Sentences with phrase «as that auteur from»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Johnny Depp played hopeless B - movie auteur Ed Wood Jr as a never - say - die idealist who rescued Bela Lugosi from unemployment; Meryl Streep gave life to the deluded classical singer, Florence Foster Jenkins, who was rich enough to pay people to listen to her off - key warbling.

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?

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).

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.

But though it derives from an ancient Greek myth, auteur Yorgos Lanthimos» most recent English - language film, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, spoke to me of a more Freudian concept: the idea of psychology as an impossible, inner dystopia.

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.

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.

A director once anointed as a promising auteur, has now had many revoke that status from him.

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).

Time Out says: «What stiffens this unashamedly exhibitionist movie's muscles are its beautifully judged performances, from Burt Reynolds» stand - out as porn - king auteur / father figure, to Julianne Moore's superb cokehead survivor - star and William H. Macy's humiliated cuckold, right down to Philip Seymour Hoffman's gut - wrenching gay crew member.»

As for those critics who might be hoping to see something a little different from Anderson next time around, the auteur says he has no plans to change up his famously idiosyncratic style.

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 helm.

He draws thematic inspiration from classic Western director John Ford (specifically 1956's «The Searchers») and from his beloved»30s and»40s crime movies as well as the visual aesthetic of French New Wave auteurs.

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.

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.»

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.

Alas, too much of Storytelling moves away from Solondz's social critique, casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur's professional injuries.

Together, they paint a puckish portrait of the auteur, from Bale's discovery that Malick would often shoot him surreptitiously — at last justifying his Method posturing between takes — to Chief Stephen R. Adkins of the Chickahominy Tribe revealing that «Terry» (always «Terry») told him to consider the title ironic after Adkins expressed his displeasure with a 5,000 - year - old civilization being Eurocentrically referred to as «new.»

Also too good to pass up: Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable, a striking documentary profile of one of the strongest practitioners of urban street photography, directed by Sasha Waters Freyer, Apr. 15; Godard Mon Amour, director Michel Hazanavicius» cool, dramatized portrait of iconic French auteur Jean - Luc Godard (Louis Garrel), as told by Godard's one - time wife, Anne Wiazemsky, Apr. 15; and, from Japanese master Koreeda Hirokazu, The Third Murder, a chambered nautilus of a murder mystery, starring Fukuyama Masaharu and Yakusho Kôji, Apr. 6.

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive contends that the answer to the eternal struggle between what is real and what is fantasy comes in the form of a Keatsian confusion — it's the difference between Adam's dream and Eve rendered flesh, blurred in the mind of the creator and his audience.A film is a dream of the director made tangible, a conceit familiar from the fourth wall - breaking in Ingmar Bergman's Persona (banishing any mystery there might have been regarding the visual references to that film in Lynch's piece), and a movie's characters therefore become projections of its maker's sublimated longing (clarifying too the auteur's use of wardrobe and colour schemes from Hitchcock's meditation on objectification, Vertigo, as well as those of his first collaboration with inamorata Tippi Hedren, The Birds).

Resnais is also given a nice showcase via a lengthy, vintage Q&A session from 1961, where the camera stays on the director, and Resnais answers queries regarding his disuse of the possessive credit («A Film By»), views on the Auteur theory, his rather humbling self - classification as a working editor, and his reply on the ever popular question by cinema tightwads, «Is Cinema dead?»

Julieta, the 20th film from Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar is referred to as Banal in Shelagh's less than impressed review

Until a couple of tired romantic roundelays — Jasmine takes up with a wealthy widow played by Peter Sarsgaard, while Ginger strays with speaker - installation guru Louis C.K. — turn up in the last act, as they do in most of Allen's weaker comedies, this is an uncharacteristically focused work from the auteur.

«Midnight Special» — It almost seems that young writer / director (gearing towards auteur) can do know wrong, as his entire catalog for me, thus far, has ranged from good to fantastic.

The lack of many of them from this year's lineup is jarring — though, to be fair, this year's lineup is missing many expected male auteurs from its ranks as well, including Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Lars von Trier, Terrence Malick, and Brian De Palma — especially considering how many of them have new projects completed.

On the one hand, I could hardly argue, not least since we'd both just emerged from a film — Chilean auteur Pablo Larrain's brilliant nightmare of a black comedy «Post Mortem» — that stands as much chance of securing an invitation to the Kodak Theater as Kim Kardashian does to the Kennedy Center Honors.

