Sentences with phrase «of autobiographical films»

Davies — who began his career as a master of autobiographical films but has since shifted to very personal literary adaptations like The House Of Mirth and The Deep Blue Sea — has zero intention of bringing this world to life.

Davies made his reputation with a series of autobiographical films — the two distributed in the States were «Distant Voices, Still Lives» and «The Long Day Closes» — that were as brutally depressing as they were aesthetically striking.

Not exact matches

Based on the autobiographical novel by Jan Guillou and set in the mid-1950s, the film relates the experiences of a troubled young man who's enrolled into a hidebound private school.

It's not clear how autobiographical Lady Bird is — Gerwig is from Sacramento and graduated from high school around the time the film is set — but the little slice of universe she shows us feels deeply and lovingly observed.

Told in flashback, the film consists of Chaplin's responses to questioning by fictional publisher George Hayden, who wants to know about the parts left out of the legend's autobiographical book.

Again (like my last year's Number 1 The Tree of Life) a very personal, obviously autobiographical film.

Described as his «most autobiographical» film, it tells the story of celebrated American poet Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon), charting her life from her strong - willed schooldays to her tragically isolated adulthood.

Olivier Assayas» film didn't get much critical attention, with the general party line being that it was a middle - of - the - road autobiographical yarn.

Marty Wolf (Paul Giamatti) is an evil Hollywood producer who steals the vaguely autobiographical writing assignment of pathological liar Jason (Frankie Muniz) and turns it into a big - budget blockbuster that shares its name with this film's title.

The news comes as the film from producer Scott Rudin, and his IACF partner Barry Diller, earned rave reviews at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, such as Scott Foundas» comments in Variety: «Rock has finally found a big - screen vehicle for himself that comes close to capturing the electric wit, shrewd social observations and deeply autobiographical vein of his standup comedy.»

«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your feet.

By taking Jarman's own experiences of AIDS as its subject, the film manages to be personal and autobiographical but also taps into the consciousness of the viewer, who could not possibly be untouched by this global epidemic.

Directed by Rob Marshall of «Chicago» fame, the film is loosely based on Federico Fellini's autobiographical 1963 movie 81/2.

The film, speculatively autobiographical in some of its components, earned Coppola the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 2004.

James Franco's collection of autobiographical short stories is adapted into a remarkably evocative film by Gia Coppola, granddaughter of Francis.

It's one of the most entertaining films you'll ever see, and its moments of obvious exaggeration are as revealing as the moments of autobiographical truth.

For Smoczynska, who came of age inside the confines of a nightclub where her parents worked, the film's autobiographical dimension was eventually phased out by the specificity of Robert Bolesto's screenplay and sisters Barbara and Zuzanna Wrońskie's music.

Like his earlier shorts, Distant Voices was an autobiographical film about growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s, beautiful but somber and almost heartbreaking in its portrait of a family living in fear of its angry, alcoholic father.

James Franco's collection of autobiographical short stories is adapted into a remarkably evocative film by...

The Long Day Closes (Criterion, Blu - ray + DVD Dual Format) brings Terence Davies» autobiographical films to close with the glow of the happiest days of his life.

However, Kendrick's most - anticipated release of the Fall isn't a film, but rather her first book, an «autobiographical collection of essays» entitled, Scrappy Little Nobody, due out Nov. 15.

The Big Red One is Fuller's most autobiographical film, at once an old - fashioned war thriller and a portrait of the insanity and senseless destruction of combat, and the most expensive and ambitious production of his career.

These ideas are further explored in the DVD extras which include director's commentary; a feature on the making of the film, deleted scenes and On Writing With Tracy Letts, telling of his autobiographical connection with the film.

Truffaut, Kenny says, «was the face of mainstream French cinema,» and he was fond of Americans and the United States, where his films — including the semi - autobiographical «400 Blows» — were widely accepted.

The film is based on the autobiographical book of the same title, written by none other than the notorious poker princess of Los Angeles herself — Molly Bloom.

From his sort - of neo-realist (but too quirky to really be neo-realist) films of the 1950s through his autobiographical opuses of the 1960s and his flamboyantly surreal 1970s films, he never made a film that wasn't undeniably Fellini, and yet it's easy to see his ties to nearly every cinematic movement that took place during his long career.

Filmed in the twilit hues of the California magic hour, this loosely autobiographical coming - of - age tale marks Gerwig as an artist with equal talent and creative force — originality, spunk and heart — on either side of the camera.

Olivier Assayas has written eloquently of his complicated relationship with the film, first rejecting it and then over time coming to regard the troubled Charles as «the truest portrait» of his younger self; Assayas's most autobiographical film, Cold Water, owes a debt to The Devil, Probably, as will, perhaps, his upcoming Something in the Air, a coming - of - age story in the context of»70s youth culture.

