Sentences with phrase «gets as a film director»

SCOTT COOPER: When you work with actors who fully realize their characters as these did and care as much as they do about giving three - dimensional performances, it's truly about as good as it gets as a film director.

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But it's good to know that I'm not alone in my horror: Director Luke Gilford has skewered the extreme ends of «wellness» in his new short film Connected, starring Pam Anderson as Jackie, a lonely spinning instructor who wants to feel more, well, connected — so she joins a wellness cult and gets wifi shot into her brain so that Jane Fonda (no, really, she does a voiceover cameo) can tell her how «limitless» she is all the time.

While the previous films in the series have been just that — parts of a sequence designed to get us here, each with their own beginning and end — the first and second parts of Deathly Hallows are two halves of the same film, and to approach them as separate entities means missing just what director David Yates, writer Steve Kloves, and a host of storytellers and performers have done: They've made a five - hour fantasy epic that balances effects - driven battles with some very real character moments, and one that isn't afraid to have its heroes pay a high price for their convictions.

The feature debut of writer - director Aimee Lagos, the film feels overstuffed and overcooked, as if the filmmaker were trying to get too much out all in one go.

As an assistant to director Robert Altman, Rudolph worked on such major Altman projects as The Long Goodbye (1973) and Nashville (1975), ultimately getting a chance to direct his own film for Altman's production company, Welcome to LA (1977As an assistant to director Robert Altman, Rudolph worked on such major Altman projects as The Long Goodbye (1973) and Nashville (1975), ultimately getting a chance to direct his own film for Altman's production company, Welcome to LA (1977as The Long Goodbye (1973) and Nashville (1975), ultimately getting a chance to direct his own film for Altman's production company, Welcome to LA (1977).

The director, Jeff Wadlow, has a puppyish eagerness to impress, shock and entertain and as silly as the film might get, it's never dull.

It's easy enough to appreciate... as a painterly near - documentary, shot and edited by a director who got his start in documentary films... or a spacious moral fable about humility and trust in following the righteous path.

John Krasinski demonstrated in his first film as a director that he has the ability to do things well and get it

Director Brad Peyton competently stages most of the action, from George breaking out of his sanctuary, to a canister retrieval in Wyoming, led by scarred mercenary Burke (a briefly used Joe Manganiello), that turns awry, to the film culminating in mass destruction of Chicago as the three animals, well, rampage to get to the sonar signal at the top of the Wydens» skyscraper headquarters and Davis safely crashes a helicopter.

After studying Mandarin in post-Mao China, Jordan got into the film business as a camera assistant working with directors like...

This socially conscious Western represents a major comeback for blacklisted writer - director Polonsky, who identifies with the film's message and gets strong performances from Redford as the sheriff and Robert Blake as the hunted man.

John Krasinski demonstrated in his first film as a director that he has the ability to do things well and get it right with what he wants, and alongside Emily Blunt, his wife, he has achieved much more.

For Hank and Jim, biographer and film historian Scott Eyman spoke with Fonda's widow and children as well as three of Stewart's children, plus actors and directors who had worked with the men — in addition to doing extensive archival research to get the full details of their time together.

Chaney occasionally got a worthwhile role in the»50s, notably in the films of producer / director Stanley Kramer (High Noon, Not As a Stranger, and especially The Defiant Ones), and he co-starred in the popular TV series Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans.

In a film filled with examples of whites either habitually exploiting blacks — or even in the case of the fundamentally decent but chronically guilt - stricken Schultz, deciding to «take responsibility» for them — Stephen's calculated and ultimately self - defeating betrayal of a figurative «brother» is truly diabolical and heartbreaking, not to mention a ballsy move for Tarantino, who could have easily gotten away cleaner as a white writer - director without hinging the back half of his movie on a case of Southern Stockholm Syndrome.

But he did manage to get the coveted «and as» position in the opening credits, billing above Joseph Bologna in the closing credits and more written about him in the film's presskit than the director.

