In a recent year - end contribution, I noted that one of the more illuminating trends in cinema includes the proficiency
of certain filmmakers and their craft.
Everything from the timing of a film screening to proven biases
of certain filmmakers or actors can often help guide us to predictions.
Ever since Alfred Hitchcock popularized the director cameo, audiences expect to
see certain filmmakers pop up in small roles within their own films; from Quentin Tarantino to Spike Lee to M. Night Shyamalan, the faces of the directors are as expected as their distinct visual styles.
Ever since Alfred Hitchcock popularized the director cameo, audiences expect to see
certain filmmakers pop up in small roles within their...
SF: The festival under Thierry Frémaux has made this concerted effort to not
play certain filmmakers just because they are who they are, and we saw that back in the year of Mike Leigh and Vera Drake where the film was rejected and then it went to Venice and won Venice.
If this year proved anything, it was that the critical masses that adored and
revered certain filmmakers for decades seemed to have missed the boat on their most accomplished works.
And that's basically as much story as «The Better Angels» gives the audience, choosing instead to focus on mood, nature, divinity and celestial atmosphere like
a certain filmmaker you might have heard of with the initials TM.
The film, he says, «is both a proof of concept and, I'm hoping, the opening up of a lane that
certain filmmakers can take advantage of.»
Cameron Crowe's Aloha is a delightful disaster — the kind of catastrophe that might also remind you why you loved
a certain filmmaker in the first place.
There are
certain filmmakers — Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Gus Van Sant — who possess such an inimitable visual style that even the most casual cinephile would recognize their influence.
Certain filmmakers have been great influences, and Kubrick in particular is a big presence in the studio.