Sentences with phrase «art director of a film»

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When I made it for a large group of chefs, foodies, nutritionists, dietitians, a marketing maven, art director and budding film school student, everyone wanted to know about the recipe and the nutritionist and the dietitian were torn between who was going to get to take the leftovers home.

Celebrated film maker and Director of Creative Arts, Programmes and Projects at the National Commission on Culture, Mr. Socrate Safo has stated that there is no Juju when it comes to movies.

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

Name: Jennifer Graham Location: New York City Current Title / Company: Director of Field Marketing, 20th Century Fox Filmed Entertainment Educational Background: Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and Humanities, Providence College

One of the stranger ironies to be found in Hollywood these days is that some of its most resourceful directors use high - tech wizardry and state - of - the - art movie technology to make films that rail against the tyranny of science.

To forestall such questions, and distract us from the film's core emptiness, director Paul McGuigan (Gangster No. 1, Wicker Park) and his crew very nearly art - direct everything into the dirt: The wallpaper in ordinary apartment buildings is a catalogue of optical illusions, and one fleeting overhead shot of a parking lot features an array of vehicles so expertly color - coordinated they could be photoshopped into a Kelly - Moore spread.

The unanimously - praised film with a modest budget of $ 23 million deservedly won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (the first for Spielberg), Best Cinematography (Janusz Kaminski), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score (John Williams), Best Editing (Michael Kahn), and Best Art Direction.

A university professor teaches a class on muses in art and literature as a means of romancing his female students in this breathtaking new film from Jose Luis Guerín, director of the widely heralded In the City of Sylvia.

Director Abel Ferrara applies his eccentric vision to the vampire genre with this cerebral «Art» film about graduate philosophy student Kathleen Conklin (Lili Taylor), who is bitten by an aggressive female vampire (Annabella Sciorra) and soon spirals into a nightmarish world of blood addiction and existential angst.

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 Czarist Russia's Moscow Art Theatre to Hollywood's biggest film, narrator Gregory Peck joins an A-list of Hollywood stars to take us through the odyssey of two Russian born Hollywood legends: The great acting teacher Michael Chekhov and the amazing director George Shdanoff.

Announcing that the 1996 - 1997 season of Roseanne would be his last, Goodman limited himself to infrequent appearances on the series, his absences explained away as a by - product of a heart attack suffered by his character at the end of the previous season.After making his 10th appearance on Saturday Night Live (2000), Goodman could be seen playing a red - faced bible salesman in director Joel Coen's award winning O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000), and participated in Garry Shandling's film debut What Planet Are You From?

Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in every one of the director's movies.Originally trained at a technical school, Hitchcock gravitated to movies through art courses and advertising, and by the mid -»20s he was making his first films.

An energetic and curiously faithful remake of the 1984 film of the same name starring Kevin Bacon, writer - director Craig Brewer's Footloose is a virtual cinematic poison pill to anyone irrevocably divorced from any trace memories of adolescent feeling, and further proof that in life but especially art feeling is stronger than thought.

Review after review has pointed out the faults of Twister director Jan De Bonts» latest film — not that it doesn't have some — but you can actually enjoy this movie if you make peace with yourself about the fact that it ain't trying to be art.

Poor Jannie... I do nt know if the David Self script simply blew or the horror - terror - scare beats were simply missed by inferior directing, but this flat film really only has a audience comprised of architecture students, and art directors.

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Although she had appeared in several films earlier, Cheng's first starring role in a martial arts film came, like Hsu Feng's, courtesy of director King Hu during his short - lived stint with the studio.

Said Focus World touting the feature:» Focus World acquired writer / director Julia Ducournau's Raw out of Cannes where we fell in love with her bold and original voice and the genre - bending style; Raw is a film that both hard - core genre fans and art - house audiences will absolutely love.»

«Memoirs of a Geisha,» however, found the director cramped by conflicting aspirations of art - film stateliness and the old - Hollywood pizzazz of his previous effort — if not the catastrophe that many critics enjoyed declaring it, it was nonetheless a misfire that awkwardly showed up his limitations as a storyteller.

Recognition for Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction went to «The Last Family,» a particular favorite of the jury and one that had them specifically staying for the Q&A to see from director Jan P. Matuszyński how he pulled off making the film.

One of the most prolific film artists in Hollywood history, the German - born art director Hans Dreier worked on more than five hundred films from 1919 to 1951, amassing twenty - three Academy Award nominations and three Oscars.

And, near - miraculously, director Terry Zwigoff's film versions of Clowes» graphic novels «Ghost World» (2001, featuring Thora Birch and a pre-stardom Scarlett Johansson) and «Art School Confidential» (2006) stayed true to the tone, rhythm and sneaky pathos of the Clowes books.

