Sentences with phrase «favourite film director»

The story of how Britain's favourite artist teamed up with Britain's favourite film director to put on a moving nativity play under the gaze of snipers in the West Bank

However, a tempered nod to a favourite film director or author can just scream «common interests»!

Up shot was, she came (and was delightful), and because of that, a journalist from the Evening Standard pitched up, who in turn brought along Julian Temple, one of my favourite film directors.

Not exact matches

Bullock is a favourite for Best Actress, Alfonso Cuaron may repeat his Golden Globes win for Best Director and the film as a whole could well take Best Picture

Shrek director Andrew Adamson is back (though he will not direct the third part, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, instead handing over to Michael Apted) and so is his favourite composer, Harry Gregson - Williams, whose score for the first film was quite pleasant in places but left little impression.

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

Boothe was a favourite of directors who liked their films packed with testosterone.

One of my favourite films on the festival circuit last year, from Sundance to Toronto After Dark, was the debut feature from Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska.

Then there was the fact that director Alex Proyas was also responsible for Dark City, one of my favourite films at that age.

Hollywood celebrated itself on Sunday night with the 87th Academy Awards, ignoring the critics» favourite Boyhood to present the best film, director and screenplay Oscars to the show business comedy Birdman.

Ben Robins chats with director Kate Herron about her festival favourite short Smear... There's never been a better time for genre fans to dive into the British short film «scene».

Bursting onto the scene at the Cannes Film Festival where it was greeted with a 15 - minute standing ovation (and the Best Director Award for Refn), the film — which co-stars Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman and Albert Brooks — has since went on to rack up the accolades and just manages to pip Attack the Block as our favourite film of the year by the narrowest of margins.

Oscar favourite Boyhood will also disappoint its film - makers with only five nominations, though they were in major fields including best director for Richard Linklater and best film.

You might want to see the big ticket gala films, check out the latest from your favourite director, or take a lucky dip.

Out of the 22 films selected, the favourites for cinema's most prestigious prize include previous winner Michael Haneke, for his film Amour, Ukraine's Sergei Loznitsa for In The Fog, France's Jacques Audiard for Rust and Bone, starring Marion Cotillard, and the young American director Jeff Nichols for his competition debut with Mud.

Among the other guests were Milos Forman, Peter Bogdanovich, James Ivory, Ismail Merchant and Salman Rushdie who, as guest director, had some of his favourite films screened.

Last but not least, British films, and two of my all - time favourite British directors didn't let me down.

4:3 favourite and director of 2012's Act of Killing Joshua Oppenheimer1 will premiere his latest film, The Look of Silence in competition, which follows the story of a family that survives the genocide in Indonesia and has to confront the men killed their brothers.

Alex Garland is one of my favourite contemporary writers and directors of science - fiction films, and my admiration for him continues with Annihilation.

Kelly Reichardt: Her films may be minimalist, yet she is one of my favourite working female directors at the moment.

The master storyteller was beaten to both the 1983 Best Director and Best Picture prize by Richard Attenborough's Gandhi, but it was a very strong year of double - header noms - Sydney Pollack for Tootsie (one of my all - time favourite films) and Sidney Lumet (The Verdict) were also in the running - while Wolfgang Petersen (for Das Boot) and Costa Gavras's Missing (Best Picture) were in the mix too.

Fortunately, director Spike Jonze (creator of oddball favourites Being John Malkovich and Adaptation) has made a science - fiction film that is partly a glimpse into the future of advanced computer software, a current day look at our overreliance on technology and also the unlikeliest of love stories.

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Staring the director of one of my all time favourite films (Jeff Who Lives at Home), Mark Duplass plays the husband to Elizabeth Moss's character Sophie, both of which are trying to recreate their magical first night together due to the drudgery of their current unhappy marital state.

At first I was disappointed that one of my favourite directors was turning to a superhero film after the fantastic and funny What We Do In The Shadows and the very different but also funny Hunt For The Wilderpeople.

I had interviewed the stars and the director Sean Baker (of Tangerine fame) earlier in the day, where I nerded out HARD and told every A24 rep I saw that they were my all - time favourite studio in the game right now (I was really into New Line in elementary school and tried to see EVERY Focus Features film in high school.

My favourite 20: 1 of the films is the only film I saw twice at the cinema this year; 6 are directed by women; 2 are directed by the same director; 2 are animated; 1 is a documentary; Adam Driver, Jeff Bridges, Michael Shannon, Samuel L Jackson, and Joel Edgerton all appear in 2 of the films each; and 7 of the films I saw for the first time at the 2016 Sydney film festival.

Musically, the director tends to rotate around a group of his favourite composers, and this film sees the return of Ulsterman David Holmes, scoring his fifth film for Soderbergh.

The actress professed no regrets at all for such fan - girl behavior — which apparently continued while the director was assembling his next film, the 17th - century period drama The Favourite — adding, «I'm a huge believer in his cinematic voice.»

Todd Haynes's lesbian drama wins Dorians, despite missing out on best film and best director Academy nominations last week, though Rooney Mara remains favourite to take best supporting actress

I love them so much that when people ask me why I even bother with law school, I reply with my life motto, and a quote from one of my favourite directors: «I didn't go to film school.

Though initial favourites, the films seem to slowly be being phased out of the awards conversation, with neither managing to land Best Film or Best Director nods.

Back in the international spotlight following Jodorowsky's Dune, the Chilean director and cult favourite has released what appears to be his final film, autobiographical in nature and filled with fantastic and theatrical images.

The Outsiders was actually my favourite film once upon a time (although it, admittedly, doesn't quite hold up now) but Coppola still done a lot of great work and he was also my favourite director for a time.

Developed around an ancient Benedictine monastery, Sarlat is a favourite location for film directors as modernity has largely excluded the area from its grasp which leaves it as one of the most representative towns of 14th century France.

«Your barista's favourite director» is back with Isle of Dogs - but with his trademark twee ubiquitous in film, TV and fashion, he never really went away