Sentences with phrase «screenplay ever»

Come on, any movie which is ripping off Return to Me isn't working with the best screenplay ever.

It's hard to believe the screenplay ever got beyond the outline stage when you see such clumsy storytelling and to think three people couldn't come together to write something any more compelling is astonishing.

Players don't interact with characters, but with digital actors, admiring the most thrilling and exciting screenplay ever created for a videogame.

Nice cinematography, some good actors, but simply one of the worst screenplays ever written by a man or a woman.

Not exact matches

Rogers was in his twenties when his first - ever screenplay was made, «Hope Floats,» the 1998 romance movie starring Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick Jr. that has since become a staple on cable TV.

And it's unlike any other book I've ever written, for in addition to the memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay — all aimed at capturing the wonder and beauty of Scripture, while honoring the best in biblical scholarship and acknowledging the challenges of its most difficult passages.

During Lent, I've been rewatching the magnificent 1981 BBC production of Brideshead Revisited — the best TV adaption ever made of a great novel, in part because of the stunning cast but in larger part because Evelyn Waugh's book is the screenplay.

Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.

Howard Himelstein's screenplay is peppered with snappy dialogue with an over-rehearsed quality to it (has anyone ever talked like this ever?)

When I said that the film hits particularly bland spells, I really did mean it, though I'd be lying if I said that the film ever slips into downright dullness, thanks to an adequate degree of colorful wit within Sherriff's, West's and Maschwitz's screenplay, which, at the very least, delivers on engaging characterization that is made all the more engaging by the portrayals of the characters.

The big bum - note is a curiously stodgy screenplay, penned by director McQuarrie, who is also credited with writing one of the finest thriller films ever made with The Usual Suspects.

The animation by which it stands or falls is as brilliant as ever and, though it wouldn't really be right to call it totally anti-Disney, it certainly trumps that institution for sharpness of focus, notably as far as the screenplay is concerned.

With an excellent screenplay touching upon the ever - relevant issues of racism and homosexuality, the story is rather unpredictable and extremely engaging.

Synopsis: World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenplay, Kirsten Tan Thana, a once - illustrious architect, drifts ever further into existential crisis, propelled by the impending demolition of his proudest work and his wife's waning romantic interest.

Onto Janney, I would say that her chances dimmed ever so slightly today with I, Tonya not making it into Best Picture or Original Screenplay.

Analysis: Tarantino recently told GQ that he wants to win more original screenplay Oscars «than anybody who's ever lived!»

As fantastical and magical as this story is, Dayton and Faris bring a warm realism to the material, and the screenplay rings clear as a bell for anyone who has ever suffered from identity crisis or pressure to live up to an ideal image in a romantic relationship.

The screenplay, by Malick, obviously, has problems, but, at its best, it is on par with the very best of films ever made.

One of my favorite moments was James Ivory's acceptance speech — 90 - year - old James Ivory, the oldest Oscar recipient ever, for his screenplay from my favorite movie of the year, «Call Me By Your Name.»

«Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits our prehistoric ape - ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind - blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality.»

Paul Schrader's gritty screenplay depicts the ever - deepening alienation of Vietnam Veteran Travis Bickle, a psychotic cab driver who obsessively cruises the mean streets of Manhattan.

** / **** Image B + Sound B Commentary B + starring Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Larry Hagman screenplay by Paul Mazursky and Josh Greenfeld directed by Paul Mazursky by Alex Jackson I complain a lot about film criticism being reduced to archaeology, but I don't think I've ever seen anything quite as impenetrable along these lines as Paul Mazursky's 1974 sleeper Harry and Tonto.

More than anything else, she is bewildered by what has happened to her marriage, and it's not entirely clear from Vanessa Taylor's screenplay (her first) if the marriage was ever all that great.

Ever since Get Out opened last February, I'd been cautioning that, realistically, an Original Screenplay nomination was its best bet for Oscar (because based on Oscar history, it was, but Oscar seems ready for a new phase).

The Lodges» story has its roots in a screenplay that Joel and Ethan Coen wrote in 1986 — the same year, incidentally, that gave us David Lynch's «Blue Velvet,» the greatest dark - side - of - suburbia movie ever made.

The Grand Budapest Hotel: Wes Anderson has his best ever shot at the Oscars this year, with his first Directing and Picture nominations to go along with his third Screenplay nomination (he was also nominated for Best Animated Film in 2009).

Along with Anna Paquin, the second youngest Oscar winner ever, the duo swept the Best Actress categories and Campion won for Best Original screenplay.

