Sentences with phrase «as auteur in»

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

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

Planet Terror's not nearly as smart as it thinks it is; Death Proof's smarts are so edged and complicated that they could only be the product, unintentional, of an auteur who's assimilated the undertow of his favourite films and, rarest of the rare, is able to reproduce those undertows in works that, however familiar, are completely original.

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.

This tribute to Schepisi's important contribution as an Australian and international filmmaker, a distinctive auteur and jobbing filmmaker, covers his early work in documentary (his fascinating short on The Age newspaper, People Make Papers), the mercurial critical reception of his groundbreaking opus The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, the representation of landscape across his first three Australian features (specifically in the partisan and compassionate Evil Angels, 1988), his initial project in the United States (the elemental and mythic Western, Barbarosa), the now iconic Six Degrees of Separation, and the importance of adaptation and collaboration across his cinema.

Meanwhile, Mexican auteur Amat Escalante's The Untamed was also cited as not complete in time for Cannes, so there's a likelihood one of these will show up in Venice.

And then, there were a decent number of auteurs who appeared at the Cannes Market who should (hopefully) pop up in Venice, such as Lido regular Benoit Jacquot with his adaptation of Don DeLillo's The Body Artist, apparently retitled Never Ever, while Wim Wenders could be a contender with The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (though he may hold out for Berlin 2017, the same guess we'd wage for a new film from Volker Schlondorff, Return to Montauk).

«Midnight in Paris» McAdams teamed up with Owen Wilson (again) and Woody Allen for the 2011 Oscar winner «Midnight in Paris,» kicking off a stretch of prestige films in which she worked with auteur director such as Terrence Malick on «To the Wonder,» Brian de Palma on «Passion» and Wim Wenders on «Every Thing Will Be Fine.»

Brady Corbet is a familiar face on screen as an actor in independent in a number of films by today's quintessential auteurs.

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.

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.

The Disaster Artist: Bad moviemaking never looked as good as it does in James Franco's hilarious yet strangely sincere docudramedy about «The Room» and its auteur Tommy Wiseau.

Hooper, of course, also places a great deal of emphasis on his own flaws as a filmmaker, though perhaps not in the manner one might expect: Les Misérables seems, in his newly Oscar - carrying hands, an elaborate demo reel for his tics as self - styled auteur.

In three short years, A24 Films has defined itself as a home for truly riveting, auteur fare.

Esteemed as one of the most prominent French independent directors of the post-World War II era, Jean - Pierre Melville laid a proto - auteur framework for the French Nouvelle Vague directors that followed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Esteemed as one of the most prominent French independent directors of the post-World War II era, Jean - Pierre Melville laid a proto - auteur framework for the French Nouvelle Vague directors that followed in the...

Donald Glover's series took the observational, auteur - driven comedy that FX has nurtured in such shows as «Louie,» «Baskets» and «Better Things» and succeeded, by all accounts, in fulfilling Glover's stated claim — to «show people what it feels like to be black.»

Wounded by the overwhelmingly baffled reaction to his tale of deadly pollen, and crippled by his growing reputation as an ultra-sensitive yet ham - fisted megalomaniac auteur, Shyamalan threw in the towel — trading his usual suspense for the generic CGI of The Last Airbender and After Earth — but it was too little too late.

The irony here is that television's new burst of prestige is partially due to the format speaking in an increasingly cinematic language: there's the attraction to auteur output (David Fincher's Mindhunter, Steven Soderbergh's The Knick, and Paul Sorrentino's The Young Pope come to mind), the inflating budgets, the flirtation with feature - length episodes, as seen with the likes of Westworld and Game of Thrones.

For an auteur who's established herself as the foremost purveyor of the sublimely subdued, it may take a moment to reorient oneself to a sequence in which we're permitted the pleasure of something as ostentatiously romantic as a moonlit horseback ride, albeit one that pivots on a gesture of love that's been lost in translation.

Before starting to write this review, I decided to read the pro-Shyamalan arguments in the attempt to get the flip side opinion as to what I consider to be one of the worst films of 2008, and perhaps the worst film from an auteur of Shyamalan's reputation in some time.

