Sentences with phrase «written film around»

Almost tempted to take off a star for the gimmicky use of music (Cameron Crowe said that he actually starts writing a film around a song he likes) but it all works so well, and the cast is fabulous: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Frances McDormand, even Kate Hudson, more than almost.

Not exact matches

Bryant released the film at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival in April, which was based around will the poem he wrote to announce his retirement titled, Dear Basketball.

I'm cool, easy going yet intense, outgoing, smart / intelligent, love to laugh and joke around, open minded, kind, fun, have long hair, into films - writing / producing / acting; love Hard Rock / Punk / Metal music - no rap or hip hop; I...

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical black comedy crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Terence Winter, based on the The Occupy movement is an international socio - political movement against social and economic inequality and the lack of real democracy around the world.

In the film, Cusack plays a drunken, penniless Edgar Allan Poe, who flaneurs and stumbles around 19th century Baltimore loudly extolling the virtues of his own writing and wooing a young lady of society (the comically named Alice Eve) while enraging her blustering father (Brendan Gleeson).

The film, written by Alex Ross Perry and directed by Mark Pellington, is built around the theme of grief and of value placed on mementos transmitted from generation to generation.

Peter Debruge of Variety also finds it to be a «lumbering, confused, and cacophonous mess,» but, while acknowledging that it's almost impossible to divorce the film from its production woes, Indiewire's Eric Kohn writes, «It's sloppy and amateurish in parts, but always reaching for something, often resulting in a fascinating half - formed beast working through a lot of baggage: a vanity project about the nature of vanity, centered around one of literature's most famous examples, in the context of the most famous vanity projects of all time coming to fruition.

It's a letdown that the film itself, written by Patrick Tobin and directed by Daniel Barnz, doesn't take half the chances its leading lady does and is content to paddle around the shallows rather than plunge into the deep end.

Voted Most Outstanding Journalist of the Decade by the Disilgold Soul Literary Review in 2008, Kam Williams is a syndicated film and book critic who writes for 100 + publications around the U.S. and Canada.

«History is written by the winners» is a recurring theme in the «Thor» films, and this time around, they expose the ugly truths behind Asgard's long reign of success, not unlike our country's relatively recent re-evaluation of one Christopher Columbus.

The script, written by brothers John - Henry and Jez Butterworth (who also co-penned the Tom Cruise / Emily Blunt action film «Edge of Tomorrow») bounces around, back and forth, through the timeline of Brown's life.

He has his own unique style and vision, and he's an all around filmmaker - producing, writing and even composing music for his films.

Yes, I write some reviews and have a weekly show in which I sit around and bullshit with my friends about newly released film.

Starring Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode, and written by Wentworth Miller (yes, of «Prison Break» fame), the film is one that is being batted around as a contender for Cannes and is one of the most anticipated films of the year, in any event.

We are thrilled to report that our friend Daniel Farrands, who wrote Halloweeen: The Curse of Michael Myers, produced The Haunting in Connecticut and the as - yet - still - unreleased Amityville: The Awakening, and directed Never Sleep Again and Crystal Lake Memories, will write and direct the new horror film The Haunting on Long Island: The Amityville Murders, which is currently being shopped around to possible distributors at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival.

J.C. Chandor remains attached to direct the film, originally written and developed by Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow, who had a variety of big names circling the idea when they were still actively involved around 2010.

Tarantino is said to be writing and directing an untitled film set around the Manson Family Murders with Brad Pitt and Jennifer Lawrence being eyed to take roles.

The person occupying the rotating director's chair this time around is Christopher McQuarrie, a frequent Cruise collaborator (he directed Jack Reacher) who is best known for his screenwriting (he won an Oscar for penning The Usual Suspects and has writing credits on past Cruise films like Valkyrie and Edge of Tomorrow.)

Markus and McFeely wrote all three Captain America entries and have a deft, jokey, sometimes glib touch that spreads the humor around and prevents this long film from ever getting stodgy.

The filming of Black Panther ended right around when Infinity War began shooting, meaning that Marvel had no idea just how popular Black Panther would become before its characters were written into Infinity War.

Criterion has also added «Strange Magic,» a 13 - minute featurette focused around writer and Rookie editor - in - chief Tavi Gevinson, who explores the film through the lens of adolescence, suicide, and memory via her own writing and imagery from a fanzine she made about the film in 2012.

Because she looked about fifteen, and because for many years she misrepresented her date of birth, a myth grew up around Anita, alleging that she was writing Griffith scripts from the age of 12; vestiges of the Anita Loos legend were utilized for Peter Bogdanovich's 1975 film Nickelodeon, in which Tatum O'Neal played a pre-teen silent movie scriptwriter.

It can't be entirely coincidental that last year's breakout horror film, The Babadook, was centered around the frustrating and intimate relationship of a mother and her child and this year's best horror film — it's true, I'm putting it in writing — is very similarly themed.

I haven't gotten around to writing a review for Hereditary yet but I will say that the soon to be released A24 horror film is definitely something special especially if you consider yourself a fan of the horror genre and are tired of how must horror films follow a formula.

