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The doucmentary charts his rise in the art world, as well as his transition into filmmaking as director of such acclaimed films as Basquiat, Before the Night Falls, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

The artist known for his large scale broken ceramic «plate paintings» and perhaps equally so for directing such highly acclaimed films as Before Night Falls, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and Basquiat (about painter Jean - Michel Basquiat).

Now known as much for his critically acclaimed films as for his art, this exhibition is both a re-evaluation and a celebration of Julian Schnabel the painter — his primary occupation.

In particular, Rockwell usually chooses interesting projects, and in recent years has starred in such critically acclaimed films as Seven Psychopaths, The Way Way Back, Laggies and Moon.

By this point in his career, the name William Friedkin no longer held the interest it once had after directing such popular and critically acclaimed films as The French Connection and The Exorcist in the 1970s.

Ever since the premiere of The Puffy Chair at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, Mark and Jay Duplass have been one of the most prominent filmmaking team on the independent circuit, turning out such acclaimed films as Baghead, Cyrus, and Jeff Who Lives At Home.

Film4 has previously relied on advertising revenue to pay for its film projects, including, in the past few years, such acclaimed films as The Last King of Scotland, Venus, This Is England and Hunger.

Producers Jon Avnet («Black Swan») and Garcia («Albert Nobbs») have won Oscar, Emmy and Tony Awards for their work, while Cohen has produced such acclaimed films as «Silver Linings Playbook,» «Milk» and «American Beauty.»

Swayze, veteran of such critically acclaimed films as Black Dog, Steel Dawn and the inimitable Road House, will bring to bear his acting prowess and take up the role of Garth, a noble knight and betrothed of the fair maiden.

One of the most talented — and often underappreciated — character actresses of the late 1990s, Allison Janney first began courting critical attention with roles in such acclaimed films as Big Night (1996) and American Beauty (1998).

Though Eldard had been appearing in film and television since the late»80s, it was the dawn of the new millennium that found Eldard's career reborn with roles in such acclaimed films as Barry Levinson's Sleepers (1996), Mystery, Alaska (1999), and Black Hawk Down (2001).

Not exact matches

Hoffman had a long and critically acclaimed career as an actor, appearing in films such as «Boogie Nights» (1997), «The Talented Mr. Ripley» (1999), and «The Master» (2012).

In 2016, critics cited the Oscars» snub of Netflix's critically acclaimed drama «Beasts of No Nation» as evidence that the industry was «turned off» by Netflix's business model, which debuts films on the streaming service simultaneously with theatrical releases.

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.

Whether or not the critical acclaim already experienced by O.J.: Made in America means that television viewers can expect more long - form, multi-part films from ESPN remains to be seen, as Schell said the longer format is difficult to sustain without the right subject matter.

Combining with Disney are 21st Century Fox's critically acclaimed film production businesses, including Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox 2000, which together offer diverse and compelling storytelling businesses and are the homes of Avatar, X-Men, Fantastic Four and Deadpool, as well as The Grand Budapest Hotel, Hidden Figures, Gone Girl, The Shape of Water and The Martian — and its storied television creative units, Twentieth Century Fox Television, FX Productions and Fox21, which have brought The Americans, This Is Us, Modern Family, The Simpsons and so many more hit TV series to viewers across the globe.

She has served as executive producer of four documentary films, including Kicking It, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival; A Powerful Noise, which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival; She Is the Matador; and The Other City, a critically acclaimed portrayal of the HIV / AIDS crisis in Washington, DC, which premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.

Martin Scorese's film adaptation of the acclaimed book tells the story of persecution, martyrdom and faith involving two Jesuit priests who serve as missionaries to Japan in the 1600s.

Still, the findings are an unfortunate reality and according to the report the odds are even worse for women as, «only 22.3 percent of senior characters in these acclaimed films were female.»

As if we needed another reason to love Benedict Cumberbatch, the acclaimed actor casually popped into a New York comic book store dressed as Dr. Strange while taking a break from filminAs if we needed another reason to love Benedict Cumberbatch, the acclaimed actor casually popped into a New York comic book store dressed as Dr. Strange while taking a break from filminas Dr. Strange while taking a break from filming.

We Indians love our turmeric and use it as a multi-purpose weapon, just like Gus Portokalos uses Windex for everything in the critically acclaimed film My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

«Tick Tock» was hailed by acclaimed critic Paul Pritchard, Pulpmovies.com, as «one of the most memorable independent films of 2010».

TakePart is the digital news and lifestyle magazine from Participant Media, the company behind such acclaimed documentaries as CITIZENFOUR, An Inconvenient Truth and Food, Inc. and feature films including Lincoln and Spotlight.

