Sentences with phrase «gifted filmmakers of»

Not exact matches

There is a lot to learn from Alfred Hitchcock's work, his narrative was close to perfect and the skill to create suspense by depriving us of the payoff and restricting our view forcing us to imagine how bad the situation was, for the longest time just to deliver it at the peek of our attention, and that my friends, that is a gift for the film fanatic as for the filmmaker.

He's one of the most gifted filmmakers alive and yet he has no faith in his own skill.

Channeling Nye's own gift for making complex ideas simple and clear, the filmmakers edit together these various aspects of Nye's life with deceptive ease, drawing on interviews and archival material and following him throughout his hectic schedule.

Gilda Radner never knew Lisa D'Apolito, but Radner left the filmmaker one heck of a gift.

The world of 2016 movie soundtracks likely had no catchier tune than «Drive It Like You Stole It,» but each track found within Sing Street is another example of this filmmaker's gifted ability to move his audience with audio as well as visual ingenuity.

It was the kind of all - American fuck - up that, as Ridley Scott proved with Black Hawk Down, can be a gift to a filmmaker.

Contemporary author and filmmaker John Sayles says, «Jim Tully stands out in American literature as one of the few realist writers who did not just visit the rougher environs of human experience for material, but was fully of those depths... That Tully wrote at all was a miracle; that he wrote so well is a gift to the world.»

Recently, I joined a group of my peers for a fascinating chat with the gifted filmmaker, along with his charmingly boyish star, Emile Hirsch...

Hemingway & Gellhorn was directed by Philip Kaufman, who has long been one of the great American filmmakers, but who has spent most of the last decade in retreat, unable to find a project worthy of his prodigious gifts or — more likely — backers willing to make those projects happen.

Bertrand Bonello, a characteristically unorthodox, visually gifted filmmaker, pays tribute to the life of Yves Saint Laurent in the most nebulous way with Saint Laurent, a stupefying art film starring Gaspard Ulliel as the chain - smoking fashion icon.

Some of our best dialog / character - driven filmmakers, who have a gift with casual onscreen conversations, stumble once in a while.

With Logan Lucky, the filmmaker gifts those of us without bespoke tuxedo collections the heist movie we deserve: a bluesy, Southern - fried, NASCAR - set bank job where pick - ups do the heavy - lifting, gummy bears and cleaning solution make the vaults go boom, and blue collars are worn with pride.

The critic, after referring to «Nick Gomez's astounding, explosive debut,» went on: «Director Gomez, 29, who made the picture on a minuscule budget of $ 38,000, is the newest (and maybe the most gifted) member of a young generation of filmmakers — Spike Lee and Oliver Stone among them — who watched Martin Scorsese's «Mean Streets» and came away dying to make movies.

What I'm not so fond of is the cop - out ultimately taken by the filmmakers, who can't seem to follow through on their promisingly metaphysical premise (let alone the theme of obsessive love), electing instead to eliminate all ambiguity — now would be the time to dig up that gift - wrapped box I told you about earlier — which reduces the film, in the end, to little more than a cheap, if rather expensive - looking, joke.

-- Kenneth R. Morefield, Professor of English, Campbell University «As a materialist, I have issues with a transcendental approach toward style, even while supporting Paul Schrader's critical gifts and his passionate interest in three of my favorite filmmakers.

Dunkirk is one of the best World War II films to come along in quite some time, and it shouldn't be a surprise it's a filmmaker as gifted as Christopher Nolan who has delivered it.

Now the gifted filmmaker has just signed on to direct another talented, buzzy duo — Mia Washikowska, and Cate Blanchett (whom he steered towards perfection as one of his Bob Dylans in I'm Not There)-- in the new movie, Carol, and my heart palpitations have already begun.

But I can hardly begrudge a filmmaker as talented as Leigh a way of conveying his gifts to a wider audience; after all, Secrets and Lies doesn't represent the same sort of coarsening of a filmmaker's vision as Jane Campion's The Piano, coming after Sweetie.

«Thank you for giving our team of filmmakers the greatest gift: the opportunity to share this film, that we poured our hearts and souls into, with you.»

Venice Film Festival If any one title in the Shakespeare library has been sufficiently fiddled about with on screen, it's «The Tempest,» among the most tonally malleable of his comedies, and a fantasy that gifts filmmakers with obvious opportunities for spectacle.

Gifted filmmaker Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) and a fine young cast...

Like many of their previous flicks, Hal became another hit for the gifted filmmakers.

Between the stunning opinion that Charlie Sheen is a gifted filmmaker and the not - so - stunning confession that the most maudlin speech of Five Aces was written the night before and specifically for co-writer Sherrill to over-emote, there is nary a silent moment.

But that is a strangely narrow ambition for a filmmaker of Bigelow's gifts, not to mention a film whose title encompasses an entire city.

