Sentences with phrase «french film director»

Famed French film director Jean - Luc Godard is famous for having said: «Cinema shows truth at the rate of 24 frames per second.»

Curated by the DMA's Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Gavin Delahunty with the Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Truth takes its name from the well - known quotation by French film director Jean - Luc Goddard, «[t] he cinema is truth 24 frames per second,» which suggests that the moving image is particularly capable of ethically and creatively capturing a meaningful construction or framing of reality.

It was adapted and directed by the French film director, producer and writer Christophe Gans.

Giordano has a talent for turning a few words into a portrait - in - depth, an example being his description of a slender young dilettante as looking like every French film director's dream — «unbearably lonely, ultra-sexy, Sartre - reading Gallic beauty.»

The illustrious and legendary French film director Agnès Varda (Cléo From 5 to 7 [1961], Vagabond [1984], The Gleaners and I [2000]-RRB-, now nearly 90, hits the streets and rural routes of France with French photographer and artist JR on a quest for people and their villages ---- the faces and places of the film's title.

French film director Olivier Assayas — interview», Artforum, vol.

French film director Francois Truffaut helped Hitchcock be taken seriously through 1962 interviews that became the 1966 book «Hitchcock.»

For a French film director, Olivier Assayas hasn't been very interested in France lately.

Claire Denis has been a major French film director with over a dozen films during three decades, each in a different style of intensity.

Not exact matches

Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.

Iron Mike, 41, was in the French seaside resort last week for its annual film festival and the premiere of Tyson, a documentary about his life by writer - director James Toback (Fingers, The Pick - Up Artist).

Seeing it depicted in black - and - white in French film Angel - a by director Luc Besson just showed how magnificent it still looked even when it wasn't in colour.

This was the director's first film in color and both the French New Wave and the Swinging 60's show their influence.

In Clare Peploe's English - language film version, which opens today in New York and Los Angeles, Marivaux's trademark banter — what the French call «marivaudage» — is blunted, but his jaunty, slightly decadent spirit is well served by the director and her superb cast.

Jeunet, the imaginative French director behind such films as Amélie, Micmacs, and The City of Lost Children, turns to Reif Larsen's novel The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet as the source for only his second English - language feature (the first being Alien: Resurrection) and first shot in 3D.

She appeared in several French comedies and worked with Italian film director Lina Wertmuller.

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

That gentle wryness, coupled with an ensemble heavy on French A-listers, should make this one of her more commercially viable outings following its premiere as the opening film of the Directors» Fortnight at Cannes.

Schrader's chief influence here, as in many of his other films, is the great French director Robert Bresson, especially his «Diary of a Country Priest.»

That Denis can produce a work that, without a trace of preciousness, is equal parts indebted to Barthes and Chicago blues, connected as arm is to shoulder to the film - historical legacy of post-New Wave French filmmaking, is only further justification for claim that the 71 - year - old is the greatest working director over the last two decades.

The director: Nanni Moretti (Italy) The talent: As in most of his films, writer - director - producer Moretti also takes one of the leading roles, but the film is principally a showcase for 85 year - old French legend Michel Piccoli, playing the Pope of the title.

9) Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) Directed by promising director Eva Husson, this unflinching and mesmerizing French film has early day Sofia Coppola's style mixed with Larry Clark's Kids.

Lionsgate has released the first - look image from Roman Polanski's thriller - drama «Based on a True Story,» which marks the French - Polish director's first film in four years.

The French mayhem maestro is back with his first film as director since 1999's «The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc» (he's been off producing action flicks such as «The Transports» and «Kiss of the Dragon»).

Other titles announced out of competition include: the closing night film, Therese D, by Claude Miller, the French director who died earlier this month; Me and You, a new drama from Bernardo Bertolucci; and Madagascar 3, which looks to fill the regulation animation spot (previous cartoons to do the honours include Up and Kung Fu Panda).

The sixth feature film of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, «L'Avventura» will probably be even more controversial than its French and Swedish predecessors, which have been conveniently misunderstood as problem tracts of old age, childhood, juvenile delinquency, miscegenation, nuclear warfare, or what have you.

Elsewhere on the blog I review Black Orpheus (Criterion) and Orlando (Sony), and also released this week is L'enfance Nue (Criterion), the debut feature from French director Maurice Pialat, and this DVD debut includes Pialat's first film, the 1960 short L'amour existe, and the 1968 documentary Autor de L'enfance nue, among its supplements.

Heavy on Spanish language films (including a Brazilian film not in its mother tongue) and the usual block of French film items, after seven years as Artistic Director, Edouard Waintrop leaves the Directors» Fortnight (the section that gave us The Florida Project and a Claire Denis comedy in 2017) with what appears to be a program of genre - friendly firecracker line - up items.

