Sentences with phrase «aging film director»

Pedro Almodóvar's next — and 21st — film Dolor y Gloria will center on an aging film director struggling to come to terms with his inability to continue making films.

Brooks portrays Mel Funn, aging film director whose career was ruined through excessive drinking, and who tries — like a farcical Norma Desmond — to stage a comeback by means of a wildly anachronistic script idea.

Not exact matches

Livia Firth is an Italian film producer and is the creative director of Eco Age, a retail concept that offers inspiration and ideas for those wanting to lead a greener and more energy efficient life.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

Gilchrist starred in the Focus Features film IT»S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY, a coming - of - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola Davis.

This becomes the theme of director Lee's film: The idea that Jackson, from an early age, had a sense of himself as both an artist and a commercial force.

«Loosely based on British author and film director Dennis Potter's 1986 novel «Ticket to Ride», Secret Friends follows the life of John (Alan Bates), a middle - aged wildflower illustrator in the throes of an identity crisis.

Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

Having decided at the age of 14 that he wanted to go into film as an art director, he attended the University of Oregon, where he majored in fine arts.

From a young age, Clark Duke has worked on a diverse slate of projects in television, film and new media as a writer, actor, director, and producer.

Much like the kids in this movie who come of age, so too does Robert Kirbyson's skill as a writer - director in his debut film Snowmen.

A remake of the 1974 film of the same name, Death Wish pairs aging action icon Bruce Willis with director Eli Roth (Hostel, The Green Inferno) to bring the classic tale of vigilante justice to modern audiences.

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.

It marked the director's first collaboration with Grégoire Colin, a dark - eyed, arresting young actor whom Denis would also employ to great effect in both Nénette et Boni and Beau Travail.The former film, made in 1996, was another coming - of - age drama that centered on the relationship between a lovelorn young man (Colin) and his rebellious, pregnant 15 - year - old sister (Alice Houri).

Comic actor Bob Saget served as producer and director of this made - for - TV film, inspired by the true story of Saget's sister Gay, who died in 1994 at the age of 47.

The star - studded heist caper «Widows,» from director Steve McQueen and set to begin filming in Chicago this month, is looking to hire two sets of twin infants — one set biracial (unspecified), the other white — who are between the ages of 3 months and 6 months, according to a flyer posted by 4 Star Casting, which specializes in background actors, aka extras.

In other Marvel news, Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon has expressed regret about comments made about the film and his relationship with the studio last year.

Each year, this select group of film enthusiasts, filmmakers, professionals, academics and students of varying ages and backgrounds watches over 250 films and participates in illuminating discussions with directors, actors, producers and screenwriters before announcing their selections for the best work of the year in early December prior to an annual ceremony in January.

The perfect holiday gift for romantic comedy fans of all ages, Home Again on Blu - rayTM, DVD and Digital features a bonus commentary with the director and the producer of the film, taking viewers even deeper into the heartfelt story.

The sixth feature film of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, «L'Avventura» will probably be even more controversial than its French and Swedish predecessors, which have been conveniently misunderstood as problem tracts of old age, childhood, juvenile delinquency, miscegenation, nuclear warfare, or what have you.

For Richard Linklater's epic coming - of - age film, shot in real - time in Texas, Austin casting director Sepko brought in local actors and stayed nimble during an unstructured shoot.

From actress turned writer / director Marielle Heller (A Walk Among Tombstones) comes the latest new - age, post-modern, feminist movement film that doesn't accomplish much more than Aubrey Plaza did with raunchy comedy The To - Do List.

Sony Pictures Classics has unveiled the first trailer for a film titled The Comedian, from Oscar - winning director Taylor Hackford, starring Robert De Niro as an aging stand - up comic.

Director of successful films about Indian retirement hotel says another film not on the horizon, citing age of principal cast as major factor

«Boyhood,» director Richard Linklater's experimental coming - of - age film that was shot over 12 years on a shoestring budget, followed with three nominations for its ensemble cast and for Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.

Outside of its TIFF write - up I knew next to nothing about Raw, French director Julia Ducournau's «coming of age cannibalism» film...

And Director Dustin Hoffman, a age 75, deftly captures these conflicts in his first directorial role since his un-credited debut in the 1978 film Straight Time.

Both a film about filmmaking and a shrewdly understated character study, Italian writer / director Nanni Morettis Mia Madre focusses on middle - aged director Margherita (Margherita Buy), whose mother (Giulia Lazzarini) lies terminally ill in a Rome hospital.

