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A collection of in - depth interviews with David Lynch, John Sayles, Catherine Breillat, Bernardo Bertolucci and six other acclaimed film directors.

A highlight will be a visit from British Columbia educator and acclaimed film director Kim Hunter, whose documentary «Time to Play,» will have a special screening in late September.

Film critic James Quandt elaborates these issues in an essay on internationally acclaimed film director Jia Zhangke.

Not exact matches

Wes Anderson's «Isle of Dogs» has received near universal acclaim from film critics (the movie currently has a 93 % on Rotten Tomatoes), but even some who have enjoyed the stop - motion film have taken issue with the director's representation of Japanese culture.

Both cinematographer Steven Poster, who is president of the International Cinematographer's Guild, and acclaimed director Werner Herzog have said they regretted their decisions to film with Red cameras.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

The latest example debuts on Saturday, June 11, at 9 pm EST, with the premiere episode of director Ezra Edelman's O.J.: Made in America, a five - part, 7.5 hour documentary series produced by ESPN Films, the sports network's production company that is behind the acclaimed series of 30 for 30 sports documentary films.

This interstellar film from acclaimed director Denis Villaneuve did manage to score quite a few nominations, including one for Best Picture.

The Academy Award - winning director has been faced with controversy in recent years but has been making favorable waves in Hollywood for his critically acclaimed film, Hacksaw Ridge.

The Golden Globe - nominated director of Selma, Ava DuVernay is going to direct a film adaptation of the acclaimed fantasy novel, A Wrinkle in Time.

Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.

Once you brought on director Mark Levinson, who also has a doctorate in particle physics, and acclaimed film editor Walter Murch, who took home Oscars for both Apocalypse Now and The English Patient, was your role in the movie strictly on - screen?

Mathew Chapman is the great, great grandson of Charles Darwin, from whom he inherited his glorious English accent, but much more than that, he is an acclaimed author, Hollywood screenwriter, director and film producer.

Fresh off their pairing in the 2014 The Equalizer, acclaimed American film Director Antoine Fuqua, reteams with Academy Award Winner Denzel Washington; in this 2016 remake.

Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature debut from acclaimed music - video director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in projects ranging from the star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family film Holes.

Danish director Thomas Vinterberg has been on a bit of a losing streak since his acclaimed 1998 film The Celebration, but The Hunt landed on several best - of - 2012 lists a year ago, and this summer's U.S. release found many critics hailing the drama as a return to form.

The legendary Japanese director has created some of the most critically - acclaimed animated films of the last 20 years, including PRINCESS MONONOKE and SPIRITED AWAY (for which he won an Oscar), but I've foolishly avoided his work.

Yates was and is primarily a TV director, having made his name on acclaimed series like State of Play and TV films like The Girl in the Cafe.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

There are no obvious hits in its lineup, though the studio has once again enlisted major or critically acclaimed directors, including Imitation Game helmer Morten Tyldum (for the sci - fi film Passengers), Paul Feig (for a female Ghostbusters reboot), Antoine Fuqua (a Magnificent Seven remake co-written by True Detective's Nic Pizzolatto), Ron Howard (Inferno), and Ang Lee (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk).

Synopsis: Juliette Binoche delivers a luminous performance in the deliciously witty, sensuously romantic new film from acclaimed director Claire Denis (White Material).

Danish director Vinterberg has been on a bit of a losing streak since his acclaimed 1998 film The Celebration, but some critics found this «unsettling» and «devastating» new film a return to form, and it will get a limited U.S. release this May.

Since then, he has directed critically acclaimed, award - winning films including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Silence.

DICK DINMAN SALUTES GARY COOPER»S BLU «THE HANGING TREE»: Producer / host Dick Dinman and Warner Home Video's Senior Vice President of Classic and Theatrical Marketing George Feltenstein celebrate the Warner Archive's lustrously restored Blu - ray release of THE HANGING TREE one of legendary superstar Gary Cooper's most unjustly forgotten masterworks and actress Joan Leslie (who at the tender age of 16 costarred with Cooper in SERGEANT YORK) and acclaimed director Michael Anderson (who directed Cooper's final two films) regale Dick with their praise of Cooper's uniquely invisible acting technique.

Synopsis: In this highly philosophical film by acclaimed director Terrence Malick, young Jack (Hunter McCracken) is one of three brothers growing up as part... [MORE]

Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master might have lost the Golden Lion in Venice (while still winning Best Director and Best Actor (s) awards), but it emerged as the most critically acclaimed film of the fall festival season.

