Sentences with phrase «directorial effort at»

Although you may wonder why he did not direct Monsters University, the prequel to his first directorial effort at the studio, the reasoning is that he was working on an ambitious original project called Inside Out.

Not exact matches

One of his best - known directorial efforts was Sherlock Holmes (1922), which, at Parker's personal recommendation, starred John Barrymore as the Great Detective.

The film does a great job at capturing the cold, evil nature of Ian Mckellen's character (who is well cast and gives a great performance) But considering that this is a film directed by Bryan Singer, you know right from the start that this isn't his strongest directorial effort.

Bresson, along with Ozu and Dreyer, formed a trinity at the heart of Schrader's book Transcendental Style in Film, and the filmmaker has faithfully returned to them again and again, channeling them in most of his directorial efforts, working within the so - called «Tarkovsky Ring» (films made within this ring will find commercial distribution, films like those of Bresson and Roberto Rossellini, while films outside of this ring are destined for museum and festival existences).

Angelina Jolie's next movie will be a «motherf *** er» to direct.The Oscar - winning actress is hard at work shooting her latest directorial effort,...

Foster has been a regular presence at Cannes throughout the decades and presented her last directorial effort — the bleak comedy «The Beaver,» starring Mel Gibson — in an out - of - competition slot in 2011.

On Saturday, Franco premiered his latest directorial effort, «Child of God,» at the Venice International Film Festival, and on Sunday he was back on the red carpet there for the screening of «Palo Alto,» Gia Coppola's film in which he stars.

One of his most accomplished early directorial efforts is SO LONG AT THE FAIR (1950) starring a very young Jean Simmons and Dirk Bogarde.

Instead we get one superb movie called Unbroken, with Angelina Jolie at the helm in her second directorial effort.

Now, while that film was mediocre at best, that one scene, which is satirical of the concept of the botched heist, just couldn't escape my mind while I patiently waited for the lights to dim and Ben Affleck's latest directorial effort The Town to commence.

With her second directorial effort Unbroken set to hit cinemas later this year, Angelina Jolie is already at work on her third, By The Sea which co-stars hubby Brad Pitt.

You wouldn't necessarily expect this to be true, but looking at (for example) his first three feature directorial efforts, which were in many ways dominated by two writers.

Similarly, with modern technology at his disposal - and Nolan's Oscar - winning cinematographer Wally Pfister coming off his own ambitious sci - fi directorial effort, Transcendence (assuming the pair reunites)- the portrayal of space flight could be something to admire.

Kesssler's most famous directorial effort was Vegas Vacation (he even pokes fun at it himself).

Now, some of the writers here at TSR (cough cough, Aaron) have their doubts, but with Matthew Vaughn's previous directorial efforts and Bryan Singer returning as producer, I'm choosing the path of blind faith.

Nicolas Winding Refn seems to have a number of interesting projects brewing at any given time, but he's finally decided which one he wants to make his next directorial effort.

Roman Coppola «s «A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III,» his long - awaited sophomore directorial effort (arriving more than a decade after «CQ»), finally premiered this month at the Rome Film Festival.

His second directorial effort, The Driver (1978), couldn't be more different — a contemporary drama of cops and crooks in the modern city locked in a struggle that has become (for no explicable reason) personal, all loners with temporary alliances at best — yet we're in the same Hill universe of tough, terse professionals who define themselves by their abilities and express themselves in action.

A24 purchased the film, which stars Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, and Gabriel Byrne, ahead of the festival, and judging by its first trailer, a conscious effort is being made to position Ari Aster's feature - length directorial debut as less miminalist in the horror department than both The Witch and It Comes at Night.

In «Unsane,» which marks his third directorial effort since coming out of his so - called «retirement» last summer (following «Logan Lucky» and the HBO series «Mosaic»), the always - ambitious Steven Soderbergh is trying to do three wildly different things at once.

Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)

Trumbull's second feature as a director, Brainstorm, was all but orphaned by MGM and his directorial efforts since have been outside the Hollywood system, including short films in his own high - definition Showscan process (a large - frame film format that runs at 60 frames a second) and Back to the Future... The Ride,» a multi-media mix of film, sound, and simulator ride.

The sophomore film from Houston born director Trey Edward Shults whose directorial effort Krisha won both the audience and grand jury prize at SXSW in 2015 (but mainstream audiences never heard of).

The strained marriage of an artistic couple is at the heart of By the Sea, the new directorial effort from Angelina Jolie Pitt.

Franco also has his directorial efforts In Dubious Battle, based on the John Steinbeck novel, and post-apocalyptic actioner Future World selling at the ongoing AFM.

Also, Alan Rickman's first directorial effort in seventeen years will make its Irish debut at the festival.

Anyone doubting such a blanket statement can simply glance at his directorial efforts, which are obsessed with carnage (Braveheart), blood (Apocalypto) and suffering (The Passion of the Christ).

Following a debut at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, and a forthcoming slot at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival in New York, an international trailer for Paul Haggis» most recent directorial effort Third Person has arrived.

Following her short film's debut «Come Swim» at Cannes last year and then Sundance in January, actress Kristen Stewart is moving up in her directorial efforts with plans for a feature debut which aims to shoot this Summer.

BD got on the phone with Landis recently to discuss the film, which marks his first feature directorial effort (at least in the narrative realm) since the 1998 crime comedy Susan's Plan.

Wingard's next directorial effort, You're Next, a darkly comedic home - invasion thriller, went on to premiere to ravenous reviews at the 2011 Toronto festival as part of the «Midnight Madness» section.

He shared info on his next directorial effort (starting at the end of 2017)-- an investigation movie that's «in the vain of «Spotlight».»

I can just imagine what it was like the day Tom Hanks (Cast Away) decided to make Larry Crowne, his latest directorial effort about a man who loses his job at a local department store and goes back to school.

He brings with him the same strengths he's brought to all of his feature directorial efforts; above all else he is a master at clockwork storytelling, of setting things up and paying them off, with a visual flair and an ever - more - confident feel for action.