Sentences with phrase «made auteur»

Many an actor has failed to make the auteur's dialogue work, as they can often come across as sounding like Allen's proxies, but all involved succeed in making each character his or her own.

It provides examples of auteurs and the defining characteristics that made them auteurs and includes questions for students to consider throughout.

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Instead they decided to become auteurs by making a video of the video playing back on a smartphone held by an anonymous hand as two anonymous young women added pointless voice - over commentary.

The Winnipeg auteur, who started his own offbeat movement three decades ago, re-creates those faraway moments in swirling incantations made possible through today's technology.

Tough, taut direction by action auteur Walter Hill makes this a much better sequel than its reputation.

A mostly engaging compilation of 33 three - minute films made by leading international auteurs on the occasion of the Cannes Film Festival's 60th birthday.

From a road trip to the scene of James Dean's fatal accident to the making of The Room, this film is an inspirational masterpiece that is guided by Franco's performance of a very driven auteur.

He's still working to rebrand himself as something beyond a torture - porn auteur, and he may have convinced himself that this movie, with its talk - radio debates, wants you to «make up your own mind» about its hero's odyssey.

Synopsis: Mad Men auteur Matthew Weiner makes his feature directorial debut with You Are Here, a mix of comedy and drama that stars Owen Wilson as Steve, a g...

Unlike Chaplin and Keaton, they were not themselves great auteur directors, or worked with any; the same could be said of Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers, but their respective phenomena overrided the impact of any decision - making body behind the camera, as a hurricane is to a weatherman.

Thanks to Anchorman (2004) auteur Adam McKay's caustic comedy The Big Short, the events of the great economic meltdown of 2008 are beginning to make sense.

The variety of subject matter and tones he manages is more than impressive, making him an acclaimed Hollywood director who is able to bring an auteur's style to every project.

Finally, auteur - cum - symbol - of - injustice Mohammad Rasoulof's extraordinary B Omid Didar — made on the sly while the Iranian filmmaker was about to be imprisoned for political activism — may be the most paranoid movie about a persecuted pregnant woman ever made.

(That said, in a year that has seen a record number of women both on the jury and in the competition, a win for a female auteur would make a neat narrative.)

Silence is the kind of film we rarely see anymore unless one of a handful of auteurs like Martin Scorsese made it.

This tribute to Schepisi's important contribution as an Australian and international filmmaker, a distinctive auteur and jobbing filmmaker, covers his early work in documentary (his fascinating short on The Age newspaper, People Make Papers), the mercurial critical reception of his groundbreaking opus The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, the representation of landscape across his first three Australian features (specifically in the partisan and compassionate Evil Angels, 1988), his initial project in the United States (the elemental and mythic Western, Barbarosa), the now iconic Six Degrees of Separation, and the importance of adaptation and collaboration across his cinema.

I'm a bit taken aback (as ever) by some of the filmmakers who've been shunted into other sections, but at least after all the well - justified complaints that last year's Palme competition was mostly made up of subpar work by established auteurs, they haven't gone that route again (or, at least, not quite so pronouncedly).

His poetic screenwriting, dark commentary, and use of violence make him a standout auteur.

It's not much of an achievement that co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo (held over from Captain America the Winter Soldier) make a better film than Zack Snyder... but it's worth noting that Marvel (corporation as auteur) have nurtured their characters (even in weaker films like Iron Man 2) to the point when they carry more screen weight than lasting icons Batman and Superman.

Zhao Tao's awe - inspiring performance and the pure audacity of director Jia Zhangke make Mountains May Depart the auteur's best effort to date.

WHY: Why: The last thing anyone expected after the disaster of 2014's «Ouija» was another installment, but this unexpected prequel from horror auteur Mike Flanagan shows just how much difference a good script and a talented director can make.

After performing in several stage productions, she was propelled into the world of auteurs Jean - Luc Godard (Hail Mary, 1985), Jacques Doillon (Family Life, 1985) and André Téchiné, who made her a star in France with the leading role in his 1985 drama Rendez - vous.

Obviously he's the sort of auteur - in - making, and I knew he was the guy that was going to elevate this film away from the potential pitfalls.

Director / co writer M. Night Shyamalan, working from Will Smith's story idea, continues his streak of films that make you wonder what the heck happened to the young auteur who gave us The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs.

A section of fifteen deleted scenes totalling 22 minutes with optional commentary from Frankel and Livoisi is kind of maddening for Frankel's oft - repeated confession that he's never seen this material — trusting his editor that implicitly only betrays his TV training and makes it difficult to take Frankel seriously as an auteur.

A singular auteur who's so out - there that it's honestly a wonder he's even been nominated, Lynch will have to make do with being considered one of the most unique cinematic voices ever to make movies.

Cannes has never hid the fact it loves auteur filmmakers and star - studded casts, so the combination of Farhadi, Cruz, and Bardem made «Everybody Knows» a no - brainer for the opening night slot.

Vigorous, self - assured, and innovative, Chazelle is a brilliant auteur filmmaker that knows exactly what type of films he wants to make.

