Sentences with phrase «as skilled a filmmaker»

As skilled a filmmaker as he is, the most explosive scene in the film isn't as impressive as it could have been — a lot of it is down to fantastic sound effects work.

Not exact matches

With interesting project choices (along with directing Whiplash and La La Land, he also wrote thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane) and his skill as a writer and director, Chazelle is showing why he may be one of Hollywood's next great filmmakers.

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There is a lot to learn from Alfred Hitchcock's work, his narrative was close to perfect and the skill to create suspense by depriving us of the payoff and restricting our view forcing us to imagine how bad the situation was, for the longest time just to deliver it at the peek of our attention, and that my friends, that is a gift for the film fanatic as for the filmmaker.

Akin was inspired to tell the story by real - life political events in Germany, and his skills as a filmmaker are such that escape from this unsettling film is not in the cards.

Another portion of the film where Stewart shows real skill as a filmmaker are the scenes between Bahari and his father.

He deflected the question with a Sundance veteran's skill, saying he was inspired by American filmmakers such as Sam Peckinpah, a director known for making violence felt on the big screen.

The movie as a whole isn't that great, but there's one five - minute stretch in the middle of the erotic (ish) drama Fifty Shades Of Grey that suggests what might've been, had the filmmakers remembered they'd hired a skilled comic actress as their lead.

Corbet clearly wants to be more than just an actor... and has the skills and vision to make a name for himself as a filmmaker; he has an ear for dialogue, unique artistic vision and technical skills proving he has the making of a great writer - director.

Eubanks» skill as a filmmaker seems commensurate with the impact of his story; his work here is higher - minded than mere low - budget viscera, but not as thoughtful, or thought through, as the material of budding auteurs like Neill Blomkamp or Rian Johnson.

Kicking off his English - language screen career a decade ago, he's matched his considerable skills against some of the industry's most revered talents and taken direction from a vanguard of visually dynamic filmmakers with his memorable appearances in such movies as «The Dark Knight,» «Contagion,» «2012» and «Captain America: The Winter Soldier.»

Affleck (the director) has an edge on Clooney (the filmmaker) in this area, as the latter tends to get by more on the strengths of his cast and script (see: The Ides of March)-- rather than his skills behind the camera (in this writer's opinion, anyway).

This is the work of an underappreciated and sharp filmmaker and «Glass Chin» certainly makes the case that many more should sit up and take notice as his his skills go beyond the carefully - crafted formalism.

In this, their directorial debut, they prove that they also have skills as filmmakers.

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He used the time to hone his skills as a successful commercial filmmaker in his native Norway, a country whose folklore gifted him with the premise of TROLLHUNTER.

Novels can be put down and picked up again at will, allowing much greater freedom for long expository sequences and character development, and yet the skill of a great filmmaker is to convey the information concisely, such that we feel we know the characters and plot as well as were they written, but within the time and attention - span limitations that are inherent on screen.

The jazz innovator Cecil Taylor; the painter and musician Lucy Dodd; the filmmaker Steve McQueen; the earth artist Michael Heizer; and the skilled manipulator of human consciousness Andrea Fraser all outdid themselves, teaching us about life, space and the exhibition as form.

Playing on the idioms of post-internet culture, the young artist's Instagram acts as an alternative outlet for her skills as an animator and filmmaker, and for her outlandish sense of humour.

Students will critique films and filmmakers through various approaches and assessments that demonstrate analysis, interpretation, and evaluation skills as well as fostering a deeper appreciation and understanding of film as an art form.