Sentences with phrase «sometimes film directors»

Sometimes film directors come up with an idea when they're a child, and then they make the film when they're an adult.

Not exact matches

This can not be accomplished as well as it is without the help of Refn, as director, because even though the experimental storytelling of this film is distancing, it feels a bit more realized than it did when it was applied to the misguided «Pusher», having a somber thoughtfulness that is sometimes effective in establishing subtle tension, maybe even resonance.

Our ratings and reviews are based on the theatrically - released versions of films; on video there are often Unrated, Special, Director's Cut or Extended versions, (usually accurately labelled but sometimes mislabeled) released that contain additional content, which we did not review.

From 1963's Goldstein onward, Darden worked in films as a character actor and sometimes writer / director.

Like director Michael Bay filming one of his many explosive action scenes, Hollywood loves to unleash its biggest guns (and sometimes subsequent duds) during the summer season.

Known for hard - hitting screenplays for Submarino and The Hunt which he co-wrote with director Thomas Vinterberg, and for the popular Danish TV drama Borgen, Tobias Lindholm's solo directorial debut is perhaps as remarkable in the script department as his previous work, but the film itself — like the ship it depicts — sometimes goes adrift.

Blu - ray Highlight: In addition to an excellent six - part documentary that runs the entire gamut of production — from location shooting in Romania, to Nicolas Cage's (creepy) performance capture of the Ghost Rider, to special effects and more — the Blu - ray also includes a feature similar to Warner Bros.» Maximum Movie Mode where directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor dissect the film (sometimes pausing it to discuss certain scenes in more detail) with the help of behind - the - scenes footage.

In the hands of director Matthew Vaughn, this film packs some of the same sly humor as The Princess Bride, although the tone is not nearly as consistent and sometimes topples into broad humor or satire.

Buscemi (Trees Lounge, Animal Factory) returns to the directors chair for another quirky, lackadaisical comedy - drama in Lonesome Jim, a slow - starting but ultimately rewarding film about the fact that, when all seems down and hopeless, sometimes you can find meaning and happiness in the things you usually take for granted.

The film may sometimes get a little preachy, but writer - turned - director Blumberg...

The director of the film, Rob Epstein, commented in the press conference on the significance of the time period, stating it was a new age of sexual openness, but sometimes there are unintended consequences that can arise from this new openness.

Alongside directors, nations and material cultures, there are also specific themes — sometimes less materialist and more tuned in to the utopian possibilities of the imagination — that can be drawn out from the ever - swirling mass of experiments in filmmaking and creative writing about film.

Which is why even if the director's last films sometimes necessitate an act of masochism to watch, his continued circling of familiar tropes nonetheless keeps them interesting.

That's the premise of «Anything,» writer - director Timothy McNeil's sometimes awkward but at times unexpectedly tender film, based on his play, that gives longtime character actor John Carroll Lynch a starring role.

Well, a tweet from William Friedkin, director of «The Exorcist» (a picture sometimes named as the best ever in the genre), saying «I've never seen a more terrifying film than «The Babadook»» is a pretty good indication.

The news surrounding the film hasn't been very encouraging — with original director Brenda Chapman booted from the project — but it looks stunning (especially Merida's bouncy, curly red hair), and when it comes to Pixar, sometimes you just have to give them the benefit of the doubt.

The creative constraints assigned to the directors — each required to shoot her film as a continuous shot, and given one day apiece for principal photography — sometimes serve Waru's amazing production narrative more than the tales at hand.

His name was omitted from credits because American distributors sometimes banned films credited to blacklisted directors.

In this script, co-written by Akin and director / actor Hark Bohm (a lawyer by education, and best known for roles in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films), the intention is to focus on violence against immigrants, and on the imperfect and capricious quality of justice under law that has sometimes attended crimes of this nature.

Instead of featuring audio commentaries from the filmmakers on each short, the dozen films are preceded (unless you manually select the «Off» option) by brief introductions by the directors, producers, and sometimes other crew members who were involved in their respective creations.

Gemma Creagh had jams with director Laura McGann about her film Revolutions, which introduces the exciting, sometimes brutal, world of women's roller derby.

It comes off, however, like a half - baked comedy, a flatly crafted horror feature, and a dully - paced, sometimes amateurish film that never lives up to the high points of what the writer / director has given us in the past.

I know it goes against everything I preach in this column, but sometimes directors can actually make a serious contribution to a film.

Tin Drum is also boosted by several interviews and featurettes covering director Volker Schlondorff's controversial film, and it's sometimes angry reception by select North American State and provincial censors.

