Sentences with phrase «arthouse directors»

When arthouse directors of world movies cross over to English language it's virtually impossible to predict whether they will retain their singularity of vision.

Invited to Suwon for a screening of one of his films, arthouse director Ham Cheon - soo (Jeong Jae - yeong) finds himself spending the day hanging out with aspiring painter Hee - jeong (Kim Min - hee), leading to a checklist of Hong - isms: comically awkward conversations over food, followed by even more awkward scenes of people apologizing; strangely contentious interactions with new acquaintances; jumbled chronology; characters standing around in the cold for much longer than they should.

So much so, she takes a sneaky photo and sends it off to her friend, renowned Polish arthouse director Pawel Pawlikowski, who is in the process of casting for his next film «Ida.»

The Robert Pattinson arthouse director trophy case continues to grow as he notches a film with French icon Claire Denis.

Not exact matches

James Joyce gave us Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man; The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius here looks at arthouse hero Jean - Luc Godard and gives us «Portrait Of The Artist As An Insufferable Nightmare».

By the time director Alfonso Cuarón's Y Tu Mamá También took stateside arthouse theaters by storm in the early months of 2002, actor Diego Luna had been a fixture of Mexican film and television for nearly a decade.

Boasting breakout talent both in front of and behind the camera (tyro director Sophie Hyde picked up a helming prize at Sundance), this accessible and mildly provocative drama could do sturdy arthouse business in the U.S. and other English - speaking territories.

After a string of award - winning arthouse hits like Kill List and A Field in England, director Ben Wheatley and writer Amy Jump stumble with this adaptation of the 1970s J.G. Ballard novel.

The director: Lynne Ramsay (United Kingdom) The talent: Reigning arthouse - crossover queen Tilda Swinton leads the cast of Scottish director Ramsay's third feature; filling the other two key roles are John C. Reilly, shifting gears from his recent run of comedy roles, and 18 year - old Ezra Miller, an effectively gangly presence in «Afterschool» and «City Island.»

Eschewing, for the most part, more rarefied arthouse, though including «one to two films» a year which were «innovative or had new ways of showing things on the screen,» Waintrop, turned Directors» Fortnight into a major attraction at the Cannes Festival.

The director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey) The talent: By this point in his career, auteur - photographer Ceylan is a self - standing arthouse brand — which is just as well, since the other names involved are unlikely to ring many bells with non-Turkish viewers.

It's a no - winners landscape in the hands of director Yorgos Lanthimos (sharing screenwriting credit with Efthimis Filippou), whose earlier arthouse offerings, like «Alps» and the Academy Award - nominated «Dogtooth,» dove deeply into similar pools of human sadness.

Isabel Coixet) Cast: Sophie Turner, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Claire Forlani, Rhys Ifans, Geraldine Chaplin A director that's hard to pin down, Isabel Coixet has moved from Hollywood arthouse movies to European film and back again with ease, and in 2009 she hit Cannes with «Map of the Sounds of Tokyo» which didn't make a big splash.

«Director Marc Forster — heavily - criticized on Quantum of Solace because people saw him as an arthouse filmmaker trying in vain to make an action movie — continues his arthouse credentials here.»

Both director and actor were clear on their intentions from the start, and this alignment produced a movie that holds up as one of the best arthouse films of the last 20 years, with a nearly unmatched quiet kind of intensity.

House of Flying Daggers Year: 2004 Director: Zhang Yimou Country: China Language: Mandarin Zhang Yimou enjoys a certain notoriety in arthouse circles for ravishing dramas like Raise the Red Lantern and To Live, but he burst into the mainstream with Hero, the long - delayed and eagerly awaited martial - arts spectacular.

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.

Inspired by arthouse films of the 1960s, writer - director Lee Eubanks creates a menacing world of dread, isolation, and unease in his feature film debut.

Founded in 2005, Memento Films International is a select arthouse international sales agent focused on tracking and accompanying high - profile, director - driven independent films.

Proving that even the most common means of cinematic pulp could be used to transcendent ends, the director's efforts found popular praise, garnering him both Oscar and Golden Globe nominations (among many), and paving the way for his riskier arthouse fare.

