Sentences with phrase «greatest auteurs»

The first full day of screenings brought us news of Todd Haynes Wonderstruck which reunites one of the world's greatest auteurs with his earliest muse Julianne Moore, and other reportedly fine films.

Learning how Carpenter and cinematographer Dean Cundey pulled off those Steadicam shots, and essentially replicated an Illinois suburb in Los Angeles with little more than hand - painted «fall» leaves gave me a new appreciation for lo - fi aesthetics, and how the greatest auteurs took a dollar and made it five.

And elsewhere, smaller distributors like Kino Lorber, Olive Films, Flicker Alley, Twilight Time, Cohen Media Group, and Blue Underground, when not giving a necessary makeover to classics already in their impressive libraries, brought under - heralded films by our greatest auteurs and criminally unseen works by cinema's pioneers to home video for the first time.

Unlike Chaplin and Keaton, they were not themselves great auteur directors, or worked with any; the same could be said of Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers, but their respective phenomena overrided the impact of any decision - making body behind the camera, as a hurricane is to a weatherman.

If The Salesman borrows too liberally from Asghar Farhadi's masterpiece A Separation so be it (let's face it — all the great auteurs steal from themselves.

At the start of the year, the 29 - year - old was basically unknown: his first feature, musical «Guy And Madeline on a Park Bench,» had been well - liked but little - seen, and prior writing credits on 2013's contradictorily - titled «The Last Exorcism Part II» and Elijah Wood - starring B - movie «Grand Piano» didn't exactly suggest our next great auteur.

It's easy to see why Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice attracted the great auteur Paul Thomas Anderson, even if it is generally accepted that the novels of Pynchon are «unada...

The latest episode of Observations on Film Art, an exclusive Criterion Channel program that explores elements of cinema as used by great auteurs, features professor Kristin Thompson highlighting one device that has earned the film its permanent spot in the cinematic canon: Renoir's characteristically subtle yet elaborate staging.

Twenty talking heads taking turns to discuss the great auteur as inter-titles recount his biography in between sounds a bit boring, but Magnusson and Pallas» work is anything but — if not inventive, the film is well structured and funny, thanks to the charismatic speakers.

Most great auteurs have a dud (or five) somewhere in their filmography.

Breaking Dawn and the first Hunger Games movies are both being directed by great auteurs: Bill Condon and Gary Ross.

As with any great auteur, Jeff Nichols finds away to reinvent himself as a filmmaker with Mud: a wistful coming - of - age tale discernibly influenced by Huckelberry Finn and the early works of Terrence Malick.

Franco approached Wiseau for his life story rights and was surprised to discover that the only actor the great auteur wanted to portray him — beside Johnny Depp, that is — was Franco, probably because he'd played Wiseau's idol Dean.

Anderson has become one of the great auteurs in Hollywood and deserves all the success that comes his way.

While no costume could adequately convey the paradoxical, mysterious, or uproarious essence of the greatest auteur to ever walk the Earth, with just a few simple steps, guys and gals with long, dark tresses can put forth a commendable attempt to capture Tommy Wiseau's je ne sais quoi.

At 60, the great auteur was at the height of his fame and yet was unable to convince Paramount to finance his next film, «Psycho,» a story based on Robert Bloch's lurid novel about a serial killer.

Not only will this exhibition serve as an introduction to this artist's legendary work for younger viewers, it positions Schnabel as one of the great auteurs of the postwar period.

Not exact matches

Lister - Jones is also generous enough an auteur to allow for memorable moments from others, whether it's hilarious bits from the likes of Retta (as Anna and Ben's unlucky marriage counselor), Brooklyn Decker, and Jamie Chung; the escalating weirdness of Armisen (who was, of course, a seasoned indie - band drummer before he turned to acting and comedy); or a knockout dramatic scene between Pally and the great comedian Susie Essman as Ben's mother, who provides some invaluable advice.

After all, the 71 - year - old French auteur, whose film Beau Travail remains one of the great works of the last few decades, has taken an especially grim turn as of late, with movies like Bastards, White Material and The Intruder exploring some of the darker sides of contemporary humanity.

Thanks to Anchorman (2004) auteur Adam McKay's caustic comedy The Big Short, the events of the great economic meltdown of 2008 are beginning to make sense.

David Mamet may not be the visual stylist that Jean - Pierre Melville was, but in most other respects, his Redbelt is faithfully cast in the tradition of the great French auteur's Le Samouraï.

She became the go - to muse for the great European auteurs; a fetching moral compass for knotty psychological drama.

This auteur strategy extends to his new, second full - length record, the eagerly awaited Sirens, an ambitious and eclectic album that packs tons of ideas into its runtime and manages to pull them all off with a great deal of style.

Hooper, of course, also places a great deal of emphasis on his own flaws as a filmmaker, though perhaps not in the manner one might expect: Les Misérables seems, in his newly Oscar - carrying hands, an elaborate demo reel for his tics as self - styled auteur.

I'm not the only one who regards it as Lewton's greatest film, and I assume the main reason for its neglect is auteurist thinking — only directors are seen as auteurs — and the absence of stars.

One of the great pleasures of being an aficionado of auteur cinema lies in the process of gradually discovering a new world — a world created, brick by brick, film by film, by a director over time.

