Sentences with phrase «now legendary filmmakers»

Inspired by the adventures of Doyle's brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, and based on Eve Titus» engaging book Basil of Baker Street, The Great Mouse Detective is a smartly sketched blend of comedy, action, adolescent drama and mystery which marks the directing debut of now legendary filmmakers Ron Clements and John Musker, important creative forces behind such Disney animated blockbusters as The Princess and the Frog, as well as the aforementioned The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.

At first glance American Graffiti appears to be a nostalgia trip back to the early 1960s, the teenage years of its now legendary filmmakers — producer Francis Ford Coppola who at the time had just directed The Godfather and writer / director George Lucas who would go on to create the Star Wars franchise.

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And now, perhaps most promising of all, several of the legendary filmmaker's most talented disciples have formed their own out company and begun to make their own movies in the Ghibli tradition.

Now the concept itself wasn't original as The Magnificent Seven was actually inspired by the 1954 film Seven Samurai directed by legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

Now, he's on his own as the director of the new cinephilic documentary Hitchcock / Truffaut, which focuses on the legendary interview sessions between Alfred Hitchcock and critic / filmmaker François Truffaut in 1962 and Truffaut's subsequent book.

Legendary filmmaker Spike Lee has many things: an impressive film resume, a Netflix series called She's Got ta Have It, a new Brooklyn - themed Rolex watch, floor seats at every Knicks game, and now, his very own lookalike.

Legendary French filmmaker Agnes Varda, now age 89, receives an honorary Oscar in Hollywood, while The Society of Voice Arts & Sciences has bestowed upon Lily Tomlin the Voice Arts Icon Award, presented at New York's Lincoln Center.