Sentences with phrase «genre films directed»

Etheria Film Night is an annual showcase screening of a progressive slate of genre films directed by women for an audience including producers, managers, show runners, distributors, and genre fans.

Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the U.S., is pleased to announce the 2012 AMD Next Wave competition, which recognizes outstanding new talent in genre film directing.

Not exact matches

Eastwood directs a sensible - looking genre film with smooth expertise, but its plot is quietly berserk.

If the trend continues, too, Garland should be embraced with open arms, as his directed films avoid many of the studio genre traps and confront challenging topics head on — whether by droids or cancerous, world - eating prisms.

Mangold, a replacement for original director Darren Aronofsky, is new to the superhero genre, and hasn't directed a film since the disappointing 2010 action - comedy Knight and Day, but his approach to The Wolverine (it sounds more like a samurai film than anything else) suggests it should at least be an improvement over X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Eigenberg returned to the same genre amid a cast of unknowns with the 2007 film The Trouble with Romance, directed by Gene Rhee.

French filmmaker Luc Besson (The Family, Brick Mansions) writes and directs Lucy, a loopy, high - concept science fiction thriller that, like most Besson efforts, is actually just a dumb and goofy action genre film masquerading as a smart and insightful one.

The «Mindf @ * ck» film genre has just gotten a solid new entry with «Black Swan» a psychosexual thriller starring Natalie Portman and directed by Darren Aronofsky.

Director Neil Jordan is no stranger to the vampire film, having directed 1994's Interview with the Vampire 59, but his return to genre lacks bite, according to many reviewers.

By pulling in Brian De Palma to direct, having the legendary Robert Towne, join red - hot David Koepp and the ever - amazing Steven Zaillian to write the story, the film helped launch a revival of the genre like nothing since the Roger Moore trilogy of The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker and For Your Eyes Only.

Although it shares many similarities with the first film adaptation of the novel directed by Kon Ichikawa in 1959, Tsukamoto chose to bring some of his more traditional genre film experience to the project in order to create a more vivid portrait of the horror and obscenity of war.

Director Jonathan Demme has a gift for framing rock performance, having directed countless superb concert films, including Stop Making Sense, widely seen as the high - water mark of the genre.

From the moment it was announced Rian Johnson would be directing «Star Wars: Episode VIII,» fans have been excitedly wondering what kind of special sauce the director of genre - bending films like «Looper» and «Brick» (not to mention a few of the best episodes of «Breaking Bad») will bring to the universe George Lucas created.

After penning the adaptation of «L.A. Confidental,» one of the finest films of the 1990s, and directing the exceedingly cool, nasty little throwback «Payback,» writer / director Brian Helgeland marks his return to the crime genre with «Legend.»

I've been enjoying a lot of the Trailblazing Women programming myself but since we're in the middle of Schocktober, I thought I'd set aside some time to highlight some of my favorite horror films and thrillers directed by women who have left their macabre mark on a genre that many mistakenly assume is not very female friendly.

First - time film director Phyllida Lloyd, who also directed the original London show, creates constant visual distraction with swish pans and unmotivated zooms, but her reliance on too - frequent close - ups proves a fatal visual strategy in a genre that functions entirely through movement and spectacle.

He is known best in the genre for writing and directing the amazing film «The House of the Devil».

The fact that «Scary Movie 4,» like its predecessor, is directed by David Zucker is rather depressing, given that Zucker helmed classics in the parody genre, including «Top Secret,» two of the three «Naked Gun» films, and the granddaddy of them all, «Airplane!»

by Walter Chaw The only genre that boasts more direct - to - video fare than horror is porn, and since we haven't quite reached the point of quiet desperation needed to begin reviewing porn, find here a smelted cheddar of four dtv horror features (actually, The Boogeyman got a theatrical release in 1980, though I can't understand why): the eighth film in Clive Barker's venerable horror octology, Hellraiser: Hellworld; The Boogeyman and its second sequel, the legitimately straight - to - video Return of the Boogeyman; and Kevin VanHook's The Fallen Ones.

