Sentences with phrase «mark as auteurs»

With such high profile slices of movie beefcake determined to make their mark as auteurs as well as deliverers of dialogue, now is a good time to look back at some other aesthetically - pleasing performers who put their necks on the line as bona fide film directors...

Very much a genre stylist in the mold of golden - age Hollywood directors like Anthony Mann or Raoul Walsh, Uchida showed little discernible personal style to mark him as an auteur in the French critical mold, but the uniformly high quality of his works and his ability to succeed in a variety of genres mark him as a filmmaker very ripe for (re) consideration by critics.

The precision at play is stunning, as there is a distinct sense of control over every scenario, marking this as the auteur's tightest work.

Not exact matches

The opposing forces are a direct reflection of the challenge undertaken by director and co-writer Craig Brewer, who only half sells out as he tries to leave an auteur's mark while remaining faithful to a source that's loaded with dated, studio - friendly hokum.

Perhaps not quite as salivating a prospect as last year's auteur - heavy, brand - new lineup, which included early glimpses of «Django Unchained,» «The Master,» and «Silver Linings Playbook,» it's still a mark of TWC's high standing on the awards circuit that what is essentially an invite - only marketing event got so many clamoring to attend.

As such, Final Victory marks a kind of transition point, the sensibilities of the auteurs two perfectly in sync.

The manipulation of illusion is arguably the auteur mark of Nolan, who played with the idea of the manipulation of fear as a weapon in Batman Begins, the practical purpose of dream sleep in his remake of Insomnia, and of course of identity as fluid, ephemeral, and dangerously malleable in Memento and Following.

The pop - cultural consensus on horror director Tobe Hooper would seem to be that, with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he somehow made one of the genre's defining masterpieces right out of the gate only to squander a promising career on a string of strange mediocrities that ultimately marked him more as a hack - for - hire than an auteur in the tradition of more respected contemporaries such as John Carpenter, Wes Craven, or George A. Romero.

But its eerie photographic effects, off - beat narrative and stylish direction set it apart from its contemporaries and mark it as the work of an auteur with a clear, specific vision.

Darting confidently between genres to subvert our expectations at every turn, The Killing of a Sacred Deer firmly cements Lanthimos in the pantheon of world - class auteurs and marks him as a cinematic provocateur without precedent.