Sentences with phrase «auteurs in»

Kojima is one of the rare auteurs in big - budget game design: a creator nearly as well - known as his trademark series, which just spawned the epic Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Generously crammed with entertaining dialog and awash with the sort of boundless imagination which has long deserted many of the elder auteurs in the genre, Super Chibi Knight's myriad setting spans everything from haunted forests and pirate ships, through to temples and lost mines and in showing such variety does a great job of providing a kaleidoscopic aperture into the unfettered imagination of an eight - year old gamer.

Anderson has become one of the great auteurs in Hollywood and deserves all the success that comes his way.

As noted, the film becomes less tiresome in its second half, when the scene shifts to the Cote d'Azur and the Cannes Film Festival, which is shut down by Godard, Truffaut (who is never seen) and fellow auteurs in support of the Paris rioters.

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima is one of the few auteurs in video gaming, mostly because you can usually count on him to bring a certain level of outrageous insanity to the games he creates.

Beyond that, it may be the case that these directors just don't have much going for them aside from their images: that the texts of their films really are empty and the only way they have of expressing an artistic vision is through their images («form is substituted for theme»), that they are simply not complete auteurs in the sense Ford and Lang were.

Having already sampled some of John Carpenter's bad «90s work, his largely derided return to feature filmmaking only sent me further in retreat, back to the «70s and «80s work that suggested him as one of the great, personal auteurs in an increasingly bloated mainstream landscape.

This brings us to a discussion about what this means for Marvel's future, a rejection of auteurs in favor of a more homogenized vision, studio influence, and more.

Very typical of the post Gen X bullshit touted by self - proclaimed «arthouse» auteurs in the 90s, the biggest tragedy of this pointless load of self - satisfied yet irrelevant and vacuous drivel is the fact that there are now two wasted hours of my life I will never get back.

«Black Nativity,» loosely based on a play by Langston Hughes, is brought beautifully to life by writer / director Kasi Lemmons, a true auteur in every sense of the word.

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.

From the outset, the loss of Greengrass as director should have a detrimental effect on the overall quality of this film, but this isn't the main obstacle facing Legacy, as they have a very capable auteur in the form of Gilroy, and it should be remembered that the franchise was kick - started by Doug Liman some ten years ago.

Wong Kar Wai By Olivier Assayas The Hong Kong movie game - changer is poetically reappraised by the cutting - edge French auteur in this appreciation of a man, a filmmaker, and a city

Try putting an introspective auteur in the director's chair.

Judging by current trends, the auteur in question tends to be either the kind of emerging B - lister you'll recognise from... Read More

Richard Linklater is America's most distinguished auteur in the subgenre of movies in which a tight knit group of men just kind of hang out for two hours.

It's important to acknowledge that Kaufman has become an auteur in the public consciousness, but it's equally important to understand that auteurism is more a way of viewing films than a formula for understanding how films are created.

As an artist, renaissance man and auteur in the making, Steve's work has been compared to the work of David Lynch and Matthew Barney.

The pop - cultural consensus on horror director Tobe Hooper would seem to be that, with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he somehow made one of the genre's defining masterpieces right out of the gate only to squander a promising career on a string of strange mediocrities that ultimately marked him more as a hack - for - hire than an auteur in the tradition of more respected contemporaries such as John Carpenter, Wes Craven, or George A. Romero.

Eighteen years after the soul - crushing realities of self - funded film production were exposed in Chris Smith's landmark documentary American Movie, director Gary Doust puts a warm but no less anxiety - inducing Australian spin on the tribulations faced by the next - to - no - budget auteur in Horror Movie: A Low Budget Nightmare.

I had the chance to speak with Villeneuve about the impressions he had on his first read of the screenplay (Sons of Anarchy actor and first - time scribe Taylor Sheridan is also seeing his second screenplay Comancheria being directed by another noteworthy auteur in David MacKenzie with Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster on the scorecard) and I got a little insight on what he was looking for in Sicario's score (here he reteams with his Jóhann Jóhannsson who scored Prisoners).

That was the decade when Carpenter — arguably the best B - movie auteur in the world during the 1980s and certainly the most audacious — lost his mojo.

That is an auteur in action, and his concerns are very focused.

by Walter Chaw A bona fide auteur in an age of facile pretenders, Guillermo del Toro is the pulp genre's Martin Scorsese, his films filtering devout Catholic imagery through a lurid colour palette and obsessed with insectile machineries and mentor relationships between boys and old men.

Writer / director Terrence Malick's latest film, The Tree of Life, just opened in limited release this weekend, marking only the fifth film released by the auteur in an almost 40 - year career.

And he's an auteur in the most crazy sense.

Similarly positioning himself as collector, curator or even naturalist, Dion reinscribes himself below artist as auteur in the art taxonomy.

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.

Milch in particular seems to have embodied the stereotype of auteur as enfant terrible.

They get paid a lot because there is an extraordinary amount of pressure on them, and I think to take that auteur - style theory of directorship — that idea that they're just clay in my hands — is kind of simplistic.

Anvari doesn't appear in Iranian Cinema Uncensored, Shiva Rahbaran's fascinating collection of interviews with many of Iran's major auteurs.

(From «Hypocrit Auteur» in Collected Poems: 1917 — 1952.

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.

She thinks back to the best of times and the worst of times, as that auteur from across the Channel would put it, when Raymonde Veber became the best female tennis player in a nation that didn't belong to her anymore.

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 Winnipeg auteur, who started his own offbeat movement three decades ago, re-creates those faraway moments in swirling incantations made possible through today's technology.

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.

Legendary oddball auteur Tommy Wiseau («The Room») gets his own «Ed Wood» in this funny and sweetly sad portrait

Regardless of opinion, he was not only one of the biggest stars of the postwar era but also one of the most powerful, and as the writer, director, and producer of many of his features, he qualified as a comic auteur firmly in the tradition of Chaplin and Keaton.Born Joseph Levitch in Newark, NJ, on March 16, 1926, he was the son of borscht - belt comics, spending the majority of his childhood living with relatives but joining his parents each summer as they performed in the Catskills.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin 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.»

Talented B - picture director Joseph H. Lewis wasn't yet in the «auteur» class when he helmed the PRC quickie Criminals Within.

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.

The 39 Steps is a masterclass in propulsive narrative cinema that even today's so - called blockbuster auteurs should study.

In fact, his directing style just might be the most overbearing and style - conscious of any major filmmaking auteur.

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.

The result is a worthy serialized companion piece to the auteur's prior efforts in the genre: poised, pulsating with dread, and permeated with cautious optimism that, perhaps, scrupulous rationality might help us triumph over modern - day irrationality.

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.

The South Korean auteur avoids his usual über - narrative, which indulges in sensationalism and tortures, and deals with Waters» Victorian thriller carefully.

Auteurs that have received a spotlight include Olivier Assayas, Claire Denis, Tsai Ming - liang, and Steven Spielberg, the last of whom has been given the treatment in two separate issues.

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.