Sentences with phrase «american auteur directors»

And Ava DuVernay, whose versatility and remarkable C.V. should already have her viewed as one of the premiere American auteur directors.

Not exact matches

What has audiences so eager this time is in part the combination of an auteur African - American director (Ryan Coogler of «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»), a heavyweight cast (Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong» o, Angela Bassett and Forest Whitaker) and a soundtrack co-produced by a rap superstar (Kendrick Lamar), all working on one of the most popular franchises in Hollywood.

Joan Micklin Silver By Shonni Enelow The director of such lovingly idiosyncratic films as Crossing Delancey and Hester Street merits reconsideration as a true offbeat American auteur

For a director active during the Easy Riders / Raging Bulls era of auteur - led 1970s American cinema he is a vague, near invisible presence, yet his reputation is monumental.

Eighteen years after the soul - crushing realities of self - funded film production were exposed in Chris Smith's landmark documentary American Movie, director Gary Doust puts a warm but no less anxiety - inducing Australian spin on the tribulations faced by the next - to - no - budget auteur in Horror Movie: A Low Budget Nightmare.

The films of Nicholas Ray, more than any other contemporary American director's, were singled out by the up - and - coming Cahiers du Cinéma crowd (on the cusp of their own splashy Nouvelle Vague) as justification for their politique des auteurs — more a personal stance on critical practice than dogmatic superstructure, and long since codified and ossified by academic film criticism into hierarchy - happy «auteur theory.»

With a resume comprised of collaborations with David O. Russell (American Hustle, Joy) Lasse Hallström (The Hundred - Foot Journey) and other auteurs, Sandgren found an exciting energy in wunderkind writer / director Damien Chazelle that inspired him to shoot a musical.

Popularized his favorite American directors in Paris, essentially preparing for ground for the auteur theory to be invented.

Schrader enjoyed directing what remains (as of this writing) his last true studio picture, and Universal's budget allowed the director - classified by critics at the time as a «true American auteur» - to expand his visual language.

For decades, Academy voters subscribed to American film critic Andrew Sarris» auteur theory, the concept that a film's director is its driving artistic force.