Sentences with phrase «american film directors»

How many active American film directors have served in the military?

The experiences of five American film directors at war are examined in this stunning documentary series.

Many American film directors emerged as important voices in the 1970s.

Joel David Coen and Ethan Jesse Coen known informally as the Coen brothers, are Academy Award winning American film directors, screenwriters, producers, and editors.

The star married American film director and artist Andrew Levitas at Hampton Court Palace last Saturday in a closed door ceremony, with no access for the media.

Fresh off their pairing in the 2014 The Equalizer, acclaimed American film Director Antoine Fuqua, reteams with Academy Award Winner Denzel Washington; in this 2016 remake.

Gregg Araki (born December 17, 1959) is an American film director of independent and gay films.

American film director Terrence Malick's fifth feature film release, in four decades in the business, The Tree Of Life, is a film that, in parts, has some of the greatest techniques and moments ever recorded in film history.

Christopher Jonathan James Nolan (born July 30, 1970) is a British / American film director, screenwriter and producer.

Kathryn «Katie» Aselton is an American film director, producer, and actress from Milbridge, Maine.

Sean Anders is an American film director, actor, screenwriter, and producer.

Antoine Fuqua (born January 19, 1966) is an American film director.

Directed by three - time Academy Award winning American film director, screenwriter and producer Leo McCarey, the movie is fully deserving of its place in film history.

According to a separate report from the Japan Daily Press, American film director Oliver Stone, who currently is visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki and whose films about key historical events have attracted their share of controversy, criticized the US bombing of Hiroshima.

Lawrence Jay Duplass (born March 7, 1973) is an American film director.

«Lost Themes II is the second studio album by American film director and composer John Carpenter.

Gordon Parks work as a photographer made him famous, but he is also the first African - American film director to direct a full - length feature film.

FRANKFURT: Last Friday, the Franco - Lebanese - American film director Ziad Doueiri and his wife, Joëlle Touma, a screenwriter, were awarded the $ 10,000 Frankfurt Book Fair's prize for the Best International Literary Adaptation.

Continuing the exhibition series that began with Ed Ruscha in 2012, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna has invited the acclaimed American film director Wes Anderson and his wife Juman Malouf to curate an exhibition drawn from the rich collection of the museum.

Not exact matches

Scorsese isn't the first Italian - American director to receive blowback for portraying the mob on film.

«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..

«So whoever initiated this — and was very proud of themselves to see that little dip in Iran's centrifuge numbers — should look back now and acknowledge it was a major mistake,» Emad Kiyaei, executive director American Iranian Council, says in the film.

For «The American Dreamer,» directors Lawrence Schiller and L.M. Kit Carson filmed Hopper in Taos while he was in postproduction on «The Last Movie,» though this was hardly a nonfiction work.

An Arab - American civil rights organization also asked director Clint Eastwood and actor Bradley Cooper to denounce hateful language directed at U.S. Arabs and Muslims after the release of the film.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

Bridge of Spies reunites director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks (who've collaborated on films including The Terminal, Catch Me If You Can and Saving Private Ryan) to tell the true story of an American attorney entrusted to negotiate a high - profile prisoner exchange during the Cold War.

American actor Jim Caviezel has revealed a conversation he had with film director Mel Gibson, in which he was told he may never act again if he played the role of Jesus in The Passion of the Christ.

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

Scientific American -LSB-'s] editor in chief, John Rennie, and I saw the film Expelled and we'll share our thoughts; and then we'll hear from Eugenie Scott, the director of the National Center for Science Education, who is actually in the movie.

PLANETARIUM (Planetarium) Director: Rebecca Zlotowski Cast: Natalie Portman, Lily - Rose Depp, Emmanuelle Salinger, Louis Garrel Searching for their big break, two American sisters, who earn their living through clairvoyance, arrive in 1930s Paris, where they beguile a movie - producer intent on shooting their séances as part of an ambitious new film.

Chris Roberts (born May 27, 1968) is an American video game designer, programmer, film producer and film director.

All three films in the American Pie series were penned by screenwriter Adam Herz and produced by Paul and Chris Weitz — who also served as directors on the original — but they have all gone through different directors; the J B Rogers - directed American Pie 2 and now American Wedding helmed by Jesse Dylan (How High).

American filmmaker Blake Edwards was the grandson of J. Gordon Edwards, director of such silent film epics as The Queen of Sheba (1922).

The first «American» film by the director of Time of the Gypsies is every bit as bizarre and imaginative as his earlier work, although it's also maddeningly indulgent and erratic.

Harvey and his staff also programmed original and uncut versions of films which had only played American theaters in altered form (including Heaven's Gate, Once Upon a Time in America, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and The Leopard) long before the concept of the «director's cut» had currency beyond the most hardcore of film fans.

Now comes The American, a European - set film from photographer - turned - director Anton Corbijn (he made Control, about Joy Division's Ian Curtis), a thriller based on a 1990 Martin Booth novel that promises some high - toned excitement, and a chance to see the dark side of George Clooney - that is, the side that isn't being a handsome scamp or earnest humanitarian.

[Note: Italian - American Catholic Martin Scorsese was originally slated to direct the film, but turned down the chance - claiming the film needed a director of Jewish descent - before turning it over to Spielberg.]

American director Alan Rudolph was the son of Oscar Rudolph, a one - time actor who later directed such low budget films as Twist Around the Clock and such economical TV fare as «The Lone Ranger.»

Thanks to the content of his films, American director James Ivory has spent much of his long career being mistaken for an Englishman.

The director's detractors have tended to concentrate on the controversial content of his films (American presidents and serial killers, among other subjects), dissecting and occasionally discounting his work because of the ways in which it deviated from its historical inspiration.

Second only to The Big Sleep as the best of the love birds» quartet of films together (the others were Dark Passage and Key Largo), it's yet another gem from Howard Hawks, still the most underrated of all great American directors.

Biography: Director / screenwriter / actor / producer Quentin Tarantino was perhaps the most distinctive and volatile talent to emerge in American film in the early»90s.

Noted French director Jean Renoir made his American debut with this 1941 film.

This is the crux of Andrew Haigh's rivetingly beautiful new film, which screened at the Venice Film Festival this morning, and finds the British director working on a brighter, broader canvas than ever before: a present - day American West of drab diners, grumbling trucks, and starlit open desert.

Despite compromises imposed upon German director Wim Wenders (in his American debut), it's still worth seeing this stylish film due to Forrest's performance in the lead.

A few minutes into director Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, immediately following the notoriously awkward scene between the 16th president of the United States and a pair of African - American Union soldiers, is a brief moment of horror expressionism that greatly informs the remainder of the film.

For all of its simplemindedness and deck stacking, the film is distressingly well made — Pollack is no artist, but he has a glistening technique (there aren't many American directors left who know how to plan their shots for such smooth cutting) and a strong sense of how to hold, cajole, and gratify an audience.

Funny satire that looks at the film industry through the eyes of a terrible B - Horror movie director played by David Naughton (An American Werewolf in London).

Director Wim Wenders made his American film bow with the ultra-stylish Hammett.