Following the exploits of the Paris police department's «child protection unit,» Polisse (which screened early on) helped to establish this year's Croisette - spanning theme of children in peril, which could be found to varying extents in fellow Competition entries Michael (kidnapping and pedophilia), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineties.

Ten years after The Fifth Element, fantasy film director Luc Besson puts together the most expensive French flick in history.

William Friedkin - the director of The Exorcist, perhaps the most famous horror film of all time, and The French Connection, one of the best films of the 1970s - talked to Mark Kermode about his long and distinguished career.

What You Need To Know: You may not have seen it, but Vince Vaughn is clearly a fan of French Canadian director Ken Scott, as «The Delivery Man» is a remake of Scott's 2012 film «Starbuck» with Scott at the helm again.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Nora Ephron Actors: Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci Plot: The film follows Powell, a government employee who decides to cook her way through legendary cook Julia Child's classic cookbook, «Mastering the Art of French Cooking» in one year's time out of her small Queens kitchen.

Beauvois's film (the French Oscar submission, which surprised many by failing to make the Academy's shortlist) took the top prize, but it was «The Ghost Writer» that netted the most wins, with four — including two for Polanski himself (Best Director and Adapted Screenplay), plus honors for editing and Alexandre Desplat's score.

His latest movie, Baby Driver, is the writer / director's love letter to the great car chase films from the likes of Walter Hill (The Driver), William Friedkin (The French Connection) and George Miller (Mad Max), all driven by a non-stop soundtrack that features both popular and obscure tracks of such diverse genres as rock»n' roll, punk, soul and hip hop.

The drama about the last chapter of a long marriage, which stars two veteran French actors (Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) and premiered at May's Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Palme d'Or), was claimed by Austria because the Academy's rules dictate that a film's nationality is dependent not on the language that is primarily spoken in the film or the origins of the stars, but rather on the origins of the majority of the film's principal behind - the - scenes talent — the writer, director, and producer.

The extraordinary French director discusses her latest short film, Voilà l'enchaînement, starring Alex Descas and Norah Krief, as well as...

Outside of its TIFF write - up I knew next to nothing about Raw, French director Julia Ducournau's «coming of age cannibalism» film...

Two films — Pater, by the 79 - year - old French renaissance man Alain Cavalier, and This Is Not a Film, by banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb — seemed born from the immortal dictum (usually ascribed to Orson Welles) that «the enemy of art is the absence of limitations.»

A lithe, playful exercise that at points suggests a Gallic My Dinner with Andre, Cavalier's film stars the director himself and the redoubtable French leading man Vincent Lindon as both themselves and, respectively, as the President and Prime Minister of France — a role - playing game they slip in and out of at will, and which fuels a free - flowing discussion of food, globalization, national pride, and neckwear couture.

«Revenge» is the film we need right now, from a filmmaker we need right now: French writer / director Coralie Fargeat, who makes her stunning feature debut with a rape - revenge fantasy that's as brutal as it is thrilling.

French director Claire Denis discusses her latest short film, Voilà l'enchaînement (2014), starring Alex Descas and Norah Krief, as well as her plans for a sci - fi feature film.

Director Jonathan Lynn and screenwriter Lucinda Coxon have adapted Pierre Salvadori's «Cible Emouvante,» which is described in the film's production notes as a «classic French comedy» — although I've never heard of it — and perhaps this is the core problem.

French actress and film director Julie Delpy who received the European Achievement in World Cinema award talks about her career, the struggles and challenges as a woman in a male - dominated industry, and about #MeToo - in our exclusive video interview

Although the aesthetics of both the film itself and the Brigsby Bear show recall the work of French director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), you'd never describe this as derivative.

Reinvigorating the look of Alien Resurrection is the sensibility of French director Jean - Pierre Jeunet, whose previous films Delicatessen (1991) and The City of Lost Children (1995) point directly to the familiar yet exotic and new confines of the Auriga and the Betty (which have the same spooky, almost Victorian feel as the interior of Orson Welles» magnificent Amberson mansion) as well as strange obsessions with flesh (the new Ripley is described as a «meat byproduct») and cloning (both Perlman and Pinon co-star in City).

Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, though, is not the only film to draw its soul from Julien Duvivier's 1937 masterpiece — with the French New Wave directors alone, the movie became a centerpiece of a marriage between the moodiness of French Renoir and the quick - wit of American Hawks.

Spurned first by the French New Wave iconoclasts as belonging to the «tradition of quality» and later for the extremist political views their director embraced as a member of the right - wing National Front, Claude Autant - Lara's wartime films are rarely seen today.

The French New Wave directors were responsible for taking a lot of rather experimental film editing techniques, and using them in otherwise traditional stories.

The festival will present two classic French films by master director Jean - Pierre Melville, Léon Morin, Priest and The Red Circle, as well as a number of school matinees with Educational Kits organised by the festival in partnership with the Irish Film Institute (IFI), which provide an ideal French cinematic experience to the young audience.