Sentences with phrase «while filming mother»

I can't help but worry about her safety and mental state, especially after reading that she had crying bouts while filming mother!

I'm sure that Jennifer Lawrence would attest to her commitment to the role of Dominkia and assert her trust in directors like Francis Lawrence (who also directed her in three Hunger Games movies) and Darren Aronofsky (whom she dated while filming mother!

Not exact matches

Many of the women who appear in the film discuss issues that, while not gone entirely, were more widespread 30 years ago — the denial of assisted reproduction to lesbians or single women; the lack of legal recognition for non-biological parents; creating then - untested contracts between a known donor and a female couple; a mother being denied entrance to the hospital where her partner has just given birth to their severely premature child.

While she took time off to raise two children, she collaborated with several colleagues in researching, filming and writing articles on mother - infant bonding, attachment and separation.

The film follows her as she progresses thru the stages of training, all the while questioning her faith and the harsh treatment of some of the women, especially by the Mother Superior (a complex and evil Melissa Leo).

Most of the film is about a love story between down and out Andrew and epileptic Sam, who is making her way through life while keeping her disability a secret and trying to connect to someone besides her loving and yet embarrassing mother.

And, while I'm growing a bit weary of her, I enjoyed Leslie Mann as the mother of some of these girls, and she nails the modern day new - age philosophy of parenting «these type» of girls to a T. All in all this is a glossy and fun film that will satisfy, but doesn't leave a strong legacy like the kind the characters aspie to have, Regardless, I dug it and think you should check it out.

Most of the romance and humor stops as the film reaches its more serious climax (becoming a Silence of the Lambs homage with John Wayne Gacy allusions), with Ronnie poking around in the Turner residence in order to scratch up some evidence, while Kale's mother, who has befriended the intense bachelor, also heads inside, while Kale can only watch in despair.

The ultimate goal is two-fold: package a winning family film built around The Rock that will increase his fan base, while also giving us a movie that crosses over demographics such that dads and sons, mothers and daughters, and even just the kids or adults alone can sit through the movie and be engaged enough to follow along entertained.

While pithy, the term isn't quite right: In the 45 years since her first uncredited on - screen appearance, at age 6 in her mother's film White Lightning, Dern has amassed one of the most consistently interesting bodies of work in Hollywood.

I have seen it, and while I didn't love it like so many others, I thought it was a very solid film with an amazing performance from the mother.

The film is set in Dublin and tells the tale of a young taxi driver, played by Reynor, who gets tangled up in the world of human trafficking while trying to save his mother, played by Australian actress Toni Collette, from addiction.

And while there are a number of strong sequences sprinkled throughout (eg Cole talks to his mother (Toni Collette's Lynn) about her own deceased parent), The Sixth Sense's funereal atmosphere ultimately lessens the impact of the much - vaunted climactic twist and it is, in the end, clear that the film doesn't entirely work as either a drama or a spooky thriller - with the movie's mild success due mostly to Shyamalan's considerable talent and his ongoing ability to wring top - notch work from folks both in front of and behind the camera (ie this is an exceedingly handsome production, undeniably).

The absurd pair's bowler hats give the film a whiff of Dadaism and René Magritte's Surrealist paintings, while the in - bred Van Peteghems, including Aude and André's idiot brother Christian (Jean - Luc Vincent), invoke Monty Python's «upper - class twits» — Pythonesque, too, is the severed foot La Loute's mother offers her hungry brood — or even the self - indulgent gentry of Jean Renoir's La Règle du Jeu (1939).

This is the first English language film from director Alexandros Avranas (MISS VIOLENCE, 2013) and his cast is led by Jim Carrey as police inspector Tadek, a disgraced cop who takes care of his elderly mother while also obsessing over the now coldcase that ruined his career.

«Spielberg» has the feel of official business, with the man himself happily participating in long conversations about his creative process, while dozens of other sources — his 100 - year - old father, Arnold, and his mother, Leah, who died at 97 in February; his siblings, peers, longtime collaborators, actors, film critics and historians — supply their own observations and asides.

Little Women — The 1994 film adaptation of this classic novel stars Winona Ryder, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, and Claire Danes as sisters living alone with their mother while their father is away fighting in the Civil War.

While this subject matter wouldn't seem to have much in common with The Orphanage, both films lean heavily on the bond between parents and children, eliciting sympathy with scenes of mothers and fathers faced with the loss of their kids.

While promoting the film, Nicole explained her own experiences drew her to the movie and noted the bond between mother and child goes beyond blood.

Sweet: While promoting the film, Nicole explained her own experiences drew her to the movie and noted the bond between mother and child goes beyond blood

While it's not all played for laughs (Boyle's interactions with his dying mother are quietly heart - breaking), the film knows not to stay too serious for too long, and at 96 minutes, it's not around long enough to outstay its welcome.

As she struggles to find balance between finishing her film, attending to her mother, and raising her own teenaged daughter, Margherita is aided by her brother while she is forced to learn how to let go in this moving, often hilarious meditation on modern life.

If you've seen «Lady Bird,» the wise, warm story about a young woman finding and asserting herself while dealing with her conflicted feelings toward a mother she can never seem to please, then you know that Greta Gerwig, who wrote and directed the film, has a keen eye for detail.

While 2017 has been an awful year for women in film in most respects, it has thrown up a riot — or whatever the collective noun for mums ought to be — of complex on - screen mothers.

Three years after he made that film (which dealt with marathon dancing contests in the Depression, not with cowboys), Dern's mother died while he was making «The King of Marvin Gardens,» one of his most admired films.

