Sentences with phrase «directed against his films»

The other main criticism that has been directed against his films is that they are deeply cynical and bleak.

Not exact matches

Two movies I've seen lately that were unexpectedly great: WARHORSE (I usually can't stand Spielberg — but this is a eloquent anti-war film directed against probably the most senselessly and hugely murderous war ever — World War I. It's an anti-imperial and almost a pro-Porcher movie, until you realize that the first misuse of the heroic horse was making him plow.)

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical black comedy crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Terence Winter, based on the The Occupy movement is an international socio - political movement against social and economic inequality and the lack of real democracy around the world.

It is hilarious and heartbreaking all at once, especially when factoring in Dave Franco's performance, a beautiful game of shadows in which he's forced to play the more respected artist against his older, more famous brother (who, just to kick things up a notch, method - directed the film as Wiseau).

Toy Soldiers is a movie that appeals at once to adolescent self - pity and adolescent anger - a film that takes feelings of rejection and inadequacy and transforms them into a violent revenge fantasy, directed against all those distant daddies.

It's also because, against most people's odds, he's directed his first film.

Not many will debate against that Woody Harrelson is one of the greatest actors of his time (this year alone he has appeared in a wide variety of films and given a pair of incredible performances in War for the Planet of the Apes and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), but his portrayal of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson in the biopic about the polarizing political figure simply titled LBJ (directed by Rob Reiner of A Few Good Men fame among other widely regarded classics) is a mixed bag.

And so, while Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water leads the pack with 12 nominations, it's helped by a superb Sally Hawkins, who's up for Best Actress, and is going up against Call Me By Your Name, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — nine nominations and directed by our own Martin McDonagh — Winston Churchill drama Darkest Hour and Christopher Nolan's bold war film, Dunkirk.

That is a strike against this being a Cloverfield film, since previous movies in this series have been directed by smaller names.

This isn't the first time that the actor has gone against the grain in recent years, but it's refreshing to see someone of his quality take on a role that's seemingly beneath him, because it's the difference between an enjoyable film and another direct - to - video dud.

The film, which was written, directed and stars Nate Parker, tells the story of Nat Turner, a Virginia slave who organized a revolt in 1831 against white slave owners to free African - Americans.

The Guy Ritchie directed film will, like the series, fix on two agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, employees of the United Network Command for Law Enforcement, who use their gadgets and wits against the evil forces of Thrush.

Sheridan, directing for the first time (and filming in Utah), carefully reveals a web of violence and corruption surrounding the woman's death, against a backdrop of hard life on the reservation.

Although this decision might make the film more accessible to a wider audience, as it is easier to understand what Amin does when it seems to be a direct result of information that cuts to his very core, it does weaken the larger political story overall by making the focus more about crimes of passion than it is about crimes against humanity.

It also shows just how little the industry seems to care about the critical sentiment that has built up against Martin McDonagh's film in recent months, much of it directed specifically at Rockwell's Dixon, an ill - tempered white police officer with a fondness for beating up black suspects.

The film, however, is a working - class melodrama with grand swathes of tragedy, intense scenes of destruction (the aftermath of a train wreck is an inferno suggested by bold silhouettes against burning orange tints), and devastating moments of loss and redemption directed with delicate grace.

The film, directed and co-written by Gary Ross, tells the little - known story of Newton Knight, a soldier who deserted the Confederate army and then led an insurrection against it.

BLADE Wesley Snipes stars as a vampire hunter who goes up against ambitious vampire Stephen Dorff in this well - filmed, meticulously directed action thriller.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suss (Unrated) WWII documentary examining Jew Suss, an anti-Semitic feature film produced by Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels in 1940 and directed by Veit Harlan who was later tried for crimes against humanity but exonerated after raising the «I only followed orders» defense.

• And with that, much «Invictus» talk ensued, as we learned that Eastwood directed the film at Morgan Freeman's request, and that it's going up against «The Lovely Bones» in December.

Trumbo: Because Trumbo was directed by Jay Roach, whose top credits as of late have been HBO films like Recount and Game Change, a lot of the criticisms leveled against the film have slighted it as a glorified TV movie.

The film — directed and written by Nate Parker, who also stars in the lead role — focuses on the story of Turner, the Virginia slave who led a rebellion against slave owners in 1831.

Joe and Anthony Russo directed and wrote the film, which pits Earth's Mightiest Heroes against Thanos, a baddie with a face like granite and some pretty ambitious plans to achieve inter-galactic dominance.

This gay male gaze did not sit well with many straight Bat - fans, and while Batman & Robin isn't good, I realized in reading up on the film for this podcast that a lot of the criticism against it smacks of homophobia — in general and directed specifically at out director Joel Schumacher.

«Frank or Francis» pivots around a vain filmmaker (Steve Carell) who represents half the title (he writes, directs and plays every part in his opus, «You»), a bitter, but sharp online film commenter (Jack Black), as well as a failed comedian with a resume of unflattering fat - baiting time - wasters, including «Fat Dad» (playing against type, it's Nicolas Cage).

Though The Red Shoes is possibly the most popular and visually entrancing dance film of all time, the producing, directing, and writing team of the British Michael Powell and the Hungarian Emeric Pressburger created numerous other odes to the power of art and the imagination, always going against the realist strain of British cinema.

