Sentences with phrase «with autobiographical film»

The Festival also presented tributes to director Catherine Hardwicke, with a screening of her latest film Miss You Already; acclaimed actor Sir Ian McKellen; and Oscar ® - winning documentarian Marcel Ophuls, with autobiographical film Ain't Misbehavin».

Not exact matches

Olivier Assayas» film didn't get much critical attention, with the general party line being that it was a middle - of - the - road autobiographical yarn.

Marty Wolf (Paul Giamatti) is an evil Hollywood producer who steals the vaguely autobiographical writing assignment of pathological liar Jason (Frankie Muniz) and turns it into a big - budget blockbuster that shares its name with this film's title.

«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your feet.

Back on the first screen, «100 Years in the Making» (10:43) considers Edgar Rice Burroughs» entry into fiction writing (with an actor reading his autobiographical writings) as well as this film's journey to be made.

Davies made his reputation with a series of autobiographical films — the two distributed in the States were «Distant Voices, Still Lives» and «The Long Day Closes» — that were as brutally depressing as they were aesthetically striking.

The Long Day Closes (Criterion, Blu - ray + DVD Dual Format) brings Terence Davies» autobiographical films to close with the glow of the happiest days of his life.

These ideas are further explored in the DVD extras which include director's commentary; a feature on the making of the film, deleted scenes and On Writing With Tracy Letts, telling of his autobiographical connection with the fWith Tracy Letts, telling of his autobiographical connection with the fwith the film.

Filmed in the twilit hues of the California magic hour, this loosely autobiographical coming - of - age tale marks Gerwig as an artist with equal talent and creative force — originality, spunk and heart — on either side of the camera.

Olivier Assayas has written eloquently of his complicated relationship with the film, first rejecting it and then over time coming to regard the troubled Charles as «the truest portrait» of his younger self; Assayas's most autobiographical film, Cold Water, owes a debt to The Devil, Probably, as will, perhaps, his upcoming Something in the Air, a coming - of - age story in the context of»70s youth culture.

Despite a recent public declaration that he is «done with autobiography», 57 Davies has also admitted that A Quiet Passion, his fervent and elegant biopic of the 19th - century American poet, Emily Dickinson, might be the most autobiographical of all his films.

There is an unmistakable autobiographical quality to this film, whose details and musical tastes will certainly strike a chord with viewers of the Baby Boom generation.

An audio commentary with writer / director Mike Mills and a 15 - minute making - of featurette talk about the autobiographical nature of the film.

Suffused with both enchantment and melancholy, this autobiographical film takes on the perspective of a quiet, lonely boy growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s.

Greta Gerwig has downplayed suggestions that this film is strictly autobiographical, saying, «Nothing in the movie literally happened in my life, but it has a core of truth that resonates with what I know.»

Hong Sang - soo, South Korea, 2017, 101m Hong Sang - soo's movies have always invited autobiographical readings, and his 19th feature is perhaps his most achingly personal film yet, a steel - nerved, clear - eyed response to the tabloid frenzy that erupted in South Korea over his relationship with actress Kim Min - hee.

A decade after sharing a byline with Joe Swanberg, and a few years after co-writing two of Noah Baumbach's fizziest films, Greta Gerwig strikes out on her own with a loosely autobiographical high school comedy.

A pair of animated features debut: Waltz With Bashir (2008), an autobiographical tale of memory and repression turned oral history of the Lebanon war (R), and the made - for - TV family film The Point (1971), with songs by Harry Nilsson and narration by Ringo Starr (not ratWith Bashir (2008), an autobiographical tale of memory and repression turned oral history of the Lebanon war (R), and the made - for - TV family film The Point (1971), with songs by Harry Nilsson and narration by Ringo Starr (not ratwith songs by Harry Nilsson and narration by Ringo Starr (not rated).

Greta Gerwig's script sparkles with wit and has the ring of truth: the film might only be partly based on her own experiences, but the fact Gerwig gave her cast her high school yearbooks and journals to help them prepare suggests a keenly felt autobiographical undercurrent.

Co-writer (with Michael Wilmington) of the 1975 career overview «John Ford» and the massive tome «Searching For John Ford» in 2001, McBride treats Ford as a man and not untouchable genius, nor dissects the film using highbrow terminology which inherently ignores the average film fan; there's great insight regarding one of America's greatest directors, and his exhaustive research is well - used in pointing out common themes, autobiographical references, and placing cast / crew / story subjects in context with early and later film projects.

Much like his previous film on American movies, Scorsese begins on an autobiographical note, the sense of nostalgic reminiscence foregrounded with memories of family viewings of Roberto Rossellini's Paisan, before affording the movies in question a greater depth of analysis, of personal resonance.

Taking characters and audience alike on a soul - stirring journey, in British cinema terms, it's surely a throwback to the era of autobiographical trilogies of Terence Davies and Bill Douglas — films which start out with their feet on the ground yet reach to the heavens.

Back in the international spotlight following Jodorowsky's Dune, the Chilean director and cult favourite has released what appears to be his final film, autobiographical in nature and filled with fantastic and theatrical images.

Since the early 1960s, Dorothy Iannone has been making vibrant paintings, drawings, prints, films, objects and books, all with a markedly narrative and overtly autobiographical visual feel.

Shred includes the «Drawings I Did Around The Time I Became A Porn Star» — a sprawling autobiographical series of sketches recording Smith's days and nights working as «male talent» in the adult film industry in the city with an absorbing visual energy — along with recent paintings and drawings charged with the same intricate, delirious, shameless precision.

Spanning the two Lower East Side venues that make up Downs & Ross (formerly Tomorrow Gallery and Hester, respectively), Crespo's solo exhibition explores the artist's unique, deep - seated relationship to these conjoined twins with a feature - length autobiographical film, prints on stretched satin, and translucent window - hung pieces featuring naturalistic digital renderings of the Hensels that the artist drew using a tablet.

Mor, focusing on Kozyra's project for an autobiographical film, will be juxtaposed with her ongoing project Looking for Jesus, a documentary film in which Kozyra is not an actor, but a spectator who investigates the effects and «faces» of the Jerusalem syndrome through the eyes and actions of people who believe themselves to be present - day Messiahs.

Although writer / director Woody Allen has long maintained that Annie Hall wasn't an autobiographical film about his relationship with star Diane Keaton, she claimed otherwise.