Sentences with phrase «films by black filmmakers»

TIFF also has a significant offering of films by black filmmakers.

Not exact matches

Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in every one of the director's movies.Originally trained at a technical school, Hitchcock gravitated to movies through art courses and advertising, and by the mid -»20s he was making his first films.

Adding excitement to the project beyond all the thinkpieces the media can run about what this means for diversity in cinema is the fact that Black Panther is written and directed by Ryan Coogler, a young filmmaker who followed his acclaimed debut Fruitvale Station with a successful studio film in the endearing Creed.

Red Christmas is both written and directed by Australian actor - filmmaker Craig Anderson, making his feature directorial debut after numerous short films and TV work including «Double the Fist», «Black Comedy», and «How Not to Behave».

Black Panther marks this as being one of the greatest superhero films I've seen since it not only does the movie offer some tour - de-force performances by Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, and Lupita Nyong» o, but this is also one of the most mesmerizing, entertaining, and exhilarating experiences I've had at the movies this year so far, and it also proves that Ryan Coogler is one of the best filmmakers working today.

Check out the clip below and pick up a copy of the Blu - ray, which features 11 deleted scenes; commentary by Anderson and Owen Wilson; The Making of Bottle Rocket, an original documentary by filmmaker Barry Braverman with interviews with the cast and crew; and the original black - and - white Bottle Rocket short film.

Robin Hood is directed by English filmmaker Otto Bathurst, a veteran TV director (episodes of «Peaky Blinders», «Black Mirror», «Criminal Justice», «Hustle», «UGetMe») making his feature film directorial debut with this.

In its first weekend alone, Black Panther slashed its way through records worldwide, becoming both the highest rated superhero film ever made and the top grossing movie directed by a black filmmBlack Panther slashed its way through records worldwide, becoming both the highest rated superhero film ever made and the top grossing movie directed by a black filmmblack filmmaker.

And the first film led by a black cast, directed by a black filmmaker, expected to become a global blockbuster before it even opens.

4 — Pioneers of African - American Cinema (Kino Lorber, Blu - ray, DVD) is the first comprehensive effort devoted to collecting and preserving feature films and shorts produced between 1915 and 1946 for black audiences, most of them made by African - American filmmakers.

Four of five films vying for Best Documentary were made by black filmmakers, including the poignant 13th from Ava DuVernay, the first black woman to be nominated in this category.

I have never heard of this critic, though I think its interesting that someone pointed out that he'll rush to the defense of films made by black filmmakers, regardless of quality, and its probably true.

is both written and directed by acclaimed American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, of the films Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, and Noah previously.

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It's a daring choice by a filmmaker to make a nearly silent black and white film, and that he's able to pretty much pull it off is quite amazing.

An older title brought back into circulation is All Day's expanded DVD release of Ganja and Hess (1983), which features an overly appreciative commentary with the director, co-star, cinematographer, and the film's composer, Sam Waymon, bubbling about a seminal work by independent black filmmakers that's either a lost masterpiece, or an indulgent, narrative mess to some.

Highest grossing film by a Black Director: It has been a watershed year for black filmmakers, with Barry Jenkins» «Moonlight» winning Best Picture, Jordan Peele getting a Best Director Oscar nomination for «Get Out» and F. Gary Gray directing a billion - dollar hit with «The Fate of the Furious.&rBlack Director: It has been a watershed year for black filmmakers, with Barry Jenkins» «Moonlight» winning Best Picture, Jordan Peele getting a Best Director Oscar nomination for «Get Out» and F. Gary Gray directing a billion - dollar hit with «The Fate of the Furious.&rblack filmmakers, with Barry Jenkins» «Moonlight» winning Best Picture, Jordan Peele getting a Best Director Oscar nomination for «Get Out» and F. Gary Gray directing a billion - dollar hit with «The Fate of the Furious.»

Ryan Faughnder and Daniel Miller looked at what the film's box office potential means, noting, «Crucially, «Black Panther» could help shake up the way Hollywood does business by defying assumptions about films with predominantly black casts and filmmakers.&rBlack Panther» could help shake up the way Hollywood does business by defying assumptions about films with predominantly black casts and filmmakers.&rblack casts and filmmakers.»

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BODY AND SOUL By Charles Musser This 1925 film reveals the formal and political radicalism of America's most prolific black filmmaker, Oscar Micheaux.

NOAH is a crazy film by Darren Aronofsky (THE FOUNTAIN, BLACK SWAN) manifesting the filmmaker's trademark tussle with the unknowable and a feverish attempt to reconcile good and evil, faith and fear, while yoking the otherworldly to concrete reality.