The Art Directors Guild (ADG) tonight announced winners of its 18th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, Presented by Kohler Co., in ten categories of film, television, commercials and music videos during the black - tie ceremony in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Nora Ephron Actors: Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci Plot: The film follows Powell, a government employee who decides to cook her way through legendary cook Julia Child's classic cookbook, «Mastering the Art of French Cooking» in one year's time out of her small Queens kitchen.

As a special TIFF edition of The Seventh Art Live Directors Series, we screened Don McKellar «s classic Toronto film, Last Night, in honour of its 15th anniversary.

Mercedes Cooper ARRAY Mercedes Cooper is the Director of Marketing at ARRAY, an LA - based arts collective dedicated to the amplification of films by people of color and women founded in 2010 by filmmaker Ava DuVernay.

The Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) tonight announced winners of its 19th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, in eleven categories of film, television, commercials and music videos during a black - tie ceremony at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Two films — Pater, by the 79 - year - old French renaissance man Alain Cavalier, and This Is Not a Film, by banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb — seemed born from the immortal dictum (usually ascribed to Orson Welles) that «the enemy of art is the absence of limitations.»

A standout in this mini-doc is art director Tiago Marques Teixeira, who contributes greatly to the look of the film and establishes unique palettes for the core trio.

She also worked at Arts Engine in NYC as a documentary film producer and Director of the Media That Matters Film Festival.

I was thrilled that the trophy for Director, Motion Picture went to the maker of a different film, Guillermo Del Toro, for one of my favorites of 2017, the highly imaginative art house horror The Shape of Water.

Suddenly it makes more sense to campaign to Academy niches — women, old people, populists, Europeans, directors, actors, art - film lovers, traditionalists, whatever — instead of just selling the idea that your movie is «an Academy movie,» whatever that means.

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

A cringe-fest of microaggressions and eerie entrances, the film also boasts a very funny supporting performance from Thou Wast Mild and Lovely director Josephine Decker as a blithely condescending, self - styled patron of the arts who only opens her mouth to switch feet.

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Though he once described his screenplays as more craft than art, Stoppard's literate film adaptations of various works by major authors have matched him with some of the most esteemed directors in international cinema, beginning with Joseph Losey's The Romantic Englishwoman in 1975.

Austrian director Johannes Holzhausen's film is a fond, and at the same time scathing documentary about the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Fine Arts) in Vienna.

It garnered seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Walter Huston, recreating his earlier stage role, who should have won the Oscar with his sensitive portrayal against winner Paul Muni for The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)-RRB-, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Maria Ouspenskaya, reprising her role from the earlier stage production, and in her film debut), and Best Sound Recording, and won only one Oscar for Best Art Direction - Interior Decoration.

Pieces from several Marvel Studios releases, as well as director Taika Waititi's film, are on display at Marvel's Art Exhibit over at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia.

In 1969, director Alexander Mackendrick retired from the film industry and became founding dean of the film school at the newly established California Institute of the Arts.

The behind - the - scenes team includes multiple Oscar ® - nominated director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki («Children of Men,» «The New World»); production designer Andy Nicholson (art director «Alice in Wonderland»); editors Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (VFX editor «Children of Men»); and costume designer Jany Temime (the «Harry Potter» films).

Bringing in their superb knowledge of martial arts films, they helped director James McTeigue, (V for Vendetta) again create a film that pushes the boundaries.

The co - writer / director, who also made «Drive» and «Only God Forgives,» and the star sat down with us this week in Chicago to talk about the divisive response to the film, the purpose of art, and even «Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.»

An enduring champion of the motion picture arts, Audi nurtures new and established voices through its support of AFI FEST and beyond, including the Audi Fellowship for Women at the AFI Conservatory, a new full - tuition scholarship investing in the future of female directors in film and television.

Preston Sturges, in his 1941 classic Sullivan's Travels, sends a director of popular movies on the road in search of «real life» for future art films, only to have real life teach him the true value of popular movies.

Swedish director Ruben Östlund's «The Square,» a many - barbed satire of the art world, was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film.

Her short film Our Rhineland has garnered broad acclaim, including a Director's guild of America Student Film Award and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences College Television Award.

Also new on DVD: M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (Paramount), an adaptation of the animated TV series and one of the most critically reviled films of the year, the feature film version of Beverly Cleary's Ramona And Beezus (Fox), Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Warner), Marina de Van's Don't Look Back (IFC) with Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci, The Lightkeepers (Image) with Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner, Lau Kar - Leung's classic martial arts movie Shaolin Mantis (Vivendi) and the newly remastered The Endless Summer: Director's Special Edition (Monterey).

Three reasons explain why Tokyo Story is generally regarded as Ozu's finest work are: it's by far the film of his that's been most widely seen in the West; its first distribution in the U.S. coincided with the landmark publication in 1972 of Paul Schrader's Transcendental Style in Film, which considered Ozu alongside other such luminaries as Carl Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson as an exemplar of spiritual filmmaking; and it's seen as the most complete summation of its director's art.