Sentences with phrase «which fictionalizes»

Ethan Hawke gives a fascinating performance in this reimagined biography which fictionalizes the details of Baker's late 60's comeback.

The breezy middle portion focusing on Ali's struggles with the Draft as he tries to protect his title is undercut by the ending, which fictionalizes the events surrounding the Ali / Foreman «Rumble in the Jungle,» already beautifully dissected in Leon Gast's When We Were Kings.

Adult: I would love a psychological suspense based on actual events, i.e. CARTWHEEL by Jennifer Dubois which fictionalized the Amanda Knox trial and hooked me from beginning to end.

After a brief, unsuccessful stay in New York City, they went to Canada, where they lived in poverty for three years in a run - down hotel in Toronto hotel, living off his paltry earnings as an artist - an experience which he fictionalized in his 1954 novel Self - Condemned.

Not exact matches

Wakefield's best - known novel is Starting Over, a fictionalized autobiography which was made into a successful motion picture with Burt Reynolds playing Wakefield.

Whit loved the I Survived series by Lauren Tarshis, which addresses enormous moments in American history through a fictionalized I - was - there lens.

Early on, though, I was reminded of patriarch Homer's warning to grandson Lonnie in Hud: that «little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire» — that our perceived, fictionalized, mythologized history becomes the template into which we slot our behaviour into an increasingly Pirandellian future.

Bullock and Clooney co-produced the film, which is a fictionalized account of a Bolivian election that was fought and won with American campaigning strategies.

The film begins in the fall of 2002 and is set in Sacramento, California, which is where Gerwig was born; she attended an all - girls Catholic school and her mother was a nurse, just like the fictionalized lead characters.

Set in a fictionalized valley in California, the story explores themes Steinbeck continued to develop: group behavior, social injustice, man's inhumanity to man — all themes which continue to be relevant today.

Fictionalizing a 24 hour period in Cave's life which unfolds as a first - person documentary peppered with woozy, dreamlike encounters that may simply be ghosts of a dimly remembered past, «20,000 Days» is saved from unbearable self - indulgence by the deadpan but unmistakably self - aware direction.

Alongside Robert Greene «s «Kate Plays Christine» (which you can find below in «Best Docs»), «Christine» is the fictionalized retelling, starring a career - best Rebecca Hall and directed by Antonio Campos.

It should be noted, of course, that Mark Schultz's version of the events is readily available in the form of his memoir, Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold, which he is also promoting online while disparaging the fictionalized film directed by Bennett Miller.

Those people are pretty much absent from this admittedly fictionalized account of Seal's life, which treats him like a charming rogue — he's played by Tom Cruise, definitely not a lookalike — with motives more honorable than outright greed and corruption.

Some highlights include Chile's playful fictionalized biopic Neruda, Brazil's critical sensation Aquarius, Almodovar's Julieta, the fantasy A Monster Calls, Paraguay's father daughter road trip movie called Guaraní, and at least three LGBT titles: Chile's Rara which is an LGBT family drama, the Venezuelan Oscar submission From Afar, and the Cuban political drama Santa & Andres.

I suspect novelist Peter Ackroyd, whose 1994 novel Dan Leno & the Limehouse Golem (aka The Trial of Elizabeth Cree) this is based on, wanted to fictionalize the Jack the Ripper killings (which occurred just a few years later) to comment on the numerous injustices of Victorian culture, which unfortunately still resonate today.

Since leaving the studio fold a decade ago, Miller and his screenwriter / producer wife, Jody Savin, have turned out a string of modestly budgeted indies with name casts and solid production values but no real personality, the best of which, 2008's «Bottle Shock,» was another (heavily fictionalized) slice of «70s nostalgia about Napa Valley's emergence as a world - class wine producer.

The idea is for the filmmaker to make a fictionalized version of his or her own teenage years set in the appropriate period (different in each film) and to include at least one party scene in which pop songs of that era are used.

Heavy - handed symbolism accompanies this section, in which Turner is glorified as a true hero, even going so far as resorting to fictionalizing the scene in which the slave rebel is eventually captured.

This fictionalized account one of the radio ships which beamed rock music into British homes in the mid-sixties has a wealth of historical material to draw on and a strong ensemble cast, including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh.

Charlie and Grace Bontempo (the fictionalized Confortes) are a devoted, loving couple who manage Love Ranch — the first legal brothel in the United States — in relative accord, despite Charlie's rampant infidelities which Grace stoically overlooks.

There is one misstep: a fictionalized crowd - pleasing sequence set in the London Underground, in which Churchill appeals to the advice of everyday citizens — everyone's too well spoken.

Bullock and Clooney co-produced the film, which is a fictionalized account of a Bolivian election that was...

my fellow Oscar blogger Ed Gonzalez marveled after watching the shockingly formal Butter Lamp, which, compared to the strain of self - involved beardo hipster entries that have won this category in recent years, practically carries itself like a miniature, fictionalized version of a Sensory Ethnography Lab film.

