Sentences with phrase «auteur directors like»

The sustained critical success of auteur directors like Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier, the emergence in the 1990s and 2000s of the «new...

And after a 2016 that saw them partner with auteur directors like Nicolas Winding Refn (The Neon Demon), Whit Sitllman (Love & Friendship), Todd Solondz (Wiener - Dog), Jim Jarmusch (Paterson), and Park Chan - wook (The Handmaiden), they certainly don't seem to be abandoning their artist - focused strategy.

The sustained critical success of auteur directors like Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier, the emergence in the 1990s and 2000s of the «new extremism» particularly in French cinema, and the rise in recent...

Not exact matches

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.

While most horror films of today struggle to out - shock one another, thankfully there are still auteurs like director, Brian O'Malley (Let Us Prey), who delight in a slower, more gracefully paced approach to eeriness.

Razzia is virtuoso filmmaking by an auteur who, like most directors from the Middle East and North Africa, remains frustratingly unknown outside that region.

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.

Like much of the auteur directors post-Days of Heaven work, you will get out of the film what you bring into it.

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.

But I'd like to take issue with my colleagues and stand up for the less showy, more versatile directors who have sometimes been underrated in the rush to anoint auteurs.

Director Alexander Hall is nobody's idea of an auteur; the rest of his filmography has been largely forgotten, and the Oscar nomination he received for his functional work here (notable primarily for depicting heaven as a dry - ice limbo) looks downright absurd nestled alongside the likes of Orson Welles (Citizen Kane), Howard Hawks (Sergeant York), and winner John Ford (How Green Was My Valley).

But his irreverent style also caught the attention of auteur indie directors like Alex Cox and Gregg Araki for whom he scored the films The Winner and Splendor.

«Old School» and «Hangover» director Todd Phillips fancies himself an auteur, but here it seems like he's imitating David O Russell imitating Martin Scorsese.

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

It took the protests at the May 1968 festival and the demands of festival critics like Jean - Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer and François Truffaut to not only close down the festival that year but create a parallel section of films — the directors» fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) where the reputation for auteur film was established.

Oficial Fantàstic will also showcase young maverick directors such as Sebastián Silva and his Magic Magic, and genre auteurs like Shane Carruth with his new film Upstream Color, or Marina de Van with Dark Touch.

Maybe the studio will hire more auteur filmmakers like Nolan to helm their DC adaptations, no offense to Martin Campbell, but he's a very workmanlike director who has as many misses as hits on his resume — for every Goldeneye and Mask of Zorro there's a Vertical Limit and Legend of Zorro.

Using clips and interviews with auteurs like Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, and more, the documentary entrancingly explains what made Hitchcock a singular director.