Sentences with phrase «on the memoir life»

Directed by: Steve James Written by: N / A (though based on the memoir Life Itself by Roger Ebert) Main Cast: Talking Head type appearances by the likes of Roger Ebert, Chaz Ebert, Steve James, Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, and many more... Past Oscar relations: Steve James was nominated for Best Film Editing for Hoop -LSB-...]

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Written by broadcast journalist Katy Tur, the New York Times - bestseller is part - memoir, part - recap of her life on the road as the NBC News pool reporter for the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential race.

The author of three novels and a memoir on his parents» romantic life, Lanchester is a layman writing for laymen.

And to me, a book that illustrates the best of the writing life is Stephen King's «On Writing - A Memoir of the Craft.»

Robinson's memoir, A Game of Character, documents the lessons he learned from his working - class parents growing up on Chicago's South Side, and how he's applied them in life and in basketball.

Forty years after its first release, advertising legend Della Femina's memoir of life on Madison Avenue in the 1960s has become part of the Don Draper canon, helping guide the fictional world of the television series Mad Men.

Even so bare an outline of Mantel's life, drawn from her 2003 memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, makes clear the connections between Mantel's biographical backstory and the goings - on at Henry VIII's court.

While Bread & Wine is a memoir that focuses on life around the table, Eat With Joy delves more deeply and directly into issues related to the theology of eating, touching on everything from food anxiety and eating disorders, to poverty, to obesity, to just and sustainable eating, to hospitality, to mindfulness, to communion.

Intellectual Memoirs, 1936 — 1938 by Mary McCarthy Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 114 pages, $ 15.95 The novelist and critic Mary McCarthy, who died in 1989, was up to the time of her death working on a memoir of her life in the late 1930s, in effect a sequel to her two previous autobiographical....

If a good memoir was merely predicated on having an interesting life then some of the best books would be celebrity memoirs.

How can a memoir about tragic death (from cancer, on the cusp of 40, with two small children) be so vibrantly about life itself?

Zach lives on in every page of my memoir, called Expecting Sunshine: A Journey of Grief, Healing and Pregnancy After Loss (April 2017, She Writes Press).

She is writing a memoir on pregnancy, motherhood, and sisterhood and lives in North Carolina, with her husband and two young boys.

I liked this basic book that covers pregnancy and birth in a really clear and freak - out - free way, and this memoir on life as a midwife was really interesting.

Marguerite Elisofon is a New York City writer and the author of My Picture Perfect Family, a memoir about how her family navigated life with a child on the autistic spectrum before the internet and support groups existed.

Marguerite Elisofon is a New York City writer and the author of My Picture Perfect Family: What Happens When One Twin Has Autism, a memoir about how her family navigated life with a child on the autistic spectrum before the internet and support groups existed.

In his Politics Between the Extremes (Bodley head # 20) he combines a political memoir with reflections on the changing nature of politics and life in the coalition, based partly on his diaries.

Mr Brown, who has just published a memoir, talks about a possible «game changer» on Brexit, the measures needed to stop Scotland becoming like Catalonia and his belief that political leaders have a «shelf life» of about six years.

Now he's written a memoir based on his diplomatic life in Ever the Diplomat: Confessions of a Foreign Office Mandarin (HarperPress, # 20)

Melani currently has several projects in development, including a memoir recounting her and her late husband's experience living in Russia, and a scripted series based on her book and blog.

of Acxiom Corp.... Matters of Life and Data is a compelling read, a page - turner of a memoir that sheds light on what it takes to be successful in business as well as on what it takes to live a fulfilling lLife and Data is a compelling read, a page - turner of a memoir that sheds light on what it takes to be successful in business as well as on what it takes to live a fulfilling lifelife.

Based on Jeannette Wall's best - selling memoir, The Glass Castle chronicles the adventures of an eccentric family led by a dysfunctional father (Woody Harrelson) and the daughter (Brie Larson) who left to make a life of her own.

Oscar (R) winner Brie Larson brings Jeannette Walls's best - selling memoir to life as a young woman who, influenced by the joyfully wild nature of her deeply dysfunctional father (Woody Harrelson), found the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.

The film is based on the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, by Jane Hawking, and is directed by Academy Award winner James Marsh («Man on Wire»).

Cheryl Strayed's popular memoir, «Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail», provides the basis for this soul - searching drama about the path to recovery, here literal, that many addicts face in order to get their life on the right track.

Bored with the relationship, Lisa seduces Johnny's best friend, Mark, played by Wiseau's real - life best friend, Sestero, who went on to write the critically acclaimed memoir «The Disaster Artist.»

