Sentences with phrase «story drama centers»

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It describes a drama that moves from creation to consummation, At the center of the story is a Sovereign Person who strives to bring the world to a perfect end.

Director Karel Reisz and screenwriter Robert Getchell create a tightly woven drama with two strong main characters and a number of fine supporting roles, and the love story at the film's center is convincing.

Centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production, the film is a true story of art and politics in America in the 1930s.

Summary: Centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production, the film is a true story of art and politics in America in the 1930s.

This year, Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return, Elena) returned to Cannes with his drama Leviathan, the story that is described as a gripping parable of class, faith and corruption, centering on a land dispute between a small - time mechanic and his local authorities that reaps unimaginable consequences.

Even the scenes of people taking phone calls, in a «coast guard» call center, had drama in them — and added to the telling of the story.

Now, Focus Features is looking at this very issue: written by Daniel Kunka and bought for Smokehouse and Spotlight producers Blye Pagon Faust and Nicole Rocklin, the drama is inspired by a number of different stories, including a piece sourced by the Center for Investigative Reporting, to put together a narrative for what is tentatively titled (and aptly named) Trading In Starvation.

It's an entertaining look at the typical Tennessee Williamsian family drama with the arguing, skeletons and conflict at the center of the story.

The romantic drama centers on the story of Jade Butterfiel...

In the historical drama, Marshall, directed by Reginal Hudlin and written by father - son team Michael and Jacob Koskoff, the plot centers on the true story of the 1941 courtroom drama that is not widely known, but proved to be incredibly influential in the legal world during such a segregated time in society.

Other films that we admire, but didn't quite make the cut included Alison Mclean «s «Jesus» Son» featuring awesome performances by Billy Crudup and Samatha Morton as drug - addict adult - lescents in the 1970s, Stephen Daldry «s celebratory boyhood - meets - ballet drama, «Billy Elliot,» Lars Von Trier's comedic docu - like dogme film «Idioterne» («The Idiots,» made in 1998 but only released in the U.S. in 2000), Steven Soderbergh «s economic and no - nonsense «Erin Brockovich,» Stephen Frears «manchild, record store - centered love story, «High Fidelity,» Terence Davies ««The House of Mirth» featuring an excellent Gillian Anderson turn, and perhaps Neil LaBute «s best film, tellingly one he didn't write, the dreamy and odd, «Nurse Betty.»

What You Need To Know: Set in a seedy New York City, this fast - paced drama is an unbelievable, funny story centering around the famous 1980 Abscam sting operation, which used a fake Arab sheik and a host of other cunning tricks to bring down corrupt public officials and members of Congress.

Robert Getchell create a tightly woven drama with two strong main characters and a number of fine supporting roles, and the love story at the film's center is convincing.

Little Boy Blue (US Exclusive Premiere) Based on a true story that shocked a nation, this powerful four - part factual drama, from BAFTA winning writer and executive producer Jeff Pope (The Moorside, Philomena), centers on the devastating impact on a city of an innocent child's murder amid a wave of gang violence.

Director Ryan Coogler, then an indie director on the rise thanks to his moving drama Fruitvale Station, was a lifetime Rocky fan who lobbied Stallone to let him try out this spin - off idea, centering the story on Adonis Johnson, the son of the late Apollo Creed (played in the original franchise by Carl Weathers).

Yet this time McCarthy allows his story to unfold into a political drama: Tarek is stopped by plainclothes policemen in the subway, busted as an illegal immigrant, and remanded to a detention center in Queens.

VanderMeer marries bildungsroman, domestic drama, love story, and survival thriller into one compelling story centered around complex, vulnerable characters struggling with what it means to be human.

«Physical Evidence,» Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY, April 12 — May 28, 1994 «Duchamp's Leg,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveled to the Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL; brochure «The Magic Magic Book,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1994; catalogue «New Paintings,» Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY, 1994 «Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1994; traveled to the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; catalogue «Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia,» Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY; traveled to Decker Galleries, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA; Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Illingworth Kerr Art Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; catalogue «Dark o'Clock,» Museu de Arte Moderna de Sâo Paulo, Sâo Paulo, Brazil, 1994; traveled to Plug In, Inc, Video Pool, Ace Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; catalogue «Stories,» Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY, 1994 «Equal Rights and Justice, High Museum of Art,» Atlanta, GA, 1994; traveled to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; catalogue «Drama,» Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY 1994 «Oliver Herring, Byron Kim, Glenn Ligon,» Galerie Gilles Peyroulet, Paris, France, 1994 «The Label Show: Contemporary Art and the Museum,» Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1994; brochure «Don't Look Now,» Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, 1994; catalogue