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Miller adapted some of his older stories for this film and wrote two new ones in addition.

Not exact matches

Using the unique bond football created for Dads & Daughters, SSE told stories through a series of short films that included professional footballer, Kelly Smith, and a 12 - year - old girl who uses football to manage her Tourettes.

The 38 - year - old was first spotted sporting the heels for a viewing of the new film «Can't Stop, Won't Stop: The Bad Boy Story» with Kendall Jenner and friends on Wednesday.

Freeman (director Jackson's first choice for the title role) is inspired casting as Bilbo Baggins, and makes for a more likeable protagonist than Wood's rather other - worldly Frodo (who, along with Holm as the older Bilbo, makes an appearance in the film's opening framing story).

(Think Emily Blunt and a cigarette lighter...) The movie also finds its emotional core in that dilapidated old farmhouse, and, rather gracefully for such a hard - charging, violent film, slowly becomes a story about the cyclical effects of neglect and regret.

You would think a film like this, that rips off of almost every Hollywood comedy for it's story, (mainly «The Hangover») that it would be very dry and forgettable, but it has many heartfelt moments that surprised me, and a group of old guys saying they are «too old for any of this stuff anymore» and «we need to appreciate life more» seems too much, but it's not.

The film follows Tomas over twelve years in his attempt to give his life meaning again, just as much as it follows Kate and Christopher until the latter is 17 years old and finally decides to face the man he met only once before, on that fateful evening... Every Thing Will Be Fine carefully and precisely tells a story of guilt and the search for forgiveness, and the fact that it is not time that is a great healer but the courage to face up to things and to forgive.

«The latest big - screen iteration of the blockbuster video game isn't a film for the ages, but it's actually pretty good fun; an old - fashioned treasure - island adventure tale gilded in circa - 2018 wokeness (Lara Croft's breasts no longer command a lead supporting role) and anchored by an Oscar - winning actress far more gifted than the story requires.

But perhaps it was the six award - winning films in MIFF's 50th Shorts Awards that most fittingly captured the hybrid nature of MIFF 2011, a selection of old and new forms of filmmaking, from a myriad of countries on a range of issues: A Fine Young Man (Kevan Funk, 2010) from Canada, winner of Best Short Film; Best Australian Short, The Palace (Anthony Maras, 2011); Andrew Kavanagh, winner of the Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award for At the Formal (2010); Green Crayons, (Kazik Radwanski, 2010) from Canada, winner of Best Fiction Short Film; Nullabor (Alister Lockhart, Patrick Sarell, 2011) from Australia, the Best Animation Short Film; Leonids Story (Rainer Ludwigs, 2011) from Russia, the Best Documentary Short; and A History of Mutual Respect (Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, 2010) from Portugal, winner of Best Experimental Short Film.

Co-written by Anderson and Francis Coppola's son Roman (the film's lone Oscar nomination was for its script), this 1960s - set story centers on Suzy and Sam (impressive newcomers Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman), two 12 - year - olds who run away together while residing on a New England island.

Before SXSW kicked off, I spoke with writer / director Noah Baumbach, who shared writing credits with his wife Jennifer Jason Leigh for his latest film, GREENBERG; a coming of age story about a guy (Ben Stiller) who's way too old to be coming of age.

Lionsgate has debuted the first trailer for director Susanna Fogel's upcoming action comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me which sees Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon leading a cast that includes Justin Theroux, Sam Heughan, Gillian Anderson, and Hasan Minhaj; check it out here... The film tells the story of Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon), thirty - year - old -LSB-...]

Inspired by the classic Cyrano de Bergerac story, Old Boys marks the feature debut for Toby MacDonald and producer Luke Morris - the team behind BAFTA - nominated short films, Je t» aime John Wayne and Heavy Metal Drummer - and is written by Luke Ponte and Freddy Syborn.

Clocking in at a brisk one hour, the film tells the story of identical 11 - year - old Cuban triplets Angel, Cesar and Marcos, who are passionate about becoming ballet dancers and all want the same thing — to be picked for a role in an important production in Havana.

Even if the story is derivative, much of that old detective feel has been excised for a more modern approach in the movie adaptation, leaving it virtually indistinguishable from many other films in current release.

