Sentences with phrase «life as a film director»

Happy Christmas: A breakup sends twentysomething Jenny (Anna Kendrick) into a drinking spiral that bottoms out on the doorstep of her brother (Joe Swanberg), who lives a drama - free life as a film director with his writer wife, Kelly (Melanie Lynskey), and their 2 - year - old son.

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None of the upcoming movies listed over the next two years will have women behind the director's chair and, as Casey Cipriani and Melissa Silverstein of IndieWire have noted, no woman has directed a live - action film for the studio since 2010.

Susan Spungen The Modern Cook The food stylist behind sumptuous films like It's Complicated, Julie & Julia, and Eat, Pray, Love, Susan started her career in food as the founding Food Director at Martha Stewart Living.

The award - winning film actor, director and producer had a long association with Chelsea dating back to the 1940s and served as a club director before accepting roles as life vice-president and then life - president.

Trained as an astrobiologist at Stanford and Caltech, Loretta has been to the Canadian Arctic to study plant life in extreme environments and to the hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean with «Titanic» director James Cameron to film a 3D IMAX documentary, «Aliens of the Deep.»

PLANETARIUM (Planetarium) Director: Rebecca Zlotowski Cast: Natalie Portman, Lily - Rose Depp, Emmanuelle Salinger, Louis Garrel Searching for their big break, two American sisters, who earn their living through clairvoyance, arrive in 1930s Paris, where they beguile a movie - producer intent on shooting their séances as part of an ambitious new film.

Helmed by seasoned director Rory Kennedy (Last Days in Vietnam, A Boy's Life), the film takes a pretty straightforward and linear approach to Hamilton's narrative — a living, breathing memoir — beginning with his childhood days as a towheaded beach rat who chose pro surfer Bill Hamilton to be his dad.

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.

The future of blockbuster films such as these lie with directors like Coogler (and Patty Jenkins, and Taika Waititi), ones who are bringing much - needed new life and ideas to the superhero genre.

Announcing that the 1996 - 1997 season of Roseanne would be his last, Goodman limited himself to infrequent appearances on the series, his absences explained away as a by - product of a heart attack suffered by his character at the end of the previous season.After making his 10th appearance on Saturday Night Live (2000), Goodman could be seen playing a red - faced bible salesman in director Joel Coen's award winning O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000), and participated in Garry Shandling's film debut What Planet Are You From?

Gaspar Noé's Climax (detailed below) was the big winner at the Directors» Fortnight, taking home the Art Cinema Award, and Lucia's Grace, directed by Gianni Zanasi and starring Alba Rohrwacher as a single working mother struggling to find balance in her life, won the Europa Cinemas Label Award for the section's best European film.

Since the controversy erupted, director Laura Brownson and team exclusively filmed with Rachel, her sons and her adopted sister Esther, capturing the intimate, vérité life story of a damaged character who lands squarely in the cross-hairs of race and identity politics in America — and exploring how that character still provokes negative reactions from millions who see her as the ultimate example of white privilege.

But few popes in living memory have seemed as recognizably human as Francis — for all its access, and for all the inherent empathy of its director, Wenders» film is never able to completely connect the dots between the man and the figure.

Ensemble films like this don't always work, but in the hands of a master director such as Meirelles, Peter Morgan's script comes to life in a vivid and evocative way.

In a perfect demonstration that horror and trauma are the stuff of real, everyday life and not the macabre vision of fantasists, Cries and Whispers marked Bergman's recovery as one of Europe's greatest film directors.

The film was a success, but it failed to establish Midler as a dramatic actress; audiences, particularly gay fans, still preferred the Divine Miss M. Jinxed (1982), Midler's next film, lived up to its name with well - publicized production squabbles between Midler, the director, producers, and a few of her co-stars.

He begins by exploring the director's early life and career in his native Hungary, revealing how Curtiz shaped the earliest days of silent cinema in Europe as he acted in, produced, and directed scores of films before immigrating to the United States in 1926.

In this lively, illuminating and unexpectedly moving documentary, directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow engage in a personal and candid discussion with De Palma, exploring not only his life and work but also his singular approach to the craft of filmmaking and his remarkable experiences navigating the film business, from his early days as the bad boy of New Hollywood to his more recent years as a respected veteran of the field.