The book revisits the stepwise journey through nature's scales that has long served as a hook in scientific exposition — it was notably employed in Robert Hooke's 1665 best - seller Micrographia and in the acclaimed 1977 short film Powers of Ten.

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.

While star Johnny Depp's singing earned mixed reviews — and the movie dropped or shortened some of Sondheim's songs — the film as a whole received plenty of critical acclaim as well as a Golden Globe for best picture (with Depp himself earning an Oscar nomination for his performance).

Following his acclaimed role in American Beauty, Bentley appeared in The White River Kid, in which he played the film's titular murderer.In the wake of American Beauty, Bentley starred in Michael Winterbottom's The Claim, as well as yet another version of the classic adventure tale The Four Feathers.

She appeared in a number of series, including the popular crime drama Cracker and such costume extravaganzas as Jane Eyre and Emma.Morton became known to an international film audience in 1997, when she won wide acclaim for her wrenching, fearless portrayal of a young woman driven to promiscuous behavior by the death of her mother in Carine Adler's Under the Skin.

With star Matt Damon unwilling to return for a fourth film in the lucrative (and critically acclaimed) Bourne series, the franchise was reborn (though not re-Bourned) with Jeremy Renner stepping in as the lead, playing Aaron Cross, an operative spawned from the same system as Jason Bourne.

This moody, elegiac film has universally been acclaimed as a cinematographic masterpiece, from the talents of Cuban - born European Nestor Almendros (and «additional photography» by Haskell Wexler), with naturally - lit, sweeping, 70 mm images of crystal clarity and scope, and artfully composed scenes reminiscent of Andrew Wyeth paintings.

Could Hanks, who remarkably hasn't been nominated since 2000's Cast Away (a race he ludicrously lost to Gladiator's Russell Crowe), end his drought as he couldn't with acclaimed performances in esteemed films like Captain Phillips and Sully?

Acclaimed filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Kill List, High Rise) propels the audience head - on into quite possibly the most epic shootout ever seen on film as he crafts a spectacular parody — and biting critique — of the insanity of gun violence.

It has an intoxicating quality of emotional wonder it shares with the acclaimed (but not yet released) Sundance hit «Call Me by Your Name,» as well as a talky intimacy that recalls Richard Linklater's «Before» films.

Wilson lent her voice as the wife of Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) in the critically acclaimed film, LOCKE.

Jackson was seen as part of the ensemble cast of the critically acclaimed film BOBBY, directed by Emilio Estevez, and starred in the psychological thriller SHUTTER for 20th Century Fox / New Regency, which was shot on location in Tokyo.

For this last film, Posey garnered particular acclaim as the film's fabulously demented focal point.

«The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas» stuck in my head as I watched Marvel's Black Panther, the superhero super-studio's latest film, which premiered to monster box office and wild critical acclaim.

A lovely and gifted actress, Michael Michele has won acclaim for her portrayals of strong and capable women on television as well as in feature films.

But will it be as critically acclaimed as 2012 «s The Avengers (possibly) or the the Marvel film with the highest Metascore, Iron Man (probably not)?

Bette Davis as the acclaimed theatre star, Margo Channing, who is befriended by the film's protagonist Eve Harrington, a simple devoted fan of Channing, played by Anne Baxter.

Both Soderbergh and Shyamalan would continue to feature her such films as Ocean's Twelve and The Village, as Jones continued to rack up acclaim for her stage work, including a Best Actress Tony in 2005 for John Patrick Shanley's Doubt.

With spouse Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward comprised one of the most successful husband - and - wife tandems in Hollywood history; not only among the most acclaimed film actresses of her era, she was also highly visible as a television and theatrical performer, as well as a prominent social activist.

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One of the most talented, influential, and iconoclastic filmmakers of all time, Brian De Palma's career started in the 60s and has included such acclaimed and diverse films as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito's Way, and Mission: Impossible.

An ATF agent in the former and Jennifer Lopez's morally questionable boyfriend in the latter, he turned in solid performances as part of a strong ensemble cast in both critically acclaimed films.

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.

It was for his portrayal of an embittered DJ in another of Egoyan's films, Exotica (1994), that Koteas garnered his second Genie nomination; following this critical success, he began to appear in an increasing number of high profile productions.Koteas was subsequently featured to great effect as the creepy Vaughan in David Cronenberg's controversial Crash (1996), and he invested his brief but pivotal role as Holly Hunter's mystery man in the acclaimed Living out Loud (1998) with memorable charisma.

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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.