Having already sampled some of John Carpenter's bad «90s work, his largely derided return to feature filmmaking only sent me further in retreat, back to the «70s and «80s work that suggested him as one of the great, personal auteurs in an increasingly bloated mainstream landscape.

There's a great deal more veteran Metal Gear Solid talent hanging on at Konami than Kojima legging it with the studio name suggests, but it's under new leadership now, and with Kojima out the door it's probably going to have to get used to a new kind of production schedule without an auteur to wrangle deadline and budget blow outs from management.

Lucrecia Martel is one of the most exciting and unique filmmakers working today, but because her output has been so infrequent — «Zama» is her first narrative feature in nine years — she is often left out of the conversation of great international auteurs.

And the 1970s, as is well documented, was a decade deluged with great American auteurs — Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian DePalma, Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick, Alan Pakula, Martin Scorsese — and William Friedkin, amongst them.

The moving film earned its auteur great international success.

For those like me, this is a great time to be introduced into the prolific Indian auteur's best work, with restored versions of his films just released and an announcement that the films will show in 4k in New York and Los Angeles this summer.

An auteur who has become accustomed to creating magic on a shoestring budget, we're more than excited to see what she'll accomplish with the beloved children's novel A Wrinkle in Time (because keep in mind, DuVernay was the first name approached by Marvel to direct Black Panther, an offer she bypassed to focus on projects and material she felt more strongly about and which would allow her greater creative control).

While he works at a deliberate pace, Gray is an American auteur who should be considered among the contemporary greats but has failed to be completely recognized among the PTAs and Finchers of the world thus far, but «Lowlife,» formerly titled, «The Nightingale,» could change all that.

Having first come to people's attention with his screenplay for Amy Heckerling's Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Crowe went on to become the critically acclaimed auteur of films like Say Anything (which helped to launch the A-list credentials of John Cusack), Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous, which displayed not only his great abilities as a storyteller, but also his great taste in music, which he developed during his time as a writer with the iconic Rolling Stone magazine.

In her varied and long career, Moreau has worked with such legendary auteurs as Luis Buñuel, Michelangelo Antonioni, Orson Welles (who once called her «the greatest actress in the world»), and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and she continues to work today, in films by some of contemporary cinema's most revered names, such as Amos Gitai, Tsai Ming - liang, and François Ozon.

There's a great film somewhere in The Intern, and while the existing product is only partially successful, it makes for a far more fascinating excursion into female auteur cinema than its fluffy marketing campaign would lead you to expect.

But compared to the formal radicalism of earlier cinematic memoirs like Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and The Long Day Closes (1992), this latest film from the great British auteur continues more in the classical vein of recent films like The House of Mirth (2000) and The Deep Blue Sea (2011).

An archive of over 15 years» worth of film writing, which includes the extensive and unparalleled Great Directors collection, analysing the works of over 240 auteurs from the silent period to contemporary greats, and the extremely popular annual World Poll.

The Thin Red Line, arguably the greatest war film ever made, ended two decades of silence from Terrence Malick, cinema's wandering auteur.

Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.

Paul Thomas Anderson) The auteur reteaming with Daniel Day - Lewis, the world's greatest living actor (not up for debate) would be reason enough.

Rather than go full auteur on his formulaic material, McQuarrie instead offers a kind of greatest hits package: Rogue Nation marries the shifting loyalties of Brian De Palma's original to the kinetic action beats of John Woo's series nadir and the all - set - piece structure of Brad Bird's series zenith, adding an omnipotent villain not far removed from the one Philip Seymour Hoffman played in J.J. Abrams» entry.

A highly unconventional romance that came on the spike heels of Almodóvar's international sensation Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, this is a splashy, sexy central work in the career of one of the world's most beloved and provocative auteurs, radiantly shot by the director's great cinematographer, José Luis Alcaine.

While he may be a joke among some in the industry, action movie auteur Izu Ojukwu cites Ejiro as a model for success but has greater ambitions for himself: he embarks on the most expensive and ambitious film in Nigerian film history in the course of this profile, a project so big that it almost ruins him.

Directed by legendary auteur Zhang Yimou, incontestably one of the world's greatest living filmmakers, the man's list of classics including cinematic essentials like Raise the Red Lantern, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Ju Dou and To Live, the movie is a visual feast.

But he returned time and again to noir, almost as if he felt it his duty as a cinephile and disciple of the great Hollywood auteurs, especially his idol Alfred Hitchcock.

From an American perspective, the project certainly looks great, blending slick Hollywood - style technique with that restrained sense of storytelling so heartily encouraged among Euro auteurs, though the truth of the matter is the same film wouldn't necessarily stand out if unveiled at Sundance, despite a pair of punchy lead performances from young hotshots Adele Haenel and Kevin Azais.

With almost fourteen years lapsed since Whit Stillman's previous film Last Days of Disco closed out the trio of films that established him as mid -»90s indie auteur, his new film Damsels in Distress understandably attracts a great deal of anticipation, expectation, and perhaps hesitation.

A new film by French auteur Claire Denis (Beau Travail, 35 Shots of Rum, White Material) is always cause for great anticipation.