Sentences with phrase «idiosyncratic filmmaker»

Most people seemed to love it, but there were some of the usual grumbles that it looked like more of the same from the idiosyncratic filmmaker.

Yet both are the work of a highly idiosyncratic filmmaker, his strong command of cinematic language elevating them above the status of filmed plays.

Not exact matches

Schrader has said that he knows his obituaries will read, «Writer of Taxi Driver,» despite his own idiosyncratic career as a filmmaker.

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.

Perhaps most of all, the movie is a reminder that there are few contemporary American filmmakers quite like Anderson, who, after the dazzling Altmanesque panoramas of «Boogie Nights» and «Magnolia,» has followed his instincts in ever more feverish and idiosyncratic directions.

Regardless, both films would make an ideal double feature on the idiosyncratic ways a filmmaker can re-invent the biographical drama and stir our perspectives during the process.

Whether or not it takes an Eddie Mannix type to keep this wacky train on the rails in 2016, I am quite happy that filmmakers such as these get to keep gliding along in their own idiosyncratic fashion.

However, when a film is so idiosyncratic, stylized, and unique, the filmmaker is taking a chance that the audience will be into exactly those things, which isn't always the case.

Anderson has made it no secret that Isle of Dogs is his own idiosyncratic salute to the collective works of iconic Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Rashomon), so the hope is that the movie will also be culturally sensitive in its westernized take on Japanese cinema tropes.

The best indie filmmakers, meanwhile, fuse those elements into their own idiosyncratic visions.

How can it not when you have a filmmaker as uncompromisingly idiosyncratic as Wes Anderson, and especially here, when he is in complete control?

Australian filmmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse (How to Make an American Quilt) directs and co-writes (with her husband and fellow filmmaker P.J. Hogan, Muriel's Wedding) this idiosyncratic tragi - comedy based on Rosalie Ham's novel of the same name.