The solo film being built around the King of Wakanda already has Oscar - nominated filmmaker Ryan Coogler attached to direct and write the screenplay.

With this film, it was difficult because we were trying to get the story right and one would write the music, but then the scenes would change around and it all becomes redundant.

Directed by Bryan Singer, and written by David Hayter (from a story by Tom DeSanto & Singer) X-Men leaves out a few major characters from the comic book (my favorite, Nightcrawler, among them), skimps on the development of the remaining characters, and changes around Rogue's storyline for convenience sake — all so that the film can focus on the series» most popular character, Wolverine (played by Hugh Jackman).

Time to take a look at one of my favorite films of Sundance, the indie thriller Margin Call, written & directed by J.C. Chandor, about a 24 hour period revolving around the financial crisis - as boring as that sounds, it's actually pretty damn good.

The film, also written by Gregorini, «centers around a young, troubled woman who becomes...

On top of what reads as an almost encyclopaedic account of English - language writing on and debates around mise en scène, Martin offers appropriate engagement with French film scholarship — both in translation and in the original — plus the thriving world of trans - national Spanish - language film criticism.

Excellent performances all around, a masterfully written script, excellent direction, awesome cinematography, and along with a great soundtrack make Django Unchained not only one of the best films of the year, but also a definite Oscar contender.

She's the only name attached to the Christy Hall — written project so far, but dealmakers are working to assemble all the parts so filming can happen in the first half of 2018, which means additional casting will be happening right around now.

For those of you willing to hang around for the final cast list to appear, you'll notice that all of the film's characters are written in lower - case apart from Javier Bardem, who is listed as playing «Him».

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.

Written and directed by Stacie Passon (making her debut), the film is a poignant sexual examination of Abby (Robin Weigert), a forty - something, married, wealthy, lesbian homemaker who, after suffering a blow to the head from getting smacked by her son's baseball — walks around every corner of her suburban life to confront a mounting desire for something else.

Starring: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law Directed by: Steven Soderbergh Written By: Scott Z. Burns Rating: PG - 13 (US) Running Time: 1 hr 47 min Two Pence: A film about a deadly virus speedily spreading around the world isnR...

(Here in Boston, the only press screening was scheduled at the same time as one for the local - media - fellating juggernaut Spotlight, thus lending credence to my suspicion that certain publicists sit around plotting ways to keep people from writing about their films.)

The film, written by and starring Whannell, alongside Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Alison Pill, Jack McBrayer, Leigh Whannell, Jorge Garcia and Nasim Pedrad, revolves around a young girl who eats a chicken nugget infected with a virulent disease.

This is Reynolds» seventh visit to the Park City, Utah fest, and this time around he's here in support of the latest film from the Half Nelson writing / directing team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, about two gamblers heading to New Orleans for a high - stakes poker game.

JONES: The music I write almost feels like a - not a sideshow, but it feels like it was wanting just to create some space around the intensity and beauty and focus of this classical music which is just so important and written into the film.

But it's too early to write off Snyder just yet, because there's no question that his flair for the visual is a definite strong suit that could, when given the proper story around it, deliver a truly magnificent action - adventure film.

Also, framing the entire film around Blythe Danner's side character — a girl who Paul met and abandoned as a child, only to grow up bitter and isolated as a result — shows a level of emotional depth that might not have been present had Paul been written by anyone else.

«Frank or Francis» pivots around a vain filmmaker (Steve Carell) who represents half the title (he writes, directs and plays every part in his opus, «You»), a bitter, but sharp online film commenter (Jack Black), as well as a failed comedian with a resume of unflattering fat - baiting time - wasters, including «Fat Dad» (playing against type, it's Nicolas Cage).

However, around the time of filming his cameo in the first movie, stories had appeared in the press that deeply concerned me and everyone most closely involved in the franchise,» Rowling wrote in a statement on her website.

Quite simply, the majority of the film is a cat - and - mouse chase around the motel, and while others could feel bored already and write it off as just another horror film, curiosity has already killed my cat.

«Take Shelter,» written and directed by Jeff Nichols, is a prescient film in this time of perpetual natural disasters, as it centers around a man preparing for a storm that may or may not come.

Written, directed, and produced by its star, Tommy Wiseau — an enigmatic figure about whom little more is known now than when the film came out over a decade ago — The Room is regularly celebrated with midnight screenings at indie movie theaters around the world, by a rabid fan base that upholds such sacred traditions as hurling plastic spoons at the screen during one key scene.

Toback, who also wrote the film's screenplay, forces his characters to spout the most inane dialogue imaginable, which wavers between dull small talk and infuriating conversations in which people dance around the issue ceaselessly (does anybody talk like this?)

The worst possible marriage of film school navel gazing and the pretensions of a creative writing program, «Listen Up Philip» asks us to waste our time watching two successful, but utterly loathsome writers as they alienate everyone around them, including the women who (astonishingly) love them.

Who else has secured his kind of anonymity down to just one approved publicity photo, can attract some of the highest - profile actors around, and manages to overshadow them in almost every article written on the film?