Sentences with phrase «other auteurs»

With a resume comprised of collaborations with David O. Russell (American Hustle, Joy) Lasse Hallström (The Hundred - Foot Journey) and other auteurs, Sandgren found an exciting energy in wunderkind writer / director Damien Chazelle that inspired him to shoot a musical.

TheWrap spotlights Andrew Neel («Goat»), Rob Burnett («Fundamentals of Caring») and other auteurs on the rise

It's Official Unofficial Noah Baumbach Month on the streaming service, plus picks from other auteurs and some scary Halloween offerings.

Two other auteurs also scored dual nods for writing and directing: Barry Jenkins for «Moonlight,» which included in its eight nods supporting actors (and first - time nominees) Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris, and Kenneth Lonergan for «Manchester,» which totaled six nods including leading actor Casey Affleck (his second nod) and supporters Michelle Williams (her fourth) and Lucas Hedges (his first).

His dazzling film Dunkirk — a whirring, ticking, intricate product of his singular brain — has had a long journey from summertime front - runner to whatever it is now, and there was some concern that all his relatively cold technical acumen might be overshadowed by the more affective filmmaking of these other auteurs, laying their hearts on the line.

It's silly to complain about anything when spending time in the company of Pedro Almodóvar, Jerzy Skolimowski, Wim Wenders, and other auteurs, but with the exception of t...

Not exact matches

These enormous trends toward centralization and homogeneity still do permit room for the occasional «auteur» film of individual artistry, the profoundly critical television documentary, the journalistic exposé of corruption in high places, and other examples of independent thinking or original art.

Lister - Jones is also generous enough an auteur to allow for memorable moments from others, whether it's hilarious bits from the likes of Retta (as Anna and Ben's unlucky marriage counselor), Brooklyn Decker, and Jamie Chung; the escalating weirdness of Armisen (who was, of course, a seasoned indie - band drummer before he turned to acting and comedy); or a knockout dramatic scene between Pally and the great comedian Susie Essman as Ben's mother, who provides some invaluable advice.

Under normal circumstances, you would be forgiven for thinking that Pitt appropriated the property (à la Tom Cruise) for his own megalomaniacal ends, but the actor has appeared in enough ensemble pictures (and worked with enough dreamy auteurs like Terrence Malick) to dispel the idea that his vanity pushed out other considerations.

The prime achievement of Penn's movie is that it accommodates those readings and others, even as it evinces its auteur's admiration for Chris's romanticism.

I was once a very harsh critic of Mr. Tarantino, the video store clerk turned auteur, who seemed to be preoccupied with the inventiveness of his in - jokes and visual quotations of scene compositions from other films.

David Mamet may not be the visual stylist that Jean - Pierre Melville was, but in most other respects, his Redbelt is faithfully cast in the tradition of the great French auteur's Le Samouraï.

The fest's identity has always been indie and American: With one - of - a-kind auteurs Whit Stillman, Todd Solondz, Kenneth Lonergan and Ira Sachs (among many others) returning, this year's edition looks certain to deliver on its huge promise.

Other films that have chosen to show in Telluride (with a possible first stop in Venice) include Cary Fukunaga's Netflix drama Beasts of No Nation; the Brie Larson - starring Room, based on Emma Donoghue's bestseller; Tom McCarthy's ensemble drama Spotlight, starring Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams; Legend, in which Tom Hardy plays the Kray twins, who ruled London's gangland during the 1950s and 1960s; and Remember, which, ironically, is directed by one of Canada's most famous auteurs, Atom Egoyan.

The director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey) The talent: By this point in his career, auteur - photographer Ceylan is a self - standing arthouse brand — which is just as well, since the other names involved are unlikely to ring many bells with non-Turkish viewers.

Other American auteurs (or US productions) likely to be unveiling here are Terrence Malick with Weightless (come on already!)

I'm a bit taken aback (as ever) by some of the filmmakers who've been shunted into other sections, but at least after all the well - justified complaints that last year's Palme competition was mostly made up of subpar work by established auteurs, they haven't gone that route again (or, at least, not quite so pronouncedly).

With The Assassin, he joins other top - tier auteurs like...

In other words, John Ford apologists need to work overtime to dig their favorite auteur out from under this surreal bilge.

Other major international auteur names brightening the Competition lineup include Aleksander Sokurov («Faust»), «Persepolis» Oscar nominees Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud («Chicken With Plums»), William Friedkin (the Matthew McConaughey - tarring Tracy Letts adaptation «Killer Joe,») and Abel Ferrara («4:44 Last Day on Earth»).

I've heard some folks describe the characters in Nebraska as loving renderings of those in and around the auteur's home state, while others have announced outright that Payne's employment of stereotypes make his movie truly hateable.

