Sentences with phrase «movie auteur»

Robert Rodriguez, multi-talented action / adventure movie auteur is announcing his latest collaboration: Project Green Screen.

Legendary action movie auteur Walter Hill (The Driver; The Warriors; 48 Hours) delivers the ultra-violent pulpish pleasures in his female assassin shoot -»em - up, The Assignment (aka Tomboy), starring Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver.

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.

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

That was the decade when Carpenter — arguably the best B - movie auteur in the world during the 1980s and certainly the most audacious — lost his mojo.

Jaume Collet - Serra, the kind of B - movie auteur often called up to the big - budget majors for drab salvage jobs, wrings sincere tension from his bargain - bin Hitchcock scenario in The Shallows, then stirs in the perfect amount of pulp nuttiness.

The «Lord of the Rings» films turned Peter Jackson from midnight movie auteur to Oscar - winning superstar, but Tolkien wasn't the only influence on his style.

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.

Alfred Hitchcock's creepy classic has inspired five decades» worth of scary - movie auteurs with its technical mastery, its unexpected drama, and its terrific subtlety.

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.

The movie is a freak show for hipsters, many of whom once goggled at the grade - Z soft - core melodrama The Room and speculated on its plainly disturbed auteur.

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.

The same can be said of Quentin Tarantino («Pulp Fiction», «Inglorious Basterds»), a talented auteur who «graces» the movie - going public with a new film every 3 years or so.

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.

Stage and movie work followed, and Miller joined the stock company / entourage of low - budget auteur Roger Corman.

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.»

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.

But true - blue auteurs have ended up using the pseudonym: not for theatrical releases, but for butchered, home entertainment versions of their movies.

Could this be the movie that finally wins the director some auteur cred?

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

This movie is by an auteur who is in full command of his craft and has a clear, uncompromising vision of what he wants.

Well, I'm the kind of curious movie nerd who subsequently wonders which film was atop Kane auteur Orson Welles» personal list.

Meanwhile, Tarantino, despite his much larger budgets, has remained Tarantino, partly because his narrative and formal style and influences were recognizable after only two movies, and partly because he has obsessively returned to themes (most notably, revenge) and, like many auteurs, featured reoccurring actors (Jackson, Thurman, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel, Michael Parks, Christoph Waltz, Zoë Bell, Julie Dreyfus, et.al).

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.

It's been over a decade since we first entered The Room, but the cult midnight movie still draws legions of new fans and the legend around its mysterious auteur / creator Tommy Wiseau continues to build.

Soderbergh is simply an auteur when it comes to genre movies.

Wong Kar Wai By Olivier Assayas The Hong Kong movie game - changer is poetically reappraised by the cutting - edge French auteur in this appreciation of a man, a filmmaker, and a city

At the start of the year, the 29 - year - old was basically unknown: his first feature, musical «Guy And Madeline on a Park Bench,» had been well - liked but little - seen, and prior writing credits on 2013's contradictorily - titled «The Last Exorcism Part II» and Elijah Wood - starring B - movie «Grand Piano» didn't exactly suggest our next great auteur.

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.»

Their curious non-competitive status notwithstanding, these narrative and documentary premieres read like a wanna - see list for major indie names, either behind the camera or in front of it: movies you'd see whether it was the world premiere or not, with auteurs / filmmakers whose surnames stand on their own, like Solondz, Lonergan, Reichardt, Lee, Herzog, and much more.

Film - geek auteur projects, psychotronic fanboy - friendly blockbusters, over-the-top midnight movies, under - the - radar indie dramas and more music documentaries than you can shake a D.A. Pennebraker - approved stick at — the annual SXSW Film Festival (kicking off on March 10th) has always specialized in a sort of eclectic, lo - fi - meets - high - art - for - a-Shiner-Bock vibe when it comes to their programming.

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.

This one is his war movie, which all auteurs eventually take a crack at.

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.

Thus, the ideal auteur genius with the geek genre cred was out, and eventually Peyton Reed, the guy who directed the cheerleading movie Bring It On, was in.

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.

Apparently interested in auteurs, Stewart has worked with Olivier Assayas, Walter Salles, and David Fincher, and her upcoming projects include an untitled Kelly Reichardt film (once again starring Michelle Williams) and Woody Allen's next movie.

If you think it's high time that Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro joined fellow Mexican auteurs Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman, The Revenant) in the Oscar winners circle, The Shape of Water just may be the movie to do it.

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.

Bottle Rocket introduced the world to Anderson, but this is an almost perfect creation — the movie that cemented his auteur status and revived Bill Murray's career.

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.

Richard Linklater is America's most distinguished auteur in the subgenre of movies in which a tight knit group of men just kind of hang out for two hours.

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.

It has become something of a cliché to acknowledge the debt owed by the Movie Brats of the 1970s to the European auteurs of the 1950s and 1960s.

an ostensible horror movie that's really a larger parable of environmental catastrophe (among other things) from the «Black Swan» and «Noah» auteur Darren Aronofsky.