Sentences with phrase «story of the film coming»

Stewart was the real story of the film coming into its American release; she made headlines last year when she became the first American actress to win a Cesar award (essentially France's equivalent to the Oscars) for her supporting turn here, a bit of a surprise for those who only really knew her from the Twilight films.

Not exact matches

Sure, there's still crime - fighting and high - tech gear, as in any superhero film these days, but focusing on Parker's vulnerability, and creating a relatable coming - of - age story, seems to be what makes this Spider - Man special.

The story of Bishop Carlton Pearson will soon be the subject of a new Netflix film called Come Sunday, and last week, he visited Megyn Kelly Today to discuss what it was like to be labeled a heretic.

It was that old story that came to mind recently after I had spent two hours and 40 minutes viewing the controversial film The Last Temptation of Christ.

Unlike the Church, the film industry's trend of origin stories doesn't feel like it's coming from the fans, but from the bosses.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

None of that is right in the foreground of the film's latest trailer, which doesn't mean that it isn't terrifying: The film's intimate title and POV comes The New Scariest Thing You Didn't Know About «The Silence Of The Lambs» The costume designer shares a new on - set story about Anthony Hopkinof that is right in the foreground of the film's latest trailer, which doesn't mean that it isn't terrifying: The film's intimate title and POV comes The New Scariest Thing You Didn't Know About «The Silence Of The Lambs» The costume designer shares a new on - set story about Anthony Hopkinof the film's latest trailer, which doesn't mean that it isn't terrifying: The film's intimate title and POV comes The New Scariest Thing You Didn't Know About «The Silence Of The Lambs» The costume designer shares a new on - set story about Anthony HopkinOf The Lambs» The costume designer shares a new on - set story about Anthony Hopkins.

Gilchrist starred in the Focus Features film IT»S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY, a coming - of - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola DaviOF A FUNNY STORY, a coming - of - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola DSTORY, a coming - of - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola Daviof - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola Dstory from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola Davis.

It's a little bit of a musical, a little bit of a sports film, a little bit coming - of - age story.

Critics Consensus: It's sentimental, and some viewers may feel manipulated by the melodramatic final act, but The Man in the Moon offers a finely drawn coming - of - age story with an excellent cast — including Reese Witherspoon in her film debut.

Critic Consensus: It's sentimental, and some viewers may feel manipulated by the melodramatic final act, but The Man in the Moon offers a finely drawn coming - of - age story with an excellent cast — including Reese Witherspoon in her film debut.

Submarine is not just for the artsy Wes Anderson crowd, who love quirky characters and whimsical cinematography, the film appeals to everyone with it's genuine take on a coming of age story.

And the film itself loses focus as it drifts toward the conventions of the coming - of - age story and the family - dysfunction melodrama.

The film makes use of some kick - ass cinematography (colorful imagery of the summer, and a picture that reflects childhood innocence), while the story sheds light on poverty, and the bad things that come along with it, and how it affects childhood, and for me, that is what pop culture nowadays would describe as «woke», because not a lot of films these days shed light on those important issues.

The downside to this approach is that the film occasionally feels repetitive or drags; we know that some kind of uplift is coming, because the story is well - worn, and there are times of wishing that it would just cut to the chase.

It's just that the film feels so unusually empty; even if he has subtly snuck his usual hallmarks into the mechanics of the narrative itself, he's populated the foreground with characters who never come alive as anything more than archetypes, who trade in so much exposition it's hard to see how any audience member could be overwhelmed with confusion at the story being told.

However, other then a clever way to tell a coming of age story, this film really lacked a spark.

Gillespie smartly uses the known and builds upon it with context and some style, using «modern day» Tonya, Jeff and LaVona among others as interview subjects for a documentary of sorts that frames the film, but also has the characters speak into the camera in non-interview segments to help give Tonya some humanity, or at least make sure you have a better idea about all of her story and life coming out and you did going in.

Despite not completely coming together, «True Story» is an interesting film about a pair of dysfunctional men who forge a head - scratching bond.

Chen Kaige's first Chinese film since the poorly received, Hollywood - produced Killing Me Softly is based on a true story of an adolescent violin prodigy coming of age in Beijing.

It's a coming - of - age story, but Holmer mostly eschews dialogue and standard storytelling devices; she tells her tale through movements and patterns and the way that she films them.

As David, the son of Korean immigrants, navigates his nascent desire, the film rests not on eroticism per se, but on the connective tissue it weaves among sexual and other identities: Spa Night recombines elements of the emigrant saga and the coming - of - age story into a searching, fresh - faced portrait, highlighting in the process the genres» keen correspondences.