The director, who came from a privileged London background and has made prestigious, classic films like «Les Misérables» and «The King's Speech,» now tackles an issue which has drawn some attention in our own time, and has done such a remarkable job, helped by Oscar - worthy performances from both principal actors, that the sometimes lightly comic but mostly easy - to - take romance should attract a wide audience.

The movie, which is already shooting, will be the director's third film — Kruger also starred in Berthaud's previous effort, Lily Sometimes.

John Francis Daley (born July 20, 1985) is an American television and film actor, singer, and director, sometimes credited as John Daley or John Francis Daly.

This week's film blogs have been reassessing the notorious 1980 thriller Cruising - and its erratic but sometimes brilliant director William Friedkin.

Award - winning writer director Mamoru Hosoda's film feels like a classic tale rather than a modern take, the characters are quite two - dimensional, the moral simple, but it is sweet, engaging sometimes funny and you do care.

Rather than putting style over substance, its style was the substance, director Matthew Vaughn pulling out every trick in the book to poke fun at the stuffy clichés of Bond - era spy films while leaning hard into its R rating to sometimes grotesque results.

The director is so enamored of his world - music bands that «Rachel» sometimes stops in its tracks and threatens to become a concert film.

LMD: I recently interviewed a director who had a famous director act in his film and he loved the experience because he said that director knew what he was going for, and would sometimes even help him.

Among other things, this gritty and sometimes acerbic film from director Guan Hu («Cow») is a crime - genre satire about the fallout of new wealth on narcissistic sons of China's modern capitalists.

As a director, Bong's great skill is soulful social satire, juxtaposing the absurd with surprisingly touching moments that help his films retain a kind of humanism that can sometimes be lacking in satirical works.

While this film does sometimes tip into realms of the naïve and the didactic, feeling more like a public service announcement than a film in its own right, there is no doubting that its heart is in the right place, with director Overton creating a genuine plea for better treatment of hearing impaired children.

However, sometimes a film boasts a strong enough cast and a good enough script to overcome the inadequacies of its director.

But the bigger issue for the filmmaking team — which was led once again by director Francis Lawrence — is that the climactic and sometimes shocking twists of Mockingjay should not have spread out over two films.

Sometimes the best documentaries are unlooked for stories that surprise both the audience and the filmmaker, and this is part of understanding the wonderful experience of watching [email protected] Director Stephen Walker set out to create a BBC tv documentary, perhaps covering some of the ground of previous documentaries about the [email protected] chorus, and yet his film has grown legs and achieved international release as a feature film.

Peter Yates, director of the acclaimed films Bullitt and Breaking Away, has a hard time handling the sometimes jarring mix of zany comedy and deadly serious drama, never really making a real impact in either department enough for the tone to gel.

Densely plotted, if sometimes suffocatingly so, TV director Michael Pearce's feature film debut...

Densely plotted, if sometimes suffocatingly so, TV director Michael Pearce's feature film debut keeps you guessing on matters of culpability right through to the closing exchange.

yeah, sometimes borderline pointless films like this, and Rubber... that movie about a car tire coming to life in the desert, these things make me question sometimes the director's sanity.

All of these familiar elements, and the fact that Kurosawa himself was drawing influence from American western directors like John Ford, make The Hidden Fortress an enjoyable film, but sometimes the movies that influenced a generation of filmmakers lose some of their luster because they've been borrowed from so many times.

Sometimes Dane DeHaan bares a sideways resemblance to James Dean; what's more remarkable about director Anton Corbijn's film is the recreation of the places Dean inhabited as recorded in period photos.

There's no reason to doubt the director's intentions here, however inelegantly he sometimes announces them — his use of Nina Simone's «Strange Fruit» is certainly a bold stroke — but the film's late descent into such deep, abrasive unpleasantness feels entirely unearned after the b - movie schlock that had dominated the earlygoing.

This cutting edge and sometimes controversial director / writer Neil LaBute has stayed true to form with his sometimes cruel and quite realistic new film «Some Velvet Morning.»

The directors, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, whose previous film, Little Miss Sunshine, I adored, here do their best with the occasionally limited script, and sometimes succeed, sometimes don't.

While the movie showcases an impressive colorful, digitally enhanced 1920s New York, it sometimes felt as though director Baz Luhrmann was putting so much focus on the visuals so as to justify the film's unnecessarily monstrous budget.

So much film criticism focuses on directors that we sometimes forget what draws most people to the screen: the prospect of seeing an actor connect with a role and really live it.

What the film lacks in narrative coherence and momentum, rookie director Jerome Reybaud compensates with a layered character study about sexuality and fulfillment, an incisive glimpse into its bucolic setting, and a sometimes playful examination of technology's influence on relationships.