Sentences with phrase «known as a screenwriter»

Gia isn't hagiography, I'll give it that, but it is reductive to a fault; once known as a screenwriter with a literary bent, having risen to the challenge of distilling novels by no less than John Updike and Tom Wolfe, Cristofer turned into a sensationalist when he started directing, and virtually anything that's not an exploitation staple is relegated to the margins in Gia — not to mention in Cristofer's sophomore efforts Body Shots and Original Sin.

Raised a strict Dutch Calvinist and best known as the screenwriter of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver — another portrait of a bristling lone wolf — Schrader inevitably got around to including a priest in this unofficial series of films.

James Vanderbilt has been primarily known as a screenwriter for many years, having written everything from superhero movies (THE AMAZING SPIDER - MAN), to serial killer thrillers (ZODIAC), to action - adventures (WHITE HOUSE DOWN).

Although perhaps best known as the screenwriter of Martin Scorsese's Oscar - winning 1976 film Taxi Driver, Paul Schrader has gone on to become a distinctive director in his own right since the late 1970s.

Still best known as the screenwriter of Taxi Driver (1976), veteran director Paul Schrader indulges his two big passions — Calvinism and bloodletting — with this audacious drama.

Release date: May 18 Cast: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer Directed by: Paul Schrader (Auto Focus) Why we're excited: Paul Schrader is perhaps best known as screenwriter of Martin Scorsese classics like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, but he's also had an equally compelling career as a director of his own hard - edged, morally complex films like Hardcore and Affliction.

Rosemary's Baby found favour only in the Best Supporting Actress category, where Ruth Gordon — a 72 - year - old acting neophyte better known as a screenwriter — snagged the prize for her hysterical portrayal of a buttinsky neighbour who leads a coven of Upper West Side witches.

This is middlebrow Pacino, heartwarming but not especially emotional, written and directed by Dan Fogelman in his debut as a director — though Fogelman is well known as a screenwriter for such works as «Crazy Stupid Love,» also starring a middle - aged man, but that one trying to recover from his wife's asking for a divorce by picking up girls in bars.

The younger Joffe is primarily known as a screenwriter, having worked within the British film industry since Last Resort in 2000.

Not exact matches

To be fair to the screenwriters, we can also see that the Mad Men were, compared to us, pretty classy and creative, weren't afraid to let themselves go and have those multiple kids, and generally knew how to handle themselves as ladies and gentlemen better than we do.

Imagine that, and you'll know how I felt after reading Ron Fimrite's story on The Natural (A Star with Real Clout, May 7), in which you portray Roger Towne as the sole screenwriter.

Bill is a comedian and actor and probably best known for his work on SNL (Saturday Night Live), while Maggie is a behind the scenes girl as a director and screenwriter.

Mayor Kathy Sheehan: «He is best known as a novelist, but he's also an historian, a journalist, a critic, an essayist, a poet, a philosopher, a screenwriter, a playwright and a treasured friend and colleague to many.

Scotland About Blog This is the Official Website of Joanne Rowling, who writes under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, film and television producer, screenwriter and philanthropist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series.

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.

Biography: Sarah is a Canadian actress, singer, film director and screenwriter, better known for her role as Sarah Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea.

Sarah is a Canadian actress, singer, film director and screenwriter, better known for her role as Sarah Stanley in the Canadian television series, Road to Avonlea.

Screenwriter William Monahan knows that arrogance and a deprecating sense of humor matter just as much as the size of your gun in the macho world of cops and the mafia, and the characters are well - armed.

Ben Affleck certainly knows how to shoot himself as a director, and how to shoot himself in the foot as a screenwriter.

Joel David Coen and Ethan Jesse Coen known informally as the Coen brothers, are Academy Award winning American film directors, screenwriters, producers, and editors.

The screenwriters really keep the momentum going as you never know where the movie is going or what's going to happen next.

Love & Mercy, co-written by Oscar ® nominated screenwriter Oren Moverman, also stars Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti, and is directed by Bill Pohlad, known as the Academy Award ® - nominated producer for such bold films as Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, Sean Penn's Into the Wild and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain.

Screenwriter Kevin Williamson's follow - up to Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer ultimately comes off as a prototypical teen slasher that unapologetically emphasizes many of the conventions and clichés lampooned within his 1996 debut.

Don't think for a second that director Francis Lawrence and screenwriters Danny Strong and Peter Craig didn't know what they were doing with what some have diminished as a «placeholder» in the series.

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.

Back in 2010, Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal were coming off their Oscar wins for The Hurt Locker, and turning their attention to the crime drama Triple Frontier (also known as Sleeping Dogs).

Co-writer William Condon may be better known as Bill Condon, the Oscar - winning screenwriter and outstanding director in his own right.

Sure, Sarah Thorp's script is definitely the real problem with why this twisty crime drama fails, but Kaufman is a seasoned veteran as a screenwriter as well, and definitely should have known that this premise just wasn't going to fly.

Smartly, the filmmakers — who include screenwriters Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon (the latter directed the live - action Beauty and the Beast and Dreamgirls and wrote the film version of Chicago)-- also know how to keep a four - quadrant family musical from sinking into Chitty territory by employing devices that also will please the Broadway crowd, particularly the Bob Fosse - like opening number as well as sensational choreography throughout.

