Sentences with phrase «known film directors»

Police in Paris are investigating a rape allegation made against Luc Besson, one of France's best - known film directors.

One day, David is mistaken for a well - known film director, and discovers people, especially women, seem a great deal more friendly toward him when they think he works in the movies.

David Yates is not the best - known film director in the world, but he has been at the helm of four of the most successful.

David Lynch is a well - known film director but has also expressed his creative impulses in other media from his early years: painting, photography, animation, and sculpture as well as film.

Not exact matches

«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.

Disney and Marvel obviously know what they're doing with superhero movies — they've brought some of the biggest franchises to screen — however, at the same time, making every single film need to fit inside the already established franchise starts to limit the amount of creative license any one director can have on future characters as Marvel's Cinematic Universe only grows larger.

«And the consequence of that is that the director [of the film], the person responsible, was not coming into the room in a defensive posture knowing that this group could screw him over,» Catmull said.

Some of its best - known alumni include President Woodrow Wilson, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and film director Wes Craven.

Gibney, a prolific documentary director who most recently made waves with his scathing film on The Church of Scientology, «Going Clear,» is not known for pulling punches.

Be it Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna in 2006 or Ae Dil Hai Mushkil in 2016, director Karan Johar's films are known for their snazzy...

The actor (and now director) best known for his work in films including Juno and Scott Pilgrim and, of course, as George...

The actor (and now director) best known for his work in films including Juno and Scott Pilgrim and, of course, as George Michael Bluth on Arrested Development, will co-star alongside John Hawkes (Winter» sBone) in a new half - hour comedy from creator Charlie Kaufman.

Cyril Charzat, Senior Director, Global Heineken Brand, added: «In the film, our «man of the world» brings to life the powerful idea that there are no limits, when you know your limits.

When I made it for a large group of chefs, foodies, nutritionists, dietitians, a marketing maven, art director and budding film school student, everyone wanted to know about the recipe and the nutritionist and the dietitian were torn between who was going to get to take the leftovers home.

The biggest crisis of his film career came when he was cast as a cab driver; he was behind the wheel before the director discovered Abe didn't know how to drive.

You know a party's election campaign is getting serious when they unveil a presidential - style film by a leading Hollywood director.

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

Although best known as the director of the cult classic films Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and the television series Twin Peaks, David Lynch is also a painter and designer.

But it's good to know that I'm not alone in my horror: Director Luke Gilford has skewered the extreme ends of «wellness» in his new short film Connected, starring Pam Anderson as Jackie, a lonely spinning instructor who wants to feel more, well, connected — so she joins a wellness cult and gets wifi shot into her brain so that Jane Fonda (no, really, she does a voiceover cameo) can tell her how «limitless» she is all the time.

But it's good to know that I'm not alone in my horror: Director Luke Gilford has skewered the extreme ends of «wellness» in his new short film

I did a term in film studies at college, and I like to know details, so actors / actresses names, directors, film scores.

It's a throwback to that more innocent kind of film, where you know who's good and who's bad, where you boo the villain and cheer the hero... The movie makes fun of those clichés, but director George Lucas must love them too, because he makes them work.

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).

Just like director / writer Lorene Scafaria's last film, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, the soundtrack really works, as it's filled with songs that you should be listening to when life as you know it is ending, such as The Sun Ain't Gon na Shine Anymore by the Walker Brothers, The Air That I Breathe by The Hollies, and This Guy's in Love With You by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

Director Sylvain White, whose last film was the equally unnecessary I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, manages to take the joy out of a dance movie by jerking the camera around and speeding up the dance moves so much.

Every time the film makes some sense, the sweaty and sleepless face of Belushi invades in close - up and we know it «s only a matter of time before director Peerce will make us privy to the comic «s needless death.

As many of you know, I loathe Part 1, as a fan of the books I was looking forward to seeing how this all ends but Director David Yates is a putz who ruined the film franchise and disappointed me every single time.

