Sentences with phrase «film classics directed»

«Human Desire» is one of two Lang American remakes of French film classics directed by Lang «s great colleague Jean Renoir, a generous - hearted, humanistic Frenchman who seems at first, the temperamental opposite of the icy - eyed Lang.

Gary Lucas» live original solo guitar soundtrack accompanying the legendary 1967 Brazilian cult horror film classic directed by and starring Jose Mojica Marins a / k / a Coffin Joe.

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If you're not familiar with Tim Burton, you're probably familiar with his films — he has directed such classics as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Ed Wood, Charlie and the Charlie Factory, and most recently, Sweeney Todd.

Singer's first directing gig since Valkyrie in 2008 is a 3D, CGI - heavy take on the classic fairy tales «Jack and the Beanstalk» and «Jack the Giant Killer,» the latter giving the film its original title.

The Shadow was directed by former music video creator Russell Mulcahy, whose feature film debut Highlander (1986) was a cult classic.

Steven Spielberg might as well be known for directing well - loved classics, but he's also the same guy who also directed modern art like The BFG and this film.

Baz Luhrmann hasn't directed a film since 2008's Australia, but, over the past few weeks, rumors have started swirling about Luhrmann taking on F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby.

When Frankenheimer got a second movie to direct - «The Young Savages» in 1961 - he had a far better time, and he made no fewer than three big films the following year, including «The Manchurian Candidate», an instant classic.

DICK DINMAN SALUTES GARY COOPER»S BLU «THE HANGING TREE»: Producer / host Dick Dinman and Warner Home Video's Senior Vice President of Classic and Theatrical Marketing George Feltenstein celebrate the Warner Archive's lustrously restored Blu - ray release of THE HANGING TREE one of legendary superstar Gary Cooper's most unjustly forgotten masterworks and actress Joan Leslie (who at the tender age of 16 costarred with Cooper in SERGEANT YORK) and acclaimed director Michael Anderson (who directed Cooper's final two films) regale Dick with their praise of Cooper's uniquely invisible acting technique.

Mike Newell, whose last two films couldn't be more different (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 50 and Love in the Time of Cholera 47) directs this latest adaptation of Charles Dickens» classic novel.

LeBlanc's feature film credits include CHARLIE»S ANGELS, and its sequel, CHARLIE»S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE with Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu, directed by McG; LOST IN SPACE, based on the classic television show that was originally produced by Irwin Allen, ALL THE QUEEN»S MEN AND LOVESICK, co-starring Chevy Chase.

Paul is a director who, like many of the movie brats, has a reputation that precedes him — whether it be writing American cinema classics like Taxi Driver or Raging Bull, directing the popular and canonized films American Gigolo and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, or the lore surrounding the era, popularized by Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.

Hiroshi Teshigahara, most famous for his 1964 classic The Woman In The Dunes, directed this stellar short film in 1965.

We've known the new film, directed by Josh Trank (Chronicle) will have some radically different concepts going on than we're used to seeing in the classic Fantastic Four comics.

Donald Sutherland is one of the most respected, prolific and versatile of motion picture actors, with an astonishing resume of well over one hundred and fifty films, including such classics as Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen; Robert Altman's M * A * S * H; John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust; Robert Redford's Ordinary People; Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900; Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now with Julie Christie; Alan Pakula's Klute with Jane Fonda; Federico Fellini's Fellini's Casanova and in Brian Hutton» sKelly's Heroes with Clint Eastwood, who later directed him in Space Cowboys.

Not many will debate against that Woody Harrelson is one of the greatest actors of his time (this year alone he has appeared in a wide variety of films and given a pair of incredible performances in War for the Planet of the Apes and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), but his portrayal of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson in the biopic about the polarizing political figure simply titled LBJ (directed by Rob Reiner of A Few Good Men fame among other widely regarded classics) is a mixed bag.

If his film - directing output now seems the opposite of prolific, consider the rest of his résumé: Since 1969, he has written and / or produced such television classics as Room 222, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, and The Simpsons, and produced Penny Marshall's Big, Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire, and Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket.

Carrie is a film adaptation of Stephen King's work, which got turned into a cult horror classic in 1976 and was directed by Brain De Palma.

Irons is joining Amanda Seyfried and Shiloh Fernandez in the Catherine Hardwicke - directed film, which tackles the classic Little Red Riding Hood myth as a young lady living in a medieval village that is beset by a werewolf.

This is Allen's 42nd feature film that he has written and directed and his 4th film with Sony Pictures Classics.

Reuniting the stars of his celebrated film Cinderella, Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford direct Richard Madden («Game of Thrones,» Cinderella) as Romeo and Lily James («Downton Abbey,» Cinderella) as Juliet, alongside Derek Jacobi as Mercutio, and Meera Syal as The Nurse, in a modern, passionate version of the classic tragedy.

In case you are wondering about the director, Jeff Kanew, he is known best for directing the classic comedy film «Revenge of the Nerds».

The film is directed by David Yates (the Harry Potter films, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) and penned by Adam Cozad and Craig Brewer and based off the classic character from Edgar Rice Burroughs

Reuniting the stars of his celebrated film Cinderella, Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford direct Richard Madden and Lily James as Romeo and Juliet, Derek Jacobi as Mercutio, and Meera Syal as The Nurse, in a modern passionate version of the classic tragedy.

