Since the beginning of the 60s, Katz has been quoting the oversized formats of large - scale Pepsi and Lucky Strike advertisements and the dramatic compositions of
film directors like Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni.
It's sort of like how true film buffs revere
film directors like Ingmar Bergman though the typical moviegoer isn't likely to even know who he is.
Once again, Black
film directors like Ryan Coogler and F. Gary Gray find themselves shut out of nominations in the Best Director category.
Still, the production value was there and a cast that includes James Spader (2 Days in the Valley, Crash), Angela Bassett, and Robert Forster (Psycho, Rear Window), along with a veteran
film director like Walter Hill, so the question is «How could things have gotten this bad?»
When I grow up I want to be
a film director like him.
Not exact matches
«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these
films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a
director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human -
like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.
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.
Of course, there will always be skeptics who claim Nolan cast the singer to help market his
film, but the truth of the matter is, the
director's
films have always contained concepts (
like «Inception» and «Interstellar») or iconic figures (Batman and The Joker) who are far bigger than any actor who has appeared in them.
Much
like the success of last year's Warner Bros.
film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman
director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.
And now that he's the toast of Cannes, don't expect the iconoclastic British
director to willingly mouth platitudes when he's asked how he
likes the way the fest has taken to his
film.
Much
like the first Star Wars standalone
film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, released in 2016, Solo has had some production issues — to the point when Lucasfilm fired the
film's original
directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, for «creative differences.»
I used to go down and watch Kurosawa
films and various
directors that I
liked at that time.
StarTalk airs on Monday nights at 11 p.m. ET, and features the scientist interviewing cultural and political figures
like George Takei of the original «Star Trek» series,
film director Christopher Nolan and former President Jimmy Carter.
In this clip he discusses the magic of the
film's
director, Stephen Spielberg, and what it was
like to work with him.
Collectively, these businesses account for hundreds of millions in annual sales, and have attracted investment and other support from the
likes of Mark Cuban, NASA, and the lauded
film director Darren Aronofsky.
«This job is working with interesting people and interesting actors — I didn't feel
like I needed to be in another period drama, but this was just a really interesting
director who had done a really interesting
film,» says actor @douglasbooth of the @tribeca
Film Festival
film «Mary Shelley.»
Although the
films Alibaba Pictures Group has invested in
like So Young (by actress - turned
director Zhao Wei, who is also a major shareholder of the company) and Tiny Times (by popular writer Guo Jingming) have recorded remarkable box - office revenues, the company has yet to turn a profit, with a net loss of HK$ 443.54 million for the first half of last year.
We recently sat down with the band and the
film's
director to talk about what it was
like making the
film, how it came about and what the real message of Hillsong United is.
While classification freed
directors to use explicit language in marvelous
films like Platoon and Something Wild and has allowed
films like Out of Africa and Children of a Lesser God to explore the complex nature of human sexuality, it has also given us a series of slasher
films — Friday the 13th, with its many parts; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, parts one and two — and
films like Brian DePalma's artistically significant but deplorably explicit Body Double.
I find it fascinating when writers and
directors and even producers of
films about real people in the Bible read into what the people were
like and how they fill in the gaps of the dialog, some I
like, others I disagree with, but it allows me to put flesh and blood on their bones.
Susan Spungen The Modern Cook The food stylist behind sumptuous
films like It's Complicated, Julie & Julia, and Eat, Pray, Love, Susan started her career in food as the founding Food
Director at Martha Stewart Living.
RIP
director Jonathan Demme, who made
films like «The Silence of the Lambs» and «Stop Making Sense,» which helped define their respective genres.
Tim, who has co-written over 400 commercial treatments and music videos with
directors including: Wim Wenders, Richard Ayoade and Jonas Ackerlund, for clients and artists such as: Lady Gaga, Honda, and Louis Vuitton, opined that, though he haven't watched Ghanaian movies before, he
likes African stories and since he's in Ghana to learn and see how to assist both the needy through Obiba Foundation and people in
film - making, he has started watching Ghanaian
films.