The film may live as little more than a supplement on a future box set, but Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow do well enough to give a sense of the breadth De Palma's career while letting the iconoclastic director write his history in his own way.

But as in his previous film, Crazy Heart, for which Jeff Bridges won an Oscar playing an alcoholic country and western singer, the writer - director Scott Cooper is able to rely on his actors to give life to characters and situations which might otherwise seem tired.

Warner Bros Pictures released a new HD movie trailer for the upcoming DC Comics comic book film «The Green Lantern» by director Martin Campbell (Edge of Darkness, Casino Royale, 36) stars Blake Lively (Gossip Girl, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee), Peter Sarsgaard (Knight & Day, Orphan) and Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Proposal) as The Green Lantern.

Oslo, August 31st A 180 - degree turn from his 2006 semi — film - à - clef debut Reprise, Norwegian director Joachim Trier's sophomore feature follows a former drug addict (the excellent Anders Danielsen Lie) as he makes a tentative last stab at putting his life back together.

Director Oliver Stone provides a chatty commentary that ranges from the making of the film to the real - life Wall Street culture, and as usual he's animated and entertaining and quite passionate about it all.

At the Critics» Week — where, in the interest of full disclosure, I served on a competition jury comprised of three other critics and the South Korean director Lee Chang - dong — the highlight of an unusually strong lineup was Take Shelter, the second feature by Shotgun Stories director Jeff Nichols, an acknowledged Malick acolyte whose new film shares a producer with The Tree of Life as well as a leading lady, Jessica Chastain (reportedly at Malick's personal recommendation).

Based on the best - selling prize - winning novel by Meg Rosoff, «How I Live Now» is the latest film from director Kevin Macdonald («Touching The Void,» «The Last King Of Scotland,»), and toplines Saoirse Ronan as an American teen, Daisy, who comes to stay with distant relatives in a time of strife.

Like Edmund Halley, who died just a couple of years before seeing his prediction come true about the date when the comet bearing his name would return, the sad note about the film is that Rad (listed as director, producer, writer, editor, composer, production designer and set decorator) died in 2007 before he saw it gain new life.

As a special TIFF edition of The Seventh Art Live Directors Series, we screened Don McKellar «s classic Toronto film, Last Night, in honour of its 15th anniversary.

From Academy Award ® winning director Roger Ross Williams, Life, Animated is the inspirational story of Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered a unique way to communicate by immersing themselves in the world of classic Disney animated films.

Corsicato compiles footage taken from around Schnabel's home, recent interviews conducted with family and friends, and an assortment of photographs and film clips spanning the artist / director's life in an effort to, if one trusts this documentary's title, provide an intimate portrait of Schnabel's psychology as it was generated from the unusual circumstances of his youth.

Unfolding like Roman Polanski's take on «The King of Marvin Gardens» while simultaneously serving as a suitable spiritual sequel to the director's debut, «Afterschool,» in which the male desire to connect meaningfully with others is frayed and warped by life experience, «Simon Killer» is Antonio Campos» latest chilly, chilling character study, with Corbet effectively replacing Ezra Miller, who led the previous film, as a neuroscience major who studied how the eyes and the brain relate, but has a seriously loose wire between his own brain and his heart.

So began what Kirby dubs the happiest job of her life, one that played out over eighteen months with many months of filming to come, and one which placed Kirby in the ever - capable hands of writer - producer Peter Morgan and storied director Stephen Daldry, and alongside castmates Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II and Matt Smith as Prince Philip.

Based on the true story of Dutch criminal Cor Van Hout (Jim Sturgess), Mr. Heineken follows Van Hout and his gang of similarly beefcake - ey friends as they plot a get - rich - quick scheme that involves kidnapping beer magnate Freddy Heineken (Anthony Hopkins), and although Van Hout's life and the Heineken case could have made for an interesting film if director Daniel Alfredson (The Girl Who Played With Fire) had avoided editorializing, it's hard to be really be compelled by a movie that endorses crime, particularly crime committed by people with a certain amount of privilege.

But, it seems to me, what director / co-writer Robert Zemeckis and co - writer Bob Gale are mainly doing in this film is recapturing the spirit of such Disney live - action movies as The sentimentality.

«The Square»: Swedish director Ruben Ostland's «Force Majeure» was one of the best films of 2014 and while «The Square» isn't nearly as compelling, the drama about a museum director's life crisis still packs a punch.

