Sentences with phrase «old auteur»

In any case, for a man who said he made his last film two years ago, it was a spectacular return from retirement for the 79 - year old auteur.

The Best Actress trophy went to Nato Murvanidze (above, right) for her role in Scary Mother, the riveting first feature from 27 year - old auteur Ana Urushadze (above, left).

Without giving anything away, the 72 - year old auteur's filmmaking remains incredibly sprightly; one scene is as shocking and heart - stopping as anything a younger British filmmaker might serve up, and the final third of the film lets him tackle the issues facing today's youth with surprising credibility and nuance.

Filmmakers Jake Paltrow (Gwyneth's brother) and Noah Baumbach (WHILE WE»RE YOUNG) keep things simple with this expansive retrospective on the 75 - year - old auteur's career.

Not exact matches

After all, the 71 - year - old French auteur, whose film Beau Travail remains one of the great works of the last few decades, has taken an especially grim turn as of late, with movies like Bastards, White Material and The Intruder exploring some of the darker sides of contemporary humanity.

Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz (wife of auteur Ulrich Seidl) and Severin Fiala first present Goodnight Mommy as a mystery with a horror film premise — two nine - year - old twin brothers question their mother's identity after a facial surgery leaves most of her...

The first time I made a year - end list for Scanners, I did it by suggesting double - bills of 2006 films with older films (much like what contributors to The Auteurs did this year).

Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz (wife of auteur Ulrich Seidl) and Severin Fiala first present Goodnight Mommy as a mystery with a horror film premise — two nine - year - old twin brothers question their mother's identity after a facial surgery leaves most of her face covered with bandages.

Where much talk of film culture necessarily targets the social conditions enabled (and disabled) by government, institutions, big business, etc, an older tradition in film criticism takes a step away from this «materialist» fray, to revel in the visions of special auteurs.

At the start of the year, the 29 - year - old was basically unknown: his first feature, musical «Guy And Madeline on a Park Bench,» had been well - liked but little - seen, and prior writing credits on 2013's contradictorily - titled «The Last Exorcism Part II» and Elijah Wood - starring B - movie «Grand Piano» didn't exactly suggest our next great auteur.

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.

Supposedly Hayao Miyazaki's final movie, The Wind Rises is a nostalgic, «I'm making this one for me» swansong from the 73 - year - old animation auteur.

Park Chan - Wook's (Old Boy) American debut Stoker, an odd little film if ever there was one, has the Asian auteur taking on Hitchcock.

While, as always, there were many worthwhile films by filmmakers new and old, two of the finest were by bona fide auteurs: Wong Kar - wai's The Grandmaster and Lav Diaz's Norte, the End of History.

Together, they paint a puckish portrait of the auteur, from Bale's discovery that Malick would often shoot him surreptitiously — at last justifying his Method posturing between takes — to Chief Stephen R. Adkins of the Chickahominy Tribe revealing that «Terry» (always «Terry») told him to consider the title ironic after Adkins expressed his displeasure with a 5,000 - year - old civilization being Eurocentrically referred to as «new.»

The 39 - year - old actor, who appeared alongside the inexplicable auteur Tommy Wiseau in the breathtakingly incoherent cult favorite The Room, had plenty to show me.

Luchino Visconti comes to mind as an obvious predecessor to this 64 - year - old director's multiform auteur profile, except that Visconti didn't link the three mediums quite so decisively.

Steven Soderbergh, US cinema's most unpredictable auteur, tricked out a shlockily old - fashioned gaslight - thriller format with a scuzzy iPhone aesthetic and sharp gender commentary in Unsane, and got a lofty Berlin film festival premiere for his trouble.

The American auteur's latest stars Willem Dafoe alongside a group of newcomers in a film focusing on a six - year - old girl and her group of friends one Floridian summer as they embark on adventures while the adults contend with hard times.

The beloved American auteur has lined up a cast of old favorites and new collaborators for his first film to be made outside of the U.S.

Aside from Jean - Luc Godard, it's hard to think of an octogenarian auteur who remains as vital and intellectually playful as 84 - year - old documentary master Frederick Wiseman.

But Waititi also knows there's a unique groove to be found in the middle of all of this, and when the movie syncs up everything from its auteur's facility for sight gags to the actors» impressive young - fuck - up - meets - old - fart chemistry, Wilderpeople generates enough good will to make the stalest of plot devices feel semi-fresh.

«Old School» and «Hangover» director Todd Phillips fancies himself an auteur, but here it seems like he's imitating David O Russell imitating Martin Scorsese.

The film - obsessed stand - up and TV auteur stars as a successful sitcom producer who finds himself at wit's end when his idol, a Woody Allen-esque movie director (John Malkovich), takes a leering interest in his spoiled 17 - year - old daughter (Chloë Grace Moretz).

At the center of this story's curious intrigue is its enigmatic auteur, Tommy Wiseau, a man who denies (in Trump - ish fashion) his obvious foreign accent and old age.

With the exception of the Mighty Malick, a lot of the American indie up - and - comers (Jeff Nichols, Kelly Reichardt, Azazel Jacobs, Sean Durkin, Mike Mills, among others) were often doing more interesting things than the American old guard auteurs (Scorsese, Allen, I suppose we can even include Payne and Fincher here too).

by Walter Chaw A bona fide auteur in an age of facile pretenders, Guillermo del Toro is the pulp genre's Martin Scorsese, his films filtering devout Catholic imagery through a lurid colour palette and obsessed with insectile machineries and mentor relationships between boys and old men.

Who, what, when: In America's bicentennial year of 1976, somehow a 47 - year - old Italian art - house auteur with a penchant for flashy white - rimmed eyeglasses and on - screen gender clashes involving sex and politics, was lauded for her World War II concentration - camp picaresque «Seven Beauties.»

It does, however, continue the auteur's knack for mining astonishing breakout performances from young actors, as near - novice Tahar Rahim splinters the screen as a 19 year - old illiterate enduring the harshest passage into adulthood imaginable.

Many of you won't yet have heard of 29 year - old Parisian actor and model Duvauchelle, but France's premier auteurs certainly have: this year alone has seen the guy's face (and ink - heavy physique) crop up in new works from Alain Resnais, André Téchiné and Claire Denis.

With respect to «the old ways», I wonder if / how you would go about evaluating the impact of different «stages» in the assembly line; or what effect collaboration can have here (as opposed, say, to a singular / auteur artist doing all their own pencilling, inking and colouring).

Generously crammed with entertaining dialog and awash with the sort of boundless imagination which has long deserted many of the elder auteurs in the genre, Super Chibi Knight's myriad setting spans everything from haunted forests and pirate ships, through to temples and lost mines and in showing such variety does a great job of providing a kaleidoscopic aperture into the unfettered imagination of an eight - year old gamer.