Sentences with phrase «from film directing»

In 2011, when Kevin Smith released his last feature film, Red State, he announced (with his usual long - windedness) that he'd be retiring from film directing after completing one more film.

Today we bring you the new atmospheric first poster from the film directed by Ruairi Robinson.

Not exact matches

China's ruling Communist Party recently announced it would take direct control of major broadcasters and assume regulatory power over everything from film and TV to books and news.

In fact, the events of the film completely ignore everything from «The Lost World,» and «Jurassic Park III,» and act as a direct sequel to the first movie.

Actor Joel Edgerton («Warrior,» «Exodus,» «The Great Gatsby») wrote, directed and stars in the film, which is clearly reminiscent of similar thrillers like «Fear,» «Fatal Attraction» and even Michael Haneke's fantastic «Caché,» but gleefully twisted enough to distance itself from the pack.

Now he is trying to get a PhD in English from Yale while writing, directing and acting in several films.

J.J. Abrams, the director of the new Star Wars films, has shown from the beginning of the project that he himself is a big fan of the franchise and that he values and respects the responsibility that goes with directing the movie.

Jeremy Wiles, who directed a film series that helps men break free from porn, had the opportunity to interview several brain experts in the making of the Conquer Series.

According to a study from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, the number of women directing films may actually be declining, with the top 250 highest - grossing domestic films going from 7 percent in 2015 to 5 percent in 2016 being directed by women.

If you've seen any of the trailers for John Krasinski's new horror film A Quiet Place (which he stars in and directed), then you know that the plot revolves around a family that must live in silence to avoid detection from some sort of evil force.

Placing real consumers and nightlife enthusiasts in the spotlight, the short film, directed by Grammy - winning director Melina Matsoukas, features a never - before - heard track from the electronic music duo, Empire of the Sun.

The actor is set to star in a film directed by veteran stunt coordinator Nick Powell (The Bourne Identity, X-Men: The Last Stand, Cinderella Man), which centers on Frank Walsh (Cage), a big game hunter for zoos who has booked passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white jaguar.

«He always said to us our games were his release from the stress of directing films and to hear that from such a true legend was really nice.

From that award, Cuomo directed that $ 90 million be used to pay for another contract to COR, to build a factory for Soraa, an LED lighting manufacturer, adjacent to the film hub.

Award - winning film - maker Martin Scorsese directs the true story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his journey from pursuing the American dream to revelling in corporate greed.

That's why I've called for diverting $ 45 million from the state's $ 420 million film and television production tax credit to go for boosting salaries for our direct care workers.

Staff from the Buffalo Niagara Film Commission were in Toronto over the weekend to make a direct pitch to film producers, encouraging them to visit Western New York and explore the region's potential locations.

The Tribeca Film Festival and its cofounder Robert De Niro came under intense fire last week for their decision to screen Vaxxed: From Cover - Up to Catastrophe, a film directed by disgraced gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield.

The directors of the second film, Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, have a cinema verité style, which is a different style from Davis Guggenheim's [who directed An Inconvenient Truth].

Guests include Joel Greenberg, author of «A Feathered River Across the Sky» and documentary producer David Mrazek, who directed the film about the life and extinction of the passenger pigeon, «From Billions to None.»

Ermenegildo Zegna has launched its most ambitious film venture yet, collaborating with actors Jack Huston (of Martin Scorsese's television series Boardwalk Empire) and Daniel Wu (from Blood Brothers and American Hustle) on a film called «A Rose Reborn,» directed by acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Park Chan - Wook.

Everything about the film and the characters in it is a throwback, and purposefully so: From their clothes (can anyone please direct us to where we can buy Stone's below - the - knee backless dresses?!

Zegna's ambitous «A Rose Reborn» directed by Park Chan - wook made our list, as did Alexander Wang's funny Autumn / Winter campaign film, featuring Chris Kattan as Mango, a character from the American comedy show Saturday Night Live.

Spielberg directed the film from a screenplay by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline, based on the book by Cline.

It's a Boy Girl Thing is a 2006 romantic comedy film directed by Nick Hurran and written by Geoff Deane, starring Kevin Zegers and Samaire Armstrong and A schoolboy was savagely beaten in an «honour attack» after he started dating a girl from a close knit family, a court heard.

Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film directed, shot and edited by George A. Romero, co-written by Romero and John Russo, and Bobby Lee LIVE from MADtv, Chelsea Lately and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle at Arlington Drafthouse.

