Sentences with phrase «build as a filmmaker»

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As a result, he was the perfect filmmaker to do justice to the film's bizarre criminals and nasty acts of violence as well as build sympathy both for the victims and especially our hero, ClaricAs a result, he was the perfect filmmaker to do justice to the film's bizarre criminals and nasty acts of violence as well as build sympathy both for the victims and especially our hero, Claricas well as build sympathy both for the victims and especially our hero, Claricas build sympathy both for the victims and especially our hero, Clarice.

It's difficult not to imagine the filmmakers attempting to extinguish any residue from the gossipy revelation that actor Stephen Boyd and screenwriter Gore Vidal gave the Ben - Hur / Messala friendship a gay subtext in William Wyler's Oscar - hoarding film, built as it was on loud silences and anguished - face acting.

The Mill Valley Film Festival has built a reputation as a showcase for future Oscar winners and emergent independent and foreign filmmakers.

This low - key character study from filmmaker Joshua Marston is built around a woman who prefers to make up her life as she goes along — one new, invented identity at a time.

Yet when the filmmaker came across an article in The New Yorker about the citizen journalist outfit Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, he realized that the war he would cover would not be fought with bullets, as much as the men and women who file dispatches from ground zero risk their lives, but instead with information as he followed the network built by RBSS to share their testimony with the rest of the world to rival the propaganda machine created by ISIS to recruit new soldiers from inside the country.

Currently «undisclosed,» though as the film is built around said filmmaker's own experiences with the group and their archival material, the festival may play host to one hell of an identity reveal.

The filmmakers use this device to build dread while fleshing out their analysis of London as an out - of - control boomtown.

Actor - turned - screenwriter Hampton Fancher came next, as he built out the screen story by adding its noir elements; filmmaker Ridley Scott (Alien) contributed his staggering cinematic vision for a dystopian near - future and ever deeper layers of meaning, aided by late - coming screenwriter David Webb Peoples.

«By acting as a conduit between filmmaker and distributor, we are presenting an alternative to traditional distribution while building knowledge about online distribution strategies that will benefit the broader field of independent film,» said Putnam.

With filmmakers such as Coogler and Johnson — alongside Jenkins, Waititi and other creators of handcrafted blockbusters — blazing a trail, hopefully more filmmakers will find a way to satisfy the needs of the system while also building vehicles for personal expression and achievement of craft at the highest levels.

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Not to mention, director Asger Leth is largely untested as a filmmaker (he only has one previous, and pretty obscure, directing credit to his name), while writer Pablo F. Fenjves has built a career penning low - rent TV movies, most of which were made in the 90s.

This year's winner, Divines, written and directed by French - Moroccan filmmaker Houda Benyamina, rivals Girlhood as a portrait of combustible banlieue femininity, emanating raw energy and scrappy good humor even as it builds to an unexpectedly tragic and horrifying finale.

We can build conversations around it, we can drive people into seats, and take a filmmaker's creation to use as the centerpiece for a larger cultural dialogue, an additive overall in people's lives.»

The first third is dedicated to a built - in, manic «making - of» featurette that essays, in deadly, deadening detail, how Verhoeven posted four pages of a script online, then invited anybody with a laptop and a Starbucks to submit the next five pages, and the next, and so on and so forth, thus pushing Verhoeven out of his comfort zone and inspiring him to new heights as a filmmaker.

Indeed, Edwards is about the only active filmmaker who both remembers the running gag and remembers how to use it, build it, and orchestrate its confluence with a dozen other running gags as well.

And the heck of it is that it feels like the filmmakers were trying too hard to appease adults as well, sliding sly but pretty crude humor into the film that just does nt really belong in the opening moments of the film, when Rodney is being built, there is a part leftover, the mother asks about it, the father checks to make sure they wanted a boy, then he tells his new son it will only hurt for a second and then theres a scream.

What the filmmakers seem to have done is built the film from the many gags and there are some real groaners here, though there are a few clever ones as well where Pixar builds from the story outward.

The filmmakers catch us up on old friends, build stronger identities for newer ones (Paul Rudd's Ant Man has tricks up his tiny sleeves) and introduce two significant characters, Black Panther (played with ferocious dignity by Chadwick Boseman) and a fresh Spider - Man (played as a genial, awestruck teen by Tom Holland, who actually is a teen).

