In a career spanning almost 30 years, Oscar Micheaux became the most successful early black independent film producer and the first
black film auteur.
Not exact matches
Its opening
film is the British - produced mountaineering thriller Everest, featuring Anglo - American glamour in the shape of Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley and Josh Brolin; its competition strand has an impressive list of international
auteurs, including Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), Alexander Sokurov (Francofonia), Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) and Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa); and a number of authentic coups, including the world premiere screening of
Black Mass, the much - hyped gangster
film featuring Johnny Depp as James «Whitey» Bulger, and a first look at Beasts of No Nation, the African - set war thriller that represents Netflix's most serious shot yet across Hollywood's bows.
On the one hand, I could hardly argue, not least since we'd both just emerged from a
film — Chilean
auteur Pablo Larrain's brilliant nightmare of a
black comedy «Post Mortem» — that stands as much chance of securing an invitation to the Kodak Theater as Kim Kardashian does to the Kennedy Center Honors.
Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof, Nathan Fillion, Clark Gregg, and Fran Kranz, actors in the
auteur's latest project, a
black - and - white
film adaptation of Shakespeare's «Much Ado About Nothing,» talk about making a movie in 12 days, the importance of ensemble work, and why they would all move mountains for...