Sentences with phrase «as genre filmmaking»

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Tinker, Tailor is a smart - but - hardly - heady genre piece which picks a handful of influences and boils them down to into pliable notions that can then be used to form a style; as far as utterly derivative filmmaking goes, it's pretty damn good.

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.

Gerald's Game, a Stephen King adaptation for Netflix starring Carla Gugino, is good Coming Soon Daniel Dae Kim's stunt training for the Hellboy reboot / Film Hocus Pocus moves forward as a TV movie remake - none of the original actors or filmmaking team are involved David Poland on Blade Runner 2049 with no spoilers «It is Aliens to Alien»... whoa, that's high praise Billboard composer Danny Elfman interviewed about Superman's iconic theme (redeployed for Justice League) and his long collaboration with Gus Van Sant Playbill Judy Garland's final concert, restored / remastered from 1969 will be released for the first time i09 on why you should be watching the Exorcist TV series, back for Season 2 / Film Amazon still has a lot of work to do to catch up with Netflix and Hulu but they're diving into the sci - fi genre big time

Deakins spoke to Variety about his work on the new film, which has been hailed by some critics as a masterpiece of genre filmmaking.

But, so long as you can follow the story well enough, and don't mind the rather lengthy takes that Soderbergh enjoys during scenes of running or driving, Haywire is worth seeking out for a smart, stylish, and off - speed action film that blends traditional thrills with Soderbergh's independent experimentation with the process of genre filmmaking.

Like Alfredson's Let the Right One In, Tinker, Tailor is a smart - but - hardly - heady genre piece which picks a handful of influences and boils them down to into pliable notions that can then be used to form a style; as far as utterly derivative filmmaking goes, it's pretty damn good.

A surprisingly effective piece of genre filmmaking, littered with flaws but none so glaring as to sink the film as a whole.

Hayato Ichihara stars in Miike's return to hardcore genre filmmaking in what's being billed as the world's first yakuza vampire movie.

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.

But one of the most refreshing aspects of The Last Stand, despite its foreign inflection, is its acceptance of both western and action - film conventions on their own terms, refusing to regard itself as operating outside of or superior to the genre; it aspires instead to simply be a great example of classical genre filmmaking, a modest but nevertheless admirable goal.

Working unobtrusively but consistently in a decadent Hollywood that's doubled down on sci - fi / fantasy / superhero franchise tentpoles as the end - all - be-all of action movies, Jaume Collet - Serra has been diligently and often ingeniously pursuing another filmmaking model, that of the mid-range budget standalone genre picture.

Over the past 15 years, Christopher Nolan has proven himself as a master of intelligent filmmaking, generally sticking to the psychological thriller genre while mixing in action and brain - bending flourishes.

I believed this to be the way movies naturally were, unaware then that I was poised at the cusp of a decade of filmmaking that would redefine fantasy and science - fiction, setting precedents for the genre with films like Back to the Future and Predator, E.T., and Blade Runner, Near Dark, and Miracle Mile — the well was as deep for flights of fancy in the Eighties as it was for incomparable character - driven paranoia in the Seventies.

With genre movies such as Get Out and The Shape of Water dominating the current race, edgy distributors are optimistic that the Academy, which with each incoming class is trending younger and younger, will continue rewarding ambitious filmmaking.

The idea of Unforgiven being Eastwood's tribute to his own filmmaking path and, as it turns out, a final farewell to the genre that turned him into an international superstar, is further enforced by his kind nod in the final credits.

As pure hackwork, it's a failure, with too many glimmers of personality for the filmmaking to ever qualify as anonymous; as an update of a genre classic along the lines of Carpenter's The Thing, it's uninspireAs pure hackwork, it's a failure, with too many glimmers of personality for the filmmaking to ever qualify as anonymous; as an update of a genre classic along the lines of Carpenter's The Thing, it's uninspireas anonymous; as an update of a genre classic along the lines of Carpenter's The Thing, it's uninspireas an update of a genre classic along the lines of Carpenter's The Thing, it's uninspired.

In between the two, 2006 is less immediately stacked with goodness, but over time has been revealed as a truly great year for genre filmmaking.

Indonesian action star Yayan Ruhian (The Raid, The Raid 2) and Hayato Ichihara star in Miike's return to hardcore genre filmmaking in what's being billed as the world's first yakuza vampire movie.

