Sentences with phrase «filmmaking skills»

With scares, style, and a hell of a lot of filmmaking skill on full display in each subsequent entry, we couldn't be more excited for what The Conjuring cinematic universe will bring us next.

Unfortunately, the satirical comedy Dick (1999)(which Fleming also co-scripted) arguably demonstrated the director's most intuitive and mature filmmaking skills and drew critical raves as one of the sleepers of the year, but failed to connect with a sizeable audience; it told a droll revisionist version of the Watergate events by reimagining the «Deep Throat» news source as two spunky teenage girls (Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams).

Longtime independent writer - director Victor Nunez brings a rare combination of homegrown regional sensibility and genuine filmmaking skills to his low - key stories of small - town life on Florida's gulf coast.

Stories We Tell marks the finest of Polley's filmmaking skills by blending intimacy and intrigue to remarkable effect.

Some lucky University of Texas students will soon get a chance to learn filmmaking skills from Academy Award winner — and longtime Austin resident — Matthew McConaughey.

Very involving and visually voluptuous for a film anchored in a rather arcane, albeit fascinating, area of scientific research, writer - director Mike Cahill's follow - up to his impressive, Sundance multi-award-winning 2011 debut, Another Earth, puts exciting filmmaking skills at the service of a story with fulsome romantic, biological and metaphysical dimensions.

The writer / director of Take Shelter and Midnight Special offers his take on an essential filmmaking skill.

A notable improvement on Demme's Charade remake The Truth About Charlie, The Manchurian Candidate gets an «A» for effort, with exceptional casting choices, plenty of filmmaking skill (particularly Tak Fujimoto's stylish photography), and pointed political punditry («Democracy is not negotiable,» «Cash is king,» «We've all been brainwashed»).

Yes, Alfonso Cuarón deserved his win for best director, but he should've gotten that back in 2006 for the incredible «Children of Men,» or even «Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,» each of which better represented his filmmaking skills.

Filmmaking skill and solid actors can make these movies fun, but the truth and virtues buried in them is what makes these movies important — much like the original Star Wars movies were for the previous generation.

It's unpredictable, superb, and David Fincher proves that his filmmaking skills are mind - blowing.

Based on the merits of his brave and brutal directorial debut, he deserves to be known for his filmmaking skills as well, for Tyrannosaur is a polished, powerful feature.

proves that his filmmaking skill can not overcome a lacking script — and that's exactly what new Screamwriter Ehren Kruger has provided Scream 3.

Wiseau's filmmaking skills may have been wildly inept, but he was committed to his dream.

«The dialogue is relentlessly fancy without being witty, and the specious moralizing of the plot looks like it was tacked on to appease square adults; the real narrative force behind this movie is nihilist camp, as in Roger Corman's 1966 The Wild Angels but without the same degree of filmmaking skill... its inanities and glib pretensions are so thick that it mainly comes across as tacky and contrived.»

Younger Cuarón continues to hone his filmmaking skills but delivers an unsatisfying, yet stylistic horror thriller.

Just as historical thinking scholars have tried to define the skills to be emphasized in the K - 12 classroom, a clear delineation of filmmaking skills would be helpful for teachers as they design and implement filmmaking projects.