Sentences with phrase «true narrative of the film»

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It's not, though, because this is one of those «too good to be true» tales perfectly suited for a narrative feature film and one helmed by a maestro of visual effects and other technical facets.

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 same is true of most of the film's narrative turns: the growing success and decline of John's dental practice, for example, is presented matter - of - factly, and feels almost inconsequential.

She may be the last relatively untapped figure in British heritage cinema's well - worn library of queenly narratives, but she has once more been passed over for the privilege of fronting the latest middlebrow, true - life royal drama, fast becoming an annual fixture on the UK film calendar.

10:00 pm — TCM — A Night to Remember Rather than graft a fictional narrative on the sinking of the Titanic (as did both the 1953 and 1997 films entitled Titanic), this film attempts to stay as true as possible to the truth of what actually happened, using only people and stories that were actually on the boat.

Unlike The Silent Revolution, The Captain's narrative focus is not on the victims (who eventually become victors) of history but the perpetrators — a true rarity in the history of German cinema that is made even more remarkable by the fact that the film does not concern itself with the famous culprits (as does Oliver Hirschbiegel's Der Untergang [Downfall, 2004]-RRB- but, rather, with the «unknown» wrongdoers, that is, the «little guys» who, once afforded the opportunity, displayed the same murderous tendencies than their more famous leaders.

However, the true importance of that date to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - and how the concept of «Loop Day» affects the plot - gives away key details of the film's narrative.

Birth of a Nation (1915)- Considered the first true narrative film, it attracted widespread criticism for its portrayal of African Americans and its glorification of the KKK.

A film that shows Liberace's male concubines as true expendable assets; it weaves pretty much throughout the films narrative and holds it together - though Soderbergh's take on the glamour and insecurities of the mans life is well executed.

Taking notes from Orson Welles» F for Fake, he titillates us with the intrigue of an unbelievably true story, before crafting a more traditional narrative film with a flourish.

With this film, Akira Kurosawa forever banished any sense that what you see on film is the truth (cinematically speaking, I mean — before this, whatever was visually presented could be taken as true within the narrative over whatever any of the characters had to say).

It is a charged, vivacious narrative film that demands true chops of Holmes, which she demonstrates in a ferocious performance that many trained professionals could never credibly give.

The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players, until the true story starts to unfold, creates an unsettling feeling of dread absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, diminishing the emphasis on narrative and suspense.

Fresh: The excitement (of Down by Law) comes from the realization that we are seeing a true film maker at work, using film to create a narrative that couldn't exist on the stage or the printed page of a novel.

The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players until the true story starts to unfold creates an unsettling feeling of dread, absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, weakening the emphasis on narrative and suspense.

It's because All the President's Men is so obsessed with skirting the edges of the much - larger narrative that inspires it, trying at once to remain true to the Watergate scenario while also keeping it fresh, that the film remains so much smaller and less resonant than that story.

Dallas Buyers Club certainly sounds like an Academy favorite; a true American story about a controversial person, but the narrative of the film never quite reaches the emotional payoff it aims for.

With Coogler dramatizing a seemingly ordinary day, a few moments of narrative foreshadowing don't ring as true as others but act more as needless punctuation marks than major flaws that would blunt or detract from the film's cumulative aftereffect.

AWFJ Narrative Jurors MaryAnn Johanson (Chair), Beth Hanna, Katherine Brodsky, Monika Bartyzel, Julide Tanriverdi and Laurie Coker commended the film for its «smart and sophisticated screenplay and beautifully sensitive cinematography that give us intimate access to the interwoven stories of several delightfully quirky and very engaging characters as they struggle to express their true identities and realize their dreams in a world rife with alienating challenges.

The film is particularly strong as a narrative of coming to grips with one's true identity.

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...

In Transit is a collaborative effort; Maysles directed the film alongside Lynn True, Nelson Walker, David Usui and Ben Wu, and the multitude of narrative strands and cameras at work showcasing a slyly extensive production for what is ultimately a hyper - intimate work.