Ebert tweeted this morning that his memoir, «Life Itself,» which was published last year, and recently hit as a paperback, «has been optioned for a doc by Steve James («Hoop Dreams «-RRB- and Steven Zaillian, with Martin Scorsese as exec producer» And Ebert has expanded on the news a little, telling Matt Singer at Criticwire «This dropped out of the blue.

The latest on a list of films that includes Bloody Sunday, United 93, Green Zone, and Captain Phillips will be an Al Qaeda - themed drama based on Morten Storm's memoir Agent Storm: My Life...

«The Glass Castle» is directly based on the best - selling 2005 memoir by author Jeannette Walls, in which she chronicles her very painful life story.

Bryan Cranston has written a memoir, A Life in Parts, that will be released on October 18th.

Film critic Roger Ebert announced on Twitter that his memoir, «Life Itself» (which is newly out in paperback, by the way), has been «optioned for a doc by Steve James («Hoop Dreams») and Steven Zaillian, with Martin Scorsese as exec producer.»

Huisman will take on the role of Steven Crane, the oldest Crane sibling and a published writer of supernatural books — including a memoir about his family's time living at Hill House.

The directors of Lenny Cooke take on a feature drama, but their New York addiction story sticks close to real life, using largely non-professional actors and working from a memoir by their lead actor.

Sorkin's script, which is based on the real - life Molly's memoir, has way too much dialogue and too many voice - overs for the genre.

The dramedy, based on the memoir of the real - life cartoonist, is directed by Gus Van Sant and also stars Rooney Mara.

«True Story,» April 10 Based on the memoir by former top journalist Michael Finkel, «True Story» follows Finkel (Jonah Hill) and murderer Christian Longo (James Franco)-- who lived for years outside the U.S. using Finkel's name — as the journalist dives into the psyche of one of the FBI's most wanted killers and tries to clear his name.

Last July, we reported that Paul Rudd would star in Errol Morris «non-documentary feature based on the memoir We Froze the First Man and a This American Life story about Bob Nelson, a California TV repairman who was obsessed with...

Those tapes were the basis for Hull's memoir Touching the Rock, and are the soundtrack to Notes on Blindness, a remarkable reconstruction of Hull's life by Peter Middleton and James Spinney.

Julie Taymor will helm a coming - of - age biopic about feminist journalist and activist Gloria Steinem, based on Steinem's bestselling memoir My Life on the Road, adapted for the screen by Tony Award - and Pulitzer Prize - nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl.

(In English and German with subtitles) We Bought a Zoo (PG for mature themes and mild profanity) Screen adaptation of Benjamin Mee's bittersweet memoir recounting the grieving widower's (Matt Damon) decision to relocate his family to a dilapidated estate with 200 exotic animals on the premises with hopes of refurbishing the zoo while rebuilding their lives.

Gist: Based on Sybil Rosen's memoir Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze, this is about the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas Outlaw Music movement that spawned the likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson.

Even after Sestero's memoir The Disaster Artist and its big screen adaption provided more insight into Wiseau's personal life, Wiseau remains an enigmatic figure, so getting to pick his brain on moviemaking even a little bit more in - depth was a welcome opportunity.

I own quite a few of his books, including his memoir, «Life Itself», which this documentary is based on.

The education of An Education (Sony), based on the memoir by Lynn Barber, comes to a smart and mature sixteen - year - old girl who, eager to escape her petite bourgeois life in early 1960s London, is swept off her feet by a confident, charming and worldly man with a lot of secrets.

Rosen co-wrote the film with Hawke based on her memoir «Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley.»

The film is based on Solomon Northup's memoir about his life in slavery after being abducted as a free man in New York.

Based on the memoir of the same name, and adapted by Terence Winter, the film will tell the true story of Jordan Belfort, a wheeling and dealing New York stockbroker who sees his career and personal life fall into shambles thanks to sex, drugs and alcohol.

A big screen treatment on Augusten Burroughs» semi-autobiographical memoir about his tumultuous childhood growing up with an oddball mother, Deirdre (Benning, Mrs. Harris), who sends him to live with her highly unorthodox psychiatrist, Dr, Finch (Cox, Red Eye), whose home environment proves to be even more strange than the one he was being sheltered from.

His smart choices continue with this real - life drama based on a memoir by disgraced New York Times journalist Michael Finkel, who played fast and loose with the facts and found himself exiled back home in snowy Montana.

The film is adapted, very well, by Robert Carlock from a memoir written by the real - life American TV reporter Kim Barker, but given that Carlock is one of the main writers on 30 Rock and Fey is the star, this could easily have descended into broad farce — a sort of Liz Lemon (the screenwriter she plays in 30 Rock) Goes To War, if you like.