Given that thematic base, it shouldn't be surprising that even specific story points are duplicated: In both films, the heroes connect with old girlfriends, only to realize that for decades they've been carrying mistaken views of those relationships.

Since his screen debut in the 1970 classic Love Story, Jones has appeared in iconic films like Natural Born Killers, Men in Black, No Country for Old Men and, recently, Lincoln.

As the writer and director of the feature films Knocked Up and The 40 - Year - Old Virgin, the producer of the blockbuster comedies Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and the creator of the acclaimed television series «Freaks and Geeks» and «Undeclared,» Apatow has developed a reputation for stories that are equal measures sentimental and unrefined.

Iconic: The film, which has been tipped for Oscars success is set in 2002, and tells the story of an artistically inclined seventeen - year - old girl, who comes of age in Sacramento, California

Every scene is constructed with a need for mass appeal, targeting slapstick for the kiddies and plenty of old film references for the adults, and almost all of these are a distraction from the main story, rather than a means to enhance the characters or plot.

This film treats 17 - year - old Simon Spier's quest for love and self - acceptance with the tender, timeless, Hollywood touch of John Hughes: It's a classic story of a first crush made groundbreaking by centering on a closeted gay kid.

It would have been easy to simply retell the story of a botched kidnapping from the film, but Hawley decided to take the idea and expand in all directions, encompassing more than what the original film was about while also absorbing works like «Miller's Crossing,» «No Country For Old Men» and «The Man Who Wasn't There.»

While the characters in this story experience moments of peril and some brief violence (including a startling incident when a bird smashes into a bus window), the film never drives out of bounds for families with older children.

He's been to the Cannes competition three times (winning the Grand Prix for «To Live») and this film, which reteams him with muse Gong Li will very likely make it four — it's rumored to already be a done deal.The story follows an old man, who'd been sent to a labor camp, as he eventually returns to his family, and presumably sees Zhang work in a more intimate register than some of his epic outings.

The film attempts at being a meditation on growing old, and what it means to different people at different stages in their lives generally ring true.Various dream sequences, including a cameo part for a «Miss Universe» played amply by Madalina Ghenea, give us a sense of Fred's insecurities despite his outwardly confident manner.But it is in the relationships where the story doesn't feel so true - and Harvey Keitel's character feels particularly under - done.

Winner of both the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature and the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, director Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale Station follows the true story of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a 22 - year - old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air.

Intended as a showpiece for the then - new technology, the film plays Hemingway's much - loved story very safe; it borders on schmaltz in places, and the voice acting is as wooden as the walls of the old man's cabin.

Brick is probably not a movie that will have strong mainstream appeal, but for those that love independent films, the noir classics, old - fashioned detective stories, or just enjoy seeing something they haven't quite seen before, Rian Johnson's experiment will prove to be a success with you.

Adapted by screenwriter James Ivory from a 2007 novel by André Aciman, the sexy new film — a coming - of - age story of first love that has already racked up multiple awards — has been criticized in some quarters for its central relationship, a summer tryst between Elio (Timothée Chalamet), a 17 - year - old boy, and Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24 - year - old man.

Rian Johnson, who received great critical acclaim for his modern film noir homage, Brick, crafts another genre homage to the old con capers with The Brothers Bloom, mixing the stories you'd find in such films as The Sting with the light comedy you'd occasionally find in a Marx Brothers comic adventure.

He was supposed to be receiving the script for a CGI children's film Mike White had written but instead was sent the story of a man coming to terms with his life as he takes his high school - age son on a tour of potential colleges while also grappling with the outsize successes of his own old college buddies.

After Russell Crowe's one - two punch of Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind (both very standard, Oscar - friendly choices), the Academy chose a cynical musical (Chicago), a fantasy epic (Return of the King), a tiny, short story boxing fable with a pro-euthanasia message (Million Dollar Baby), a wild ensemble film about racism (Crash), a dark crime epic (The Departed), another dark crime epic with an inconclusive ending no less (No Country for Old Men), and a movie about modern India (Slumdog Millionaire).

The film is based on the 1924 Leopold - Loeb case, the story of two homosexual law students in Chicago who murdered a 14 year old boy for kicks to prove they were intelligent and could get away with it.

