Sentences with phrase «of auteur directors»

Yet in being critically successful, the games earned a remastered collection on the PlayStation 3, widening the games» audience, and putting Fumito Ueda in a special list of auteur directors.

The sustained critical success of auteur directors like Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier, the emergence in the 1990s and 2000s of the «new...

Like much of the auteur directors post-Days of Heaven work, you will get out of the film what you bring into it.

The sustained critical success of auteur directors like Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier, the emergence in the 1990s and 2000s of the «new extremism» particularly in French cinema, and the rise in recent...

Coming out of the 1970s, the era of the auteur director and truly mind - blowing cinema that bled into the Oscar race, was really the last time the Academy hummed.

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Regardless of opinion, he was not only one of the biggest stars of the postwar era but also one of the most powerful, and as the writer, director, and producer of many of his features, he qualified as a comic auteur firmly in the tradition of Chaplin and Keaton.Born Joseph Levitch in Newark, NJ, on March 16, 1926, he was the son of borscht - belt comics, spending the majority of his childhood living with relatives but joining his parents each summer as they performed in the Catskills.

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.

Unlike Chaplin and Keaton, they were not themselves great auteur directors, or worked with any; the same could be said of Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers, but their respective phenomena overrided the impact of any decision - making body behind the camera, as a hurricane is to a weatherman.

«Black Nativity,» loosely based on a play by Langston Hughes, is brought beautifully to life by writer / director Kasi Lemmons, a true auteur in every sense of the word.

Director Matt Wolf's critically acclaimed documentary examines the life and work of Arthur Russell, an influential singer, songwriter, cello player and disco auteur who died tragically in 1992.

«Cockney auteur» Nick Love, director of Goodbye Charlie Bright, The Football Factory and The Firm, talks to Jason Solomons about football, fashion and funk

«I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK» (Pathfinder) is an offbeat character piece by South Korean auteur Pak Chan - wook (of «Oldboy» fame) and foreign terrors come from «The Child's Eye» (Lionsgate), a Hong Kong production from The Pang Brothers, and «The Sylvian Experiments» (Lionsgate) from Japanese screenwriter turned director Hiroshi Takahashi.

The variety of subject matter and tones he manages is more than impressive, making him an acclaimed Hollywood director who is able to bring an auteur's style to every project.

Very much a genre stylist in the mold of golden - age Hollywood directors like Anthony Mann or Raoul Walsh, Uchida showed little discernible personal style to mark him as an auteur in the French critical mold, but the uniformly high quality of his works and his ability to succeed in a variety of genres mark him as a filmmaker very ripe for (re) consideration by critics.

Organizers of London's 2012 Olympic effort have clearly filched the Chinese memo, as they've secured their own now - cuddly auteur as artistic director of their opening ceremony — one Mr. Danny Boyle.

What has audiences so eager this time is in part the combination of an auteur African - American director (Ryan Coogler of «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»), a heavyweight cast (Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong» o, Angela Bassett and Forest Whitaker) and a soundtrack co-produced by a rap superstar (Kendrick Lamar), all working on one of the most popular franchises in Hollywood.

«Midnight in Paris» McAdams teamed up with Owen Wilson (again) and Woody Allen for the 2011 Oscar winner «Midnight in Paris,» kicking off a stretch of prestige films in which she worked with auteur director such as Terrence Malick on «To the Wonder,» Brian de Palma on «Passion» and Wim Wenders on «Every Thing Will Be Fine.»

While most horror films of today struggle to out - shock one another, thankfully there are still auteurs like director, Brian O'Malley (Let Us Prey), who delight in a slower, more gracefully paced approach to eeriness.

The opposing forces are a direct reflection of the challenge undertaken by director and co-writer Craig Brewer, who only half sells out as he tries to leave an auteur's mark while remaining faithful to a source that's loaded with dated, studio - friendly hokum.

Zhao Tao's awe - inspiring performance and the pure audacity of director Jia Zhangke make Mountains May Depart the auteur's best effort to date.

Esteemed as one of the most prominent French independent directors of the post-World War II era, Jean - Pierre Melville laid a proto - auteur framework for the French Nouvelle Vague directors that followed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Esteemed as one of the most prominent French independent directors of the post-World War II era, Jean - Pierre Melville laid a proto - auteur framework for the French Nouvelle Vague directors that followed in the...

Joan Micklin Silver By Shonni Enelow The director of such lovingly idiosyncratic films as Crossing Delancey and Hester Street merits reconsideration as a true offbeat American auteur

WHY: Why: The last thing anyone expected after the disaster of 2014's «Ouija» was another installment, but this unexpected prequel from horror auteur Mike Flanagan shows just how much difference a good script and a talented director can make.