Although not known for enjoying interviews, Clifford was keenly interested in film history and made appearances in two documentaries on the subject: the 1984 Ulster Television program A Seat in the Stars: The Cinema and Ireland and historian Anthony Slide's ground - breaking The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors.

Perez, and directors Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, also know that the tightly controlled light comedy taking place among the film's ensemble only works if the chaos it's contrasted against isn't truly chaotic.

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.

I know for a fact that the film is being judged for it's director and not it's content, which sucks because it's a good addition to the series, and the confirmed 4th film is looking to be even better!

Boasting perhaps the strongest supporting characters yet among Marvel titles, director Ryan Coogler's visually dynamic film should transform a lesser - known comic - book hero into a household name.

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.

The strong, decidedly unconventional conclusion confirms Paths of Glory's place as a fairly striking drama from Kubrick, with the film ultimately faring better than the director's next few (and far more well - known) endeavors.

If we didn't know how quickly director Steven Spielberg made the film, we'd think all of these moments are simply coincidences.

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.

Viewers of «Django Unchained» should know exactly what they're getting before they walk in the theater, but for those who are uninitiated to the director's style or the genre of the film, please proceed with extreme caution.

Without ruining anything in the nearly two - hour film (if you know the history, I am too late,) I can say it is an ambitious sequel, has its moments, yet does not always have the energy or flow of the first film despite the return of the same director.

Maybe then, if some of them become become directors, they won't just be ripping off Tarantino and P.T. Anderson and causing Roger Ebert to write worried commentaries about the state of modern film, but will know the source that it all comes from

For all of its simplemindedness and deck stacking, the film is distressingly well made — Pollack is no artist, but he has a glistening technique (there aren't many American directors left who know how to plan their shots for such smooth cutting) and a strong sense of how to hold, cajole, and gratify an audience.

Writer / director Taika Waititi is known for cozy comedies like Eagle vs Shark; his previous film, What We Do in the Shadows, was a hilarious take on vampires with Jemaine Clement.

Director Johannes Roberts begins the film with a synth - infused version of Kim Wilde's «Kids in America» and retro title styling, letting the audience know what decade of horror we're in for, even if the characters are blissfully unaware of what's coming.

Ford became best known for his Westerns, of which he made dozens through the 1920s, but he didn't achieve status as a major director until the mid -»30s, when his films for RKO (The Lost Patrol [1934], The Informer [1935]-RRB-, 20th Century Fox (Young Mr. Lincoln [1939], The Grapes of Wrath [1940]-RRB-, and Walter Wanger (Stagecoach [1939]-RRB-, won over the public, the critics, and earned various Oscars and Academy nominations.

by Alan K. Rode Academy Award ® - winning director Michael Curtiz (1886 - 1962)-- whose best - known films include Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945) and White Christmas (1954)-- was in many ways the anti-auteur.

Director Robert Zemeckis displays such dazzling cinematic know - how that it's genuinely depressing when this film falls off into the usual self - ridicule.

The film is based on the book by Laura Hillenbrand on Zamperini, the Coen brothers are co-scriptwriters, and Roger Deakins (No Country for Old Men, True Grit) is the director of photography.

Released smack in the middle of the»70s, Nashville would become the director's most decorated effort and, contrary to IMDb's «Known for» section, one of the films Altman is best remembered for today.

Poor Jannie... I do nt know if the David Self script simply blew or the horror - terror - scare beats were simply missed by inferior directing, but this flat film really only has a audience comprised of architecture students, and art directors.

Siemasko's film career slowedThough not among Hollywood's best known supporting actors, Casey Siemaszko (pronounced Sheh - MA - zshko) has worked with some of Tinseltown's most important directors.

That's because the film was at one time known as «Nailed» and was shot by Oscar - nominated «The Fighter,» «Silver Linings Playbook» and «American Hustle» director David O. Russell, for whom the seemingly non-existent Greene is a pseudonym.