Sentences with phrase «auteur at»

Red Cliff Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: John Woo's Chinese - language historical epic finds the Hong Kong auteur at the top of his game, staging a third - century battle royale that's as breathlessly paced as it is artfully choreographed.

A top - level film from an auteur at the height of his powers.

No, it is not without minor flaws, but no doubt Russell established himself as an auteur at this point and would solidify that by the films hat followed.

A heady psychosexual drama that's steeped in dense anxieties and rich European glamour (the film was partially funded by Chanel), Olivier Assayas's latest finds the French auteur at the very top of his game.

Auteurs at the Aero: On Friday, Jan. 18, at 7:30 p.m., the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica has a cool double - feature: David Lynch's 1986 neo-noir «Blue Velvet,» starring Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini and Dennis Hopper, and «All That Heaven Allows» (1955, Douglas Sirk), a subversive love story about the romance between a lonely widow (Jane Wyman) and her gardener (Rock Hudson).

Not exact matches

In a humiliating turn, the Transformers auteur totally botched a live Samsung presentation at the 2014 International CES on Monday touting the tech giant's forthcoming 105 - inch curved UHD televisions.

The movie is a freak show for hipsters, many of whom once goggled at the grade - Z soft - core melodrama The Room and speculated on its plainly disturbed auteur.

This controversial Golden Lion winner at the Venice Film Festival (after The Master was stripped of the award due to a technicality) is Korean auteur Kim Ki - duk's most accessible film since 2007's Time 73, but it can still be an incredibly difficult watch.

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.

Catching Sean Baker's The Florida Project at the Cannes Film Festival — an arena dominated by big beast auteurs and their sombre epics — felt like discovering a new cinematic language defined by colour, humour, energy and emotion.

At the end, it's more like A.I. than it is like anything else — the story of a mechanical boy abandoned by his mother, in search of a family and authentic emotion and left to founder in the clashing sensibilities of two auteurs: early -»80s fairytale teller John Carpenter and early -» 00s diarist of the family reserve Zombie.

Free jazz: looking at some of the Nikkatsu auteur's lesser - known (but characteristically manic) films

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.

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 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).

The Platform Prize, a new juried competition at the festival, chose «HURT» by Alan Zweig from among 12 films by international auteurs.

That famous movement's auteurs disdained Freudian psychology (at least at first) and rarely embedded their protagonists in familial contexts; think of Godard, whose characters spring to life in an existential present, with no hint of having had parents, much less grandparents.

She moved to New York in 2002 to study English and philosophy at Barnard, did lots of drama and theatre, graduated in 2006 and went into acting, immediately landing a role in LOL, a film by mumblecore auteur Joe Swanberg.

An uncommonly sympathetic, if uncompromising, look at the place of an actor in a world of would - be auteurs.»

With this tale of an eccentric rock star cut off from the world, Paolo Sorrentino joins the gang of European auteurs, from Antonioni to Wenders, who have followed success at home with a road trip to the States.

1) Something in the Air at the Laemmle Royal (Opens FRIDAY 5/3, plays ALL WEEK) French auteur Olivier Assayas» newest film Apres mai (re-titled Something in the Air for U...

Prolific Hong Kong action auteur Johnnie To performs a border crossing with Drug War, his first cops - and - criminals film shot and set in mainland China, and in some ways the filmmaker is stretching his legs with all that extra space at his disposal.

by Bill Chambers Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty is basically auteur - slumming at The WB: If «Dawson's Creek» had ever done an episode abroad, I can't imagine it being that far removed from what we have here.

At the AFI premiere of «A Most Violent Year,» Chastain told me that she has more than once chased the attentions of another European auteur with a predilection for the female psyche, Michael Haneke.

Because of the sheer volume and diversity of the programming, «celebrity» takes on multiple meanings: While pedestrians clog the sidewalks of King Street, hoping to catch even the briefest red - carpet glimpse of Tom Hardy or Jennifer Garner, it's also not uncommon to find cinephiles gaping in hushed awe at the passing appearance of a favorite auteur.

The French auteur has shown fourteen of his films at the festival and his newest film The New Girlfriend marks his fifth in a row.

