Sentences with phrase «as auteur»

With the release of her film Face in the Crowd (2014), an examination of crowd dynamics and the individual, Prager solidified her standing as an auteur whose ominous, experimental works conjure feelings of anxiety, apprehension, and dread, while simultaneously offering the viewing pleasure and intrigue of a Hollywood movie.

Similarly positioning himself as collector, curator or even naturalist, Dion reinscribes himself below artist as auteur in the art taxonomy.

It's a fitting simile for the whole game: as if Suda has let his fame as an auteur go to his head, and is simultaneously phoning it in and losing his sense of restraint.

It's all a bit too perfect a play on Kojima's own status as The Auteur of Metal Gear Solid, a role he's always been ambiguous about enjoying, and the modern explosion of fan identification with celebrity.

And idk... Maybe like Aonuma pointed out... Maybe this only happens in the west where one guy is singled out as the auteur of a single game or series.

Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, the only screenwriter working today who could be perceived as an auteur, tackles this quandary and develops the dilemmas that accompany it in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

It's also, for director Wes Anderson, a return to the stop - motion animation style of his 2009 sleeper classic Fantastic Mr. Fox, which has quietly gained a following among some of the director's fans as the auteur's low - key masterpiece.

The second film of Francois Truffaut's «Hitchcock Period» (and the Nouvelle Vague legend's first English - language feature), Fahrenheit 451 is swathed in dread and melancholy — a sense belying cinematographer Nicolas Roeg's bright, elemental colour scheme and simply blocked mise - en - scéne, though a sense completely in line with Roeg's subsequent work as auteur.

The verbal pyrotechnics are sorely needed, mind you, for this is a film built on as slender a narrative thread as the auteur has ever created.

Banished as an auteur, Soderbergh is free to scribble in the margins all he likes, so he has a field day.

He's made a comic French New Wave pastiche about Jean - Luc Godard's early years with perpetually ubiquitous Louis Garrel as the auteur and Stacy Martin as his young lover (the other leading star of the film).

And yet, amidst all the noise, a movie has risen to the top tier of fall titles by the steady hand of a helmer who told us that he does not specifically describe himself as an auteur.

Gorgeously shot, perfectly cast, and beautifully realized, Nichols has solidified himself as an auteur that won't be restrained to a specific genre.

But Strickland has achieved prominence as an auteur - in - exile, almost as if he were a foreign infiltrator into the predominantly realist world of British film.

As much credit as auteur Mike Leigh deserves for changing the landscape of British cinema with his -LSB-...]

The legendary independent director, who made exploitation films but was honored as an auteur, died Saturday at his home in the Hollywood Hills.

Walter Hill's relatively recent status as an auteur may have been stymied by his unwillingness to take on sprawling, pretentious, or overstuffed shots or edits; for him, the somewhat anonymous vocabulary of the studio picture was one well enough worth perfecting.

Yesterday brought about the home media version of contemporary comedy overseer Judd Apatow's latest feature This Is 40 (2012), a divisive work that has many examining (and questioning) the director's status as an auteur and cultural talking - point of class and privilege.

Gorgeously shot, perfectly cast, and astutely realized, Nichols has solidified himself as an auteur that won't be restrained to a specific genre.»

A modest speaker despite his 50 - year career, Sidney Lumet was never one to overstate his role as an auteur.

This resulted in some lazy observations about mainstream news media, and a fame hungry public, and ultimately exposes Gervais» limitations as an auteur.

Hence, this Boxer Rebellion drama has an insane production dysfunction story behind it, and the end product is very nearly as maudit as auteur pictures get.

Powerful drama from writer - director Kelly Reichardt («Wendy and Lucy») further establishes her as an auteur who finds poignancy in the stillness

No, it is not without minor flaws, but no doubt Russell established himself as an auteur at this point and would solidify that by the films hat followed.

And in the case of «Phantom Thread,» about the world of London haute couture in the 1950s, it's a movie about the fashion designer as auteur.

And it was always expected that Martin Scorsese's religious drama Silence (read our review) would not be as accessible as the auteur's crime - driven productions, but it managed a disappointing $ 1.9 million in its wide debut and finished 16th on the charts.

A section of fifteen deleted scenes totalling 22 minutes with optional commentary from Frankel and Livoisi is kind of maddening for Frankel's oft - repeated confession that he's never seen this material — trusting his editor that implicitly only betrays his TV training and makes it difficult to take Frankel seriously as an auteur.

Baumbach and Paltrow entertain those notions, but the film remains a serious examination of De Palma as an auteur, coming through one of the most fevered epochs of Hollywood history and surviving to tell the tale.

