Sentences with phrase «greatest film directors»

In 1980, it must have seemed reasonable to include Francis Ford Coppola on even short lists of the greatest film directors who ever lived.

While Kore - eda's vision for this story about a woman's trauma was assuredly original, Roger was particularly excited about the obvious influence from Yasujiro Ozu, a filmmaker that Roger called «one of the four or five greatest film directors of all time.»

In a perfect demonstration that horror and trauma are the stuff of real, everyday life and not the macabre vision of fantasists, Cries and Whispers marked Bergman's recovery as one of Europe's greatest film directors.

We are fortunate enough to work with many great film directors, cinematographers, actors, scholars, and critics.

We present rare and rediscovered prints of movie classics, new and historic works by the world's great film directors, restored silent films with live musical accompaniment, thematic retrospectives, and innovative works made by today's film, video, and new media artists working in the areas of animation, documentary, experimental, and fiction film.

Italy spawned great film directors, the names of whom: Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini, Franco Zeffirelli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Leone and Roberto Benigni, spring effortlessly to mind.

Not exact matches

One of the great things about director Alejandro González Iñárritu is that no two of his films are the same.

Spielberg has since gone on to win a reputation as one of the greatest directors in history, but «ET» is most likely to remain his most beloved film.

The truly amazing part of the play's history is that it was originally conceived for the husband - wife film - star team of Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester 50 years ago, with the great director James Whale (the original Frankenstein) attached to helm the production.

First of all, Corbyn was filmed telling his communications director Seumas Milne: «Seumas, I'm not sure this is a great idea.»

Science Talk correspondent John Pavlus talks with Jon Amiel, director of the new Darwin biography movie Creation, and with Randal Keynes, Darwin's great - great - grandson and one of the film's scriptwriters.

Physicist Lawrence M. Krauss, science writer and film director Matthew Chapman (who is Charles Darwin's great — great - grandson), science philosopher Austin Dacey, science writer Chris Mooney, marine biologist Sheril Kirshenbaum and I decided to push for a presidential science debate.

Mathew Chapman is the great, great grandson of Charles Darwin, from whom he inherited his glorious English accent, but much more than that, he is an acclaimed author, Hollywood screenwriter, director and film producer.

Kendall Nelson, is a producer, director and activist who co-produced The Greater Good, an award - winning film that explores the controversy of vaccinations.

One day, David is mistaken for a well - known film director, and discovers people, especially women, seem a great deal more friendly toward him when they think he works in the movies.

Full marks to director Bille August for achieving the near - impossible: crafting a film about Nelson Mandela that threatens to send you to sleep and reduces the great man himself to mere background noise.

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For this great achievement in harrowing filmmaking the Academy awarded the film with seven Oscars, including ones for Best Picture and Best Director.

The fourth film, Goblet of Fire, was ably but unmemorably directed by Mike Newell (who, in a truly odd coincidence, is scheduled in 2012 to become, with Cuarón, the second Potter director to release an adaptation of Great Expectations).

With such supercharged material under the hood, a magnetic man behind the wheel and a nimble director manning the pits, Senna is simply the greatest sports film I have ever seen.

Rosenthal appeared in movies beginning in 1931, and he worked onscreen right up through The Big Clock in 1948, but most of his best work was concentrated in the early / mid -»40s in the films of writer / director Preston Sturges, who used the pianist / actor in various roles in his films from The Great McGinty (1940) through The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947).

I wasn't aware that the great actor / director made some pretty weak films over the years.

Filmed on location in Italy and Spain and shot in brilliant Todd - AO and Color and directed by the great British director Carol Reed, Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison (in their first and only film together) give two of the screen's best performances.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

Without a doubt, Friedkin is one of my all - time favorite directors, although it could be argued that he hasn't done a truly great film since 1985's TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA.

Clare Peploe, the wife of the great Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, was born in Tanzania, raised in Britain, educated at the Sorbonne and in Italy, began with her brother Mark as a writer on Antonioni's «Zabriskie Point,» and in addition to co-writing many of Bertolucci's films, has directed three of her own.