The last year that Woody Allen did not release a single film was 1981 and even at 82 the auteur shows no signs of slowing down.

We've got some new discoveries, films we couldn't get to at Cannes, exciting follow - ups, legendary auteurs and more in our list, so take a look below to read what we picked and why.

At the start of the year, the 29 - year - old was basically unknown: his first feature, musical «Guy And Madeline on a Park Bench,» had been well - liked but little - seen, and prior writing credits on 2013's contradictorily - titled «The Last Exorcism Part II» and Elijah Wood - starring B - movie «Grand Piano» didn't exactly suggest our next great auteur.

A prankish comedy - thriller overtly about desperation and insecurity, Baghead begins with a dead - on Q&A at a Los Angeles indie film festival, where an underground auteur (Jett Garner) condescendingly responds on matters of budget and improvisation.

Film - geek auteur projects, psychotronic fanboy - friendly blockbusters, over-the-top midnight movies, under - the - radar indie dramas and more music documentaries than you can shake a D.A. Pennebraker - approved stick at — the annual SXSW Film Festival (kicking off on March 10th) has always specialized in a sort of eclectic, lo - fi - meets - high - art - for - a-Shiner-Bock vibe when it comes to their programming.

This one is his war movie, which all auteurs eventually take a crack at.

Barnard won a special critic's prize for her direction at AFI Fest where the film also won the Audience Award in its category New Auteurs.

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.

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.

«French auteur Jacques Audiard's Dheepan, an intimately observed, mostly Tamil - language drama about a makeshift family of Sri Lankan refugees in Paris, was the unexpected winner of the Palme d'Or at the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival on Sunday night.»

French auteur Olivier Assayas» newest film Apres mai (re-titled Something in the Air for U.S. audiences), begins its L.A. engagement this week at Laemmle Theaters.

An official selection at the Berlin International Film Festival, this animated neo-noir thriller from Chinese auteur Liu Jian mixes follows interweaving storylines that lead an eccentric cast of characters to a bloody climax over one bag of stolen money.

He's a fascinating figure, Wilder — a director of obvious genius who has defied easy auteur classification not because he didn't have his distinguishing characteristics (the outsider hero yearning for assimilation, for instance), but because his films are only queasily liked and then only at arm's length.

Our Sunhi: Korean auteur Hong San - soo «s latest — earning him the best director award at the Locarno Film Festival — offers a quaint comedy of manners.

Look closely at Audiard's work, however, and you can see that he creates entire cinematic worlds as distinctive as any proffered by more obvious «auteurs» like Pedro Almodóvar and Wong Kar - Wai.

Though I don't have much more than a nodding acquaintance with either action auteur, it seems that Chan in Rumble in the Bronx has succeeded at making a personal project in the Hong Kong manner in a putatively American setting, while Woo in Broken Arrow has made a slam - bang Hollywood picture in which personal touches are visible, if mainly applied with an eyedropper.

«The Shape of Water» /» Wonderstruck» /» Downsizing» From three of our finest auteurs, superior flights of imagination on technology and our total failure at verbal communication.

Photographed by Tom Hoops for Lab MagazineNicolas Winding Refn, the Danish auteur whose made a career of candy colored violent films after grimier movies at home, is both exactly what you'd expect and unexpected.

There's a great deal more veteran Metal Gear Solid talent hanging on at Konami than Kojima legging it with the studio name suggests, but it's under new leadership now, and with Kojima out the door it's probably going to have to get used to a new kind of production schedule without an auteur to wrangle deadline and budget blow outs from management.

Actors who regularly work at scale or discount for directors they believe in — actors like Matt Dillon, Jane Fonda, Morgan Freeman, Gerard Depardieu, Genevieve Bujold, William Hurt, Peter Coyote — are in effect subsidizing what's left of the auteur film.

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.»

Tomorrow evening, just before sunset, Nagisa Oshima's ghost story Empire of Passion (1978) will materialize at the Austin Film Society Cinema in Texas, as the theater continues its monthlong retrospective series devoted to the Japanese auteur.

After scooping up Best Screenplay and Best Actor honors for The Salesman at the Cannes Film Festival, Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi has swiftly landed two more international prizes for his next film: Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem.