Sentences with phrase «known as a filmmaker»

Know as the filmmaker's festival, MVFF welcomes more than 200 filmmakers and guests from around the world and has hosted such luminaries as Dustin Hoffman, Ang Lee, and Steve McQueen.

But traditionally he is known as a filmmaker and I wanted to highlight these other areas of his work beyond film.

Berlin - based Tacita Dean trained as a painter, but is best known as a filmmaker.

Babette Mangolte, well known as a filmmaker and as the cinematographer on a number of key films by Yvonne Rainer and Chantal Akerman (including Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles), was included in the Whitney exhibition The American Century; her Biennial contribution is a mixed media installation involving photography and a video that recreates an earlier installation from 1978.

Mr. Jafa (pronounced JAY - fa) is a polymath known as a filmmaker, cinematographer and theorist of black culture, specifically of the black body as both a creative force (especially in music and dance) and an object of white violence.

Not exact matches

«Your worst nightmare in the»90s as a filmmaker was that the studio would turn around and go, «You know what?

Dionne knew the filmmaker as Sam Bacile.

It's the first movie Gibson's directed in a decade, since he became more known for his racist rant during a DUI arrest and allegations of domestic abuse than his work as a filmmaker.

I'd like to let you know that I have created a (vegan) Haggadah inspired by the concept of Holistic Non-violence, as put forth by Tribe of Heart Filmmakers.

Well known for serving as the backdrop for hundreds of movies and a hub for all sorts of creative media companies that are headquartered there — including famous record labels like Universal Music Group and Interscope, filmmakers such as Miramax and Lionsgate Films, and a myriad of tech developers — creativity and ingenuity abounds in this Pacific paradise.

If you ask for the reason of such an article, maybe you should know that there are plenty of supposed experts who would use such a film, made by filmmakers and promoted by promotional people, as «scientific evidence» to «educate» pregnant women and couples about the risks of medicalized birth.

Donald Trump Jr. fired back at liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, who questioned whether Mar - a-Lago had opened as a shelter when Hurricane Irma hit the state, noting it's located on an island and in a mandatory evacuation zone, «probably not the best idea, but you know, narrative!»

The Democratic candidate, Aaron Woolf, is known as a documentary filmmaker from Brooklyn, but also has a home in the North Country.

«Filmmakers just know how to help you read on - screen emotions: Facial expressions are harder to read as distance and clutter increase.»

But as a filmmaker, Toni knew one way to get answers to her questions: she got out there and started asking them.

Yet as Funny Games and even his latest film, Amour, prove, Haneke is a genre filmmaker at heart, no matter how hard he might wish to deny it.

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).

While known for helming the drug filled drama «Hustle & Flow,» Brewer proved his talent as a filmmaker by capturing the rebellious feelings of the current high school generation in «Footloose.»

The white family who, like so many others at the time, flees from South Africa in The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat also draws empathy from the filmmaker, who as a resident of South Africa herself, realized that there were whole generations of Caucasian immigrants who knew no other home.

The result is not nearly as clever as director Tom McGrath (Madagascar) and a couple of inexperienced screenwriters (Alan Schoolcraft and Brent Simons) would have us believe, but I've got no doubt that audiences will nonetheless reward the minimal efforts coming from these filmmakers.

Die - hard fans will be thrilled with the extensive interviews and concert footage; as a more casual fan, after an hour I had learned almost everything I ever wanted to know about the man and was ready for the filmmakers to wrap it up — I was shocked to realize I was less than halfway through the movie.

But despite its dry - boned style, it also exudes the same sentimentality as so much of the filmmaker's other work, albeit perhaps in this case as a consequence of telling a story not only whose outcome we know, but feels unlikely to challenge audiences» own values or opinions about the events in question.

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

Then «Just a Guy Leaning on a Wall: Getting to Know Tommy» (7:12) obviously focuses on Wiseau, as a pointless on - set Q&A between Franco and Wiseau is supplemented by talking - heads with cast and crew and some of Wiseau's better - known admirers, as they explore the filmmaker's mystique and work.

Knowing this much, a different filmmaker might have set about structuring his story as a personal journey into his family's history.

