Sentences with phrase «career as a film director»

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Brenda Chapman, an animation writer - director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt), made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.

As he began his film career, the director grew obsessed with telling the Noah story from that perspective — and employing the power of modern special effects to portray Earth's first apocalypse.

Susan Spungen The Modern Cook The food stylist behind sumptuous films like It's Complicated, Julie & Julia, and Eat, Pray, Love, Susan started her career in food as the founding Food Director at Martha Stewart Living.

The biggest crisis of his film career came when he was cast as a cab driver; he was behind the wheel before the director discovered Abe didn't know how to drive.

Director Tom Dey's film is yet another by - the - numbers romantic comedy where the same tired escapades ensue, including one character's climactic discovery of the other's secret (in this case, when Tripp finds out about Paula's career as a female Hitch), and their eventual reunion at the end.

Writer / director James Bridges made his name in the 1970s with such socially aware, character - driven films as The Paper Chase (1973), but his unassuming style and non-blockbuster mentality slowed his career in the 1980s.

Bryan Cranston does the best film work of his career (Affleck has a way of capturing what works about AMC leading men that other directors seem to miss as this follows Jon Hamm's best film work in «The Town»).

Neil LaBute's debut film was an adaptation of his own darkly comedic 1992 play, and its provocative, Mamet-esque dialogue marked the writer - director as a rising star in indie film world in the late 1990s, while also launching the career of star Aaron Eckhart, here playing one of a pair of coworkers seeking cruel revenge against women.

He entered films as a dialogue director in 1929 (The Love Parade [1929], The Benson Murder Case [1930]-RRB- before embarking on a long career as a bit part player.

But it's James Franco who hits a new career peak as actor and director by making sure his film is as heartfelt as it is hilarious.

And though Reiner appeared to retire from directing following That Old Feeling, he still maintained a notable presence in film and television with roles in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven and it's two sequels, House M.D., Hot in Cleveland, and Parks and Rec.Carl Reiner is the father of directors Rob Reiner and Lucas Reiner; his wife Estelle has enjoyed a latter - day career as a night club singer and as a cameo performer in her son Rob's films (she's the lady who says, «I'll have what she's having!»

«The Interpreter», overall, works fine as a film but works better when viewed as the capstone for a talented director's career.

He begins by exploring the director's early life and career in his native Hungary, revealing how Curtiz shaped the earliest days of silent cinema in Europe as he acted in, produced, and directed scores of films before immigrating to the United States in 1926.

It is at this point that Schaffner's Hollywood career truly peaked; with the exception of such films as Papillon (1973), most of the director's subsequent projects were of diminishing quality.

The film may live as little more than a supplement on a future box set, but Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow do well enough to give a sense of the breadth De Palma's career while letting the iconoclastic director write his history in his own way.

This is Stuart Baird's first attempt at directing a Star Trek feature, but his career as editor and also as director for decent films like Executive Decision and U.S. Marshals prove he has the talent necessary to bring it all together.

His subsequent career as a director did not quite hit the heights of that first film, but what followed still proved Hopper to be a fascinating filmmaker with a unique point of view.

After an enormously successful career as a producer, this is Apatow's third film as a director, after «The 40 - Year - Old Virgin» and «Knocked Up.»

French actress and film director Julie Delpy who received the European Achievement in World Cinema award talks about her career, the struggles and challenges as a woman in a male - dominated industry, and about #MeToo - in our exclusive video interview

Director Jean Renoir worked in black - and - white his entire career — and then traveled to India for a sumptuous production that Martin Scorsese ranks as one of the most beautiful films ever made in color.

This is the first English language film from director Alexandros Avranas (MISS VIOLENCE, 2013) and his cast is led by Jim Carrey as police inspector Tadek, a disgraced cop who takes care of his elderly mother while also obsessing over the now coldcase that ruined his career.

They band eventually changed their nom de plume to Priestbird and only began their film scoring career as a duo in 2010 with the Cannes Directors» Fortnight effort «Two Gates of Sleep» starring Brady Corbet.

As he approaches 80 years old, Clint Eastwood has the distinction of being one of the most respected directors in film, a man actors want very much to work with and come away believing it to be the experience of their career.

Everything Paul Schrader has done throughout his career has led him to First Reformed, potentially the finest entry in what my friend and former Slant contributor Jeremiah Kipp refers to as the writer - director's «men in rooms» films.

First, I have to give credit to director Care, who spent much of his career as a director of music videos, for giving the film a nice look and many touches that show he is someone intimately familiar with the life and times of the era.

Franco's ubiquity as an actor, screenwriter, and director over the last decade has resulted in an almost endless stream of bored, indifferent performances, often to the detriment if not of Franco's seemingly unstoppable career, then whatever film he happened to appear in that particular month.

He began his career in film criticism with a very positive review of Sylvester Stallone's debut as a director, Paradise Alley (1978), which in itself revealed something of Carax's particular vision, a special feeling of urgency he was demanding from cinema and filmmakers — an embryonic version of the «smile of speed».

by Walter Chaw A very small story set on a very large stage, Phillip Noyce's affecting Rabbit - Proof Fence is perhaps the most visually beautiful film of the director's career, proving between this and his other movie from this year, the Graham Greene adaptation The Quiet American, that not only is it possible to go home again (as in Noyce to Australia) but also that it's often wise.

