Sentences with phrase «playwright turned»

Martin McDonagh, the fire - tongued British - Irish playwright turned whipcrack genre filmmaker, evidently agrees.

«Thoroughbreds,» which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and opens in limited release March 9 from Focus Features, is the debut of 29 - year - old New York - based playwright turned filmmaker Cory Finley.

Pulling back a little on the profane humor that characterized his In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, playwright turned filmmaker Martin McDonagh unfurls a tense Missouri drama about vengeance, culpability, and the complicated bonds forged in small - town America.

As a playwright turned feature film director, Finley adapts to the new medium as if it was his calling all along.

The playwrights turned the conversations into plays that were performed as staged readings.

Not exact matches

«For a thoughtful portrait, turn to playwright Lynn Nottage.»

Religion News Service: «Scandalous» evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson gets star turn on Broadway Boadway openings often feature a first - the debut of a new star, the premiere of a new playwright's work.

The playwright and activist turns 80 on Thursday and neither recent illness nor the glow of a new marriage has softened the urgency of his demands.

His rapid - fire, overlapping dialogue, full of phrases that turn in on themselves with eyebrow fully cocked, has shown up in the work of countless subsequent playwrights, not to mention in the wordier shoals of weekly TV.

It was not until he turned to playwright Tony Kushner, who earlier wrote «Munich» at Spielberg's behest, that he began to hear Lincoln's voice, perhaps a little too fulsomely; Kushner's first draft was more than 500 pages, nearly five times the customary length of a screenplay.

Romance and politics, as it turns out, have a lot to do with each other, especially if you're a British playwright at the top of his game.

The playwright - turned - filmmaker made his cinematic debut with «In Bruges,» which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

The script — by Scottish playwright - turned - screenwriter Gregory Burke (Black Watch,» 71)-- does a decent job in this respect of laying out the complex realities of a situation in which all participants are, to some extent, prisoners of ideology, while at the same time attempting to give all sides their own point of view.

The film stars Julianne Moore as a high school English teacher whose life takes a turn when a former star student returns after failing as a playwright in New York City.

Framed by a boisterous dinner scene between playwright friends, alarm bells ring early in Melinda and Melinda when conversation turns to whether a random scenario, the arrival of an unexpected stranger at a dinner party, would work best as the premise for tragic drama or comedy.

Attending every rehearsal as Olive's bodyguard, he turns out to be a genius playwright himself, and will go to great lengths to make the play as great as possible.

Haute face: Joan Crawford's Oscar - nominated turn as a spurned heiress - playwright offers a new gold standard for 50s melodrama

What makes it our favorite movie in an exceptional year for them is the way that Lonergan, the playwright - turned - filmmaker behind Margaret and You Can Count On Me, manages to ground a family tragedy of staggering proportions in the quotidian crap of everyday life.

Struggling intellectual playwright David Shayne (Cusack, The Grifters) finally has the chance to earn his first Broadway production, but to have the finances to see his dream come true, he has to make one concession — casting two - bit dancer - turned - actress Olive Neal (Tilly, The Fabulous Baker Boys), the main squeeze of notorious mobster Nick Valenti (Viterelli, State of Grace).

The tale of an East German secret policeman (Ulrich Muhe, who would pass away six months after this riveting turn) who spends the majority of the film listening in on the lives of an arty couple (Sebastian Koch and Martina Gedeck), a playwright and actress suspected of harboring Western sympathies, really gets under your skin.

«Manchester by the Sea» features the playwright's hallmarks of small family drama, hard - luck characters with good hearts, a little volatility and unexpected turns that ring true.

This is a classic Hitchcock film, but credit should go more to the deft script by playwright Frederick Knott with a really smart succession of twists and turns to keep you in suspense.

The film surrounds its heroine with a vibrant ensemble: her warmly supportive but depressed father (playwright - turned - prolific - supporting - player Tracy Letts), the school's reasonably understanding head nun (veteran character actor Lois Smith, who's having a good year), the highly emotional drama instructor (fellow stage pro Stephen Henderson).

Prediction: The award gurus seem convinced that playwright - turned - filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan will take home his first Oscar this Sunday.

It may take another viewing, for example, to figure out exactly where I land on Three Billboards Outside Of Ebbing, Missouri (Grade: B), the new flavorfully verbose drama from playwright - turned - filmmaker Martin McDonagh.

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

Notably absent from the Best Director category was Martin McDonagh, the playwright - turned - director at the helm of the Best Picture favorite and a previous Oscar winner for his short film Six Shooter.

She first grabs the attention of reclusive playwright Kosuke (Tasuku Nagaoka) by riding her bike into a river, then promptly leaping onto his shoulders (one of her favorite foreplay positions, it subsequently turns out) and refusing to let go.

As for his scene - stealing turn as Nottingham opposite Kevin Costner in the 1991 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, he revealed how the late, great playwright Peter Barnes helped him with home lines scribbled over in Leicester Square's Pizza Express.

Wenders is also the only «member» of the 1970s German film movement to have attended film school (the then theatre director / playwright Rainer Werner Fassbinder was turned down by Munich's Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen, from which Wenders and his long - time cinematographer, Robby Müller, and long - time editor, Peter Przygodda, graduated).

(McDonagh, a playwright - turned - filmmaker, has made a career on pitch - black comedies that don't make a habit of redeeming, well, anyone.)

Playwright - turned - writer / director McDonagh (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths) is just gifted enough to make you feel like you're watching something important and penetrating, rather than just bilious.

Created by playwright John Logan and featuring a sublime turn by Eva Green as a guilt - ridden, devout Catholic who possesses demonic powers, it's a terrific jumble of a half - dozen Victorian yarns.

This goal is realized when he meets Phillip Carlyle (Zac Efron), a playwright - turned - businessman who agrees to partner with Barnum and later becomes transfixed by trapeze artist Anne Wheeler (Zendaya).

She in turn recommended Chilean director Sebastián Lelio (Gloria, A Fantastic Woman), who co-wrote the script with British playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Her Naked Skin).

And if THAT wasn't enough, Izzy's therapist Jane (Jennifer Aniston), has fallen in love with the show's playwright Josh (Will Forte), who in turn has fallen in love with Izzy.

Scott's eldest brother is theatre critic turned playwright Colin Murphy, whose play «Guaranteed» was produced last year to general acclaim.

Julia Roberts turns in an engaging, if less than endearing, performance in the lead role of Liz, a terminally - introspective playwright / journalist stuck in an unhappy marriage.

Playwright - turned - director Martin McDonagh's debut is darker than your average hitmen - in - peril comedy.

Playwright and filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan examines grief and family dysfunction with a story about a small - town handyman, played by Casey Affleck, whose past has turned him into a sad, bitter character.

A palpable buzzing noise fills our heads as we turn the final page of playwright Laline Paull's compelling debut, The Bees.

I've managed to review everything from video games to albums, conducted interviews with local playwrights and national best - selling authors, and wrote personal pieces about growing up as a member of the LGBTQIA + community in the Southern parts of the United States — and all before turning 18!

Other previous Guest Directors include the acclaimed recording artist, poet, playwright and novelist Kate Tempest (2017), pioneering artist and musician Laurie Anderson, who led the 50th Brighton Festival in 2016, award - winning author Ali Smith (2015) and musician Brian Eno (2010) who have all taken turns shaping the three - week programme of cultural events.

Well, chimpanzees may not be likely to create the work of England's most famous playwright, but it turns out they can make a hell of a movie.