Sentences with phrase «great film artists»

Unlike many of the directors on this list, German emigre Ernest Lubitsch was one of the great film artists who was recognized in his time.

The first great film artist to pursue the ineffable in cinema, Dreyer gave depth to what early silent filmmakers innately underst...

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Whether it's the collage artist who consciously dumps scraps into disorderly boxes or the film editor who prefers old - fashioned editing technology that forces him to scroll through more footage to find the clip he thought he was looking for, all these artistic greats understand that disorder has one exceptionally valuable side effect — more serendipity.

Inside Llewyn Davis — a film about a talented artist whose work never quite gets the commercial recognition it deserves — was woefully snubbed is the Oscars, which is one of the great life - imitating - art...

I received some great makeup tips from Eva Antoniadou, makeup artist for celebrities, film and TV recently launched a cruelty - free, vegan makeup line.

The «motherland» of the greatest fashion designers creating the most fancy projects, film producers headhunting for the new faces and the most talented makeup artists creating unforgettable makeups.

The Disaster Artist deservingly stands in the great tradition of films about filmmaking, both doc and docudrama.

The AV Club's Noel Murray also sees «a beautiful and rewarding film,» while Slant admits, «This may be a feather - light doodle, but it's a ravishingly beautiful one by a great artist in second gear.»

Those are key questions, but the film avoids them completely, as well as ducking the fertile possibilities of an artist meeting her creation... and the question of whether death is an acceptable price to pay for great literature.

For the release of the film, Reel FX Creative Studios, Relativity Media and Odd City Entertainment teamed up to produce a great screen print from one of our favorite artists, Graham Erwin!

As Howard, the great John Goodman creates one of the most chilling screen personalities in recent memory; having spent the last decade energising support parts in Argo, The Artist, Flight and Inside Llewellyn Davis, the actor gets to dominate a film with subtle, multi-tiered character work.

But ultimately that's what's great about his filmmaking, and The Raid 2 in particular: Where the first film felt like a gritty, hardcore tribute to the martial artists and films that inspired it, this one blooms more fully, not only feeling like its own entity, but offering much thrills that are significantly more democratic.

All the film seems willing to go to the mat for, is to tick off a laundry list off the artist's lifetime accomplishments and why the filmmaker deems her to be a great artist and a role model for Mexican women.

Released: December 1 Cast: James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Alison Brie Director: James Franco (The Sound and the Fury) Why it's great: There are no half - measures with Tommy Wiseau, the failed actor / secret millionaire behind the notoriously awful cult drama The Room, and there are no half - measures in The Disaster Artist, James Franco's dramatic telling of the film's bizarre backstory.

When artists make films about artists, they too often portray them as misunderstood geniuses, whose personal torment and torturous indulgences are the price we may for their great works.

All the supporting characters do a great job in the film, especially Michael Angarano who perfectly walks the line between a sleazy, phony artist and a sensitive guy who doesn't kid himself.

The film is directed by Michael J. Bassett (Solomon Kane, Deathwatch), and features original cast members Sean Bean (HBO's Game Of Thrones, Lord Of The Rings) and Deborah Kara Unger (The Game, 88 minutes, The Samaritan) return in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, starring along with rising stars Adelaide Clemens (X-Men Origins, upcoming The Great Gatsby, No One Lives) and Kit Harington (HBO's Game Of Thrones) as well as Carrie - Anne Moss (The Matrix, Disturbia, NBC's Chuck) and Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, The Artist).

The tagline nails the tone of the film: «On August 21, 1970 two of America's greatest recording artists met for the first time.»

Afterimage: The great Polish director Andrzej Wajda's final film, and one of his best, features a towering performance by Boguslaw Linda as a real - life Polish avant - garde artist suffering for his intransigence under Communism.

Why every film fan should know and remember Vilmos Zsigmond, one of cinema's greatest artists... This is a found - footage documentary exploring the work of cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond who died on the 1st January this year.

The Disaster Artist also makes good, possibly great art out of a film considered by many the worst film ever made (Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space excepted).

The magic of the movies depends on a suspension of disbelief, and behind each great film are the countless artists and craftspeople who have trained their talents on transporting us to another world.

You don't come here to celebrate music; in fact, for a lot of the film's running time, you might wonder if Chazelle even likes music, spending a good portion of the story questioning whether the extent artists chase after the elusive goal of being «one of the greats» is worth the finishing result.

Serkis is great but the film is a familiar freak show of hardship and ego run amok: a mad man of a singer - songwriter who, physically crippled by childhood polio that left an arm and a leg emaciated and nearly useless, blasts his way to stardom with cheeky lyrics and a stage act heavy on theater, while off stage fails as a husband (to artist Olivia Williams, tired of his self - involved existence), father (to impressionable son Bill Milner) and boyfriend (to adoring Naomie Harris).

While I'm a great admirer of Barker as an artist and a person and Atkins is apparently a lifelong friend of his, Atkins seems something of a prat — constantly fishing for compliments for his largely incoherent work here, and pontificating on the extent to which the film was misunderstood.

Focus was great because the film takes place in New Orleans and Argentina, so the directors wanted to bring that sound to the movie, so I got exposed to all kinds of different artists from probably the greatest two musical locations in the world!»

Those scenes liken this film to 2011's Best Picture winner The Artist and it's far from the only great subsequent comedy you're reminded of here.

Although The Disaster Artist maintains a great reverence for The Room, the film can be seen as a funny comedy about how such true - to - life absurdities can be a catalyst for such a terrible yet mesmerising piece of art.

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami does what any great music does, making a film that's on its own engaging and remarkable without already being a fan of the artist captured.

