Sentences with phrase «screenplay by crime»
David Mathews («Narcos,» «Boardwalk Empire») writes from an original screenplay by crime writer James Ellroy («L.A. Confidential»).
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The screenplay is based on on a book by a couple of Boston Globe journalists which exposed Bulger's catalogue of racketeering, murder and extortion, and while movies and real life should never be mistaken for one another, Black Mass successfully depicts a seamy, sleazy, blue collar milieu where blood is thicker than water and crime is just what you do to get by.
Comprised of three separate films, shot by three different directors (Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, and Anand Tucker), and held together by a painstakingly crafted and exceedingly nuanced series of screenplays by Tony Grisoni (adapting three novels of a quartet by David Peace), the Red Riding trilogy weaves a byzantine labyrinth of sordid crimes and crooked cops.
Live by Night (October 7, 2016) A Prohibition crime drama starring Ben Affleck, who directs from a screenplay he adapted from a novel by Dennis Lehane (Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island).
The screenplay (by Sicario's Taylor Sheridan) has earned well - deserved praise for its dialogue, but is just as impressive for the richly novelistic structure it gives to a fairly straightforward tale of crime and pursuit.
Director Harold Daniels is no visual stylist and there's a slackness to many of the scenes, but he comes to life in a nighttime murder scene that he transforms into a model of noir violence, an urban street fight in the dark of the empty city picked out in shards of light (credit likely goes to cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, RKO's crime movie vet), and the screenplay co-written by Steve Fisher has a bite of irony in its twists.
Deliver Us From Evil is a crime - thriller horror movie directed by Scott Derrickson who also co-wrote the screenplay with Paul Harris Boardman.
Now showing in theaters is Prisoners, a chilling new crime drama featuring a Black List screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski, directed by French - Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve.
A Brooklyn crime drama with this cast, directed by Roskam and written by Lehane in his first feature screenplay (he's written some for HBO shows The Wire and Boardwalk Empire) should have been an event film for me, but The Drop ultimately remains a little too undercooked and over-familiar to amount to more than the sum of its parts.
Outstanding Screenplay / Writing, TV Movie or Limited Series «American Crime» (Season Two, Episode One) Written by: John Ridley (ABC) Jean of the Joneses Written by: Stella Meghie (TV One) Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story Written by: Christine Swanson & Rhonda Baraka (TV One) «The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story» («The Race Card») Written by: Joe Robert Cole (FX) «The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story» («A Jury in Jail») Written by: Joe Robert Cole (FX)
The screenplay by director Attila Till unfolds in mostly contrived fashion, yet capably juggles tones between dark crime saga and lighthearted poignancy.
But before he headed off to film what may be his biggest blockbuster - style film to date — the highly anticipated reboot Terminator: Genisys — he returned home to shoot Felony, an intriguingly moody crime drama with a screenplay written by his co-star Joel Edgerton.
«He seems to be working on becoming a better Batman than Batman even is — not by fighting crime, but by controlling it,» says writer Judd Winick, who adapted his 2005 - 06 comic storyline into the screenplay.
Also interesting is that the screenplay by Biderman (Primal Fear), Mann and Bennett (Lucky Break) touches on the broader scope of Burrough's book, which is a broad, non-fiction account of the gangster era and the creation of the FBI, and made it a personal film about Dillinger as a lover and a fighter, and Purvis as a love of crime fighting.