From the outset, the loss of Greengrass as director should have a detrimental effect on the overall quality of this film, but this isn't the main obstacle facing Legacy, as they have a very capable auteur in the form of Gilroy, and it should be remembered that the franchise was kick - started by Doug Liman some ten years ago.

He showed a brief spark in 2008 with his Spanish installment, «Vicky Cristina Barcelona,» but the aging director is sadly less than a pale shadow of the auteur / performer who enthralled audiences in the «70s, «80s, and even the early «90s with masterful comedies such as «Annie Hall,» «Crimes and Misdemeanors,» and «Husbands and Wives.»

In his final acting role, legendary auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder (clad in an iconic leopard skin suit) stars as hardboiled detective JanseIn his final acting role, legendary auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder (clad in an iconic leopard skin suit) stars as hardboiled detective Jansein an iconic leopard skin suit) stars as hardboiled detective Jansen.

Shyamalan, if we follow the auteur theory as closely as he claims to, hates his fellow man enough so that a coda revealing a blessed pregnancy is framed in such a way as to suggest that mankind is spelling its own doom with this urge to procreate.

As a window into the auteur's late - career preoccupation with adolescent angst, «Bertolucci Makes The Dreamers» is illuminating, bookended as it is by telling quotes («When I'm with these kids, I feel the same age» and «Maybe I didn't talk enough about young people when I was young») that make one wish Bertolucci would do a film about the vanishing act of youth rather than these pitiful attempts to trap it in a jaAs a window into the auteur's late - career preoccupation with adolescent angst, «Bertolucci Makes The Dreamers» is illuminating, bookended as it is by telling quotes («When I'm with these kids, I feel the same age» and «Maybe I didn't talk enough about young people when I was young») that make one wish Bertolucci would do a film about the vanishing act of youth rather than these pitiful attempts to trap it in a jaas it is by telling quotes («When I'm with these kids, I feel the same age» and «Maybe I didn't talk enough about young people when I was young») that make one wish Bertolucci would do a film about the vanishing act of youth rather than these pitiful attempts to trap it in a jar.

Although the author himself modestly calls it a «rather incomplete survey,» it is in fact packed with insights about auteurs as varied (and in some cases unheralded) as Jacques Becker, André Cayatte, Julien Duvivier, and Max Ophuls, while saving special regard for the «two most original and therefore unclassifiable talents of postwar French cinema,» Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson.

The centrepiece of each Hell Is For Hyphenates episode is the Filmmaker of the Month segment, in which we discuss the filmography of an auteur as chosen by our guest.

Franco stars as Tommy Wiseau, the film's quixotic, oddball auteur; Dave Franco and Rogen are in it too, reportedly along with Alison Brie, Zac Efron and Kate Upton.

There are auteurs offering up work considerably below the bars they've set (Woody Allen and «Whatever Works,» Pedro Almodovar and «Broken Embraces»), as well as indie hopefuls that could make an unexpected splash, like «Frozen River» and «Away from Her» in years past (Guillermo Arriaga's «The Burning Plain,» for instance, or Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman's «The Messenger,» both extremely deserving).

What makes «Year of the Rat» so vital is how, incidentally or not, it goes from denouncing the auteur theory (through not only the typically insecure observations of actors, but also the deflective statements of Morgan and long - time creative partner Wong) to validating it: In a coda, we see that the movie's poor box - office showing has shaken Morgan and only Morgan to the core; call filmmaking a «collaborative effort» to your heart's content, but as William Shatner, of all people, opines on the recent Star Trek V discs, at the end of the day no one on the set has as much emotionally invested in the picture's success as the person at its helIn a coda, we see that the movie's poor box - office showing has shaken Morgan and only Morgan to the core; call filmmaking a «collaborative effort» to your heart's content, but as William Shatner, of all people, opines on the recent Star Trek V discs, at the end of the day no one on the set has as much emotionally invested in the picture's success as the person at its helin the picture's success as the person at its helm.