The theme of «Moonlight,» writer - director Barry Jenkins» melancholy meditation on one young man's coming - of - age, is summed up in an early scene in the film.

Before SXSW kicked off, I spoke with writer / director Noah Baumbach, who shared writing credits with his wife Jennifer Jason Leigh for his latest film, GREENBERG; a coming of age story about a guy (Ben Stiller) who's way too old to be coming of age.

STEVE NORWOOD Programming Director A poet, writer and film reviewer, Steve has been consuming cinema in its many forms for decades, from impressionable - aged childhood viewings of LATITUDE ZERO, ROLLERBALL and THE MAD ADVENTURES OF RABBI JACOB, to a modest adult obsession with all things Johnnie To, Paul Thomas Anderson and Nicolas Winding Refn.

Steve Carrell is a sweet, shy middle - aged geek and the last American virgin in The 40 - Year - Old Virgin (2005), the feature debut of director Judd Apatow (who wrote the film with Carrell), an oddly sweet mix of romantic comedy and adolescent shenanigans, albeit with a slightly older cast.

Writer / director Howard Weiner (a Neurologist and Harvard professor — thanks Google) delivers his first narrative feature film as a statement on old age, pride and dying.

Then there was the fact that director Alex Proyas was also responsible for Dark City, one of my favourite films at that age.

IGN got their hands on this official red band movie trailer for the upcoming film «Goon» by director Michael Dowse (Take Me Home Tonight, Fubar) and starring Seann William Scott (American Reunion, Ice Age: Continental Drift), Jay Baruchel (Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse), Alison Pill and Liev Schreiber (Repo Men, Salt) and written by Jay Baruchel, Evan Goldberg.

Author, editor and film critic Jess Lomas joins the show to talk the films of January 2015, and look back over the legendary and varied films of versatile Hollywood Golden Age director Vincente Minnelli.

The films in Next, the festival section devoted to innovation in storytelling, are writer - director Michael Tully's «Ping Pong Summer,» a coming - of - age comedy that was the recipient of a $ 70,000 SFFS / KRF postproduction grant, and writer - director Gillian Robespierre's romantic comedy «Obvious Child,» the subject of a January 2013 SFFS «Off the Page» screen - writing workshop.

At a press conference held prior to the screening of his new film Men, Women & Children, director Jason Reitman dispelled the notion that the film was about anything other than human connection in the digital age.

More consciously seeking to recreate an old Hollywood vibe is the latest from Peter Bogdanovich, the refugee from the first golden age of cinephile directors who has found film work increasingly hard to find in recent years (this is his first theatrical fiction feature since 2001's The Cat's Meow).

Harry Dean Stanton, a prolific character actor who brought a soulful, hangdog presence to such varied films as «Alien,» «Paris, Texas,» «Repo Man» and «Pretty in Pink,» becoming a favorite of film fans and directors alike, died on Friday at age 91.

TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION is the fourth film in director Michael Bay's global blockbuster franchise.

She came of age in New York indie film, interning first at Killer Films with Christine Vachon, and going on to screen her work at festivals such as New Directors / New Films MoMA / Lincoln Center.

Joshua Trank's Fantastic Four seems to be taking a different path in promotion that other superhero movies of the age, but now the director is opening up about the August 7 film.

The occasion was the New York Film Festival screening of Sony Pictures Classics» Call Me by Your Name, the film adaptation, by Italian director Luca Guadagnino, of André Aciman's coming - of - age novel.

Boyhood: Filmed a little bit at a time over 12 years, director Richard Linklater's epic portray of one boy's coming of age made a whole generation of male film critics weep with self - recognition.

«At the age of 17 I was chosen,» recalled Anne Wiazemsky of the moment in April 1965 when the film director Robert Bresson cast her in Au Hasard Balthazar.

Michael Bay is again directing Transformers 4, or Transformers: Age of Extinction, from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, as his last film in the blockbuster series before handing the franchise off to another director.

That rather sad fact, which is not uncommon, is one of the reasons that Johnson and Koch are proud that a festival run primarily by women regularly includes films with women directors — seven this year, including «Toni Erdmann» — along with features that focus on female characters such as «Jackie,» Kelly Reinhardt's «Certain Women» and Kelly Fremon Craig's coming - of - age comedy «The Edge of Seventeen.»

Isao Takahata, co-founder of Studio Ghibli and director of such animated films as Grave of the Fireflies, passed away today in a Tokyo hospital at the age of 82, according to various Japanese news sources.

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.