There is no greater arthouse bromance right now than the one between director Steve McQueen and actor Michael Fassbender.

It took Fellini's 8 1/2 to show some of us arthouse viewers that a director could make a movie about making his movie.

When he's not making «arthouse» cinema or experimenting with his medium, director Gus Vant Sant is very capable of delivering well structured dramatic pieces.

It has a long tradition of championing esoteric arthouse films by directors such as Lars von Trier and Pedro Almovodar, but also happily allows Hollywood to use the festival as a promotional vehicle for some of its most vacuous summer blockbusters.

Two years after The Guard, the most commercially successful Irish film of all time, writer - director John Michael McDonagh and actor Brendan Gleeson return with considerably darker arthouse fare.

-- Brooklyn - based arthouse distributors KimStim and Icarus Films have teamed up again to acquire all USA rights to Mouly Surya's Cannes Director's Fortnight feature, «Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts,» which will have its North American premiere at TIFF on September 12.

For arthouse absurdity, I was more tickled by The Brand New Testament (Metrodome, 15), Belgian director Jaco van Dormael's antic scriptural satire, in which God turns out to be most emphatically alive — as a schlubby, unhappily married loser in Brussels, sadistically determining our individual fates via a clunky computer monitor.

The London Film Critics Circle Awards were held last night across the Atlantic as something of a calmer arthouse alternative to the multiplex - lusting Critics Choice Awards here in the States, though they did share one winner: George Miller took Best Director for Mad Max Fury Road.

If your cinematic interests include the private lives of royalty, casts stuffed with arthouse - friendly talent, or movies about speech impediments, you'll want to make sure you don't miss «The King's Speech,» director Tom Hooper's take on the struggles of the future King George VI (Colin Firth) to overcome his stutter with the help of a speech therapist (Geoffrey Rush).

Another festival highlight hailing from Asia comes courtesy of Chinese director Gan Bi, whose sophomore feature LONG DAY»S JOURNEY INTO THE NIGHT wowed the house at its premiere in the Un Certain Regard section and could well become the arthouse sensation of the year.

It's not exactly an obvious source for a PG - 13 tentpole, nor is such a thing what you'd expect from arthouse - seasoned director Marc Forster (Finding Neverland and Monster's Ball, but more recently Quantum of Solace) and producers like Pitt and the decorated Graham King (Argo, Hugo, The Departed).

Ben and Chris Blaine, writer - directors of acclaimed indie «horror» movie Nina Forever, will introduce a special pre-DVD release big screen screening of the film at London's ArtHouse Cinema, at 10.45 pm on Friday, February 12.

For Maitland McDonagh, the director's attempt to fuse genre cinema concerns with arthouse sensibilities very much reflects the culturally specific background from which Dario Argento has emerged.

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Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo returns following the arthouse success of White God (2014) with this indulgent thriller that overuses the visual spectacle of Aryan floating upwards while the camera frame oscillates dramatically.

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Louis Grachos has been named executive director of the Austin Museum of Art - Arthouse, and will take on his More...

A+C visual arts editor Devon Britt - Darby talks with The Contemporary Austin director Louis Grachos about the former AMOA - Arthouse's new incarnation and, in his Loose Ends column, checks in with Dallas Museum of Art director Max Anderson on how free general admission is broadening the DMA's audience.

2007 A bell is a cup until it is struck, PUNCH + SOIL International Juried Exhibition, Punch Gallery, Seattle, WA, Juror: Eric Fredericksen, Director, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA The Hook Up, New American Art Union, Portland, Oregon, curated by Jesse Hayward New American Talent: 22, arthouse at The Jones Center, Austin, TX (catalogue) A Simple Complex Redux, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA, curated by John O'Brien

But The Contemporary Austin's fall exhibition lineup — the first wave of programming from executive director Louis Grachos and senior curator Heather Pesanti, both new arrivals from Buffalo's Albright - Knox Art Gallery — suggests that the former AMOA - Arthouse has taken the first steps in a promising new artistic direction.

Prior to her position at DiverseWorks, Dunbar served as the Associate Director of Arthouse (now the Contemporary Austin) in Austin, Texas.