Sentences with phrase «considered as a filmmaker»

Thus, she must be considered as a filmmaker, a writer, an object maker, a drafts — person, an installation artist, a photographer, and a radio producer.

Not exact matches

As Schrader's hero takes a bleaker look at life, and considers committing an extreme act as a desperate attempt to find resonance and morality in the world, he stands alongside the protagonists of such Schrader - written films as «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.&raquAs Schrader's hero takes a bleaker look at life, and considers committing an extreme act as a desperate attempt to find resonance and morality in the world, he stands alongside the protagonists of such Schrader - written films as «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.&raquas a desperate attempt to find resonance and morality in the world, he stands alongside the protagonists of such Schrader - written films as «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.&raquas «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.&raquas his «night trilogy.»

So says professional killer Jackie Cogan at one point in Killing Them Softly, the third film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik - and considering the filmmaker's efforts to establish a connection between the events in the movie and the economic crisis started in the late 2000s thanks to the greed and lack of scruples of Wall Street, it is easy to see Cogan as an ordinary employee of any company complaining about the lack of vision of his bosses and, on the other hand, the big bankers as Armani - dressing versions of the violent mobsters who inhabit the crime section of the newspapers.

But considering By the Sea, Unbroken, and In the Land of Blood and Honey, she hasn't found her strength as a filmmaker to date.

Irish writer / director Martin McDonagh has made a name as a playwright and filmmaker through comedies of crime and consequence that dare audiences to consider heavy themes amidst dark tones and cruel twists.

Steven Spielberg, considered as one of the finest filmmakers Hollywood has ever produced, gets great ideas when he is on the verge of panic.

In the late 1920s, Fritz Lang was the star director of Germany's Ufa Studios, the biggest film studio outside of Hollywood, and one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the world for such ambitious epic visions as Destiny (1921), the Die Nibelungen (1924) films and especially Metropolis (1927), his allegorical science fiction classic that is still considered one of the great films of the silent era.

Sure, his name doesn't ring a bell for a lot of cinephiles and doesn't carry the same weight as internationally renowned Iranian auteurs such as Kiarostami, Panahi or Asghar Farhadi, but consider this: He is the only filmmaker to have had his films shunned by both the Academy and the Iranian committee that submits them!

On the video side, where everything is encoded in HD, we start with «It's Never Just a Movie: Chris Rock and Top Five» (20:08) considers the star - filmmaker's parallels to his character and his history in comedy, with looks at his comedy bits and home movies, as well as interviews of other influential figures, from over the years.

Considered a disaster on its release, the film has since been reassessed as a modern classic, a dark fairytale that feels like something the Brothers Grimm would make if they were filmmakers.

Shyamalan clearly had something to say with Split, and though you may take issue with the way he went about saying it, I ask you to at least consider that he was trying, like few filmmakers actually have, to not depict mental illness as something we ought to be afraid of.

In the process, filmmaker Doug Nichol delivers a thought - provoking meditation on the changing dynamic between humans and machines, and encourages us to consider our own relationship with technology, old and new, as the digital age's emphasis on speed and convenience redefines who's serving whom, human or machine?

Currently at work on Tim Burton's Dumbo, Davis finds himself considering the choice of filmmakers he works with to be nearly as significant a matter as the scripts he receives.

Due to competition from a pre-existing, unrelated Filmation TV series, also called Ghostbusters, the filmmakers were hesitant to commit to Ghostbusters as a title, and considered «Ghoststoppers» as an alternative.

But what then shall we say for Lubitsch's German period, if it is Hollywood achievements — including such silent masterworks as The Marriage Circle (1924) and Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)-- that are considered the standard bearers of the director's strength as a filmmaker?

When one considers films tagged as queer, one probably first thinks of provocations: perhaps the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder in Germany in the 1970s; or the aesthetic austerity measures imposed by Derek Jarman in England throughout the 1970s and»80s; or the quiet emergence of the New Queer Cinema movement in the U.S. in the»80s and its explosive continuation into the»90s, when filmmakers like Gregg Araki and Todd Haynes and Kimberly Peirce and Rose Troche were taking no prisoners.

His reviews were inevitably astute and well - informed yet just as naturally considered and kind, in keeping with his sympathies for both filmmaker and audience.

: For all of the body parts that Stephen King has torn asunder in his numerous books and film adaptations, it's ironic that two of the most beloved movies ever about male bonding come from his book «Different Seasons» — a «Body» that spawned the CSI Our Gang of «Stand By Me,» and the prison breakout that lay behind «Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,» Wisely shortened to the last three titles by writer - filmmaker Frank Darabont, this 1994 classic of an unbreakable man slowly chiseling his way out of a Maine hellhole over the course of decades stands as not only the most soulful film in an understandably macho prison break genre, but also as a film that many rightfully consider to be one of the best movies ever made.

So it's surprising, considering he probably could've treated the job as a paid vacation without incurring the wrath of «Hannah Montana» fans (who've been weaned on a particularly low - rent sitcom), to say nothing of the suits in charge (Disney favours foremen to filmmakers, after all), that Chelsom seems legitimately inspired by the material more often than not.

The graphic brutality, the warped sexuality, the disconcerting twists on revenge and redemption seem completely out of character for the filmmaker behind such seminal work as «She's Got ta Have It» and «Malcolm X.» Yet that is precisely what makes this jagged film from a director usually bound up in social issues so interesting to consider.

After considering such directors as Danny Boyle (then hot off of «Trainspotting»), Bryan Singer, Peter Jackson and David Cronenberg (the mind reels as to what the latter might have done at the helm of an «Alien» film), the producers once again elected to go with an up - and - coming talent by selecting French filmmaker Jean - Pierre Jeunet, who had caused an international sensation with his visually stunning fantasies «Delicatessen» (1991) and «City of Lost Children» (1995), to make his first English - language film.

Category fraud is exemplified by Viola Davis, whose push as a leading star is, admittedly, a falsity of the filmmakers and not of any voting body, but who should nevertheless be considered as supporting.

I was skeptical because as much as I love David Fincher, I wouldn't consider him legendary or a master filmmaker, not yet anyway.

Those of us who go self - pub — and it's a term I shied away from for a while but have decided to embrace — we have the right to be considered in the same light as independent filmmakers, comic artists, theater companies and musicians.

TONY CONRAD is an American avant - garde artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher and writer, best known for such films as «The Flicker» and for his album, «Outside the Dream Syndicate,» recorded with German group Faust and considered a masterwork of minimal music and Krautrock.

Rail: I remember the Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka once argued that cave painting should be considered as sculpture, or at the very least painted sculpture, because the maker of the images must have felt the irregularities in the cave's walls, especially in certain projected and rounded, smooth areas that might proffer the body of the bison to be painted right on top.

The Argentine sculptor, photograph and experimental filmmaker is considered as one of the pioneers of the conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s.

Let's talk about Vagina Painting (held at Filmmaker Cooperative at Astor Place in 1965 where Jonas Mekas would occasionally let Maciunas take over the space to use for his Fluxfest) which was considered a kind of parody of Yves Klein's use of the female body as a painting tool, as well as Pollock's action painting.