Commercially successful, critically adored, winner of an original screenplay Academy Award, and more influential than any other indie ever, it was enough to secure Tarantino a place in film's history books and announce him as the writer / director to watch of his generation.

While Fred is done with his career, Mick is working really hard on his latest screenplay, which he hopes will turn into the best film he has ever made.

Hooper said he thought «The Danish Girl» was the best screenplay he'd ever read.

The screenplay, credited to Geneva Robertson - Dworet and Alastair Siddons, devises a series of puzzles for Lara to solve, though as the action intensifies, it's difficult to follow her reasoning, and the puzzles remain rather puzzling, if they were ever intended as anything more than plot devices.

Everything of course leads towards that speech, a stirring crescendo if ever there was one following ample helpings of tension and dry wit in Anthony McCarten's screenplay.

«Midnight in Paris» (Sony), the grown - up romantic fantasy that unexpectedly became Woody Allen's most financially successful film ever, earned four nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

Directed by Mick Jackson from a screenplay by novelist / playwright Barry Hines and nominated for seven BAFTA Awards, «The most terrifying and honest portrayal of nuclear war ever filmed» (The Guardian) has now been fully restored from a 2K scan for the first time ever.

«Moneyball» (Sony), arguably the brainiest sports movie ever, came away with six nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Brad Pitt), Best Supporting Actor (Jonah Hill) and Adapted Screenplay.

The screenplay, by the suddenly - ubiquitous Simon Kinberg (also the scribe behind the upcoming X-Men 3, Fantastic Four, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith — let me go on record first saying that this film does not bode well), is a foul compost of flaccid catchphrases and boggle - eyed declarations, squeezed like old cheese between action sequences so poorly conceptualized and executed that not only is it impossible to ever tell for a moment what the hell's going on, but the film also actually reminded me in its over-processed way of outtakes from Tron.

If there's one aspect that prevents Bolt's outstanding screenplay from quite reaching the dizzying pedestal upon which Spielberg places it, it lies in its overstatement of Lawrence's contradictions, the «no one ever knew him» assertion with which the film begins, building towards the answer, «least of all Lawrence himself».

Steven Knight's screenplay and direction prevent the film from ever feeling boring or one - note, and Hardy gives a tour - de-force performance that displays a full character arc despite the fact that he never leaves his driver's seat.

«The Fabulous Baker Boys» isn't the most scintillating screenplay, and its runaway box office success probably says more about the year it was released than the film itself, but it's a wonderfully sumptuous throwback to the grand glamour of old - school Hollywood — and none of its stars were ever quite as luminous, before or since.

Lelio manages his screenplay's ever - changing tones expertly, even when the film at times seems to be taking on more genres than it can handle.

It's pretty hard to believe that Roman Polanski's «Chinatown» almost went home empty - handed at the 1975 Academy Awards (it ended up winning Best Original Screenplay), because it's not only one of the best film noirs ever made, but it's an American classic.

It also makes him the first African - American writer ever to win Best Original Screenplay.

Winner of two Oscars for best Actress and Best Original Screenplay Fargo stars Frances McDormand, William H Macy, Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare in a riveting dark - humoured drama of debt, ransom and murder that features one of the funniest and most horrific means of disposing of a body ever caught on film.

It was the first movie she'd ever made, actress Hilary Swank told me, where they shot the first draft of the screenplay.

It's based on the novel by Emma Donoghue who also did the screenplay but the novel is narrated by the 5 year old child who's only ever known this one room so that one's going to be tricky to make breathe as a film.

Not only were these two films nominated — back - to - back — for Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Screenplay and Supporting Actor / Actress roles, they happened to be first time in the Academy's history that this was ever achieved.

* James Ivory, who has competed three times in the directing category for his literary costume dramas «A Room With a View,» «Howards End» and «The Remains of the Day,» is officially the oldest Oscar winner ever at age 89 after winning Best Adapted Screenplay for the love story «Call Me by Your Name.»

Moreover, Bardem is as angsty as ever, Lawrence comes through with a dually volatile and vulnerable performance that reminds of why she won her Oscar, and the twisted symbolism of Aronofsky's screenplay mushroom clouds in the pic's homestretch.

With James Ivory's win for best adapted screenplay for «Call Me by Your Name,» he became the oldest person ever to take home the golden Oscars statue.

Greta Gerwig joins only four other women ever to be nominated for Best Director, for her drama «Lady Bird,» for which she also got a Best Original Screenplay nod.