Sentences with phrase «indie auteurs»

Rodrigo Prieto's cinematography sets the gold standard for the hyperrealistic, gritty style that has influenced both indie auteurs and Hollywood films since.

While she's spent the past 22 years working with some of the most acclaimed indie auteurs, the release of «Irrational Man» this weekend finds the heralded «Queen of the Indies» hitting a milestone she never thought possible: A dream collaboration with Woody Allen.

Come January, there's no place a cinephile would rather be than the Sundance Film Festival, where scrappy indie auteurs jostle alongside an upcoming generation of heat - seekers.

The films of indie auteur Perry («Listen Up Philip») are known for a certain verbosity, but here there's no undertow, just bromides dressed up as profundities.

A work from one of Britain's most loved authors finds itself in the hands of American indie auteur Wes Anderson, best known for his arch and perfectionist takes on eccentric schemers and fractured family dynamics.

Persian - language vampire romance, the feature debut from American rising indie auteur Ana Lily Amirpour.

* It took an indie auteur, Christopher Nolan, to reboot the series 10 years later with Batman Begins.

The indie auteur behind such lauded films as Dead Man and Broken Flowers wades into the rich mythos of vampires to pick and choose what appeals to him.

He can flail and shout that he was an indie auteur crushed by the weight of the Hollywood studio.

The indie auteur reunites with Meek's Cutoff star Michelle Williams for a deeply - involving slow - burner also featuring Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern

As much as he protests it wasn't his intention, Jon Favreau's stripped down, strip steak sandwich of a film feels like an indie auteur who has been toiling in blockbuster land getting back to his roots.

All of this with Jim Jarmusch, indie auteur extraordinaire and the ultimate purveyor of modern disinterested cinematic cool, at the helm.

With the franchise safely re-established, Disney has now turned to indie auteur Rian Johnson (director of Looper and Brick) to shake things up.

Goat seems content enough to draw the line between frat house meatheads and pledges without giving either side real heart, emotions or drive, which is uniquely surprising since its written by indie auteur writer / director David Gordon Green (All the Pretty Girls, Pineapple Express) who normally imbues his projects with a sense of Southern trash poetry and striking teen angst.

The director discusses the winding path of his career from indie auteur to Hollywood's hottest director for hire.

Amazon announced Monday that it has added a comedy pilot, «Red Oaks,» executive produced by Soderbergh and directed by fellow indie auteur David Gordon Green, to its third annual pilot season.

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 lip - smacking and eager - eyed Bear Grylls has today thrown his unequivocal and unasked - for support behind The Witness, upcoming puzzle game from indie auteur Jonathan Blow, best known for his work with Braid and also his apparent habit...

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.

The fest's identity has always been indie and American: With one - of - a-kind auteurs Whit Stillman, Todd Solondz, Kenneth Lonergan and Ira Sachs (among many others) returning, this year's edition looks certain to deliver on its huge promise.

Unsane — *** OUT OF 4 Directed by Steven Soderbergh, the genius film auteur known for, quitting Hollywood, winning the Oscar for directing «Traffic», and whose film «Sex, Lies and Videotape» changed the industry outlook on «indie films», has produced a... Continue reading →

On one side of the coin, collaborations with indie filmmakers and esteemed auteurs like Bong Joon - ho, whose new film Okja plays in competition in this year's Cannes Film Festival, ensure that more and more diverse creative voices are being heard.

Indie - turned - Hollywood - blockbuster auteur David Lowery will have two films released in about six months (Pete's Dragon this past summer and Sundance - slotted A Ghost Story next week).

Boasting a staggering array of splashy premieres, the latest from a barrage of auteurs and a host of indie efforts that have hitherto flown below the radar but that could surprise in a big way, it feels like the TIFF 2013 program may be their most packed ever (though we seem to say that every year).

There are auteurs offering up work considerably below the bars they've set (Woody Allen and «Whatever Works,» Pedro Almodovar and «Broken Embraces»), as well as indie hopefuls that could make an unexpected splash, like «Frozen River» and «Away from Her» in years past (Guillermo Arriaga's «The Burning Plain,» for instance, or Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman's «The Messenger,» both extremely deserving).

A prankish comedy - thriller overtly about desperation and insecurity, Baghead begins with a dead - on Q&A at a Los Angeles indie film festival, where an underground auteur (Jett Garner) condescendingly responds on matters of budget and improvisation.

Their curious non-competitive status notwithstanding, these narrative and documentary premieres read like a wanna - see list for major indie names, either behind the camera or in front of it: movies you'd see whether it was the world premiere or not, with auteurs / filmmakers whose surnames stand on their own, like Solondz, Lonergan, Reichardt, Lee, Herzog, and much more.

Film - geek auteur projects, psychotronic fanboy - friendly blockbusters, over-the-top midnight movies, under - the - radar indie dramas and more music documentaries than you can shake a D.A. Pennebraker - approved stick at — the annual SXSW Film Festival (kicking off on March 10th) has always specialized in a sort of eclectic, lo - fi - meets - high - art - for - a-Shiner-Bock vibe when it comes to their programming.

Kelly Reichardt's debut film is a definite building block for the auteur and an entertaining entry into»90s indie film.

The film has a small $ 15 million budget and really, Warner Bros. doesn't play in that arena of small budget films, so it makes more sense at an indie and auteur minded arthouse shingle.

But his irreverent style also caught the attention of auteur indie directors like Alex Cox and Gregg Araki for whom he scored the films The Winner and Splendor.

Braff, best known to TV viewers for his lead role on the long - running, much - syndicated hospital comedy «Scrubs», graduated to auteur status as writer - director - star of the acclaimed, hit 2004 indie Garden State.

The Claire Foy - starring «Unsane» is not the first feature film to be shot on an iPhone («The Florida Project» auteur Sean Baker made 2015 indie darling «Tangerine» the same way), but it's the highest in profile by far, with distributor Bleecker Street rolling out its incongruously sparkling 4K resolution and scuzzy mental hospital aesthetic on more than 2,000 screens in North America.

With the exception of the Mighty Malick, a lot of the American indie up - and - comers (Jeff Nichols, Kelly Reichardt, Azazel Jacobs, Sean Durkin, Mike Mills, among others) were often doing more interesting things than the American old guard auteurs (Scorsese, Allen, I suppose we can even include Payne and Fincher here too).

Indie filmmakers are rarely given the keys to a big studio picture, but Warner Bros. has entrusted the auteur behind Monsters to revive Godzilla in the midst of the monster movie craze.

US auteur Sean Baker's slice - of - life indie has been generating a surprising amount of awards heat.

For those pining for the return Whit Stillman, the 1990s indie sensation whose trilogy of films, Metropolitan, Barcelona and Last Days of Disco carved out a lasting auteur niche in a decade full of American indie - breakouts, his first film in 13 years technically meets that basic criteria — he has made a film — but it is not exactly what the faithful might expect.

For my purposes, game auteurs do indeed exist, if only because some indie game designers view themselves as such, and many fans accept them as such.

One particularly illuminating example of the auteur school of indie game design is Jason Rohrer's Gravitation.

It's the idea of an «auteur» game made within a traditional structure (indie games are nearly always this way now).