Sentences with phrase «one's directorial career»

But take no credit away; he demonstrates he's got a long and successful directorial career ahead of him.

Blood Simple was the first feature starring Joel Coen's soon - to - become wife, Frances McDormand; the first scored by Carter Burwell, who's collaborated — often, as here, magnificently — with the Coens on all their subsequent scores; and the first shot by cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who also worked on the Coens» next two films before embarking on his own directorial career with the Addams Family and Men in Black movies and Get Shorty.

While a number of critics consider the film the most accomplished of Lupino's early films, The Bigamist remains a problematic entry in Lupino's directorial career for most viewers.

Carrière's own directorial career thus far consists of a 1968 short subject and the 1985 feature L'Unique.

CHICAGO — Ben Affleck has reached the apex of his already impressive directorial career with the stunning «Argo,» a tight, tense machine of a film, a masterwork that delivers as comedy, action, drama, and more.

Howard is a fine film - maker, whose directorial career has been strong enough to stop us thinking of him primarily as wholesome Richie Cunningham from the TV sitcom Happy Days.

So why has Noah chosen to talk about Hopper's directorial career on the show?

Gerwig has an eye for every step of this character's journey, and in so doing, sets out on her own path toward what promises to be an exciting directorial career.

Fred C. Brannon enjoyed an unusual directorial career across an eight - year period at Republic Pictures.

A solid start in the very mixed directorial career of Mr. Tim Burton.

It speaks to not only this film, but Woody Allen's broader directorial career and philosophy.

But once you get past the wonky beards and stranger - than - fiction premise, Argo is toothless and inconsequential, particularly given Affleck's unusually strong directorial career to date (Gone Baby Gone, The Town).

02 Quentin Tarantino & The Hateful Eight Casual observation of various directorial careers suggest that filmmakers forsake brevity and indulge in repetition more adamantly the more famous they become.

A former assistant to Cecile B. DeMille, Sam Wood was a prolific journeyman at the start of his three - decade directorial career, helming eight pictures in 1920 alone.

The ultimate film — a ghost story that, like Gremlins, is in some ways the scary riposte to E.T. — strongly resembles Spielberg's work, and the subsequent suggestions that Spielberg had effectively directed it by proxy proved highly damaging to Hooper's emerging directorial career.

Mid-October saw Ben Affleck's directorial career excel further with ARGO.

Somehow, Lustig's directorial career sputtered out, but not before he directed two sequels, Maniac Cop 2 (1990) and Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1993).

Suffused with a lingering post — World War II disillusionment while also evincing the playfulness and fascination with theatrical performance and conspiracy that would become hallmarks for the director, Paris Belongs to Us marked the provocative start to a brilliant directorial career.

Caddyshack marks the first in Harold Ramis» (Groundhog Day, Analyze This) now - distinguished directorial career, and you have to give him credit — he knows what's funny.

Brad Anderson has made a thrilling directorial career out of tackling many different genres, including the romantic comedy («Next Stop Wonderland»), the horror - thriller («Session 9») and the crime - mystery («Transsiberian»), along with movies that defy categorization like the Christian Bale vehicle «The Machinist.»

And remember it was just a year ago that Tarantino was talking like his feature directorial career has a very finite span; how many of these ideas will he realistically make?

2017's Going in Style is the big - budget attempt at directorial career reboot for unfashionable funnyman auteur Zack Braff, who has assembled his own septuagenarian comedy supergroup in Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Alan Arkin.

Ben Affleck's directorial career suffers its first major setback with «Live by Night,» a gorgeously crafted gangster film that doesn't really add anything new to the genre.

Release: Friday, October 28, 2016 [Theater] Written by: David Koepp Directed by: Ron Howard Ron Howard is a fairly prolific filmmaker, having maintained a schedule of roughly a film every two years throughout a 40 - plus - year long directorial career.

Not only is director Ben Affleck coming off a Best Picture Oscar for his last directorial effort, «Argo,» but he started his already - impressive directorial career with an adaptation of a novel by the same author of the source material, Dennis Lehane, who not only penned «Gone Baby Gone» but «Mystic River,» «Shutter Island,» and others.

Midshoot the Hollywood veteran, whose directorial career has proved hardy enough to handle a few flubs alongside a few hits, replaced directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, whose penchant for improvisation didn't go down well with the franchise overlords.

Producer Stanley Kramer was on the cusp of establishing himself as America's cinematic conscience; his own directorial career would take wing a few years later with such prominent message films as The Defiant Ones (1958), Judgment at Nuremburg (1961), and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).

Then your directorial career can flourish.

At the end of his directorial career, Apfel had been reduced to churning out low - grade melodramas for cut - rate studios.

His directorial career began in 1941 with La Isla de la Pasion.

Tom Hooper's directorial career has taken him from TV series to high - profile dramas such as John Adams and the Oscar - winning film The King's Speech

Clint Eastwood began his directorial career back in 1971 with Play Misty For Me.

You think you know a guy... For the whole of his directorial career, former animator Tim Burton has drawn an image of himself as Hollywood's foremost misunderstood weirdo.

For most of his directorial career he was deemed as noncommercial by Hollywood, meaning he was limited in terms of budget and distribution compared to other prominent filmmakers at the time.

The majority of Joe Swanberg's directorial career has been making micro-budget indie films such as Kissing on the...

Clearly deciding not to waste the downtime he had between work stints on Vince Vaughn comedy Business Or Pleasure, Frost has come up with a way to kick off a directorial career by generating his own material.

While the Academy - Award nominee meant to retire from acting in hopes of starting a directorial career with his latest, the indie pic, «Sympathy For Delicious» starring Orlando Bloom and Juliette Lewis, (no really), his cooler head prevailed and thankfully for audiences, The Kids Are All Right,» was an excellent experience that made him decide he couldn't leave his vocation.

Gerwig's directorial debut is impressive and launches her directorial career by proving she will be a force to be reckoned with.

It sounds like a film Affleck could handle, and it's a step away from the 1970s - tinged crime thrillers that he has used to launch his directorial career to date.

HitFix film critic Drew McWeeny joins the show to talk the films of April 2014, look at why the rest of the world is increasingly getting Hollywood blockbusters before the US, and pay tribute to the great Harold Ramis as we explore his directorial career.

The director is Mark Robson, one of the two editors on Citizen Kane (the other was Robert Wise, who also launched his directorial career by making several films for Lewton).

The Dissolve: Can you see using your directorial career to get yourself into types of roles you haven't played before?

«Thunderbolt & Lightfoot» (1974), 6:30 p.m.: With this road movie / caper drama about two modern - day highwaymen (Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges), Michael Cimino auspiciously kick - started his directorial career.

He began his directorial career with The Maltese Falcon, not simply an iconic detective film and a defining film noir but an adaptation so precise that the previous screen versions have been long forgotten.

And along the way, it launches the still - influential format of the mockumentary and the directorial career of Rob Reiner.

But as he continues to build on his directorial career, how many «Shameless» seasons does he have left in him?

Luca is still pretty new in his directorial career though he's got one masterpiece under his belt (I Am Love) so i have high hopes for future films.

Peter Bogdanovich had a remarkable start to his directorial career.

Since 1996's My Sex Life... Or How I Got Into An Argument, a three - hour dissection of modern relationships that's every bit as exhaustive as its title, restlessness and discord have been the primary modes of Arnaud Desplechin's directorial career.