But the film's star is Liam James, as he struggles with adolescence, but stumbles upon the greatest summer of his life while on a trip with his mother (Collette) and prickish potential step - father (Carell).

The film centers on Alison Miller, whose father is in jail, while her mother had left when she was young.

The film marks the directorial debut of The Descendants co-writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash and centers on a 14 - year - old boy (Liam James) who spends his summer vacation bonding with the manager of a water park (Sam Rockwell) while staying with his mother (Toni Collette) and her overbearing boyfriend (Steve Carell).

While those new additions come in the form of talented veteran stars like Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines, Susan Sarandon, and Peter Gallagher, the film's decision to shift the focus away from the relationship of its original three women to their tattered bonds with their even worse mothers results in a disappointingly uneven and scattershot comedy.

That's one reason why I was impressed by a film that may not have come on your radar yet, although it has played at various American festivals — Life and Nothing More, by Antonio Mendez Esparza, a Spanish director working in the U.S.. It's the Florida - set story of a mother - son relationship, about a teenage boy going through problems at home and at school, and his mother, who keeps their household together through a series of diner jobs while dealing with the attentions of a fond but potentially troublesome suitor.

The film, which Gerwig also wrote solo following several previous screenplay collaborations including two with Noah Baumbach on her starring films Frances Ha and Mistress America, is set in 2002 Sacramento, California where Christine attends a Catholic school while also dealing with the shaky bond between her and her domineering, impossible to please mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf) who is trying to hold the family together by working double shifts as a nurse after her husband Larry (Tracy Letts) has lost his job.

The first film Gerwig has solitarily written and directed (this is not, as many have claimed, her inaugural turn behind the camera; she shares a directorial credit with Joe Swanberg on 2008's Nights And Weekends), Lady Bird arranges an even better entrance for its own irresistible heroine: Squabbling with her combative, witheringly disapproving mother (Laurie Metcalf, granted her best role in ages) while driving around to look at colleges, Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) decides she's had just about enough conversation, opens her passenger - side car door, and rolls out.

While some interview subjects are filmed using a shot / reverse shot strategy, establishing the director's presence and point of view in conversation, others, such as his sister and mother, are shot straight - on, with the camera serving less as interrogator than objective receptor, letting each of them narrate events in her own manner and style.

While The Guardian «s Amy Nicholson praised the film as «a marvellous movie about a struggling mother saved by a millennial Mary Poppins,» she criticized the film for its flat, on - the - nose third act:

Moretti faced a similar issue several years ago; his mother passed away while he was working on his 2011 film We Have a Pope, so it feels a bit strange watching Mia Madre unfold in such a bland and detached manner.

Michael Shannon (Man of Steel) steals the film as the intense, but strangely warm, drug dealer Mr Green while Lorraine Toussaint (Selma) has a nice supporting role as Chris» loving mother.

This critically acclaimed film is about a single mother doing her best to raise her 8 - year old son while taking care of her wayward brother.

While Lady Bird's life at school, friendships, and romances are all wildly compelling, the beating heart of the film is her relationship with her mother (played by the astounding Laurie Metcalf), perhaps one of the most genuine on - screen mother - daughter relationships in years.

Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six - year - old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World.

The plot of the film reels forth from Baby Doll's (Browning, A Series of Unfortunate Events) incarceration in a all - girls mental institution resulting from the death of her mother and accidental death of her younger sister while trying to keep her evil stepfather (Plunkett, Snakes on a Plane) from inflicting the kind of abuse on her he's been inflicting on her.

An ominous mist hovers constantly on the horizon and the film concerns a prepubescent Zefir cared for by her grandparents while her mother is on the run.

The temptation to brand the film as «autobiographical» is hard to resist: Baumbach did grow up in Brooklyn in the 1970's, one of four siblings, to a pair of parents who both wrote for a living (his father Jonathan wrote novels and short fiction, while his mother Georgia Brown contributed regularly to the Village Voice).

But while Scorsese aptly identified many of the challenges artists must deal with, there's also a much deeper problem facing films like Professor Marston and mother!

His latest is a personal drama, the story of a film director (Margherita Buy) struggling to cope with her mother's terminal illness while making a new film.

While Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, and Paz Vega all make small cameos, this is an ensemble picture that's seemingly dedicated to the excellent Spanish character actors that have appeared in Pedro Almodóvar's films over the years, perhaps the three most memorable being Javier Cámara from «Talk To Her,» Lola Dueñas from «Volver» and Cecilia Roth from «All About My Mother.»

Meanwhile, Danny Elfman revealed that he'll be incorporating John Williams» iconic Superman theme into his score for a specific moment in the film, while Zack Snyder shared some storyboards of a Mother Box being buried, Geoff Johns revealed that Ezra Miller's Flash has been a fan favourite of the early screenings to date, and some early concept art for The Flash's costume arrived online, complete with an enormous codpiece that would make Joel Schumacher proud...

As the film progresses, Lady Bird learns to appreciate the usual coming - of - age touchstones, like her critical but loving mother (Laurie Metcalf) and devoted but non-in-crowd friend (Beanie Feldstein), while also developing a fondness for her tree - lined, easygoing hometown.

There's something incredibly moving about children's ability to play and make their own fun amid chaotic and tragic situations and this film nailed it, training the camera on 7 - year - old actor Brooklynn Prince and her on - screen friends as they explore and goof around while mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) does whatever she must to make rent.

Damon stars in two of the Lido's big films, Downsizing and Suburbicon, while Lawrence steps into horror movie territory with Darren Aronofsky's Mother!

While we never hear her, those who are charting Scorsese's use of his mother in films can add another title, for it's Catherine Scorsese's nagging voice we hear every time Rupert's fantasy enactments get a little too loud.