The authenticity of Wiseau and The Room are celebrated throughout The Disaster Artist, which offers great insight into the production of the infamous film.

The film has a small, intimate feel to it exploring the pained life and quirky antics of a great artist, which is becoming increasingly common these days (e.g. Inside Llewyn Davis, Maudie, Mr. Turner, Love & Mercy).

Examples of those this year include the coming - of - age cannibal film «Raw» and «The Disaster Artist,» an apparent great film about the making of one of the worst films ever made.

Claude Lelouch)-- World Premiere A successful film composer (Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin, The Artist) falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet, in this glorious romantic drama from the great French director Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman).

SCREEN - SPACE honours the work of one of the film community's greatest unsung artists with eight posters from Bill Gold's eight decades of sublime cinema marketing...

So if you'd like a better idea of whatever this filming experience turned out to be, you can listen to some of Wiseau's greatest Room hits below, and then imagine Franco directing the likes of Seth Rogen, Bryan Cranston, and Sharon Stone — yes, they're all in The Disaster Artist — while attempting to create such a distinct, likely distracting impersonation.

One filmmaker I was very excited to meet was Ray Harryhausen, the great stop - motion animation artist whose many film works brought realistic dinosaurs and a variety of other gigantic, threatening creatures to the big screen, many of them wreaking havoc on American shores, during the 1950s,»60s and»70s, as well as one last extravaganza in the early 1980s.

The Disaster Artist tells the true story of the making of his film, The Room, which has been lauded by «fans» as the greatest bad movie ever made.

Through intimate and honest conversations with Jodorowsky, filmed over the span of three years, plus interviews with legends and luminaries including H.R. Giger (artist, ALIEN), Gary Kurtz (producer, STAR WARS) and Nicolas Winding Refn (director, DRIVE and THE NEON DEMON), as well as never - before - seen realizations of Jodo's mind - blowing psychedelic space opera, director Pavich's film finally unearths the full saga of «THE GREATEST MOVIE NEVER MADE».

If the great and influential Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti was anything like the character portrayed by Geoffrey Rush in «Final Portrait,» they could have come up with another title for the film.

So I don't know if I'd really spin it on Blur for the sake of selling the film, but I would say that [the film] has got a great soundtrack with lots of cool indie artists in it.»

In this one - hour, nine - minute, two - second show, we hear from Fricke, Ebsen, composers / lyricists Marc Shaiman and Stephen Schwartz, author's great - great - grandson Robert A. Baum, film critic Michael Sragow, film historians Leonard Maltin and Sam Wasson, filmmakers William Friedkin and Rob Marshall, Bert Lahr's son John, actors Ruth Duccini and Margaret Pelligrini, author William Wellman, Jr., costume designer Ruth Myers, makeup artist Charles H. Schram, cinematographer Peter Deming, visual effects supervisor Craig Barron, sound designer Ben Burtt,

5:45 p.m. — 6:45 p.m.: THE DISASTER ARTIST»S JAMES FRANCO AND DAVE FRANCO Actor - director James Franco and his brother, actor Dave Franco, join Vulture Festival to discuss their new film, The Disaster Artist, about the making of the modern cult - classic The Room (known to its many fans as the greatest bad movie of all ARTIST»S JAMES FRANCO AND DAVE FRANCO Actor - director James Franco and his brother, actor Dave Franco, join Vulture Festival to discuss their new film, The Disaster Artist, about the making of the modern cult - classic The Room (known to its many fans as the greatest bad movie of all Artist, about the making of the modern cult - classic The Room (known to its many fans as the greatest bad movie of all time).

The Disaster Artist explores the «it's so bad, it's good» idiosyncrasies of «The Room,» reinforcing its place as one of the greatest cult phenomena in modern film history.

In which James Franco takes a break from book - report moviemaking, makes a great film about a strong contender for the worst film ever made, and proves he's actually capable of being an artist behind the camera.

The always - great Toni Collette does possibly the best work of her career as Annie Graham, an artist (she designs miniature models that often replicate her own home life, which is clearly a reference to a filmmaker producing a film that he's admitted comes from his own personal life) and mother of two.

The main lineup may be lighter on films that could figure into the Oscar race than in some recent years; it won't likely have as much of a U.S. awards presence as it did in 2011, when Best Picture nominees «The Tree of Life,» «The Artist» and «Midnight in Paris» all screened in Cannes, or last year, when «Nebraska,» «Inside Llewyn Davis,» «The Great Beauty,» «Fruitvale Station,» «All Is Lost» and «The Great Gatsby» were part of the program.

British film director Steve McQueen's 2008 debut film, Hunger, is notable for many reasons: It is a great film, a great debut film, uses an innovative narrative structure, uses interesting cinematography in concert with its soundtrack, makes the best use of ambient sound to have the best non-musical soundtrack I've heard in a long time (if not ever), is the work of a black artist that is not obsessed with black only topics, and shows a maturity and grace that goes beyond even the first films of directors like David Gordon Green, in George Washington, and Terrence Malick, in Badlands.

Founded in 2001 by composer Elmer Bernstein, the Film Music Foundation has supported the Film Music Program since 2013, which aims to foster greater appreciation for film composition and greater diversity among artists who are pursuing film composition as a viable, sustainable career path and an opportunity to reach wide audiences.

The most interesting revelation is that while the film's spectacular visuals were crafted with great care by the directors and artists, perhaps the most attention was paid to the acting performances of their drawn characters.

The artist called the most «Japanese» of Japanese directors, famous for the quiet restraint and rigorous simplicity of his sound films, was a voracious film buff more interested in Hollywood movies than his own national cinema early in his career and he thrived in a great variety of genres.