Sentences with phrase «movie as auteurs»

Their sixth movie as auteurs, 1996's Fargo, brought the brothers a whole new level of recognition, earning them a Best Original Screenplay Oscar and their first Best Picture nomination.

Not exact matches

As a star - auteur, he has always been the most important feature and effect of the series, although it's telling that Mr. De Palma oversaw the set - piece that gave the movies their foundational image: Mr. Cruise's operative, Ethan Hunt, hovering like a spider (or a puppet) above a luminous white floor while suspended by a very thin rope.

Starring writer - director - producer and enigmatic «auteur» Tommy Wiseau, who had unlimited funds but questionable talent, the $ 6 - million film has been hailed «The «Citizen Kane» of bad movies,» a fascinatingly inept and endlessly quotable cult sensation that has carved out a place for itself as a midnight - movie communal experience.

After all, the 71 - year - old French auteur, whose film Beau Travail remains one of the great works of the last few decades, has taken an especially grim turn as of late, with movies like Bastards, White Material and The Intruder exploring some of the darker sides of contemporary humanity.

Johnny Depp played hopeless B - movie auteur Ed Wood Jr as a never - say - die idealist who rescued Bela Lugosi from unemployment; Meryl Streep gave life to the deluded classical singer, Florence Foster Jenkins, who was rich enough to pay people to listen to her off - key warbling.

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.

The prime achievement of Penn's movie is that it accommodates those readings and others, even as it evinces its auteur's admiration for Chris's romanticism.

This is the auteur's second project to utilize the real - life passing of time as a storytelling device, following his Before series (whose latest entry, Before Midnight, was my favorite film of 2013), a trio of romance movies separated by 9 years each starring Hawke and Julie Delpy.

The movie is credited to two directors, Wanda Tuchock and George Nichols Jr., but film scholar Jeremy Arnold believes Tuchock, who also wrote the screenplay, should be regarded as the film's sole auteur: «This one has Wanda's fingerprints all over it.»

as the kind of unpredictable, risk - taking, auteur - driven movie our film landscape desperately needs.

Time Out says: «What stiffens this unashamedly exhibitionist movie's muscles are its beautifully judged performances, from Burt Reynolds» stand - out as porn - king auteur / father figure, to Julianne Moore's superb cokehead survivor - star and William H. Macy's humiliated cuckold, right down to Philip Seymour Hoffman's gut - wrenching gay crew member.»

Young auteurs took the western, the detective movie, the sci - fi flick, the gangster film, and even the «inspirational teacher» genre, and turned them into films as smart and subversive as those below.

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.

He draws thematic inspiration from classic Western director John Ford (specifically 1956's «The Searchers») and from his beloved»30s and»40s crime movies as well as the visual aesthetic of French New Wave auteurs.

Even then in May, amongst the line - up of melodramas and arthouses from auteurs all around the world, it stood out as an entertaining and commercial thriller, though this is just the first take on live - action from the 39 - year - old South Korean director who packed on his back only several animated movies, most notably The King of Pigs and The Fake.

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.

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.

This is only Anderson's second stop - motion animated film, but the symmetrical auteur has already established himself as the source of some of the coolest collectible movie tie - in toys.

So who could blame overreacting critics for treating Shyamalan like the proverbial Uwe Boll, even though all his movies actually had their good bits and is nowhere as bad as anything by the auteur of BloodRayne?

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive contends that the answer to the eternal struggle between what is real and what is fantasy comes in the form of a Keatsian confusion — it's the difference between Adam's dream and Eve rendered flesh, blurred in the mind of the creator and his audience.A film is a dream of the director made tangible, a conceit familiar from the fourth wall - breaking in Ingmar Bergman's Persona (banishing any mystery there might have been regarding the visual references to that film in Lynch's piece), and a movie's characters therefore become projections of its maker's sublimated longing (clarifying too the auteur's use of wardrobe and colour schemes from Hitchcock's meditation on objectification, Vertigo, as well as those of his first collaboration with inamorata Tippi Hedren, The Birds).

And in the case of «Phantom Thread,» about the world of London haute couture in the 1950s, it's a movie about the fashion designer as auteur.

If anything, this beloved, prolific Japanese auteur had pulled off an upset as stealthy and light - fingered as his movie, which follows a makeshift family of supermarket thieves dwelling in cramped but loving quarters.

The film - obsessed stand - up and TV auteur stars as a successful sitcom producer who finds himself at wit's end when his idol, a Woody Allen-esque movie director (John Malkovich), takes a leering interest in his spoiled 17 - year - old daughter (Chloë Grace Moretz).

He finds, in that most mocked and ridiculed of self - made movie stars and auteurs something poignant and funny and weirdly enduring about our need to understand and be understood as well as adored and admired.

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Until last year, the idiosyncratic Scottish auteur behind «Ratcatcher» and «We Need to Talk About Kevin» wasn't even a remotely plausible candidate to direct a blockbuster spy movie that comes with a full set of baggage — prior to her most recent film, Ramsay seemed as well - suited for James Bond as Apichatpong Weersethakul does for the next «Star Wars» spin - off.

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

Yet the movies they quote as they flesh out Mannix's saga — classics like Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest — were made by maverick auteurs, not studio hacks.

And as for being an auteur, Lonergan proved his chops twice over via that same movie: the chopped - up 150 - minute theatrical cut is as jagged and elusive as main character Lisa's psyche, while the 180 - minute extended cut uses classical needle drops and comparatively smooth transitions to elevate her plight into opera.

Typically, Marvel movies in the past have used directors that seem as guns for hire, where the material is more important than the auteur.

And so, in choosing it as the film from the past ten years I would most like to discuss in the context of the future of the medium, I might be asserting, against my better judgment, the primacy of the auteur over and above national cinemas and identity art — the ferocious and aggressively confrontational cinema of Lucrecia Martel serving as evidence that an ethos long - since debunked in serious academic circles still has credence or at least value in the second century of the movies.

In the 1990s, when the recipe for successful superhero movies hadn't yet been perfected (Tim Burton's Batman was a unique specimen), American auteur cinema had more space, and so actors did as well.

Just as Johnny Depp gave his career - best performance as Z - movie auteur Ed Wood, Franco achieves what could become his most iconic role.

While he may be a joke among some in the industry, action movie auteur Izu Ojukwu cites Ejiro as a model for success but has greater ambitions for himself: he embarks on the most expensive and ambitious film in Nigerian film history in the course of this profile, a project so big that it almost ruins him.

Wes Anderson, the dapper auteur behind such idiosyncratic movies as The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grand Budapest Hotel, wrote and directed this continuously surprising and delightful adolescent romance, set in 1965.

And yet, amidst all the noise, a movie has risen to the top tier of fall titles by the steady hand of a helmer who told us that he does not specifically describe himself as an auteur.

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...

A Cure for Wellness is the sort of movie we never get anymore (and probably never will get again), an ambitious as hell big budget niche project, a choice to throw money at an auteur like Gore Verbinski and let him make what he wants.

With the release of her film Face in the Crowd (2014), an examination of crowd dynamics and the individual, Prager solidified her standing as an auteur whose ominous, experimental works conjure feelings of anxiety, apprehension, and dread, while simultaneously offering the viewing pleasure and intrigue of a Hollywood movie.