The first American film by acclaimed French filmmaker Jean Renoir («The Grand Illusion» / «The Human Beast» / «Madame Bovary») is shot in black and white and on location in Georgia's Okefenokee swamp.

The new Men in Black film is being written by Iron Man's Matt Holloway and Art Marcum, with Fast and the Furious filmmaker F. Gary Gray directing.

The filmmaker Fred Dekker (The Monster Squad) has revealed on his Facebook that he's «just turned in» the latest draft for the fourth Predator movie directed by Shane Black who co-starred in the old original Predator film.

The film The first American feature by an African - American lesbian, Dunye's «The Watermelon Woman» stars its director as a video - store clerk and aspiring filmmaker working on a project about a long - forgotten black actress of the 1930s.

It's rare for the film about the black experience, made by black filmmakers, to break into in the conversation at all, and when they do, the standards are always ridiculously high.

Claire Denis» High Life and Barry Jenkins» If Beale Street Could Talk are top anticipated film items for 2018 that were October items, but here are a slew of films that we are keen on that are overlapped into October and or November: Stéphane Brizé's Un autre monde (with Vincent Lindon), Jamie Adams» Bittersweet Symphony (with Suki Waterhouse), Brittany Poulton and Daniel Savage's Them That Follow (with Olivia Colman), Carol Morley's Out Of Blue (with Jacki Weaver), Pippa Bianco's untitled debut based on her short Share (with Rhianne Barreto), Edward Zwick's Trial by Fire (with Emily Meade), Miles Joris - Peyrafitte's Dreamland (with Margot Robbie), Claudia Myers» Shadow Girl (Zosia Mamet), Tim Sutton's Donnybrook (with Jamie Bell), Chiwetel Ejiofor's The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (he also stars), Koen Mortier's Angel (with Vincent Rottiers), Neil Jordan's The Widow (with Chloë Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe and Isabelle Huppert), Spike Lee's Black Klansman (with Adam Driver), Julius Onah's Luce (reteams Funny Games» Naomi Watts, Tim Roth), Eli Roth's The House with a Clock in its Walls (with Cate Blanchett), Michael Goi's Mary (with Gary Oldman), Martin Krejci's debut The True Adventures of Wolfboy (with Jaeden Lieberher), Joel Edgerton's Boy Erased (Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Edgerton, Russell Crowe and filmmaker Xavier Dolan), Laure de Clermont - Tonnerre's Mustang with Connie Britton and Matthias Schoenaerts, Geneviève Dulude DeCelles» Une colonie and Paolo Virzì's Magic Nights.

Coogler concluded his letter by thanking Black Panther everyone who contributed to the movie's thunderous debut:» For the people who bought out theaters, who posted on social [media] about how lit the film would be, bragged about our awesome cast, picked out outfits to wear, and who stood in line in theaters all over the world before even seeing the film... To the press who wrote about the film for folks who hadn't yet seen it, and encourage audiences to come out... And to the young ones, who came out with their parents, with their mentors, and with their friends... Thank you for giving our team of filmmakers the greatest gift: The opportunity to share this film, that we poured our hearts and souls into, with you.»

We briefly mentioned the then - upcoming film Baggage Claim as an example of a movie, written and directed by an African - American filmmaker, that exists outside of any perceived «black genre» (whatever that means), which is really just a comedy that happens to feature African - Americans rather than whites of European descent.

The exhibition will include 100 of his unfired clay objects in addition to two documentary films on his work: «Sonny Ford:» Delta Artist, made by William Ferris in Leland, Mississippi in 1969 and JAMES «SON FORD» THOMAS: ARTIST made by filmmakers Jeffrey Wolf and Zach Wolf, using footage shot of Thomas in 1982 while exhibiting his work as part of the seminal touring exhibition Black Folk Art in America, 1930 - 1980, which has been edited on the occasion of this exhibition.

This acclaimed film was the first wide release by a black female filmmaker.

He figures in the recent books, 100 New York Painters by Cynthia M. Dantzic (Schiffer, 2006), Black Paris Profiles by Monique E. Wells (2012) and is also the subject of a projected film by the well - known documentary filmmaker Louis Massiah.

12 Years a Slave became the first film directed and produced by a black filmmaker — Steve McQueen, and also the first to be written by an African - American — John Ridley, to win the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture of the Year.

These works will be displayed in a dreamlike, painted environment inspired by British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1947, film «Black Narcissus».

In addition, at the Niland Black Box, there was a series of films by Andy Warhol and other filmmakers to interpret artistic activities at the Factory - Andy Warhol's painting studio in New York.

These works are displayed in a dreamlike, painted environment inspired by British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1947 film Black Narcissus.