David Mamet ---- «House of Games «If it feels like some of the writers on this list kind of lucked into direction having written a film (or several) that became a mainstream success thereafter, there are a few others whose writerly voice was already so established that the idea of having them direct a straightforward genre film is kind of inconceivable (see also: Charlie Kaufman).

Etheria Film Night screens an annual showcase of the best new horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, dark comedy, and thriller films directed by women for an audience including producers, managers, show runners, distributors, and genre fans.

DEADLINE — Hard to imagine there will be a hotter film package unveiled at Cannes next week than 355, a large - scale espionage film that Simon Kinberg will direct with an all - star international spy cast of Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Fan Bingbing and Lupita Nyong» o. They'll play international agents in a grounded, edgy action thriller that aims to alter a male - dominated genre with a true female ensemble, in the style of spy franchises The Bourne Identity, Mission: Impossible and James Bond.

Co - writer / director Jenn Wexler knows her shit when it comes to the horror genre, having produced films like Darling and Psychopaths, with The Ranger feeling like an opportunity to make her directing debut for a minimal budget with a relatively thin story.

Directing duo Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer have already made a huge splash in the genre and their film hasn't even been released yet.

A painter and cinematographer turned director, a craftsman turned celluloid dreamer, an industry veteran who created, almost single - handedly, the uniquely Italian genre of baroque horror known as «giallo,» he directed the most graceful and deliriously mad horror films of the 1960s and early 1970s.

The film is the latest true - story based projected directed by Bennett Miller; part psychological drama / thriller, part sports drama, Foxcatcher reads as being a hybrid of genre tropes presents in Miller's previous biographical features, Capote and Moneyball.

Jason Reitman (who directed noteworthy films like Up in the Air and Thank You For Smoking) attempts to sweep audiences off their feet with an untraditional approach to a very traditional genre.

The film is a change of pace for Olivier, his first time directing someone other than Shakespeare and in a genre other than classical drama.

Directing tandem Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead first hit the indie movie scene when their feature film debut Resolution took the genre by storm, delivering a skin - crawling psychological haunter that still has people talking.

Wolfen (Warner Archive, Blu - ray)-- The werewolf movie was revived and reworked with a vengeance in 1981 andWolfen, adapted from the Whitley Strieber novel and directed by Michael Wadleigh (his first feature since the epic concert film Woodstock), was a far more radical take on the genre than either An American Werewolf in Londonor The Howling, though not as popular as either.

He's made quite the name for himself over the years in the world of genre film, writing three movies for Danny Boyle (two of which he directed), — «28 Days Later,» «Sunshine,» and «28 Weeks Later» — one for Mark Romanek («Never Let Me Go»), and he also penned the 2012 cult fave «Dredd.»

Dead Man Year: 1995 Director: Jim Jarmusch Jim Jarmusch directed this post-modern examination of the western film genre as American pop culture finally began to veer away from the expected western films.

The film from Roar Uthaug, who directed the fantastic 2015 Norwegian disaster epic The Wave, doesn't smuggle the same genre - defying intelligence that his prior effort did — lots of Tomb Raider is numb, bumbling and ripped from better movies — but Uthaug and his production team make good work of bringing the world of Tomb Raider to life.

Director James Wan may be known for directing the first Saw film in 2004, but he's moved passed that and is back with another fresh new take that could reboot the horror genre once again.

Based on the graphic novel by Coco Moodysson, and directed by her husband, Lukas, the entertaining film puts a refreshing feminist spin on a usually male - centric genre.

The film is a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper's malevolent and masterful 1974 flick, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, picking up hours after the genre classic before a modern setting takes us on a journey of more mayhem with the chainsaw - wielding maniac, Leatherface (Read our review HERE).

