Sentences with phrase «many modern filmmakers»

Maybe if they realized the influence these classic directors and films have had on the modern filmmakers and movies they enjoy, they would be more inclined to see these films.

The Disaster Artist review: James Franco directs and leads the cast as Tommy Wiseau, the legendary modern filmmaker who made The Room, the cult...

Modern filmmakers have fully digested mentors Andrei Tarkovsky and Ingmar Bergman into their own styles, quite often producing lesser results.

It's easy to see what attracts modern filmmakers to Thomas Hardy's heroine, Bathsheba Everdene.

There are only so many concepts that enter the minds of modern filmmakers wanting to frighten their viewers and unless you rarely watch the genre, the concepts and compositions noticeably blend and overlap.

Unfortunately, though Stanton seemed as deserving of rampant studio confidence as virtually any modern filmmaker, John Carter does not provide the exhilarating experience its costs and the books» modest but still passionate fanbase suggested it should.

Few modern filmmakers are as knowledgeable and impassioned about film history as Guillermo del Toro, whose newly crowned Best Picture winner, «The Shape of Water,» is — let's face it — a TCM's lover's wet dream.

As for the CGI animals, Peyton gives them plenty of opportunities to wreak havoc, although at least one or two of those sequences feels better in conception than execution: though the large - scale destruction is all masterfully rendered — and it must be noted, brutally violent for a PG - 13 movie — he like many other modern filmmakers gets too close to the action, mistaking incomprehensibility for claustrophobia, and seems either unaware of or uninterested in even the basic physics of gravity, falling objects, and so on.

Also from 2009 but more pertinent, «Chinatown: An Appreciation» (26:15) collects rave testimonials from four modern filmmakers who admire it: directors Steven Soderbergh and Boys Don't Cry's Kimberly Peirce, cinematographer Roger Deakins, and composer James Newton Howard.

In fact, there may be no modern filmmaker more qualified to continue Wade Wilson's story than the man behind Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained.

Not uncommonly for a modern filmmaker, he has less of an aptitude for emotional gradation and development than for rough and ready, lunging portraits of emotion - as - action.

Our cover shoot, by photographer Art Streiber, placed these two modern filmmakers in a classic Hollywood milieu — all chalky clapboards, saddle pants, and smoky screening rooms.

Not exact matches

According to Deadline, filmmaker Jared Hess (the director of comedies including Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre) will direct NickToons, an adventure comedy featuring characters from «90s and early 2000s Nick shows including Rocko's Modern Life, Rugrats, The Angry Beavers, Ren & Stimpy, Aaahh!

The modern noir — about the search for a missing child — shows that Ben Affleck isn't just a blockbuster movie star; he's also one of his generation's most notable filmmakers.

Moonlight, which was adapted from the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue proves that with a compelling story, a visionary filmmaker (in this case, director Barry Jenkins) and talented cast, it's still possible to make movies that get recognition in modern Hollywood.

Executive Producer Ricki Lake and Filmmaker Abby Epstein follow their landmark documentary, The Business of Being Born, with an all - new, four part DVD series that continues their provocative and entertaining exploration of the modern maternity care system.

Kate Schermerhorn is an Emmy - winning filmmaker, whose recent documentary, After Happily Ever After is about modern marriage.

Learn how to make films that you're proud of and succeed as a filmmaker in the modern world.

Technology advanced and filmmakers grew more ambitious, from the high - tension thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock to modern classics from Christopher Nolan, Nora Efron, Quentin Tarantino, and countless more.

This article is adapted from Date - Onomics by Jon Birger (Workman Publishing Company, 2015) The dating game is rigged, but the problem is not strategic The Setup, a short film about Jewish dating by 25 - year - old Modern Orthodox filmmaker Leah Gottfried, was described by its producers as

Following the lead of 2012's underrated «At Any Price» in matching the socially conscious topicality of Bahrani's early films to the demands of broader - brush melodrama, this dynamically acted, unapologetically contrived pic reps the filmmaker's best chance to date of connecting with a wider audience — one likely to share the helmer's bristling anger over corruptly maintained class divides in modern - day America.

The show's direction, by American Psycho filmmaker Mary Harron, is elegant, and the script, by Away from Her writer / director Sarah Polley, is crisply modern in its understanding of characters» psychological realities yet blurry enough on the margins to allow in delicious ambiguity.

There's little doubt that Water for Elephants gets off to an exceedingly promising start, as filmmaker Francis Lawrence, working from Richard LaGravenese's screennplay, opens the proceedings with a modern - day sequence revolving around an older Jacob's (Hal Holbrook) arrival at a contemporary circus.

In so hammering home the guilt Darwin feels over having married and had children with his first cousin, the filmmakers render secondary (perhaps even tertiary, behind interpersonal relationship histrionics) the importance or modern - day relevance of his work.

With modern special effects a filmmaker can do anything their imagination conjures up.

