Sentences with phrase «of times the filmmaker»

It is perhaps the most Kubrickian image of the year, which is saying something, given the number of times the filmmaker's name has been evoked in critical discussion of the year's cinema.

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Five women accused the comedian, filmmaker, and Emmy winner Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct in a report in The New York Times on Thursday.

Award - winning filmmaker Ken Burns is responsible for some of the most moving and powerful documentary series of our time.

Munn, who is involved in the Time's Up initiative and publicly accused filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual misconduct, said that while she believes that comedians exist to make light of dark situations, Chappelle crossed a line.

There's even one point when Harding's mother criticizes the filmmakers for keeping her out of the story for a long stretch of time.

Though at times the movie feels like a laundry list of all the ways Jobs could be cruel to his closest companions, small moments of compassion prevent the filmmakers from portraying him as completely heartless.

He tells The New York Times that the filmmakers took Avery's side in telling his story and failed to mention several key pieces of the state's evidence against Avery.

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay's version of the classic sci - fi kids» novel — in which three youngsters travel through time...

Noel Murray at The Los Angeles Times also wasn't much of a fan, but wrote that we should «give credit to the filmmakers for making a faith - affirming picture that aims to be more thoughtful than maudlin.»

On any given day, the front pages of such mainstream Indian newspapers as The Hindustan Times and the Times of India veer between celebrity - mongering — Britney Spears's new hairstyle - and what appears to be «consumer nationalism» - reports on Indian tycoons, beauty queens, fashion designers, filmmakers, and other achievers in the West.

Los Angeles Times: Charity head says «Innocence of Muslims» filmmaker misled him One of the purported filmmakers behind «Innocence of Muslims,» the low - budget anti-Muslim film that has generated unrest across the Arab world, issued a statement Monday saying that he as duped.

Noelle (foodie, yogi, and writer of the blog) and I (foodie, filmmaker, and photographer of the blog) met when she hired me as a barista at a coffee shop in Appleton, WI that she was managing at the time.

A handful of young children reveal their thoughts in Bay Area filmmaker Ellen Bruno's wonderful documentary, «Split,» which is, at times, heart - wrenching in its honesty although it's clear that parental conflict causes them the most stress, not the divorce per se, and not being able to see their father as much as they'd like.

They still end up doing most of the caretaking and household chores, even if they work full time,» says Montreal filmmaker Sharon Hyman, who is working on a documentary called Apartners: Living Happily Ever Apart.

Filmmaker Josh Fox, who has spent a lot of time on the road with Sanders in recent months and is not a fan of Clinton, said the Democratic runner - up has revealed that America is more progressive than anyone previously suspected.

Well, let's compliment the filmmakers; Mark Mathis one of the producers was kind enough to bring the film to our offices and so we got a chance to watch it, and after we watched it, we had, at times rather...

«The craft of popular moviemaking is based on hard - won, practice - forged, psychological principles that have evolved over a long time, fitting stories and their presentation to our cognitive and perceptual capacities,» adds Armstrong, who suggests that professional psychologists can learn much from studying the structure of filmmakers» products.

Alexis Gambis is a French - Venezuelan scientist - veered filmmaker who has been featured by The New York Times, TED, Nature, Science, Cell, The Village Voice, and WNYC; he is Founder & Executive Director of the Imagine Science Film Festival.

Malin Akerman was spotted having a whale of a good time while at the Apple Soho Store for the «Meet the Filmmaker» event for her upcoming film last Tuesday night.

Twenty - five million views in two days — that's the viral pull of this video of 20 strangers asked to kiss for the first time on camera by filmmaker Tatia Pllieva for Los Angeles - based fashion brand Wren.

«Legendary filmmaker George A. Romero passed away on Sunday July 16, listening to the score of «The Quiet Man,» one of his all - time favorite films, with his wife, Suzanne Desrocher Romero, and daughter, Tina Romero at his side,» the statement said.

There is a lot to learn from Alfred Hitchcock's work, his narrative was close to perfect and the skill to create suspense by depriving us of the payoff and restricting our view forcing us to imagine how bad the situation was, for the longest time just to deliver it at the peek of our attention, and that my friends, that is a gift for the film fanatic as for the filmmaker.

American actor and filmmaker Benjamin Géza Affleck - Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California, and was raised in Cambridge, It's that time of year: for drinking and partying and then making New Year's resolutions.

Though the movie doesn't exactly open with a lot of promise - Hemsworth's character is, for example, first glimpsed seducing a nurse à la James Bond - Rush eventually settles to become a consistently engrossing drama that boasts a handful of genuinely exciting racing sequences (although, by that same token, it's hard not to wish that filmmaker Ron Howard had spent a little more time on the individual races).

Directed by Kiwi filmmaker Taika Waititi (of Hunt for the Wilderpeople, What We Do in the Shadows), Thor: Ragnarok finds the son of Odin in a race against time to prevent Ragnarok — the end of the universe — at the hands of Hela (Cate Blanchett), the Goddess of Death.

The filmmakers know how to craft a solid actioner, even at times if it's not truly perfect, there are a lot of things going for this film that surpasses the low points.

By the time the interminable, seemingly endless climax rolls around, Battleship has definitively established itself as nothing less than an intolerable and flat - out reprehensible waste of time - which is surprising, certainly, given the presence of Berg behind the camera (ie the filmmaker is, after all, responsible for such entertaining fare as Hancock and Very Bad Things).

