If only the filmmakers better knew how to balance Tilly's authenticity with the satirical zing they never attain.
Clare Peploe's giddy adaptation of Pierre Marivaux's Le Triomphe de L'Amour comes to the screen in a collection of whimsical styles that
only a filmmaker like Peploe would attempt.
Taking a break from his either commercially successful or critically acclaimed filmmaking, soderbergh does
something only a filmmaker as successful, versatile, and talented is allowed to do: make something totally self - indulgent.
Boasting a canine cast of exquisitely neurotic dachshunds — all of them bearing the same pinched expression as Jane Adams in Solondz's Happiness — Wiener - Dog follows the trajectory of one dog traipsing into a series of domestic
traps only this filmmaker could devise.
Why this is
so only the filmmaker and writer know, as it's never made clear to the viewer (Hey, I would have probably not bought into any explanation... but at least make some reason up for this gibberish).
'» If
only the filmmakers behind this $ 100 million disastrophe had the gumption to let such risible, campy details wash over more of the production.
Now,
if only the filmmakers would drop or rewrite the irritating final narration, which restates what the audience has just seen as though it were an astounding revelation.
It's true that it's an old chestnut of contemporary Hollywood comedy that close friends must undergo a dramatic, trial separation in the second act before being reunited in the third, but the Farrellys must be
the only filmmakers who have made it their business to really own that particular cliché, and to make it less of an obligatory (and often hollow) dramatic feint.
The Russo Brothers aren't
the only filmmakers involved with Avengers: Infinity War.
Kevin Smith is
the only filmmaker who seems to want to end that way.
De Palma says, despite the ubiquity of Hitch's influence on film, he's
the only filmmaker who has learned from the master, expounded on his «cinematic vocabulary» to create a distinct style.
That's not to say that journalists and critics can't also ask great questions, but there's something about the shared experience of trying to find the right lab for film processing or knowing how people react to certain decisions on set that
only filmmakers can speak to you.
Better still, Greengrass is
the only filmmaker in Hollywood — repeat, the only one — who actually knows how to use hand - held shaky cameras.
Sure, his name doesn't ring a bell for a lot of cinephiles and doesn't carry the same weight as internationally renowned Iranian auteurs such as Kiarostami, Panahi or Asghar Farhadi, but consider this: He is
the only filmmaker to have had his films shunned by both the Academy and the Iranian committee that submits them!
Johnson's vision for the film fell in line with Lucasfilm and he's been
the only filmmaker to complete his film unscathed.
He's one of
the only filmmakers capable of pulling this off without the film feeling reductive or bland.
But Affleck can take comfort in the fact that he's not
the only filmmaker with a cinematic skeleton in his closet.
While Quentin Tarantino is hogging all the attention for going old school 70 mm with this upcoming «The Hateful Eight,» he's not
the only filmmaker utilizing the format.
A film more sure of itself would have dispatched this impediment to happiness with quick dispatch, but the makers of Hitch - a film that overstays its welcome by a good half - hour - seem to be
the only filmmakers in Hollywood to not know how to put together a fast happy ending, preferring instead to pile on the false climaxes and unnecessary plot wrinkles.
«Oliver is
the only filmmaker who could have done this,» he tells WENN.
Cabral and Sutcliffe weren't
the only filmmakers risking their necks for a story, either.
Ridley Scott is
the only filmmaker to tackle multiple «Alien» franchise installments, so at this point, it's his vision we're watching.
Joon Ho is probably
the only filmmaker that could pull off something like this.
If
only the filmmakers had done more to connect the guts of the race sequences with the inner monologues of its dueling drivers, «Rush» might have been more than the passably entertaining ride that it is.
Though the most prominent and prolific in their appreciation of her talents, the Coens are not
the only filmmakers to be aware of McDormand's power.