Sentences with phrase «dogtooth director»

He stars in Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos» The Lobster, as a man on a rather peculiar dating retreat.

The Dogtooth director creates a world where no one is allowed to be single.

The A.V. Club's own Ignatiy Vishnevetsky called the The Lobster, the latest surreal, darkly comedic film from Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos, «funny,» «unsettling,» and, «occasionally gruesome» when he watched it at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Not exact matches

After Dogtooth and The Lobster, I will see anything that has this man's name attached to it, especially as a writer / director.

It's a no - winners landscape in the hands of director Yorgos Lanthimos (sharing screenwriting credit with Efthimis Filippou), whose earlier arthouse offerings, like «Alps» and the Academy Award - nominated «Dogtooth,» dove deeply into similar pools of human sadness.

I'll recommend work from two directors already mentioned - Yorgos Lanthimos's Dogtooth, and Ruben Östlund's Force Majeure.

Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, the film is the first English - language effort from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, whose 2009 film «Dogtooth» was an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

The Killing Of A Sacred Deer doesn't have as sharp an allegorical edge as his best work — it's no Dogtooth in that respect — but it does find the director honing his command of unnerving atmosphere to a razor point, enhanced by a camera that glides menacingly down hospital corridors and gazes from above with the severity of a merciless god.

Melting the butter sauce is Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth), whose home - grown surrealism makes the leap into English with panache.

It might be indebted in many aspects to «Dogtooth,» with which it shares both thematic and stylistic links, but it's arguably more fully achieved than even that film — the helmer's win of the Silver Lion for Best Director might not have been popular in the room, but to our mind, it's well - deserved.

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Audiences have come to expect the bizarre from director Yorgos Lanthimos, who broke out in 2009 with the wonderful and unsettling Dogtooth, and The Lobster definitely doesn't disappoint on that front.

Friday brings David Cronenberg's «A Dangerous Method» and one of my own most curiously awaited titles, «Dogtooth» director Yorgos Lanthimos's secrecy - shrouded new feature «Alps»; Saturday the all - star (and out - of - competition) attractions of Steven Soderbergh's «Contagion,» while Steve McQueen's «Shame» and Todd Solondz's «Dark Horse» will also be let out of the bag before this week is out.

Perfecting his style of absurdist deadpan comedy, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth) introduces new rules, activities, and gruesome punishments at every turn: Matches are made based on arbitrary similarities; trial couples are assigned children; and time extensions can be earned by hunting down renegade singles who live in the woods and only listen to electronic music.

It's an absurd premise, but we'd expect no less from the director of Dogtooth.

Kirsten Dunst is about to get weird, as Deadline reports that the Spider - Man and Fargo star has signed on for a new TV series from Yorgos Lanthimos, director of Dogtooth and The Lobster.

[Variety] • Larry Rohter chats with «Dogtooth» director (and unlikely Oscar nominee) Yorgos Lanthimos.

Yorgos Lanthimos is the director who reinvigorated Greek cinema with his dark, absurdist films Dogtooth and Alps.

Picture: The Social Network Director: Mike Leigh Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin Actor: Jesse Eisenberg Actress: Julianne Moore Supp Actor: Andrew Garfield Supp Actress: Leslie Manville Cinematography: The Social Network Animated: Toy Story 3 Documentary: Inside Job Foreign: Dogtooth

This first American movie by the absurdist Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos («The Lobster», «Dogtooth») sees him throw the full weight of classical tragedy at a suburban family.

The first American movie by absurdist Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth) sees him throwing the full weight of classical tragedy at a suburban family.

The director of the Cannes hits «Dogtooth» and «The Lobster» brings a new movie, «The Killing of a Sacred Deer,» with a plot described as «a surgeon forms a familial bond with a sinister teenage boy with disastrous results.»

«Alps «As extraordinary a film as Georgos Lanthimos «debut «Dogtooth» was, there was something about its Fritzl - ish premise that seemed like it was riding the zeitgeist (even if it marched firmly to the beat of its own drum), and I wondered how the director would fare with something that felt less ripped from the headlines.

This quirky, allegorical premise is presented by the Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos - the blazingly brilliant director of the 2010 foreign language Oscar nominee Dogtooth, making his English language debut - with the utmost matter - of - factness.

Director Yorgos Lanthimos has made two of the weirdest, most compelling international art hits of the last half - decade, Alps and the glorious, terrifying Dogtooth.

How better to describe the work of the Greek writer and director Yorgos Lanthimos, whose particular storytelling style, exemplified by cult hits like 2009's Dogtooth and 2015's The Lobster, feels like a whole genre unto itself?

While director Yorgos Lanthimos» previous films Dogtooth and Alps both reveled in their inscrutable rules, forcing the audience to pick up the fragments of what's offered and chase behind the film, trying to cram them together, everybody in The Lobster instead can't stop telling us exactly how this insane world works («Didn't you read the guidebook?»

Who & What: The Lobster is the latest from Yorgos Lanthimos, writer - director of Dogtooth.

As in the director's breakthrough, Dogtooth, and his English - language debut, The Lobster, the real subject is the twisted logic of relationships, obligations, and social façades, caricatured through the director's distinctive blend of grotesquerie, surreal deadpan, and alienness.

Yorgos Lanthimos) Last year's The Lobster and Oscar - nominated Dogtooth prove that Greek writer / director Yorgos Lanthimos is one of the most original filmmakers out there.

«Killing of a Sacred Deer» Director Yorgos Lanthimos, who came to fame with Dogtooth and last year blessed the world with his highly original and blackly comic The Lobster, is getting prolific.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Starring: Stavros Psyllakis, Aris Servetalis, Johhny Vekris, Ariane Labed, Aggeliki Papoulia Running Time: 93 minutes Certificate: 15 Following up 2009's eccentric Oscar - nominated DOGTOOTH with ALPS...

Vogt working hand - in - hand on three films with one of Norway's most successful directors, Joachim Trier (Reprise, Oslo August 31st, Louder than Bombs), and Bakatakis working with one of Greece's great filmmakers, the Academy Award nominated Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth).

The Lobster — Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos» (Dogtooth) English - language debut is every bit as bizarre and unpredictable as I hoped it would be.

Drawing on the Greek myth of Iphigenia — Agamemnon's daughter, whom the king had to sacrifice after offending the goddess Artemis — The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a disturbing drama from director Yorgo Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Lobster).