Sentences with phrase «calling as a film director»

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Jake's manager, Alex, is out there with him, as is film director, producer, and YouTuber Casey Neistat, who a few days later would launch a social app called Beme.

Tigers is a new film by Oscar - winning director Danis Tanovic based on the true story of a former Nestlé baby milk salesman in Pakistan called Syed Aamir Raza taking on the industry with the help of IBFAN (the International Baby Food Action Network) when he realises that babies are dying as a result of his work pressuring doctors to promote formula.

The year 1997 featured Sutherland as Joey in a modern film noir called The Last Days of Frankie the Fly, and as director of the psycho - thriller Truth or Consequences, N.M..

«All is Lost», writer - director J. C. Chandor's sophomore effort following 2011's «Margin Call», is a tremendous achievement, and as far removed from the earlier film as possible.

Reduced by Refn almost to the point of abstraction — it could have been called Notes on a Rehearsal for an Action Movie — Drive may do little to win over multiplex crowds who prefer the fast and furious to the moody and languorous, but it reconfirms Refn as one of the most exciting young directors around, and Albert Brooks (stealing the film as a small - time Jewish gangster with an aversion to loose ends) as a national treasure.

Few films in movie history — and maybe no other film by a first - time writer - director — proved to be the breakthrough moment for as many talents as a made - in - Baltimore comedy - drama called «Diner.»

Now Fox has released something they are calling The Director's Definitive Edition, but it is the same cut and print of the film as used in the last Warner Brothers» Blu - ray release.

Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, director) This film has a very lush texture, as you would expect from the director of I Am Love, the film he made with Tilda Swinton in 2009.

Marking Irish director Jordan's second venture into the vampire genre, the film is an adaptation of a play by Moira Buffini called A Vampire Story, which was commissioned as part of Londonâ $ ™ s National Theatre Connections season in 2008.

Among the anticipated highlights at the ongoing San Diego Comic - Con (SDCC), for horror fans was tonight's world premiere screening of The Woods, from director and writer duo of Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (You're Next), but the whole event just became bigger than anyone imagined, as it has been revealed tonight that the film is actually called Blair Witch and it is a sequel the 1999 found footage classic The Blair Witch Project!

Indeed, seeing how director Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World) is the one calling the shots on Terminator: Genesis - drawing from a script written by screenwriter / producer Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar, Shutter Island) and writer / director Patrick Lussier (Dracula 2000, Drive Angry)- it's difficult to gauge just how this film is shaping up, as far as its artistic quality goes.

Although the common trend among critics, when faced with the decision over which cut of the film is better, is to choose the director's vision, it's a tough call with Payback, primarily because the theatrical release has had its day in the sun for almost eight years, and has been thoroughly digested and accepted as a release worthy of admiration and praise.

Described by MK2 as an «unpredictable documentary» from a «fascinating storyteller,» Varda's next film will shed light on her own experience as a director, bringing a very personal insight on what she calls «cine - writing,» traveling from rue Daguerre in Paris to Los Angeles and Beijing.

All of that didn't leave much time left over, but I did get to see one other film, a debut feature by directors Alex and Benjamin Brewer called The Trust, starring Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood as crooked Las Vegas cops who try to pull off a daring heist.

As the child of immigrants myself, I could feel my strings being plucked by this tale of a fair Colleen from Ireland finding love and fulfillment in the New World, and it's certainly a compliment to director John Crowley («Boy A») and screenwriter Nick Hornby (adapting the novel by Colm Tóibín) that the film calls to mind Steven Spielberg and even John Ford in its willingness to commit to the grand gesture.

Jessica and the ladies were also accompanied by the upcoming film's director Simon Kinberg as they posed for photographs at a photo call for 355 as part of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival that same day.

As a playwright turned feature film director, Finley adapts to the new medium as if it was his calling all alonAs a playwright turned feature film director, Finley adapts to the new medium as if it was his calling all alonas if it was his calling all along.

The first image has arrived online from The House That Jack Built, the next film from Nymphomaniac director Lars von Trier, which stars Matt Dillon as a serial killer called Jack.

Three technical caveats accompany the «film with alternate ending and additional scene,» as it's called on the packaging: During the branched sequences, which are accessible only when viewing Identity in widescreen, the picture's stupendous Dolby Digital 5.1 mix switches to a much blander Dolby Surround recording, while James Mangold's director commentary, if selected, drops out altogether.

«Women writers and directors have to start documenting the truth of female lives,» says Gerwig, who jokingly calls herself «The Lady Clint Eastwood» in the hopes that she'll be making films for as long as the 87 - year - old has, and admires the work of other female directors such as Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women), Rebecca Miller (Maggie's Plan) and Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know).

Director Alejandro Agresti's The Lake House, based on a South Korean film called Il Mare, takes the premise that launched movies such as Back to the Future and Frequency and asks, «What would a good...

The protagonist of Be My Cat: A Film for Anne is played by his namesake Adrian Țofei — and if Țofei serves as this film's director, writer, producer, DoP, editor, sound designer and production designer / manager, his character Adrian is also a first - time polyhyphenate filmmaker pitching his own movie called Be My Cat, and himself trying to get into character to play that film's creepy romantic lead.

Dubliner Domhnall described getting the phone call from film director J.J Abrams as surreal, but it is not yet known what role he will play in the movie.

