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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

A who's who of filmmakers and composers assembled at this year's Comic - Con International to discuss the role played by music and sound design in modern superhero movies and television series.

In anticipation of our second Live Director Series event this weekend, here is a video of a conversation - filled sit with Paul Schrader — the filmmaker / screenwriter who will be joining us for the screening and Q&A on Sunday — from The Modern School of Film.

John Michael McDonagh stepped out from the shadows of filmmaker young brother Martin McDonagh, who's crafted such cult modern classics as In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, in 2011 when he debuted The Guard.

Presenters are Mark Dean Johnson, professor of art at San Francisco State University and director of the Martin Wong Foundation, who also moderates; Julia Bryan - Wilson, professor of modern and contemporary art and director of the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley, whose Fray: Art and Textile Politics includes a chapter about the Cockettes and Wong's design work for them; Sergio Bessa, director of curatorial and education programs at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and scholar of concrete poetry; Marci Kwon, assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University; and artist and filmmaker Charlie Ahearn, who introduces his 1998 film portrait of Wong, whom he knew personally.

Experimental filmmaker Bruce Conner, who emerged from the San Francisco scene in the Beat era of the late 1950s and died in 2008, is having the first retrospective of his life's work, «Bruce Conner: It's All True,» which includes paintings, assemblages, drawings, photography and performance, at New York's Museum of Modern Art through October 2.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Screening: Cao Fei's Haze and Fog and i.Mirror by China Tracy (aka: Cao Fei) Second Life Documentary Film at the Museum of Modern Art As part of its «Documentary Fortnight» series, MoMA is screening two films by Cao Fei, the Beijing - based artist and filmmaker who tackles Chinese economic and social issues.

2 or 3 Tigers derives its title from the work of artist, filmmaker and theater creator Ho Tzu Nyen, who explores the shifting shapes of tigers and weretigers in the ancient and modern mythology of Malaysia and Singapore.

The eclectic works of Tang Chang confound categories such as «modern» or «contemporary», while Bagyi Aung Soe, a Burmese painter who died in poverty, and the Filipino filmmaker Rox Lee were unaligned with either liberal - progressive norms or with the transnational vectors of socialist realism that opposed US imperialism in the 20th century.

Noisy Competition Randy Olson, the filmmaker and author who dared label global warming «boring» here not long ago (a reference that was picked up in Germany by Der Spiegel this week), has proposed another element in modern life is impeding focus on this long - term problem — noise: