Sentences with phrase «brilliant screenwriter»

There is a difficulty in writing a film about a brilliant screenwriter.

A brilliant screenwriter, Porumboiu consistently undercuts his surface - level material in ingenious ways.

Not exact matches

Along with Scorsese, the festival saluted director - screenwriter Robert Benton («Kramer vs. Kramer,» 1979), director Gillian Armstrong («My Brilliant Career,» 1979) and actress Cicely Tyson (Oscar nominated for «Sounder,» 1972).

He's also a music video director, a brilliant impressionist, and a screenwriter.

Danny Morgan, who also serves as the films screenwriter, is brilliant as the down on his luck Jim, who just can't seem to catch a break.

However, it chose to highlight his «brilliant services to screenwriters, performers and the art of the motion picture.»

The Quiet Ones leaps off from that premise — and markets itself with a «based on true events» pitch line — but after several screenwriters took their turns at the story, it ultimately veers far afield: University professor Joseph Coupland (played with a perfect blend intellectual arrogance and charismatic follow - me guruism by Jared Harris of Mad Men), brilliant but bristling at the restrictive old - school attitudes toward his groundbreaking case study, removes his star subject Jane Harper (Bates Motel's Olivia Cooke) to a deserted, dilapidated country estate to be studied by his collegiate team, including a randy post-Mod couple (Erin Richards and Rory Fleck - Byrne) and soft - spoken cameraman Brian (Sam Clafin of The Hunger Games).

Nicholas Ray's emotionally charged adaptation of the Dorothy B. Hughes thriller In a Lonely Place is a brilliant, turbulent mix of suspenseful noir and devastating melodrama, fueled by a powerhouse performance from Humphrey Bogart, who plays a gifted but washed - up screenwriter who becomes the prime suspect in a Tinseltown murder.

I have no idea what led either Shyamalan or screenwriter Brian Nelson (who, believe it or not, wrote the brilliant Hard Candy) to take such shortcuts in their characterisations, but it's disappointing to say the least.

When «Solo» manages to come to crackling life, it's thanks to a droid called L3 - 37, voiced with irrepressible wit and gusto by the brilliant British screenwriter Phoebe Waller - Bridge.

Both brilliant and dumb, both impressive and disappointing, credit screenwriters Emmerich (Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow) and Devlin for having wonderful ideas despite the lack of talent to follow through with the execution.

8:00 am — TCM — In a Lonely Place Simply a brilliant film from director Nicholas Ray — Humphrey Bogart gives probably his best performance as washed - up screenwriter Dixon Steele, who's trying to make a comeback with a new adaptation.

In 1982, «Poltergeist» saw the brilliant pairing of director Tobe Hooper («The Texas Chainsaw Massacre») with screenwriter and producer Steven Spielberg for an effects - laden event movie.

The impressive ensemble of actors turn in brilliant performances, and the script by screenwriter Paul Attanasio (Sphere, The Sum of All Fears), based on a book by Richard N. Goodwin, is full of great writing and moments of serious insight.

Kudos to co-directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton for their brilliant evocation of this microcosmic nightmare and to screenwriter Simon Beaufoy who won an Oscar for his Slumdog Millionaire screenplay.

It features the new interview featurette with Franco historian «Stephen Thrower on Justine» and the 20 - minute interview featurette «The Perils and Pleasures of Justine,» originally recorded for the DVD release, with director Jess Franco (who describes how the Romina Power was forced upon him against his wishes, and how Jack Palance was «drunk all the time» and brilliant nonetheless) and screenwriter / producer Harry Alan Towers.

Rowling was set as the screenwriter of this brand new prequel franchise, and we'd be getting a new series of films set in the Wizarding World that A. Don't try to reboot or rework the brilliant Harry Potter saga and B. Offer new insights into characters we only heard about in the original series.

The next owners on the dog's tour include a pathologically struggling screenwriter (Danny DeVito) and a resentful, ailing woman (Ellen Burstyn, brilliant) who wears giant sunglasses to hide the light of truth that she has wasted her time on Earth.

Oscar - winning screenwriter - turned - director Aaron Sorkin («The Social Network») is not to be underestimated; he adapted Molly Bloom's truth - is - stranger - than - fiction gambling thriller starring twice - nominated Jessica Chastain («The Help,» «Zero Dark Thirty») as a brilliant skier - turned - high - stakes - poker - wrangler — she's a long shot in this year's overcrowded Actress category.

In an article in the September 2003 Harvard Business Review, «How to Pitch a Brilliant Idea,» Kimberly D. Elsbach, professor management at the University of California, Davis, wrote about a six - year study in which she observed 50 Hollywood film and TV producers fielding scores of 30 - minute pitches from screenwriters.