Sentences with phrase «as film director»

While owning his Ducati 900 GTS, he hung out with writer George Jonas's Ducati racing club and zipped around the Mosport track with other team members such as film director, David Cronenberg.

Selected works as a film director include: Slowly This, Smile, Until, Deshotten, Dreams Are Colder Than Death, Adrian Young.

And no matter how acclaimed he may be as the film director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Before Night Falls and the ludicrous Basquiat, Schnabel has been much attacked as a painter.

Lene Berg (* 1965) was educated as a film director at the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm.

As my film director friend, Dave Mackenzie once told me, by the time you're done with a large project, you are so bloody sick of it - all the pressure, all the meetings, all the changes, all the keeping the thousands of balls up in the air - that you never want to see it again.

As a film director she wrote, directed and produced * Strange Culture *, * Conceiving Ada * and * Teknolust *, all starring Tilda Swinton, which were in the Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival and her ground - breaking documentary *!

«As a film director, I feel it is my job to always be telling the viewer what to think about an image or moment,» says photographer and director John Jencks.

La buena vida was his widely acclaimed debut as a film director and was followed by Obra maestra, Soldados de Salamina, Bienvenido a casa, and La silla de Fernando.

The entire «shaky camera» effect is utilized efficiently and that my friends, is Uwe's first step to recognition as a film director who doesn't suck.

Indeed, for that matter, how would Clint Eastwood as a film director have developed the story, and the characters likewise?

What I do as a writer, and what Guadagnino does as a film director, is more than speak two different languages.

Boyd, who has previously worked with Daniel Craig as a film director, said he re-read all of Fleming's books before starting his own.

But pretty much while he was giving his acceptance speech at the Beverly Hilton, James Franco's walls were crumbling down via accusations leveled on Twitter that have now been backed up by an article in the Los Angeles Times wherein five women accuse Franco of «inappropriate or sexually exploitative behavior,» much of it stemming from his position as a film director and / or acting school proprietor.

The sparse, hypnotic play ran at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Almeida in Islington; a commendably low - key cinema version in 1997 saw Rickman make his debut as a film director.

SCOTT COOPER: When you work with actors who fully realize their characters as these did and care as much as they do about giving three - dimensional performances, it's truly about as good as it gets as a film director.

So, whether it's Sully, whether it's Drake, whether it's Elena or Chloe, or whoever the characters are — I'm not saying who's in this movie — I think as a film director, the onus is on me to take a deeper, more nuanced dive into character, because that's kind of what a movie needs to be truly cinematic.

by Walter Chaw Alan Parker likes to use his platform as a film director to preach about all manner of society's more obvious ails, reserving the bulk of his ham - fisted proselytizing for the problems he himself identifies as endemic to the United States: hedonism and drug abuse (The Wall, Midnight Express); the price of a culture of fame (The Wall, Fame); the price of Vietnam and our broken social services system (Birdy); the rampant Yankee tragedy of divorce (Shoot the Moon); racism (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise); our love / hate / fear relationship with food (The Road to Wellville); and, most recently (and egregiously), the death penalty (The Life of David Gale).

Now, she is finding her true voice as a film director... and what a unique voice it is.

Willem Dafoe stars as a film director haunted by his ancestral past — the subject of his latest film — and his thorny present in which his troubled daughter has gone missing.

In 1966, Mike Nichols made his debut as a film director by bringing Edward Albee's Broadway sensation to the screen, with celebrity couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton taking on the venomous leading roles.

Happy Christmas: A breakup sends twentysomething Jenny (Anna Kendrick) into a drinking spiral that bottoms out on the doorstep of her brother (Joe Swanberg), who lives a drama - free life as a film director with his writer wife, Kelly (Melanie Lynskey), and their 2 - year - old son.

She already has a classy track record as a film director.

Charles Laughton's brilliant introduction (and also swan song) as a film director, which is a terrible loss for all of us.

In an effort to be noticed in Hollywood, Tommy decides to make his own movie (which he compares to the likes of Tennessee Williams), and disregards his complete inexperience as a film director.

