Sentences with phrase «career as a filmmaker»

Schrader has said that he knows his obituaries will read, «Writer of Taxi Driver,» despite his own idiosyncratic career as a filmmaker.

With Wilco's «Hate it Here» song playing in the background, Linklater reveals before getting into his career as a filmmaker he used to be a «paid hitman».

Before beginning his career as a filmmaker, at the age of 20, in the late 1970s Carax joined the editorial staff of Cahiers du Cinéma, with Serge Daney as chief editor.

I spoke with her about her long relationship with TIFF and about the role of activities like the Talent Lab in her career as a filmmaker.

Cuaron's career as a filmmaker would begin there, starting with short films and eventually moving on to television where he caught the attention of Sydney Pollack, who hired him to direct an episode of Fallen Angels for Showtime in 1993.

When Oshima Nagisa began making films for the French producer Anatole Dauman in the mid-1970s, his career as a filmmaker had been on hold...

It's a moot point, however, because Attal establishes a new career as a filmmaker with «My Wife Is an Actress.»

It's a balance that Gerwig walks with a great, assured quality and bodes well for a promising career as a filmmaker ahead.

It's the kind of reverence you can easily tie in with Eastwood's emphasis on fatherhood and the paternal instinct, both evident in his prolific career as a filmmaker in both acting and directorial capacities.

Accompanying her career as a filmmaker, Hammer has time and again worked with performance and installation.

«Waters is highly admired for his career as a filmmaker, but is less known for his work as an artist,» said BMA Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Kristen Hileman.

In addition to her professional organizational development experience, Ms. Corrigan is a Carnegie Mellon University trained visual artist who began her artistic career as a filmmaker at the U. S. Department of Labor's Media Resource Center.

One of the more curious chapters in Martin's 92 - year life concerns her brief career as a filmmaker.

Wyn Evans began his career as a filmmaker producing short, experimental films and collaborative works but since the 1990s has created artworks that focus on language and perception, with a precise clarity towards their manifestation in space.

He began his career as a filmmaker, and won the Golden Bear Award at the 1980 West Berlin Film Festival for an animated short.

Throughout his career as a filmmaker and video artist Harun Farocki was interested in an exploration of an «in between», the relationship between labor incisive editing and text, between image and language.

The manically prolific Schlingensief began his career as a filmmaker and morphed into a theater and opera director, TV - show moderator, pseudo politician, all - around provocateur, and finally artist before his untimely death at the age of

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.

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And he's somehow managed to carve out a career as a documentary filmmaker, including Sound City and the Emmy - winning HBO series Sonic Highways.

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Painter and writer Stephen Petroff ponders Maine's extinct songbirds, journalist Howard Mansfield recounts the checkered career of early airship pilot Alberto Santos - Dumont, and filmmaker Werner Herzog fights biting winds as he trudges across the German countryside to visit a dying friend.

This moody screen adaptation of the Oprah - endorsed eponymous bestseller by Andre Dubus III's isn't a slam - dunk success, but it has plenty of sleeper potential and is a feather in the cap of director Perelman, a Russian émigré who debuts here as a feature filmmaker after a career in commercials.

An aspiring filmmaker arrives in Hollywood fresh from school to start her career, only to find out making a movie isn't as easy as she thought.

As he has throughout his career, from «Slacker» and «Dazed and Confused» to the lovely «Bernie» to the «Before» trilogy, Linklater proves himself as a filmmaker unconcerned with flash and dazzle but thoroughly compassionate and empathetic to a wide range of characterAs he has throughout his career, from «Slacker» and «Dazed and Confused» to the lovely «Bernie» to the «Before» trilogy, Linklater proves himself as a filmmaker unconcerned with flash and dazzle but thoroughly compassionate and empathetic to a wide range of characteras a filmmaker unconcerned with flash and dazzle but thoroughly compassionate and empathetic to a wide range of characters.

One of the most talented, influential, and iconoclastic filmmakers of all time, Brian De Palma's career started in the 60s and has included such acclaimed and diverse films as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito's Way, and Mission: Impossible.

As anyone who has seen Maddin's stunning 2000 short film «The Heart of the World» (possibly the pinnacle of his career) can attest, he can cram more complex storytelling and memorable imagery into a few minutes of screen time than most filmmakers can muster in an entire career.