There's little doubt that Real Steel's biggest problem is its excessively deliberate pace and unreasonably overlong running time, as filmmaker Shawn Levy, working from John Gatins» screenplay, has infused the movie with an incongruously epic sensibility that all - too - often threatens to negate its positive attributes - with the fairly pointless (and surprisingly unpleasant) robot - vs - bull brawl that opens the picture effectively setting a tone of regrettable sloppiness (ie Charlie goes through two robots before settling on his final fighter).

It's a thin premise that's employed to watchable yet far - from - engrossing effect by Howard, as the first - time filmmaker's ongoing emphasis on pursuit sequences inevitably lends the proceedings a decidedly monotonous quality - with the novelty of the over-the-top chases wearing off in as demonstrable and firm a manner as one might've feared.

It's clear almost immediately that filmmaker Shawn Levy just doesn't have the right sensibility for this material, as the director, known for his fluffy, decidedly comedic offerings, has infused This Is Where I Leave You with a terminally lightweight feel that grows more and more problematic as time progresses - as the absence of authentically heartfelt moments ultimately proves disastrous (ie the film possesses the feel of a glorified sitcom, for the most part).

The filmmakers make the time - honored mistake of going too far with animal fart and poop humor, and it takes away from the hoped - for effect of inuring Mr. Popper, and the audience, to the waddling animals.

To me, it all seemed that the filmmakers didn't care about the end result of the film, and this is a film that is not worth your time, and should be avoided if you're looking for something funny.

The movie covers a wide swath of his life and, though there doesn't appear to be a book biography of Mr. Spinney, my only complaint is that the filmmaker tried to cram too much material in, so that it felt much longer than its hour and a half run time.

The white family who, like so many others at the time, flees from South Africa in The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat also draws empathy from the filmmaker, who as a resident of South Africa herself, realized that there were whole generations of Caucasian immigrants who knew no other home.

July is a provocative and honorably independent filmmaker, but given the meager rewards of investing our time, The Future wasn't worth the wait.

The big difference in Swedish filmmaker Sara Jordeno's vibrant documentary portrait is that it surveys the lives of LGBTQ youth - of - color at a time when Black Lives Matter has become a national movement and trans rights is making a long - overdue entry into the political conversation.

By the time the shocking (yet not entirely unexpected) conclusion rolls around, Breathe has established itself as a promising effort from an exciting new filmmaker - with Laurent's stylish sensibilities setting her apart from many of her contemporaries (ie it's impossible not to be captivated by an outdoor tracking shot that follows a character through the rooms of her small apartment).

But what they may not realize is that this time around, due to the grand scale of some of the film's scenes, coupled with the difficulty of creating water using stop - motion animation, the filmmakers employed the use of CGI.

And second, Kubrick ran out of time and money just like many another ambitious filmmaker; the unique and puzzling «Dorchester Hotel» ending was apparently considered a compromise.

This enveloping dream of an epic narrative experiment comes from the great Chilean - born, France - based filmmaker Raúl Ruiz (Time Regained).

First - time filmmaker Tony Aloupis, formerly frontman of the New Jersey rock band Shadows of Dreams, serves up Americana like a stale slice of apple pie.

By the time we arrive at «the incident,» the filmmakers are simultaneously mainlining and distorting the scandal's iconic figures and moments: posing a bloodied Harding over Kerrigan's (Caitlin Carver) bruised body; imagining a scene of Harding and Kerrigan bonding over pizza, booze, and En Vogue in a hotel room; and introducing «bodyguard» Shawn Eckhardt (Paul Walter Hauser) and «hitman» Shane Stant (Ricky Russert), the moronic goons who wrenched Harding's narrative away from her and turned it into tabloid grist.

That gap, though, seems as if it was enough time for the filmmakers of «The Strangers: Prey at Night» to get it right.

Award - winning documentary filmmaker R.J. Cutler gives us a surprisingly personal look into the life of the former Vice President from his early days in Washington to his time in the White House with President George W. Bush.

It's a seemingly foolproof premise that's employed to distinctly (and consistently) underwhelming effect by director Johannes Roberts, as the filmmaker, working from a screenplay cowritten with Noel Clarke, Dave Fairbanks, and Marc Small, offers up a narrative that's been jam - packed with generic, hackneyed elements that slowly - but - surely drain one's interest - with, for example, the movie's absence of sympathetic characters growing more and more problematic as time progresses.

While clearly on the side of the protesters, the filmmakers are still determined to explain every legal detail, and at times matters become bogged down in endless televised journalists and snappish legislators.

The filmmakers have long stopped pretending to find anything troubling or transgressive about Christian's appetites — he might wield that vibrator a bit punitively at times, but really, who doesn't — leaving them little to do besides cut away distractedly to Hyde's harebrained scheme and usher the Greys toward the more ominous prospect of long - term commitment and parenthood.

Also not a fan is Justin Chang of the L.A. Times, who writes about this «hectoring, masturbatory slog» of a movie, «Lars von Trier is a stupid, arrogant troll and, when the mood strikes him, a reasonably talented filmmaker.

Although, for a time, Downey's stormy offscreen life and personal problems threatened to challenge his public image, he quickly bounced back and overcame these setbacks, with a continued array of impressive roles on the big and small screens that never sacrificed his audience appeal or affability.The son of underground filmmaker Robert Downey, Downey Jr. was born in New York City on April 4, 1965.

There's consequently a lack of momentum here that grows more and more pronounced as time slowly progresses, while the movie's anti-climactic final stretch ensures that Snowden ends on as underwhelming and forgettable a note as one could envision - which ultimately confirms the movie's place as a tremendously disappointing missed opportunity and yet another subpar effort from a once - vital filmmaker.