Sentences with phrase «house film director»

Not exact matches

When legendary film director Martin Scorsese expressed interest in executive producing Verdi and Kraft's biopic about world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza, called Bleed for This, Verdi was out of town, but sent the then 22 - year - old Kraft to Scorsese's house to take the meeting.

Iranian directors made intellectual films under the decadent and «Westoxicated» shah, and the country's art - house scene flourished even as the vulgar Film Farsi melodramas also found an audience.

«Noah» director Darren Arnofsky's previous films have included the art - house hits «Black Swan» and «The Wrestler.»

Marketing Director, Amy White said «To support this Sky Sport sponsorship, we have filmed a set of new Mud House idents, starring five legends of rugby who have either played for, or against, the Lions.

Director Andrew Waller and screenwriter Erik Lindsay constantly (and consistently) aim Beta House squarely at the lowest common denominator, as the film possesses plenty of lewd elements designed to appeal to precisely the sort of drunken frat boys it exclusively portrays.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

And though Reiner appeared to retire from directing following That Old Feeling, he still maintained a notable presence in film and television with roles in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven and it's two sequels, House M.D., Hot in Cleveland, and Parks and Rec.Carl Reiner is the father of directors Rob Reiner and Lucas Reiner; his wife Estelle has enjoyed a latter - day career as a night club singer and as a cameo performer in her son Rob's films (she's the lady who says, «I'll have what she's having!»

Anyone who pays even the faintest bit of attention to the behind - the - scenes goings - on in Hollywood must be aware that its original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller — the guys behind The LEGO Movie and 21 Jump Street — had a creative disagreement with Lucasfilm, leaving the film in the safe - as - cotton - wool - padded - houses hands of Ron Howard (a close chum of one George Lucas).

If you like silly horror films, then you'll most likely want to watch this film.Veteran horror director Steve Miner (Friday The 13th Part 2, 3, House, Halloween H20) directs this film with wit, and Minder definitely knows how to craft a good, fun, B movie style creature film.

Director, Producer, and Actor Kasi Lemmons had the film world buzzing in 1997 when her feature - length debut «Eve's Bayou» hit art - house screens and racked up film festival awards along the way.

Said Focus World touting the feature:» Focus World acquired writer / director Julia Ducournau's Raw out of Cannes where we fell in love with her bold and original voice and the genre - bending style; Raw is a film that both hard - core genre fans and art - house audiences will absolutely love.»

The metaphorical sentiment of the film is clear: Director Reginald Hudlin, who splashed on the scene with «House Party» in 1990, wants viewers to see Thurgood Marshall as «The Black Superman,» ready to rip out a giant letter «M» on his chest whenever injustice is near.

In development as far back as 1988 by «House On Haunted Hill» director William Malone, the film circled development hell at MGM for a decade, with «Romper Stomper» director Geoffrey Wright briefly attached, before Hill eventually stepped in, rewriting the script (without apparently knowing that his studio bosses were happier with the previous version).

During last month's 7th Annual Deadline's The Contenders awards season event at the DGA Theatre he joined me on stage with his director Joe Wright to discuss the film and the towering performance in front of a packed house of AMPAS and key guild members.

Its director, Tom McGrath, talked to Flickering Myth's Freda Cooper about why he wanted to make the film — and why the «micro manager» doesn't intentionally look like the current occupant of The White House.

Moreover, in what's arguably a more brazen case of cinematic larceny, director Daniel Espinosa, best - known for the 2012 thriller Safe House, swipes his anti-gravity stylistics from Alfonso Cuarón, opening the film with a single, very long, VFX - heavy take that sends the camera around in gentle swoops from character to floating character as the space station itself tumbles slowly around its axis.

Photographed and their work described in intertitles are writers, directors, actors, casting, extras, wardrobe, cameramen, still photographers, production manager, drafting and construction, orchestra, the power house, lighting, dancers, film lab, publicity, and the studio barbershop, restaurant, and hospital.

[Watch the trailer for true story - inspired The Disappointments Room right HERE] Disturbia director D.J. Caruso returns to the horror genre with a haunted house film that was inspired by true events in The Disappointments Room, a psychological thriller that they are saying is in the same vein as The Shining.

Stay tuned for more on The House That Jack Built, plus one of my most anticipated films of the festival: It Follows director David Robert Mitchell's reportedly strange L.A. noir, Under The Silver Lake.

I was thrilled that the trophy for Director, Motion Picture went to the maker of a different film, Guillermo Del Toro, for one of my favorites of 2017, the highly imaginative art house horror The Shape of Water.

My Life as a Dog: Criterion Collection Unrated Available on DVD and Blu - ray Swedish with English Subtitles Before cranking out hit films like The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, Swedish director Lasse Holstrom hit the scene big - time with this little indie about a boy who goes on a journey of discovery when he is sent away to give his dying mother some rest.

Needless to say, if Ava Duvernay wins Best Director or Selma wins Best Picture it will bring the house down but there's still no guarantee the film got in for Best Picture with the Academy.

House of the Long Shadows (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu - ray, DVD), directed by Pete Walker, stars Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing, along with John Carradine and Desi Arnaz Jr., and the disc features separate commentary tracks by director Pete Walker and film historian David Del Valle and an interview with Walker.

A24 has revealed a new trailer for the suspense - horror indie film titled The Blackcoat's Daughter, from writer / director Oz Perkins, who also made the horror I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House from last year.

