Sentences with phrase «film as an art director»

Having decided at the age of 14 that he wanted to go into film as an art director, he attended the University of Oregon, where he majored in fine arts.

Not exact matches

Iranian directors made intellectual films under the decadent and «Westoxicated» shah, and the country's art - house scene flourished even as the vulgar Film Farsi melodramas also found an audience.

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

A university professor teaches a class on muses in art and literature as a means of romancing his female students in this breathtaking new film from Jose Luis Guerín, director of the widely heralded In the City of Sylvia.

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?

The Grandmasters stars the director's frequent collaborator Tony Leung as the legendary martial arts master who instructed Bruce Lee, and features action sequences choreographed by Yeun Woo - ping (the man behind The Matrix, Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and countless other films).

Gaspar Noé's Climax (detailed below) was the big winner at the Directors» Fortnight, taking home the Art Cinema Award, and Lucia's Grace, directed by Gianni Zanasi and starring Alba Rohrwacher as a single working mother struggling to find balance in her life, won the Europa Cinemas Label Award for the section's best European film.

Del Toro's commentary track finishes off the extras and, as expected, is filled with the director speaking about influences and inspirations for the film whether from art or film history.

«Memoirs of a Geisha,» however, found the director cramped by conflicting aspirations of art - film stateliness and the old - Hollywood pizzazz of his previous effort — if not the catastrophe that many critics enjoyed declaring it, it was nonetheless a misfire that awkwardly showed up his limitations as a storyteller.

As a special TIFF edition of The Seventh Art Live Directors Series, we screened Don McKellar «s classic Toronto film, Last Night, in honour of its 15th anniversary.

She also worked at Arts Engine in NYC as a documentary film producer and Director of the Media That Matters Film Festival.

The ending in the theatrical release was not well - liked, but a much - better alternate version is included here, along with interviews with director John Boorman and art director Anthony Pratt, as well as an audio commentary with film historians Travis Crawford and Bill Ackerman.

A cringe-fest of microaggressions and eerie entrances, the film also boasts a very funny supporting performance from Thou Wast Mild and Lovely director Josephine Decker as a blithely condescending, self - styled patron of the arts who only opens her mouth to switch feet.

Director Kevin Chu was like the head coach leading out his Most Valuable Players (MVPs) to court, and explained that the idea for Kung Fu Dunk was actually established some 13 years back when filming martial arts movies such as Shaolin Popey (Shao Lin Xiao Zhi, starring Jimmy Lin), when he thought about whether martial arts could be combined with a ball game like basketball.

Though he once described his screenplays as more craft than art, Stoppard's literate film adaptations of various works by major authors have matched him with some of the most esteemed directors in international cinema, beginning with Joseph Losey's The Romantic Englishwoman in 1975.

Pieces from several Marvel Studios releases, as well as director Taika Waititi's film, are on display at Marvel's Art Exhibit over at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia.

What began initially as an art project and installation conceived by director Ruben Ostlund served ultimately as inspiration for his latest film, The Square.

Three reasons explain why Tokyo Story is generally regarded as Ozu's finest work are: it's by far the film of his that's been most widely seen in the West; its first distribution in the U.S. coincided with the landmark publication in 1972 of Paul Schrader's Transcendental Style in Film, which considered Ozu alongside other such luminaries as Carl Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson as an exemplar of spiritual filmmaking; and it's seen as the most complete summation of its director's art.

Composition, sound design and story all cut together beautifully, and yet, there's no question that ’12 Years a Slave» remains an art film, especially as the provocative director forces audiences to confront concepts and scenes that could conceivably transform their worldview.»

The film equivalent of a stroll through the Louvre, the documentary Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography collects interviews with many of modern - day Hollywood's finest directors of photography and is illustrated by examples of their best work as well as scenes from the pictures which most influenced them.

According to the director, the film sprung from his desire to develop a film around the talents and skill of mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano, and the finished film — which casts Carano as a covert agent in a shady private international agency that contracts out for government spy ops — gives you no reason to assume otherwise.

Wiazemsky continued to act in art - house films by other avant - garde directors, including Marco Ferreri, Alain Tanner, Marcel Hanoun and Philippe Garrel, and in works by mainstream directors such as Pierre Granier - Deferre and Michel Deville.

Since both films well pre-date the preservationist era of film - as - art - and - heritage — Greed was released in 1925, The Magnificent Ambersons in 1942 — they have suffered the further indignity of being unreconstructible; studios back in those days didn't hang on to excised footage for the sake of future director's cuts on DVD, so the reels upon reels of nitrate film trimmed from the original versions were — depending on which movie you're talking about and which story you believe — burned, thrown in the garbage, dumped into the Pacific, or simply left to decompose in the vaults.»

«The greatest thing art does is erase the lines in the sand when the world says to make them deeper,» said the Mexican director, as he accepted the award as a proud immigrant to the film industry.

Indeed, Robert Eggers — whose debut feature this is — has previously directed a few short films, but mainly worked as a Production Designer, Art Director and Costume Designer on the films and theater productions of others.

Daggers, however, is director Zhang Yimou's follow - up to the callowly beautiful Hero and, like that movie and a number of others (Ashes of Time, Bride with the White Hair, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill, Zatoichi, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, and, in a way, Goodbye Dragon Inn), it belongs to a martial arts / art - house genre of films by hip young directors upgrading genres they loved as teenagers - «martial arts plus.»

The film will be directed by Kasra Farahani, who will make his feature directorial debut, having previously worked as a production and art director on the likes of Avatar and Thor.

Given the state of the art, as seen earlier this year in Coraline (whose director, Henry Selick, was briefly attached to this film), Fantastic Mr. Fox looks like a throwback to the Rankin - Bass holiday specials of the»60s and»70s.

