Sentences with phrase «film distributor known»

Ava DuVernay — American Writer, Director, Producer Nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe and winner of the BAFTA and Emmy, Ava DuVernay is a writer, director, producer and film distributor known for the historical drama Selma (2014), the criminal justice documentary 13TH (2016) and the recent Disney's cinematic adaptation of the classic children's novel A Wrinkle in Time.

Not exact matches

The distributor of Woody Allen's film Midnight in Paris could get dinged by the literary icon known as Pappy.

At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay films of the 1950s and»60s; his five - film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune in terms of both drama and swordplay, yet remains little - known in the West (despite its availability on DVD in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others) in 2008, most of Uchida's films remained unscreened and undistributed in America, so with MOMA's bigger series recently ending, it's time again to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video to bring out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.

It's almost as if its distributors, Warner Bros, knew the film would find a world in dire need of escapism when they chose its release date of mid-November 2016.

Shortly after announcing that they've acquired rights to Werner Herzog's 3 - D doc «Cave of Forgotten Dreams,» the distributor reveals that it has picked up Barry Avrich's «Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project,» a «powerful, uncensored, no - holds - barred» film that traces Weinstein's early path from Buffalo concert promoter to his first Oscar and first $ 100 million film.

We don't know if the film is also good, but the cast is hard to argue with (Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Billy Bob Thornton, Bruce Dern, Michael Stuhlbarg, seen above, and Oliver Platt) and having A24 as the film's distributor suggests good things.

Ignoring my own distaste for play - by - play as well as that I felt no less worked - over by Two Family House than by the typical example of the underdog sub-genre, why wasn't the film acquired by a bigger distributor at Sundance?

It did, however, bring about an interesting discussion amongst various online circles about a distributor's «responsibility» to portray a film accurately against that of the consumer's «responsibility» to know what the hell they're paying money to see.

Founded as a music distributor in 1997, The Orchard is a global innovator in the film and television distribution space, known for cutting - edge technology that provides filmmakers with up - to - the minute trending data and analytics on their projects.

It's a decent film, sure, but I wish I knew what it was about this particular feature that distributors thought had international potential.

«Hide Your Smiling Faces» Apparently there's no release date or distributor yet that we know of, but that would be a huge shame because the most arresting film of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival was certainly «Hide Your Smiling Faces.»

Roger called him the International Man of Mystery and said he probably knew and introduced more directors, actors, distributors, exhibitors and critics than any other single person in the film industry.

Then, sometime in the intervening eight months, Benson and his distributor recut the film from scratch into a new two - hour entity, known as «The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: Them,» which gets its first outing as part of Un Certain Regard at Cannes today.

Arguably I make too many movie industry comparisons in this column, but permit me this one more: if a major distributor announced a film, then weeks later confirmed that its director, screenplay writer, director of photography and one of its supporting cast were no longer associated with the project, would you assume the final movie would be exactly as it was intended at its inception?