Despite a recent public declaration that he is «done with autobiography», 57 Davies has also admitted that A Quiet Passion, his fervent and elegant biopic of the 19th - century American poet, Emily Dickinson, might be the most autobiographical of all his films.

The first segment also recalls his 1985 autobiographical film about his adolescence, A Time to Live and a Time to Die, the second recalls his 1998 Flowers of Shanghai (set in a ritzy Shanghai bordello during the 1880s), and the third his 2001 Millennium Mambo (a mainly contemporary film starring Shu Qi).

Fortunately, the comparison is more than superficial, and according to most, the film only shares the strengths of Dunham's work — sharp, acerbic humor, painful autobiographical situations and a fresh, unique voice.

When prompted about her directorial debut, Chocolat (1988), Denis details some of the autobiographical connections between the film and her personal history but also amusingly reveals her distaste for a certain bit of «bullshit» dialogue.

She tells her life story, she is the film's writer and director, but she also positions herself throughout as a theorist of autobiographical narrative.

There is an unmistakable autobiographical quality to this film, whose details and musical tastes will certainly strike a chord with viewers of the Baby Boom generation.

The temptation to brand the film as «autobiographical» is hard to resist: Baumbach did grow up in Brooklyn in the 1970's, one of four siblings, to a pair of parents who both wrote for a living (his father Jonathan wrote novels and short fiction, while his mother Georgia Brown contributed regularly to the Village Voice).

Though not as transparently autobiographical as his previous film, there's a lot of truthfulness in Birbiglia's script that, despite feeling a little insidery at times, has many layers to it beyond functioning as a love letter to improv comedy.

An audio commentary with writer / director Mike Mills and a 15 - minute making - of featurette talk about the autobiographical nature of the film.

Margherita Buy, My Mother — Given how difficult it is to market foreign films in the US these days, it's unlikely Buy will get any Oscar love, but she has already won David di Donatello and Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Best Actress awards for her performance in Nanni Moretti's autobiographical drama.

Suffused with both enchantment and melancholy, this autobiographical film takes on the perspective of a quiet, lonely boy growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s.

Greta Gerwig has downplayed suggestions that this film is strictly autobiographical, saying, «Nothing in the movie literally happened in my life, but it has a core of truth that resonates with what I know.»

A decade after sharing a byline with Joe Swanberg, and a few years after co-writing two of Noah Baumbach's fizziest films, Greta Gerwig strikes out on her own with a loosely autobiographical high school comedy.

A pair of animated features debut: Waltz With Bashir (2008), an autobiographical tale of memory and repression turned oral history of the Lebanon war (R), and the made - for - TV family film The Point (1971), with songs by Harry Nilsson and narration by Ringo Starr (not rated).

Greta Gerwig's script sparkles with wit and has the ring of truth: the film might only be partly based on her own experiences, but the fact Gerwig gave her cast her high school yearbooks and journals to help them prepare suggests a keenly felt autobiographical undercurrent.

The Festival also presented tributes to director Catherine Hardwicke, with a screening of her latest film Miss You Already; acclaimed actor Sir Ian McKellen; and Oscar ® - winning documentarian Marcel Ophuls, with autobiographical film Ain't Misbehavin».

Co-writer (with Michael Wilmington) of the 1975 career overview «John Ford» and the massive tome «Searching For John Ford» in 2001, McBride treats Ford as a man and not untouchable genius, nor dissects the film using highbrow terminology which inherently ignores the average film fan; there's great insight regarding one of America's greatest directors, and his exhaustive research is well - used in pointing out common themes, autobiographical references, and placing cast / crew / story subjects in context with early and later film projects.

As the story concerns a man frustrated working for a successful business while being artistically unfulfilled, I couldn't help but wonder if coming off of studio films, the story was at all autobiographical, but Favreau maintains this isn't the case:

Much like his previous film on American movies, Scorsese begins on an autobiographical note, the sense of nostalgic reminiscence foregrounded with memories of family viewings of Roberto Rossellini's Paisan, before affording the movies in question a greater depth of analysis, of personal resonance.

Taking characters and audience alike on a soul - stirring journey, in British cinema terms, it's surely a throwback to the era of autobiographical trilogies of Terence Davies and Bill Douglas — films which start out with their feet on the ground yet reach to the heavens.

While this entirely black and white production contains some clever jokes, an endorsement of the value of science and some seemingly autobiographical elements (Burton's father was a former minor league baseball player and as a child, Burton made films in his backyard using stop motion animation techniques), the script soon plummets into the typical monster movie.

Another autobiographical film about the war, John Boorman's «Hope and Glory,» detailed the experience of his family in suburban London during the Blitz and garnered five Academy Award nominations, including best picture.