Sentences with phrase «true as a feature film»

This is a true story — or as true as a feature film about anyone's life can be — and it's one that's worth telling, with an angle on World War II that movies don't offer very often.

Not exact matches

This 90 - minute feature film by Oscar - winning director, Danis Tanovic, tells the true story of a former Nestlé salesman who took on the company with the help of IBFAN when he realises that babies are dying as a result of his work pressuring doctors to promote formula.

The series certainly hasn't featured nearly as much spilled blood as it does here, and though it's true that the films have continued to get progressively darker and more adult as they've gone along, it's admittedly still a little shocking to see such creepy imagery on display — particularly a scene involving a disgusting fetus with Voldemort's likeness.

Based on the true story of a boxer wrongly accused of murdering three people in 1966, the film featured stellar work by Washington as the wronged man, further demonstrating his remarkable capacity for telling a good story.

Like their previous film Lenny Cooke, sibling directors Benny and Joshua Safdie focus on a true story in Heaven Knows What, only this time they shoot it as a feature narrative instead of a documentary.

The Blu - ray and DVD both includes special features such as an extensive featurette on the eerie true story behind «The Possession,» along with separate audio commentaries with Bornedal and the film's writers.

True, a couple of the 1950's 3 - D features were in black and white, but the film that started the craze, «Bwana Devil» (1952), was in color, as were most of the subsequent films, including such wonders as Raoul Walsh's «Gun Fury» (1953) and Alfred Hitchcock's «Dial M for Murder» (1954, released flat after the craze had ended).

These most recent four animated features are once again true «family films,» in that they entertain adults as well as children.

Just as these three films were eye - opening because of how they allow viewers, 50 years later, to witness the emerging student movement and its rapid radicalisation, so a feature - length fiction film from the same year, Tätowierung (Tattoo, Johannes Schaaf, 1967), proved to be a real discovery and, in my view, one of the festival's true gems.

Directed by Andy Muschietti (Mama), from a script by Chase Palmer, Gary Dauberman and Cary Fukunaga (True Detective: Season One — the good season) the film is based on King's 1986 novel which became a highly rated ABC miniseries in 1990 and featured Tim Curry as the nasty piece of business known as Pennywise.

The film is the latest true - story based projected directed by Bennett Miller; part psychological drama / thriller, part sports drama, Foxcatcher reads as being a hybrid of genre tropes presents in Miller's previous biographical features, Capote and Moneyball.

Taking True Grit as a standalone feature without any remake rumblings or Coen brothers expectations, it is a good film.

As with most biographies and true stories put on celluloid, only so much can be folded into a feature - length film.

Though most behind - the - scenes features showcase the production process once filming is underway, The Player gives us a glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes of the behind - the - scenes process, where the only dreams that come true are for the people up top — the people who feel that anyone can make a story that will entertain millions, while the lowly creators that nurtured the initial ideas are seen as little more then expendable goods hardly worth receiving input from once the studio handlers squeeze their foots in the door, symbolically getting away with murder — the figurative death of the writer in the Hollywood production process.

Harrison Ford and Abigail Breslin Join Ender's Game: As I plow through Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game the book gets better and better and the same is true of the feature film version's cast.

The film tells an inspiring and spirited true story that follows young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the Supreme Court and overturn a century of gender discrimination.The feature will premiere in 2018 in line with Justice Ginsburg's 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court.

Such is the display of fair - weathered faith in Joshua Marston's fourth feature film, Come Sunday, which relates the true trials and travails of evangelical Bishop Carlton Pearson, who in the late 1990s caused waves amongst his religious community in Tulsa, Oklahoma when he announced God spoke to him and confirmed all souls are eligible to be received in heaven, whether they accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior or not (which also negates the threat of hell, a punishment which has kept communities frozen in antiquated fear - based decision making for centuries).

Brad Pitt and Emma Thompson, will narrate the film... Marcel Ophüls is planning a film about Ernst Lubitsch to star Dustin Hoffman, with Jeanne Moreau as Lubitsch's private secretary... Errol Morris is underway on Holland, Michigan, a narrative feature starring Naomi Watts, Bryan Cranston, and Edgar Ramirez... David Fincher is re-teaming with producer Scott Rudin and writer Aaron Sorkin on a Steve Jobs biopic based on Walter Isaacson's biography and structured around three pivotal moments in Jobs's life... Hot from HBO's True Detective, Cary Fukunaga is directing Idris Elba in Beasts of No Nation, a drama about child soldiers in Ghana...

After the likes of Capote and Moneyball it comes as no surprise that Bennett Miller has chosen yet another true story for his third feature film.

Recognized for having some of the richest, most engrossing storytelling in the industry, throughout the years, Assassin's Creed has succeeded to position as a true entertainment license, transcending video games to offer new and immersive experiences on comic books, mobile games, and novels and even movie with the worldwide release of the feature film «Assassin's Creed ®» which opens in theaters on December 21, 2016.