Sentences with phrase «taken as an auteur»

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After all, the 71 - year - old French auteur, whose film Beau Travail remains one of the great works of the last few decades, has taken an especially grim turn as of late, with movies like Bastards, White Material and The Intruder exploring some of the darker sides of contemporary humanity.

I'm a bit taken aback (as ever) by some of the filmmakers who've been shunted into other sections, but at least after all the well - justified complaints that last year's Palme competition was mostly made up of subpar work by established auteurs, they haven't gone that route again (or, at least, not quite so pronouncedly).

as the kind of unpredictable, risk - taking, auteur - driven movie our film landscape desperately needs.

Donald Glover's series took the observational, auteur - driven comedy that FX has nurtured in such shows as «Louie,» «Baskets» and «Better Things» and succeeded, by all accounts, in fulfilling Glover's stated claim — to «show people what it feels like to be black.»

A section of fifteen deleted scenes totalling 22 minutes with optional commentary from Frankel and Livoisi is kind of maddening for Frankel's oft - repeated confession that he's never seen this material — trusting his editor that implicitly only betrays his TV training and makes it difficult to take Frankel seriously as an auteur.

For an auteur who's established herself as the foremost purveyor of the sublimely subdued, it may take a moment to reorient oneself to a sequence in which we're permitted the pleasure of something as ostentatiously romantic as a moonlit horseback ride, albeit one that pivots on a gesture of love that's been lost in translation.

Young auteurs took the western, the detective movie, the sci - fi flick, the gangster film, and even the «inspirational teacher» genre, and turned them into films as smart and subversive as those below.

As for the actors in less central roles, Hank Azaria is, predictably enough, very funny as horribly be-toupeed porn auteur Gerald Damiano, and Chris Noth is chilling, but also strangely sympathetic and as interesting as I've ever seen him, as a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriagAs for the actors in less central roles, Hank Azaria is, predictably enough, very funny as horribly be-toupeed porn auteur Gerald Damiano, and Chris Noth is chilling, but also strangely sympathetic and as interesting as I've ever seen him, as a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriagas horribly be-toupeed porn auteur Gerald Damiano, and Chris Noth is chilling, but also strangely sympathetic and as interesting as I've ever seen him, as a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriagas interesting as I've ever seen him, as a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriagas I've ever seen him, as a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriagas a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriage.

Even then in May, amongst the line - up of melodramas and arthouses from auteurs all around the world, it stood out as an entertaining and commercial thriller, though this is just the first take on live - action from the 39 - year - old South Korean director who packed on his back only several animated movies, most notably The King of Pigs and The Fake.

; MEN AND CHICKEN, Anders Thomas Jensen's dark, twisted and extremely animalistic comedy as black as pitch, but with the sweetest heart, starring Mads Mikkelsen; Fernando León de Aranoa's black comedy A PERFECT DAY, a freewheeling tale centering on two veteran aid workers starring Benico Del Toro and Tim Robbins; the International Premiere of Brendan Cowell's debut RUBEN GUTHRIE about an advertising exec trying to quit the booze, which spikes social observations with dark, wounded humour and the European Premiere of Japanese auteur / icon Takeshi Kitano's latest comedy, RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN, about a group of elderly, retired Yakuza who reteam to take revenge on a younger rival gang.

While box office numbers have repeatedly proven that people won't flock to theaters just to see him, Wilson has done well on three fronts: collaborating with his Texan pal the time - taking auteur Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums); reveling as part of Hollywood's so - called Frat Pack,

Together, they paint a puckish portrait of the auteur, from Bale's discovery that Malick would often shoot him surreptitiously — at last justifying his Method posturing between takes — to Chief Stephen R. Adkins of the Chickahominy Tribe revealing that «Terry» (always «Terry») told him to consider the title ironic after Adkins expressed his displeasure with a 5,000 - year - old civilization being Eurocentrically referred to as «new.»

I'm one of those oddball folks that considers Fantastic Mr. Fox as Wes Anderson's best film, so next year's Isle of Dogs has me very excited for the auteur to take another dive into the stop motion pool.

Until a couple of tired romantic roundelays — Jasmine takes up with a wealthy widow played by Peter Sarsgaard, while Ginger strays with speaker - installation guru Louis C.K. — turn up in the last act, as they do in most of Allen's weaker comedies, this is an uncharacteristically focused work from the auteur.

Twenty talking heads taking turns to discuss the great auteur as inter-titles recount his biography in between sounds a bit boring, but Magnusson and Pallas» work is anything but — if not inventive, the film is well structured and funny, thanks to the charismatic speakers.

As for the «state» of comedy auteurs, producers would do well to take more chances in cultivating new talent.

As I write this Thursday afternoon, we are still waiting to see two strong Palme contenders: The Wild Pear Tree by Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a Cannes favourite who took the top prize in 2014 with Winter Sleep; and Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's Capernaum, titled for a Biblical town where Jesus Christ is said to have performed miracles, which is getting good advance buzz for its story about an unhappy boy launching a lawsuit against the adults who vex him.

The film - obsessed stand - up and TV auteur stars as a successful sitcom producer who finds himself at wit's end when his idol, a Woody Allen-esque movie director (John Malkovich), takes a leering interest in his spoiled 17 - year - old daughter (Chloë Grace Moretz).

As the bleakest, most uncompromising expression of an auteur's vision, the result is pretty much pure, unfiltered Lanthimos — and in the future I think I'll take him impure and filtered, thank you very much.

With the Duplass brothers producing, the series expectedly takes on the mumblecore auteur - siblings» dry, awkward tone and works as a kind of comedy of humiliation, to varying degrees of success.

Walter Hill's relatively recent status as an auteur may have been stymied by his unwillingness to take on sprawling, pretentious, or overstuffed shots or edits; for him, the somewhat anonymous vocabulary of the studio picture was one well enough worth perfecting.

In recent years, as Berlin has receded, Venice has grown into an increasingly bolshy competitor to Cannes, taking a slightly riskier, younger approach to Competition programming while nabbing enough sexy, big - name auteur titles to draw the headlines.

Rodriguez again takes his multifaceted role as director, writer, cinematographer, editor, composer, producer, production designer, and visual effects supervisor, taking the «theory» out of the auteur theory.

«BODY SNATCHERS»: TAKE 2 Treated as just another s - f programmer in 1956, Invasion of the Body Snatchers went on to become a cult and auteur classic.

As video games have begun to grow up and media critics have begun to take gaming more seriously as a potential art form, a similar tacit acceptance of the notion of the auteur has often defined discussions of «important games»As video games have begun to grow up and media critics have begun to take gaming more seriously as a potential art form, a similar tacit acceptance of the notion of the auteur has often defined discussions of «important games»as a potential art form, a similar tacit acceptance of the notion of the auteur has often defined discussions of «important games».