Sentences with phrase «of urban drama»

The film plays Daniel cleverly, pitching him initially as a solitary figure in his cold - seeming apartment; but a single artfully placed glimpse of a dinner party shows that he isn't the archetypal lonely man of urban drama, but someone who chooses for himself when he gets to spend time apart from others.

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It's the urban drama most of us have been forced to play.

Some parts of the UK have such high levels of crime they now resemble gritty urban American drama «The Wire», the shadow home secretary has warned.

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He returned to the U.S. for the racially supercharged urban drama Halls of Anger (1970), following this personal triumph with an embarrassing appearance in Myra Breckinridge (1970) and a fascinating turn as the charismatic villain of Cotton Comes to Harlem (1972).

A low - key but powerfully affecting urban drama that tells a familiar story — of drugs, power and respect on the inner - city streets — with such unusual authenticity and dramatic force that it's as if we're seeing it for the first time.

In 2000, Washington could be seen starring opposite Chinese action star Jet Li in Romeo Must Die, an urban update of Romeo and Juliet set between rival Asian and African American gangs in Oakland, California.In 2005, Washington was cast as Dr. Preston Burke, one of the leads on the ABC medical - drama Grey's Anatomy.

Its narrow timeframe and juddering shootout finale notwithstanding, in fact, «' 71» calls no film to mind so much as Roman Polanski's Holocaust drama «The Pianist» in its dramatic defamiliarization of urban space, and its tight focus on a single character's sensory experience of his surroundings amid broader conflict.

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

In the following year, her projects included Rob Cohen's The Fast and the Furious, an urban adrenaline extravaganza in which she played the tough girlfriend of a gang leader alongside Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and Jordanna Brewster, and 3 A.M., a made - for - cable drama which cast her as a taxi driver and was screened at the Sundance Festival.Striving to maintain the balance between sexy and tough, Rodriguez would take on zombies in Resident Evil (2002) before hitting the waves in Blue Crush.

On the surface it looks like any other urban drama, but Tipping's use of whimsical fairy tale and sci - fi elements combines with heartbreaking social commentary for a totally unique experience.

The urban gangster drama is loosely based on the true story of 1980s Harlem drug kingpins AZ, Rich Porter, and Alpo.

Above all, the film is a classic of «poetic realism,» that distinct brand of pessimistic»30s French urban drama that gave lyrical, sometimes even surrealistic, interpretations to working - class romances and underworld characters, settings and dramas.

Director Gomez burst on the scene a few years back with his edgy urban dramas, Laws of Gravity and illtown.

Otto Preminger directs with a sharp clarity, remaining just slightly removed from the drama, the better to watch all sides and take stock of the characters, the conflicts and the courtroom tactics, and doesn't get much better than Stewart and Scott sparring with witnesses: the cagey country lawyer hiding his endgame behind a folksy manner versus the smart, sarcastic, thoroughly urban legal eagle who makes a show of his intelligence and showmanship.

1998-05-20 04:00:00 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — The 22nd San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival opens June 18 with the premiere of Lisa Cholodenko's «High Art,» an urban drama about Syd (Radha Mitchell), a photo magazine editor, and Lucy (Ally Sheedy), a renowned art photographer who retired at the age of 40.

With 2006's urban crime drama Kidulthood, actor - writer Noel Clarke gave us a scabrous portrait of a west London far removed from the fairytale version propagated in Richard Curtis romcoms.

Yet another urban action drama, better than some, worse than most, this stars Bruce Willis as a disillusioned middle - aged detective whose latent sense of justice is triggered when he is asked to accompany a witness (Mos Def) to the courthouse and finds that his fellow corrupt cops want to kill the guy.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth MosOF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth MosOF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Kent Mackenzie's independently produced 1961 drama (when independent cinema was the realm of mavericks and dreamers working in the margins, rather than studio subsidiaries and major actors looking for a challenge) chronicled the lives of urban American Indians (all of them non-actors drawing from their own lives) on the Bunker Hill area of Los Angeles over one long, alcohol - lubricated night.