About the California Film Institute The non-profit California Film Institute celebrates and promotes film as art and education through the presentation of the Mill Valley Film Festival, year - round exhibitions at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, film distribution by CFI Releasing, and the CFI Education program, building the next generation of filmmakers and audiences.

As a festival, Nantucket has the built - in advantage of being «small» — which is to say, accessible and easy to navigate — but due to the island's status as an elite destination, it attracts films and filmmakers that might otherwise be above its punching weighAs a festival, Nantucket has the built - in advantage of being «small» — which is to say, accessible and easy to navigate — but due to the island's status as an elite destination, it attracts films and filmmakers that might otherwise be above its punching weighas an elite destination, it attracts films and filmmakers that might otherwise be above its punching weight.

Detailed world - building is Niccol's chief strength as a filmmaker.

An unrecognizable Luke Evans (out of his usual pretty boy mode) is stellar as the aptly named Wilder, a documentary filmmaker who adds a dose of skepticism towards the building — in contrast to Laing's innocent approach.

That the filmmakers chose to keep things as grounded as they do is something that should be commended, as it's undeniably easier to build a similar story in an alternate world with 100 percent fictional elements.

It all amounts to not much as Geismer rekindles his wartime flame with turned - out Lena in post-war Berlin while Soderbergh builds a visually - arresting shrine to Weimar filmmakers and expats like Michael Curtiz.

There, long - lasting relationships were built with powerful women filmmakers such as Merata Mita (Ngati Pikiao / Ngai te Rangi) from New Zealand, Rachel Perkins (Arrernte and Kalkadoon Nations) from Australia, and Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki Nation) from Canada.

Designed by New York - based firm Roman & Williams, the Ace has a truly unique design aesthetic: the lobby reflects the building's history with a mural of filmmaker and painter Harry Smith who lived in the building when it was the Breslin Hotel, while guest rooms have a more utilitarian feel, with repurposed pipes serving as everything from a makeshift closet to desk legs.

A former private eye, Morris built his reputation as a documentary filmmaker on the pursuit of Truth, with an obsessive, somewhat cranky personality.

Fowler is a filmmaker who uses photographs, archival images and music, building experimental cinematic collages that ultimately deconstruct conventional thoughts about biography and the documentary; the viewer is drawn in and confronted with their own relationship to history and to film as an art form.

To commemorate its thirtieth anniversary, in October 2014, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain asked Guillermo Kuitca to imagine a project, the likes of which had never been done before, building a network between his own work and the works of Tarsila do Amaral, Francis Bacon, Vija Celmins, David Lynch, Patti Smith, as well as the Armenian filmmaker Artavazd Pelechian, whose film Inhabitants (Les Habitants, in French) lent its name to the exhibition.

Luke Fowler is a filmmaker who uses photographs, archival images and music, building experimental cinematic collages that ultimately deconstruct conventional thoughts about biography and the documentary; the viewer is drawn in and confronted with their own relationship to history and to film as an art form.

A sculptor and filmmaker known for his interrogation of glass as a material and paradigm in art, McElheny has conceived this exhibition in collaboration with Chicago architect John Vinci, who designed The Arts Club's current building.

He was previously a photo - reporter, journalist, author, and editor, and later a political advisor with international agencies, before reinventing himself as a filmmaker, bringing onto the screen a sense of urgency and empathy developed through working on hard - hitting socio - political issues such as migration, human security, and peace - building.

While the exhibition has particular relevance to Chicago — the city that is widely known as the birthplace of this architectural type — artists throughout the world, in addition to authors, filmmakers, poets, and undoubtedly architects, have been enthralled by the human desire to build farther and farther into the sky, testing technological limits while embodying a yearning for spiritual connection to the heavens.

Explore the historic Boston waterfront and tour studios in over 10 buildings in Fort Point that are home to painters, sculptors, ceramicists, filmmakers, performance artists, printmakers, book artists, jewelers, photographers, as well as galleries and pop - up exhibit venues.

On a weekend visit to South by Southwest, the annual Austin festival focused on the intersection of ideas, technology, music and film, I ran into Adrian Grenier, who's best known as an actor but is building a career as a filmmaker and campaigner with a focus on the environment.

As shown off in a gorgeous new drone flyover video by UAV filmmaker Duncan Sinfield, the buildings are virtually complete, but there are more construction vehicles than ever on site.