Sentences with phrase «coming film director»

Enrique is an up - and - coming film director and Ignacio is an actor who wants Enrique to make a film out of his screenplay, mostly based on true events from their childhood, and to cast him in a starring role.

Not exact matches

Vacation rental service Airbnb partnered with up - and - coming director Miles Jay to create a short film out of six - second Vine videos crowdsourced via Twitter.

EASTWOOD: When I did the Rawhide series in the 60s and late 50s we had a lot of wonderful directors, old time film directors that had not been doing that well so they would do television and our television show would come on.

Peep - show booths that ran film loops came first, then camcorders and VCRs — many of which were invented in Japan, but adopted first in the United States by porn directors.

«And the consequence of that is that the director [of the film], the person responsible, was not coming into the room in a defensive posture knowing that this group could screw him over,» Catmull said.

We recently sat down with the band and the film's director to talk about what it was like making the film, how it came about and what the real message of Hillsong United is.

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.

Iceland's Euro 2016 goalkeeper Hannes Þór Halldórsson is a film director in his spare time and has a contract of employment with SagaFilm once his football career comes to an end.

Michell, a former resident director at the Royal Shakespeare Company whose filmography includes Notting Hill and the Oscar nominated 2006 film Venus, came armed to the meeting with three prospective projects — though one stood out from the pack.

Celebrated film maker and Director of Creative Arts, Programmes and Projects at the National Commission on Culture, Mr. Socrate Safo has stated that there is no Juju when it comes to movies.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

Created by director George Lucas, the film series has Star Wars Celebration is coming April 13 - 16, 2017, to the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL..

Gilchrist starred in the Focus Features film IT»S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY, a coming - of - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola Davis.

There's not much going on here that most audience members won't see coming miles away - ie the transformation of a crusty old blind character into someone distinctly more kindhearted, thanks to the presence of Quill - but the film nevertheless remains engaging, primarily thanks to director Yoichi Sai's patience in allowing things to play out naturally.

Director James Cameron's 1986 blockbuster follow - up to Ridley Scott's Oscar winning science - fiction / horror flick that became one of the biggest grossing films of 1979 asks a good question to a successful hit... How do you make a successful sequel to a film in which much of the suspense comes from learning about the mysterious monster?

Now comes The American, a European - set film from photographer - turned - director Anton Corbijn (he made Control, about Joy Division's Ian Curtis), a thriller based on a 1990 Martin Booth novel that promises some high - toned excitement, and a chance to see the dark side of George Clooney - that is, the side that isn't being a handsome scamp or earnest humanitarian.

The lead actors are both marvellous... Yet the film's most impressive performance might come from director Dominic Cooke, who has delivered an assured, wistful debut.

Less Is More, More is Less: In his second feature film, photographer - turned - director Anton Corbijn tries his best to match Clooney's hostile stillness with distance of his own, but his attempts at visual nuance inadvertently come off as conspicuous filmmaking choices overly fraught with meaning.

But Mr. Rodriguez seems to be coming from the angle of those directors nostalgic for some film that influenced their vision and, lacking the respect to leave it alone, are determined to add their name to the franchise largely out of some notion of self - importance.

Remarkably, it comes from a screenwriter who had never had a feature film produced and a director who had never made one in English.

The film reps a new career high for director Dee Rees, whose remarkable 2011 debut feature Pariah is a semi-autobiographical deep dive into a black girl's struggles with coming out.

Based on the 2010 novel by Willy Vlautin, a writer who also writes songs for his band Richmond Fontaine, the film comes from the British writer - director Andrew Haigh.

Some of his more notable work came from his collaboration with director Spike Lee; over the course of the 1990s, Washington starred in three of his films, playing a jazz trumpeter in Mo» Better Blues (1990), the title role in Lee's epic 1992 biopic Malcolm X (for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination), and the convict father of a high - school basketball star in He Got Game (1998).

The film's success comes from how Kernell's skills as a director match the ambitions of her script.

Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

Less than three years after the film made its theatrical debut (to many boos and jeers), the director comes back to tweak Alexander AGAIN with what I like to call the This Time for Real Cut.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

Original director Wes Craven and original screenwriter Kevin Williamson come back for more, and do so with the willingness of an entirely new cast and the old one, an unprecedented feat seeing as how the last film was made eleven years prior.

It comes from writer - director Alex Garland, whose previous film, «Ex Machina» (2015), was unusually effective speculative fiction involving artificial intelligence and Oscar Issac's dance moves.

The former music video director's first feature film since 2004's Birth is based on the satirical debut novel by Michel Faber, which centers on an extraterrestrial who comes to Scotland to pick up unsuspecting hitchhikers and bring them to her corporate bosses for use as meat.

In a special league with other spy thrillers such as The Third Man and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, director Lawrence has fashioned a thrill - a-minute hijinks film that takes place both in the West and in Moscow (with Budapest substituting for the Russian capital).

Coming off the success of the horror film It Follows, writer - director David Robert Mitchell shifts into noir with his latest feature, but the results appear to be much less favorable.

Ensemble films like this don't always work, but in the hands of a master director such as Meirelles, Peter Morgan's script comes to life in a vivid and evocative way.

Much like the kids in this movie who come of age, so too does Robert Kirbyson's skill as a writer - director in his debut film Snowmen.

Maybe then, if some of them become become directors, they won't just be ripping off Tarantino and P.T. Anderson and causing Roger Ebert to write worried commentaries about the state of modern film, but will know the source that it all comes from

Director Johannes Roberts begins the film with a synth - infused version of Kim Wilde's «Kids in America» and retro title styling, letting the audience know what decade of horror we're in for, even if the characters are blissfully unaware of what's coming.

Coming just a few short months after the release of Paul Greengrass» 9/11 film United 93, World Trade Center immediately establishes itself as a completely different animal than its counterpart - as director Oliver Stone eschews the jittery authenticity of United 93 in favor of a far more traditional, thoroughly cinematic sort of vibe.

The film comes from director Andrew Lau, who directed Infernal Affairs, the source material for Scorsese's The Departed.

DVD Details: The new 2 - disc DVD set comes with a commentary track by the director and the three stars, which includes a special «visual» supplement so we can watch them watching the film.

It's ambitious work but not always successful, with director Eric Karson biting off a little more than he can chew when it comes time to build momentum with such a top - heavy film.

It marked the director's first collaboration with Grégoire Colin, a dark - eyed, arresting young actor whom Denis would also employ to great effect in both Nénette et Boni and Beau Travail.The former film, made in 1996, was another coming - of - age drama that centered on the relationship between a lovelorn young man (Colin) and his rebellious, pregnant 15 - year - old sister (Alice Houri).

Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).

Though his first major film role in Penny Marshall's Calendar Girl (1993) came and went without fanfare, he enjoyed some success as a 90210 director.

Somehow the director believes you a create three different stories within one and accelerate them within literal minutes in film time and think that will come out good.

Arranged and photographed in largely static but never dull fixed shots, the movie comes from Anna Muylaert, a former film critic turned writer - director.

Although the film's title and a minimal amount of story come from author Michael Faber's 2000 novel, this is Glazer's most hyperstylized and unnerving film since Ben Kingsley got on the wrong side of Ray Winstone and Amanda Redman in the director's utterly self - assured feature debut, Sexy Beast.

From Rodney Ascher, the director of Room 237, comes a documentary - horror film exploring the phenomenon of Sleep Paralysis through the eyes of eight very different people.

Director Marc Webb plans to shoot the entire film in New York City, so expect to see plenty more Spider - Man snapshots in the coming weeks.

If any of this made you curious about what the hell is happening in this film, you can check it out for yourselves when Director's Cut comes to select theaters on May 10 and 11, and hits VOD and Blu - ray / DVD combo on May 29, 2018.

The film comes from beloved Irish director Jim Sheridan, who has six Oscar nominations to his name, for films like «My Left Foot» (1989), «In The Name Of The Father» (1993) and «In America» (2002).