Underneath the survivalist narrative of its gritty urban drama is an unabashedly sentimental coming of ager, including opening scenes reminiscent of «Stand By Me».

Dublin based Dramas also feature strongly with the political drama «Charlie» being nominated as well as the final season of gritty urban drama «Love / Hate».

The feature films nominated for Best Film this year are «Frank» which gives an insight into the weird and wonderful world of the enigmatic musician; the gritty urban family drama of «Glassland»; the raw, moving and honest «I Used to Live Here»; the feel good true - life story of «Noble»; the poignant and sensitive exploration of mental health in «Patrick's Day», and the beautiful Irish animated fantasy «Song of the Sea»; Three of the Best Films also get nominations for Best Director; Lenny Abrahamson for «Frank»; Gerard Barrett «Glassland» and Terry McMahon for «Patrick's Day», with John Carney also in that category for the musical drama «Begin Again».

An urban, down low relationship forged in equal parts tenderness and violent self - hatred receives a contrastingly refined, classical chamber treatment from Nicholas Britell, who last dealt with race in the somberly effective «Free State of Jones,» Upon hearing the refined strains of «Moonlight,» you might mistakenly think you're listening to a costume drama, the kind of music that accompanies emotionally constricted aristocrat.

With an urban - slum setting similar to Danny Boyle's Oscar - winning phenomenon Slumdog Millionaire, only without any feel - good carrot at the end of the string, Pedro Costa's three - hour drama In Vanda's Room paints a realist picture of the more

With an urban - slum setting similar to Danny Boyle's Oscar - winning phenomenon Slumdog Millionaire, only without any feel - good carrot at the end of the string, Pedro Costa's three - hour drama In Vanda's Room paints a realist picture of the

She made her screen debut in the slasher film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005), went on to have a supporting role in the independent coming - of - age drama Tanner Hall (2009), and has since starred in the horror remake A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), the biographical drama The Social Network (2010), the thriller remake The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and the romantic drama Carol (2015).

Main Street (Unrated) Urban revival drama revolving around several residents of Durham, North Carolina whose lives are changed by the arrival of a mysterious stranger (Colin Firth) with a controversial plan for saving their decaying hometown.

The film has some of the greatest black and white images ever filmed, dramatic lighting and sharp shadows, everything you think of as the noir style, only instead of an urban crime drama, it's used to powerful effect to create a nightmare of a fairy tale.

Wright, 21, will appear in Urban Hymn, a coming - of - age drama out later this year that has been directed by Michael Caton - Jones, whose films include the acclaimed wartime drama Memphis Belle.

Benny and Josh Safdie's Good Time is a gritty urban crime drama in which Robert Pattinson's Connie Nikas masterminds a Queens bank robbery — although it is quickly apparent Connie is no master nor does he have much of a mind.

It was the first in what would become a long tradition of urban crime dramas produced by Warner Bros..

On the menu with Guardians 2: The Dinner (a drama / mystery starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, and Rebecca Hall); Risk (documentary about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange); My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (a strange animated comedy for adults); Citizen Jane: Battle Cry for the City (a documentary about urban activist Jane Jacobs); Buster's Mal Heart (some sort of drama / thriller); and Angkor Awakens (a documentary about how the past informs present - day Cambodia).

Two childhood friends growing up in poverty in south Boston come under the influence of a local crime boss, only to strike out on their own when he is caught and imprisoned by the F.B.I. Despite the marketing that features explosions and SWAT teams galore (neither of which actually appear in the film) What Doesn't Kill You is a character - driven drama set in the world of petty urban crime.

Minder (Seasons One - Three)(BFS) This British series of the seventies, a comic drama set in the smudged lines between opportunistic hustling and criminal schemes, is a corker of a show with the sensibility of The Rockford Files in the London urban underworld.

