Sentences with phrase «french auteur»

Oscillating somewhere between portraiture, poetry, and fragmented non sequitur, Pendleton covers the wall with appropriated text — a gesture that nods to the French auteur's critique of style and his embrace of the productive possibilities inherent in the accumulation of found content.

A new film by French auteur Claire Denis (Beau Travail, 35 Shots of Rum, White Material) is always cause for great anticipation.

After her thoughtful and earthy supporting turn in Olivier Assayas» Clouds of Sils Maria, her return team - up with the French auteur is now the new high mark in her career, and likely in Assayas» also.

Among our favorites thus far is the one by Geoffrey O'Brien, who has written stirringly and lyrically about the French auteur on the New York...

Numerous 21st - century horror movies have worked hard to make modern technology scary, but it took an egghead French auteur to craft a genuinely unnerving sequence centered on texting.

While French auteur Benoit Jacquot recently remade Chase's 1945 novel Eva starring Isabelle Huppert, Kino Lorber resurrects his first adaptation (and one of his more bizarrely plotted endeavors) with No Orchids For Miss Blandish, which was directed by St. John Legh Clowes in 1948 (interestingly, Patrice Chereau's 1975 film debut, Flesh of the Orchid, starring Charlotte Rampling and Simone Signoret, was Chase's follow - up to this film, a title which will also be recuperated in 2018 thanks to an upcoming restoration screening in the COLCOA line - up).

The latest film from iconic French auteur Agnes Varda, «Visages Villages» («Faces Places» in English), was co-directed by JR, a photographer and muralist 50 years her junior.

When it comes to the absurd fantasies of French filmmakers, it would seem hard to top the latest work by French auteur Bertrand Blier for sheer audacity, although whether The Clink of Ice will cause delight or dismay remains to be seen.

Her recent work with the French auteur Olivier Assayas in Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper has elicited performances of a quality Pattinson has yet to match.

Eugène Green's (The Portuguese Nun) direction favours symmetry over emotion, while the impassive performance style recalls French auteur Robert Bresson.

French auteur Claire Denis does just this in her reimagining of Melville's classic, «Billy Budd.»

The confessional spirit of Eric Rohmer, the late French auteur revered for his wise, talky relationship studies, hovers insistently over the proceedings.

A heady psychosexual drama that's steeped in dense anxieties and rich European glamour (the film was partially funded by Chanel), Olivier Assayas's latest finds the French auteur at the very top of his game.

Also too good to pass up: Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable, a striking documentary profile of one of the strongest practitioners of urban street photography, directed by Sasha Waters Freyer, Apr. 15; Godard Mon Amour, director Michel Hazanavicius» cool, dramatized portrait of iconic French auteur Jean - Luc Godard (Louis Garrel), as told by Godard's one - time wife, Anne Wiazemsky, Apr. 15; and, from Japanese master Koreeda Hirokazu, The Third Murder, a chambered nautilus of a murder mystery, starring Fukuyama Masaharu and Yakusho Kôji, Apr. 6.

Robert Pattinson, Robert De Niro and Rachel Weisz were slated to star in the French auteur's film, based on a 2007 Playboy article called «Boosting The Big Tuna» by Hillel Levin about a bunch of regular criminals who accidentally rob a porn store backed by Chicago mafia boss Tony Accardo.

French auteur Olivier Assayas» newest film Apres mai (re-titled Something in the Air for U.S. audiences), begins its L.A. engagement this week at Laemmle Theaters.

French auteur cinema has increasingly been exploring themes of sex through scenarios whose explicitness verges on the pornographic.

«French auteur Jacques Audiard's Dheepan, an intimately observed, mostly Tamil - language drama about a makeshift family of Sri Lankan refugees in Paris, was the unexpected winner of the Palme d'Or at the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival on Sunday night.»

This avant - garde provocation from the French auteur Bruno Dumont is a savoury piece of slow cinema; a supernatural tale cooked so long and low that the meat falls away from the bone.

High Life French auteur Claire Denis has become one of the most prolific and revered international...

Wong Kar Wai By Olivier Assayas The Hong Kong movie game - changer is poetically reappraised by the cutting - edge French auteur in this appreciation of a man, a filmmaker, and a city

The French auteur has shown fourteen of his films at the festival and his newest film The New Girlfriend marks his fifth in a row.

1) Something in the Air at the Laemmle Royal (Opens FRIDAY 5/3, plays ALL WEEK) French auteur Olivier Assayas» newest film Apres mai (re-titled Something in the Air for U...

My Baby Shot Me Down: Techine's Tedious Period Piece a Drained Chronicle While perennial French auteur...

His company, Adam Elliot Pictures, produce the films and Elliot's work practices adhere to the French auteur methodology.

David Mamet may not be the visual stylist that Jean - Pierre Melville was, but in most other respects, his Redbelt is faithfully cast in the tradition of the great French auteur's Le Samouraï.

