Sentences with phrase «italian film director»

A prolific notetaker, Marden filled his journals with subject matter as familiar as references to Italian film director Federico Fellini and as esoteric as «looking at an object in nature and running lines around it.»

In the Giardini Pavilion, a great two - part Richard Serra sculpture, titled Pasolini (after the Italian film director), shares a space with recent, black seascapes by Belgian artist Thierry de Cordier.

The opening of the catalogue essay on Hamilton's Turner prize work talks about Italian film director and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini's «untimely death» in 1975, and a number of letters he published in the months before he was brutally murdered.

Dario Argento is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter.

The year is 1965, and Guido Contini (Daniel Day - Lewis), a beloved Italian film director whose last two movies were flops, can not come up with an idea for his newest movie.

Mr. Gilderoy (Jones) is a sound engineer that is hired by a well known Italian film director to work on the sound for his new Giallofilm, which is not the type of film Mr. Gilderoy usually works on.

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

The jury is chaired this year by Italian film director Gianfranco Rosi.

It is this sight that Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Italian film director and poet, calls us to consider:

Not exact matches

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

Livia Firth is an Italian film producer and is the creative director of Eco Age, a retail concept that offers inspiration and ideas for those wanting to lead a greener and more energy efficient life.

In celebration of the Trussardi greyhound's 40th anniversary, the Italian brand enlisted director James Lima and Japanese illustrator Yuko Shimizu to produce this visually stunning and imaginative animated film.

«The Little Hours» Director Jeff Baena continues to surprise, this time with a quiet riot of a film about extremely misbehaving nuns in an Italian hamlet.

[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.]

Though when he originally concieved an adaptation of the timeless tale of Pinocchio Benigni envisioned the film as starring himself with famed director Federico Fellini at the helm, the director's death left Benigni the director of what would be one of the most expensive films in Italian film history.

Clare Peploe, the wife of the great Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, was born in Tanzania, raised in Britain, educated at the Sorbonne and in Italy, began with her brother Mark as a writer on Antonioni's «Zabriskie Point,» and in addition to co-writing many of Bertolucci's films, has directed three of her own.

Lamentably, and somewhat complying with those who repeatedly pointed to the fact that The Departed is not a «Scorsese film» but a «Studio Job,» the Italian - American director occasionally loses grip and the film mutates into a run - of - the - mill, out - of - pace episode of CSI.

«Great Italian Director's Collection» (Lorber Films) features Michelangelo Antonioni's debut feature «Story of a Love Affair» (1950), the anthology film «Boccaccio» 70» (1962) with contributions by Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Vittoria De Sica and Mario Monicelli, and Monicelli's «Casanova» 70» (1966).

Italian director Sollima showed promise with his 2016 film Suburra, so we're looking forward to finding out what he has in store for us here.

Written and directed by Michele Soavi of Cemetery Man (1994) and The Church (1989) fame, this documentary from 1985 takes an in - depth look at Dario Argento, the master Italian director most well known for his «giallo» horror films.

While it would be easy to shoot an entire film like this on a sound stage and use visual effects to complete the scenery, director Baltasar Kormakur (2 Guns, Contraband) wanted the cast to experience the elements firsthand by shooting on location in Nepal on the foothills of Everest, as well as the Italian Alps.

His narrative feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden Globes.

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.

The Italian actor - turned - director fails to draw anything substantial out of his stars Penelope Cruz (who he worked with on his previous film, Don't Move, another adaptation of a Mazzantini novel) and Emile Hirsch, though the unbelievably phony dialog would stumble up even the best of thesps.

Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's first English language film This Must Be the Place was a drifting disappointment, but when his follow - up, The Great Beauty, wowed the cinemagoing world (and won the Foreign - Language Oscar) his status as a master filmmaker was confirmed.

Both a film about filmmaking and a shrewdly understated character study, Italian writer / director Nanni Morettis Mia Madre focusses on middle - aged director Margherita (Margherita Buy), whose mother (Giulia Lazzarini) lies terminally ill in a Rome hospital.

The appeal of the film is manifold - its serenity as The American meticulously goes about his craft; the paucity of dialogue that heightens its few action sequences when they do occur; a superb ensemble of actors led by Clooney that also includes Violante Placido (Clara), Thekla Reuten (assassin), Johan Leysen (controller), and Paolo Bonacelli (as a local town priest); the artistic framing of the film by director Anton Corbijn both in its interiors and the long shots of the Italian settings; and simply the story's uncertainty that grips one from its very beginning.

Director, co-writer and co-producer Kim Jee - woon is one of the country's best filmmakers (of the gangster picture A Bittersweet Life and the outstanding horror film A Tale of Two Sisters, sloppily remade here as The Uninvited) and brings his double - barreled love of Italian - made spaghetti Westerns to the fray.