Garland's science - fiction chamber piece — his first film as director, and fifth as screenwriter, after 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go and Dredd — starts from the premise that no one knows us better than our internet browsers, then turns that queasy intimacy inside out.

Though the director didn't know it when he cast him, Chalamet is the grandson of screenwriter Harold Flender, who wrote for Sid Caesar (as did Allen, Mel Brooks, and Carl Reiner, among others) and The Jackie Gleason Show in the 1950s.

As previously mentioned, Black is known more as a screenwriter than a director, having written scripts for Lethal Weapon 1 and 2 as well as The Monster Squad, Last Action Hero and The Last BoyscouAs previously mentioned, Black is known more as a screenwriter than a director, having written scripts for Lethal Weapon 1 and 2 as well as The Monster Squad, Last Action Hero and The Last Boyscouas a screenwriter than a director, having written scripts for Lethal Weapon 1 and 2 as well as The Monster Squad, Last Action Hero and The Last Boyscouas well as The Monster Squad, Last Action Hero and The Last Boyscouas The Monster Squad, Last Action Hero and The Last Boyscout.

So we're really rather glad that Frank Miller, otherwise known in the screenwriting world for the «Robocop» sequels and for gifting other screenwriters with comic book fodder in «Elektra,» «Sin City,» «300» and his gritty take on Batman, chose «The Spirit» as his solo directorial debut (he's credited as co-director with Robert Rodriguez on «Sin City» but we believe that even less now having seen what he did when left to his own devices).

The 1982 comedy «Fast Times at Ridgemont High» is the prototypical coming - of - age guy flick best known for enduring stoner - surfer archetype Jeff Spicoli, played by future Oscar winner Sean Penn, the image of a topless Phoebe Cates and as the introduction to the amiable zen of screenwriter Cameron Crowe, who would go on to create such bro - riffic tales as «Say Anything,» «Singles,» «Jerry Maguire» and «Almost Famous.»

I knew the film was something about water and California; I'd even heard screenwriter Robert Towne speak a few years ago, at a New Yorker Festival event, about his famous screenplay, now held up by many as the model for screenplays.

This all comes off as more interesting in the synopsizing than in the actual telling; screenwriter Peter Landesman («Parkland») and director Michael Cuesta («L.I.E.,» the «Homeland» pilot) bobble their portrayal of journalism early on — you'll flinch if you know the first thing about newspaper captions or the inverted - pyramid style of reportage — and they (along with Renner) never make Webb a captivating enough character to follow through the ups and downs of this saga.

Director Francis Ford Coppola, a known liberal, plainly saw the scene as disturbing, but screenwriter John Milius, a known hawk, has often suggested that he saw it as a hoot.

Sam Shepard has spent a lot of time on movie sets as the screenwriter as well as the star, so he knows what he's talking about.

It marks the directorial debut of Oscar - winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who is best known for works such as A Few Good Men, The Social Network, and Steve Jobs.

The dance sequence is key to understanding what probably happened in the film, as it's so deeply stupid and self - contradicting that you can only think the screenwriter (David Leslie Johnson (Orphan)-RRB- had it one way and Hardwicke thought it would be cooler - looking all, y» know, heathen - y and shit with masks and a laurel crown on a wolf's head and stuff.

A cartoonist, novelist and screenwriter, Alex Garland, who's most commonly known for writing films such as The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd, has now made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a sci - fi cautionary tale that challenges viewers with a variety of existential questions in regards to artificial intelligence.

Mary Harron: A Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter, known for her socially - conscious independent films such as I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) about Valerie Solanas» life that led up to her failed assassination attempt of Warhol, and The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), a film about the 1950s pinup model who became a cult icon of sexuality and helped popularize pornography.

Screenwriter David Collard is more familiar with inspirational sports drama formula than he is with military life, and as the adage says, write what you know.

A joint effort between a company known as The Collective and (of course) our friends at Bloody Disgusting, «BD Selects» hit screens of various sizes with solid acquisitions like Yellowbrickroad, Rammbock, Cold Fish, Atrocious, and (especially) The Woman, but it's nice to see the BD Selects team casting a wider net and reeling in some weirdly likable horror / comedies like Deadgirl / Cheap Thrills screenwriter Trent Haaga's Chop.

But screenwriter Lamar Trotti and Ford place Lincoln in a strange place between all other men; he's a mediator that knows how to treat those less fortunate and less educated, as well as those who occupy positions of power.

The screenwriters love him as much as they no longer love Woody Allen.

Kazuo Ishiguro is credited as an executive producer on Never Let Me Go and novelist / screenwriter Alex Garland (best known for The Beach and the script for 28 Days Later) is credited as writer.

Chartering the life of this little - known tale is Stephen Gaghan («Syriana»), who has always excelled as a screenwriter and whose few turns as a director have been greatly rewarding.

And if you missed our previous coverage, be sure to check out my interview with screenwriter Michael Bacall as well as Brendan's set visit coverage including 21 things to know with clips and new images, and interviews with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, Dave Franco, Brie Larson, directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, and producer Neal Moritz.

Jeff Wadlow is an American director, screenwriter, and producer, who is most known as the writer and director of the superhero comedy film, Kick - Ass 2.