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TheWrap spotlights Andrew Neel («Goat»), Rob Burnett («Fundamentals of Caring») and other auteurs on the rise
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This year's main competition jury, headed by Steven Spielberg, will assess and debate 20 titles, many directed by auteurs on whom Cannes has smiled fondly in previous years.
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.
He is surely coming to rival Paolo Sorrentino as an Italian auteur on the world stage.
Sweden's auteur on winning the Palme d'Or for The Square, society's changing social contract, and his next film Triangle of Sadness.
Rather than go full auteur on his formulaic material, McQuarrie instead offers a kind of greatest hits package: Rogue Nation marries the shifting loyalties of Brian De Palma's original to the kinetic action beats of John Woo's series nadir and the all - set - piece structure of Brad Bird's series zenith, adding an omnipotent villain not far removed from the one Philip Seymour Hoffman played in J.J. Abrams» entry.
Among our favorites thus far is the one by Geoffrey O'Brien, who has written stirringly and lyrically about the French auteur on the New York...
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.
I've been enjoying The Word on the Street, a 2003 translation that casts the Big Guy as a Hollywood auteur with a taste for sweeping gestures.
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.
Instead they decided to become auteurs by making a video of the video playing back on a smartphone held by an anonymous hand as two anonymous young women added pointless voice - over commentary.
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.
It's a low - boil affair from the Office Space auteur that wears out its dumb - and - dumbest playbook early on.
The movie is a freak show for hipsters, many of whom once goggled at the grade - Z soft - core melodrama The Room and speculated on its plainly disturbed auteur.
Taking stock of the dizzying array of touchstones on this record, this also the sound of an auteur hellbent on short circuiting all convention.
Filmmakers Jake Paltrow (Gwyneth's brother) and Noah Baumbach (WHILE WE»RE YOUNG) keep things simple with this expansive retrospective on the 75 - year - old auteur's career.
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?
«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.
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.
Art of the Title Sequence takes on Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989) The New Yorker Richard Brody thinks critics have failed female auteurs / Film whoa.
Finally, auteur - cum - symbol - of - injustice Mohammad Rasoulof's extraordinary B Omid Didar — made on the sly while the Iranian filmmaker was about to be imprisoned for political activism — may be the most paranoid movie about a persecuted pregnant woman ever made.
The fest's identity has always been indie and American: With one - of - a-kind auteurs Whit Stillman, Todd Solondz, Kenneth Lonergan and Ira Sachs (among many others) returning, this year's edition looks certain to deliver on its huge promise.
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.
(That said, in a year that has seen a record number of women both on the jury and in the competition, a win for a female auteur would make a neat narrative.)
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.
Other American auteurs (or US productions) likely to be unveiling here are Terrence Malick with Weightless (come on already!)
Midsection on acting, Andrew Sarris and Robin Wood reflect on auteur theory, Steven Spielberg, Kenneth Anger on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Herbert Ross interview, Bob Hope, Josef von Sternberg's Anatahan, Clint Eastwood interview, Harvey Keitel interview
Those who were hoping that the promised additions to the Cannes Competition selection announced last week would bring some added name appeal to a lineup shorter than usual on star auteurs — particularly in the English - language realm — will be disappointed by today's announcement.
That mission places Lelio on a footing with the most exalted of Spanish - speaking auteurs, Pedro Almodóvar, with whom he shares an exquisite sensitivity to colors, textures and compositions — an ability to harness the emotionally expressive power of the medium.
Lousy box office and middling - to - poor reviews ensure that these filmmakers probably won't get carte blanche next time out, and while their results aren't quite strong enough to place on my legit best - of list, the auteur madness sure was fun while it lasted.
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.
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 →
«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.»
Brady Corbet is a familiar face on screen as an actor in independent in a number of films by today's quintessential auteurs.
In De Palma, co-directors Jake Paltrow (left) and Noah Baumbach (right) focus solely on Brian De Palma's retelling of his fascinating career as an auteur.
I admire that auteur Johnson expands on the Jedi and Force mythologies; The Last Jedi excels when it focuses on Luke, Rey, and Kylo Ren.
Hooper, of course, also places a great deal of emphasis on his own flaws as a filmmaker, though perhaps not in the manner one might expect: Les Misérables seems, in his newly Oscar - carrying hands, an elaborate demo reel for his tics as self - styled auteur.
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.
Index (42 minutes) 00:01 A little more on Elle, Huppert, and provocateur auteurs 13:00 Bleed For This, The Fighter, Hidden Figures 19:20 Katey joins us & Nick goes to New Zealand 23:00 Critic prizes, Critics Choice Nomination, NBR, the lack of transparency, and Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge 40:00 A bit on Hell or High Water
Amazon put on a lunch to show off their year ahead, a huge slate of films with an eye on auteurs and award contenders.
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.
Even when he hands James Franco redemption on a silver platter, the auteur behind The Room just can't get the full - blown Hollywood experience he deserves.
For an auteur who's established herself as the foremost purveyor of the sublimely subdued, it may take a moment to reorient oneself to a sequence in which we're permitted the pleasure of something as ostentatiously romantic as a moonlit horseback ride, albeit one that pivots on a gesture of love that's been lost in translation.
Per the film's trailer, it appears this time returning auteur Adam McKay will be fearlessly tackling the period's race politics with a similarly incisive eye to that he previously brought to bear on gender perception in the 1970s, and with a laundry list of Hollywood power players lining up for cameo roles like this is goddamn Altman or something, suffice to say that it's going to be an effort to stay classy till Christmas, but we're going to have to try.
Written by cult Spanish fantasy sci - fi auteur Nacho Vigalondo («Colossal») and Brian DeLeeuw («Curvature»), Waddington's feature is set in the not - too - distant future where Uma (Roberts) wakes up one morning in Paradise Hills, a high - class treatment facility on an isolated tropical island where well - off families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves.
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.
Because of the sheer volume and diversity of the programming, «celebrity» takes on multiple meanings: While pedestrians clog the sidewalks of King Street, hoping to catch even the briefest red - carpet glimpse of Tom Hardy or Jennifer Garner, it's also not uncommon to find cinephiles gaping in hushed awe at the passing appearance of a favorite auteur.
The auteur - driven film would screen out of competition for the event's Golden Bear top prize, which will be awarded by a jury led by Meryl Streep on February 20th.
As far as I'm concerned, Burshtein has cemented her status not only as one of Israel's most important auteurs but as a filmmaker international audiences should have their eyes on.
The Cannes Film Festival's commitment to giving an exceptional platform to distinct stories from the world's most acclaimed auteurs is second to none,» Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos said on Thursday.