Sentences with phrase «auteur whose»

With the release of her film Face in the Crowd (2014), an examination of crowd dynamics and the individual, Prager solidified her standing as an auteur whose ominous, experimental works conjure feelings of anxiety, apprehension, and dread, while simultaneously offering the viewing pleasure and intrigue of a Hollywood movie.

I Am Not a Flopper is an imagined tell - all that aims to embody the internal struggles of a faceless character, an auteur whose output has been obscured by a history of evasion in which «shame comes up a lot.»

Hong Sangsoo By Tony Rayns All hail the 17 - films - and - counting oeuvre of this tireless auteur whose debut helped jump - start a cinema renaissance in 1996

From this, one can glean a workable analogy for an auteur whose Achilles» heel has always been his obsession with fencing human characters inside locked - off, static frames.

Wong Kar - Wai is a genuine auteur whose signature style is instantly recognizable in his films due to the presence of eye - popping visuals, memorable music and characters that linger long in the memory.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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 →

On one side of the coin, collaborations with indie filmmakers and esteemed auteurs like Bong Joon - ho, whose new film Okja plays in competition in this year's Cannes Film Festival, ensure that more and more diverse creative voices are being heard.

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.

The storytelling maestro, whose auteur status was championed by the French New Wave for the way he defined film as a manipulative medium, was overlooked by his industry peers because his playful, sexually menacing thrillers were seen as genre films.

Their curious non-competitive status notwithstanding, these narrative and documentary premieres read like a wanna - see list for major indie names, either behind the camera or in front of it: movies you'd see whether it was the world premiere or not, with auteurs / filmmakers whose surnames stand on their own, like Solondz, Lonergan, Reichardt, Lee, Herzog, and much more.

French auteur cinema has increasingly been exploring themes of sex through scenarios whose explicitness verges on the pornographic.

And Ava DuVernay, whose versatility and remarkable C.V. should already have her viewed as one of the premiere American auteur directors.

Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas picked up the coveted best director award for Post Tenebras Lux, an experimental drama about a couple on a high - end sex holiday, whose children experience strange dreams.

Director Peter Bogdanovich received the organization's Auteur Award, while visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull was feted with the Nikola Tesla Award, whose previous winners include Rick Baker, Dennis Muren, Richard Donner, Stan Winston and James Cameron.

Now, 10 years after its release, «The Room» has achieved bona fide cult success, turning its misguided auteur into the unlikeliest of stars: a thickly accented, heavy - browed leading man whose personal history, nation of origin, age and real name remain unknown, as does the source of his considerable wealth.

The latest entrant in the comedy auteur sweepstakes is Chris Rock, whose celebrated writing and performing prowess in the field of stand - up comedy compares unfavorably to the flaccid political comedy Head of State.

Pitt, whose career has bounced erratically from mainstream and auteur - driven films to TV and obscure indies, carries I Origin very capably, demonstrating fine range, thoughtfulness and sensitivity in the process.

But debuting In Competition in Cannes, and coming from one - time auteur Atom Egoyan (whose excellent «Exotica» and solid «The Sweet Hereafter» increasingly look like anomalies in a filmography that more recently includes duds like «Devil's Knot»), we might have expected more.

Fresh off wigging - and - accenting his way through the role of would - be auteur Tommy Wiseau in his The Room tribute film The Disaster Artist, James Franco is gearing up to portray another modern Renaissance man — one whose efforts to wear multiple creative hats resulted in wide - spread acclaim, rather than ironic appreciation: cartoonist, poet, and songwriter Shel Silverstein.

But the film has aged remarkably well over twenty years, perhaps because it was even something of a throwback at the time: the imprint of conversation - driven French auteurs like Eric Rohmer is borne proudly by this sharp, sexy and nastily funny comedy of manners, whose dialogue crackles with such cutting truth and wit one wonders why Soderbergh doesn't write more these days.

After forays into auteur cinema like the magnificent TOKYO SONATA (Un certain regard Jury Prize at Cannes 2008), J - horror pioneer Kiyoshi Kurosawa, whose classics CURE and SÉANCE were adored at Fantasia in their day, makes a triumphant return to the horror thriller genre with the Berlin Film Festival selected Hitchcockian horror thriller CREEPY, which will be screened in Canadian Premiere.

In 2015, Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow made a documentary about another titan of New Hollywood — De Palma, whose penchant for voyeurism and Alfred Hitchcock homages made him one of the most recognizable auteurs of the era.

Claire's Camera is the 20th film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, whose work regularly features that vague air of cosmic mystery.

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.

For those pining for the return Whit Stillman, the 1990s indie sensation whose trilogy of films, Metropolitan, Barcelona and Last Days of Disco carved out a lasting auteur niche in a decade full of American indie - breakouts, his first film in 13 years technically meets that basic criteria — he has made a film — but it is not exactly what the faithful might expect.

The archetypal auteurs were not those filmmakers who controlled everything and produced works readily legible as Art but rather the unpretentious craftsmen working quickly within commercial constraints whose distinctive sensibilities nevertheless emerge against all odds as a kind of vernacular poetry.