Sentence examples for gritty film from inspiring English sources

A tough, gritty film, masterfully executed.

The gritty film was a critical and commercial success.

First came Turner prize-winner Steve McQueen's gritty film Hunger, about the IRA prisoner Bobby Sands.

A Jersey girl (born in Tenafly, raised in Englewood) turned loyal Manhattanite, she learned early on that her new home was more like a gritty film noir than a fluffy Broadway musical.

Rulo (Luis Margani), the indefatigably persevering central character of Pablo Trapero's powerfully gritty film "Crane World," is a divorced, unemployed 49-year-old day laborer in Buenos Aires who is desperate for whatever work he can scrounge up.

By David Yaffe The New Yorker, September 8 , 1997P. 31 Talk story about the views on California wines of Jonathan Nossiter, the director of "Sunday," who is also the sommelier at Balthazar....His bleak and gritty film "Sunday" won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival before it opened last week, but Jonathan Nossiter hasn't quit hs day job.

It did give it a gritty, film-noir aura.

It's the gritty film-maker's second biggest opening to date, behind only The Wind That Shakes the Barley, which was massively boosted by success in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland – that film's £390,000 debut drew 73% of its takings from the Irish territories.

For him, the city was bleak, grimy and alienating, the New York of "Taxi Driver" and "Midnight Cowboy," gritty films he had watched as a teenager in Japan.

In addition to marking his return to the Western Front, "Fury" (out Friday) also represents the latest in a string of dark, gritty films for Pitt Countingg "Fury," six of his last eight live-action movies explicitly deal with grim themes including violence, the cost of freedom and the nature of humanity.

In the 1970s, film directors such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Robert Altman were a vital component in what became known as "New Hollywood" or the "Hollywood Renaissance", grittier films influenced by French and Italian realist pictures of the post-war period.