Sentences with phrase «stage origins»

Langella and Sheen's stirring work certainly goes a long way towards cementing Frost / Nixon's mild success, while Howard surely deserves credit for infusing the production with a distinctly cinematic quality that generally belies its stage origins.

The stage origins are obvious, and director Clare Peploe (Rough Magic, Highway Season) even acknowledges these origins in a bizarre sort of way near the end of the movie.

Perhaps it's the nature of its stage origins, or the ostensible «worthiness» of the project, or perhaps it's because the film is so bruisingly effective as to be almost overpowering.

One certainly couldn't mistake its stage origins with its single set within the walls of a rather glamourous Brooklyn apartment (hardly the «middle class» we're supposed to believe it to be) owned by a somewhat chirpy New Yorker couple.

It's a film that hasn't entirely shaken off its stage origins, but somehow the emotional territory it embraces is powerful enough to make you forget anything but the fate of the three women at its heart.

The work's stage origins are clear; apart from the newly - written prologue...

I'm not wild about flicks that show too much connection to their stage origins, and that occurs with Glengarry.

The material remains strong enough to largely overcome that concern, but I'd like to see a little more life breathed into the program to separate it from its stage origins.

Not only does he keep the story from getting confusing — which, considering its myriad moving pieces, is no small feat — but it also avoids betraying its stage origins, despite the fact that 99 percent of the film is set in the same apartment.

Doug McHenry's film, adapted from their own play by David Dean Bottrell and Jessie Jones, shows its stage origins as it introduces the branches of the Slocumb family with two - character arguments.