Ex Machina is as stripped and basic as most Sci - Fi outings go, but it is one of the best examples of filmmaking the genre has ever seen.

Takashi Miike's film has endured as one of the most influential pieces of genre filmmaking of the last two decades, and now it returns in a stunning all - new digitally restored special edition debuting on Blu - ray.

Made just before digital effects and other new technologies began crowding out old school filmmaking techniques, this 1984 adventure still holds up as a great example of its genre, but may only be suitable for your oldest teens.

With that picture, and 2011's «Another Earth,» Marling's announced herself as a major voice in genre filmmaking, but for her follow - up with Batmanglij, it looks like they've opted for a more expansive, unsettling experience, with urban political statements cross-bred with an escalating sense of doom.

The movie, which helps usher the old school action genre back into cinemas, is a captivating and memorable look into the feats that the Mormandos can achieve as a filmmaking duo.

ichael Schultz's powerful melodrama «Woman, Thou Art Loosed» renews an important tradition of African - American filmmaking: the movie as revivalist sermon, a genre epitomized by Spencer Williams's magnificent «Blood of Jesus» of 1941.

From this pattern, Polley's film seems to forward an argument about autobiography and documentary filmmaking: that these are plural, collaborative genres most effectively and truthfully made through a chorus of many and diverse voices, a «medley» as her other sister, Susy, describes it, each given freedom as well as equal weight.

The vibrancy and dynamism of the filmmaking, plus its shocking violence, Shakespearean plotlines, and wide tapestry of characters, launched a revolutionary new genre, establishing the series as one of the great masterpieces of world crime cinema.

Popular thematic strands Freak Me Out — dedicated to genre filmmaking — and Sounds on Screen — exploring the intersection of music and movies — return, as does the popular Sydney Film Festival hub at Town Hall.

That relative infancy of filmmaking is regarded as a golden age for genre features, a period that gave birth to such cinema landmarks as King Kong and Universal's horror tales like Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Mummy.

He knows what it's gonna be, what it's gonna look like, how to shoot it... y ’ know, the other thing about this movie is that, for him, it's a return for him to a genre and a way of filmmaking that's the hallmark of his maturation as a young artist.

Miike's Ichi the Killer has endured as one of the most influential pieces of genre filmmaking of the last two decades, and now it returns in a stunning all - new digitally restored special edition debuting on Blu - ray March 20, 2018, from Well Go USA Entertainment.

At the risk of antagonizing readers from academic background, I venture to suggest that film criticism has as much obligation to learn from film academia as experimental filmmaking has to learn from genre cinema.

Description: Westerns are a genre as old as filmmaking itself.

Not as commendable were the slick but forgettable Leatherface, the first disappointment by French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; the Spierig Brothers» Jigsaw, part 8 of the exhausted Saw series; the dull Amityville: The Awakening by Franck Khalfoun, usually a respectable genre director, who does still add his share of clever touches (and meta moments, like when a group of teenagers watch the original Amityville Horror in the «real» Amityville haunted house, into which one's family has just moved); Open Water 3: Cage Dive, whose shark - franchise designation was tacked on as an afterthought, not that it helped to draw in audiences (in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings in recent months.

The son of Psycho star Anthony Perkins, Osgood (or «Oz,» as he prefers to be called) Perkins grew up immersed in films and filmmaking, and genre filmmaking in particular.

One of the members of «The State» and the team behind «Wet Hot American Summer,» Wain has always operated under the «comedy ensemble» concept of filmmaking and TV, bringing together the same performers over and over again, often skewering expectations of the genre, as in his spoof of rom - coms, the underrated «They Came Together.»

The wilful perversity of Wes Anderson's filmmaking has become as ubiquitous to cinemaland as the superhero genre.

In honor of The Descendants» November 16th release, Greer sat down to talk about the entire filmmaking process from the honor of being cast in an Alexander Payne film to switching gears and getting dramatic as well as her hopes to continue working within the genre in the future.

Wes Anderson's oeuvre is a genre unto itself, with the name of the director serving as a shorthand for an accessible mode of twenty - first century auteur filmmaking.

Julien will explore how the genre is developing inside and outside of the gallery as well as audiences» responses to changing techniques in artist filmmaking.

Taking inspiration from popular culture, fairy tales, and traditions of the gothic, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of a personal vision.