Sentences with phrase «film director john»

The Chelsea show presents Opie's classical renderings of individuals such as Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte, the artist Kara Walker, film director John Waters and fashion editor Cecilia Dean.

The founders of the company are film director John Akomfrah and producers Lina Gopaul and David Lawson.

The 120 artists named cover a broad spectrum, taking in figures as diverse as Anri Sala, Karla Black and Olafur Eliasson as well as several deceased masters and the film director John Waters.

The exhibition includes portraits of fashion designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte, the artist Kara Walker, film director John Waters, fashion editor Cecilia Dean and New Yorker theatre critic and occasional curator Hilton Als.

Walking in the Universe: a stunning and beguiling photographic series by film director John Jencks

Cody is the son of legendary film director John Carpenter and a superb composer in his own right.

The basic premise is that protagonist Lila has to wander the town, rounding up surviving townsfolk and marines, and leading them back to a church (where the priest is named Carpenter, after horror film director John Carpenter).

Las Caletas was once the private residence of celebrated film director John Huston who considered Las Caletas one of the most enchanting places in the world.

Not exact matches

What he means is, Pixar's ballyhooed Braintrust idea meetings boast a mixture of champion storytellers like John Lasseter, the director of the first two Toy Story films — and a whole bunch of employees unafraid to challenge him, even though he's the John Lasseter.

They would say that John has taken the same sort of spiritual «licence» with the actual events of Jesus, as a consortium of film directors might take with some heroic theme from history, an heroic theme perhaps from the Bible itself.

The actor (and now director) best known for his work in films including Juno and Scott Pilgrim and, of course, as George Michael Bluth on Arrested Development, will co-star alongside John Hawkes (Winter» sBone) in a new half - hour comedy from creator Charlie Kaufman.

«We believe that the film and TV production credit is already far too large and that it is a mistake to add another, politically attractive but fiscally dubious branch to it,» added John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany.

Science Talk correspondent John Pavlus talks with Jon Amiel, director of the new Darwin biography movie Creation, and with Randal Keynes, Darwin's great - great - grandson and one of the film's scriptwriters.

Scientific American -LSB-'s] editor in chief, John Rennie, and I saw the film Expelled and we'll share our thoughts; and then we'll hear from Eugenie Scott, the director of the National Center for Science Education, who is actually in the movie.

Director John Hillcoat's film adaptation is equally bleak, downplaying the science and personalizing the human struggle.

A beautiful film sequence by the director John Maybury is at the top of the gallery, and it shows a girl plunged overboard a ship and appear to drown, and as she sinks deeper beneath the waves, the tendrils of her torn chiffon dress ensnare her legs and pull her deeper under.

Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature debut from acclaimed music - video director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in projects ranging from the star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family film Holes.

Writer and director John C. Walsh based Pipe Dream in part on his own experiences as he was making his first feature film, Ed's Next Move.

John Turturro is a gifted and charming actor, but he has a fatal desire to be a film director and is cursed with no talent whatsoever for the job.

Each of the Mission: Impossible films (based loosely on the 1960s TV series by Bruce Geller) has employed a different director, ranging from rogues like Brian De Palma and John Woo to the more respectable J.J. Abrams and Brad Bird, and Christopher McQuarrie fits right in.

John Ford, western film director, is celebrated in this tribute featuring John Wayne, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart.

Justin Timberlake and John Goodman also star for first - time director Robert Lorenz, who has produced many of Eastwood's recent films.

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby co-stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly re-team with that film's director, Adam McKay, to tell the tale of two pampered best friends whose single parents fall in love and decide to marry.

The unanimously - praised film with a modest budget of $ 23 million deservedly won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (the first for Spielberg), Best Cinematography (Janusz Kaminski), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score (John Williams), Best Editing (Michael Kahn), and Best Art Direction.

She rapidly became a favorite of two prominent directors, James Whale and John Ford, neither of whom were inclined to ask her to tone down her film performances.

Appearing in Simpatico and giving birth to a baby boy the same year, the tireless actress continued to turn up in such quirky films as Death to Smoochy, Full Frontal, and eccentric director Spike Jonze, follow - up to Being John Malkovich, Adaptation.

What's really surprising is that the good cast that director John Polson directs can't save the film from being a dud.