The Cabin in the Woods WOW it was a great film the actors and actresses are great the writers the directors, producers and everyone who was involved, The film has a understanding story im not going to give it away for anyone who has not seen it.

It's not a good film, but viewed from a cockeyed angle, it's a great guilty pleasure, and director Bill Condon is in on the joke.

It's clear that Killer's Kiss requires a great deal of patience from the viewer, as much of the movie's first half suffers from the feel of a rather unimpressive student film - with director Stanley Kubrick exacerbating this feeling by suffusing the proceedings with needlessly ostentatious visual choices.

It's with great pleasure, then, to see that director David Yates has handled all of the pressure in such fantastic fashion, delivering an unbelievably satisfying bookend that is not only Yates» finest entry yet, but one of the best films in the series.

From Czarist Russia's Moscow Art Theatre to Hollywood's biggest film, narrator Gregory Peck joins an A-list of Hollywood stars to take us through the odyssey of two Russian born Hollywood legends: The great acting teacher Michael Chekhov and the amazing director George Shdanoff.

You could say I'm being a bit harsh, but I can say that the director's vision and imagery for this film was great.

Contributing to screenplays for the great Polish directors Andrzej Wajda (Danton) and Krzysztof Kieslowski (Three Colors), Holland has spent most of the past quarter - century making films in the West, including adaptations of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and Henry James» Washington Square.

Second only to The Big Sleep as the best of the love birds» quartet of films together (the others were Dark Passage and Key Largo), it's yet another gem from Howard Hawks, still the most underrated of all great American directors.

Also, the film feels a little long and draggy at times, as if the great director John Landis was just very unfocused and unsure of how to use all of the great talent at hand to its fullest.

It is a film by Steven Spielberg, whom I've long considered the greatest director working today.

Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in every one of the director's movies.Originally trained at a technical school, Hitchcock gravitated to movies through art courses and advertising, and by the mid -»20s he was making his first films.

Schrader's chief influence here, as in many of his other films, is the great French director Robert Bresson, especially his «Diary of a Country Priest.»

The film's greatest liability is its director, Tony Scott, brother of Ridley Scott («Alien,» «Gladiator»).

It would be great if you could do something like post a section listing classic directors and their films, and perhaps point out how these films have influenced or directly inspired films your readers are fans of.

It marked the director's first collaboration with Grégoire Colin, a dark - eyed, arresting young actor whom Denis would also employ to great effect in both Nénette et Boni and Beau Travail.The former film, made in 1996, was another coming - of - age drama that centered on the relationship between a lovelorn young man (Colin) and his rebellious, pregnant 15 - year - old sister (Alice Houri).

The great writer / director Michael Haneke's ongoing commitment to an unblinking, deeply aware, and brutally honest cinema goes to new, more intimate and personal places in Amour, and while it's not always easy to watch (nor should it be; even at its most painful, it always feels precisely and ineffably right), it's tremendously moving and powerful in a way very, very few films are.

That Denis can produce a work that, without a trace of preciousness, is equal parts indebted to Barthes and Chicago blues, connected as arm is to shoulder to the film - historical legacy of post-New Wave French filmmaking, is only further justification for claim that the 71 - year - old is the greatest working director over the last two decades.

Director Paul Verhoeven, the mastermind behind so many great, giant camp films, made a large scale, NC - 17, satire on the world of the Las Vegas showgirl, but of course it wasn't meant to be funny.

Nashville (1975) is maverick director / producer Robert Altman's classic, multi-level, original, two and a half - hour epic study of American culture, show - business, leadership and politics - and one of the great American films of the 1970s.

The Sting is one of director's George Roy Hill's best films and it remains a classic of the genre due to the fact that it's simple, yet has a very well written script and is supported by a great cast.

Ang Lee is a great director whose last film, the Oscar - winning «Life of Pi,» made ingenious and very effective use of 3D technology.

It's a great - looking film, filled with wildly imaginative sets and costumes that would have done the Maestro proud, and veteran director Richard Fleischer (The Vikings) rises to the occasion with some sharply staged action scenes.

Critics Consensus: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill prove that charm, humor, and a few slick twists can add up to a great film.

Critic Consensus: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill prove that charm, humor, and a few slick twists can add up to a great film.