Sentences with phrase «as the auteur of»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

After all, the 71 - year - old French auteur, whose film Beau Travail remains one of the great works of the last few decades, has taken an especially grim turn as of late, with movies like Bastards, White Material and The Intruder exploring some of the darker sides of contemporary humanity.

Synopsis: Mad Men auteur Matthew Weiner makes his feature directorial debut with You Are Here, a mix of comedy and drama that stars Owen Wilson as Steve, a g...

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?

Unlike Chaplin and Keaton, they were not themselves great auteur directors, or worked with any; the same could be said of Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers, but their respective phenomena overrided the impact of any decision - making body behind the camera, as a hurricane is to a weatherman.

The prime achievement of Penn's movie is that it accommodates those readings and others, even as it evinces its auteur's admiration for Chris's romanticism.

As with any auteur, there is, for better or worse, the question of the image.

However, if anyone is up to the task it's the auteurs responsible for Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance and Lady Vengeance, and A Tale Of Two Sisters and The Good, The Bad, The Weird respectively, with their choice of English - language projects seemingly designed as a challengOf Two Sisters and The Good, The Bad, The Weird respectively, with their choice of English - language projects seemingly designed as a challengof English - language projects seemingly designed as a challenge.

Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz (wife of auteur Ulrich Seidl) and Severin Fiala first present Goodnight Mommy as a mystery with a horror film premise — two nine - year - old twin brothers question their mother's identity after a facial surgery leaves most of her...

She regards the aforementioned Ruiz — with whom she recently introduced their fourth collaboration, the Balzac adaptation «Nucingen Haus,» at the London Film Festival — as a close mentor, and is quick to compile a list of auteurs she has long desired to working with, including Steven Soderbergh, Danny Boyle and Mike Leigh.

This is the auteur's second project to utilize the real - life passing of time as a storytelling device, following his Before series (whose latest entry, Before Midnight, was my favorite film of 2013), a trio of romance movies separated by 9 years each starring Hawke and Julie Delpy.

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.

Arguably, a national distrust of the genuinely individual — as opposed to the eccentric and «quirky» — accounts for the glaring absence at the heart of Australian cinema: the auteur.

It showcases the stunning naturalistic performances that would become a hallmark of Pialat's work, and immediately cemented him as one of France's best emerging auteurs.

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.

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.

And guiding it all is Audiard who, if he hasn't already established himself as one of France's (and world cinema's) finest auteurs, will do so here.

Organizers of London's 2012 Olympic effort have clearly filched the Chinese memo, as they've secured their own now - cuddly auteur as artistic director of their opening ceremony — one Mr. Danny Boyle.

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).

I'm a bit taken aback (as ever) by some of the filmmakers who've been shunted into other sections, but at least after all the well - justified complaints that last year's Palme competition was mostly made up of subpar work by established auteurs, they haven't gone that route again (or, at least, not quite so pronouncedly).

as the kind of unpredictable, risk - taking, auteur - driven movie our film landscape desperately needs.

«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.

The opposing forces are a direct reflection of the challenge undertaken by director and co-writer Craig Brewer, who only half sells out as he tries to leave an auteur's mark while remaining faithful to a source that's loaded with dated, studio - friendly hokum.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

Joan Micklin Silver By Shonni Enelow The director of such lovingly idiosyncratic films as Crossing Delancey and Hester Street merits reconsideration as a true offbeat American auteur

I thought about changing my prediction to a shock win for Michael Haneke until I remembered that no director of a foreign language film has ever won this prize — no not even Federico Fellini or Ingmar Bergman, Oscar's indisputable favorites as foreign auteurs go.

Unlike the «Auteur» or «Shreiber» theories favouring either the director or the writer as the true author of a film, the «Fís» Theory holds that a true singular voice can only be attained when the director is also the writer.

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.