There are some early scenes in Somalia that are obviously fictionalized, set up to draw a contrast between the environs of the Somalis with that of Americans, which makes Captain Phillips more a Hollywood story based on a real life event than a docudrama.

The Conjuring, of course, purports to be based on the actual exploits of the paranormal researchers fictionalized in Poltergeist, which was shot by Matthew F. Leonetti, brother of The Conjuring's DP John R. Leonetti, who moves into the director's chair with Annabelle, a movie that arguably owes less to The Conjuring (despite labouring to evoke it) than to the malicious clown doll from Poltergeist.

Had the film been more about that aspect of it, and less about the root causes of hatred, perhaps we'd have something truly unique to separate this story from the plethora of World War II tales that have emerged over the years, especially Bridge on the River Kwai, which deals with the same subject in a fictionalized form.

(2000), the breakthrough film in which Fontainhas residents (most notably Vanda Duarte) play fictionalized versions of themselves as documentary footage depicts the demolition of their neighborhood, Costa first immersed himself in the community, shooting over 150 hours of footage as a one - man crew.

You might be surprised to find out that «Won't Back Down» — a screening of which I snuck into the other night — isn't actually the fictionalized story of Desert Trails, site of the real - life still - unfolding parent trigger attempt outside of Los Angeles, or the CA parent trigger law that allows parents to vote to revamp their schools.

In this second book in Rosemary Zibart's Far and Away Series, which offers fictionalized accounts of unaccompanied and displaced children who found their way to the United States during World War II, Werner's father gives him a passport and a ship's passenger ticket from Hamburg to America just as Germany invades Poland in 1939.

The Wedding Cake Girl, which is set on a fictionalized version of Catalina Island, is about a girl, a scuba diver and aspiring marine biologist.

But they had traded two months earlier between $ 25 - 30, and at year end there was one unusual trade, for which I will give you a fictionalized version of how I think it happened:

Next Season we'll return to a more fictionalized approach, for reasons which I'll outline later in this post.

In Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands, players discover a fictionalized future Bolivia, a few years from now, in which players must take down the Santa Blanca drug cartel by any means necessary.

2013's highest - scoring title — which was probably the favorite to take game of the year honors heading into the year, and didn't disappoint (at least score-wise)-- was Rockstar's latest GTA installment, Grand Theft Auto V. Set in a fictionalized Los Angeles, the game scored 97 on both PS3 and Xbox 360, making it the highest - scoring release since 2010.

«Nioh» (PlayStation 4) which is set in a fictionalized version of feudal Japan where samurais and ninjas are joined by mythological creatures and «WWE 2K17» (Windows PC) are also set for release in the same day.

NiOh takes places within the early 1600's during a fictionalized version of the Sengoku period, which was when Japan was in the midst of a civil war.

Through imagery that combines painting with woodcut, drawing, silkscreen and intaglio methods, she builds series of works in which different symbolic elements encounter and interact with one another in altered, fictionalized landscapes.

Framed and interrupted by the ironic observations of two parodic «public television» commenta - tors, the dancers play fictionalized versions of themselves in a wry tale of contemporary romance, in which the dance literally and metaphorically advances the narrative.

Hagler, who was Noel's student, writes that «Scott always encouraged in me a love for the wholeness of perception, I would even say the wholeness of existence, accepting even that which is problematic, in the world and in myself, and integrating it and shaping it to try to produce an artwork which is so much more than a mimetic image, but under the best of circumstances becomes a fictionalized embodiment of reality that embraces a more complicated beauty and somehow, deep inside, rings true.»

Honey Moon transformed the lower - level gallery into a secluded Thai beach, and this fictionalized vacation blended personal narratives with paparazzi culture, highlighting the scripted intimacy inherent to honeymooning, a fetishized ritual in which private acts merge with public expectation.

For her current exhibition at Honor Fraser, Crow made a series of paintings as well as a feature film entitled Madame Psychosis, both of which depict a fictionalized historical narrative through the exploration of a mysterious babushka woman who witnessed and filmed John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Visually striking and playfully rigorous» the films occupy wildly different stylistic positions as a means of re-animating the ways in which form can become the unquestioned carrier of meaning — by the way in which meaning is implied through metaphor or example, inscribed by case studies, fictionalized in props or interpreted in art criticism, status symbols and as the evidence of crime...

You might enjoy reading Francis Spofford's Red Plenty, which is a historian's very slightly fictionalized account of Kruschev's drive to reform the Soviet economy and the role of Kantarovich and his fellow optimizers in that effort.

Here, Ms. De Havilland's claims failed, and the Court noted that viewers are familiar that docudramas (even those which are «based» on fact) contain fictionalized scenes, conversations and characters, as well as dramatic interpretations of events and dialogue.

Oliver Stone's Snowden, is a part - fictionalized biographical political thriller, which tells the true story of a NSA contractor who spilled details of classified surveillance programs.

Competitors entered fictionalized resumes in nine separate categories, which ranged from best executive resume to best sales and marketing resume, best technical resume, and even best military conversion resume.