Since Darwin is known to most people solely from his photo as the bearded, stern - faced eminence behind «The Origin of Species,» the filmmakers behind «Creation,» in attempting to give us the «real» Darwin, are practically inventing the wheel — or at least creating a new one.

I know Michael Bay makes «films for teenage boys» but as a filmmaker he has a moral duty to create a plot.

Perhaps best known as a photojournalist, Parks was also a novelist, poet, musician, and filmmaker.

But when writers and editors — or filmmakers and comedians — take the lifting of material handcuffs as a sign that the need to edit or withhold no longer exists, they quite literally dehumanize the creative process, removing the audience from the equation.

ADDENDUM: Another way of looking at it: Is there a filmmaker whose style is so recognizable that it could be parodied — and mainstream moviegoers, from their 20s to their 40s, would know what was being parodied, as was the case with Bergman, who was lampooned by the likes of «SCTV,» Woody Allen, and «Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey»?

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

As we became comfortable with the three - act formula and knew what to expect from a heist flick, filmmakers rose to the occasion.

At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay films of the 1950s and»60s; his five - film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune in terms of both drama and swordplay, yet remains little - known in the West (despite its availability on DVD in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others) in 2008, most of Uchida's films remained unscreened and undistributed in America, so with MOMA's bigger series recently ending, it's time again to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video to bring out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.

Terry Jones — one of the most prominent members of the comedy team known as Monty Python — has an intense admiration for the legendary comic filmmaker Jacques Tati that is, according to him, not shared by the rest of his collective.

He deflected the question with a Sundance veteran's skill, saying he was inspired by American filmmakers such as Sam Peckinpah, a director known for making violence felt on the big screen.

Terry Jones — one of the most prominent members of the comedy team known as Monty Python — has an intense admiration for the legendary comic filmmaker Jacques Tati that is, according to him, not...

You see, what makes Medium Cool special is that director Haskell Wexler, who is better known as a cinematographer and documentary filmmaker, combined fictional drama and actors with real life events.

The late filmmaker is not as widely known as many of his contemporaries, but was an important figure in France's cinema from the 1960s through to the 1990s.

Criterion's output has come to be known over the years as «film school in a box» by fans and filmmakers alike.

It had been known that the filmmakers wanted to skew younger with the cast of the film, but fans love when these actors reprise their roles as their characters.

In its prime, Searchlight could walk into any major film festival as every filmmaker's fantasy buyer, knowing that it could scoop up whatever it wanted.

I thought I knew a great deal about Ford, but, as taught by talented filmmaker and learned film scholar Michael G. Smith, the courses proved to be a revelation.

Occasionally, a filmmaker will still be given major leeway to reinvent a well - known character or franchise (as Christopher Nolan was for his Batman films), but more often — whether it's Twilight or The Hunger Games or The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — the clear mandate is to cater to the base, and Les Mis is no exception.

Linas Phillips is probably better known to fans of American indie cinema as an actor than as a filmmaker.

Written by the English screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, who many may know as the scribe behind The Full Monty, Boyle has blended this romantic fable with his own, frenetic style and some nods towards a Bollywood aesthetic in order to create the Scottish filmmaker's most accessible work to date.

Outside Oz, Australian filmmaker Claire McCarthy is known primarily for her 2009 film The Waiting City, starring Radha Mitchell and Joel Edgerton as a couple in disarray as they travel to India to take delivery of a child they have adopted.

Given that the plot motor is Thanos's worry that the universe is overpopulated, sly self - awareness is shown as the filmmakers embrace drastic solutions to the problems of braiding multiple franchises into one — though some jiggery - pokery with Dr Strange's time - juggling amulet (and Cumberbatch's knowing line readings) suggest any shocking plot developments can be rolled back later, especially with sequels in development for characters who seem to be permanently written out in a tragic finale that's also an old - fashioned cliffhanger.

The Art Of Getting By, formerly known as Homework, was both written and directed by up - and - coming filmmaker Gavin Wiesen, who's making his feature debut after a short film in 2008 called Kill the Day.

This isn't meant to come off as to say it's just a Carpenter ripoff, because it has plenty of fun, original stuff in there, but the opening credits definitely know you could trust the tastes of the filmmakers.

The filmmaker doesn't seem to know how to shoot a natural conversation, as the film is full of weird, shapeless interactions in which everyone is just rambling.