A remake of Juan José Campanella's 2010 Oscar
winning film of the same name (Elsecreto de sus Ojos), the film tells the story of a close - knit team of FBI investigators — Ray (Ejiofor) and Jess (Roberts)-- and District Attorney Claire (Kidman) who are torn apart when they discover that Jess's teenage daughter has been brutally murdered.
Here's Ross Ruediger's take from his DVD review: «On paper, «Fargo» sounds dreadfully pedestrian: A 10 - episode reimagining of the iconography and ideas laid down by the Coen brothers nearly 20 years ago in their Academy Award -
winning film of the same name.
Not exact matches
So pairing the writer - director with equally audacious source material seems like a
win -
win combination, as Garland takes a budget nearly quadruple that
of his last
film to adapt Jeff VanderMeer's head - trip novel
of the
same name, the first in his Southern Reach trilogy.
An adaptation
of the Nobel Prize -
winning author José Saramago's novel «The Double» (and not the thematically similar Dostoyevsky book
of the
same name which confusingly, features elsewhere on this list) this psychological thriller sounds a little bit more damaged and arthouse than Villeneuve's aforementioned studio
film and given uncompromising nature
of that picture, we're rather psyched to see how «Enemy» turns out.
THE BEGUILED Writer / Director: Sofia Coppola Starring: Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Oona Laurence Oscar
winning writer and director Sofia Coppola is back and puts her stamp on a 1971 Clint Eastwood
film of the
same name.
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, which will release the
film in U.S. theaters on December 25, 2014, unveiled the latest clip and photos from the
film adaptation
of the Tony Award -
winning musical
of the
same name.
The Birth
of a Nation, which takes and twists its title from D.W. Griffith's 1915 KKK
film of the
same name,
won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Sundance Festival; Fox Searchlight acquired the distribution rights to the biopic for $ 17.5 million, a record for the
film festival.
The impact
of that
win on the Academy was minimal (though the
film at least earned two Oscar nods it wouldn't otherwise have received), but the
same can't be said
of last year's choice: shrugged off by audiences and boasting no heavyweight industry
names, «The Hurt Locker» became the most critic - steered Best Picture winner in Oscar history, as every major critics» group in America lined up behind the indie Iraq drama to raise its profile in the face
of the threatening populist shadow cast by «Avatar.»
The
film itself was originally an Olivier Award -
winning play
of the
same name written by David Harrower.
A Fantastic Woman
won the best foreign
film Oscar: the first ever winner with a trans actor in the lead role — and that
same actor, Daniela Vega, became the first trans presenter with an introduction to best song nominee Mystery
of Love from Call Me By Your
Name.
The
film, based on the Tony -
winning play
of the
same name by Robert Schenkkan in which Cranston made his Broadway debut, is currently
filming in Los Angeles.
Adapted by Peter Morgan from his award -
winning play
of the
same name, the
film tells the tale
of the events leading up to (and including) the Frost / Nixon interviews that aired in 1977 and became the most - watched television news special in American history.
Following on from their award -
winning short
film of the
same name, the directorial duo made a visually unforgettable and richly inventive documentary around a subject that you might think, by definition, is the absolute antithesis
of cinema.
The
film is written and directed by 28 - year - old Damien Chazelle, who adapted it from his short
film of the
same name, and which
won a prize at Sundance last year.
One - time «Batman» Michael Keaton is
winning raves for his performance as a has - been actor, best known for playing the title role in a superhero franchise called «Birdman», in the
film of the
same name.
The picture was developed from director / writer Dee Rees «s award
winning 2007 short
film of the
same name.
It was the basis for the
film of the
same name that
won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes
Film Festival and had its U.S. premiere this past weekend, but the actresses, director, and writer have all had sharp words for one another.
Marjane Satrapi's live - action
film Chicken with Plums (based on her book by the
same name), made its premiere in the Mostra
of Venice on 2011 before
winning the award
of Best Narrative
Film at the Abu Dhabi
Film Festival and Best Foreign Language
Film from the São Paulo International
Film Festival.
The Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present documentary,
filmed by Matthew Akers around the time
of the artist's MoMA retrospective
of the
same name, has
won a Peabody Award.