But on top of that, the film is meticulously crafted by one of
my favorite young filmmakers, Xavier Dolan, who gives us an incredibly rich, intimate Quebecois character study of mother and son.
Nichols has quickly established himself as one of
my favorite young filmmakers, and his collaborations with Shannon are always something special.
Not exact matches
After winning «
Favorite Villain» for her role in Maleficent on Saturday, the actress and
filmmaker hugged the two of her kids she brought with her, Shiloh and Zahara, and then delivered the
young audience a brief message of hope to anyone who's ever felt out of place.
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Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant
young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of
filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.
Why it could succeed: I think that it's undeniable that Jason Reitman is one of the best
young filmmakers working today... at the very least, I find him to be the one of the best, so the combination of him and one of my
favorite author's novels makes for a project that I couldn't be anticipating more.
But first, here's Lynne Cherry, an author, illustrator and
filmmaker who collaborated many times with Braasch, particularly notably in my
favorite book on climate change for
younger readers, «How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate.»