Sentences with phrase «many auteur directors»

Unlike Chaplin and Keaton, they were not themselves great auteur directors, or worked with any; the same could be said of Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers, but their respective phenomena overrided the impact of any decision - making body behind the camera, as a hurricane is to a weatherman.

«Midnight in Paris» McAdams teamed up with Owen Wilson (again) and Woody Allen for the 2011 Oscar winner «Midnight in Paris,» kicking off a stretch of prestige films in which she worked with auteur director such as Terrence Malick on «To the Wonder,» Brian de Palma on «Passion» and Wim Wenders on «Every Thing Will Be Fine.»

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...

Auteur director Wes Anderson's newest film The Darjeeling Limited is in theaters throughout the country.

A debonair auteur director engaging in a passive - aggressive, hyper - repetitive, dizzying line reading brings an inconsequential piece of dialogue to breathless relief.

Like much of the auteur directors post-Days of Heaven work, you will get out of the film what you bring into it.

And Ava DuVernay, whose versatility and remarkable C.V. should already have her viewed as one of the premiere American auteur directors.

And after a 2016 that saw them partner with auteur directors like Nicolas Winding Refn (The Neon Demon), Whit Sitllman (Love & Friendship), Todd Solondz (Wiener - Dog), Jim Jarmusch (Paterson), and Park Chan - wook (The Handmaiden), they certainly don't seem to be abandoning their artist - focused strategy.

Coming out of the 1970s, the era of the auteur director and truly mind - blowing cinema that bled into the Oscar race, was really the last time the Academy hummed.

(In most cases, strong auteur directors happen to be men.)

Arguably, Alfred Hitchcock is the first true Auteur director.

Many auteur directors create films that seem to exist in pocket universes as self - contained, circumscribed and minutely thought - through as the virtual - reality environment of a computer game or the fantasy setting of a paperback trilogy.

Korean auteur director Joon - ho Bong has previously delivered a couple of artistic and interesting genre movies with The Host and Mother.

This week on The Collision, we talk about franchises, auteur directors, journeyman directors, studio prerogatives, faithfulness to the franchise, and much more.

The sustained critical success of auteur directors like Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier, the emergence in the 1990s and 2000s of the «new...

STYLE VS. «STYLE» Pauline Kael once described an auteur director as someone who «expresses himself by shoving bits of style up the crevasses of the plots.»

Yet in being critically successful, the games earned a remastered collection on the PlayStation 3, widening the games» audience, and putting Fumito Ueda in a special list of auteur directors.

The Award in Theatre is given to playwrights, auteur directors, and performance artists creating text - based work.

Not exact matches

Regardless of opinion, he was not only one of the biggest stars of the postwar era but also one of the most powerful, and as the writer, director, and producer of many of his features, he qualified as a comic auteur firmly in the tradition of Chaplin and Keaton.Born Joseph Levitch in Newark, NJ, on March 16, 1926, he was the son of borscht - belt comics, spending the majority of his childhood living with relatives but joining his parents each summer as they performed in the Catskills.

Starring writer - director - producer and enigmatic «auteur» Tommy Wiseau, who had unlimited funds but questionable talent, the $ 6 - million film has been hailed «The «Citizen Kane» of bad movies,» a fascinatingly inept and endlessly quotable cult sensation that has carved out a place for itself as a midnight - movie communal experience.

Talented B - picture director Joseph H. Lewis wasn't yet in the «auteur» class when he helmed the PRC quickie Criminals Within.

«Black Nativity,» loosely based on a play by Langston Hughes, is brought beautifully to life by writer / director Kasi Lemmons, a true auteur in every sense of the word.

Director Matt Wolf's critically acclaimed documentary examines the life and work of Arthur Russell, an influential singer, songwriter, cello player and disco auteur who died tragically in 1992.

«Cockney auteur» Nick Love, director of Goodbye Charlie Bright, The Football Factory and The Firm, talks to Jason Solomons about football, fashion and funk

«I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK» (Pathfinder) is an offbeat character piece by South Korean auteur Pak Chan - wook (of «Oldboy» fame) and foreign terrors come from «The Child's Eye» (Lionsgate), a Hong Kong production from The Pang Brothers, and «The Sylvian Experiments» (Lionsgate) from Japanese screenwriter turned director Hiroshi Takahashi.

