Sentences with phrase «foreign film directors»

They got their wish in the form of independent cinema and foreign film directors making films Oscar voters can tolerate.

An exchange of these new films would be cultural beneficial not only for the modern American cinema but also for off stream foreign film directors.

Not exact matches

Foreign - language films and documentaries are Kino Lorber's twin specialties, though this year it also released a trio of British dramas (which doesn't quite count as a foreign - language) from director Joanna Hogg: Archipelago, Unrelated, and ExhiForeign - language films and documentaries are Kino Lorber's twin specialties, though this year it also released a trio of British dramas (which doesn't quite count as a foreign - language) from director Joanna Hogg: Archipelago, Unrelated, and Exhiforeign - language) from director Joanna Hogg: Archipelago, Unrelated, and Exhibition.

Even with the presence of a rare outright misfire (Third Person, from Crash director Paul Haggis), SPC managed to boost its already - high average Metascore by a few points last year, thanks to widely praised films like Mr. Turner (the year's # 2 drama, behind Boyhood), Leviathan (2014's best - reviewed foreign - language film), and Sundance hit Whiplash.

Sure, this film possesses a better pedigree than most movies of its type — director Fatih Akin is rated higher in international film circles than «Death Wish» remake director Eli Roth, Diane Kruger won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for her performance and the movie is Germany's entry for this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film — and its intentions may be nobler, but, at its heart, it is not markedly different from its genre brethren.

After earning an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film for Embrace of the Serpent, director Ciro Guerra returned to the Director's Fortnight with this story of an indigenous Wayuu family caught up in the Colombian drudirector Ciro Guerra returned to the Director's Fortnight with this story of an indigenous Wayuu family caught up in the Colombian druDirector's Fortnight with this story of an indigenous Wayuu family caught up in the Colombian drug trade.

Inspired by the director's interaction with street actors who portray religious figures by night and pursue more commercial endeavors by day, the film once again received a Best Foreign Film nomination at the Oscars and swept the Genies — this time in 12 categories.

It's also a remake of the excellent Swedish film Let the Right One In, and director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) pays homage appropriately, sticking to the slow, methodical, foreign film sensibility.

Acclaimed as one of the best foreign films of 2011, writer / director Asghar Farhadi's meditation on marital conflict is set in contemporary Iran, where two couples are dragged before a judge to defend themselves and their legal, moral and religious beliefs in a family court.

The film is nearly as handsome as the director's extraordinary «The Great Beauty» (2013), an Oscar winner for best foreign language film.

Writer - director Roland Joffé has built a career on narratives of white men in foreign territories, with films like The Killing Fields, The Mission, and City of Joy being notable (and tiresome) examples of a distinctly middlebrow breed of the historical drama that locates subaltern longing through an imperialist lens.

Since his film was only screened for the Hollywood Foreign Press he wasn't able to earn SAG or Critics» Choice nominations but now that the film has been seen and Plummer is all over it (with just nine days of shooting and as many days of post-production) this may be the easiest and best way for the Academy to recognize the efforts and ability of director Ridley Scott (if they don't give him a Best Director nomination, tdirector Ridley Scott (if they don't give him a Best Director nomination, tDirector nomination, that is).

The film, by director Andrey Zvyagintsev, won the Golden Globe for foreign language film on Sunday, making it the first Russian movie to win a Globe since 1969's «War and Peace.»

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (R for profanity, nudity, violence, drug use and graphic sexuality) Legendary director Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Network, The Verdict) assembles a talented ensemble for this suspenseful crime thriller about two brothers (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke) whose perfectly planned heist of their parents» (Albert Finney and Rosemary Harris) jewelry store goes horribly wrong when their accomplice improvises with disastrous results during the botched robbery.

Thanks to the vagaries of film distribution and the increasing difficulties of small films and foreign language productions to get theatrical releases, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Turkish drama, which won the Best Director award at Cannes 2008, this one - week Seattle engagement at the Varsity Theatre is the film's American theatrical debut.

Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's first English language film This Must Be the Place was a drifting disappointment, but when his follow - up, The Great Beauty, wowed the cinemagoing world (and won the Foreign - Language Oscar) his status as a master filmmaker was confirmed.

-- Foreign language film nominee «The Insult» director Ziad Doueiri.

Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, the film is the first English - language effort from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, whose 2009 film «Dogtooth» was an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

The latest Holocaust film, «In Darkness,» feels like a disaster movie, and iconic Polish director Agnieszka Holland has steered it to a Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

Voting is open until December 12 at 11:59 p.m. Categories include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent film).

Disobedience marks the first English - language film for Chilean director Lelio — whose transgender romance A Fantastic Woman recently won the Academy Award for best foreign - language film — and it is also his most affecting work.

Director Oliver Hirschbiegel is a prodigious talent, whose best known movie, Downfall — the 2004 account of Adolf Hitler's last days — garnered an Academy Award nomination for best foreign language film and launched an enduring internet meme.

