Sentences with phrase «fantasy film directed»

Beauty and the Beast is a 2017 American musical romantic fantasy film directed by Bill Condon and co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Mandeville Films.

Gods of Egypt is an ambitious, big - budget fantasy film directed by Alex Proyas (I, Robot), co-written by Matt Sazama (Dracula) and Burk Sharpless (The Last Witch Hunter), starring Gerard Butler (300), Nikolaj Coster - Waldau (Game of Thrones), Brenton Thwaites (The Giver), and Geoffrey Rush (Pirates of the Caribbean).

For instance, last year we had the fantastic Troll Hunter, a Norwegian fantasy film directed by Andre Ovredal about a group of students who get more than they bargained for when they attempt to capture the actions of a supposed bear poacher on camera.

Not exact matches

The Golden Globe - nominated director of Selma, Ava DuVernay is going to direct a film adaptation of the acclaimed fantasy novel, A Wrinkle in Time.

This peculiar low - budget children's musical fantasy was directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, who was best known for horror films like Blood Feast.

Who would have thought that it would be a master of fantasy like Steven Spielberg who would direct what might be the most wrenching film ever made?

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.

McTiernan went on to make over 200 television commercials before making his feature film debut by directing the fantasy horror movie Nomads (1985).

Finally, Del Toro who co-wrote and directed this film, did a masterful job of weaving fantasy and fairytale elements into what is essentially a love story.

Guillermo del Toro, who directed the fantasy drama, announced at San Diego Comic - Con on Saturday that the film will be made into a maze at Southern California's most extreme horror experience.

Anonymous is directed by Roland Emmerich, the schlockmeister behind such films as Independence Day, the Godzilla remake, The Day After Tomorrow, 10,000 B.C., and the stupid, stupid end - times fantasy 2012.

Etheria Film Night screens an annual showcase of the best new horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, dark comedy, and thriller films directed by women for an audience including producers, managers, show runners, distributors, and genre fans.

Ava DuVernay's adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's kid - lit fantasy classic not only marks a step forward for diversity — with the film, DuVernay becomes the first woman of color to direct a $ 100 million blockbuster — but for DuVernay as an artist.

It complicates the film's relation to history, so thinly veiled at times (Thornton's James Carville, Emma Thompson's Hillary Clinton stand out in particular, but also Kathy Bates's conflation of Betsey Wright and Vincent Foster), but ultimately this is not a docudrama of historical recreation (like Oliver Stone's W. or the Jay Roach / Danny Strong HBO movies Recount and Game Change, let alone a fantasy of a Hawksian White House as in its most direct descendant, Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing).

Perhaps because this is a film written and directed by men, cutting loose for these moms does not mean acting like they did when they were young and single, but rather a frat boy fantasy involving speeding in muscle cars, downing bottles of vodka and Jell - O shots, shrugging off any responsibilities, flipping their condescending boss the bird, throw wild and hedonistic parties, and trying to get laid with easy hookups at the local bar.

BEST PICTURE: «Birdman» ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD FOR BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING: Richard Linklater — «Boyhood» BEST ACTOR: Michael Keaton — «Birdman» BEST ACTRESS: Rosamund Pike — «Gone Girl» BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Edward Norton — «Birdman» BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Patricia Arquette — «Boyhood» ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicholas Glocobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo — «Birdman» ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Gillian Robespierre — «Obvious Child» BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: «The Lego Movie» BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: «CitizenFour» BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: «Ida» (Poland) VINCE KOEHLER AWARD FOR BEST SCI - FI, FANTASY or HORROR FILM: «The Babadook»

Netflix releases a second trailer for Bright, the David Ayer directed fantasy buddy cop film starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

Matt Johnson writes, stars and directs as a young boy who retreats into the fantasy world of film, starring in the movies that run constantly in his head as a means to escape the constant torment and bullying inflicted on him by his peers.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 5, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Alice in Wonderland (PG for fantasy, action, violence, scary images and smoking) Tim Burton directs this animated sequel to the Lewis Carroll children's classic revolving around now 19 year - old Alice's (Mia Wasikowska) return to the whimsical kingdom for a reunion with the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) and other childhood friends, and to end the Red Queen's (Helena Bonham Carter) reign of terror.

But for those of you looking for something a little more current (and a helluva lot better - looking, acted, written, and directed than any of the 80's fantasy films we've mentioned above), I simply can't recommend David Gordon Green's Your Highness enough.

It's like a Terry Gilliam fantasy directed by Zhang Yimou and reimagined by a child, with the fears and fantasies that mingle through the film becoming almost naively direct reflections of their respective emotional lives.

She was the first black woman to win Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival (Middle of Nowhere, 2012), the first black woman to direct a film receiving an Oscar nod for Best Picture (Selma, 2014), and in 2018, the first black woman to direct a studio film budgeted over a hundred million with A Wrinkle in Time, an adaptation of Madeline L'Engle's 1963 Newbery Medal winning sci - fi fantasy novel.

Spielberg continues his reign as one of the Mount Rushmore heads of directing with his next kid friendly fantasy / adventure film with his Bridge of Spies, and now Oscar - winning actor, Mark Rylance as the BFG.

, the Jay Russell - directed The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep is a disappointing fantasy flick that never quite decides if it's a feel - good children's film or a weighty coming - of - age drama, and ultimately isn't quite good enough at being either.

At the recent press day for The Bourne Ultimatum, David Strathairn took some time to also talk about his work on the forthcoming fantasy film The Spiderwick Chronicles, directed by Mark Waters.

Horror has that capacity, and in the best horror and fantasy films there's a very direct connection to an internal reality.

Also in 1996, Akerman directed what might be described as her penultimate attempt at a «commercial» feature film, the light romantic fantasy Un divan à New York (A Couch in New York), starring William Hurt and Juliette Binoche, which despite its star power sat on the shelf for a while, before opening quietly at Anthology film Archives in Manhattan in November, 1997.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 14, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG - 13 for epic battle scenes and scary images) Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) directed this adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novel about a human - like creature with furry feet (Martin Freeman) who is prompted by a wizard (Ian McKellen) to embark on an epic with 13 dwarfs to wrest control of a lost kingdom from the clutches of a fearsome dragon.

Kick - Ass is directed with perfect style by Matthew Vaughn, who made the cult gangster film Layer Cake and the quaint fantasy Stardust, which was also adapted from a graphic novel.

Howard is best known for directing Apollo 13 and The Da Vinci Code, but also has deep ties with Lucasfilm - having appeared in George Lucas» first film, American Graffitti, and directed the fantasy film Willow.

The film may be a wish fulfillment fantasy aimed at teen and pre-teen girls, but director Vondie Curtis Hall (who previously directed the very entertaining — in the right way — Gridlock'd) and screenwriter Kate Lanier's similarly naive depiction of the music business is laughable.

Hershman Leeson wrote all of her own scripts, and she directed and produced her films as well, bringing to the screen not only her innovative computer - science fantasies — anticipating our current digitally dominated world and obsession with artificial intelligence — but she has made documentaries as well: Strange Culture (2007) brings to bizarre life the twisted story of artist Steve Kurtz and his arrest by the FBI for being a would - be bio-terrorist.

A science fiction and fantasy based film, «The Martian» is directed by Ridley Scott and features actor Matt Damon as astronaut Mark Watney.