The first time I made a year - end list for Scanners, I did it by suggesting double - bills of 2006 films with older films (much like what contributors to The Auteurs did this year).

As a window into the auteur's late - career preoccupation with adolescent angst, «Bertolucci Makes The Dreamers» is illuminating, bookended as it is by telling quotes («When I'm with these kids, I feel the same age» and «Maybe I didn't talk enough about young people when I was young») that make one wish Bertolucci would do a film about the vanishing act of youth rather than these pitiful attempts to trap it in a jar.

After making their reputation as America's most exciting young auteurs with their debut «Blood Simple» (1984), along came this baby - snatching caper.

Gift - wrapping its smart sexual politics with kicky dialogue, bright visuals and a pleasingly messy tangle of relationships, Los Angeles - born auteur Lisa Cholodenko's fourth (and finest) feature is her most mainstream to date, but makes a virtue of those concessions.

In Austrian auteur Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winning latest, however, love is measured and told in pain: amour means longevity, dedication and the willingness to make difficult decisions.

The facts of The Room are remarkable enough: Very much despite itself, it would make Wiseau — a cracked auteur and deathless dreamer — famous.

There are auteurs offering up work considerably below the bars they've set (Woody Allen and «Whatever Works,» Pedro Almodovar and «Broken Embraces»), as well as indie hopefuls that could make an unexpected splash, like «Frozen River» and «Away from Her» in years past (Guillermo Arriaga's «The Burning Plain,» for instance, or Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman's «The Messenger,» both extremely deserving).

Learning how Carpenter and cinematographer Dean Cundey pulled off those Steadicam shots, and essentially replicated an Illinois suburb in Los Angeles with little more than hand - painted «fall» leaves gave me a new appreciation for lo - fi aesthetics, and how the greatest auteurs took a dollar and made it five.

What makes «Year of the Rat» so vital is how, incidentally or not, it goes from denouncing the auteur theory (through not only the typically insecure observations of actors, but also the deflective statements of Morgan and long - time creative partner Wong) to validating it: In a coda, we see that the movie's poor box - office showing has shaken Morgan and only Morgan to the core; call filmmaking a «collaborative effort» to your heart's content, but as William Shatner, of all people, opines on the recent Star Trek V discs, at the end of the day no one on the set has as much emotionally invested in the picture's success as the person at its helm.

Auteur Mania... (I don't make a habit of missing films by these men) A Dangerous Method, directed by David Cronenberg, about Freud (Viggo Mortensen), Jung (Michael Fassbender) and their crazy subject (Keira Knightley), (UK / Canada / Germany) Melancholia, directed by Lars von Trier, in which Kirsten Dunst's wedding plans are plagued by the impending apocalypse.

The Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, who made his first narrative feature thirty - five years ago, is a model auteur: from the very start, his films have been firmly marked by a strong directorial personality.

The rest are of the supplements are just grace notes: a relaxed interview with actor Rod Taylor, a tribute to «The Original Inglorious Bastards» with director Enzo Castellari and actor Bo Svenson (who both make cameo's in QT's film), a mock - featurette on «The Making of Nation's Pride» (with the performers all in character — Eli Roth has a blast playing the sneering autocratic German auteur of this «lost» classic of Nazi propaganda cinema) and montages showing the playfulness of QT and his cast and crew on the set.

Logan Lucky isn't the best movie he's ever made, but it's pointing him a most fascinating new direction — the auteur as compulsive entertainer.

Let me start with an actor who is also an auteur — Warren Beatty, who, after a 15 - year absence, made a welcome return to screens this fall with the loose, relaxed period comedy - romance Rules Don't Apply.

Abderrahmane Sissako, one of the underrated auteurs currently working, has never made a film as formally impressive and socially significant as this.

I've heard some folks describe the characters in Nebraska as loving renderings of those in and around the auteur's home state, while others have announced outright that Payne's employment of stereotypes make his movie truly hateable.

Supposedly Hayao Miyazaki's final movie, The Wind Rises is a nostalgic, «I'm making this one for me» swansong from the 73 - year - old animation auteur.

Though I don't have much more than a nodding acquaintance with either action auteur, it seems that Chan in Rumble in the Bronx has succeeded at making a personal project in the Hong Kong manner in a putatively American setting, while Woo in Broken Arrow has made a slam - bang Hollywood picture in which personal touches are visible, if mainly applied with an eyedropper.

From Wes Anderson to Martin Scorsese, these five auteurs would make the most of a limited, block - matching concept

As an artist, renaissance man and auteur in the making, Steve's work has been compared to the work of David Lynch and Matthew Barney.

Photographed by Tom Hoops for Lab MagazineNicolas Winding Refn, the Danish auteur whose made a career of candy colored violent films after grimier movies at home, is both exactly what you'd expect and unexpected.

Herzog's last feature film, Queen of the Desert, was not well - received so let's hope that the German auteur makes a Bad Lieutenant - sized comeback with Salt and Fire.