I thought about changing my prediction to a shock win for Michael Haneke until I remembered that no director of a foreign language film has ever won this prize — no not even Federico Fellini or Ingmar Bergman, Oscar's indisputable favorites as foreign auteurs go.

Unlike the «Auteur» or «Shreiber» theories favouring either the director or the writer as the true author of a film, the «Fís» Theory holds that a true singular voice can only be attained when the director is also the writer.

Director / co writer M. Night Shyamalan, working from Will Smith's story idea, continues his streak of films that make you wonder what the heck happened to the young auteur who gave us The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs.

For a director active during the Easy Riders / Raging Bulls era of auteur - led 1970s American cinema he is a vague, near invisible presence, yet his reputation is monumental.

From the outset, the loss of Greengrass as director should have a detrimental effect on the overall quality of this film, but this isn't the main obstacle facing Legacy, as they have a very capable auteur in the form of Gilroy, and it should be remembered that the franchise was kick - started by Doug Liman some ten years ago.

He showed a brief spark in 2008 with his Spanish installment, «Vicky Cristina Barcelona,» but the aging director is sadly less than a pale shadow of the auteur / performer who enthralled audiences in the «70s, «80s, and even the early «90s with masterful comedies such as «Annie Hall,» «Crimes and Misdemeanors,» and «Husbands and Wives.»

I'm not the only one who regards it as Lewton's greatest film, and I assume the main reason for its neglect is auteurist thinking — only directors are seen as auteurs — and the absence of stars.

Similarly, I'd prefer to think that the dullness of Damage isn't attributable to the remarkable Jeremy Irons, whom I consider an auteur — that is, a more powerful creative presence than any writer or director he works with.

A debonair auteur director engaging in a passive - aggressive, hyper - repetitive, dizzying line reading brings an inconsequential piece of dialogue to breathless relief.

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.

The rest are of the supplements are just grace notes: a relaxed interview with actor Rod Taylor, a tribute to «The Original Inglorious Bastards» with director Enzo Castellari and actor Bo Svenson (who both make cameo's in QT's film), a mock - featurette on «The Making of Nation's Pride» (with the performers all in character — Eli Roth has a blast playing the sneering autocratic German auteur of this «lost» classic of Nazi propaganda cinema) and montages showing the playfulness of QT and his cast and crew on the set.

Keith Urban and Kelly Clarkson provided an impromptu harmonization of the staid «And the award goes to...» line before announcing the Best Song winner, while Franco invited The Room mastermind Tommy Wiseau on stage while accepting his Best Actor trophy — though the director / star notably nudged the infamous auteur away when he tried to take the microphone.

There are very few modern screenwriters who can lay claim to auteur status over a director and — for better or worse — one of them is Sorkin.

Relievedly, the competition jury headed by Italian auteur Nanni Moretti felt differently, naming Reygadas as the surprise winner of the festival's best director prize.

One of the great pleasures of being an aficionado of auteur cinema lies in the process of gradually discovering a new world — a world created, brick by brick, film by film, by a director over time.

He's a fascinating figure, Wilder — a director of obvious genius who has defied easy auteur classification not because he didn't have his distinguishing characteristics (the outsider hero yearning for assimilation, for instance), but because his films are only queasily liked and then only at arm's length.

And Ava DuVernay, whose versatility and remarkable C.V. should already have her viewed as one of the premiere American auteur directors.

Fans of the Korean auteur (as well as fans of good sci - fi in general) were understandably very vexed by the decision to cut the film down by twenty minutes and add expository voice over, eager to see the director's original, uncompromising vision.

Among the biggest negative effects of the auteur theory is the idea that filmmakers are knowable; that every director not only has a distinctive influ...

Our Sunhi: Korean auteur Hong San - soo «s latest — earning him the best director award at the Locarno Film Festival — offers a quaint comedy of manners.

Two other Turkish films from noted auteurs were in the retrospective section: Semih Kaplanoglu's Süt (Milk, 2008), a rich story of a young man's quest to become a poet, done with sharp social observation by the director, but degenerating into hazy symbolism by the end, a device that also marred the director's next film, Mal (Honey, 2010); and Kasaba (Small Town, 1997) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the director's debut feature, already displaying his steady hand and broad compassion.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

Actors who regularly work at scale or discount for directors they believe in — actors like Matt Dillon, Jane Fonda, Morgan Freeman, Gerard Depardieu, Genevieve Bujold, William Hurt, Peter Coyote — are in effect subsidizing what's left of the auteur film.

Some critics have described Richard Linklater, the director of «Boyhood,» as a defiant auteur because of the personal nature of this coming - of - age story (which even features the director's daughter in a key supporting role).

After all, he is now a true «auteur», being credited as the sole writer, producer and director of The Happening.