When researching the
work of a great filmmaker, it's important to talk not only with the director but also with the cast, crew, and other associates in production.
This interview captures what became the final
moments of the great filmmaker's life: he would die of a heart attack in his home just a few hours later.
Though his films were often met with mixed critical reception at the time of their release, he is today rightfully viewed as one
of the greatest filmmakers of all time.
A masterpiece by any measure, is fresh, immediate and contemporary, but its wintry yet warm perspective is suffused with the wisdom and experience
of a great filmmaker who turns 85 on June 2.
«Django Unchained» is an insane mess in several ways, showing one
of our great filmmakers unfocused and chaotic, attempting racial and political insight while also satiating his own cinephila.
You should see The Post because it's an engrossing and rewarding drama told exceptionally well by a fine ensemble cast and one
of the great filmmakers putting out his best work in ages.
«Columbus» is the first feature film from director / writer / editor Kogonada, a Korean American filmmaker who has been known well for a number of enlightening video essays on the works
of the great filmmakers including Robert Bresson, Wes Anderson, Terrence Malick, Yasujirō Ozu, and Stanley Kubrick.
The Academy has overlooked an embarrassing
number of great filmmakers over the years, but the fact that Michael Hazanavicius already has more Oscars for Best Director than the great Stanley Kubrick ever will is pretty grim.
Haneke's dissections of human behaviour yield mixed rewards, although I believe he is one
of the greatest filmmakers currently working, and it's hard to imagine contemporary world cinema without him.
A wry nod to the way that many films, not least his own, are seen in Iran, it's a point of grave concern, as well as vibrant humour; the apotheosis of another hallmark film in the
career of a great filmmaker, and a resolute symbol of defiance.
If the
sign of a great filmmaker is his ability to make a bad actor seem good, Bird is a frickin» genius for making something Lindelof worked on not an utter catastrophe.
The film also brings Pattinson into the
orbit of another great filmmaker, Todd Field, who is producing the project after being originally attached to direct (he's now focusing on «The Creed Of Violence «-RRB-.
Novels can be put down and picked up again at will, allowing much greater freedom for long expository sequences and character development, and yet the
skill of a great filmmaker is to convey the information concisely, such that we feel we know the characters and plot as well as were they written, but within the time and attention - span limitations that are inherent on screen.
Paintings, installations, silkscreen prints, photographs, graphic novels, and videos are inspired by major
themes of the great filmmaker, like mystery, darkness, jealousy, fatal love, and madness.
Now at 21, she's worked with
many of the greatest filmmakers, including Wes Anderson, Peter Jackson and Peter Weir, shared the screen with Cate Blanchett and Bill Murray, and continues to grow as an international box office draw.
Guillermo del Toro is one
of those great filmmakers who manages to make beautiful arthouse cinema (Pan's Labyrinth) and bombastic, blockbuster robot movies (Pacific Rim) with an equally deft hand.
Allow us to do away with modesty for a moment and theorise on why our show works: it's not that we talk about the
works of great filmmakers, it's that each filmmaker is told through the unique perspective of that month's guest.
Beyond being one
of our greatest filmmakers, he's also one of our most self - aware, and understands that he's crossing the streams a little: He shoots this political drama like a long - lost Indiana Jones movie.
Synecdoche, New York is a work of soul - searching genius and his latest Anomalisa continues to cement Charlie Kaufman's reputation as one
of the greatest filmmakers working today.
Clearly one
of the great filmmakers of his generation, the 52 - year - old Fincher got his start on music videos and commercials in the late 1980s.
Regarded as one
of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Hitchcock's Psycho essentially invented the slasher genre while The Birds still haunts viewers to this day.
The result is, that it plays more like a voyeuristic film that a dirty old man made than one
of a great filmmaker.
In honor of the late Claude Chabrol, one
of the great filmmakers of the French New Wave, co-author with Eric Rohmer of the first book on Alfred Hitchcock, maker of moral thrillers and autopsier of the dis - ease of the bourgeoisie («Les Biches,» «La femme infidel,» «Le boucher,» «La rupture,» «Violette Nozière,» «La cérémonie»...), here is my Opening Shot (and closing shot) piece for «La femme infidel:
Then you're going to love this new HBO documentary about one
of the greatest filmmakers of all time — Alfred Hitchcock.
This weekend's release of stop - motion treat Isle of Dogs marks the return of one
of the greatest filmmakers working today, in my opinion: the...
«The film offers the audience an opportunity to embrace Rio de Janeiro through the lens of
some of the greatest filmmakers from around the world.»
The four films included in this box set offer a terrifically concentrated insight into the rapid development of one
of the great filmmakers, showing off his grounding in theatrical character insight even as the growing technical sophistication between films hints at visual splendor to come.
Like many
of the great filmmakers, there are certain hallmarks in Anderson's work and obsessions that the filmmaker can be seen returning to again and again, perhaps without even realizing it.
Described by Steven Spielberg as «one
of our great filmmakers, not just for the art and passion he put on screen, but for the impact he...
At once a road trip film and also a profoundly moving meditation on aging and memory, Faces Places is one of the best documentaries of this century so far, and a resounding artistic statement by one
of the great filmmakers of her time.
Described by Steven Spielberg as «one
of our great filmmakers, not just for the art and passion he put on screen, but for the impact he has made on the conscience of the world,» the films of producer and director Stanley Kramer (The Defiant Ones, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) frequently confronted social issues considered too controversial for the major studios.
After writing, directing and starring in approximately 50 silent shorts over the span of seven years, Charlie Chaplin took a shot at making a feature - length picture with The Kid, a resounding success that kicked off his rapid ascension as one
of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century.
From direction to editing to cinematography to score, w / #Dunkirk Christopher Nolan proves he is one
of the great filmmakers of our time
The most anticipated, and almost assuredly the best, World War II film of the summer, by one
of the greatest filmmakers of the past forty years, opens here tomorrow exclusively at the Pacific Place: director Ann Hui's Our Time Will Come.
It is for these reasons that Sarah Polley is set to be one
of the greatest filmmakers of her generation.
This August, it's time for a history lesson about two
of the greatest filmmakers to ever exist.