Despite the unpromising pulp origins of the film's hero and the acting resume of its lead actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, director John Milius grounded his pre-Sumerian fantasy in a level of reality sorely lacking in most other fantasy films (even Barbarian's inauspicious sequel Conan the Destroyer).

John Ford had several bitter disputes with RKO Pictures while making The Plough and the Stars, especially after the studio re-shot several scenes with another director to tone down the film's politics; while he distributed several independent productions through the studio, he never shot another picture for RKO.

Whilst director John Hughes film is ill disciplined and jumbled, there's still plenty of laughs to bring the viewer some Christmas cheer.

The movie was nominated for an impressive 13 Oscar Nominations including Best Picture, Best Director (Steven Spielburg), Best Actor (Danny Glover), Best Actress (Whoopi Goldberg), Best Supporting Actress Nominations for Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery, along with Best Supporting Actor (Adolph Caesar), and Best Original Musical Score for a Motion Picture (Quincy Jones) which was the first time in any Spielburg produced film that composer John Williams did not compose a film score for a Spielburg movie.

«Loosely based on British author and film director Dennis Potter's 1986 novel «Ticket to Ride», Secret Friends follows the life of John (Alan Bates), a middle - aged wildflower illustrator in the throes of an identity crisis.

Among these: 2016's Office Christmas Party, and — especially — 2011's Horrible Bosses, with which Game Night shares considerable creative DNA (Bateman starred in both films, but Bosses was co-written by one of Game Night's two directors, John Francis Daley).

Ms. Nelson had married another director, John Cromwell, in 1946, and both Mr. and Mrs. Cromwell acted together in Altman's 1978 film A Wedding.

Ah the film written by the wild and somewhat eccentric Max Landis, son of 80's director supreme, John Landis.

Riffing on John Carpenter's Starman, writer - director Jeff Nichols has crafted a sci - fi chase film whose gravely naturalistic style adds to its sense of portent.

Sandbox was nominated for a Juno Award, East Coast Music Awards, and a Casby Award.Smith has mixed sound for such films as The Weight of Water and Serendipity.He had been a long - time friend of Trailer Park Boys director Mike Clattenburg, and met Robb Wells (Ricky), and John Paul Tremblay (Julian) while sound mixing on the original TPB feature.

John Krasinski demonstrated in his first film as a director that he has the ability to do things well and get it

Directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have taken the time to actually direct the film, which has a considered aesthetic and a solid grasp of its own physics — not something you can say for a lot of action comedies.

Vacation reboot directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein take Mark Perez «s script and fully commit, from the sharpened camera shots and snazzy editing techniques, to the full - on teasing and mocking of the cat - and - mouse Michael Douglas film The Game.

This film from stuntman turned director David Leitch (who debuted behind the camera with «John Wick») starts with a literal bang, with our mysteriously depressed hero immolating himself atop a deathbed of explosive fuel canisters, then works its way backwards to detail the trauma that made him sad enough to kill himself.

It's «no harm, no foul» if directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein treat these bits as filler — the film is a comedy above all — but, lo and behold, for this occasion they are the main event.

Though clocking in at a relatively short 119 minutes, the new film has received favorable early reviews, even in comparison to director John Schlesinger's 168 - minute adaptation from 1967 starring Julie Christie, Terrence Stamp, Alan Bates, and Peter Finch.

Also, the film feels a little long and draggy at times, as if the great director John Landis was just very unfocused and unsure of how to use all of the great talent at hand to its fullest.

The younger Castle attended the USC film school, where he befriended fellow aspiring director John Carpenter.

Shortbus director John Cameron Mitchell revives the cartoonish mania of that outing and applies it to what resembles a film - school project held together with papier - mache and zany indulgence.

True, director Jay Roach hasn't been associated with many winners recently, but a script by Eastbound & Down's Shawn Harwell and Chris Henchy, and a cast that also includes Dan Aykroyd (in his first live - action film in four years), John Lithgow, and Jason Sudeikis, is change we can believe in.

John Krasinski demonstrated in his first film as a director that he has the ability to do things well and get it right with what he wants, and alongside Emily Blunt, his wife, he has achieved much more.

The director's staggering output of 180 films surpasses that of the legendary John Ford and exceeds the combined total of films directed by George Cukor, Victor Fleming, and Howard Hawks.

He frequently showed up in the films of directors Cecil B. DeMille and John Ford; in Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln, he played small - town lout Scrub White, whose murder sets in motion the film's classic courtroom finale.