On the other hand, I would back anything that loosens the bonds of the bio-pic.
This ambitious French bio-pic devoted to the great Edith Piaf is fascinating, exhausting, and overwrought a death trip.
There are also more simple styles, such as sliding between the images to package your bio-pic a bit more.
VH1 is producing a bio-pic about them, which means T-Boz is back in the studio working on the soundtrack.
Kinsey in this vivacious and witty even naughty bio-pic, written and directed by Bill Condon.
With that in mind, it's tough to criticize "Pollock, " actor Ed Harris' bio-pic of the iconoclastic, self-doubting painter Jackson Pollock.
The movie is a remorselessly downbeat version of a gin-and-tears Hollywood bio-pic.
There are elements here of a traditional bio-pic failure, triumph, intimations of immortality but none of the stodginess and self-congratulation that usually plague the form.
The movie is not the kind of portentous bio-pic in which history, like some sort of hooded eagle, perches on the shoulders of every scene, waiting to soar.
Aside from a few attempts to ape silent-slapstick style, the director of this sprawling bio-pic, Richard Attenborough, and the screenwriters (William Boyd, Bryan Forbes, and William Goldman, working from a story by Diana Hawkins), do their job like crammers.
The project not only reunited Washington and Foxx, who appeared together in the Ray Charles bio-pic "Ray, " but it also gave the actress an opportunity to delve into a role that she said was challenging artistically and emotionally taxing.
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The movie is saved from the usual stiffness of the bio-pic form by the emotionally unsettled nature of its hero, a man vamped and dominated by his adoring mother (Judi Dench), afraid of his own sexuality, yet desperate for companionship.
It would be hard, no doubt, for any team of British filmmakers to deal with a figure as masterful, virulent, and divisive as Thatcher, but this bio-pic, written by Abi Morgan and directed by Phyllida Lloyd, is an oddly unsettled compound of glorification and malice.
This 1995 Western, directed by Walter Hill, starts out as a ripsnorting bio-pic of James Butler Hickok (1837-76), a scout for the Union Army in the Civil War, and then a lawman, a gambler, and a gunfighter but as soon as Hickok hits the boomtown of Deadwood, in the Dakota Territory, it turns into a memory play.
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