Enough Said is a romantic comedy - drama from Nicole Holofcener, the writer - director of other critically acclaimed films exploring the daily travails of mostly upper middle - class affluent women (and men) in such as Lovely & Amazing and Friends with Money — something that invites comparisons to the works of Woody Allen often.

Bong Joon - ho, director of the critically acclaimed Snowpiercer, releases new images from his upcoming Netflix film Okja.

-- Rex Reed, The New York Observer PHILOMENA The highly acclaimed film from director Stephen Frears On DVD and BLU - RAY ™, Video - On - Demand and Pay - Per - View April 15, 2014 Early Digital Download Window Begins On April 4, 2014 Read our Philomena Blu - ray review.

Acclaimed director Ridley Scott returned once more to the Alien franchise he helped start decades ago with this brutal sci - fi horror film.

Acclaimed as one of the best foreign films of 2011, writer / director Asghar Farhadi's meditation on marital conflict is set in contemporary Iran, where two couples are dragged before a judge to defend themselves and their legal, moral and religious beliefs in a family court.

HollywoodNews.com: «Smash His Camera,» the acclaimed new documentary from Academy Award winning director Leon Gast (When We Were Kings), has just released the official poster for the film.

Acclaimed director Noah Baumbach discusses his writing process, influences, and latest film, «Mistress America.»

A UK poster has arrived online for the upcoming drama Denial along with a featurette which sees director Mick Jackson, stars Rachel Weisz and Timothy Spall, and author of Denial: Holocaust History on Trial, Deborah Lipstadt discussing the film; take a look below... Based on the acclaimed book Denial: Holocaust History on Trial, Denial recounts Deborah E. -LSB-...]

But director Paul Feig, who found critical and box office acclaim with his female driven 2011 comedy «Bridesmaids,» daringly put in the effort to make the first female buddy cop film with «The Heat.»

ABCs of Death 2 features 26 brand new shorts from 26 new directors of acclaimed genre films like Cheap Thrills, Inside, A Lonely Place to Die, American Mary, Big Bad Wolves and many more.

A new trailer has arrived online today for writer - director Olivier Assayas» upcoming horror film Personal Shopper, which stars Kristen Stewart as a psychic looking to make contact with her deceased brother; watch it below after the official synopsis... Olivier Assayas, the internationally - acclaimed director of Clouds of Sils Maria and Summer Hours, returns with this ethereal and mysterious ghost story -LSB-...]

It Comes at Night: Director Trey Edward Schults follows his acclaimed drama «Krisha» with a horror film about an isolated family battling an unnatural force.

Ehrenreich got an agent, and his first film was the lead role in Francis Ford Coppola's 2007 film «Tetro,» the second and most acclaimed of three 2000s personal projects the director shot using money from his winery fortune.

One film on many people's must - watch list is Sicario, the latest offering from acclaimed director Denis Villeneuve, for which the first poster has been unveiled... Here's the official synopsis: In Mexico, -LSB-...]

Sean Rom talks to director Tran Anh Hung about his filmmaking process, adapting Murakami's acclaimed novel Norwegian Wood to screen and presenting sensuality on film.

A few years ago, writer - director Sean Baker made an inexplicably acclaimed Los Angeles indie called Starlet — a film whose mid-film twist couldn't disguise its pedestrian dram - com nature.

Coming off two critically acclaimed films — the family drama «Summer Hours» and the epic terrorist thriller «Carlos» — his next effort marks another gear change for the director who refuses to be pinned down to any one genre or style.

Director Steven Soderbergh has averaged a film a year since his acclaimed 1989 debut Sex, Lies & Videotape, an incredible work rate by modern filmmaking standards especially for one who frequently works within the political vagaries fof the studio system.

In the Fade (also known as Aus dem Nichts in German) is written and directed by acclaimed German - Turkish filmmmaker Fatih Akin, director of the films Head - On, The Edge of Heaven, Soul Kitchen, The Cut, and Goodbye Berlin previously.

«Certified Fresh» by Rotten Tomatoes, the horror anthology film, which brings together an all - star lineup of horror heavyweight directors and actors, premiered to strong critical acclaim at the 2015 Fantasia International Film Festival.

This critically acclaimed film weaves together ten chilling tales from horror's top directors.

A sequel to the multi-Oscar-nominated 1987 film Hope and Glory from John Boorman, one of Britain's most acclaimed directors.

Fellow 2016 Oscar nominee Matthew Heineman — director of the acclaimed documentary Cartel Land — sits down with Deakins to discuss the overlapping themes of their respective films.

Following his acclaimed film Chasing Ice, director Jeff Orlowski sets out to chronicle the environmental devastation happening to the world's coral reefs.