Sentences with phrase «octogenarian filmmakers»

And two octogenarian filmmakers, both of them winners of honorary Oscars, made the shortlist: 87 - year - old Frederick Wiseman, who directed Ex Libris: The New York Public Library, and 89 - year - old Agnès Varda, who shared directing duties on Faces Places with 34 - year - old artist JR..

Not exact matches

Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Golden Eye Award for documentary and the Toronto International Film Festival Documentary People's Choice Award, Faces Places creates an unexpected pairing of the octogenarian French New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda (The Gleaners & I) and the much younger street artist JR..

Octogenarian James Ivory, the acclaimed filmmaker of A Room with a View and Howards End, whose 1987 film Maurice was a landmark in gay cinema, was slated to direct Call Me, but he ended up writing the script and co-producing, handing over the reins to Guadagnino mainly as a result of financial pragmatism (Guadagnino refers to his production as «micro-budget»).