Sentences with phrase «war drama american»

It was Clint Eastwood's riveting war drama American Sniper, which was embraced by many critics, audiences across the country and even Oscar voters, who gave the Clint Eastwood biopic six Oscar nominations.

That left Boyhood, Richard Linklater's audacious 12 - years - in - the - making coming - of - age epic, trailing with just six nominations, the same as Clint Eastwood's Iraq war drama American Sniper, which has recently picked up momentum.

Clint Eastwood's real - life Iraq war drama American Sniper has earned the director a nomination at the Directors Guild America awards.

He returned to the Oscar race in 2014 playing the title role in Clint Eastwood's 21st century war drama American Sniper, for which he also was nominated for Best Picture, having served as a producer on the film.

As FX's gripping, magnificent Cold War drama The Americans jumps into its fourth season Wednesday night with its usual hypertension, its makers are always quick to remind us that their show is first and foremost about a marriage.

Not exact matches

Asian actress Lisa Lu made an auspicious American film debut as Mme Sue - Mei Hung in the 1960 war drama The Mountain Road.

Kathryn Bigelow follows - up her Oscar winning military / war - based dramas «The Hurt Locker» and «Zero Dark Thirty» with a look at the 1967 Detroit riots, specifically shedding light on an incident in American history that most people don't know much about.

A period drama set in post-World War II Mississippi, based on a novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound tells the story of two men — one African American, one white — returning home from the war to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the periWar II Mississippi, based on a novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound tells the story of two men — one African American, one white — returning home from the war to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the periwar to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the period.

Based on a rather astounding true story, this comedy - drama centres on two stoners who landed a massive defence contract with the American government to sell arms for the War on Terror.

The Emmy - winning drama about a Nazi war - crime trial, which was American television's first miniseries in 1974, will be accompanied by a discussion led by its legendary producer, Douglas S. Cramer, and one of its stars, Juliet Mills.

Adapting David Finkel's bestselling book, American Sniper writer Jason Hall is also making his directorial debut with the drama, which follows various troops looking to make the transition from the chaos and bonds of war to the relative calm and connections of family life.

Let's overlook the fact that the title is either a really dodgy pun on Venice's most notorious bridge or a reference to a 1987 T'Pau album, and focus on the good news: Steven Spielberg directs Tom Hanks in a true - ish Cold War drama about a civilian lawyer roped into helping free an American pilot imprisoned in Russia.

Cutler's other work includes the documentary films The War Room, A Perfect Candidate, Thin, The September Issue, The World According to Dick Cheney and Listen To Me Marlon; the documentary television series American High, Freshman Diaries, The Residents and 30 Days; and the prime time drama series Nashville.

«American Sniper» wants to have it both ways — as a war - on - terror fantasy and poignant PTSD drama — but while it doesn't shy away from the physical and psychological horrors of battle, the movie is so heavy on pro-military propaganda that it doesn't realize its dramatic potential until it's too late.

Mohawk (Blu - ray) Details: 2017, Dark Sky Films Rated: Not rated The lowdown: A historical drama set during the War of 1812 finds a young female Mohawk pursued by a band of renegades thirsting for revenge after members of her tribe set fire to an American soldiers» camp.

In this period, he tackled an Oscar - winning drama about alcoholism (The Lost Weekend), two well - regarded film noirs (Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard), a war drama (Stalag 17), two light - hearted rom - coms (Sabrina, Seven Year Itch) a gripping murder - mystery (Witness for the Prosecution) and perhaps the funniest American movie of all time (Some Like It Hot).

This week, he trades in the orange overalls and vests of a «hot shot» firefighter for the combat fatigues of a U.S. soldier, Sergeant Adam Schumann, returning from the Iraqi War in 2007 in writer - director Jason Hall's (American Sniper) earnest, authentically told, compassionate Thank You For Your Service, another «based on a true story» throwback war - at - home drama elevated — just like last week's Only the Brave — by Teller's unfailing, unflagging commitment to bringing the inner turmoil, turbulence, and torment of his character to complex, contradictory liWar in 2007 in writer - director Jason Hall's (American Sniper) earnest, authentically told, compassionate Thank You For Your Service, another «based on a true story» throwback war - at - home drama elevated — just like last week's Only the Brave — by Teller's unfailing, unflagging commitment to bringing the inner turmoil, turbulence, and torment of his character to complex, contradictory liwar - at - home drama elevated — just like last week's Only the Brave — by Teller's unfailing, unflagging commitment to bringing the inner turmoil, turbulence, and torment of his character to complex, contradictory life.

«Bridge of Spies» is Steven Spielberg's Cold War drama about an American lawyer hauled into negotiations to release an airman marooned behind Russian lines.

Is this a thinly veiled propaganda piece, a violent (and gory) Civil War battlefield action movie, a heartfelt family drama or a tragic exploration of American history?

Here, he talks about his short film, American, a historical drama about the above - mentioned roundup and relocation of over 100,000 Japanese - American citizens during World War II.

Director Scott Cooper («Out of the Furnace») reteams with Christian Bale for this character - driven drama about a Native American - hating Army captain who's ordered to escort a dying war chief (Wes Studi) and his family back to tribal lands.

Jacques Audiard)- North American Premiere Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, this powerful drama from director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust & Bone) follows a former Tamil Tiger soldier as he flees from the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war to begin a new life in a Parisian suburb.

