Sentences with phrase «director of the film life»

Not exact matches

None of the upcoming movies listed over the next two years will have women behind the director's chair and, as Casey Cipriani and Melissa Silverstein of IndieWire have noted, no woman has directed a live - action film for the studio since 2010.

In the case of the highly - anticipated «Bohemian Rhapsody,» a film about the band Queen and life of Freddie Mercury, the director, Bryan Singer, may have actually been the one who caused «chaos» on production.

Cyril Charzat, Senior Director, Global Heineken Brand, added: «In the film, our «man of the world» brings to life the powerful idea that there are no limits, when you know your limits.

Livia Firth is an Italian film producer and is the creative director of Eco Age, a retail concept that offers inspiration and ideas for those wanting to lead a greener and more energy efficient life.

Iron Mike, 41, was in the French seaside resort last week for its annual film festival and the premiere of Tyson, a documentary about his life by writer - director James Toback (Fingers, The Pick - Up Artist).

Richard Hudson, director of science production for Twin Cities Public Television, called it a memorable film in which Frank «leverages her reflections on her own life and personality to amplify the discoveries and insights of the articulate experts.»

The dam project, in planning for 30 years, has stirred opposition among environmentalists and celebrities, including the singer Sting and Hollywood director James Cameron, who compared the conflict to a «real life» version of his film Avatar.

Trained as an astrobiologist at Stanford and Caltech, Loretta has been to the Canadian Arctic to study plant life in extreme environments and to the hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean with «Titanic» director James Cameron to film a 3D IMAX documentary, «Aliens of the Deep.»

PLANETARIUM (Planetarium) Director: Rebecca Zlotowski Cast: Natalie Portman, Lily - Rose Depp, Emmanuelle Salinger, Louis Garrel Searching for their big break, two American sisters, who earn their living through clairvoyance, arrive in 1930s Paris, where they beguile a movie - producer intent on shooting their séances as part of an ambitious new film.

This idea, of social commentary illuminating an absurd aspect of modern life, is precisely what director George Romero was stating with his pivotal film, Dawn of the Dead.

Real - life sweethearts and film directors Ken Kwapis and Marisa Silver co-directed this throwback to the silver - screen romantic comedies of the 1940s, examining the different ways men and women view reality.

Paramount has chosen quality over quantity for the Blu - ray release of «The Fighter,» with a strong collection of bonus material headlined by an audio commentary with director David O. Russell where he discusses the filming of the movie and how it compares to its real - life subjects.

You can't help but feel that the film suffers on account of the director's trademark aversion to taut editing and on these expansive plans to live up to the Lord of the Rings series.

Without a doubt, Friedkin is one of my all - time favorite directors, although it could be argued that he hasn't done a truly great film since 1985's TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA.

«Loosely based on British author and film director Dennis Potter's 1986 novel «Ticket to Ride», Secret Friends follows the life of John (Alan Bates), a middle - aged wildflower illustrator in the throes of an identity crisis.

(2004), an Americanized version of a popular feel - good Japanese movie from 1996, then portrayed the visionary film director Stanley Kubrik in the HBO biopic «The Life and Death of Peter Sellers» (2004).

Director Nora Twomey changes the film's style for the fantasy story, transitioning from the sharp lines and solid colors of the real - life scenes to animation that looks like paper models in motion.

The future of blockbuster films such as these lie with directors like Coogler (and Patty Jenkins, and Taika Waititi), ones who are bringing much - needed new life and ideas to the superhero genre.

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.

Announcing that the 1996 - 1997 season of Roseanne would be his last, Goodman limited himself to infrequent appearances on the series, his absences explained away as a by - product of a heart attack suffered by his character at the end of the previous season.After making his 10th appearance on Saturday Night Live (2000), Goodman could be seen playing a red - faced bible salesman in director Joel Coen's award winning O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000), and participated in Garry Shandling's film debut What Planet Are You From?

From Focus World and director / star James Franco, a film about visionary poet Hart Crane, who lived a life of beauty, passion, and tragedy.

Also impressive is director Wenders» use of his and Lisa Rinzler's shoots in Assisi, black - and - white, deliberately faded and silent film, showing an actor playing St. Francis who at the key point in his life heard God tell him to restore a dilapidated church — which I believe he did thinking that God's will is more important than his father's rage at the saint's alleged throwing away his money.

Since the controversy erupted, director Laura Brownson and team exclusively filmed with Rachel, her sons and her adopted sister Esther, capturing the intimate, vérité life story of a damaged character who lands squarely in the cross-hairs of race and identity politics in America — and exploring how that character still provokes negative reactions from millions who see her as the ultimate example of white privilege.

But few popes in living memory have seemed as recognizably human as Francis — for all its access, and for all the inherent empathy of its director, Wenders» film is never able to completely connect the dots between the man and the figure.