Frances McDormand (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Friends with Money), as the ultra-feisty National Security director, gets to storm in and out of vehicles and walk fast and determined with her entourage of government agents, but her only significance to the film is she is the only female in the series to not look like she has jumped out of a Victoria's Secret catalog (the charisma-less Rosie Huntington - Whitely gets most of the cheesecake shots, replacing the equally vapid crackpot, Megan Fox).

My Life as a Dog: Criterion Collection Unrated Available on DVD and Blu - ray Swedish with English Subtitles Before cranking out hit films like The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, Swedish director Lasse Holstrom hit the scene big - time with this little indie about a boy who goes on a journey of discovery when he is sent away to give his dying mother some rest.

Offered a job as assistant director by Marco Modugno after appearing as an extra in Modugno's Bambule (1979), Soavi continued to act in such films as Alien 2 and City of the Living Dead (1980) while serving in multiple capacities including assistant director to filmmaker Aristide Massaccesi in the early»80s.

«The delightful animated film from 1991 plays as classic animation, but if you want to go a level deeper into the story and into the songs and into the emotions, that's what this live - action film delivers: a greater depth of emotions,» says director Bill Condon.

Director, co-writer and co-producer Kim Jee - woon is one of the country's best filmmakers (of the gangster picture A Bittersweet Life and the outstanding horror film A Tale of Two Sisters, sloppily remade here as The Uninvited) and brings his double - barreled love of Italian - made spaghetti Westerns to the fray.

As with his previous film, Funny People, Apatow again cast his real - life wife (Leslie Mann) and daughters (Iris and Maude Apatow) in a bid for something like verisimilitude, with a pot - bellied Paul Rudd standing in as the writer - director's surrogatAs with his previous film, Funny People, Apatow again cast his real - life wife (Leslie Mann) and daughters (Iris and Maude Apatow) in a bid for something like verisimilitude, with a pot - bellied Paul Rudd standing in as the writer - director's surrogatas the writer - director's surrogate.

In films like «In Between Days,» «Treeless Mountain» and «For Ellen,» director So Yong Kim has established herself as a skilled poet of the everyday, finding beauty and drama in travel, jobs, relationships, parenthood... life, essentially.

This weekend, Mike Leigh's 1990 comedy Life Is Sweet will screen at the Trylon microcinema in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as part of a monthlong retrospective of the director's early films.

As her profile rises with the recent release of The Witch, and her life begins to change, the young actress tells M. Night Shyamalan, director of her forthcoming film, Split, she has wanted to make her home in film for so long, she can't even remember when the wanting started.

Mike Leigh's 1990 comedy Life Is Sweet, showing at the Trylon microcinema as part of a monthlong retrospective of the director's early films, presents an intimate portrait of working - class life in Thatcher - era north LonLife Is Sweet, showing at the Trylon microcinema as part of a monthlong retrospective of the director's early films, presents an intimate portrait of working - class life in Thatcher - era north Lonlife in Thatcher - era north London.

Now after 13 long years away see's director «Robert Zemeckis» return to the physical world for his first live - action film since 2000's Cast Away, so as you can imagine excitement and expectations are at an all time high.

The writer - director previously served as an intern on three of Terrence Malick's films — Weightless, Voyage of Time, The Tree of Life — and certainly picked up a thing or two from the impenetrable filmmaker, whose works often serve as meditations on life, death, and man's place in the natural woLife — and certainly picked up a thing or two from the impenetrable filmmaker, whose works often serve as meditations on life, death, and man's place in the natural wolife, death, and man's place in the natural world.

After winning three Academy Awards and establishing himself as one of the world's greatest living actors, Daniel Day - Lewis issued a statement last week announcing that he was retiring from acting, and that the film he recently completed, director Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, would be his last film performance.

LIFE marks his sixth project with director Daniel Espinosa, having previously composed music for his films Babylonsjukan, Outside Love, Snabba Cash, and Child 44, and the Danish short film The Boxer, which was his first work as a composer.

Trailers can be deceiving (the trailers for Lincoln looked dull and by the numbers as well while the actual film was anything but), so here's hoping that one of the greatest living directors has something amazing in store.

From Academy Award ® winning director Roger Ross Williams, LIFE, ANIMATED is the inspirational story of Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered a unique way to communicate by immersing themselves in the world of classic Disney animated films.