Sentences with phrase «auteur film»

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.

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.

«It's an auteur film...,» one hears.

The Cannes Film Festival is always a rich tapestry of auteur film makers from around the world, films to delight the Francophile and American entries full of stars to light up the red carpet or kick off their awards campaign.

Or too much of an «auteur film»?

As usual, many of the predicted auteur films which didn't make Fremaux's final cut for the main competition or Un Certain Regard could be fair game to turn up here, although many a notable name has been known to hold off for a higher berth premiere out of Venice.

«It's good to have a new partner for financing movies and (who is willing) to pay a lot of money that will buy auteur films.

Not exact matches

These enormous trends toward centralization and homogeneity still do permit room for the occasional «auteur» film of individual artistry, the profoundly critical television documentary, the journalistic exposé of corruption in high places, and other examples of independent thinking or original art.

Behind the Sun, the latest film from Brazilian auteur Walter Salles, covers a similar fight, one between two families.

Her previous films, the sprite High Season and the whimsical Rough Magic, were technically sound productions (though, in the case of Rough Magic, narratively poor too) that showed she was more than a notable screenwriter (of the maligned but underrated Michaelangelo Antonioni epic Zabriskie Point) and famous spouse (of Italian auteur Bernardo Bertolucci).

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.

Even more than most of the Winnipeg auteur's efforts, «The Forbidden Room» is a toy box for fans of film history, its illusion of a Russian - doll structure (though there's really no innermost sanctum here, title notwithstanding) furthering a sense that every reference here leads to an even more esoteric one.

It's the work of that 1970s Italian auteur that this film's meditative pacing, wide - open landscapes and enigmatic protagonist most readily evoke.

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.

In the years since Chris Columbus «sleepy debut films, the series has had its ups (Alfonso Cuarón «s immaculate «Prisoner of Azkaban «-RRB- and its downs (Mike Newell «s gonzo Bollywood «Goblet of Fire «-RRB- before settling in with its designated auteur, David Yates, who has helmed the last four films including this, the final entry, «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.»

A mostly engaging compilation of 33 three - minute films made by leading international auteurs on the occasion of the Cannes Film Festival's 60th birthday.

From a road trip to the scene of James Dean's fatal accident to the making of The Room, this film is an inspirational masterpiece that is guided by Franco's performance of a very driven auteur.

The real auteur of this film is executive producer Zack Snyder; the whole project is so caught up in surface and style that it either fails to find time for more or it simply can not be arsed.

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.

For the latter film, Stipe championed a colleague from his rock career, music video auteur Spike Jonze, to direct.

The same can be said of Quentin Tarantino («Pulp Fiction», «Inglorious Basterds»), a talented auteur who «graces» the movie - going public with a new film every 3 years or so.

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.

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?

I was once a very harsh critic of Mr. Tarantino, the video store clerk turned auteur, who seemed to be preoccupied with the inventiveness of his in - jokes and visual quotations of scene compositions from other films.

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...

A selection of heavyweight titles from top - drawer auteurs has been unveiled for this year's Cannes film festival, with previous winners of the Palme d'Or, Jacques Audiard, Michael Haneke and Ken Loach, all back in contention.

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

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.

The movie is credited to two directors, Wanda Tuchock and George Nichols Jr., but film scholar Jeremy Arnold believes Tuchock, who also wrote the screenplay, should be regarded as the film's sole auteur: «This one has Wanda's fingerprints all over it.»

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.

Genre - defying auteur, David Gordon Green and his gifted star, Emile Hirsch discuss their unabashedly off - kilter and undeniably touching new film.

And elsewhere, smaller distributors like Kino Lorber, Olive Films, Flicker Alley, Twilight Time, Cohen Media Group, and Blue Underground, when not giving a necessary makeover to classics already in their impressive libraries, brought under - heralded films by our greatest auteurs and criminally unseen works by cinema's pioneers to home video for the first time.

Other films that have chosen to show in Telluride (with a possible first stop in Venice) include Cary Fukunaga's Netflix drama Beasts of No Nation; the Brie Larson - starring Room, based on Emma Donoghue's bestseller; Tom McCarthy's ensemble drama Spotlight, starring Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams; Legend, in which Tom Hardy plays the Kray twins, who ruled London's gangland during the 1950s and 1960s; and Remember, which, ironically, is directed by one of Canada's most famous auteurs, Atom Egoyan.

«This Is Not a Film «When Iranian new - wave top dog Jafar Panahi was silenced by his country's government (essentially barring him from continuing his film career), it was assumed that, save some renegade attempt to escape the country, we probably wouldn't hear from the auteur for some time.

The third film in what is being called The Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy, a sly nod to the late auteur Krzysztof Kieślowski and a popular brand of ice cream cone, «The World's End» might lack zombies and buckets of blood, but it's easily the darkest of the three films.

Silence is the kind of film we rarely see anymore unless one of a handful of auteurs like Martin Scorsese made it.

Tarantinos's special touch drives the film even if he is not in the directorial chair, talk about a powerful auteur signature.

Indeed, the film is framed around her experiences with auteur during this crucial period in his life.

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).

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

Unsane — *** OUT OF 4 Directed by Steven Soderbergh, the genius film auteur known for, quitting Hollywood, winning the Oscar for directing «Traffic», and whose film «Sex, Lies and Videotape» changed the industry outlook on «indie films», has produced a... Continue reading →

The Spanish auteur's 20th film sees him turning a new leaf, with a subtly stormy adaptation of three of the Nobel Laureate's stories

«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.»

Scottish auteur Lynne Ramsay has created distinctively lyrical, deeply disturbing, and always unforgettable films about tormented people.

Brady Corbet is a familiar face on screen as an actor in independent in a number of films by today's quintessential auteurs.

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.

Well, I'm the kind of curious movie nerd who subsequently wonders which film was atop Kane auteur Orson Welles» personal list.

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.

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.