Sentences with phrase «growing as a filmmaker»

I have transformed and grown as a filmmaker and editor because of Glossed and Found.

Burton's fanatics will once again have reason to rejoice, as he has crafted another animated fantasy that definitely delivers in quality, although some of his more critical fans may feel that he is stepping back rather than growing as a filmmaker with this entry.

Alex Moreland talks to Doug Liman about The Wall, growing as a filmmaker, and more... Could you tell us a little bit about the development of the movie?

Watching Rian Johnson grow as a filmmaker, I truly believe he continues to mature as a storyteller with each film, and it's unquestionably evident here in Looper.

In many ways, Feig has grown as a filmmaker.

«Director Jesse Peretz seems to be growing as a filmmaker, and he's got such a solid foundation in the form of the script by Tamara Jenkins and Jim Taylor that it gives him plenty of room to work,» writes Drew McWeeny.

Here are eight tracks from other films that the director used exquisitely and helped him grow as a filmmaker.

To say that fashion designer Tom Ford has grown as a filmmaker since A Single Man (2009) would be a dangerous understatement.

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It was a gathering place for filmmakers, artists, writers, musicians and techies that started as a messageboard and grew to become a giltzy hub from which people could launch creative collaborations.

It's clear almost immediately that filmmaker Shawn Levy just doesn't have the right sensibility for this material, as the director, known for his fluffy, decidedly comedic offerings, has infused This Is Where I Leave You with a terminally lightweight feel that grows more and more problematic as time progresses - as the absence of authentically heartfelt moments ultimately proves disastrous (ie the film possesses the feel of a glorified sitcom, for the most part).

It's a promising setup that's employed to curiously (and consistently) uninvolving effect by director Stanley Kubrick, as the filmmaker, working from a script cowritten with Terry Southern and Peter George, proves unable to wholeheartedly capture the viewer's interest right from the get - go - with the movie suffering from a stagy, talky vibe that grows more and more problematic as time progresses.

It's a seemingly foolproof premise that's employed to distinctly (and consistently) underwhelming effect by director Johannes Roberts, as the filmmaker, working from a screenplay cowritten with Noel Clarke, Dave Fairbanks, and Marc Small, offers up a narrative that's been jam - packed with generic, hackneyed elements that slowly - but - surely drain one's interest - with, for example, the movie's absence of sympathetic characters growing more and more problematic as time progresses.

Filmmakers John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein have infused Vacation with an almost aggressively episodic narrative that grows more and more problematic as time progresses, as the movie suffers from a hit / miss ratio that is, to an increasingly palpable extent, far more miss than hit and it does consequently become awfully difficult to work up any genuine interest in the protagonists» continuing exploits.

Though often consigned by Hollywood's typecasting system to workaday villain roles, Kenneth Tobey has not be forgotten by filmmakers who grew up watching his horror - flick endeavors of the 1950s; he has been afforded key cameo roles in such latter - day shockers as Strange Invaders (1983) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and in 1985 he reprised his Thing From Another World character in The Attack of the B - Movie Monsters.

There's consequently a lack of momentum here that grows more and more pronounced as time slowly progresses, while the movie's anti-climactic final stretch ensures that Snowden ends on as underwhelming and forgettable a note as one could envision - which ultimately confirms the movie's place as a tremendously disappointing missed opportunity and yet another subpar effort from a once - vital filmmaker.

In his growing years as a feature filmmaker, Arcand would alternate between fiction films and documentaries, at times combining the two in such efforts as 1975's Gina.

As a filmmaker, here he drew on his own experiences growing up in Hamburg, Germany, the son of Turkish immigrants.

Given In Good Company's small - screen aesthetic, it's ironic that Weitz lets out a sigh of relief that Grace (late of «That»70s Show») didn't need to break any «TV habits,» although he has grown enough as a filmmaker to have developed theories of camera movement, such as that left - to - right pans possess a more «melancholy air.»

It risks a late detour into magic realism and comes out the other end as an even stronger and more idiosyncratic piece of work — and, thanks to Mortensen's presence, a possible international breakthrough for a filmmaker whose cult could stand to grow a little going forward.

Swanberg is the wife of mumblecore director Joe Swanberg, and she is growing nicely as a filmmaker herself.

Filmmaker Tim Chambers has infused the proceedings with a palpably routine feel that grows more and more problematic as time progresses, with one's ongoing efforts at embracing the characters and their exploits consistently stymied by the total lack of surprises within Chambers» screenplay.

There's little doubt that Real Time's admittedly intriguing premise initially seems as though it's going to be squandered by writer / director Randall Cole, as the filmmaker generally stresses hopelessly quirky situations and conversations that grow increasingly tiresome as the movie progresses.

Fans of «Garden State» will also notice that although Braff hasn't matured much as a filmmaker — he stills relies on indie rock - fueled montages and eccentric visual gags — «Wish I Was Here» is a more grown - up movie thematically, exploring a range of topics like morality, sacrifice, family and fatherhood.

But through it all, he has grown as an artist, evolving before our eyes into this incredible filmmaker.

