Sentences with phrase «gifted director»

This is a decent first attempt — however, this script feels like it could have been something spectacular in the hands of a more gifted director than he.
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His screenplays for Sicario and Hell or High Water are both thoughtful, intense spins on both the crime genre and the Western, and in the hands of gifted directors like Denis Villeneuve and David Mackenzie, respectively, they've become outstanding films.
Again, a strong cast, consisting of Lili Taylor, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daryl Hannah and Mary Steenburgen, reminds us that Sayles is one of American cinema's most gifted directors of actresses.
Among gifted directors who are also shrewd businessmen, Steven Spielberg outranks them all.
Savages points to a problem with gifted directors, which Stone is, like him or not: They can make a movie that aggravates, infuriates, falters even, but they can really make a movie.
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It's an intriguing sensation of shock, nurtured gracefully by the screenplay and imagined gloriously by gifted director Jennifer Yuh, who inch away from the original's overtly cartoon tendencies to widen Po's concern.
Gifted director Jeff Nichols takes on another genre in his fourth film with actor Michael Shannon, after Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud.
Sofia Coppola is one writer / director that constantly helped Roger see the world differently, which is just about the best gift any director can give a film critic.
With Away From Her and Take This Waltz, actress - turned - filmmaker Polley has proved herself as an unusually gifted director, but this inventive, moving documentary reveals even more artistic ambition.
The film noir put out inky tendrils in many existent genres, forever altering even the Western (Anthony Mann, perhaps the most gifted director associated with the new vision, the new mode, also began his remarkable series of James Stewart Westerns in this era: Winchester» 73, The Naked Spur, etc.); and certainly its temperamental affinities to the science - fiction film, a prime manifestation of the McCarthy era, are worth a nod.
And to be able to start out with someone like her, who loves actors, is a natural and very gifted director, and has that insight, was very influential to me.»
A harrowing but meticulously observed look at teenage lives in the era prior to the Columbine High School massacre, Super Dark Times marks the feature debut of gifted director Kevin Phillips, whose critically acclaimed 2015 short film «Too Cool For School» premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Gifted director Richard Linklater filmed Boyhood over 12 years, with actor Ellar Coltrane, who portrays Texas boy Mason, growing from age 6 to 18 before our eyes.
It is without surprise the highly spirited and gifted director Nate Parker, will receive the CinemaCon Breakthrough Director of the Year Award.
Haynes is a prodigiously gifted director - his «Safe» and «Dottie Gets Spanked» rank with the past decade's most brilliant movies - and this new masterpiece reconfirms him as one of world cinema's most brightly shining stars.
Setting a stoner comedy the night before Christmas might seem like a bad idea (or a gimmicky one at least) but in the hands of gifted director Jonathan Levine, this it's a brilliant one.
Gifted director Laurent Cantet began with a best - selling autobiographical novel by a teacher, Francois Begaudeau.
Yes, he made some of the most distinctive films of his time (and began and ended as one of the most gifted directors of drama on television) but the films were mostly serious, and Frankenheimer was a very funny man.
Too bad that the gifted director Hal Ashby (Last Detail, Shampoo) ended his career with such a sleazy thriller that even the reliable and appealing Jeff Bridges can't salvage.
Assassin's Creed is one which had everything going for it; a gifted director, a talented actor and solid source material, and a property that has managed to sell over 100 million copies since the first title hit back in 2007.
If you're a fan of this gifted director I'm sure you'll enjoy what he had to say.
Todd Philips has yet to prove himself a gifted director, and Old School won't earn him acclaim.
It turns out that Yim Ho — the gifted director of Homecoming (1984), which I reviewed favorably when it showed at Facets Multimedia in late 1987 — started shooting King of Chess in Taipei around that time, from a script that he wrote with Tony Leung, one of his lead actors.
The Gift Director: Joel Edgerton Running time: 108 minutes Certificate: R Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall star as a couple whose idyllic life is threatened by the arrival of a figure from the past with a sinister agenda.
It is so sad when you watch a film from a gifted director and it turns out this bad.
Their cooperation and competition were caught on camera by fellow German Pepe Danquart, a gifted director who won an Oscar in 1994 for a short called Schwarzfahrer.
The gifted director Matt Reeves, of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, returns, and he not only succeeds beautifully on a technical level, with his expert use of landscape and space, but also on an emotional one, coaxing three great performances from Serkis, Zahn, and Harrelson.
That goes some distance toward explaining how a gifted director (he also helmed 2011's masterful «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy») could have marshaled such a stellar ensemble, including Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Toby Jones, enlisted gifted collaborators like the cinematographer Dion Beebe, and still managed to emerge with one of the more disturbingly inept motion pictures released by a major studio this year.
Cuaron («Children of Men») is one of our most gifted directors, and this will need critical raves to break through the academy's tendency to short - sheet sci - fi.
There's no doubt that Abrams is a gifted director; whether he's a capable storyteller is more open to question.
A feast of colorful photography and captivating, idiosyncratic characters, the tough and tender Sweetie heralded the emergence of this gifted director, as well as a renaissance of Australian cinema, which would take the film world by storm in the nineties.
After a shaky start with Alien ³ (most of which wasn't his fault), David Fincher has turned out to be one of the most gifted directors of the last fifteen years.
This is the most gifted director of his generation at the very top of his game — like Coppola with the Godfather II or Scorsese with GoodFellas (and, believe me, The Wolf of Wall Street is no GoodFellas).
That emotional distance seems especially curious from a gifted director like John Curran, whose previous films, Praise and We Don't Live Here Anymore, were as raw as a skinned knee.
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