Sentences with phrase «of scenarist»

Taylor's strengths are clearly that of a scenarist, of exploring voyeurism, of compiling effective soundtracks, and of culling excellent performances from largely - unproven actors (David Arquette in Dream with the Fishes; Tunney here)-- he is most certainly not a thriller director, and his dedication to being one has hurt both of his films to some degree.

Action in the North Atlantic is solid wartime propaganda with a rather endearing inner lining of left - wing politics, courtesy (no doubt) of scenarist John Howard Lawson, who based his screenplay on a novel by maritime specialist Guy Gilpatric.

Not exact matches

Despite the efforts of Producer Irving Thalberg, Director Frank Lloyd, three scenarists and $ 2,000,000 to give it balance, polish and direction, the picture lacks all three.

Brett Ratner is a little easier to take than usual in his screen - specific commentary with screenwriter (well, scenarist) Jeff Nathanson, but he's impossible in the included «Making Magic Out of Mire» (9 mins.)

As a prank, the resulting image of a man trying to free himself from the vise - like grip the machine has on his genitalia — complete with a (hopefully) prosthetic member that stretches to painful extremes — is certainly shocking and slightly humorous, but Knoxville and the scenarists offer no reason that the character is in that predicament in the first place.

The Final Fantasy composer and scenarist then chose two members of the audience to appear on stage to form two teams.

A lyrical scenarist of everyday strangeness, Crewdson's work will delight any fan of David Lynch or the Coen brothers.

He was the most politically conscious and satirical of the American artists, a splenetic and grotesque scenarist whose tableaux revile the American dream, mocking postwar affluence with dark echoes of the Depression and an atmosphere of fetid decay.