Although the film's title and a minimal amount of story come from author Michael Faber's 2000 novel, this is Glazer's most hyperstylized and unnerving film since Ben Kingsley got on the wrong side of Ray Winstone and Amanda Redman in the director's utterly self - assured feature debut, Sexy Beast.

There are science fiction films that deal with the subject of time travel and then there is Looper, which comes across as refreshingly original as well as entertaining, with a story full of interesting twists.

A film that explores the compelling story of one woman's tragic struggle to come to terms with the accidental death of her baby, which she forgot in a car on a hot summer day for six hours.

Framed with documentary film — like interviews with the key players in what remains the most infamous story to come out of Olympic figure skating, his Tonya Harding script straddles a tricky tone of pitch - black humor, affecting pathos, and winking self - awareness.

When it comes to awards, there is one clear story coming out of Wonder Wheel, the new film written and directed by Woody Allen.

Gervais admits that it was designed as a feel - good film, but that hardly justifies the blandness of this utterly conventional and completely predictable coming - of - age story.

The song's style doesn't try to match the 1940s setting of the film, but does capture the power of the story, and the hope that comes when people learn how to love one another.

This emotional coming - of - age story follows Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered that they could communicate by immersing themselves in the world of Disney animated films.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

Many of them that have premiered here over the years I've fallen in love with, but as we get new coming - of - age films every year, the stories have to evolve and stay unique in order to remain fresh.

You've aged Alice to 19, so the film turns her adventure into more of a coming - of - age story.

Inspired by the lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, this remarkable love story comes with an exclusive behind - the - scenes featurette about the making of the film.

It's a coming - of - age story about 15 - year - old youth, adapted from a novel by film critic François Bégaudeau, who wrote and starred in Laurent Cantet's 2008 Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Class.

There is an attempt at some sort of twist ending, a la M. Night Shyamalan, but even this adds so very little to the story as a whole, and comes off like a gimmick just to give the film a «big reveal» even if it doesn't really merit one.

Other film front - runners include the coming - of - age story «Boyhood» and World War II code - cracking drama «The Imitation Game,» which have five nominations each, including best picture (drama).

For whatever reason, Warner Brothers packaged Jammin'the Blues, one of the greatest short films ever made, alongside Michael Curtiz's feature length Passage to Marseille (1944), a thoroughly mediocre military melodrama so desperate to replicate the success of Curtiz's earlier masterpiece Casablanca (1942) that it reuses most of the principal cast and some of the same story beats about lovers torn apart by war and self - centered anti-heroes who come to learn the importance of self - sacrifice.

Legato said, «It was a thrill to actually work on the film and kind of come up with a new way of telling a story, which is an old way of telling a story, just to make it look like it's a «photo - real film.»

Positioning itself in the tradition of the original Get Carter and Mike Figgis» Stormy Monday, the film is based on a story by Misra, with the script coming from Ewen Glass and Andy McDermott.

Transcending the boundaries of both biopics and animated films alike with rich material, gorgeous images, a devastating story, and one of the most powerful thematic interpretations of the passion that comes with creativity, the story of Jiro Horikoshi and his journey from wide - eyed dreamer to war - engineer is a heartbreaking, existentially maddening, astoundingly beautiful and human film.

This is the second film of 2013 about WikiLeaks and Assange, and by most accounts, the documentary that came first (We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks) does it better.

They're both produced by J.J. Abrams and directed by up - and - coming filmmakers (as were the original Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane), and all of the films so far have featured strong casts and high - concept science fiction stories.

Phil and Chris are there to bring what they bring to their films, their very unique vision, their perspective on story and they asked me to come bring what I bring, and so just for that it won't feel like any of the other films.

Moreover, in telling the story of a betrayed American spy come home for answers, this chapter in the Bourne saga was the political film of its year.

Ava DuVernay over the last few years has become a mighty presence in cinema, and an important voice that shines a light on diversity in her films and the stories she tells and while I Will Follow came first and Selma counted as her big break out moment, Middle of Nowhere is what officially started the stir.

The inspiration of the story came from an article Michael Ardnt (who wrote the film) read in a newspaper, where Arnold Schwarzenegger was quoted speaking to a group of high school students: «If there's one thing in this world I hate, it's losers.

The film finds the actress in a coming - of - age tale set in the English countryside, against the backdrop of World War III, and Ronan described it as «just the most beautiful story.

Telling the story through the eyes of a child is something of a genius stroke, absolutely making sense of the heightened reality in a way that some of the more recent films didn't, and the tender (but never quite precious) burgeoning romance and coming - of - age aspects are beautifully drawn.

I understand why Johnny Depp is credited as the main actor, not because he is a bigger draw at the box office, but because he as Tanto starts off in the film telling the story of how the Lone Ranger came to be.