Clint Eastwood wisely chose a strong, simple thriller for his first film as a director (1971), and the project is remarkable in its self - effacing dedication to getting the craft right — to laying out the story, building the rhythm, putting the camera in the right place, and establishing small characters with a degree of conviction.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

Together with her husband, CDC director Dr Peter Mann (Jeremy Northam) and an incredulous cop (Charles S. Dutton, the closest the film comes to comic relief), Susan investigates, at which point the film starts to successfully mimic Aliens, as Susan faces off against the giant creatures and the supporting cast (including a youthful - looking Josh Brolin) gradually get picked off.

Not everything he's made has been a hit, but the last few years have seen Nicholas Stoller establish himself as one of the more reliable comedy directors in the business, with films like «Forgetting Sarah Marshall,» «The Muppets» (which he co-wrote) and «Get Him To The Greek.»

In The Player, Robert Altman's early nineties comeback film, the director brilliantly skewers Hollywood — getting all the details right, as only he could — while constructing his own kind of Hollywood Movie.

Oscar winner Viola Davis and director Steve McQueen were spotted dining at Le Colonial in the Gold Coast neighborhood Sunday as filming for McQueen's «Widows» gets underway in Chicago.

This site was founded in July 2011 after its founder Crystal got wind of Gavin Hood being selected as director for the film adaptation Ender's Game.

Comignsoon.net got their hands on this super low - res photo featuring Jaimie Alexander as Sif in the upcoming film «Thor» by director Kenneth Branagh (Frankenstein) and starring Natalie Portman (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), Anthony Hopkins (The Wolfman), Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek), Samuel L. Jackson (The Avengers, Iron Man 2) and Kat Dennings.

Williams shared the stage with Get Out director Jordan Peele and Bradley Whitford as the film was honored with Best Sci - Fi or Horror Movie

Korean director Park Chan - wook's English - language debut plays like one giant homage to Alfred Hitchcock (particularly his 1943 film «Shadow of a Doubt»), but with a decidedly unique and erotic twist that's every bit as perverse as his previous work — the kind of movie that gets under your skin and stays there for days.

It wasn't a world gone mad that Ramsay was reacting to when she disappeared in the winter of 2013 - 2014 with her daughter and husband to Santorini — a Greek island that in the middle of winter is largely empty — but the fallout of «Jane Got a Gun,» which the director quit right as filming began.

Kaluuya, who got his start on the hit British series «Skins» and is currently filming Marvel's «Black Panther» for «Creed» director Ryan Coogler, delivers a nuanced performance that builds as the dread mounts.

The latest film by British director Sally Potter, The Party, spares no one's feelings or ideas as a friendly get - together dissolves into angry recrimination.

My second attempt to get into the work of perhaps the greatest of all American directors, John Ford, has proved infinitely more rewarding than the naïve, unprincipled viewings I gave to some of his films as an impatient late - teen.

Based on the true story of Dutch criminal Cor Van Hout (Jim Sturgess), Mr. Heineken follows Van Hout and his gang of similarly beefcake - ey friends as they plot a get - rich - quick scheme that involves kidnapping beer magnate Freddy Heineken (Anthony Hopkins), and although Van Hout's life and the Heineken case could have made for an interesting film if director Daniel Alfredson (The Girl Who Played With Fire) had avoided editorializing, it's hard to be really be compelled by a movie that endorses crime, particularly crime committed by people with a certain amount of privilege.

Frances McDormand (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Friends with Money), as the ultra-feisty National Security director, gets to storm in and out of vehicles and walk fast and determined with her entourage of government agents, but her only significance to the film is she is the only female in the series to not look like she has jumped out of a Victoria's Secret catalog (the charisma-less Rosie Huntington - Whitely gets most of the cheesecake shots, replacing the equally vapid crackpot, Megan Fox).

Jordan Peele, who scored two personal nominations for best director and original screenplay, as well as two more nominations for «Get Out,» seemed almost stunned, reacting with a gif of Kaluuya in one of the film's iconic scenes and asking «What's the opposite of the sunken place?»