Comic drama based on a true story and starring Matt Damon as Benjamin Mee, a recently widowed father of two teenage children who decides to make a new start by selling the family home and buying a small urban zoo.

The film's got all of the necessary drugs, sex, and bling - not to mention a bass - thumping soundtrack — that you'll find in just about every urban rap drama, but what separates «Hustle & Flow» from the pack is its candid display of the film's characters.

Eran Creevy is the British director who made the very good urban drama Shifty in 2008, and this is his step up to a big commercial picture — a London crime thriller with plenty of hardware: handguns, machine - pistols, automatic rifles, the lot.

It's interesting to hear him explain his appeal and approach to this film, following a career of directing urban crime dramas, as well as his discussion about changes made for the theatrical cut.

A smart urban drama about a group of gay and straight friends.

Great Directors on TCM: Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese has been a leading American director since the 1970s, when he burst on the New Hollywood scene with gritty urban dramas like Mean Streets and Taxi Driver — and he's stayed on top pretty much ever since, and shows no signs of slowing down.

But what made Levy's ascension so highly symbolic was its unique combination of all the elements of urban school drama: a mayor whose desire to wrest control from the city's elected school board was long voiced; a city fed up with failure on a grand scale and in the long term; a competition between city hall and school leadership to pass the blame; and the realization, finally, that a system the size of a Fortune 500 company might be better led by someone with the skills of a Fortune 500 executive.

Part urban survival adventure, part anguished family drama, this powerful novel brings the news headlines very close through the eyes of one child refugee, Sade Solaja, 12, who must flee her comfortable home in Lagos, Nigeria, and care for her younger brother in the cold London streets.

Crime and detective dramas, murder mysteries, some horror, romance (erotica included), urban fiction, stories of espionage and some Science fiction.

In «Lift,» his new drama of suspense that begins performances on April 10 atCrossroads Theater Company in New Brunswick, the writer traps two strangers within an urban nightmare: Inside a damaged elevator that is stuck high up in a burning skyscraper.

If the work echoes the spiritual drama of a Still, its cords also conjure the nervous systems of the urban world: cables beneath concrete, or telephone wires stretched tight across grey sky.

1991 14 th Street Dance Center / Emanu - el Midtown YM - YWHA Alternative Museum Karole Armitage / The Armitage Foundation Jeffrey Arsenault Artists Space Robert Ashley Bang on a Can Martha Bowers Sean Bronzell Trisha Brown / Trisha Brown Company The California E.A.R. Unit Bruce Checefsky Rick Cluchey / San Quentin Drama Workshop Coffee House Press Company Appels Composers» Forum Crossings Cunningham Dance Foundation Dancing in the Streets Dixon Place The Drawing Center Douglas Dunn & Dancers Exit Art Phill Niblock / Experimental Intermedia Foundation Molissa Fenley The Field Erin Fitzgerald Ain Gordon David Gordon / Pick Up Performance Company Harvestworks Martine Joste Jin Hi Kim & Joseph Celli The Kitchen Shelley Lee Dance Company David H. Macbride / GAGEEGO Maxine Moerman Meredith Monk / House Foundation for the Arts Ken Montgomery / Generator Movement Research New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture Bruce Odland The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble The Poetry Project Real Art Ways Roulette Michael Rush and Co. / New Haven Artists» Theater Mercy Sidbury Spencer / Colton (Amy Spencer & Richard Colton) Telluride Institute Donna Uchizono Urban Bush Women Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Dan Wagoner Dance Foundation ZONE

Dewantoro has since expanded his colour palette to include brighter, earthier tones, but maintains his focus on the landscape, a mixture of urban elements and the natural environment decidedly void of human presence, heightening the sense of drama they evoke.

It is about my encounter with the landscape of Los Angeles, and, specifically, its incredible sunlight; the tug - of - war between light and shadow gives powerful visual form to the drama inherent to this city's urban landscape.