Sentences with phrase «filmmaker luc»

Filmmaker Luc Besson knew that this percentage figure was inaccurate, yet plunged ahead with his inventive adventure, revolving around a naïve young American named Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) who gets tricked into delivering a mysterious metal briefcase to a Taiwanese crime boss, Mr. Jang (South Korean actor Choi Min Sik), and forced to become one of his drug mules.

Filmmaker Luc Besson is just as well known for finding new directors as he is for his own movies.

In the run up to the release of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, filmmaker Luc Besson revealed that he was already working on the script for a THIRD instalment.

Other productions Blackpills has acquired or commissioned include Adaptive Studios» short - form thriller «Pineapple» and projects from social - media influencer Logan Paul and filmmaker Luc Besson.

Filmmaker Luc Besson has been accused of rape by a 27 - year - old actress who has chosen to remain anonymous reports Deadline.

Almost 30 years have passed since I wrote a heated article about French filmmaker Luc Moullet for Film Comment — the first extended defense of his movies and his film criticism in English.

French filmmaker Luc Besson (The Family, Brick Mansions) writes and directs Lucy, a loopy, high - concept science fiction thriller that, like most Besson efforts, is actually just a dumb and goofy action genre film masquerading as a smart and insightful one.

PARIS (AP)- French authorities said Saturday they are investigating a rape accusation against «Valerian» filmmaker Luc Besson, who denies wrongdoing.

Not exact matches

Jean - Luc Godard, the leading filmmaker of his generation, is shooting La Chinoise with the woman he loves, Anne Wiazemsky, 20 years his junior.

Other films that are definitely worth checking out that played at TIFF (and other festivals): Adam Wingard's rapturous and playful The Guest, Palm d'Or winner Winter Sleep, latest from master filmmakers Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne Two Days, One Night, 3 and a half hour epic Li» l Quinquin, harrowing street life portrait Heaven Knows What, ambitious and transcending Jauja, and Mike Leigh's exemplary Mr. Turner.

It just so happens this film is directed by Jean - Luc Godard, a once - great French filmmaker who has lost his sanity at age 83.

One of the films that played this year was Michel Hazanavicius» Redoubtable, an amusing satirical take on famous French filmmaker Jean - Luc Godard and his life in the 1960s.

While names like Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer and Francois Truffaut may not be familiar to even film - buffs without an extensive education in European art house (though most would certainly recognise the name of Jean - Luc Godard) they have gone on to influence filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorcese and Michel Gondry.

The film comes, in part, from the desk of Luc Besson, the French filmmaker whose crime - and - action preoccupation led to an initial burst of cinematic promise with films like La Femme Nikita and Leon: The Professional.

The latest film from Swiss filmmaker Jean - Luc Godard, 84 - year old icon of the French New Wave (you know the hits: Breathless, Pierrot le fou, Contempt), after a smash - hit two - night run at the Cinerama earlier this month, gets a full run of shows this week at the Uptown.

But it is Muriel's deft combination of high modernism and leftist critique — bearing out Gilles Deleuze's comment that Resnais and Straub - Huillet are the most political filmmakers — that has influenced so many subsequent films, including Michael Haneke's Caché and, most extensively, Jean - Luc Godard's 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, which JLG called a «partner» to the Resnais, and which features a poster of Muriel as homage, also condemns a criminal war (Vietnam), and similarly parallels a portrait of a woman with that of a city under urban renovation.

For 3 Days to Kill, his first foray outside of the Hollywood studio system, the filmmaker teams up with Luc Besson, who both produced and co-wrote the screenplay.

The Blu - ray and DVD feature Rivette's 1956 short Le coup du berger, which stars Jean - Claude Brialy and features appearances by his fellow film critics (and future nouvelle vague filmmakers) Claude Chabrol, Jean - Luc Godard, and Francois Truffaut, and an interview with critic and historian Richard Neupert.

VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS is the visually spectacular new adventure film from Luc Besson, the legendary director of The Professional, The Fifth Element and Lucy, based on the ground - breaking comic book series which inspired a generation of artists, writers and filmmakers.

Featuring music by Jack White and interviews with Serpico's associates and admirers — including writer Luc Sante and actor - filmmaker John Turturro — this is an inspiring, all - access portrait of a courageous man who refused to betray his ideals.

Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne are the most reliable filmmakers in Cannes» history, and possibly in the history of the world.

Bresson influenced almost every major French filmmaker who came after him (beginning with Louis Malle, his onetime assistant, and Jean - Luc Godard, one of his most perceptive critics), but The Devil, Probably seems to have special significance for those who encountered it at a formative age.

Contempt, one of Jean - Luc Godard's greatest masterpieces, has a stately air that breaks with the filmmaker's earlier, throwaway, hit - and - run manner, as though he were this time allowing himself to aim for cinematic sublimity.

Mean Streets is a major part of early 1970s American film and in many ways is an American Breathless (Jean - Luc Godard, 1959) in terms of innovative technique and influence on subsequent filmmakers (ranging from Quentin Tarantino to Spike Lee to Wong Kar - wai and countless others).

Peter Bogdanovich is the closest the American cinema has gotten to having a Jean - Luc Godard or François Truffaut figure: a hybrid of film critic and filmmaker.

In Europe, Gillo Pontecorvo made the «The Battle of Algiers» about the Algerian War for Independence and the brutal response of the occupying French forces, while Jean - Luc Godard, one of the world's most highly regarded art - house filmmakers, made «Weekend,» a movie that stops dead in its tracks for a to - the - camera lecture about decolonization (Godard would quit mainstream filmmaking altogether shortly after to make experimental communist tracts as part of the Dziga Vertov group).