Ayers got his start as a writer, and ironically Curtis Hanson, the director of «L.A. Confidential,» also was a writer — a film critic.

Jordan Peele, who scored two personal nominations for best director and original screenplay, as well as two more nominations for «Get Out,» seemed almost stunned, reacting with a gif of Kaluuya in one of the film's iconic scenes and asking...

Director Kramer is careful with how big he lets the film get with these ideas, because even though Inherit the Wind is about Darwin vs. the Bible as its biggest idea, the smaller ideas are the more significant ones.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonough, director & writer) This film has gotten a lot of attention, mainly due to the performance of Frances McDormand as a mother who puts up billboards demanding that the police do more to solve the rape and murder of her daughter months before.

Yes, the film's dark British atmosphere and its marvelous depiction of the seamy sex trade is typically that of director and co-writer Neil Jordan, and we get nice performances by Michael Caine as an oily criminal kingpin and a reined - in Robbie Coltrane as a quirky friend of Hoskins «character.

However as a whole, this is a satisfying, and truly unique viewing experience, and we get to see a director who is at ease with such grand ideas of storytelling, and in the end, we get an experience like no other, and for true film lovers, we couldn't ask for any more.

His third film, Mean Streets, is surely his first, as the director teams up with Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro for a fiery crime drama about a small - time gambler who enlists the help of a friend, who's a rising star in the New York mafia, to help him get out of debt.

Payback: Straight Up - The Director's Cut is probably not exactly how Helgeland would have released his film back in 1999, but it's as close as it's going to get.

As with the Stallone film, director Schwentke's (The Time Traveler's Wife, Flightplan) employs the «getting the band back together» formula, complete with that exact phrase, whereby a former crew of cronies are gathered one by one in order to get one last hurrah doing what they do best, namely, kick some major ass with a variety of increasingly more explosive weapons.

We're taking our «Beauty vs Beast» series to a film that did well but maybe not as well as expected (no director, no screenplay)- Jordan Peele's masterful horror comedy Get Out, which we just happened to re-watch last night in an effort to reaquaint ourselves with a movie that was fading from memory.

The first act is admittedly a bit messy as director Colin Trevorrow gets all of his pieces on the board, but the story really picks up once the Indominus Rex breaks free from confinement, turning into a full - fledged adventure film with no shortage of dinosaur - caused destruction.

With few exceptions, each of his droll comedies have followed a bumbling male director as he travels to a film festival, gets tanked on soju and belligerently throws himself at a woman.

2008 was also the year in which McKay as director made his absurdist comedy «Step Brothers,» a film in which Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly get in a ferocious fight after one rubs his testicles on the other's drum set.

With Krieps on board, it also somehow feels like the Hitchcock movie Audrey Hepburn didn't get to make but clearly channeled through the unique mind of Anderson, a film - savvy writer - director responsible for such fever dreams as Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Inherent Vice, and of course There Will Be Blood, his previous adventure with Day - Lewis that also felt like a movie stitched together out of something not easily explained on first viewing.

«It feels like we are living in the sunken place right now,» said «Get Out» writer - director Jordan Peele, accepting the Stanley Kramer Award, making a reference to the film's signature moment that he sees as a symbol for the marginalized.

Along the way, we touch on the abandoned film project that Lee was working on with screenwriter Michael Arndt, how The Book Of Life affected this production, the evolution of the idea from the initial spark to the finished film, how Adrian Molina got involved in the project, how Lee Unkrich went from editor to director and how he edits his own films, how Darla got a credit as «Digital Angel» on the original Toy Story, hiding easter eggs in an international setting, and working with Michael Giacchino.

SNUB: Tom Hanks.Sully had already lost a lot of its steam going into awards season, but even if the film as a whole and director Clint Eastwood weren't exactly shoo - ins anymore, we figured Tom Hanks would at least get a Golden Globe nomination.