Sentences with phrase «last time filmmaker»

The last time filmmaker Nick Park graced our screens, it was with the most recent «Wallace & Gromit» animated short, «A Matter of Loaf and Death» (2008), although he did co-write the wonderful 2015 «Shaun the Sheep Movie.»

Not exact matches

Malin Akerman was spotted having a whale of a good time while at the Apple Soho Store for the «Meet the Filmmaker» event for her upcoming film last Tuesday night.

The first time we hear Etta James crooning «At Last» in Let the Sunshine In — the surprising new romantic comedy by French filmmaker Claire Denis — it's ill - timed background music drifting through a bar as the love - hungry artist Isabelle (Juliette Binoche) is getting her heart broken.

The big winner: Winter Sleep, a three hour, sixteen minute long Turkish film from filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who last brought his masterful Once Upon a Time in Anatolia to Cannes a few years ago.

This is the time of the Ottoman Empire's last days as various nations become mired in World War I. International upheaval, as viewed from the intimate vantage point of a historical figure as enchanting and modern feeling as Bell, gives the filmmakers a variety of avenues to explore.

Lousy box office and middling - to - poor reviews ensure that these filmmakers probably won't get carte blanche next time out, and while their results aren't quite strong enough to place on my legit best - of list, the auteur madness sure was fun while it lasted.

Ketchum and O'Rourke come off as goons for being impressed by this, particularly when O'Rourke follows up her observation by comparing The Lost to The Sixth Sense (which she says was directed by «that guy whose last name everybody always mispronounces») as one of those films where you pick up stuff that the filmmaker has hidden in plain sight the second and third time you see it.

Artist discussions will include filmmakers Taika Waititi (Te Whanau a Apanui, Boy, 2010), Chris Eyre (Cheyenne / Arapaho, Smoke Signals, 1998), Heather Rae (Cherokee, Trudell, 2005), Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (Inupiaq, On the Ice, 2011), Sterlin Harjo (Seminole / Creek, This May Be The Last Time, 2014) and Sydney Freeland (Navajo, Drunktown's Finest, 2014).

Writing in the weekend's New York Times Magazine, filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar becomes one of the first to begin spitballing the efforts of an actress we're likely to be talking about this time next year: Last year she finally came into her own in America, as she had already done in the rest of the world.

The filmmakers embrace the «moment» women are currently enjoying in pop culture: Thanks to female - centric works such as last year's «Bridesmaids» and this year's HBO series «Girls,» female characters can be seen confronting intimacy issues in sometimes startling ways and unconventional protagonists are getting screen time.

«She said right from the beginning that there would be a bargain,» the 43 - year - old first - time filmmaker recalled at last month's Tribeca Film Festival - according to Variety.

Filmmaker Mike Cahill impressed me last time around with Another Earth, so anyone who liked that one should check out this new one, which also features Brit Marling once again, though Michael Pitt is the star this time around.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi will be the first time that the young filmmaker has taken the helm of a franchise feature, though his experience does give us a great deal of confidence in his abilities.

In a New York Times feature on the film published late last month, critic Dennis Lim writes that it «revisits a conundrum that has bedeviled many filmmakers over the years: how do you make a movie about a virus, a villain that isn't even visible?»

Two - time Academy Award winning cinematographer Emmanuel «Chivo» Lubezki will go to any length to capture an image, so it's clear why he gets along well with fellow Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Inarritu, the audacious director of last year's Best Picture Oscar winner, Birdman.

From Kim Ji - woon making a fun throwback to 80's action with The Last Stand, to long time cinephile favorite Park chan - Wook making the best film of the year (so far) with Stoker, modern American filmmakers could learn a thing or two from their foreign colleagues.

A decent cast and competent direction from promising Irish first - time feature filmmaker Ruairi Robinson are wasted on a derivative story with The Last Days on Mars, which is yet another entry in the already overcrowded «zombie infection» subgenre.

Though Hollywood has come calling for the multi-talented filmmaker several times in the last few years, he's remained dedicated to pals Pegg and Frost, as well as the considerable ensemble of «Shaun Of The Dead,» «Hot Fuzz» and the television series «Spaced.»

But even I can only take so much when it comes to this sort of lunacy, and there were times where I felt the filmmakers were going out of their way to work every one of my last nerves almost as if I'd personally wronged them all somehow.

Just last week we announced the eight projects selected for the 2015 Directors Lab where first - time feature filmmakers will be cutting their teeth while rehearsing, shooting, and editing their screenplays.

This feels like the film - version of I Am Legend that filmmakers have struggled with at least three times and all failed in somewhat interesting ways (The best of which, The Last Man On Earth, starred Vincent Prince struggling with a very tiny European budget).

For his last picture - the much maligned Nic Cage crime ditty Dog Eat Dog - Paul Schrader eschewed any playbook he'd ever used, going as far as to employ first time filmmakers behind the scenes to try and free himself of any preconceived notions regarding the creative process.

International trips taken by the president can take months of preparation but trips such as this one only offer a small window of time for preparation and the filmmakers here pointedly show that in scenes where security teams feel overwhelmed in making these last - minute plans.

Three years ago, the last time the Russian filmmaker was here, he garnered widespread attention for Leviathan, his acclaimed, partially state - funded tale of corruption that was seen as challenging Vladimir Putin's government and which won the best screenplay award.

The filmmaker has mentioned it a few times, but only in vague terms — until last Sunday night on the Oscars red carpet.

The last time I was in Rio, I met a woman who runs a guesthouse in Santa Teresa and is also a filmmaker.

Over the last three decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has been internationally acclaimed for her pioneering use of new technologies and her investigations of issues that are now recognized as key to the working of our society: identity in a time of consumerism, privacy in a era of surveillance, interfacing of humans and machines, and the relationship between real and virtual worlds.

The mini-dioramas of Ronan - Jim Sévellec were on display earlier this year in several venues around Paris, including a show on filmmakers Jean - Pierre Jeunet and Mare Caro at the Halle St. Pierre — where, last year, I encountered his work for the first time in an exhibition devoted to «L'Art singulier.»

The pioneering avant - garde filmmaker, who is the touchstone for every artist working in time - based media, finally received well - deserved attention last year.

The last time I saw him, he was a forty - one year old aspiring filmmaker, in a one - bedroom apartment down on New York's Lower East Side, who likes to spend too much time in bars.

In Last Address, filmmaker Ira Sachs, who first moved to the city himself in 1984, uses images of the exteriors of the houses, apartment buildings, and lofts where these and others were living at the time of their deaths to mark the disappearance of a generation.

Last year, we showed you that photographer / filmmaker Alex Prager shot leading Hollywood stars for the NY Times Magazine, stars who repre

Lynn Hershman Leeson artist and filmmaker, who over the last three decades, has been internationally acclaimed for her pioneering use of new technologies and her investigations of issues that are now recognized as key to the working of our society: identity in a time of consumerism, privacy in a era of surveillance, interfacing of humans and machines, and the relationship between real and virtual worlds.

Last Address, by filmmaker Ira Sachs, uses images of the exteriors of the houses, apartment buildings, and lofts where these and others were living at the time of their deaths to mark the disappearance of a generation.

The crowdfunded expedition, which began its river journey in Minneapolis, MN, in June, is being led by Dan Callum, who has been leading «recycled expeditions» on plastic bottle kayaks in his spare time over the last few years, and includes an environmental filmmaker, two engineers, and an experienced skipper, with the aim of reaching New Orleans in August or early September.