Remarks were offered by Rush Holt, AAAS CEO executive publisher of the Science family of journals, who moderated a discussion including Rep. Jerry McNerney (D - California) as well as film director Jon Bowermaster and others.

«I happen to have high regard for him as a film director.

«Jews and Baseball» blends interviews with rabbis, academics, authors and collectors of memorabilia with such celebrities as film director Ron Howard and former CNN talk show host Larry King.

Not exact matches

«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.

Disney and Marvel obviously know what they're doing with superhero movies — they've brought some of the biggest franchises to screen — however, at the same time, making every single film need to fit inside the already established franchise starts to limit the amount of creative license any one director can have on future characters as Marvel's Cinematic Universe only grows larger.

«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..

None of the upcoming movies listed over the next two years will have women behind the director's chair and, as Casey Cipriani and Melissa Silverstein of IndieWire have noted, no woman has directed a live - action film for the studio since 2010.

Kodak is framing the announcement as a «Super 8 Filmmaking Revival Initiative,» which it intends to leverage the previously mentioned roadmap and support from Hollywood's biggest directors such as J.J. Abrams, Steven Spielberg, and Quentin Tarantino to make film a mainstream item once again.

As Disney was wrapping up production on A Wrinkle in Time, the latest film from lauded director Ava DuVernay and an adaptation of the beloved children's book, out Friday, the production team reached out to Rodeo FX to add finishing touches on a selected scene.

That can work in the Red's favor if a director wants an edgy, harsher look, as appears to have been the case for Soderbergh's recent anxiety - soaked Side Effects or Robert Zemeckis's hard - hitting Flight — both filmed with Red cameras.

Avnet (whose father, Jon, is a veteran Hollywood director and producer as well as the studio's co-CEO) told Fortune the studio wanted to maintain the film's authenticity — they wanted viewers to think the horror film playing out in real - time might really be happening — so they avoided marketing the movie and, in fact, they did not even run the idea by Snapchat before proceeding.

«I think most film directors would look at that character and instantly think CG but he [Nolan] instantly thought let's do as much practical as we can.

Brenda Chapman, an animation writer - director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt), made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.

Jake's manager, Alex, is out there with him, as is film director, producer, and YouTuber Casey Neistat, who a few days later would launch a social app called Beme.

Spielberg has since gone on to win a reputation as one of the greatest directors in history, but «ET» is most likely to remain his most beloved film.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Jay Leno rides along with director Jeff Zwart as he films a car chase from the back seat of a customized Porsche.

Mad Max rode a winning streak in several technical and behind - the - scenes categories to score six Oscar statues last night, though the film ended the night shut out of most of the show's major categories, such as Best Picture and Best Director.

The former, which sells and installs beehives at various company locations, has inked contracts with clients including Delta and Chick - fil - A, while the latter works with film studios and directors including Darren Aronofsky — charging them as much as $ 50,000 a pop — to make a film or television production more ecologically friendly.

In fact, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was the first woman to direct a superhero movie and the film ended up as the highest - grossing movie ever helmed by a woman (along with being last year's third - highest grossing film domestically).

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

The Internet Adult Film Directory, the adult industry's version of IMDb, cites her as the director of 91 films, including 2007's «Operation: Desert Stormy» and 2017's «Scandalous.»

Iranian directors made intellectual films under the decadent and «Westoxicated» shah, and the country's art - house scene flourished even as the vulgar Film Farsi melodramas also found an audience.

As he began his film career, the director grew obsessed with telling the Noah story from that perspective — and employing the power of modern special effects to portray Earth's first apocalypse.

In fact, Paulist Pictures» Romero may be only the first of several films about the assassinated prelate; for example, director Gillo Poncecorvo (The Battle of Algiers) reportedly has a Romero project under way (tentative title: The Devil's Bishop) But however many such films are made, none is likely to be as much a labor of love as Romero was.

So far as I am aware, it is the first film by writer - director Omri Givon.