In this modern era, the Coen Brothers are often credited as the life support system for classic noir, but the Coens appear to have serious competition in the form of Australian filmmaker and stuntman Nash Edgerton, whose feature debut, The Square, is a brilliantly twisty, gritty contemporary film noir.

A legendary artist and a modern - day filmmaker, both with a calling to find the light, even in the most unlikely places.

The Ninth Annual Film Symposium on New Trends in Modern and Contemporary Italian Cinema featuring the work of filmmaker Vincenzo Marra is presented by Indiana University's Department of French and Italian.

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.

In response to a more culturally literate audience, its filmmakers want instead to make a point about the state of modern life.

Not in everything, mind you; the filmmakers have chosen (unfortunately, I think) to go for a slightly modern touch in some aspects of the film, such as Lucilla's costumes.

At its core, though, this twisted tale of American entrepreneurship — of young arms dealers gaming the Pentagon — captures something of runaway modern greed, played out as a bro movie from bro stars and a bro filmmaker that's equal parts comical and infuriating.

There are filmmakers who are masterful DJs, remixing the cinema that influenced them, creating modern versions that, at their best, are far superior than the films that inspired them.

Piecing together a remarkable story from first - hand accounts, still photos and grainy video footage, filmmakers Harlock and Thomas assemble a gripping narrative documentary about a modern - day prophet.Bill Hicks grew up in Houston with his pals...

Giving Woody Allen a run for his money as the most prolific filmmaker in the business, Noah Baumbach has released his second film of 2015, coming only a few months after While We're Young, his exploration of generational divides in the modern era.

A special award went to Adrienne Mancia, who, as a curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art for more than 30 years, «helped shape the movie - going tastes of New Yorkers by bringing the work of filmmakers like Bernardo Bertolucci, Manoel De Oliveira and Marco Bellocchio to the United States.»

There are not many filmmakers who explore and mercilessly dismantle modern philosophical issues the way that Ruben Östlund does.

«Filmmaker Robert Drew, a pioneer of the modern documentary who in Primary and other movies mastered the intimate, spontaneous style known as cinema verite and schooled a generation of influential directors that included D.A. Pennebaker and Albert Maysles, has died at age 90.

Few filmmakers seem capable of rising above the sad state of affairs that is modern indie horror, the rest seem caught up in a boundless mode of non-creativity and excessive aping that's neither welcome nor admirable.

The vast technical background necessary for creating cinematic stories, illuminating interviews with the greatest living filmmakers, in - depth analyses of high quality movies... The material provided by Cahiers du Cinéma, Sight & Sound, Cinemagic, Cinefantastique and many others has inspired thousands of people to dedicate their lives to filmmaking, and thanks to the wonders of modern technology, these priceless cultural beams of historic value and prime educational significance continue to inspire, astonish and enlighten us, bringing up a new generation of artists who might persevere and thrive to one day fill the shoes of the likes of Orson Welles, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Jean - Pierre Melville, Agnes Varda, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher and dozens of others whose work continually delight and move us in every way possible.

Often, as an actor reads aloud something Lawrence wrote about the landscape, the filmmaker tries to mimic the shot in the modern landscape.

There are also four new featurettes — including one on Scorsese's relationship to movies, and interviews with four modern - day filmmakers — plus Johnny Carson's 1981 interview with Moriarity.

Considered a disaster on its release, the film has since been reassessed as a modern classic, a dark fairytale that feels like something the Brothers Grimm would make if they were filmmakers.

With their third present - day Tolstoy adaptation, filmmaker Rose and actor Huston continue to skilfully explore timeless issues with an urgent, modern style of storytelling that feels almost documentary.

Although John Carpenter's work is too diverse to refer to him as simply a horror filmmaker, you can't actually talk about modern horror without talking about Carpenter.

The filmmakers have repurposed the action from the seedy streets of 1980 New York to modern day Los Angeles and have bathed the film in dreamy, high - resolution digital photography that is all wrong.

Larraín is to Chile as filmmakers like Cristian Mungiu are to Romania: cathartic creators who, undeterred by the passage of time, return to examine a regime under which the socio - political power of cinema was largely denied the public and apply its modern possibilities to treating the wounds of the past.

It is also pleasing to see that in an age in which the romantic comedy is such an unfashionable genre in the cinema that filmmakers are, at least, attempting to go back to basics and call to mind a style of filmmaking in the screwball comedy that is all too rarely visible in the modern era.

«Spends a lot of time keeping its plates spinning (and napkins twirling) as the filmmakers parade a series of eccentric characters before their camera, the better to let us appreciate this farce we call modern life» — Norm Wilner, NOW Magazine

As previously announced, the inaugural LFF Connects will feature British filmmaker Christopher Nolan, internationally acclaimed for some of the most original, compelling and successful films in contemporary cinema (Interstellar, Inception, The Dark Knight, Memento), and Tacita Dean, lauded for her art work in film (and whose grand - scale Tate Modern exhibition FILM transfixed audiences).