Sentences with phrase «auteur working»

Thomas Campbell (USA, b. 1969) is an accomplished artist and auteur working in a multitude of media.

Snyder may not be the most personal auteur working in the movie business, but he certainly knows how to create some truly beautiful imagery in the digital age of cinema.

Anderson may have erred on the side of density for what will most likely be considered a stoner film, and it's not likely to earn respect as his best film by any means, but there's always pleasure in watching an auteur work.

Though I still think the Academy dropped the ball in some areas (Best Actress, in particular, could have been a far richer and more diverse race had the likes of Sally Hawkins and Kristin Scott Thomas been invited), it's true that, while 2008 hasn't been as rewarding for auteur works as some previous years, we've seen a lot of films either wholly constructed around their performances («The Wrestler» being a prime example) or saved by them (for my money, Anne Hathaway and Rosemarie DeWitt are the most focused elements of «Rachel Getting Married»).

I disliked the Franco - directed version of The Sound and the Fury so much that I'd sworn never to watch another if his auteur works unless I had to, and as for The Room, I was aware it was a phenomenon, but that was the extent of it.

They may want to hold up and wait a bit longer, rolling the dice to see if some other enterprising would - be auteur works that left - field tidbit into their armchair - philosophizing cinematic treatise on paying it forward or embracing life or some such malarkey.

The duo's glorious, genre - busting brand of filmmaking has made them one of the best auteurs working today, and they surprise me time and time again for how well they mash certain genres together to tell stories that are usually anything but normal.

Sandwiched between two movies Bond writers, Purvis and Wade, led a conversation around the auteurs work.

Not exact matches

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

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.

Under normal circumstances, you would be forgiven for thinking that Pitt appropriated the property (à la Tom Cruise) for his own megalomaniacal ends, but the actor has appeared in enough ensemble pictures (and worked with enough dreamy auteurs like Terrence Malick) to dispel the idea that his vanity pushed out other considerations.

It doesn't hurt that it was also selected as Denmark's Foreign Language Oscar Entry, a distinguished honor, considering it beat out works from more prestigious auteurs.

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.

He's still working to rebrand himself as something beyond a torture - porn auteur, and he may have convinced himself that this movie, with its talk - radio debates, wants you to «make up your own mind» about its hero's odyssey.

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.

Stage and movie work followed, and Miller joined the stock company / entourage of low - budget auteur Roger Corman.

Director Matt Wolf's critically acclaimed documentary examines the life and work of Arthur Russell, an influential singer, songwriter, cello player and disco auteur who died tragically in 1992.

Hayao Miyazaki's «The Wind Rises,» the Japanese auteur's alleged final work, which delicately recounts the life of airplane designer Jiro Horikoshi.

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.

A work from one of Britain's most loved authors finds itself in the hands of American indie auteur Wes Anderson, best known for his arch and perfectionist takes on eccentric schemers and fractured family dynamics.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kaufman is one of the few «auteur screenwriters» working in the United States today, and much like his previous work, the idea of «the self» is intelligently deconstructed by way of bittersweet cinematic creativity.

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).

What has audiences so eager this time is in part the combination of an auteur African - American director (Ryan Coogler of «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»), a heavyweight cast (Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong» o, Angela Bassett and Forest Whitaker) and a soundtrack co-produced by a rap superstar (Kendrick Lamar), all working on one of the most popular franchises in Hollywood.

«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.»

Knowing the provocative work of sci - fi auteur Alex Garland, who directed «Ex Machina» and wrote «Sunshine,» «28 Days Later» and «Never Let Me Go,» the primary question evolves: When will the trek through the forest become an expedition into the mind?

His company, Adam Elliot Pictures, produce the films and Elliot's work practices adhere to the French auteur methodology.

The ever - growing reliance on home and mobile streaming entertainment thankfully do not neglect auteur content and MIFF is proud to support the work, less so the medium with Top of the Lake: China Girl; straight from a standing ovation in Cannes, this special Australian premiere of the entire second season, directed by Jane Campion and starring Nicole Kidman will show all six episodes in three concurrent two - hour sessions — a unique opportunity to see the series before its television premiere, turning this binge experience into an outright event.

Director / co writer M. Night Shyamalan, working from Will Smith's story idea, continues his streak of films that make you wonder what the heck happened to the young auteur who gave us The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs.

It is the work of a true master: a one - of - a-kind auteur who has once again offered cinema fans something truly special.

Similarly, I'd prefer to think that the dullness of Damage isn't attributable to the remarkable Jeremy Irons, whom I consider an auteur — that is, a more powerful creative presence than any writer or director he works with.

Keita Takahashi, most famous for creating Katamari Damacy, is the rare video game auteur who works in nothing but shades of unadulterated, utterly charming whimsy.

While she's spent the past 22 years working with some of the most acclaimed indie auteurs, the release of «Irrational Man» this weekend finds the heralded «Queen of the Indies» hitting a milestone she never thought possible: A dream collaboration with Woody Allen.

In other words, John Ford apologists need to work overtime to dig their favorite auteur out from under this surreal bilge.

When respected filmmakers like Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Tim Burton (Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie) have embraced the medium, expectations have been somewhat different, with critics approaching the works as part of their auteurs» oeuvres.

Another master, Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke, works in an entirely different key — many different keys, in fact — in «Mountains May Depart,» an audacious, squirrelly love triangle completely shut out by the jury.

The film's title («Return» in English) is echoed by the return / resurrection of the protagonist sisters» mother thought to be a ghost (and played by former Almodóvar muse Carmen Maura, returning to work with the auteur after a falling - out that lasted a decade).

«THE WHITE RIBBON» Michael Haneke's latest answers more questions than we have come to expect from the ornery auteur; that lack of interpretive leeway keeps this from the teasing heights of his best work, but Haneke has never been more in command of his formal and technical gifts.

The reason he still remains an auteur — in spite of the homogenization of his style and the not - so - gradual atrophy of his work — is that those preoccupations have remained consistent.

There are auteurs offering up work considerably below the bars they've set (Woody Allen and «Whatever Works,» Pedro Almodovar and «Broken Embraces»), as well as indie hopefuls that could make an unexpected splash, like «Frozen River» and «Away from Her» in years past (Guillermo Arriaga's «The Burning Plain,» for instance, or Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman's «The Messenger,» both extremely deserving).

His auteur status has always felt like it was more a result of his technical and visual flourishes than any embedded (non-twist) fixations in his work.

The Cat o» Nine Tails predicts shots and images that Argento would use in his later works and, because of the transparency of the classical auteur theory, this rather stolid thriller entry holds the most interest for students and fans of Argento's distinctive flourishes and obsessions.

Eubanks» skill as a filmmaker seems commensurate with the impact of his story; his work here is higher - minded than mere low - budget viscera, but not as thoughtful, or thought through, as the material of budding auteurs like Neill Blomkamp or Rian Johnson.

Since first emerging in the mid -»80s, working with legendary auteurs such as Jean - Luc Godard and Andre Techine, Juliette Binoche has consistently been one of the most compelling screen presences of her generation.

Apparently interested in auteurs, Stewart has worked with Olivier Assayas, Walter Salles, and David Fincher, and her upcoming projects include an untitled Kelly Reichardt film (once again starring Michelle Williams) and Woody Allen's next movie.