Sentences with phrase «social realism films»

As far as social realism films go, this one simply must be seen.

Not exact matches

A genre - defying film blending horror, supernatural elements, comedy, and social realism.

She raves: «I take comfort in knowing that we have a director who thoroughly understands and is willing to deeply engage with the social realism of today's America, one film at a time.»

Here, Loach's film takes an abrupt turn from his customary gritty social realism to gently zany caper movie.

If we can say that the 48th New York Film Festival offered films that were for the most part concerned with social issues, we certainly can not accuse the selection committee of putting together a one - note program, or of being restricted only to socially conscious films produced within the traditions of film realism.

Regardless of how effective the film was in removing barriers toward the horror via its commitment to realism, Scrapbook would nonetheless be received as an artifice by viewers due to the formal and social arrangements, such as credit sequences and watching the film on a tape which had either been bought or rented.

«The «logical» way to make this film would have been social realism,» says Lelio.

An instant audience success was Dress as a Maid, beginning as an old socialist realism film, turning to into a gender - oriented flick of transsexual identity, and ending as a love story amid a convulsive social landscape.

CUSTODY (note: this film is out in 2018) A rare instance of social realism harmonising with elements of the horror and thriller to create a heart - stopping, anxiety - inducing drama that not only enthrals but will also open audience's eyes to the hideousness of spousal abuse.

Part of the Rive Gauche film movement (the nouvelle vague's even more rebellious sibling) she created films that deal with mortality, time and a revised social realism.

The strong sense of social realism in that film is all the more realistic for the casual, unforced way it finds a place within the story.

It sometimes feels that the British film industry only makes about three or four different kinds of movies: dreadful gangster films that rarely get a release abroad, gritty social realism pictures, period costume dramas, and semi-quirky comedies with a tearjerking side, exemplified by something like «Billy Elliot» or «The Full Monty,» but more often turning out like «Calendar Girls» or «Song For Marion.»

There's been a backlash against these films in recent years (partly levelled at the public school, Oxbridge provenance of the filmmakers), but the fact that most of them ride high on this list suggests they're still credited with initiating a new age of storytelling in British cinema, both in terms of the range, social and geographical, of subjects and a style of filmmaking that honours realism above all else.

The provincial city in Weekend is never named, but the film was shot in Nottingham, in many of the same locations as Karel Reisz's landmark of kitchen - sink realism Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), which also spans a weekend and whose characters are likewise bristling against the social climate of their time; Glen is in some ways a modern, gay version of Albert Finney's original angry young man.

In film, we speak with Alastair Siddons about his new release In The Dark Half — a feature that spans across genres from fantasy to horror, and from thriller to social realism.