Sentences with phrase «social drama»
The return to school comes with the return to more kids and more social drama.
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Stranger - than - fiction events power this affirmative, funny and well - cast social drama about solidarity.
So many people at dog parks think that if they leave the dogs alone, they'll get through whatever social drama is happening.
I've already expressed my admiration for «Sugar,» the wonderful new baseball - oriented social drama from «Half Nelson» creators Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden.
This may not come to pass given French director Stéphane Brizé's social drama AT WAR and Italian director Matteo Garrone's revenge thriller DOGMAN, each built around a prominent lead male performance.
Best known for his acting credits, including In America and the cocky detective in Hot Fuzz, Paddy Considine elevates the British social drama into something more than your average miserable affair, tapping into the grandeur of Western archetypes as Joseph (I am sure there is a biblical parable in there somewhere as well) tries to do one right thing in a maddening world.
Too often modern sensibilities and the penchant for morbid social drama beget a world where life is hell and family is a chariot of despair.
In relation to humanity, nature no longer exists «naturally,» for it has become part of the human social drama, interacting with humankind as a vehicle of historical judgment and a sign of historical hope.
This will enable one to see that the Paraiyars are actors in their own ongoing social drama rather than mere spectators.
It would be easy to compare the film to the gangster - full works of Tarantino, but where Tarantino is skilful at getting inside the characters of his lowlifes and making you care, Drew's motley crew of social misfits remain just movie - video ciphers, rather than the anti-heroes of an insightful social drama.
The compulsion to view others may be a basic instinct among apes, which underlies our interest in watching social dramas, whether live or recorded.
One of the most significant Slovak directors of the 90s era, Martin Šulík, returns on the big screen after 2011 social drama Gypsy tinged with his easy - to - recognize magic realism style.
More a lurching, blue - collar social drama than a conventional boxing biopic, The Fighter connects fitfully as a story of brotherly bonds and underdog triumph.
Roberto Benigni and Dominique Laffin co-star in this symbolic social drama about a well - meaning teacher and his young pre-school class.
Director Ulrich Seidl's despairing, relentlessly downbeat social drama Import / Export unfolds against the backdrop of contemporary Europe.
By setting this intimate conflict against a wider social drama, Daldry makes his portrait of a dancer all the more compelling.
This film is one of the unsung gems of the seventies, part adventure film, part social drama, part road movie.
Pattinson, the British star of Twilight, tops the bill in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, tipped as one of the key titles to screen, while Efron takes the lead in Paperboy, the new film from Lee Daniels, whose social drama Precious was a sleeper hit two years ago.
Winner of the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Hou Hsiao - hsien's («Flight of the Red Balloon») first film in eight years, The Assassin (Nie yin niang), may initially seem out of character for a director whose previous work has been in realistic social dramas set in a contemporary historical context.
John Derek co-starred in Ray's 1949 social drama Knock on Any Door and plays a variation of the same role as Davey Bishop, a young man orphaned as a child and raised by the community, passed around among the families of his small town of Madison.
The actress also directed the tepid social drama Standing Tall, which played out of competition on opening night.
This week, the Cooler gang reviews two high profile social drama entries into the 2017 Emmy race: American Crime Season 3 and Shots Fired.
I mean, intense social drama... coming out in December... Jesse Eisenberg for Best Actor?
The decision also could have come at the expense of Dee Rees, director of the acclaimed «Mudbound,» a nuanced social drama about prejudice in the Mississippi Delta, or Patty Jenkins, whose dazzling «Wonder Woman» upended the superhero genre in several important ways.
Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev follows up Leviathan with a bleak but captivating social drama.
Florida is also a sophisticated technical achievement that uses its formal patterns to enrich its thematic goals and transcend the colourless expectations of a gritty social drama.
Both were earnest, thoughtful social dramas that posited them as a young, two - headed John Sayles.
Crime in the Streets (1956) is less film noir than stagey social drama, but it's the film debut of John Cassavetes in a twitchy bit of juvenile delinquency on the road to murder.
Paintings produced by Shimon Minamikawa in 1990s Japan are at the center of Ei Arakawa and Shimon Minamikawa «s video Paris Adapted Homeland, in which the neurotic and competitive environment among painters is staged as an ironic social drama.
While any portrait is both a document and a personal record of the relationship between the artist and his or her subject, blurring distinctions between public and private, portraits of artists further enrich the situation; they commemorate and concretize the intimate social dramas of the art world and the economies of exchange.
The six - disc set also features Cagney in Picture Snatcher (1933) and Mayor Of Hell (1933), Cagney co-starring with Edward G. Robinson in Smart Money (1931), Robinson in Brother Orchid (1940), and Humphrey Bogart in Black Legion (1937), which is more social drama than gangster film but can fit the bill in pinch.
With two exceptions — Topsy - Turvy and Vera Drake (which takes place in the 1950s)-- Leigh's films are set in contemporary urban or suburban Britain and might be described as social dramas, although even at their darkest they have a comic edge.
Silliphant personally scripts more 75 % of the first season, stamping the show with his brand of social drama and filling the dramas with troubled, tormented and just plain screwed - up souls looking for some peace.
«Rhetorical» people, on the other hand, use speech not to identify things but to constitute and reconstitute subjects in terms of interest, to take up roles within the social drama, to focus, to score, and to win.
A generation ago, kids would come home in the afternoon and have a break from the social drama at school.
In fact, the holiday season may be the most important time to continue yoga and meditation practices, especially when there are endless opportunities to indulge in sweets, cocktails, and social drama.
There hasn't been a social drama this decadently over-hyped since City of God.
David Fincher directs this social drama from a script by Aaron Sorkin titled The Social Network, with Jesse Eisenberg starring as Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Alas, director Niki Caro, who made an uplifting feminist piece that few could find fault with, Whale Rider, batters her themes home with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, making what should be an interesting and thought - provoking exploration of the beginnings of the staunch sexual harassment laws in the workplace into an almost absurd «lone dog» social drama that is rarely found outside of a television movie of the week.
This year's best screenplay award is a tie, with Nader Saeivar winning for her work on Jafar Panahi's 3 Faces, in which the director and actress Behnaz Jafari travel to the Iranian countryside in search of a distressed teenaged girl; and Alice Rohrwacher, for Happy as Lazzaro, the tale of a simpleton that blends magic realism and social drama.
While the children largely dominate the film, the adult characters are equally pertinent in Baker's exploration of social drama and black comedy.
Covering everything from action films, social dramas, love stories and crime films, what they have in common is an African identity and cultural grounding that make them more popular than Hollywood films for Nigerian audiences.