For all the controversy over the explicit sex in writer - director Abdellatif Kechiche's three - hour adaptation of Julie Maroh's graphic novel «Blue Is the Warmest Color,» the film is ultimately just a sensitive and honest coming - of - age story, showing how a teenager discovers who she is with the help of her older lesbian girlfriend, then has to find herself again when they drift apart.

The Elephant King story, which is related in chunks throughout the film, too often disrupts the flow of the main story, and its ultimate purpose — to help explain the whereabouts of Parvana's missing older brother — feels surprisingly arbitrary for what should be an emotionally powerful moment.

The MPAA says 18 - to 24 - year - olds attend more films than any other demographic — but with YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Insta - stories, et al., the competition for attention is at an all - time high.

It gets little better for Lake as he gets older, and for the first half hour, the film layers the story in multiple flashbacks, which isn't at all as tedious as it sounds.

This captivating, sensuous and richly observed film tells the story of a young shopgirl in the early 1950's who falls for an older, married woman.

The idea was to modernise the story, to make it fresh for new audiences, the first film version is thirty - two years old!

Success stories such as the John Wick films have hinted at a desire for old school, concept and character - driven action stories, but even those movies have been a little too knowing to truly recall the cream of that bygone era.

Still, Apocalypto slots in solidly next to a spate of caveman action flicks from the last couple of years: stories about civilizations» end (and this film begins with Will Durant's famous post-mortem for the fall of the Roman Empire: «A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within») that have its survivors reconstructing the world along Old Testament guidewires.

The central story sees Josh Brolin as Dwight (Clive Owen's role in the earlier film), a shutterbug for hire who gets approached by his treacherous old girlfriend Ava (Eva Green).

The film, which is being developed as a starring vehicle for Cooper, as well as something he might direct, tells the story of bachelor Henry and the married Trevor, whose lives are changed when the latter learns he's the father of an 8 year - old girl.

Not only for megastar filmmakers like the Dardennes and the Coens, but for Terence Davies («The Long Day Closes»), Rian Johnson («Brick»), Ramin Bahrani («Chop Shop»), Katherine Bigelow («Blue Steel»), Jerzy Skolimowski («Deep End»), Kelly Reichardt («Old Joy»), Michael Winterbottom («A Cock and Bull Story» — who makes two or three movies a year, it seems)... Those parenthetical titles, of course, are earlier films by these filmmakers.

Like the Staten Island educator at the center of this film, The Kindergarten Teacher pushes boundaries and crosses lines as it navigates its way through a tricky story of a five - year - old boy (newcomer Parker Sevak), who shows an unreal gift for poetry, and his teacher, Lisa (a career - best performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also one of the film's producers), who struggles in her adult - education class to be a poet as well, if only to add a bit of culture to a home life that offers her little by way of intellectual stimulation.

Suzie becomes essential to the plot (in the latter half of the film for Older Joe especially) and what she wears — or does not wear at times — is an essential part of creating a believable story world.

(For example, even the incredibly wise Sarah Polley, who made this weekend's wonderful; Stories We Tell, conceded at a Q&A for the film that she hadn't even noticed her lead female characters are defined by their relationships with their male partners, as pointed out by an older woman in her audiencFor example, even the incredibly wise Sarah Polley, who made this weekend's wonderful; Stories We Tell, conceded at a Q&A for the film that she hadn't even noticed her lead female characters are defined by their relationships with their male partners, as pointed out by an older woman in her audiencfor the film that she hadn't even noticed her lead female characters are defined by their relationships with their male partners, as pointed out by an older woman in her audience.)

While the songs add to the old fashioned atmosphere, the fact that they weren't written expressly for the film means that they don't always advance the story; a lot of times it stops it dead in its tracks, especially the elaborate, over-the-top production numbers, which simultaneously celebrate and skewer the genre's surreal conventions.

Dennis Harrison tells the story / Rally in Normandy — Bruce Dowell records on film an event which takes place in a French town every other year / Coleraine to Ballycastle Run — Pictorial coverage of this event that has enlivened the old car scene in Northern Ireland for the last eight years / Alvis Tour & A7 Circuit of Britain Forty - four — Alvises toured Britain this year for charity.

While these stories are over 50 years old, many of them have been adapted as animated films and reinterpreted for new generations.