The Strangers: Prey at Night is directed by veteran English filmmaker Johannes Roberts, of the genre films Sanitarium, Hellbreeder, Darkhunters, Forest of the Damned, The Expelled, Storage 24, and The Other Side of the Door, as well as this year's 47 Meters Down.

Taking what they learned in creating the V / H / S series, the filmmakers once again take to the stage of scares for Blair Witch, a direct sequel to the 1999 film that shaped the horror genre that directly after.

As the Steven Spielberg - produced, Joe Dante - directed movie nears its 30th anniversary, its star Zach Galligan has returned to the big screen and the horror genre, and he sits down with ETonline for an extended, exclusive interview about all things Gremlins, from working with the stunning Phoebe Cates and those unpredictable animatronic creatures to the controversy surrounding the film's MPAA rating and the unexpected celebrities who have since outed themselves as fans!

MOVIE: KNOCK KNOCK STARRING: KEANU REEVES; LORENZA IZZO; ANA DE ARMAS; IGNACIA ALLAMAND; AARON BURNS DIRECTED BY: ELI ROTH AMovieGuy.com's RATING: 1 1/2 STARS (Out of 4) With Knock Knock, the newest film from horror genre director, Eli Roth (Cabin Fever; Hostel), I'm forced to guess what his end game is.

The film was directed by Denmark's Nicolas Winding Refn who boldly blends elements of the seemingly - incompatible blood sport and romance genres.

Hereafter (Warner), directed by Clint Eastwood, is (in the words of MSN critic Glenn Kenny) «a film of rather rare ambition... (that) attempts to create a serious drama, as opposed to a genre exercise, out of speculations concerning the afterlife and the supernatural.»

At the film's recent press day, Shyamalan and Blum discussed their creative partnership and the most surprising aspect of working with each other, why the scares in this film are deceptively simple yet terrifying and original, how the mock documentary style format gave Shyamalan new cinematic tools for keeping the audience guessing, his directing style, what he was looking for in his young actors, why he cast experienced stage actors for the grandparents» roles, his collaboration with award - winning DP Maryse Alberti, how he recruited Oxenbould to shoot the chase sequence underneath the house, why he likes treating B genre movies like they're A dramas, and more.

Denis Villeneuve received rave reviews for his genre - transcending films like Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, but he's «intrigued» at the idea of directing a Star Wars standalone film.

At the film's recent press day, Costner talked about the appeal of playing Coach White, Niki Caro's directing style, the bond that developed between all the actors during filming, the pivotal role a coach can play in a young person's life, the Jim White - type coaches who influenced Costner's life in a positive way, what he learned about Latino culture growing up in Visalia, why he waits for projects to come along that he can really respond to irrespective of genre, the biggest cultural gap he experienced on this film, and how sports movies allow us to address other issues within the wider society.

He has gone on to direct films in a variety of genres like his horror film Prey, the comedic film True Memoirs of an International Assassin, and the action thriller Non-Stop.

Written and directed by Jeff Benna, Life After Beth has nothing particularly new to add to a rather tired and hackneyed genre, and for example is nothing like as funny as Ruben Fleischer's 2009 film Zombieland.

You obviously expect less from a film by Mikael Salomon, the Swedish cinematographer of such Hollywood films as James Cameron's The Abyss, Steven Spielberg's Always, and Ron Howard's Backdraft, whose subsequent directing career has consisted almost entirely of lesser genre television (like A&E's 2008 «The Andromeda Strain» miniseries and Lifetime's Drew Peterson: Untouchable).

Subsequent to Village of the Damned (1995), an uninspired remake of the 1960 classic science fiction film, Carpenter directed three films that virtually deconstruct, reinvent and cross-fertilize the western genre.

Written and directed by the godfather of «mumblecore» cinema - a genre known for nonprofessional actors and naturalistic dialogue - Andrew Bujalski's latest film is practically a Hollywood blockbuster compared with his no - budget early films.