He is a unique filmmaker, holding two successful and parallel careers as writer and director, as well as representing the critic - turned - filmmaker mythology.

It looks like The Silver Linings Playbook just got a nice boost, and The Promised Land too, as The Independent Filmmaker Project just announced they will be the recipients of career tributes at the 22nd Annual Gotham Independent Film...

Östlund has hit a home run with Force Majeure (I realize that reference doesn't make sense but who cares), not only bringing to Cannes one of my new favorite genre - bending dark comedies, but I'm now a fan of his work as well, and I get to explore his past films and learn just how talented of a filmmaker he really is, while keeping an eye on his career.

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.

The critical acclaim and strong box office tracking, with reports expecting an opening weekend take to quadruple the film's $ 5 - million production budget, put Peele's career as a multi-hyphenate filmmaker in a promising position.

US indie filmmaker Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies, Happy Christmas) joins the Hyphenates for our August 2014 edition, as we talk over the new releases of the past month, look at whether independent filmmakers can forge a career in the new media landscape, and check out the filmography of the influential and underrated director Paul Mazursky.

Well into the second phase of his career, his films are now rightly greeted as the future classics that they will doubtless become: There Will Be Blood, The Master and Inherent Vice are the sort of works that a filmmaker would be lucky to make once in their career, and Anderson produces them with the apparent effort of a mechanised construction line.

Few filmmakers in Hollywood or abroad have proven to be both as prolific and accomplished as Japan's Takashi Miike, whose 100th film Blade of the Immortal marks another high point in his diverse 26 - year career.

She produced her first feature at the age of 21 and never looked back, helping foster the careers of critically acclaimed filmmakers such as Gregg Araki, David Ayer, Jamie Babbit, James Ponsoldt and Drake Doremus.

As his Oscar - nominated film Timbuktu hits UK screens tomorrow we chart the career of one of Africa's great contemporary filmmakers

Farhadi's popularity comes at a critical point for Iranian cinema, when festival presence is not as regular as it was in the nineties and several major filmmakers have had their careers stalled for political reasons.

: Ida served as a career rebirth of sorts for the filmmaker, and now that we've got an auteur friendly distrib backing the project, this larger scaled production will likely be targeted for a top tier fest such as Cannes or Venice.

by Walter Chaw David Cronenberg's North by Northwest, his adaptation of Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis functions as a difficult, arctic précis of the Canadian filmmaker's career - long obsession with the insectile nature of, and indulgence in, hunger.

Actor - filmmaker John Turturro made some canny choices in casting for his new comedy Fading Gigolo, in which he plays a hapless New Yorker whose friend suggests that he might have a new career as a...

It is a little rough around the edges and there is an argument to be made that the relative lack of directorial flair makes the film feel too conventional but those points are only really relevant when comparing it to Argento's later works, and after all, this was his first movie and there are plenty of filmmakers out there at the twilight of their careers who would love to make a thriller as tight and effective as this with everything available at their disposal, let alone the small budget and restrictions that Dario Argento had to work with.

From his early days in sketch comedy with Elaine May to his career as a theater director and his prolific output as a filmmaker, his work continuous...

When it comes to the trajectory of a directing career, few filmmakers have ever followed a path as jarring and unpredictable as that of Lone Scherfig, who went from working within the constraints of Dogme 95 to directing a Nick Hornby script in just the span of a few years.

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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».

Detailed interview with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger looking back at their long career as influential British filmmakers and their unusual partnership.

Kicking off his English - language screen career a decade ago, he's matched his considerable skills against some of the industry's most revered talents and taken direction from a vanguard of visually dynamic filmmakers with his memorable appearances in such movies as «The Dark Knight,» «Contagion,» «2012» and «Captain America: The Winter Soldier.»

The writer - director of such witty cultural sendups as Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco talks about that early - career trilogy; his new Jane Austen adaptation, Love and Friendship; and the filmmaker's work of capturing the past.

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.

When we exclude «Flying Monkeys,» it's about as impressive a trio of directors you could ask for when kicking off a career, and given the quality of that first performance, they're unlikely to be the last top - flight filmmakers wanting to work with Monroe.