative, storytelling style, dialogue, and, for that matter, portrayal of Ancient Rome.

Earnestly presented and well acted, particularly by newcomer Nicole Beharie in the central role, the film shares with many other such agenda - driven dramas a complete lack of narrative surprise, merely connecting the dots.

Both films integrated social issues into their narrative fabric quite naturally, even though Creed was angled more as a sports drama.

Owing more to sports drama pacing than you are anticipating (the film is co-produced by ESPN's film division), the film is so vibrantly alive as to never succumb to the sluggish pitfalls of overly familiar narrative structures.

They include songs from animated films, documentaries, period narratives, comedies, and dramas.

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.

This docu - drama from director Jeff Unay plays like a feature film with a narrative following the real - life story of a fighter named Joe Carman.

Unfortunately, the narrative frequently diverts the story away from the gripping chamber drama at the heart of the film.

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The many narrative layers of this drama should fit reasonably snug in the context of the plot's progression, but if there is a sense of excess to the material, then it is stressed by a sense of episodicity, which sees the film spending too much time with each segment, yet not enough to flesh them out enough to make the eventual focal shifts smooth.

However, even though there are a decent number of heavy - hitting action set - pieces, Killer Elite is a narrative mess that convolutes a pretty straight - forward plot with loads of bizarre character relationships and added «drama» in an attempt to elevate the film beyond a throwaway action experience.

In Chloé Zhao's resoundingly human film The Rider, the narrative is framed as both documentary and drama focused on 20 - year - old rising rodeo star Brady Blackburn (played by Brady Jandreau) as he undergoes a crisis of identity.

She may be the last relatively untapped figure in British heritage cinema's well - worn library of queenly narratives, but she has once more been passed over for the privilege of fronting the latest middlebrow, true - life royal drama, fast becoming an annual fixture on the UK film calendar.

The film's drama depends on two narrative strands that eventually converge.

These are the only films among his 17 features and TV dramas in which Leigh focuses the narrative on a single character.

When writer / director Paul Thomas Anderson made his acclaimed drama «The Master» (2012), he originally intended to shoot roughly 20 % of his tale of an alienated young man (Joaquin Phoenix) falling under the spell of the charismatic leader of a new religious movement (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in 70 mm, but wound up shooting nearly the entire thing in the process (the first narrative film to do so since the aforementioned «Hamlet»).

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If you like your tight - scripted drama with a compelling narrative that's effortlessly portrayed by a wonderful ensemble cast, then this is definitely your kind of film.

Kwedar's preternatural ability to blend high drama with explosive pressure cooking won him and his film the Audience Award for Narrative Competition at this year's SXSW Film Festival and, arguably more importantly, near universal praise.

Hyper - grisly imagery alongside a ludicrous narrative, with a twist and a completely far - fetched resolution thrown in for good measure, makes for a film that isn't a serious drama or archetypal thriller.

Visual foreshadowing for tragic narrative turns are so pointed in this film that more often then not, it feels like a calculated articulation of what a serious prestige picture should like instead of an organic and rewarding drama.

And yet, while the film boasts great performances, the narrative and overall drama lacks the ferocity, momentum and intensity of Gray's other work.

Johnnie To is most famous for his «Election» films, gripping crime dramas about rival gangs and who controls them, but before he made those, he directed a film (with Wai Ka - Fai) that oozes charm, a clever narrative structure and excellent action sequences.

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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.

Originally aired in 1986, and featuring Michael Gambon in a tour - de-force performance as psoriasis - deformed writer Philip E. Marlow, The Singing Detective fused three narratives: a present - day drama about a psychiatrist trying to get the root of Marlow's childhood trauma, flashbacks to the writer's past, and a Raymond Chandler - eseque 1940s film noir fantasy.

It's quite an ambitious project for Ford in only his second film but he's able to keep command of all the narratives and manages to combine a reflective drama with a mysterious, psychological thriller while bringing it all together to make a complete and coherent whole.

There is a special power to the drama of this film, in the way its narrative is constructed.

Winner of the Teddy Award for best LGBT narrative film at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, Malgorzata Szumowksa's Polish drama «In the Name Of» sensitivity approaches the central character of a gay priest.

Now, Schepisi has filmed The Eye of the Storm from a screenplay by former actor, Judy Morris, and while sticking to the overall trajectory of White's narrative, he has honed persuasive drama from the family tensions at its heart.

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The film is an action, drama, mystery and considering its main narrative, we as an audience should be gripped to our seats, as we take this intense journey with Doucette, as he solves the mystery of his kidnapping one step at a time.

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Personal Shopper is anything but formulaic as Assayas reteams with Stewart juggling narratives in this genre bending thriller / drama / horror film.

Without a substantial heroine driving the narrative, in a plot that is too light on fantasy and mystery, The Legend of Longwood fails to make much impact, despite its captivating façade and unfortunately the film becomes just another forgettable adventure quest drama.

Something of a cross between a drama and a thriller, the film works for the most part, delivering a somewhat engaging narrative while loosely giving us the skeleton of a real story.

Shults takes what on the surface is just another indie drama about family dysfunction, but he seems to have filmmaking instincts in his bones, even for his first feature, that it is no surprise the film received the Grand Jury Award and Audience Award in the narrative feature competition at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival.

But where recent films like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and A Most Wanted Man are absorbing, smartly crafted espionage dramas, Red Sparrow only manages to bring the same amount of intrigue in short bursts and does so without making any significant statements about the current political landscape, despite how deeply ingrained the Russian narrative is in today's 24 - hour news cycle.

Mudbound (Netflix) A quartet of nominations speak to a wide array of talent in this post-WWII period drama: Director Dee Rees and Virgil Williams adapted the sprawling, racially charged novel's many narrative points of view into a manageable shape; Rachel Morrison brought a pastoral grandeur as the film's cinematographer; and Mary J. Blige does double duty, contributing a moving performance as well as the original song, «Mighty River,» with Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson.

DuVernay's first narrative feature, the 2010 drama, «I Will Follow,» was hailed by Ebert as «one of the best films I've seen about the loss of a loved one.»

This intense involvement on the part of the viewer — clearly the reason the film works so well as a suspenseful prison drama — can be attributed to Bresson's respect for the limitations of the narrative first person.

A little seen and vastly underrated skid row drama, the film nimbly eschews convention, sidestepping almost every narrative beat associated with the boxing genre.

Brad Pitt and Emma Thompson, will narrate the film... Marcel Ophüls is planning a film about Ernst Lubitsch to star Dustin Hoffman, with Jeanne Moreau as Lubitsch's private secretary... Errol Morris is underway on Holland, Michigan, a narrative feature starring Naomi Watts, Bryan Cranston, and Edgar Ramirez... David Fincher is re-teaming with producer Scott Rudin and writer Aaron Sorkin on a Steve Jobs biopic based on Walter Isaacson's biography and structured around three pivotal moments in Jobs's life... Hot from HBO's True Detective, Cary Fukunaga is directing Idris Elba in Beasts of No Nation, a drama about child soldiers in Ghana...

As it turns out, the refugees are even more peripheral, almost invisible (including the Moroccan household staff members) to the film's narrative, which suggests Happy End is pointing a wagging finger at the entirety of white, privileged Europe, a continent engaged in her own foolhardy, manipulative dramas, happily ambivalent to anything beyond the safety and convenience of self - imposed blinders.

Instead of allowing the drama to unfold naturally, which this rich emotional story so grounded in reality seems to warrant, the film insistently relies on breaking the narrative drama onscreen, with voice - over narration accompanied by undeniably sublime visuals.