Sentences with phrase «powerful drama»

It's becoming commonplace to hear actors, writers and directors claiming that TV is now the place to be for powerful drama with narrative scope and rounded characters.

It may look a bit quaint today, but it was powerful drama back in the early 1970s.

A Vigilante sounds like a very powerful drama about a woman who devotes her time to tracking down domestic abusers.

Another light but quite mysterious and powerful drama from Woody Allen, as simple as always..

Take a look at the video above to see more of my conversation with the core creatives of Marshall and how this historically powerful drama came to be.

This quietly powerful drama looks at a woman returning to the cloistered community that shunned her to find things — including old longings — have not changed.

It's becoming commonplace to hear actors, writers and directors claiming that TV is now the place to be for powerful drama with...

For all its wandering through hopeless plotlines like Rose's endless adventures planning her wedding, an effort at inspired abandon that grows more ghastly by the minute — and there are a lot of those — The Split in time finds its footing as powerful drama.

However, looking past the «based on a true story» tagline, the film «Antwone Fisher» is a very powerful drama that doesn't just tug at the heartstrings, but yanks them hard.

Célinne Sciamma set the bar early and high with Girlhood, an immensely powerful drama story about four black teenagers coming of age in a poor Paris suburb.

Powerful drama starring Edward Norton as Derek Vinyard, a violent neo-Nazi who's given a three - year sentence for attacking and killing a black youth.

Set in the aftermath of World War II, the quietly powerful drama «The Innocents» shows women of faith working side by side with nonbelievers to bring light to a dark, horrifying world.

Offering powerful drama and stunning cinematography, this documentary from the BBC illustrates the balancing acts that allow animals to survive in a challenging environment.

Siddiq Barmak's powerful drama won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and an honorable mention at the Cannes Film Festival.

Provides powerful drama thanks to its trenchant core story and harrowing re-creation of the brutal chaos of war.

At the opening of his grimly powerful drama Closeness, director Kantemir Balagov (b. 1991) notes that it reflects his own upbringing in the desolate town of Nalchik, North Caucasus, a place of endemic poverty and assorted clashing ethnicities.

John Marley, who played the Hollywood producer who finds a horse's head in his bed in The Godfather (1972), was nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role in Love Story (1970), and starred in John Cassavettes's powerful drama Faces (1968), plays Charles Brooks, whose son Andy (newcomer Richard Backus) returns from Vietnam in an unnatural state.

Actor - turned - filmmaker Paddy Considine expands his 2007 short Dog Altogether into his first feature, and it's a remarkably powerful drama.

TNT is the cable home to powerful dramas like The Mentalist, Bones, Supernatural, Las Vegas, Law & Order, CSI: NY, Cold Case and, starting next year, Castle; primetime specials, such as the Screen Actors Guild Awards ®; blockbuster movies; and championship sports coverage, including NASCAR, the NBA and the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship.

«Essential Killing» is a subtle but powerful drama thriller and delivers some great suspense.

Racial constraints are life in Warwick Thornton's low - boiling and powerful drama Sweet Country.

One of my other favorite films of the festival, Nadine Labaki's powerful drama Capharnaüm, won the Jury Prize (essentially third prize) which is a relief at least.

An intermittently powerful drama loosely derived from real events, Roland Joffé's «The Forgiven» takes place in newly post-apartheid South Africa and is based on a play by Michael Ashton called «The Archbishop and the Antichrist.»

Against The Law (US Exclusive Premiere) A powerful drama based on the true story of Peter Wildeblood, a thoughtful and private gay journalist whose lover, under pressure from the authorities, turned Queen's evidence against him in one of the most explosive court cases of the 1950s — the infamous Montagu Trial.

Mullally and her sitcom contrivances seems to belong in a sillier, more superficial film, not a brutally powerful drama that offers no easy answers, just a whole lot of difficult questions and ambiguity.

A bracing and powerful drama about cultural roots and the nature of identity from director Pawel Pawlikowski.

Powerful drama from writer - director Kelly Reichardt («Wendy and Lucy») further establishes her as an auteur who finds poignancy in the stillness

Fox Searchlight has released a new behind - the - scenes featurette for director Steve McQueen's immensely powerful drama 12 Years a Slave, this time focusing on the film's fantastic ensemble cast.

Bob Rafelson's powerful drama stars Jack Nicholson as a Philadelphia radio DJ who is reluctantly drawn into the schemes of his unstable brother Jason, who sleeps rough in Atlantic City, does odd jobs for the mob and has a plan to get rich by building a paradise retreat on a Pacific island.

Though the movie wasn't a cash cow like his others, it proved that Bay can make a powerful drama when he wants to.

The Gospel throughout is characterized by its vigor, its directness — with many a «straightway» introducing a new scene — its graphic pictorial touches, its unstudied but powerful drama.

The frontrunners came through in what played out as one of the most predictable Academy Awards ever, with Steve McQueen's powerful drama «12 Years a Slave» taking home the Best Picture Oscar and «Gravity» helmer Alfonso Cuarón winning...

It is a powerful drama set at the Guantanamo Bay prison.

This powerful drama unfolds when his father, played by Oscar ® winner Jon Voight, is unexpectedly released from prison, setting off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.

A powerful drama masquerading as a western that promises slightly more than it is able to deliver.

The moral implications of modern warfare are confronted in Bleecker Street's powerful drama, Eye in the Sky, coming to Digital HD on June 14, 2016 and Blu - ray (TM), DVD and On Demand on June 28, 2016, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars this year, this powerful drama heads to UK homes this summer on a wave of hype, but for the more cynical viewers out there do we need another Holocaust movie?

It doesn't consistently reach the heights of the absolute top tier dramas (The Soprano's, Breaking Bad etc) and relies on convenient plot devices a little too often but the well written script and excellent cast make for a powerful drama series.

Two of the most talented figures in contemporary Spanish cinema — actor Javier Bardem and director Alejandro Amenábar — collaborate for this powerful drama, based on a true story.

Welcome to the Rileys is a powerful drama about finding hope in the most unusual of places.

It makes for a powerful drama, one that has rightly been topping many critics» polls and gathering up awards, including a Golden Globe for best foreign film.

MGM's Blu - ray + DVD combo offers a very good but not quite perfect way to own this powerful drama.

In Ken Loach's powerful drama, a middle - aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

The ultimate underdog among the nine Best Picture nominees, it might actually be the most traditional kind of Oscar winner: a powerful drama about a young Indian boy who gets lost from his family, then tries to find them over 20 years later.

This powerful drama looks at the life of the celebrated Chicago chef and inventor who wanted to save the world through food.

Oliver Stone, along with John Travolta, Salma Hayak and Taylor Kitsch, appeared on stage to help promote their movie, Savages, a powerful drama about a marijuana cartel.

The film is a powerful drama that is probably more accessible than many are giving it credit.

From writer / director Scott Cooper, Out of the Furnace (now available on Blu - ray / DVD) is a gripping and powerful drama that tells the story of Russell Baze (Christian Bale), a man leading a dead - end life, working a meaningless steel mill job and...