As for the actors in less central roles, Hank Azaria is, predictably enough, very funny as horribly be-toupeed porn auteur Gerald Damiano, and Chris Noth is chilling, but also strangely sympathetic and as interesting as I've ever seen him, as a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriagAs for the actors in less central roles, Hank Azaria is, predictably enough, very funny as horribly be-toupeed porn auteur Gerald Damiano, and Chris Noth is chilling, but also strangely sympathetic and as interesting as I've ever seen him, as a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriagas horribly be-toupeed porn auteur Gerald Damiano, and Chris Noth is chilling, but also strangely sympathetic and as interesting as I've ever seen him, as a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriagas interesting as I've ever seen him, as a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriagas I've ever seen him, as a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriagas a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriage.

Its opening film is the British - produced mountaineering thriller Everest, featuring Anglo - American glamour in the shape of Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley and Josh Brolin; its competition strand has an impressive list of international auteurs, including Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), Alexander Sokurov (Francofonia), Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) and Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa); and a number of authentic coups, including the world premiere screening of Black Mass, the much - hyped gangster film featuring Johnny Depp as James «Whitey» Bulger, and a first look at Beasts of No Nation, the African - set war thriller that represents Netflix's most serious shot yet across Hollywood's bows.

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.

Worse, Mitchell is as in love with the Dutch angle (the camera canted for no good reason) and the unmotivated pan and zoom as poor, addled Roger Christian, the auteur behind Mr. Preston John Travolta's Battlefield Earth — meaning that while there's little substance in front of the camera, there's somehow less behind it.

Here the elusive auteur is less overtly concerned with the connections between the personal and the infinite (as he was in Tree of Life.)

Since first emerging in the mid -»80s, working with legendary auteurs such as Jean - Luc Godard and Andre Techine, Juliette Binoche has consistently been one of the most compelling screen presences of her generation.

Her books include Rape - Revenge Films: A Critical Study (McFarland, 2011), Found Footage Horror Film: Fear and the Appearance of Reality (McFarland, 2014), a 2016 monograph on Dario Argento's Suspiria (part of Auteur's Devil's Advocates series), a 2017 book on Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45 as part of Wallflower / Columbia University Press's Cultographies series, and in 2018, a book on Robert Harmon's 1986 film The Hitcher, published by Arrow Books.

I've heard some folks describe the characters in Nebraska as loving renderings of those in and around the auteur's home state, while others have announced outright that Payne's employment of stereotypes make his movie truly hateable.

Next in line as a likely candidate is Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, a pint - sized love story beautifully suited to the offbeat auteur's whimsy, and his most well - scripted effort since The Royal Tenenbaums.

Fans of the Korean auteur (as well as fans of good sci - fi in general) were understandably very vexed by the decision to cut the film down by twenty minutes and add expository voice over, eager to see the director's original, uncompromising vision.

Having already sampled some of John Carpenter's bad «90s work, his largely derided return to feature filmmaking only sent me further in retreat, back to the «70s and «80s work that suggested him as one of the great, personal auteurs in an increasingly bloated mainstream landscape.

The dapper auteur behind such idiosyncratic and polarizing works as The Royal Tenenbaums and The Darjeeling Limited opens his latest feature, a continuously surprising and delightful adolescent romance set in 1965, in what appears to be a dollhouse.

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.

One of the many reasons as to why the Coen Brothers remain two of the industry's only thriving «mainstream» auteurs is purely due to their films» nearly mass appeal in even their most ambitious form.

In 1993, Graham Fuller went a step further, calling Tarantino «not so much a postmodern auteur as a post-postmodern one, for he is feverishly interested in pop - cultural artifacts and ideas... that themselves spring from earlier incarnations or have already been mediated or predigested.&raquIn 1993, Graham Fuller went a step further, calling Tarantino «not so much a postmodern auteur as a post-postmodern one, for he is feverishly interested in pop - cultural artifacts and ideas... that themselves spring from earlier incarnations or have already been mediated or predigested.&raquin pop - cultural artifacts and ideas... that themselves spring from earlier incarnations or have already been mediated or predigested.»

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.