Even if the near future doesn't unfold
like the 2004 climate - gone - haywire
film The Day After Tomorrow, scientists need to be able to produce accurate models of what abrupt change (more likely spanning hundreds or thousands or years, rather than days) would look
like and why it might occur, explains Zhengyu Liu, lead author of the study and
director of the University of Wisconsin — Madison's Center for Climate Research.
At this new exhibition, you are invited to step into Cameron's role as
director and
film scenes in 3 - D with a camera just
like the ones used in the making of the movie.
«This means that the histone mark proteins are
like the
directors in a
film.
I did a term in
film studies at college, and I
like to know details, so actors / actresses names,
directors,
film scores.
The
film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the
likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and
director's chairs.
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.
As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the
like — the
film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature
director Mimi Leder and fledgling
film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.
it is funny in deed but, when their is someone to cover Sandler's movie their most likely gonna never make a
film again Oh look see Denis Dugan and Frank Coraci BOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! you suck stop making adam sandler movies here is the problem they are
directors who don't care about cinematography or shots of using the camera all they care is comedy!!!!!!! see Tyler Perry yeah their just
like this big joke.
Writer -
director Lorene Scafaria's
film is an unconvincing character study that plays
like a painfully unfunny sitcom.
Like the
directors that so clearly inspired Affleck (William Friedkin, Sidney Lumet, among others) so often did with true stories turned into captivating entertainment, the actor /
director has made such a fine - tuned, well - oiled machine of a
film.
This rambling
film, which feels much longer than its actual length, might have worked as a distaff version of Nicolas Roeg's «The Man Who Fell to Earth» if it weren't for
director Glazer's decision to turn the movie into something
like a TV reality show.
I was not looking forward to it for the
director, as he has mostly done some pretty terribly reviewed direct - to - disc
films, but for the
likes of Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick as two leads.
Just
like director / writer Lorene Scafaria's last
film, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, the soundtrack really works, as it's filled with songs that you should be listening to when life as you know it is ending, such as The Sun Ain't Gon na Shine Anymore by the Walker Brothers, The Air That I Breathe by The Hollies, and This Guy's in Love With You by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
Like many horror
directors, Flanagan felt he could build a feature - length
film around his brief idea.
This feels
like the best way to explain the prevailing attitude and atmosphere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first in
director Peter Jackson's three -
film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
Handsomely mounted by Creed
director Ryan Coogler and starring an enviable slate of black actors that makes cameoing comics godhead Stan Lee almost seem lost, the
film is provocative and satisfying in ways that are long overdue,
like its ornate, culturally dense production design and the deeper subtexts of honor, compassion and destiny.
Yates was and is primarily a TV
director, having made his name on acclaimed series
like State of Play and TV
films like The Girl in the Cafe.
The
film doesn't feel
like the usual corporate franchise contact high but, rather, the work of a singular sensibility, that of
director / co-writer Ryan Coogler.
Like the real Wiseau, the Tommy of this
film, played with uncanny accuracy by its
director James Franco, is a mystery.
In an effort to be noticed in Hollywood, Tommy decides to make his own movie (which he compares to the
likes of Tennessee Williams), and disregards his complete inexperience as a
film director.
Few
directors have single - handedly shaken up the
film establishment
like the godfather of indie, Richard Linklater.
If you
like commentaries,
director Guillermo del Toro provides detailed insight into the
film that is still entertaining to listen to, and the rest of bonus features go into even more detail on how the
film was put together.
Director Nora Twomey changes the
film's style for the fantasy story, transitioning from the sharp lines and solid colors of the real - life scenes to animation that looks
like paper models in motion.
Less than three years after the
film made its theatrical debut (to many boos and jeers), the
director comes back to tweak Alexander AGAIN with what I
like to call the This Time for Real Cut.
I'm sure that Jennifer Lawrence would attest to her commitment to the role of Dominkia and assert her trust in
directors like Francis Lawrence (who also directed her in three Hunger Games movies) and Darren Aronofsky (whom she dated while
filming mother!
The future of blockbuster
films such as these lie with
directors like Coogler (and Patty Jenkins, and Taika Waititi), ones who are bringing much - needed new life and ideas to the superhero genre.
The
director's next project (and first since 2010's Please Give) will,
like her four previous
films, star Catherine Keener, who is joined here by Julia Louis - Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, and Toni Collette.