The variety of subject matter and tones he manages is more than impressive, making him an acclaimed Hollywood director who is able to bring an auteur's style to every project.

The movie is credited to two directors, Wanda Tuchock and George Nichols Jr., but film scholar Jeremy Arnold believes Tuchock, who also wrote the screenplay, should be regarded as the film's sole auteur: «This one has Wanda's fingerprints all over it.»

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 director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey) The talent: By this point in his career, auteur - photographer Ceylan is a self - standing arthouse brand — which is just as well, since the other names involved are unlikely to ring many bells with non-Turkish viewers.

Could this be the movie that finally wins the director some auteur cred?

The Neon Demon Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Writers: Mary Laws, Nicolas Winding Refn Danish auteur Nicolas...

Organizers of London's 2012 Olympic effort have clearly filched the Chinese memo, as they've secured their own now - cuddly auteur as artistic director of their opening ceremony — one Mr. Danny Boyle.

What has audiences so eager this time is in part the combination of an auteur African - American director (Ryan Coogler of «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»), a heavyweight cast (Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong» o, Angela Bassett and Forest Whitaker) and a soundtrack co-produced by a rap superstar (Kendrick Lamar), all working on one of the most popular franchises in Hollywood.

While most horror films of today struggle to out - shock one another, thankfully there are still auteurs like director, Brian O'Malley (Let Us Prey), who delight in a slower, more gracefully paced approach to eeriness.

The opposing forces are a direct reflection of the challenge undertaken by director and co-writer Craig Brewer, who only half sells out as he tries to leave an auteur's mark while remaining faithful to a source that's loaded with dated, studio - friendly hokum.

Zhao Tao's awe - inspiring performance and the pure audacity of director Jia Zhangke make Mountains May Depart the auteur's best effort to date.

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...

Joan Micklin Silver By Shonni Enelow The director of such lovingly idiosyncratic films as Crossing Delancey and Hester Street merits reconsideration as a true offbeat American auteur

WHY: Why: The last thing anyone expected after the disaster of 2014's «Ouija» was another installment, but this unexpected prequel from horror auteur Mike Flanagan shows just how much difference a good script and a talented director can make.

I thought about changing my prediction to a shock win for Michael Haneke until I remembered that no director of a foreign language film has ever won this prize — no not even Federico Fellini or Ingmar Bergman, Oscar's indisputable favorites as foreign auteurs go.

Unlike the «Auteur» or «Shreiber» theories favouring either the director or the writer as the true author of a film, the «Fís» Theory holds that a true singular voice can only be attained when the director is also the writer.

Director / co writer M. Night Shyamalan, working from Will Smith's story idea, continues his streak of films that make you wonder what the heck happened to the young auteur who gave us The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs.

How do you follow the latest from writer / director / auteur Terrence Malick?

For a director active during the Easy Riders / Raging Bulls era of auteur - led 1970s American cinema he is a vague, near invisible presence, yet his reputation is monumental.

Burwell, however, will get his auteur fix with «I'm Not There» director Todd Haynes.

From the outset, the loss of Greengrass as director should have a detrimental effect on the overall quality of this film, but this isn't the main obstacle facing Legacy, as they have a very capable auteur in the form of Gilroy, and it should be remembered that the franchise was kick - started by Doug Liman some ten years ago.

He showed a brief spark in 2008 with his Spanish installment, «Vicky Cristina Barcelona,» but the aging director is sadly less than a pale shadow of the auteur / performer who enthralled audiences in the «70s, «80s, and even the early «90s with masterful comedies such as «Annie Hall,» «Crimes and Misdemeanors,» and «Husbands and Wives.»

I'm not the only one who regards it as Lewton's greatest film, and I assume the main reason for its neglect is auteurist thinking — only directors are seen as auteurs — and the absence of stars.

A director once anointed as a promising auteur, has now had many revoke that status from him.