Sony Pictures Classics has revealed a trailer for the lovely indie film Puzzle, from producer + filmmaker Marc Turtletaub, his second feature film that he's directed.

I never really liked the idea of Levy directing one of the most classic monster movies of all time; especially when you consider his body of work includes films like Real Steel, Date Night, and Night at the Museum.

The Sony Pictures Classic film, which was directed by Robert Redford, is set to be released in theaters on April 5.

Amusingly, Chinatown's screenwriter, Robert Towne, has said that he wrote part of his 1974 film classic in an apartment he had borrowed from Curtis Hanson - the man who directed and, with Brian Helgeland, wrote L.A. Confidential.

12 Angry Men (1957), the first feature film directed by the legendary Sidney Lumet, is a Hollywood classic that, ironically, helped to define an era of filmmaking grounded in the gritty realism and frenetic energy of urban New York.

A Wrinkle in Time (Mar)- Ava DuVernay directs this long - awaited film adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's classic time - travel adventure.

The maze is inspired by the classic 1978 slasher film, «Halloween,» which co-written and directed by renowned horror filmmaker John Carpenter.

House of the Long Shadows (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu - ray, DVD), directed by Pete Walker, stars Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing, along with John Carradine and Desi Arnaz Jr., and the disc features separate commentary tracks by director Pete Walker and film historian David Del Valle and an interview with Walker.

This is Demme's second remake of a classic film in row, however, unlike his overcooked update of Charade in The Truth About Charlie, he directs with just the right amount of style here, always staying true to the events of the story as they unfold.

Based the outstanding novel by William Peter Blatty, which was turned into the classic film directed by William Friedkin, THE EXORCIST has all the potential to be a great TV show, as it can explore the characters over time and have a very slow build up.

Breck Eisner («The Crazies») is attached to direct the remake of the 1981 cult classic film «Escape From New York» for New Line / Warner Bros..

Starring Riley Keough, Matt Dillon and Bruno Ganz, the film is due out in 2018, but the controversial Antichrist, Melancholia and Nymphomaniac filmmaker has released an intriguing first - look image — a direct nod to Carl Theodor Dreyer's classic 1932 horror Vampyr (scroll down to see the similarities)-- to whet the appetite.

Today, Sony Pictures Classics has released the trailer to Irrational Man, the new film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Parker Posey.

The fact that «Scary Movie 4,» like its predecessor, is directed by David Zucker is rather depressing, given that Zucker helmed classics in the parody genre, including «Top Secret,» two of the three «Naked Gun» films, and the granddaddy of them all, «Airplane!»

So call it cowardly or call it brave, but director David Gordon Green is simply ignoring the sequels with the latest film in the series, returning Jamie Lee Curtis» Laurie Strode to life and making a direct sequel to the classic first film.

Of the more than 40 films he's directed this century, I've only seen a handful, but Yakuza Apocalypse is firmly in the tradition of earlier films like Sukiyaki Western Django, 13 Assassins and his remake of the Maskai Kobayashi classic Harakiri in their critique of the psychotic masculinity that underlies the ideology of Japanese action narratives.

The highly anticipated sequel to Ridley Scott's 1980s sci - fi classic is directed by Arrival and Sicario filmmaker Denis Villeneuve and takes place 30 years after the events of the first film.

The film promises to act as a direct sequel to the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic and stars an impressive cast of actors that includes Oscar winner Adrien Brody (King Kong), Topher Grace (Spider - Man 3), Alice Braga (I Am Legend), Danny Trejo (Grindhouse), Walton Goggins (TV's The Shield) and Oscar Nominee Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix).

Dobkin, who directed Wedding Crashers and The Change - Up, will direct the film that is an action - oriented take on the classic Arthurian story, with a modern feel.

LAURA *** / **** Image B Sound B - Extras B starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson screenplay by Jay Dratler and Samuel Hoffenstein and Betty Reinhardt, based on the novel by Vera Caspary directed by Otto Preminger PINKY * / **** Image C Sound B - Extras A + starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan screenplay by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols, from a novel by Cid Ricketts Sumner directed by Elia Kazan by Walter Chaw A camp classic of a very particular variety, Otto Preminger's stylish, pedigreed Laura might best be read as a satire of Hitchcock's Rebecca, reuniting that film's Judith Anderson with another late, lamented mistress and acres more scenery to chew.

Also directed by Franklin, this film is a propulsive blast, with some all - time classic moments of suspense and craft.

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.

This film makes its home video debut direct to Blu - ray, making it a rare American classic available solely on Blu - ray in this country.

The Room improbably went on to become the equivalent of a cult classic (if for all the wrong reasons), a film made in direct contradiction of every rule of «good» filmmaking, but also one of the most purely enjoyable (if only ironically) cinematic experiences made in the last two decades (best seen and heard in a group of like - minded, possibly inebriated friends, acquaintances, and strangers).

Previous sequels in this franchise haven't remotely approached the quality of John McTiernan «s 1987 classic, but the main reason we're excited about this one is because it's co-written and directed by Shane Black, the guy behind movies like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Nice Guys, and one of Marvel Studios» very best films, Iron Man 3.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 23, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Adventures of Tintin (PG for violence, drunkenness and smoking) Steven Spielberg directs this animated adaptation of the classic comic book series about an intrepid young journalist who is abducted from Europe to Morocco where he escapes his kidnappers to embark on a perilous quest for hidden treasure.