Sentences with phrase «career as a screenwriter»

Though his primary profession is as a renowned playwright, the versatile and prolific Tom Stoppard has also carved out a distinguished secondary career as a screenwriter.

Everett De Roche's career as a screenwriter was more than Ozploitation, but given he was a key figure in Australia's defining cinematic movement, we're going to focus on this phase to demonstrate why he inspired a fanbase all of his own.

Shane Black (Robocop 3), who plays Hawkins, the bespectacled commando with a gift for raunchy jokes, would go on to greater success the same year as the screenwriter for Lethal Weapon, kicking off a long and lucrative career as a screenwriter and, later, an action director in his own right.

I was quite skeptical going in as to how much I enjoyed this film, figuring Scream made fun of itself so you can't really make fun of it again, in addition to the fact that the Wayans have made almost nothing but crap in their respective careers as screenwriters and actors (with the exception of Keenen's Hollywood Shuffle co-writing).

I've had a modestly successful career as a screenwriter & director, but as the film business changed, dramatically, 6 years ago, I knew it was time to return to my roots and write novels.

Not exact matches

Martin Booth's novel «A Very Private Gentleman» is reformulated into a minimalist western by director Anton Corbijn and screenwriter Rowan Joffee, where a stranger named jack (George Clooney) wanders into an isolated town and goes through a process of self - analysis, questioning his career as a gunsmith / hired killer.

It's a very moving indie drama that, as the directorial debut of screenwriter Oren Moverman, could be the start of a very great career for him as something other than a writer.You should definitely give this film a watch.

After spending much of his primary and secondary school education in an alternative arts school, he studied film at New York University.Louiso began his career with minor roles in such films as Stella (1989) and Billy Bathgate (1991), the latter of which provided him with an introduction to Tom Stoppard, who was the film's screenwriter.

Bay and screenwriter Ehren Kruger must have noticed that amphetamine - fueled mugging tested well in Revenge of the Fallen, so the third film is graced with the brilliantly hyperactive Ken Jeong — perhaps the one actor in Bay's 17 - year directing career who perfectly embodies his outsized, everything - plus - half - again - as - much style — and John Malkovich.

The screenwriters, Milo Addica (who was a co-writer of «Monster's Ball»), Jean - Claude Carrière (whose long career includes two decades of collaboration with Luis Buñuel) and Mr. Glazer are more concerned with atmosphere than with explanation, and the key to appreciating «Birth» is not so much a suspension of disbelief as an anxious surrender of reason.

Though he began his career as a critic and groundbreaking screenwriter, Paul Schrader has emerged — over the past four decades — as one of American cinema's most accomplished and perennially underrated directors.

Beatriz at Dinner (Director: Miguel Arteta, Screenwriter: Mike White)-- Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner.

Subsequent career: Mamet seems to keep his writing and directing careers running on parallel tracks, certainly jobbing as a prolific screenwriter for film and TV, but also regularly popping back for directorial stints, with mixed bag results.

Tony Gilroy — «Michael Clayton» As this list will show as it goes on, screenwriters can break through into successful directing careers, but truly excellent debuts from screenwriter - turned - directors are rareAs this list will show as it goes on, screenwriters can break through into successful directing careers, but truly excellent debuts from screenwriter - turned - directors are rareas it goes on, screenwriters can break through into successful directing careers, but truly excellent debuts from screenwriter - turned - directors are rarer.

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.

Designed by the director and his longtime screenwriter Gerard Soeteman as a medieval romp with Verhoevian indulgences, Flesh + Blood also re-teamed the pair with actor Rutger Hauer, who began his career playing a swashbuckling archetype in the 1969 Dutch TV series Floris.

It came at the end of a frustrating period in Schepisi's early American career that was littered with false - starts, partially developed projects, and films that were taken out of his hands — such as Raggedy Man (Jack Fisk, 1981), a film that shares its screenwriter with Barbarosa — just prior to production.

Release date: May 18 Cast: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer Directed by: Paul Schrader (Auto Focus) Why we're excited: Paul Schrader is perhaps best known as screenwriter of Martin Scorsese classics like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, but he's also had an equally compelling career as a director of his own hard - edged, morally complex films like Hardcore and Affliction.

Legendary director Terrence Malick («Badlands», «Days of Heaven») began his career as a philosophy professor and his latest film is an existential examination of the hedonistic lifestyle of a frustrated screenwriter living in the Hollywood Hills.

Knight of Cups — ** 1/2 OUT OF 4 Legendary director Terrence Malick («Badlands», «Days of Heaven») began his career as a philosophy professor and his latest film is an existential examination of the hedonistic lifestyle of a frustrated screenwriter living... Continue reading →

(He's also been a novelist and short - story writer, something that Ismailos doesn't bring up, though she does get into his sideline career as a Hollywood screenwriter / script doctor for hire on everything from «Piranha» to «Jurassic Park.»)

As a veteran of USC «film school,» I can assure that anything those mopes screen as an exemplar of «great cinema» is, in fact, the desperate schlock of career screenwriters who are essentially dead to the worlAs a veteran of USC «film school,» I can assure that anything those mopes screen as an exemplar of «great cinema» is, in fact, the desperate schlock of career screenwriters who are essentially dead to the worlas an exemplar of «great cinema» is, in fact, the desperate schlock of career screenwriters who are essentially dead to the world.

Gump stands as one of the career highs of Hanks, Zemeckis, screenwriter Eric Roth, and anyone else involved.

For a while, it looked as though screenwriter Shane Black's career was over.

From his roots as a child in Florida, witnessing his brother drown before his eyes and suffering blindness as a result of Glaucoma, to his triumphant, genre - breaking career, the film juxtaposes Charles» personal struggles with his professional achievements, and screenwriter James L. White doesn't gloss over the less attractive aspects.