And the film truly is beautiful, certainly the most visually stunning martial arts movie ever made, which is saying a lot given the recent competition of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (# 1, 2000) and director Zhang Yimou's own follow - up to Hero, The House Of Flying Daggers.

The next time someone chooses to make another house under siege film, let's hope that the director chooses to do what so very few have done before — give us some character development before putting them in front of a loaded pistol.

Third - week films Prisoners (4th: $ 5.7 million, $ 47.8 million) and Rush (5th: $ 4.5 million, $ 18.2 million) finished with mild totals despite housing A-list actors Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal in the former and Olivia Wilde and Chris Hemsworth along with director Ron Howard in the latter.

The Last House On the Left remake director Dennis Iliadis not only has He's Out There arriving later this year, but he also quietly filmed Delirium...

Remaking hit Japanese horror movies (a la «The Ring») is Hollywood's latest plan to rake in big bucks without actually having to be creative or original — and while «The Grudge» is nothing more than a cultural twist on the standard - issue haunted house movie, I will give credit to director Takashi Shimizu (remaking his own film «Ju - On») for giving me goosebumps.

Tennant isn't in the house, but most of the film's major players are: Anton Yelchin, playing the hero Charley Brewster; Colin Farrell as Jerry Dandridge, the vampire next door; Imogen Poots as Charley's new girlfriend Amy; and director Craig Gillespie, screenwriter Marti Noxon and effects guru Howard Berger.

Wiazemsky continued to act in art - house films by other avant - garde directors, including Marco Ferreri, Alain Tanner, Marcel Hanoun and Philippe Garrel, and in works by mainstream directors such as Pierre Granier - Deferre and Michel Deville.

The traditional climbing of the steps was a political moment for the cast and producer of the Russian film Leto (Summer), in competition at the 71st Cannes Film Festival: its director, Kirill Serebrennikov, has been under house arrest in Russia since August of last year, on charges of corruption.

Director John Bonito's film is a fun guilty pleasure for the crowd that worships Patrick Swayze's «Road House.»

We are just weeks away from the start of filming of A&E's pilot episode of Bates Motel with Lost, Heroes, and House M.D. director Tucker Gates at the helm.

Good Morning (The Criterion Collection), set in a suburban Tokyo housing complex in the late 1950s, is one of director Yasujiro Ozu's lighter films, telling the story of how two schoolboys disrupt their entire neighborhood by going on a silence strike because their parents refuse to buy a television.

With filming getting underway today, it has been announced that Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson, Terence Stamp, Stefanie Martini and Honor Keafsey have joined Max Irons and Glenn Close in director Gilles Paquet - Brenner (Sarah's Key) adaptation of Agatha Christie's Crooked House.

But unlike other dark comedies to make the jump («Mean Girls» director Mark Waters» «The House of Yes» comes to mind), Finley displays a natural cinematic instinct, treating the baroque, marble - lined mansion where the film principally unfolds not as a closed - in set, but a kind of tiger sanctuary, prowling the location in long, restless takes — whether it's stalking an SUV up the gravel driveway or lurking behind a door jam, carving knife in hand, while two characters stare each other down in the adjacent room.

The first image has arrived online from The House That Jack Built, the next film from Nymphomaniac director Lars von Trier, which stars Matt Dillon as a serial killer called Jack.

Consider the art house credentials behind this film: besides Vitti: director Joseph Losey, known for his collaborations with Harold Pinter («The Servant,» «Accident»); Terence Stamp, fresh off his disturbing turn in William Wyler's «The Collector,» which won him a best actor award at Cannes; and Dirk Bogarde, the onetime matinee idol who had grown into an adventurous, risk - taking actor.

«Marshall» is helmed by a television director, who only returns to features films after forgotten slapstick comedies «The Ladies Man» and «House Party» from the 90's.

In «Horror 101: The Exclusive Seminar» (10:27), director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell separately discuss their philosophies for the film, putting new spins on the haunted house and possession genres and doing certain things differently from other modern movies.

Antoine Fuqua is no great director, however he did manage to have the better of the two White House attack films in 2013.

Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon plays the great 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson in the new film from British director Terence Davies, of Sunset Song and House of Mirth renown

A pair of filmmakers try to work with director Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust, House on the Edge of the Park) to pull off a horror film based on realism.

That's down to Don Mancini, the writer and director of the original film who plots out a new chapter in the pint - sized killer's story which begins with Chucky arriving at the house of a young paraplegic woman.

The Japanese director will be there in person for a Q&A during this special presentation, which also includes a House - themed party after the film.

The film titled The House That Jack Built is headlined by Matt Dillon as a serial killer and now Thurman has joined proceedings too, reuniting with her Nymphomaniac director.

Daggers, however, is director Zhang Yimou's follow - up to the callowly beautiful Hero and, like that movie and a number of others (Ashes of Time, Bride with the White Hair, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill, Zatoichi, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, and, in a way, Goodbye Dragon Inn), it belongs to a martial arts / art - house genre of films by hip young directors upgrading genres they loved as teenagers - «martial arts plus.»

It's the second feature by director Paul McGuigan, who made the nifty little cult film The Acid House (1998).

Director Harrison Smith's Death House looks like it's going to be one of the most fun and exciting horror films in a long time, and is...