Johan Renck directed this Sundance drama, shot by Christopher Doyle.
"The White Ribbon" is a polyphonic historical drama shot in gorgeous black and white in a rural German setting.
That is, it is a no-frills social-realist drama, shot on location and in natural light, and populated by largely unknown actors.
His debut movie, The Secret Place (1957), a heist drama shot on location in the East End, had David McCallum as a Brandoesque leather-jacketed "crazy mixed-up kid".
Leftist actor Sam Wanamaker played Italian-American bricklayer Geremio in this Manhattan-set proletarian drama shot in England; the princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, visited the set.
Richard Linklater's coming-of-age drama, shot over 12 years with the same actors, is a marvel of story-telling and deserves major honours come awards season.
This shocking deus ex machina follows a welter of narrative complication and piercing drama shot through with a rich vein of absurdist humor.
I mean dark morals but also drama shot mostly in the dark, because Washington DC during House of Cards is seemingly experiencing the same conversion to duff eco-lightbulbs that poor Sarah Lund in The Killing toils under.
Boyz N the Hood is a passionate drama shot with fluency and style, a study of what amounts to life during wartime, with people grimly used to gunfire and helicopters thudding overhead.
This is a menacing, bleak, suspenseful drama shot with an almost monochrome, austere beauty, with impressive performances from both Mr. Mortensen and Smit-McPhee, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Ms. Theron.
