From
film directors making their small screen debuts to utterly bizarre animated comedies, it's been a rollercoaster year for television.
They got their wish in the form of independent cinema and foreign
film directors making films Oscar voters can tolerate.
I remember a quote from a source I've long forgotten when describing the recent trend of Hong Kong
film directors making movies in other countries stating, «You can take the director out of Hong Kong, but you can't take Hong Kong out of the director.»
The plan's glimmering possibilities are stubbed out by the arrival of Mary Sue, the daughter of
a film director making a movie in town.
Not exact matches
Disney and Marvel obviously know what they're doing with superhero movies — they've brought some of the biggest franchises to screen — however, at the same time,
making every single
film need to fit inside the already established franchise starts to limit the amount of creative license any one
director can have on future characters as Marvel's Cinematic Universe only grows larger.
Kodak is framing the announcement as a «Super 8 Filmmaking Revival Initiative,» which it intends to leverage the previously mentioned roadmap and support from Hollywood's biggest
directors such as J.J. Abrams, Steven Spielberg, and Quentin Tarantino to
make film a mainstream item once again.
In watching a group of people try to build civilization out of savagery, «The Hateful Eight» is the most optimistic
film the
director has ever
made.
Fox's decision to finally move forward with the
film followed a years - long process in which Reynolds,
director Tim Miller, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had to fight through various obstacles (including the box office failure of another Reynolds superhero movie, 2011's Green Lantern) to get the movie
made.
Jacobson's strong understanding of what
makes a compelling narrative resonates with the authors and
directors she teams up with on
films.
Brenda Chapman, an animation writer -
director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt),
made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature
film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.
You've
made many
films and then you did return to a Western and in your 60s you won the Oscar for best
director and for best picture so let's take a look at Unforgiven, really a masterpiece.
The former, which sells and installs beehives at various company locations, has inked contracts with clients including Delta and Chick - fil - A, while the latter works with
film studios and
directors including Darren Aronofsky — charging them as much as $ 50,000 a pop — to
make a
film or television production more ecologically friendly.
The latest example debuts on Saturday, June 11, at 9 pm EST, with the premiere episode of
director Ezra Edelman's O.J.:
Made in America, a five - part, 7.5 hour documentary series produced by ESPN
Films, the sports network's production company that is behind the acclaimed series of 30 for 30 sports documentary
films.
Gibney, a prolific documentary
director who most recently
made waves with his scathing
film on The Church of Scientology, «Going Clear,» is not known for pulling punches.
A week after The New York Times and The New Yorker ran back - to - back reports cataloguing Harvey Weinstein's alleged serial sexual harassment of women in Hollywood, actress Selma Blair saw a story on HuffPost about writer and
director James Toback's new
film that
made her blood run cold.
Super Size Me, first - time
director Morgan Spurlock's documentary
film in which he undergoes a self - imposed experiment to eat fast food exclusively for one month,
makes its way to theaters.
Producer and
director Davis Guggenheim talks about
making documentaries, his new
film It Might Get Loud, and the differences between Jack White, Jimmy Page, and The Edge.
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.
Director of new «Noah» movie calls it «The LEAST biblical
film ever
made» then uses F word referring to those wanting Bible - based [
films]
Now the
director, who was raised culturally Jewish, has
made a full - fledged biblical epic with Noah, a $ 125 million - budget
film that puts an unorthodox spin on one of the most familiar stories from Scripture.
In fact, Paulist Pictures» Romero may be only the first of several
films about the assassinated prelate; for example,
director Gillo Poncecorvo (The Battle of Algiers) reportedly has a Romero project under way (tentative title: The Devil's Bishop) But however many such
films are
made, none is likely to be as much a labor of love as Romero was.
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.
, the 2014
film from Spanish
director Alberto Rodríguez which is still
making the festival circuits here in the States, is a haunting combination of detective tale and truth - and - reconciliation case study.
The Academy Award - winning
director has been faced with controversy in recent years but has been
making favorable waves in Hollywood for his critically acclaimed
film, Hacksaw Ridge.
The study shows that in
film, women
made up only 3 percent of
film directors, and 10 percent of
film writers.
Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from
director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe,
filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous
film ever
made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.
When I
made it for a large group of chefs, foodies, nutritionists, dietitians, a marketing maven, art
director and budding
film school student, everyone wanted to know about the recipe and the nutritionist and the dietitian were torn between who was going to get to take the leftovers home.
Bruce Cronin, the producer,
director, writer, chief grip and what - all, had
made a 20 - minute drama in 1974 but never a ski
film.
Help
make an opening weekend for this movie even a reality as the
director and producer need to show Hollywood that there is an audience for this
film which has already been
filmed and stars the talented Minnie Driver.
Mike Brady with Khalid Abdalla, who plays the
Director battling to
make a
film exposing the baby milk pushers.
19 August 2014: An Oscar - winning
director has
made a feature
film about the baby milk issue.
In this disturbing and powerful
film,
made by a Jewish journalist,
director and concerned parent, the realities of the procedure and its possible after effects are revealed.
RIP
director Jonathan Demme, who
made films like «The Silence of the Lambs» and «Stop
Making Sense,» which helped define their respective genres.
The Tibetan
film director Dondup Wangchen was jailed for eight years for
making a
film in 2008 which was mildly critical of the Beijing Olympic Games.
The four minute broadcast is
made by Hollywood
director and screenwriter Paul Greengrass, who directed two
films in the Bourne thriller series.
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.
The
film is all in Arabic and Kurdish with English subtitles, however, the mixture of grief and eye strain does
make it a little hard going at times but stick with it as
director Mohamed A-Daradji has masterfully handled the subject matter without falling into the obvious Saddam bashing pitfalls.
When introducing his latest documentary at the Tribeca
Film Festival Saturday night,
director Alex Gibney joked that he was leaning towards keeping the name of his «mostly finished but not quite done» work the «Untitled Eliot Spitzer
Film» because he'd never before
made a
film where he was «so uncertain about where [he] was going... and what the conclusions would be,» given the «divisive» nature of his subject.
But the subsidies covering other costs
make it easier for the
films» studios to pay the actors and
directors, and Nixon didn't even have to leave her hometown to shoot.
Police in Paris are investigating a rape allegation
made against Luc Besson, one of France's best - known
film directors.
On today's edition of WBFO's Press Pass, Pat Feldballe and Buffalo Niagara
Film Commissioner Tim Clark discuss prospecting at the Sundance
Film Festival, an upcoming
film by a
director making his third movie in Western New York and a music video shot in an iconic city location.
To console me, she agrees to model the hyperbolic skirt that she
made for a recent talk sponsored by the Institute for Figuring in Los Angeles, after which the
film director Werner Herzog took her to dinner and then kissed her good night.
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.
Science spoke with
director Ridley Scott; Andy Weir, whose debut novel provided the tale; and Jim Green, NASA's
director of planetary science and an adviser on the
film, to find out how they
made movie magic while staying largely faithful to the science — leaving out a raging dust storm and a few other moments of implausibility.
Irena Salina,
director of the award - winning documentary
film, FLOW, about the world's dwindling water supplies, thinks it can be done if world leaders, international banks, the United Nations and other governmental organizations establish cooperative agreements for the use of bodies of water, including groundwater, and economic mechanisms to
make sure those who need access to water can get it.
Every time I said yes, amazing people who believed in me and who've had a bigger vision of what I could do in this world stepped forward — from my mom who went vegan with me after my fourth recurrence of bone cancer, to the yoga teachers who insisted I could become a yoga teacher too, to the talented woman who designed my website, to the
director who brought together the crew for this
film and
made an idea a reality.
Collins and the
film's
director have also spoken out about that decision, and the steps they took to
make sure she lost (and regained) weight for the role in a healthy manner.
The former experimental
film director instills eco-kudos in her bijoux by ensuring that all her gemstones and semi-precious stones are ethically sourced, and of course she hand -
makes each piece in her own New York based studio.
Writer and
director, James Gray, recently said, «As THE LOST CITY OF Z
made its long and arduous journey to the screen, the
film became something of an obsession for me — fitting, I suppose, given its subject.
I am a
Director and screenwriter determine to
make it in the
film industry.