It's not much of an achievement that co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo (held over from Captain America the Winter Soldier) make a better film than Zack Snyder... but it's worth noting that Marvel (corporation as auteur) have nurtured their characters (even in weaker films like Iron Man 2) to the point when they carry more screen weight than lasting icons Batman and Superman.

In De Palma, co-directors Jake Paltrow (left) and Noah Baumbach (right) focus solely on Brian De Palma's retelling of his fascinating career as an auteur.

The precision at play is stunning, as there is a distinct sense of control over every scenario, marking this as the auteur's tightest work.

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.

Critics have seemingly cooled on Tarantino's pop culture patchwork technique over the years, mistaking cleverness for ironic detachment and his singularly innovative mode of theory - to - practice film geekery for plagiaristic slapdash kitsch just as Tarantino is reaching personal heights as an auteur, and it begs the question: did Shakespeare have to deal with cooler - than - thou backlash from his detractors?

She thinks back to the best of times and the worst of times, as that auteur from across the Channel would put it, when Raymonde Veber became the best female tennis player in a nation that didn't belong to her anymore.

I'm not the only one who regards it as Lewton's greatest film, and I assume the main reason for its neglect is auteurist thinking — only directors are seen as auteurs — and the absence of stars.

Their sixth movie as auteurs, 1996's Fargo, brought the brothers a whole new level of recognition, earning them a Best Original Screenplay Oscar and their first Best Picture nomination.

With such high profile slices of movie beefcake determined to make their mark as auteurs as well as deliverers of dialogue, now is a good time to look back at some other aesthetically - pleasing performers who put their necks on the line as bona fide film directors...

More importantly, many lawyers, and in particular many important and therefore influential lawyers, actually thrive on that type of total concentration, and cherish their roles as auteurs as much as a skilled surgeon or a prima donna.

Not exact matches

The second phase of this fever dream is that the world immediately reaches out to these amateur auteurs and fervently demands more of the same as well as offering princely sums for the privilege.

Milch in particular seems to have embodied the stereotype of auteur as enfant terrible.

I've been enjoying The Word on the Street, a 2003 translation that casts the Big Guy as a Hollywood auteur with a taste for sweeping gestures.

Instead they decided to become auteurs by making a video of the video playing back on a smartphone held by an anonymous hand as two anonymous young women added pointless voice - over commentary.

The films of indie auteur Perry («Listen Up Philip») are known for a certain verbosity, but here there's no undertow, just bromides dressed up as profundities.

Lister - Jones is also generous enough an auteur to allow for memorable moments from others, whether it's hilarious bits from the likes of Retta (as Anna and Ben's unlucky marriage counselor), Brooklyn Decker, and Jamie Chung; the escalating weirdness of Armisen (who was, of course, a seasoned indie - band drummer before he turned to acting and comedy); or a knockout dramatic scene between Pally and the great comedian Susie Essman as Ben's mother, who provides some invaluable advice.

As a star - auteur, he has always been the most important feature and effect of the series, although it's telling that Mr. De Palma oversaw the set - piece that gave the movies their foundational image: Mr. Cruise's operative, Ethan Hunt, hovering like a spider (or a puppet) above a luminous white floor while suspended by a very thin rope.

It's as exhilaratingly honest and unshackled a work as many have come to expect from this auteur of cringe comedy, one that foresees, absorbs, and responds to all possible bile that might be directed its way, knowing full well of the muck it dredges up.

If it isn't quite up to the standards of «Ed Wood,» Tim Burton's 1994 tribute to the auteur of such misbegotten fruits of moviemaking as «Plan 9 From Outer Space,» it is nonetheless a much - needed distraction.

Regardless of opinion, he was not only one of the biggest stars of the postwar era but also one of the most powerful, and as the writer, director, and producer of many of his features, he qualified as a comic auteur firmly in the tradition of Chaplin and Keaton.Born Joseph Levitch in Newark, NJ, on March 16, 1926, he was the son of borscht - belt comics, spending the majority of his childhood living with relatives but joining his parents each summer as they performed in the Catskills.

Starring writer - director - producer and enigmatic «auteur» Tommy Wiseau, who had unlimited funds but questionable talent, the $ 6 - million film has been hailed «The «Citizen Kane» of bad movies,» a fascinatingly inept and endlessly quotable cult sensation that has carved out a place for itself as a midnight - movie communal experience.

It doesn't hurt that it was also selected as Denmark's Foreign Language Oscar Entry, a distinguished honor, considering it beat out works from more prestigious auteurs.