The project first germinated around the time of Sightseers and earns its «long - awaited» tag courtesy of some fine looking promos and Wheatley's ever - growing reputation as a master filmmaker in the making.

Despite quality thespians and an acclaimed filmmaker in Atom Egoyan (Ararat) at the helm, The Captive, which deals with a child abduction and pornography ring, ends up being none of these things, and subsequently, I felt myself growing increasingly associating my experience with that of its title as part of a «Captive audience», yearning for the sweet hereafter of the closing credits to release me.

Now at 21, she's worked with many of the greatest filmmakers, including Wes Anderson, Peter Jackson and Peter Weir, shared the screen with Cate Blanchett and Bill Murray, and continues to grow as an international box office draw.

She remembers Gortner as the high - energy den leader of the cast, on a shoot that ran far too long, and discloses that co-star Ida Lupino — herself a budget filmmaker of some renown — grew so fed up with the schedule that she wrote a death scene for her character, browbeat Gordon into filming it that very day, and went home.

Directed by tough as nails filmmaker Marielle Heller, the film is not afraid to showcase the awkward bits of pains that come with growing up.

The Slumdog Millionaire filmmaker will direct the show, comprising a sequence of monologues adapted by writers such as Sir David Hare, Neil LaBute and James Graham, retelling the first - hand accounts of 15 young children growing up in the rural township of Rammulotsi, South Africa.

While Jeff's «backyard Spielberg» narrative reflects Elliott's early directorial flare, the bawdy adult exploits in Swinging Safari capture the essence of the filmmaker's grown - up career output, as a maelstrom of sexual tension sweeps through the neighbourhood in the wake of a failed spouse - swapping incident.

Since his passing, his reputation as a master filmmaker has only grown, with more and...

And now Ben Affleck is having second thoughts directing The Batman, having realized that taking on stories of a much larger magnitude may not be something he is capable of yet as a growing filmmaker.

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.

The four films included in this box set offer a terrifically concentrated insight into the rapid development of one of the great filmmakers, showing off his grounding in theatrical character insight even as the growing technical sophistication between films hints at visual splendor to come.

It's pretty well known that filmmaker Richard Linklater and his four central actors — Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke as the parents, Lorelei Linklater (the director's daughter) as the older sister, and Ellar Coltrane as Mason — shot the film over the course of 12 years to watch not just Mason but everyone in the fictional family grow up and evolve over time.

It's now common knowledge that filmmaker Richard Linklater and his four central actors — Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke as the parents, Lorelei Linklater (the director's daughter) as the older sister, and Ellar Coltrane as Mason — shot the film over the course of 12 years to watch not just Mason but everyone in the fictional family grow up and evolve over time.

It's been three years since director Todd Phillips released the critically derided final installment in his «Hangover» trilogy, and in that time, his aspirations as a filmmaker have clearly grown.

Taking over the reins from original writer / director Bryan Bertino (who returns as a co-writer alongside The Forest scribe Ben Ketai), 47 Meters Down filmmaker Johannes Roberts crafts an eerie, unsettling mood that grows increasingly suspenseful as the violence escalates and Kinsey and her family begin to run out of options.

Can you imagine when she grows even more as a filmmaker?

But the character and the world fit perfectly with the stories he always loved — first as a comic - book fan growing up in Oakland, and later as an aspiring student filmmaker at USC.

Sometimes the best documentaries are unlooked for stories that surprise both the audience and the filmmaker, and this is part of understanding the wonderful experience of watching [email protected] Director Stephen Walker set out to create a BBC tv documentary, perhaps covering some of the ground of previous documentaries about the [email protected] chorus, and yet his film has grown legs and achieved international release as a feature film.

Wes Anderson, as a young man growing up in Texas, had a dream of becoming a filmmaker.

Miraculously, against all odds, the hardy trio not only survives but ultimately flourishes, as we learn in a closing credits postscript that matriarch Mariana eventually remarried and had another daughter, that her stoic, young son grew up to become a successful college administrator, and that little Paola became a brilliant filmmaker who fashioned this uplifting bio-pic as a cinematic tribute to her beloved mother.

How has the experience of growing up and living in this state inform your sensibilities as a filmmaker?

As digital animation grows more advanced each year, big - time filmmakers like James Cameron and JJ Abrams are embracing the (relatively) new form of acting known as motion capture performancAs digital animation grows more advanced each year, big - time filmmakers like James Cameron and JJ Abrams are embracing the (relatively) new form of acting known as motion capture performancas motion capture performance.

But just as it was the generation that grew up on comic books that made the best comic book movies, filmmakers like 26 - year - old Josh Trank are starting to arrive, who grew up with games as a key part of their cultural upbringing.

While Levy is best known as a director of hit comedies and family films, his production company 21 Laps Entertainment has grown immensely over recent years, with a slate of film and TV projects encompassing multiple genres and collaborating with the most renowned filmmakers.

Filmmaker Dave Meinert adopted her anyway, and decided to film her daily as she grew up.