Steven Spielberg's atmospheric drama stars Tom Hanks as an American lawyer who's drawn into a Cold War battle when he decides to defend a Russian spy.

The stripped - down war drama «The Wall» opens with American snipers Aaron Taylor - Johnson and John Cena on duty in Iraq circa 2007, staking out a patch of desert eerily littered with the victims of an unseen enemy shooter.

The winner, by a reportedly slim — and hotly contested — margin: David O. Russell's rollicking late - 1970s ensemble piece, American Hustle, beating out Steve McQueen's intense pre-Civil War drama, 12 Years a Slave.

This 1946 drama was adapted from the novella Glory for Me by MacKinlay Kantor, an American author who had served as a war correspondent in London and interviewed many U.S. troops.

Two Brits don American — and in Henry Cavill «s case, heavily Southern — accents to portray soldiers in the upcoming Netflix war drama, Sand Castle.

Not so much a sequel as another stultifying character drama set in a world overrun by aliens, this 10 - years - later spinoff switches directors and genres, as first - timer Tom Green (building on experience from British TV's «Misfits» and «Blackout») helms a taxingly over-earnest war movie set in an unspecified Middle Eastern country, where American soldiers deal with insurgents while the menacing MTRs (as they're now called) lumber about in the background.

It's a bit of a mad theory, but how about this: maybe there's something subconsciously offputting for US audiences — in the same way that virtually every Iraq war drama struggled until American Sniper — about being reminded about the towers and what happened to them.

British World War Two biopic «The Imitation Game» garnered eight nominations, including best actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, while Iraq war portrait «American Sniper» and Golden Globe winner for best drama, «Boyhood,» each earned sWar Two biopic «The Imitation Game» garnered eight nominations, including best actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, while Iraq war portrait «American Sniper» and Golden Globe winner for best drama, «Boyhood,» each earned swar portrait «American Sniper» and Golden Globe winner for best drama, «Boyhood,» each earned six.

UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 16th to Sunday 18th January 2015... American Sniper enjoyed a record - breaking January debut over in the States, but despite giving director Clint Eastwood his biggest ever opening here in the UK with # 2,530,47, the Bradley Cooper - headlined war drama couldn't dethrone Bryan Mills from the -LSB-...]

Dee Rees» World War II drama for Netflix, which also earned Mary J. Blige her first Oscar nominations with Supporting Actress and Original Song (Mighty River), also made history when she was also was the first woman nominated for a feature film from the American Society of Cinematographers Awards.

This is The Beguiled, directed by Sofia Coppola, an American Civil War drama, involving a fleeing Union soldier who finds haven in a prim girls» boarding school, adapted from the novel of the same name by Thomas Cullinan, but more famously known as a troublingly brilliant film from 1971 by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page.

Bridge of Spies (Disney, Blu - ray, DVD, Digital HD, VOD), Steven Spielberg's cold war drama, stars Tom Hanks as insurance attorney James B. Donovan, an American idealist asked to represent Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), a Soviet spy captured by the CIA in 1957 and given a public trial.

With filming on The Current War well underway in London, The Weinstein Company has released the first image from the highly - anticipated drama featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as legendary American inventor Thomas Edison.

The other Oscar hopefuls include David O.Russell's American Hustle and Peter Berg's war drama Lone Survivor.

The 58th BFI London Film Festival, in partnership with American Express, runs from October 8 to 19, with B rad Pitt's new Second World War drama Fury bringing down the curtain on the final day.

American Pastoral (R for profanity, graphic sexuality and brief violent images) Crime drama, set in 1968, about a successful, suburban couple (Jennifer Connelly and Ewan McGregor) whose idyllic life comes apart at the seams when their radicalized daughter (Dakota Fanning) commits a deadly act of terrorism in protest of the Vietnam War.

In other platform - hopping filmmaker news, Andrea Arnold (American Honey) will direct all seven episodes of HBO's second season of Big Little Lies, and Wong Kar Wai has been doing casting calls for Amazon's Tong Wars, a 10 - part crime drama set on the streets of San Francisco.

The Enemy Below (Kino Classics, Blu - ray), a World War II submarine drama based on the novel of the same name by Commander D. A. Rayner, stars Robert Mitchum as Captain Murrell, the newly - appointed commander of an American Destroyer in the South Atlantic, and German star Curd Jürgens making his American film debut as Commander Von Stolberg, a German submarine commander whose mission is imperiled when the American warship gives chase.

Albrecht Goertz's gorgeous 503 could not have come at a worse time for BMW, as Douglas Blain explains in Drama Queen / In 1966 and All That, Steve Welsh reports from the unrivalled Goodwood Revival historic race meeting, which this year marked 50 years since Australian driver Jack Brabham won the Formula One World Championship in a car of his construction / Kit Foster tells the story of the American Underslung, the first American sports car, and examines one of the prized survivors of this pioneering but short - lived marque in Swing low, sweet chariot / In his article, Cross-Channel concours, Jörg Sierks chooses his favourites from two prestigious concours events, held on the same weekend on opposite sides of the English Channel / With the help of rarely seen archive photographs, D'Arcy Lever looks back at the highly effective trials specials built by Sydney Allard before World War Two.

[The five families] enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs.

The American Civil War is one piece of history that is filled with treats for fans of the form — high drama, hazy battle lines between good and bad, black and white; and the sights and sounds of a nascent America still struggling to forge its identity.

«The paintings combine Hollywood drama with a more jittery vision of the American dream where the Cold War is never far from the margins.