Sentences with phrase «as a genre filmmaker»

The scariest thing to be found in this pointless horror film is that its director, Rob Schmidt, has less prowess as a genre filmmaker in his third film than Eli Roth did in his first.

Undervalued as a genre filmmaker and perhaps overexposed as the standard - bearer of «serious» Hollywood filmmaking, Spielberg's most vexing feature may be the double - edged hyper - reality that his best tricks bring to bear on historical drama.

Two feature length horror outings in, director Fede Alvarez is establishing himself as a genre filmmaker to watch out for.

Writer and director Jeremy Saulnier has quickly been establishing himself as a master of physical and existential terror with films like 2013's Blue Ruin and 2007's Murder Party and his latest offering Green Room should even further solidify his status as a genre filmmaker to watch.

Though he is reluctant to be seen strictly as a genre filmmaker, Aster noted that he likes how much room there is to operate within the space of genre storytelling.

Not exact matches

Award - winning filmmaker Ken Burns is responsible for such genre - defining and genre - defying documentary series as The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz, to name a few.

There's perhaps no filmmaker working today who brings as much artistry and thematic weight to massive genre films as Christopher Nolan.

Yet as Funny Games and even his latest film, Amour, prove, Haneke is a genre filmmaker at heart, no matter how hard he might wish to deny it.

A new generation of brilliant filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have rediscovered and embraced this cutting edge genre; introducing story elements and developing a visual style influenced by the maestros from the Banned Western Channel.

The filmmakers handle their material efficiently, but it's hard to imagine anyone familiar with the genre finding Bleed fresh or as vividly scary as its predecessors.

Obviously alotting more work, and money, towards getting an ensemble cast — as opposed to garnering producers with emphasis on purpose and ingenuity — the filmmakers, here, create a product that is not the least bit unique; it's a generic label laden with followed genre - specific cliches, bawdy humor, and disjointed direction.

French filmmaker Luc Besson (The Family, Brick Mansions) writes and directs Lucy, a loopy, high - concept science fiction thriller that, like most Besson efforts, is actually just a dumb and goofy action genre film masquerading as a smart and insightful one.

There is a tendency among film critics, programmers, and academics to dismiss filmmakers who work within genres as entertainers, not accepting them as artists.

Very much a genre stylist in the mold of golden - age Hollywood directors like Anthony Mann or Raoul Walsh, Uchida showed little discernible personal style to mark him as an auteur in the French critical mold, but the uniformly high quality of his works and his ability to succeed in a variety of genres mark him as a filmmaker very ripe for (re) consideration by critics.

Östlund has hit a home run with Force Majeure (I realize that reference doesn't make sense but who cares), not only bringing to Cannes one of my new favorite genre - bending dark comedies, but I'm now a fan of his work as well, and I get to explore his past films and learn just how talented of a filmmaker he really is, while keeping an eye on his career.

Over recent years, the film noir genre has largely served as a reference point for filmmakers, who dress up their movies with snappy dialogue and / or complex, violent stories but neglect the genre's bleakness.

Regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Hitchcock's Psycho essentially invented the slasher genre while The Birds still haunts viewers to this day.

Joyful Noise Rated PG - 13 for some language including a sexual reference Available on DVD and Blu - ray Convinced that the competitive church choir competition genre was under - represented, the filmmakers here put together tale of a face - off between Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah as they both try to fight it out over the subject of how best to win a national competition.

Apparently, this offbeat script had been making the rounds in Hollywood for some 20 years as filmmakers struggled to work out how to blend its inventive mismatch of genres.

He is as controversial a filmmaker as they come, regardless of the genre he is working under.

His closest genre contemporary, as it turns out, may be Neill Blomkamp, a filmmaker with big ideas and a similarly scrappy visual eye who hasn't been able to corral a clean narrative since District 9.

Trachtenberg added that he has also been influenced by the horror genre as a filmmaker, particularly when he decided to delve into the «Cloverfield» universe to make his feature debut.

Though the data tells us that women are interested in genres favored by Hollywood, female filmmakers encounter significant obstacles as they attempt to move from independent to more commercial filmmaking, and face deep - rooted presumptions from the film industry about their creative qualifications, sensibilities, tendencies, and ambitions.

As ever with the filmmaker, «the environment is just as much of a character as the people,» but she also takes to the genre elements nicely, with the final set - piece being «the most claustrophobic thing she's made.&raquAs ever with the filmmaker, «the environment is just as much of a character as the people,» but she also takes to the genre elements nicely, with the final set - piece being «the most claustrophobic thing she's made.&raquas much of a character as the people,» but she also takes to the genre elements nicely, with the final set - piece being «the most claustrophobic thing she's made.&raquas the people,» but she also takes to the genre elements nicely, with the final set - piece being «the most claustrophobic thing she's made.»

With virtually the same tone as they used in their superhero spoof Kick - Ass, filmmakers Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman take another riotously adult approach to pastiche, this time tackling the James Bond genre.

It's reminiscent of other, more prominent titles in the so - called «Asia Extreme» genre piloted by acclaimed filmmakers such as Takashi Miike (Audition, 13 Assassins) and Park Chan - Wook, who caused the genre to explode overseas with his popular Oldboy in 2003.

Among other features of this issue, a brief mention should go to our spotlight on visual comedy, with essays on the general principles of the genre as well as specific filmmakers from Buster Keaton to the Farrelly brothers.