Walt Disney Studios released this brand new foreign movie poster for the upcoming film «I Am Number Four» by director D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye, Disturbia) and starring Dianna Agron (Glee, Burlesque), Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood, Hitman, Rango), Teresa Palmer (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) and Kevin Durand (Robin Hood, X-Men Origins: Wolverine).

I thought about changing my prediction to a shock win for Michael Haneke until I remembered that no director of a foreign language film has ever won this prize — no not even Federico Fellini or Ingmar Bergman, Oscar's indisputable favorites as foreign auteurs go.

Chinese director Jia Zhangke took home the best screenplay award at Cannes last year, and many stateside critics — including the L.A. Times» Kenneth Turan — put it on their lists of top foreign films for 2013.

Swedish director Ruben Östlund's «The Square,» a many - barbed satire of the art world, was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film.

Notable examples of people of color representation in the nominations pool come in the documentary category where the black male director of «Strong Island,» Yance Ford, is the first openly trans person to have a film nominated, and in foreign - language film where «A Fantastic Woman,» starring Chilean trans actress Daniela Vega, is a possible winner.

You could argue that she's Oscar's second favorite Polish director (of those who kept making movies in Poland, that is) after the late legendary Andrzej Wajda who was up for the foreign film Oscar four times and eventually received an Honorary.

The director, who emigrated from Warsaw to London when he was 14, won the best foreign language film Oscar for his period drama Ida in 2015.

Then, compare the play to the movie THE HANDMAIDEN by acclaimed writer / director Chan - wook Park which was named best foreign language film by the Boston Society of Film Critics.

The India - born, British - raised Radford became a double nominee for Director and Adapted Screenplay on the 1990s Italian film Il Postino (The Postman), the rare foreign language production to earn a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars.

The one remaining elephant in the room is the 2015 Silver Screen Riot Awards where we pick and choose from the elite and populist alike to make our selection for best director, performer, cinematographer, screenplay, documentary, foreign film, action movie, horror movie and comedy.

Davis also mentions director Gavin Hood, who she says is tough and specific and directed one of her top three greatest foreign films of all time, Tsotsi.

Wild Tales Director: Damián Szifron Running time: 122 minutes Certificate: R A collection of darkly funny tales from Argentina, revolving around themes of anger and revenge, which was nominated for the best foreign language film Oscar.

The film marks the English language debut of Felix Van Groeningen, director of Foreign Language nominee «The Broken Circle Breakdown,» while the script is written by Oscar nominee Luke Davies («Lion»).

Sony Pictures just released this killer new foreign poster for the upcoming film «The Green Hornet» by director Michel Gondry (Be Kind Rewind, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and starring Cameron Diaz (Shrek Forever After), Nicolas Cage (Astro Boy, Ghost Rider), Seth Rogen (Funny People), Edward James Olmos and Jay Chou ask Kato.

And consider the astonishing four nominations (director, screenplay, cinematography, editing) for the Brazilian film «City of God,» which was ineligible in last year's foreign film category because the Brazilians refused to nominate their brilliant and angry film.

Timbuktu Director: Abderrahmane Sissako Running time: 96 minutes Certificate: PG - 13 Nominated for best foreign language film at the Oscars, this French - Mauritanian drama follows a family who try to avoid the suffering and violence of incoming jihadists.

Both the LA and NY groups chose «The Social Network» as best picture and «Carlos» as best (and most) foreign - language film — all five and a half hours and 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish (with a Venezuelan accent), various dialects of Arabic, Russian, Hungarian, Italian... LAFCA left no doubt about its esteem for both movies, with «Carlos» coming in as first runner - up for best picture and Fincher and Assayas sharing the director's prize.

«The Insult has had an extensive international film festival tour over the past year, including stops along the way in Venice, Telluride, Toronto, and most recently Palm Springs, where Ziad participated in a panel with the other shortlisted foreign language directors,» commented Cohen.

, the latest romantic comedy from director Marc Lawrence purports to be one of those cutesy, funny things happen when two people are put into foreign or uncomfortable positions kind of films.

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«Disobedience» is the English - language debut for Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, who in March received the Academy Award for best foreign film for his transgender drama «A Fantastic Woman.»

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Nominated for best film and best director at last year's Spanish Goya Awards, Truebo also picked up the Silver Shell for best director at the San Sebastian Film Festival, adding to his collection, which includes an Oscar in 1994 for Belle Époque in the best foreign language film category.

It seemed as if we'd never get to see any other kind of foreign film hereabouts — an effect reinforced by Ettore Scola's A Special Day, in which a director who had heretofore drawn a lot of his strength and interest from the unpredictable intersections of gritty - grubby realismo and flamboyant stylization (The Pizza Triangle, We All Loved Each Other So Much) inclined dangerously toward high gloss.

When: March 8th Why: Park Chan - wook isn't the only foreign director making his English - language debut this month, as Niels Arden Oplev follows up his award - winning Swedish version of «The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo» with a new film that reunites him with star Noomi Rapace.

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