Achingly romantic and creepy - funny, this funereal fantasy from the director of La Chiesa (1989) is unlike any Italian film in memory.

The new film — which sees Italian TV director Stefano Sollima taking over for Denis Villeneuve — has been described by writer Taylor Sheridan as even darker and grittier than the original film.

Asia Argento, an Italian film actress and director, claimed that Weinstein «forcibly performed oral sex on her» but alleged that she refused to speak out because «he has crushed a lot of people».

This, combined with the film's extensive use of local non-professional actors, made Toni one of the biggest precursors of the Italian neorealist movement (no less than Luchino Visconti served as the assistant director!).

The India - born, British - raised Radford became a double nominee for Director and Adapted Screenplay on the 1990s Italian film Il Postino (The Postman), the rare foreign language production to earn a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars.

The occasion was the New York Film Festival screening of Sony Pictures Classics» Call Me by Your Name, the film adaptation, by Italian director Luca Guadagnino, of André Aciman's coming - of - age novel.

A painter and cinematographer turned director, a craftsman turned celluloid dreamer, an industry veteran who created, almost single - handedly, the uniquely Italian genre of baroque horror known as «giallo,» he directed the most graceful and deliriously mad horror films of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Along with a ton of other icons of genre film including legendary Italian Horror director Dario Argento and the cast of SUSPIRIA and more!

Coming off of rave reviews at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Youth is a new Italian dramedy and the second English - language film from director Paolo Sorrentino.

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The films of Italian director Luca Guadagnino are at once gorgeous, voyeuristic immersions in haute bourgeois life and deeply humanist excavations of the nature of desire and identity.

It's directed by Robert Siodmak, who made more film noirs than any other director, and it is one of his darkest, a gangster drama seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis, with Victor Mature (in what I believe is his best noir role) a as Lt. Candella, an Italian - American police detective who takes the pursuit of small - time gangster Martin Rome (Richard Conte) personally.

Both the LA and NY groups chose «The Social Network» as best picture and «Carlos» as best (and most) foreign - language film — all five and a half hours and 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish (with a Venezuelan accent), various dialects of Arabic, Russian, Hungarian, Italian... LAFCA left no doubt about its esteem for both movies, with «Carlos» coming in as first runner - up for best picture and Fincher and Assayas sharing the director's prize.

Veteran Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci returns with Me And You (15)(2/5), his first feature film since The Dreamers in 2003.

Some of the best - received films at earlier festivals will get their North American launches here, including «Life is Beautiful,» Roberto Begnini's Cannes winner about an Italian clown who fights the Nazis with laughter; Rohmer's heartwarming love story «Autumn Tale,» which charmed Telluride audiences; Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,» with Cannes best actor winner Peter Mullen as a recovering alcoholic facing tough times; Theo Angelopoulos» «Eternity and a Day,» this year's Cannes winner; «The General» (1999) which won Boorman the best director prize at Cannes, and the Cannes and Telluride favorite «Claire Dolan,» by Lodge Kerrigan, with Emily Watson («Breaking the Waves») as a prostitute who thinks she can detach from her work.

The Bird With the Crystal Plumage Blu - ray (1970 — Italy) In 1970, young first - time director Dario Argento made his indelible mark on Italian cinema with «The Bird with the Crystal Plumage,» a film that redefined the «giallo» genre of murder - mystery thrillers and catapulted him to international stardom.

In a major upset, the Italian docudrama Caesar Must Die from directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani has won the Golden Bear for best film at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.

Seemingly the director's most political film, what it embodies more than an overt condemnation of fascism is a near peerless use of space, light and shadow to mirror an architecture of the mind, wherein an Italian bureaucrat (Jean - Louis Trintignant) mired within Mussolini's fascist dictatorship must decide between playing by the rules or carving out his own identity.

The Conformist (Raro, Blu - ray, DVD), Bernardo Bertolucci's 1970 masterpiece about a petite bourgeois Italian (a superb performance by Jean - Louis Trintignant) who simply wants to disappear into the fabric of Mussolini's Italy in the 1930s, is arguably the director's greatest film, and it was hugely influential on American cinema of the seventies.

Keeping with that film's medieval European setting, you could also check out Tale Of Tales, a macabre collection of stories within stories — featuring sea monsters, giant fleas, and water - breathing albino twins — from Italian director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah).

Former film critic and co-author of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian writer - director Dario Argento has devoted himself these past 40 years to gory horror movies.

Even with grayed hair and wrinkle makeup, the stoic beauty of Penelope Cruz is in full effect in the latest trailer for «Twice Born,» the latest film from Italian actor - director Sergio Castellito.