Korean filmmaker Kim played with the Western genre before in his wacky 2008 pastiche The Good the Bad the Weird, and this film is just as chaotically uneven, mixing cartoon - style silliness with grisly violence.

Oscar - winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald has taken on one of cinema's trickiest genres with his new thriller «Black Sea», a submarine movie starring Jude Law as a unemployed ship - builder who hires a mercenary crew to salvage...

But the filmmakers adhere too prominently to the tropes of the sports genre, all leading up to the big, dramatic encounter at the end, whereas tonally it felt the film may have benefited from avoiding such an approach — for while a necessity Billie Jean King took place in the match, the entire endeavour was more about putting Bobby Riggs in his place rather than to prove herself as an athlete.

From the dichotomous twin poles of the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès to the perceived new nouvelles vagues of Olivier Assayas and Christophe Honoré, a majority of the country's greatest films and filmmakers have belonged (however broadly) to one school or another; or, at the very least (as in the case of, say, Jean - Pierre Melville or, more recently, Danièle Thompson, Mathieu Kassovitz or Pierre Salvadori), they have worked within a genre that has had contemporary currency and visibility.

Such production design - heavy haunted house features as The Shining, The Haunting, and The Innocents have also been cited as a heavy influence on Crimson Peak by del Toro; of late, though, the filmmaker seems to have begun playing down the idea that he's making a haunted house genre throwback, and more than Crimson Peak is a Gothic romance first, set piece - oriented ghost story second.

In his short and feature - length films to date (as well as in TV series Girl Number 9), Turner has proven to be an efficient filmmaker, who doesn't mind trying his hand at a variety of genres.

Legendary genre filmmaker, Don Coscarelli, is unleashing the souls of the damned again, as his legendary...

As much as the filmmakers behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe might play up the differences between individual movies, Captain America: Civil War often favors in - universe consistency over genre playfulnesAs much as the filmmakers behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe might play up the differences between individual movies, Captain America: Civil War often favors in - universe consistency over genre playfulnesas the filmmakers behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe might play up the differences between individual movies, Captain America: Civil War often favors in - universe consistency over genre playfulness.

The Strangers: Prey at Night is directed by veteran English filmmaker Johannes Roberts, of the genre films Sanitarium, Hellbreeder, Darkhunters, Forest of the Damned, The Expelled, Storage 24, and The Other Side of the Door, as well as this year's 47 Meters Down.

The otherworldly elements in Del Toro's work are always utilized to illustrate underlying truths of humanity, and in the final speech of the night, the filmmaker encouraged kids to embrace genre and fantasy as a mode to «tell stories about the things that are real in the world today.»

The Apartment is wildly influential as a romantic comedy; it gets cited by pretty much every contemporary comedy filmmaker as a crucial text in the genre.

Now on a new episode of «On the Score,» Brian Tyler is joined by «Mummy» filmmaker Alex Kurtzman as they talk about a long - lasting collaboration that's evolved from «Eagle Eye» to «Hawaii Five - 0» and «Now You See Me» to reach its biggest challenge yet for a genre directing debut that's drawn vital powers of grandly melodic, evil excitement as both men seek to create a new, Dark Universe for Universe Pictures» most prized and fearsome properties.

Filmmaker Dan Mazer gives the rom com genre a fresh spin in his debut as a feature film director.

Filmmakers Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi's new addition to the storied genre have taken a much different, lighter route to the oldest of monsters as their story follows a a documentary crew taking an inside look at the lives of three vampires who are hundreds of years old.

, a document of Montreal's Fant - Asia film festival from 1997 that follows fringe filmmakers as they shop their genre wares in front of a live audience.

Based on the play by Michel Marc Bouchard, this seems to be more of a genre - led entry, a «psychological thriller» that, on paper, nods to «Festen» and Patricia Highsmith, and an experiment that Dolan has described as his «most satisfying journey through this form of art,» with the filmmaker leading the mostly unknown cast himself.

Big - name stars such as Tom Cruise and Eddie Murphy flocked to genre, as did high - calibre filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola, veterans Wes Craven and John Landis, independents Michael Almereyda and Jeffrey Arsenault, and up - and - comers Quentin Tarantino and Guillermo del Toro.

By comparison, upcoming filmmaker - driven efforts such as M. Night Shyamalan's Glass and Rick Famuyiwa's Past Midnight (starring Keanu Reeves) aim to further mix things up by incorporating different genre elements into the (superhero) mix.

To say that «Black Panther» is as imprecise an analogy for oppression and revolution as «Star Wars» and «Star Trek» isn't a slam against this film, or any Marvel film; it's an acknowledgment that genre movies tend to work best when they're anchored to emotions and big personalities, and run into trouble when the filmmakers or the audience try to map a geometrically precise relationship to the world beyond the screen.

Why do you feel filming genre films, like the «Sinister» series, independently is beneficial, both for you as a producer, as well the filmmakers and cast?

Michael Almereyda is an interesting and ambitious filmmaker (his 1994 vampire film «Nadja» is one of the better contemporary riffs on the genre) who doesn't work as often as he should.

Apparently, the third time is truly the charm for Krasinski as a filmmaker, with this genre outing is getting career best reviews for the multi-hyphenate.

Denis Villeneuve is as of this year my favorite currently working filmmaker and the fact that he's preparing two sci - fi movies (which would be my favorite genre) is at least as good as the fact that we finally got a truly awesome Star Wars episode.