Sentences with phrase «movie brats»

Hanson conducted penetrating interviews with film luminaries as a sort of apprenticeship, and in the early «70s entered the industry proper via the entry that many so - called «movie brats» used: Roger Corman.

Martin Scorsese is one of our favorite of the «movie brats,» and Warner Archive Instant has a pair -LSB-...]

It has become something of a cliché to acknowledge the debt owed by the Movie Brats of the 1970s to the European auteurs of the 1950s and 1960s.

What steamed me back in 1977 was the prominence of the auteurist - trained movie brats — filmmakers like Benton, Peter Bogdanovich, Brian De Palma, John Milius, and Martin Scorsese — in relation to their models as well as their European counterparts.

Schrader has no shortage of interesting stories about New Hollywood as one of the original movie brats, as well as a critical background that has informed his work.

Paul is a director who, like many of the movie brats, has a reputation that precedes him — whether it be writing American cinema classics like Taxi Driver or Raging Bull, directing the popular and canonized films American Gigolo and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, or the lore surrounding the era, popularized by Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.

Paul Schrader is the philosopher's «movie brat» director.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center's longtime programming director Richard Peña has dubbed Tarantino a «second - generation movie brat,» after the movie - crazy kids of the»70s (Spielberg, Scorsese, Lucas, Coppola) who became that era's cinematic superstars.

On the eve of Alan Rudolph's first movie in 15 years, Ignatiy Vishnavetsky reminds us of the director's unique stance as the most oddball and sincere of the Romantic end of the movie brat spectrum.

It makes me love American cinema like I love those 1970s «movie brat» pictures from Friedkin, Scorsese and Coppola.

Not exact matches

Everyone talked about how Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence weren't paid as much as their male co-stars [in the movie American Hustle] and also how Angelina Jolie was called a «minimally talented spoiled brat» by producer Scott Rudin.

The Hollywood press corps began touting Cruise as one of the «Brat Pack,» a group of twenty - something actors who seemed on the verge of taking over the movie industry in the early»80s.

As a Brat Pack fan, I had fun watching Sheedy and Lowe joke around and have fun in the movie, but as a movie fan, I can't say this is a good film.

Have you ever seen a movie where a family loses it's wife / mother and the father is understandably having trouble letting go, the teenager is a complete complete brat about everything because of it, the little girl is almost sickeningly adorable, and they all eventually live happily ever

It does eventually show its hand as a space - monster movie, but Abrams never loses his grip on the entwined stories of his hugely likeable young cast, whose wit and resilience make them the antidote to studio - brat tweeness.

Cheaper by the Dozen adheres religiously to formula, showcasing the children either as adoringly cute or rude brats to elicit audience reaction, while keeping the peppy pop tunes cranking to simulate a good time at the movies.

But its failure despite its flashiness, beefcake factor, and abortive romance point to first an underestimation of the archetypal power of the «wilting hothouse brat» model of Titanic, second an underestimation of the preteen girl demographic that appears too bright to be taken by movies that clearly suck.

The only person who added life to this movie is Megan Fox... just saying.I normally like to watch movies that show real life events but those kids are just TV BRATS that would influence REAL LIFE BRATS.

In the 80s, John was a bonafide teen star — hanging around the Brat Pack crowd before closing the decade with «Say Anything,» the movie that crowned him as the American Prince of the Romantic Comedy.

He's made blockbuster movies, godfathered a swarm of Hollywood brats, created — and almost demolished — his own studio.

Hook and Tiger Lily have a romantic subplot that no one cares about and Peter spends a lot of time being a really awful brat — which jives with what a selfish asshole Peter Pan is in literature, so at least they got that right — and there's a giant blind crocodile but Hook never loses his hand because Warner Brothers thought they were launching a franchise and could do that in another movie.

We were emerging at the tail end of the»80s, which was the worst period for cinema in American history because the movie - brat generation [meaning Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, William Friedkin, and Martin Scorsese, among others — the bearded, libertine directors who were reared on Hollywood's golden age] for the most part self - destructed in the late»70s, and for a decade, the studios took the movie business back.

Yet the doomed kids at the center of the film, the sweet, sick pyromaniac Agatha (Mia Wasikowska), newly released from a Florida psychiatric hospital, and her Bieber-esque movie - brat bro Benjie (Evan Bird), just out of rehab at 13, are portrayed with tenderness and compassion.

The movie - brat generation established the tradition of directors using short films as calling cards — most famously, George Lucas with Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967), which he expanded into THX 1138 (1971), and Steven Spielberg with Amblin» (1968), which helped win him a deal at Universal's TV division (and later supplied the name to his production company).

The biopic of five boys from Boston, The New Edition Story, dominated the 1st Annual Black Reel Awards for Television BRATs) leading the field with five wins, including Outstanding TV Movie / Limited Series.

Not one of the better entries in the Hughes Brat Pack canon, but the movie does get points for being one of the few Frankenstein spins in which the «monster» is a knockout.

Warner Night at the Movies: «The Mask of Dimitrios» (1944) trailer + Newsreel + «The United States Coast Guard Band» (1944) musical short + 2 1944 wartime cartoons: «Brother Brat» + «Russian Rhapsody» (28:40) / Theatrical trailer

This is a marginally effective movie without the intricate plot lines of a much better one, «Funny Games,» by fellow Austrian Michael Haneke, though watching these brats at work becomes tedious as they are not particular clever or witty or adept at issuing bon mots.

Max Landis, the self - styled brat screenwriter of Chronicle and the underrated American Ultra, makes his feature directing debut with Me Him Her, a movie as scraggly and eager as a teenage cover band fumbling through its first set.

He is easily the fan favourite here and we have a movie where we can easily just lean back and watch Jack Black embody an eighteen year old, self - obsessed brat.

It's a notably dark teen movie, and also created the Brat Pack.

I grew up during the Brat Pack era, watching Emilio in movies like The Breakfast Club, The Outsiders, St Elmo's Fire and Young Guns.

What I thought would be a fresh start turned out to be the stuff of a John Hughes movie minus the Brat Pack and ultimate 80's soundtrack.