It follows the director as she travels to Colorado to hold a casting call for a fake film about the case, talking to applicants about their own experiences with abuse, crime, and death, as well as their theories on the case.

Now that film has a director, as Fredrik Bond (Charlie Countryman) will call the shots on London Has Fallen.

Although Bullz - Eye had hoped to be able to speak to writer / director Richard Curtis in person whilst attending the press junket for his latest film, «Pirate Radio,» things didn't go as planned: he was called away suddenly on a family emergency, necessitating the cancellation of his interviews.

God Help the Girl Director: Stuart Murdoch Starring: Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray, Pierre Boulanger Synopsis: Set in Glasgow, Scotland, the film is about a girl called Eve who is in the hospital dealing with some emotional problems and starts writing songs as a way of getting better.

His film is about second chances, and the director could not help but feel as though this is some sort of second chance for him: «ÄúWhen Taylor Hackford called me this morning I have to admit I...

An odd note on the back of the case, absent from the 2000 DVD, calls this a «digital transfer of the director's cut,» but as there are no visible changes in the film itself and no follow - up notes anywhere within the packaging, I have no idea what, if anything, makes this version different from the theatrical release.

The movie - brat generation established the tradition of directors using short films as calling cards — most famously, George Lucas with Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967), which he expanded into THX 1138 (1971), and Steven Spielberg with Amblin» (1968), which helped win him a deal at Universal's TV division (and later supplied the name to his production company).

When a film is as extraordinary as director Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name, you suspend disbelief.

The resulting book — officially called Hitchcock, but usually referred to as Hitchcock / Truffaut — became an important touchstone and influence for generations of critics and directors, and remains one of the musts of any film - related reading list.

Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.

Then there's director Ryan Coogler, who was already a critical darling with his indie debut film «Fruitvale Station» and his «Rocky» spinoff «Creed,» but now has his blockbuster calling card as the director of one of the biggest hits Hollywood has ever seen.

Fellow film - makers are equally impressed: Ben Affleck has likened Anderson to Orson Welles, while Sam Mendes calls him «a true auteur», one of a small group of directors «who I would classify as geniuses».

Variety called it a «sprawling, bouncing, jaunty debut» that's «effervescent as an Alka - Seltzer» and The Hollywood Reporter said it was «delightfully quirky,» both good signs for a director whose next film features the famously kooky Harley Quinn.

Sneak peek of «Call Me By Your Name» director's next film shows a woman having all her limbs broken as a dancer rehearses

Independence Day director Roland Emmerich appears to have stumbled into an entirely different sort of disaster movie as LGBT organizations are calling for a boycott of his new film, Stonewall.

Director Jim Strouse, who last played Sundance with the films The Winning Season and Grace Is Gone, returned this year with a film called People, Places, Things starring Jemaine Clement as a graphic artist / illustrator.

He has since also helmed the psychological drama A Bigger Splash (2015), which served as the second film in the director's Desire trilogy - with the first being the 2009 release, I Am Love, and the final installment being Call Me By Your Name.

Esther Garrel, the director's daughter, turned heads with her role as Marzia in Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, and brings a similar jittery, juvenile energy to this film, only with more barbed edges.

Having established the «Ninjago» universe, however — a pan-Asian chop suey of Chinese, Japanese and Korean influences, lent semi-legitimacy by the presence of Jackie Chan in both a Gremlins - style live - action prologue and as the voice of beard - stroking sensei Master Wu — the film quickly runs out of both ideas and steam, despite having three directors and no fewer than six credited scriptwriters calling its shots.

Currently she is developing her first feature film as a director, called Nobalí Has Gone and I've Returned.

As well as the award for teachers, the Anti-Bullying Alliance is calling on students and school staff across England to showcase their creativity and harness their «inner Director» by entering a film - highlighting how important it is to use our Power for Good to stop bullying and create a world we'd all like to live in - with the chance to become the official film of Anti-Bullying Week 201As well as the award for teachers, the Anti-Bullying Alliance is calling on students and school staff across England to showcase their creativity and harness their «inner Director» by entering a film - highlighting how important it is to use our Power for Good to stop bullying and create a world we'd all like to live in - with the chance to become the official film of Anti-Bullying Week 201as the award for teachers, the Anti-Bullying Alliance is calling on students and school staff across England to showcase their creativity and harness their «inner Director» by entering a film - highlighting how important it is to use our Power for Good to stop bullying and create a world we'd all like to live in - with the chance to become the official film of Anti-Bullying Week 2016.

Borrowing formal and atmospheric motifs from 1970s giallo films by directors such as Mario Bava and Dario Argento, Walk - Through re-imagines CalArts as a site of potential intrigue, subtly calling into question the artistic and democratic tenets embedded in the school's founding ideology.

For many years in my hometown of Los Angeles, California I worked as a drag dominatrix calling myself Mistress Veronica V'Interest at the infamous House of Domination in Hollywood of the famous German American Mistress Ilsa Strix who is now married to the A-list transgendered film director Lana Wachowski of the Matrix franchise.

Writer / director / star Lena Dunham is being called one of the most exciting new voices in American independent cinema and critics are hailing her film as «irresistibly funny», «unnervingly honest», and «near perfection».

My career spans a varied range as a writer / producer / director of film, television, video, multimedia, theater, pay - per - call shows, websites and Italian - American cultural events; as a film teacher and curriculum designer; as a book author and magazine editor / writer; as a radio talk - show host; and as an ethnic / political organizer and fundraiser.