While some auteurs locked out of the comp in 2015 have been invited back to the fold (Desplechin, Kawase) of Fremaux's loving arms, the usual trend of displacement has crafted an unusually exciting crop of titles in the Directors» Fortnight sidebar, as well as miscellaneous groupings of designated Special Screenings and Out of Competition slots specifically designed for auteurs who will remain part of the official program but away from the glaring inspection of competition pressures.

Aside from Jean - Luc Godard, it's hard to think of an octogenarian auteur who remains as vital and intellectually playful as 84 - year - old documentary master Frederick Wiseman.

Sit in as the cool and stylish auteur and I chat about everything from Otis Redding, Tennessee Williams, Hong Kong diners, Leslie Cheung's anniversary, Chinese censorship and of course the Temple's Unrequited Luv, Mr. Tony Leung Chiu - Wai.

But its eerie photographic effects, off - beat narrative and stylish direction set it apart from its contemporaries and mark it as the work of an auteur with a clear, specific vision.

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

Dead Pigs was shot with a bilingual crew with money from Chinese investors and finished in New York City, with arthouse auteur Jia Zhangke on board as an executive producer.

Se7en (1995), which turned David Fincher from that guy who screwed up the Alien series to a new breed of popular auteur, came out around the same time as The Usual Suspects.

As mentioned earlier, the DVDs of Shyamalan's feature films have contained clips from the movies he made as a child and aspiring auteuAs mentioned earlier, the DVDs of Shyamalan's feature films have contained clips from the movies he made as a child and aspiring auteuas a child and aspiring auteur.

Leo Tolstoy's tale of ball gowns, steam engines and lives ruined by affairs has been injected with a burst of visual flair by the Atonement auteur, staging much of the action within a 19th Century Russian theatre, where characters move from scene to scene as if in an epic, shifting play.

And so, in choosing it as the film from the past ten years I would most like to discuss in the context of the future of the medium, I might be asserting, against my better judgment, the primacy of the auteur over and above national cinemas and identity art — the ferocious and aggressively confrontational cinema of Lucrecia Martel serving as evidence that an ethos long - since debunked in serious academic circles still has credence or at least value in the second century of the movies.

With Courtney B. Vance providing omniscient narration (and a superb, bombastic score from Alexander Desplat), a score of the auteur's regular players have key voice work moments, from Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Ed Norton and Jeff Goldblum as a pack of helpful mutts, to Scarlett Johansson and Harvey Keitel as love interest and savior.

As an imperfect but heartfelt and exquisitely rendered portrait of the world's mysteries seen through wide, guileless eyes, the film can proudly stand next to VELVET GOLDMINE and FAR FROM HEAVEN in the oeuvre of an endlessly, passionately curious auteur.

As usual, the Masters programme is cholk - full of carryover items from world renowned auteurs who've already premiered last February (Berlin), this past May (Cannes) or as part of the upcoming action on the Lido (VeniceAs usual, the Masters programme is cholk - full of carryover items from world renowned auteurs who've already premiered last February (Berlin), this past May (Cannes) or as part of the upcoming action on the Lido (Veniceas part of the upcoming action on the Lido (Venice).

It does, however, continue the auteur's knack for mining astonishing breakout performances from young actors, as near - novice Tahar Rahim splinters the screen as a 19 year - old illiterate enduring the harshest passage into adulthood imaginable.

Other celebrated auteurs looking for their first Foreign Language nomination are Belgian brothers Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne, who went home from Cannes empty - handed but whose film Two Days, One Night will likely have their highest stateside profile yet due to the presence of Marion Cotillard in the lead role as a woman who has a single weekend to convince her co-workers to give up their bonuses so she will not be laid off.

The competition alone includes new films from famous international auteurs such as: Isabel Coixet, Hong Sangsoo, Doris Dorrie, Robert Guediguian, Errol Morris, Majid Majidi, Mike Leigh, Erick Zonca, Andrzej Wajda, and Johnnie To.

As perhaps the most famous Dutch auteur, he's gone from ribald little European films to the biggest of Hollywood bangs, incorporating his unique wit, visual sense and narrative acuity to all his projects.

His criticism as a writer for the Cahiers du cinema is just as important as his filmmaking, too — he's the one who first started the idea behind the auteur theory, though many others have modified it far from his original intent