Sentences with phrase «last film directed»

Seven years have passed since «Sideways,» the last film directed by Alexander Payne, but he's back with «The Descendants,» which opens the Lone Star International Film Festival in Ft. Worth tonight.

Not exact matches

In fact, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was the first woman to direct a superhero movie and the film ended up as the highest - grossing movie ever helmed by a woman (along with being last year's third - highest grossing film domestically).

Despite all the attention paid lately to the lack of gender diversity in the role, the portion of films directed by women declined last year, to just 7 %.

And in this new Hollywood, Scorsese directed some the best films of the 1970s and 1980s, including Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and concert documentary The Last Waltz.

The actor is set to star in a film directed by veteran stunt coordinator Nick Powell (The Bourne Identity, X-Men: The Last Stand, Cinderella Man), which centers on Frank Walsh (Cage), a big game hunter for zoos who has booked passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white jaguar.

The film is part of a curious new trend of British works on American racial issues, following last year's British - directed 12 Years a Slave.

He said the last movie he saw was «Lincoln» — the 2012 film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Daniel Day - Lewis as the nation's 16th president.

The Tribeca Film Festival and its cofounder Robert De Niro came under intense fire last week for their decision to screen Vaxxed: From Cover - Up to Catastrophe, a film directed by disgraced gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield.

Last Chance Harvey is a 2008 British - American romantic drama film written and directed by Joel Hopkins.

Followers of the movies probably have a good idea, too, but knowing what happens in this, the eighth and last film adaptation - the fourth straight directed by David Yates - doesn't lessen the wallop.

The film lacks any kind of real «action», which makes it a departure from Mann's other work like Heat or Last of the Mohicans, but it still feels like an action movie because of the aggressive way in which Mann directs it.

Escape from Alcatraz was the last of five films that Don Siegel directed with Clint Eastwood, and it's the end of an impeccable track record.

The films don't feel like cynical cash - cow milking sessions but like chapters in an unfolding story, each one (especially the last four in the series, directed by David Yates) establishing the necessary framework for the next.

Robert Zemeckis has been spending time in the motion capture lab the last few years directing The Polar Express 61, Beowulf 59, and A Christmas Carol 55, but he's returning to live - action film directing for the first time since 2000's Cast Away 73 with Flight.

Steve Cochran's last film project, Tell Me in the Sunlight (which he had produced, directed, written, scored and starred in back in 1964), was reedited and released posthumously.

Though Vanilla Sky's sometimes surreal trappings found the film receiving a mixed reception at the box office, the same could not be said for the following year's massively successful sci - fi chase film Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg, or of the historical epic The Last Samurai, directed by Edward Zwick.For his next film, Cruise picked a role unlike any he'd ever played; starring as a sociopathic hitman in the Michael Mann psychological thriller Collateral.

Lelio, who also directed the excellent «Gloria» and last year's Oscar winner for best foreign film, «A Fantastic Woman,» never shortchanges the desire or the faith, a neat balancing act between the competing elements at the heart of Disobedience, and the success of which makes it so compelling and worthwhile.

Returning to direct are the Russo brothers, responsible for the last two Captain America films, which had a breadth of plot and relative seriousness of ambition not universally shared in the mythos.

Appearing primarily in European films in his last years, Conte directed the Yugoslavian - filmed Operation Cross Eagles.

Full Metal Jacket, produced, directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, is not an easy film to watch, but from the first frame to the last, it is a riveting one.

Clooney proves again that he knows how to direct intelligent films that rely on a great dialogue, and this intriguing character study is gripping from the first scene to the last, centered on a brilliant political battle and with an intense performance by the always fantastic Ryan Gosling.

Even after the film's last half - hour descends into a silly season, Mr. Rudolph writes and directs with obvious affection for his characters and with a deep knowledge of whatever makes them tick.

Since then, he has directed critically acclaimed, award - winning films including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Silence.

Better known in the last few years for directing episodes of such shows as The Wire, Treme, and the American version of The Killing, Agnieszka Holland returns to her native Poland for another film of hers concerning the plight of people during the Second World War.

Mike Newell, whose last two films couldn't be more different (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 50 and Love in the Time of Cholera 47) directs this latest adaptation of Charles Dickens» classic novel.

The film was directed by Wes Craven, a master of horror, whose credits include «Last House on the Left,» «Swamp Thing» and the original «A Nightmare on Elm Street.»