Wise, who also directed the noirs «The Set - Up» and «Odds Against Tomorrow» along with many other films (most notably Oscar winners «West Side Story» and «The Sound of Music») started as an editor («Citizen Kane»).

The film is narrated by Mark Renton or «Rents» (Ewan MacGregor), a young addict whose soliloquies are squalls of mockery and venom directed against Scotland («the scum of the earth»), England («wankers») and his own mates: fellow junkies Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) and two guys who avoid drugs, health - nut Tommy (Kevin McKidd) and alcoholic Begbie (Robert Carlyle).

Based on a popular graphic novel by Marasume Shirow and directed by Rupert Sanders («Snow White and the Huntsman»), Ghost in the Shell is a visually stunning experience with a fine core performance by Scarlett Johansson («Captain America: Civil War»), but it borrows so much of other, mostly better science fiction films and TV series, that charges of grand larceny should be levied against writers William Wheeler («Queen of Katwe»), Ehren Kruger («Transformers: Age of Extinction») and Jamie Moss («Street Kings»).

The only thing against Beattie is his busy schedule that includes directing «I, Frankenstein» and the sequel to «Tomorrow When the War Began» as well as script work on «Pirates of the Caribbean 5» and the videogame film «Halo».

Who, what, when: A clear - eyed visionary drawn to muscular, no - punches - pulled genre films who, some would say, directs masculine - style fare while displaying the sharp - eyed instincts of a woman — though Bigelow is steadfastly against defining herself in any gender terms.

Marielle Heller, who made her directorial debut with the highly - praised The Diary of a Teenage Girl last year is set to write and direct a feature - film adaptation of HBO's documentary The Case Against 8.

Starring Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, and Michael Shannon, and written, produced, and directed by Del Toro, the film is described as an «other - worldly story» set against the backdrop of the Cold War.

Written and produced by Larry and Andy Wachowski of Matrix fame, and directed by Matrix second - unit director James McTeigue, the film reworks an»80s graphic novel illustrated by David Lloyd and written by Alan Moore (uncredited here, by his own choice) as a howl of rage against where Moore felt the Thatcher administration was headed.

Nicholas Stoller again directs in a film that follows what happens when the will of parenthood goes against the bonds of sisterhood.

Irish rising star Barry Keoghan (Love / Hate, Trespass Against Us) will play opposite her in the film which will be directed by Rebecca Daly, whose debut feature The Other Side of Sleep premiered at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival Directors Fortnight.

Especially amongst the hipster set already fueling the backlash against Cody; even Ellen Page will feel their wrath when her upcoming film is succinctly labeled as «Juno on roller skates» (sorry, Drew Barrymore's directing debut!).

She did so as an almost symbolic stand against the enduring difficulty of getting female - directed films made.

It seems that while some of Shyamalan's fine directing skills are back, there still lurks within him the immature brat who cast himself in the Jesus role in Lady in the Water and, in that same film, made Bob Balaban a film critic who gets eaten by the monster (because, you see, critics had by then turned against Shyamalan and so deserved to die).

In the Don Siegel - directed film, young women living together in a boarding school turn against each other, fighting over Eastwood's character, before they become hostile scorned females.

If anything, he was an inspired choice to write and direct «The Avengers»; the only real strike against him getting the job was that his last feature film effort, the 2005 space western «Serenity,» tanked at the box office.

2002 Illustraded Catalog, Big Girl Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA 2001 Included in exhibition, Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980's, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami 2000 Included in exhibitions: The International Festival of Contemporary Sculpture: Contemporary American Sculpture, Monaco; The Lenore and Burton Gold Collection of 20th Century Art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta 1999 Included in exhibitions: The American Century: Art and Culture 1950 - 2000, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Bad - Bad: That is a Good Excuse, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden - Baden, Germany 1997 Included in exhibitions: The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992 - 1996, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; La Biennale de Venezia: Future, Present, Past, XLVII International Arts Exhibition, Venice 1996 Release of film, Basquiat, directed and produced by Schnabel 1994 Julian Schnabel: Retrospective, at the Museo de Monterrey, Mexico; included in exhibition, U.S. Painting of the 1980s, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland 1993 Included in Drawing the Line Against AIDS, exhibition in conjunction with Art Against AIDS Venezia, under the aegis of the 45th Venice Biennale, Peggy Guggenheim Colletion, Venice 1992 Included in exhibitions: Le Portrait Dans L'Art Contemporain, at the Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Nice, France; Manifeste, at the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 1991 Solo exhibition, Julian Schnabel, at the Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; included in exhibitions: The 1980's: Selections from the Permanent Collection, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Toward a New Museum: Recent Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture, 1985 - 1991, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California 1989 Traveling solo exhibition, Julian Schnabel: Works on Paper 1975 - 1988, originating at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland 1986 Traveling solo exhibition, Julian Schnabel: Paintings 1975 - 1986, originating at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1985 Completes four etching, lithographs published by Pace Editions, New York 1984 - 2001 Solo exhibitions at PaceWildenstein, New York 1984 First solo exhibition at the Pace Gallery, New York 1979 First solo exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery, New York