It feels even darker since the subsequent murder of its writer / director / supporting actor Adrienne Shelley who didn't live to see the film's release.

I am grateful that the Academy Awards uncharacteristically chose not to take this film's bait, opting to reward better films like Argo (Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay) and Life of Pi (Best Director).

An energetic and curiously faithful remake of the 1984 film of the same name starring Kevin Bacon, writer - director Craig Brewer's Footloose is a virtual cinematic poison pill to anyone irrevocably divorced from any trace memories of adolescent feeling, and further proof that in life but especially art feeling is stronger than thought.

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.

In a perfect demonstration that horror and trauma are the stuff of real, everyday life and not the macabre vision of fantasists, Cries and Whispers marked Bergman's recovery as one of Europe's greatest film directors.

Writer / director Ira Sachs, who made his first feature film, «The Delta,» about 15 years ago (which I haven't seen), brings to life the story of two well - educated Manhattanites who have an anonymous sexual encounter that grows into a 10 - year relationship.

The latest film from director Wes Anderson — and his first live - action film since 2007's The Darjeeling Limited 67 — tells the story of young Sam and Suzy (newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward), who run away together, sending a small New England island community into a panic.

An Alexander nut for most of his life the director gives us a film that — even in its loooong three - hour form — continuously holds your attention especially its intense and bloody battle scenes.

The film was a success, but it failed to establish Midler as a dramatic actress; audiences, particularly gay fans, still preferred the Divine Miss M. Jinxed (1982), Midler's next film, lived up to its name with well - publicized production squabbles between Midler, the director, producers, and a few of her co-stars.

Ondi Timoner, the director of the documentaries, We Live in Public 69 and Cool It 61 will make her feature narrative debut with the latter film.

He begins by exploring the director's early life and career in his native Hungary, revealing how Curtiz shaped the earliest days of silent cinema in Europe as he acted in, produced, and directed scores of films before immigrating to the United States in 1926.

The German director Philip Gröning waited more than a decade for permission to film inside the cloister walls of the 900 - year - old order, and he has done a remarkable job of depicting an ascetic way of life that's normally closed to outsiders.

Critic Consensus: While it's certainly timely and beautifully filmed, The Bling Ring suffers from director Sofia Coppola's failure to delve beneath the surface of its shallow protagonists» real - life crimes.

In this lively, illuminating and unexpectedly moving documentary, directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow engage in a personal and candid discussion with De Palma, exploring not only his life and work but also his singular approach to the craft of filmmaking and his remarkable experiences navigating the film business, from his early days as the bad boy of New Hollywood to his more recent years as a respected veteran of the field.

De Palma is a deceptively simple documentary film: Director Brian De Palma sits in front of a fireplace for nearly two hours and talks about his life and career.

The film may live as little more than a supplement on a future box set, but Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow do well enough to give a sense of the breadth De Palma's career while letting the iconoclastic director write his history in his own way.

German / Austrian director Michael Haneke has become notorious for making films that are, essentially, extended meditations on discomfort, in which the lives of his fictional characters are marred by unspeakable violence and the minds of the audience are jarred by self - reflexive story twists.

Ang Lee is a great director whose last film, the Oscar - winning «Life of Pi,» made ingenious and very effective use of 3D technology.

Critics Consensus: While it's certainly timely and beautifully filmed, The Bling Ring suffers from director Sofia Coppola's failure to delve beneath the surface of its shallow protagonists» real - life crimes.

Director Richard Attenborough's Gandhi is one of the most ambitious biographical films ever made, encompassing not just more than half a century of one man's life but also one country's struggle for independence.

Unbroken film review: Power of the desire to live Cast: Jack O'Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, Takamasa Ishihara, Finn Wittrock Director: Angelina Jolie

In the world of live - action films, changing a director when a film is already in production is rare, though it happened this year on the independent western «Jane Got a Gun,» when Gavin O'Connor replaced director Lynne Ramsay after she failed to show up on the first day of shooting in New Mexico.

Finally, writer / director Rebecca Miller's first film since 2009's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Maggie's Plan, wasn't expected to make it on to this autumn's circuit because it finished principal photography just a few months ago.

Paul is a director who, like many of the movie brats, has a reputation that precedes him — whether it be writing American cinema classics like Taxi Driver or Raging Bull, directing the popular and canonized films American Gigolo and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, or the lore surrounding the era, popularized by Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.

Although she had appeared in several films earlier, Cheng's first starring role in a martial arts film came, like Hsu Feng's, courtesy of director King Hu during his short - lived stint with the studio.

New films from Terrence Malick, whose The Tree of Life took the top prize last year, and There Will Be Blood director Paul Thomas Anderson, were not ready in time for inclusion, while Woody Allen's latest, To Rome with Love, is anticipated to be added to the lineup at a later date.