After all, the 71 - year - old French auteur, whose film Beau Travail remains one of the great works of the last few decades, has taken an especially grim turn as of late, with movies like Bastards, White Material and The Intruder exploring some of the darker sides of contemporary humanity.

But the film has aged remarkably well over twenty years, perhaps because it was even something of a throwback at the time: the imprint of conversation - driven French auteurs like Eric Rohmer is borne proudly by this sharp, sexy and nastily funny comedy of manners, whose dialogue crackles with such cutting truth and wit one wonders why Soderbergh doesn't write more these days.

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The brilliant auteur Robert Bresson has been called the father of French cinema.

Long before renowned auteurs like Jane Campion, David Fincher, Susanne Bier and David Lynch moved from cinema to short - form TV, Pialat directed this seven - part TV series for French television.

Very much a genre stylist in the mold of golden - age Hollywood directors like Anthony Mann or Raoul Walsh, Uchida showed little discernible personal style to mark him as an auteur in the French critical mold, but the uniformly high quality of his works and his ability to succeed in a variety of genres mark him as a filmmaker very ripe for (re) consideration by critics.

The sustained critical success of auteur directors like Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier, the emergence in the 1990s and 2000s of the «new extremism» particularly in French cinema, and the rise in recent...

Esteemed as one of the most prominent French independent directors of the post-World War II era, Jean - Pierre Melville laid a proto - auteur framework for the French Nouvelle Vague directors that followed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Esteemed as one of the most prominent French independent directors of the post-World War II era, Jean - Pierre Melville laid a proto - auteur framework for the French Nouvelle Vague directors that followed in the...

The storytelling maestro, whose auteur status was championed by the French New Wave for the way he defined film as a manipulative medium, was overlooked by his industry peers because his playful, sexually menacing thrillers were seen as genre films.

Although the author himself modestly calls it a «rather incomplete survey,» it is in fact packed with insights about auteurs as varied (and in some cases unheralded) as Jacques Becker, André Cayatte, Julien Duvivier, and Max Ophuls, while saving special regard for the «two most original and therefore unclassifiable talents of postwar French cinema,» Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson.

He draws thematic inspiration from classic Western director John Ford (specifically 1956's «The Searchers») and from his beloved»30s and»40s crime movies as well as the visual aesthetic of French New Wave auteurs.

Sarris» prose was dense, balanced, aphoristic, alliterative; he had taken more from the French than just the politique des auteurs.

Resnais, who never quite fit the fingerprint of auteur — the writers he collaborated with always bore their distinctive predications rather resolutely — had a brightly shining original screenplay, Oscar - nominated I might add, by the effulgent French writer Marguerite Duras.

Eminently inventive auteur Michel Gondry finds inspiration from french novelist Boris Vian's cult novel to provide the foundation for this visionary and romantic love story starring Audrey Tautou (Amélie, Coco Before Chanel) and Romain Duris (The Beat My Heart Skipped).

Yet they all somehow bore his stamp, making him one of the first directors given auteur status by the French film critics who coined the term.

Denis Cote French Canadian auteur examines the lives of six bodybuilders in his new documentary, which has been described as a compelling companion piece to his 2012 film Bestiaire.

Again, however, it was the pedigree of the material — along with the presence of the Oscar - winning French Connection auteur behind the camera and celebrated Ingmar Bergman cohort Max von Sydow in front of it — that helped give The Exorcist a patina of quality.

The film marked the director's passage from leading critic to trailblazing auteur of the French New Wave.

Jean - Luc Godard, the French New Wave auteur who shot to fame with 1960's «Breathless,» has a new movie that's opening in Austin on Friday, but there's a caveat.

French exhibitors aren't happy the streaming service got an invite to the Croisette, but the stacked lineup of international auteurs should be a cinema lover's dream

French Canadian auteur Denis Villeneuve scores another box office hit with critically acclaimed Sicario.

It's Right Behind You: Campfire Creepers: The Skull of Sam (North American Premiere)-- Spain, USA Project Creator: Alexandre Aja Key Collaborators: Casey Cooper Johnson, Martin Andersen Cast: Robert Englund French horror auteur Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, High Tension) directs this creepy tale of a couple who encounters a vicious stranger in the woods, who has plans to add them to his rather unique collection.

The film, a remake of the French classic The Wages of Fear (1953), was swiftly buried at the box office by George Lucas» Star Wars (1977) and nearly ended the New Hollywood auteur's career.

And this in the most important place possible — among a Jury that looks like an ideal dinner party, Mad Max's Dad, George Miller, French cutting - edge auteur, Arnaud Desplechin, sassy Kirsten Dunst and alluring actress - helmer Valeria Golino, handsome cannibal Mads Mikkelsen, Hungary's youthful father of Son of Saul, László Nemes, French actor - singer and proud Mum in Cannes, Vanessa Paradis, elegantly veiled Iranian producer Katayoon Shahabi, and the grumpily avuncular grandee, Donald Sutherland.