If Split is the shape of things to come for the gifted filmmaker I would say the horror genre is in for some much needed excitement in its near future.

A work about conflict, it is itself conflicted, torn between the confidence of a gifted filmmaker and the insecurity of a gifted writer, between forcing what comes easily and making too much of what doesn't.

I'm sure this isn't the last we'll hear of Alfonso Gomez - Rejon, a visually gifted filmmaker.

Florence Pugh is a gifted actress who will make a stunning Charlie, and Park is a filmmaker of extraordinary vision whose entry into the world of le Carré - style espionage should be irresistible.»

To top it off, they announced an entirely new category - outstanding directorial achievement by first - time filmmakers, featuring some of my own favorite films this year: The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Son of Saul, Ex Machina, and The Gift.

Capturing the horror of the camps like few filmmakers before and displaying a gift for camerawork both realistic and with a heightened terror that Inarritu and Lubezki would be jealous of, it's sure to win him a Foreign Language Oscar nod and could lead to Best Picture and Best Director nominations as well, while he's currently developing his second feature «Sunset,» a thriller set in Budapest in 1910.

Clearly a fan of legendary Korean filmmaker Park Chan - wook, The Gift resembles Park's own stories of vengeance, not only for its similar twists and turns, but because of its understanding of slow, methodical vengeance, as opposed to the the usual bloody, action - filled tales of revenge that American audiences have grown so accustomed to, since that is what usually makes it to our theaters.

I am not sure people will warm up to the genre - deconstruction of Personal Shopper but Stewart's performance in this film solidifies her already impressive resume of acting and her collaborations with gifted filmmakers from Olivier Assayas to Kelly Reichardt.

The filmmakers commit for a large chunk of the run time to having Hope remain unapologetic and unlikable (much like Charlize Theron's character in YOUNG ADULT), but then they bail, gifting audiences with a completely inauthentic turn.

A real - time exercise in witty dialogue, cartoonish violence and aim just bad enough to leave its protagonists bloodied but alive through most of its swift duration, «Free Fire» feels like a left - handed project from a filmmaker whose gifts for staging, framing and pacing are on full display but feel ultimately wasted in a glib, down - and - dirty bagatelle.

He wrote, «Thank you for giving our team of filmmakers the greatest gift: The opportunity to share this film, that we poured our hearts and souls into, with you.

He used the time to hone his skills as a successful commercial filmmaker in his native Norway, a country whose folklore gifted him with the premise of TROLLHUNTER.

Filmmaker John Scheinfeld dips in and out of the music — too much so, it turns out, and with too little insight into the specifics of his gifts.

It might have actually been something in the hands of a smart and gifted filmmaker.

Green Room is a rare gift from the genre gods: a nasty, punk - as - fuck midnight movie made by a genuine artist, a filmmaker with a great eye and a true understanding of the people and places he's splattering in viscera.

Allen is celebrated more for his gifts behind the scenes and at his writing desk than in front of the camera, but he's a much better actor than most filmmakers.

Nothing can stop this new generation of gifted personal filmmakers, many of whom are making staggeringly beautiful films on limited or nonexistent budgets.

Coogler concluded his letter by thanking Black Panther everyone who contributed to the movie's thunderous debut:» For the people who bought out theaters, who posted on social [media] about how lit the film would be, bragged about our awesome cast, picked out outfits to wear, and who stood in line in theaters all over the world before even seeing the film... To the press who wrote about the film for folks who hadn't yet seen it, and encourage audiences to come out... And to the young ones, who came out with their parents, with their mentors, and with their friends... Thank you for giving our team of filmmakers the greatest gift: The opportunity to share this film, that we poured our hearts and souls into, with you.»

Shyamalan does possess the gifts to be a great filmmaker, and hopefully he realizes this and gets out of the rut of constantly trying to play the audience for fools before he is permanently labeled as little more than a one - trick pony.

Established directors and some of the world's most gifted emerging talent will make up the diverse roster of creative filmmakers that will showcase twenty - six tales of mortality, beginning with the letter A and ending with the letter Z.

In Part 9, the final post of her elementary student SEL series, filmmaker Randy Taran talks about what it means when students start using their gifts and passions to make a difference.

MHP are gifted filmmakers, with a very clear sense of how to tell a story so that an audience will be both draw - in and urged to action.»

Santa's gift bag is heavy with books celebrating enduring filmmakers, the making of a Golden Age screen classic, two beloved cult films and a toast to Hollywood's drinking circuit.

This gift of 635 photographs by New York - born modernist photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand, spanning his entire career, was made by three anonymous Canadian donors.

Drawing from a gift of 152 Polaroid and black and white photographs by Andy Warhol to the GW Permanent Collection, the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery will showcase a number of works by the legendary painter, photographer, printmaker, filmmaker and personality.

Julian Schnabel, a painter who is also a gifted and intuitive filmmaker, was himself an early champion of Van Vliet's canvases.