Embedded below is her first from this year, which provides a breakdown of the jury as well as various enticing selections from filmmakers such as Asghar Farhadi, Spike Lee and Jean - Luc Godard.

If you check out Rotten Tomatoes, it seems critics are firmly divided on the new movie by French director Michel Hazanavicius, Godard Mon Amour, which is about the legendary French filmmaker Jean - Luc Godard.

In addition to the tie for screenplay, they awarded a «Palme d'Or Spéciale» to the veteran filmmaker Jean - Luc Godard, whose «The Image Book» was the most abrasive and adventurous thing in Cannes by several light years — another of his dense, synapse - frying meditations on the decay of language, imagery and civilization as we know it.

The Palais was evacuated, delaying by 45 minutes the first press screening of «Redoubtable,» Michel Hazanavicius» flippant portrait of filmmaker Jean - Luc Godard.

by Walter Chaw I believe the title is meant to indicate the arrested protagonist more than it is the baby he tries to sell on the black market, thus The Child (L'Enfant)-- another of Belgian filmmakers Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne's mild, allegorical subversions of Robert Bresson and incrementally more violent subversions of the French New Wave — takes on Pickpocket via Breathless.

Few bad movies are more aggravating than a sequel that betrays everything which made its predecessor entertaining.The B - movie, wild - ride brilliance of 2002's «The Transporter» stemmed from the filmmakers (producer - writer Luc Besson, co-writer Robert Mark Kamen...

The greatest film by the greatest post-1950s filmmaker, Jean - Luc Godard's 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her presents the critic, humbled by the beauty of its surfaces, the density of its ideas, and the uncanny coherence of its fragmented structure, wi...

As stalagmites of gooey black nanotechnology ooze from Lucy's body and the film begins to feel like a glossy version of Akira (only one that wouldn't dare infringe on the beauty of its star), Luc Besson's vision for the film finally comes into perfect focus: this isn't just the story of a woman who realises the full potential of her brain, it's also the story of a filmmaker remembering the full potential of his genre.

The film focuses on famous French filmmaker Jean - Luc Godard, and his time in the 60s when he made La Chinoise with young Polish actress Anne Wiazemsky.

Noah Baumbach adapts to the human condition vision that has been demonstrated by filmmakers such as Woody Allen, Paul Mazurzky and Jean Luc Godard, but his work still has a sense of emergence and contemporary relevance that feels fresh.

You're less likely to find articles about more formally oriented filmmakers such as Farocki, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyer, Jean - Luc Godard, Alexander Kluge, Jacques Rivette, Jacques Tati, and Jean - Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet, but these are the filmmakers that the European Marxists and communists I know care passionately about.

With a skillful camera crew in tow, the filmmakers lay flowers at the grave of the master photographer Henri Cartier - Bresson, drop in on JR's grandmother, and even try to pay a visit to Varda's last living contemporary, the elusive Jean - Luc Godard.

No other filmmaker can channel the sophistication of Jean - Luc Godard and the violence of John Woo through the veil of a 1970s exploitation flick — much less attempt to in a coherent state of mind.

As ever, there are new films from world - renowned filmmakers (Terry Gilliam, Lars von Trier, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Asghar Farhadi, Jean - Luc Godard and others), but the organisers have also clearly made an effort to include less familiar names among the 21 filmmakers vying to win the Palme d'Or, the festival's top award.

The Dardenne brothers, Jean - Pierre and Luc, are worshiped filmmakers in the art - house community.

The exhibition's title is borrowed from a 1967 documentary by French director Jean - Luc Godard, in which an amateur filmmaker describes the process of editing his films of the Swiss countryside as «the production line of happiness.»

For the title of this exhibition, Williams has taken a line from a documentary by French director Jean - Luc Godard, in which an amateur filmmaker compares his daily job as a factory worker with his hobby of editing his films of the Swiss countryside as «the production line of happiness.»

We have also featured retrospectives of filmmakers Michelangelo Antonioni, Stan Brakhage, Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, Jacques Demy, Claire Denis, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean - Luc Godard, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, George and Mike Kuchar, Akira Kurosawa, Ida Lupino, Guy Maddin, Chris Marker, Nagisa Oshima, Marcel Pagnol, Satyajit Ray, Roberto Rossellini, Raúl Ruiz, Kidlat Tahimik, Agnès Varda, Dziga Vertov, and numerous others.

Cultural references abound — from Marcel Duchamp's engagement with everyday objects to filmmaker Jean - Luc Godard's fascination with the colors red, yellow, and blue.

Pendleton is a compulsive gatherer of images and texts, and his references — filmmaker Jean - Luc Godard, the Black Panthers, poet Ron Silliman, painter Josef Albers — accumulate.

Opening: Jean - Luc Godard at Miguel Abreu Gallery Among the many to have had a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris is the French New Wave filmmaker Jean - Luc Godard, who, in 2006, was to complete a major new installation at the museum on the occasion of the show.

Additional contributors include writers Luc Sante and Darryl Pinckney, musicians Michael Holman, Felice Rosser, and Jennifer Jazz, historian Bud Kliment, and filmmaker Sara Driver.

[35] Prominent artists such as the Abstract Expressionists Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky, and Willem de Kooning have been understood in existentialist terms, as have filmmakers such as Jean - Luc Godard and Ingmar Bergman.

Referencing the cinematic work of French film - noir director Jean - Luc Godard through the title of one of his most famous movies, Le Mépris (Contempt), Mr. Tuymans reflects on the filmmaker's themes of isolation, melancholy and nostalgia in these paintings of murky waters and floats in a flower parade.