Sentences with phrase «filmmaker behind the camera»

It's an assured, confident debut from Gerwig, and one that signals a stunning future for the actor and filmmaker behind the camera.

For a documentary about (visual) memory the dominant theme resonating is strangely that of absence: Mick's trips away from the family, Mick's family not at his wedding, Mick's self isolation later in life, and, most, poignantly, the absence of the elusive Mick in his own films, a constant elided «other» as the filmmaker behind the camera.

It perfectly captures the feeling of an artist, their world view as well as the filmmaker behind the camera.

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Not exact matches

By the time the interminable, seemingly endless climax rolls around, Battleship has definitively established itself as nothing less than an intolerable and flat - out reprehensible waste of time - which is surprising, certainly, given the presence of Berg behind the camera (ie the filmmaker is, after all, responsible for such entertaining fare as Hancock and Very Bad Things).

Paul Schrader has always been an amazingly protean filmmaker — going all the way back to the late»70s, when the fabled screenwriter of «Taxi Driver» first stepped behind the camera, leaping from «Blue Collar» to «American Gigolo,» from «Cat People» to «Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters,» from «Affliction» to «Auto Focus,» from «Dominion: -LSB-...]

Behind the camera, after a three - year stretch of Mexican filmmakers winning best director, this year none were nominated.

Paul Schrader has always been an amazingly protean filmmaker — going all the way back to the late»70s, when the fabled screenwriter of «Taxi Driver» first stepped behind the camera, leaping from «Blue Collar» to «American Gigolo,» from «Cat People» to «Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters,» from «Affliction» to «Auto Focus,» from «Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist» to «The Canyons.»

For Jolie it's a huge step forward as a filmmaker, as the epic tale of Louis Zamperini rises above her own stardom and proves just how much talent she has when calling shots behind a camera.

Once a compelling and exciting director who merged twisty plotting and interesting characters with really dynamic and effective work behind the camera, the filmmaker had drunk his Kool - Aid to such an extent that he became a self - parody and it looked like there was no way he could crawl back out of the hole that he had dug himself.

But this time around it's rising filmmaker Jean - Marc Vallee who has gotten behind camera, proving himself with two very well - received but perhaps underrated efforts in «C.R.A.Z.Y.» and «The Young Victoria.»

Their curious non-competitive status notwithstanding, these narrative and documentary premieres read like a wanna - see list for major indie names, either behind the camera or in front of it: movies you'd see whether it was the world premiere or not, with auteurs / filmmakers whose surnames stand on their own, like Solondz, Lonergan, Reichardt, Lee, Herzog, and much more.

Now Lynch has moved behind the camera to make his directorial debut with the new film «Lucky» and based on the results, he has what it takes as a filmmaker to give up the day job and concentrate solely on directing if he chooses to do so.

Affleck (the director) has an edge on Clooney (the filmmaker) in this area, as the latter tends to get by more on the strengths of his cast and script (see: The Ides of March)-- rather than his skills behind the camera (in this writer's opinion, anyway).

Worst - case scenario: That affection and respect spills over to the people behind the camera, and the movie traffics in the same toxic self - regard as other Meyers movies (including at least one scene where characters compliment each other on the witty lines provided for them by the filmmaker).

It's the kind of material that Mel Gibson typically gravitates towards as a filmmaker, which is why it's so fitting that «Hacksaw Ridge» marks the director's long - awaited return behind the camera.

The movie also confirms what movie lovers have long suspected: Gerwig is by far one of the most talented filmmakers working today, both onscreen and behind the camera, confident and winsome in a way nearly unparalleled by her contemporaries.

Including the filmmaker, whose previous fictional treks behind the camera — the Alzheimer's love story Away from Her, for instance — have hardly been conventional.

Behind the camera is director Ryan Coogler, a black filmmaker who first burst onto the scene with Fruitvale Station, a film about the day in the life of a victim of a police shooting.

The film is pieced together from outtakes from the long - time documentary filmmaker / cinematographer's extensive body of work, but beyond occasionally hearing her voice behind the camera (and one shot towards the end in which we finally see her face as she points the camera toward herself), Johnson forgoes the safety net of voiceover narration to tie all this footage together.

But someone clearly saw something in the filmmaker that warranted giving him another chance, and while he doesn't exactly redeem himself with the action - comedy «American Ultra,» it does prove that he's at least somewhat competent behind the camera.

That's better than the numbers for women behind the camera in film, as previously reported on this blog from the Sundance Institute and Women in Film Los Angeles» Female Filmmakers Initiative.

Melissa Leo's hair seems inordinately greasy — she plays documentary filmmaker and I guess the condition of her coif demonstrates she's a woman who's really serious about her work «behind» the camera.

Iconoclast British filmmaker Sally Potter, our hostess behind the scenes, serves up a compact arsenic - spiked punch that begins with a disheveled Kristen Scott Thomas, our London - based hostess, opening her front door and shakily pointing a gun at the camera.

Allen the filmmaker, meanwhile, is as glazed and distracted as Allen the writer, making no demands whatsoever of the great Vilmos Zsigmond behind the camera, while the prosaic editing makes it one of his longer - seeming 90 - minute jaunts.

Her plucky resolve to solve the mystery of William's grandfather fuels the exotic vacation romance by first time feature filmmaker Mark Raso, who proves as adept behind the camera as he is with a pen.

It was announced yesterday that up - and - coming filmmaker Mickey Keating is back behind cameras on his latest genre offering, Psychopaths, currently lensing...

Reitman doesn't do anything noteworthy or distinguishable behind the camera here, but it's nice to see him at work again (complete with an uncredited cameo and a nod to his Meatballs), even if the Facebook - referencing material seems more suited for a filmmaker his son Jason's age (about whose acclaimed Up in the Air, the opposite could be said).

Allen is celebrated more for his gifts behind the scenes and at his writing desk than in front of the camera, but he's a much better actor than most filmmakers.

Norwegian director Morten Tyldum may not be as flashy as some of the other filmmakers who've broken into Hollywood recently, but between his little - seen 2011 thriller «Headhunters» and his Oscar - winning drama «The Imitation Game,» it's evident that he has serious chops behind the camera.

But the movie opts to downplay incidents of plagiarism in favor of featuring appearances by artists who employed such colorful sobriquets as Abstract Rule, Born Allah, Pigeon John, Riddlore, Big Al, Wreckless, Ellay Khule, Medusa, Q., MYKA NYNE, Busdriver, Ganjah K, Big Baby, CVE, Tray - Loc, Cut Chemist, Volume 10, Jyant, Ronda Ross, 2 Mex, Fat Jack,T - Love, Peace, Chali 2NA and F Stl, and perhaps most notably Eve, aka Ava Duvernay, a rapper - turned - filmmaker with a very bright future behind the camera.

New York artist and filmmaker, Lucy Raven (b. 1977), is at Serpentine Gallery, London, exploring what happens behind the camera and in - between frames.