Only four years after the disastrous 1492: Conquest of Paradise (a film that would have destroyed a lesser director's career), Ridley Scott was back in nautical territory with White Squall, a semi-successful, fact - based survival / courtroom drama that featured a sizable collection of up - and - coming actors, including Scott Wolf, Ryan Phillippe, Jeremy Sisto, Eric Michael Cole, Balthazar Getty, and Ethan Embry (among others), and a creditable turn by Jeff Bridges as the ill - fated leader of a sailing trip threatened by the «white squall» (a sudden, violent windstorm) of the title.

It's her Oscar - nominated debut as a standalone director, but not her first rodeo: on top of the starring roles she took in Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha (2012) and Mistress America (2015), she wrote those films with him, and collaborated early in her career on several shoestring productions by Joe Swanberg.

Gilroy's career has mostly been as a writer, but the 2014 psychological thriller Nightcrawler was his debut film as a director — and my god, what a gem of a movie!

Film director Guido Contini (Day - Lewis) is known for a string of great successes early in his career, but is just coming off a couple of major flops as he's supposed to be beginning another film, the one he and his supporters hope will be his comeback.

Kicking of his career as a crime reporter and novelist, Fuller soon found his way to Hollywood and after serving in World War Two as an infantryman, became a film director.

The film that follows is one of the stranger viewing experiences of Fantasia 2016, as director Craig Anderson, jumping into feature filmmaking from a career of Australian TV comedy, delivers on the insane promise of his story solely by dint of failing to deliver a coherent movie.

I Only Want You to Love Me (1975) could serve as the working title for most of the films in the career of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the prolific German director who made 43 features between 1969 and his death of a drug overdose in 1982.

What You Need To Know: Swedish - born first - time feature - length filmmaker Fredrik Bond might be an unknown in the film world, but he has accumulated numerous awards throughout the course of his successful career as a commercial director including one at Cannes.

Lynne Ramsay is a tremendously talented director, as anyone who has seen her films We Need to Talk About Kevin and Ratcatcher can tell you, which makes the latest ripple in her career quite a bummer: When production began Monday on her latest film, the Natalie Portman - fronted Western Jane Got a Gun, Ramsay was nowhere to be found.

The guy has made three terrific films since launching his directing career with Gone Baby Gone, and Argo's status as an Oscar frontrunner puts him right into the thick of the Best Director race.

It certainly seems like director David Gordon Green is on the road to becoming a household name, which is a bit odd considering that the guy started his career with such acclaimed art house films as George Washington and All The Real Girls.

The director of quirky 90s films such as «The Unbelievable Truth,» «Simple Men» and Trust,» who was responsible for advancing the careers of Parker Posey, Edie Falco, and Martin Donovan, found that he didn't quite fit into any category — he wasn't as dark and edgy as most indies and yet his films don't have blockbuster potential.

Kenneth Lonergan's career as a writer - director began promisingly with 2000's You Can Count on Me, a film that essentially discovered Mark Ruffalo and earned Laura Linney her first Oscar nomination.

One of the Sundance Film Festival's favorite sons returned to Park City on Sunday night, as writer - director Kevin Smith debuted «Yoga Hosers,» the second film in his Canada - based True North trilogy and the most bizarre movie of his 22 - year career — a real feat coming on the heels of «Tusk.»

Kobayashi's filmography as a director isn't extensive, with only 21 feature films to his credit throughout his entire career, yet each of his projects has an individual stamp that makes them deeply personal.

is instantly recognisable as a Shane Meadows film, in fact it could almost be read as a summation of the director's career to date, but it also marks a clear step up from the his earlier works.

Pre-Star Wars director, USC graduate, and writer George Lucas had begun his career as director of the science - fiction film THX 1138 (1971), an expanded version of a prize - winning feature film he made while studying film at USC.

My interview with writer / director Susan Walter of the film, All I Wish, a romantic comedy starring Sharon Stone as a late forties single woman who hasn't found her dream career or the love of her life was eye - opening.

This year's Director Tribute recipient, Oliver Stone, is a true visionary whose prolific career as director, writer, and producer has given us some of the most influential, iconic, and often controversial films of the last few Director Tribute recipient, Oliver Stone, is a true visionary whose prolific career as director, writer, and producer has given us some of the most influential, iconic, and often controversial films of the last few director, writer, and producer has given us some of the most influential, iconic, and often controversial films of the last few decades.

Director Simon West hasn't had the most impressive career, but as fans of «Con Air» will tell you, he's more than capable of delivering a kick - ass action film.

Another cinephilic auteur, Volker Schlöndorff (who began his career in France as an assistant to Louis Malle, Alain Resnais, and Jean - Pierre Melville before returning to make his own films in his native Germany), was an inspired choice as this year's Guest Director in Telluride.

The director began his career as a doctor and psychiatrist who got into filmmaking because Bulgarian shrinks were required to film therapy sessions.