The Long and the Short and the Tall (released as Jungle Fighters in the USA and Canada) is a 1961 British war film directed by Leslie Norman, which stars «Short man syndrome» is a condition in which a person has to deal with a feeling of inadequacy which can come from a lack of height — or a perceived lack

It's likely no shocker a film about two degenerate gamblers from the writing / directing team that brought us the harrowing «Half Nelson» is going to be at least a little emotional draining.

To forestall such questions, and distract us from the film's core emptiness, director Paul McGuigan (Gangster No. 1, Wicker Park) and his crew very nearly art - direct everything into the dirt: The wallpaper in ordinary apartment buildings is a catalogue of optical illusions, and one fleeting overhead shot of a parking lot features an array of vehicles so expertly color - coordinated they could be photoshopped into a Kelly - Moore spread.

The second film to be made from Woody Allen's successful stage comedy (following a 1969 feature starring Jackie Gleason), Don't Drink the Water is a made - for - television adaptation directed by and starring Allen himself.

The film lacks any kind of real «action», which makes it a departure from Mann's other work like Heat or Last of the Mohicans, but it still feels like an action movie because of the aggressive way in which Mann directs it.

There are bits and images in this film that would ensure praise from the horror - fan crowd if they weren't in a Halloween movie directed by Rob Zombie.

The problem with the early episodes — written and directed by Jim Mickle, who also made the film «Cold in July,» based on a Lansdale novel — has to do with a slow pace and a sameness that muffle the humor and menace we expect from smart noir.

Escape from Alcatraz was the last of five films that Don Siegel directed with Clint Eastwood, and it's the end of an impeccable track record.

Bug, directed by William Friedkin from Tracy Letts's play, has the feverish compression of live theater and the moody expansiveness of film.

What's really surprising is that the good cast that director John Polson directs can't save the film from being a dud.

Again, I can't make direct comparisons between the two films, but I think the extended World still suffers from the same issue.

Some employees of an international arms dealer go out into the Hungarian wildeness for a weekend company retreat, only to find themselves menaced by a group of militants who don't like having them around their territory in this modestly budgeted dark comedy / horror film from Christopher Smith, who also directed Black Death (with Sean Bean).

While that isn't remotely surprising in 2011, when studios have been comfortable doing direct digital transfers on computer - animated films for over a decade, it still is supremely satisfying, especially since the movie is one of the nicer - looking cartoons to hail from DreamWorks (or any non-Pixar studio).

As directed by Robert Zemeckis from a script he co-wrote with Christopher Browne, the film limps through its first two acts, putting in time until the big moment.

What we get is a collection of moderately violent action set - pieces untroubled by humour or broader coherence... Forster, who directed the Bond film Quantum of Solace, has done his best to piece together a story from these incompatible parts, but the final product has an elaborate uselessness about it, like a broken teapot glued back together with the missing pieces replaced by parts of a vacuum cleaner.

I, Tonya, directed by Craig Gillespie, doesn't shy from the darker turns her life took, the film's screenplay working from rumor and the unreliable narration of the people around her.

Brilliantly directed by Michel Hazanavicius, this is a fun film from start to finish.

After taking some time off from directing and scriptwriting to appear in such films as Out of Sight (1998), Brooks resumed his director - screenwriter - actor hyphenate with The Muse (1999), starring opposite Andie MacDowell and Sharon Stone as a struggling Hollywood scriptwriter in search of divine inspiration; Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World followed in 2005.

All of this made me read the film less through the lens of its story (adapted from a 2013 novel of the same name) or its direction (by Francis Lawrence, who directed Jennifer Lawrence through several Hunger Games films), and more through the lens of its star.

The film, written by Alex Ross Perry and directed by Mark Pellington, is built around the theme of grief and of value placed on mementos transmitted from generation to generation.

The film was directed with visual flair by Nikolaj Arcel, who also adapted the screenplay with co-writer Rasmus Heisterberg from a novel by Bodil Steensen - Leth.

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The film does a great job at capturing the cold, evil nature of Ian Mckellen's character (who is well cast and gives a great performance) But considering that this is a film directed by Bryan Singer, you know right from the start that this isn't his strongest directorial effort.

McEwan's understandable dedication to the source material also leads to some pushy, unnecessary inclusions, from a scene that dramatizes Edward's apparent «coarseness» in a way that's in direct opposition to everything else we've learned about the character, to a heartbreaking insight into Florence's family life that should either be much bigger or totally excised from the film.