If you don't recognize the name of Seth Gordon, he also directed one of my favourite documentaries of the last decade — The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters — and I can't wait to see what he ends up doing with a full narrative film.

There's some promise in the fact that Devil's Knot was directed by Atom Egoyan, whose last great film, 1997's The Sweet Hereafter, dealt with a town grieving a collective loss.

The film is one of two competing movies about the rivalry between the two electrical giants, with Morten Tyldum directing The Last Days of Night, which has Eddie Redmayne attached to play Westinghouse's lawyer Paul Cravath.

Shot last year, the film (a USA / France / Czech Republic co-production) is directed by Ian Edelman (HBO's «How to Make It in America»), with a story that follows 2 detectives working in NYPD's Luxury Goods Recovery Unit, who are responsible for taking down bootleggers selling knockoff consumer items.

All that said, how many times have we come here with pessimism, only to watch giant deals for films like the $ 10 million Netflix paid for Mudbound last year, or the whopping price Paramount paid for the Chris Rock - directed Top Five several Toronto fests ago?

We are reportedly in the last days of production for the 2015 film written and directed by Woody Allen.

Given that the Russo brothers are also directing the Infinity War films after Captain America: Civil War, look forward to a lot of Blu - ray commentary tracks by this creative team, saying things like, «Well, as anyone who saw the fleeting shot of Starfox at the 35:42 mark of the last film knows...»

Schrader wrote or co-wrote screenplays for Martin Scorsese's «Taxi Driver,» «Raging Bull,» and «The Last Temptation of Christ» and has directed 18 feature films, including «American Gigolo,» «Affliction,» «Auto Focus,» and «The Canyons.»

In 2011, when Kevin Smith released his last feature film, Red State, he announced (with his usual long - windedness) that he'd be retiring from film directing after completing one more film.

Heading into the holiday season, executives across distribution and film finance had a strong feeling that this reboot of Jumanji directed by Jake Kasdan would serve as strong counter-programming to Disney's Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

The film, also titled Youth in Revolt, is adapted from the book by screen writer Gustin Nash who made a minor splash last year with Charlie Bartlett (our review), directed by Miguel Arteta and stars Michael Cera in the title role of Nick.

Anderson wrote and directed it, with Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, who scored the last three PTA films (There Will Be Blood, The Master, and Inherent Vice) returning to write the score.

Being a movie, the only way of winning her back is to get back in shape and back into the ring, one last time... It's directed by Antoine Fuqua and was originally conceived as a vehicle for Eminem; the rapper didn't end up appearing in the film but has contributed to the soundtrack album.

Those numbers are up from last year, when less than 40 % films were directed by women and less than 30 % by people of color.

Aussie power couple Craig and Christine Gillespie — he directed the forthcoming Tonya Harding biopic I, Tonya — are also very firmly on Team Eve, and they invited her to a screening of the film in LA last week rather than Ewan.

As written and directed by Landesman (a former journalist who has written for The Atlantic), the movie has the same blunt competence of his last film, Concussion, and sees Liam Neeson playing Felt as a warrior for political sanity in an age of back - stabbing chaos.

With several years having passed since the last feature film, someone has decided to dust off the cobwebs and give Paul W.S. Anderson a shot at directing the famous plot.

The studio released a statement finally proclaiming that Singer will no longer direct the project after clashes with star Rami Malek («Mr. Robot») and numerous absences that shut down filming last week.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

In 2004 he directed his last film project, The Brooke Ellison Story, about the life of another paraplegic.

We spoke about directing Stephen Lang, channeling (and rejecting) cinematic influences, and how the film's best scene was the result of a last - minute on - set rewrite.

After writing and directing indies such as Gummo, Julien Donkey - boy, Ken Park and Trash Humpers, Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers was one of last year's most talked about films, with his work in that film expected to help him lure in even more A-list talent for this revenge film.

After the impact of these two features (the latter screening at Cannes and championed by such critics as Pauline Kael), Schepisi moved on to directing films overseas, including such varied works as Barbarosa (1982), Plenty (1985), Roxanne (1987), The Russia House (1990), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Last Orders (2001) and the HBO - financed Empire Falls (2005), which won a Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television.

Eddie Redmayne has reportedly signed on the dotted line to play the mail lead of Newt Scamander in the Warner Bros film which will be directed by David Yates who helmed the last four, and arguably the best, Harry Potter films.