Born in Arkansas, writer - director Jeff Nichols came out of the same film program as David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, Jody Hill, Craig Zobel, Tim Orr, and Paul Schneider, all of whom graduated within a few years of each other from the University Of North Carolina School Of The Arts.

About the Art Directors Guild: The Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800) represents nearly 2,000 members who work throughout the United States, Canada and the rest of the world in film, television and theater as Production Designers, Art Directors, and Assistant Art Directors; Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists; Illustrators and Matte Artists; and Set Designers and Model Makers.

He is a freelance film poster art director, designer and illustrator for such films as «Hobo With a Shotgun», «The Innkeepers», «Fathers Day!»

It certainly seems like director David Gordon Green is on the road to becoming a household name, which is a bit odd considering that the guy started his career with such acclaimed art house films as George Washington and All The Real Girls.

But he would contribute to a number of other notable films over the years as well, like with the lush Art Deco look of Prince's weird cult item «Under the Cherry Moon» (1986), or helping director Paul Newman keep his adaptation of «The Glass Menagerie» (1987) from feeling hopelessly stage - bound.

My personal cultural philosophy mirrors the Native Program's philosophy: For four years I have been the director of the Sundance - supported Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) Native Youth Film Camp, which teaches Native students ages 14 - to - 18 script - to - screen skills as they make 6 - to - 8 short films per camp.

International in scope, the anthology brings to light the important contributions that these directors made to the development of film as an art form.

As well as covering the literature and animated film of the story of «Sleeping Beauty», this book also touches (I use that lightly, since «Maleficent» could have fill a book on its own) on the new film «Maleficent» with interviews with Angelina Jolie, Imelda Staunton, Linda Woolverton, Sean Bailey, Joe Roth, Don Hahn, and director Robert Stromberg (Oscar - winning art director of Avatar and Alice in WonderlandAs well as covering the literature and animated film of the story of «Sleeping Beauty», this book also touches (I use that lightly, since «Maleficent» could have fill a book on its own) on the new film «Maleficent» with interviews with Angelina Jolie, Imelda Staunton, Linda Woolverton, Sean Bailey, Joe Roth, Don Hahn, and director Robert Stromberg (Oscar - winning art director of Avatar and Alice in Wonderlandas covering the literature and animated film of the story of «Sleeping Beauty», this book also touches (I use that lightly, since «Maleficent» could have fill a book on its own) on the new film «Maleficent» with interviews with Angelina Jolie, Imelda Staunton, Linda Woolverton, Sean Bailey, Joe Roth, Don Hahn, and director Robert Stromberg (Oscar - winning art director of Avatar and Alice in Wonderland).

Ever since the French filmmaker Leos Carax announced Annette as his next film, the project has seemed just too strange to survive the often perilous road to financing and production: an English - language musical from the director of The Lovers On The Bridge and Holy Motors, with original songs by the cult art - pop duo...

This material and archival footage is augmented by testimonials from Francis Ford Coppola, Mel Brooks, Danny DeVito (who also served as the film's executive producer), and a new generation of art directors and production designers who were inspired by Harold and Lillian.

At a recent press open house at Marvel's LA offices, the director took some time out of his schedule to show reporters some of the upcoming film's storyboards and production art, as reported by Entertainment Weekly.

CC - w: When I started planning this film as a foreign director — because I was not a Cantonese director — I was able to capture the unique sense and mysteriousness of those martial arts, so I could demonstrate the powerfulness and realness in martial arts action.

In this Reverse Shot Talkie, director Matías Piñeiro browses the aisles of a Greenwich Village bookstore with host Eric Hynes to talk about adaptation as an art of taking liberties, the beauty of mess, and his ongoing relationship with William Shakespeare, whose plays have inspired many of his films, including his latest, The Princess of France.

As to be expected in a film by renowned director Peter Greenaway, Nightwatching is heavily influenced by theatrical and fine art techniques.

Critics have been raving about this tender romance from Italian director Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love, A Bigger Splash) since it premiered at Sundance back in January, and it's so highly anticipated that some theaters have been selling tickets weeks in advance, as though the film were the art - house equivalent of The Last Jedi or something.

Vapidness masquerading as depth, narcissism peddled as existentialism, director Terrence Malick proves with this film that he can not differentiate between art and pretentiousness.

In a sense this film anticipated martial arts extravaganzas such as The Matrix (Andy and Larry Wachowski, 1999) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000), as well as the western assimilation of the distinctive Hong Kong action film style of directors such as Tsui Hark and John Woo.

The acclaimed director of such films as Hellboy (2004), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Pacific Rim (2013), Crimson Peak (2015) and the forthcoming The Shape of Water is being recognized for his outstanding contributions to the art of cinema.

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS Director: Travis Knight Starring: Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, Ralph Fiennes, Rooney Mara, George Takei I've seen quite a few animated films this year, and Kubo and the Two Strings ranks as the very best of that list.

It's a capital - A art house film with a mesmerizing use of imagery; as writer, director, composer, editor and star, Carruth throws us in at the deep end and makes us work.

Paramount boasted a more elegant style and opulent touch, more glamour and soft - focus gloss than the working class Warner films and a roster of directors that included Ernst Lubitsch, Josef von Sternberg, Cecil B. DeMille and Mitchell Leisen, a director who began as a costume designer and art director on Douglas Fairbanks adventures and Cecil B. DeMille spectacles.

In this Reverse Shot Talkie, director Matías Piñeiro browses the aisles of Greenwich Village bookstore Mercert Street Books with host Eric Hynes to talk about adaptation as an art of taking liberties, the beauty of mess, and his ongoing relationship with William Shakespeare, whose plays have inspired many of his films, including his latest, The Princess of France.