Sentences with phrase «action auteur»

I daresay Pain & Gain is the most interesting movie the action auteur has ever made; the film is both seriously silly and surprisingly smart in how it presents its stupid characters Read the rest of this entry»

Were Fincher an action auteur, Cameron would have his heir.

What's the Fuss: Warner Bros. presents the new film by The Dark Knight's Christopher Nolan, this one taking on a sci - fi psychological spin for the serious - minded action auteur, with Leonardo DiCaprio spearheading the cast.

Though I don't have much more than a nodding acquaintance with either action auteur, it seems that Chan in Rumble in the Bronx has succeeded at making a personal project in the Hong Kong manner in a putatively American setting, while Woo in Broken Arrow has made a slam - bang Hollywood picture in which personal touches are visible, if mainly applied with an eyedropper.

Hot on the heels of their blockbuster collaboration Unbeatable, Hong Kong action auteur Dante Lam and Taiwanese superstar Eddie Peng reunite for the globe - trotting cycling drama To The Fore.

Because that's what Hong Kong action auteur Dante Lam is serving up in the first trailer for his Nick Cheung and Eddie Peng starring...

Prolific Hong Kong action auteur Johnnie To performs a border crossing with Drug War, his first cops - and - criminals film shot and set in mainland China, and in some ways the filmmaker is stretching his legs with all that extra space at his disposal.

Tough, taut direction by action auteur Walter Hill makes this a much better sequel than its reputation.

Not exact matches

Another Korean auteur tackled the Japanese colonial period this year, but in this case in a straightforward and direct manner: Kim Jee - woon's resistance action - drama Mil - jeong (The Age of Shadows), a clear Jean - Pierre Melville homage, particularly to the sublime L'armée des ombres (Army of Shadows, 1969).

Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong Cinema's most prestigious auteur, finally delivers his long - gestating biopic of Wing Chun pioneer Ip Man, and it proves an action - packed visual feast.

This film has several risks riding on it — you have horror auteur James Wan trying his hand in the action realm, finally getting the franchise's film's timeline to its present, and of course most of all this film had to figure out how to move on after the tragic death of Paul Walker.

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.

With production wrapped on his adaptation of JG Ballard's High Rise the prolific UK auteur will be moving next into the action arena with Free Fire.An original script revolving around a 1978 arms deal gone...

Anonymous, the new film by action - apocalypse auteur Roland Emmerich, opens with an aerial shot of Times Square.

Leo Tolstoy's tale of ball gowns, steam engines and lives ruined by affairs has been injected with a burst of visual flair by the Atonement auteur, staging much of the action within a 19th Century Russian theatre, where characters move from scene to scene as if in an epic, shifting play.

What Edgar Wright doesn't appear to be is the type of Sidney Lumet / Walter Hill, gritty 1970s action - film auteur he'd probably like to be.

That is an auteur in action, and his concerns are very focused.

It's art cinema instilled with a child's sense of wonder — which is also true of of the quirky auteur's live - action films, from Rushmore to The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Rather than go full auteur on his formulaic material, McQuarrie instead offers a kind of greatest hits package: Rogue Nation marries the shifting loyalties of Brian De Palma's original to the kinetic action beats of John Woo's series nadir and the all - set - piece structure of Brad Bird's series zenith, adding an omnipotent villain not far removed from the one Philip Seymour Hoffman played in J.J. Abrams» entry.

Like Marc Lawrence and Laraine Day in the shoplifting drama «Think First» (1939), where nice girls lured into a ring of thieves suffer dearly for their mistakes, or Dwight Frye (Renfield in «Dracula») as an arsonist killed by his own firebug actions in «Think It Over» (1938), the latter an early film by future auteur Jacques Tourneur.

As usual, the Masters programme is cholk - full of carryover items from world renowned auteurs who've already premiered last February (Berlin), this past May (Cannes) or as part of the upcoming action on the Lido (Venice).

While he may be a joke among some in the industry, action movie auteur Izu Ojukwu cites Ejiro as a model for success but has greater ambitions for himself: he embarks on the most expensive and ambitious film in Nigerian film history in the course of this profile, a project so big that it almost ruins him.

This is happening, for one reason or another, a lot lately; for example, the film Tomorrowland, the newest live - action effort from Pixar auteur Brad Bird, has moved from December of 2014 to May of 2015, mostly to accommodate Disney's other holiday releases.

Legendary action movie auteur Walter Hill (The Driver; The Warriors; 48 Hours) delivers the ultra-violent pulpish pleasures in his female assassin shoot -»em - up, The Assignment (aka Tomboy), starring Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver.

Robert Rodriguez, multi-talented action / adventure movie auteur is announcing his latest collaboration: Project Green Screen.

We had a chance to speak with Takaki - san about the upcoming PC port of VALKYRIE DRIVE - Bhikkhuni -, launch prices, and who the auteur would cast in a live - action adaptation.

Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear series and one of the few developers for whom the «auteur» label has stuck, was not at the Game Awards last night to receive the Best Score / Soundtrack and Best Action / Adventure Game awards won by Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.