With The Assassin, he joins other top - tier auteurs like John Woo, Wong Kar Wai, Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, and Jia...

an ostensible horror movie that's really a larger parable of environmental catastrophe (among other things) from the «Black Swan» and «Noah» auteur Darren Aronofsky.

Two other Turkish films from noted auteurs were in the retrospective section: Semih Kaplanoglu's Süt (Milk, 2008), a rich story of a young man's quest to become a poet, done with sharp social observation by the director, but degenerating into hazy symbolism by the end, a device that also marred the director's next film, Mal (Honey, 2010); and Kasaba (Small Town, 1997) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the director's debut feature, already displaying his steady hand and broad compassion.

Mary Pickford Award - Edward James Olmos Tesla Award - John Toll Auteur Award - Tom Ford Humanitarian Award - Patrick Stewart Best First Feature - Russudan Glurjidze «House of Others» Best Ensemble: Motion Picture - «Hidden Figures» Best Ensemble: Television - «Outlander»

Another competition film that seriously put people off on the one hand AND won raves on the other is Filipino auteur Lav Diaz's SEASON OF THE DEVIL.

Wes Anderson, of RUSHMORE and THE ROYAL TENNENBAUMS fame, again works in a rarified atmosphere with his unique auteur's voice that will leave some viewers wondering what all the fuss is about and other flinging hosannas to heaven.

The first full day of screenings brought us news of Todd Haynes Wonderstruck which reunites one of the world's greatest auteurs with his earliest muse Julianne Moore, and other reportedly fine films.

Other potential Golden Bear winners include films from European auteurs Agnieszka Holland and Aki Kaurismaki.

TV - trained Freaks and Geeks auteur Danny Leiner's feature debut is less a movie than a series of randomly connected scenes that happen to fall next to each other.

His relationships with Ford and Welles, among others, have yielded indispensable books investigating these auteurs» films.

Perhaps the most salient point in Rob White's auteur study of Todd Haynes comes within his discussion of B. Ruby Rich and her statement that Poison (1991), a pioneering film of New Queer Cinema, is «homo - pomo,» which involves appropriation, pastiche, and irony, among others.

Retreading «Prisoners» territory to an extent that at times makes you wonder if they're two parts of some sort of Canadian auteur experiment that no one else is in on, what is lost in the transfer, however, is any of the Villeneuve film's subtlety or shading, and we are left only with its most lurid, credulity - stretching highlights, with all other textures blasted out to snowy blankness.

They may want to hold up and wait a bit longer, rolling the dice to see if some other enterprising would - be auteur works that left - field tidbit into their armchair - philosophizing cinematic treatise on paying it forward or embracing life or some such malarkey.

Retreading «Prisoners» territory to an extent that at times makes you wonder if they're two parts of some sort of Canadian auteur experiment that no one else is in on, what is lost in the transfer, however, is any of the Villeneuve film's subtlety or shading, and we are left only with its most lurid, credulity - stretching highlights, with all other texture blasted out to snowy blankness.

The likes of Aaron Sorkin, Quentin Tarantino, Diablo Cody, and before them Billy Wilder, Paddy Chayefsky and many others — screenwriting auteurs — get nominated on the basis of the actual writing, whether for adaptations or original works.

Ostensibly the middle film in Aki Kaurismäki's still in the works Le Havre harbor trilogy (following 2011's Le Havre), The Other Side of Hope is another eccentric humanist tale from the forever happy - sad Finnish auteur.

Given that Split is the creation of Mr M Night Shyamalan, the writer / director / auteur behind deathless chiller The Sixth Sense — and several other almost as scary but not quite so good films (Unbreakable, Signs, Lady In The Water)-- these personalities are not all cuddly and kooky.

The film, which stars Jeffrey Tambor, Steve Buscemi, Michael Palin and Andrea Riseborough and is set in the days around the Soviet dictator's death in 1953, will be joined by a lineup of 11 other films, most from celebrated international auteurs.

Eventually, none other than bona fide auteurs James Cameron and David Fincher had a hand in passing along the script to the right people.

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).

Look closely at a frame from Early Man — or any of the other features and shorts by Nick Park, the stop - motion animator behind Creature Comforts, the Wallace and Gromit series, and Chicken Run — and you can spot the truest and most literal of all auteur stamps: The curvatures of a fingerprint.

The films of Nicholas Ray, more than any other contemporary American director's, were singled out by the up - and - coming Cahiers du Cinéma crowd (on the cusp of their own splashy Nouvelle Vague) as justification for their politique des auteurs — more a personal stance on critical practice than dogmatic superstructure, and long since codified and ossified by academic film criticism into hierarchy - happy «auteur theory.»

Richard Koszarski's thoughtful overview does a lot, in very short order, to clarify just when and why Corman abandoned direction of his own films to concentrate on shaping and distributing the films of others — although, as Paul Bartel says, Corman seems to believe in the producer - as - auteur and remains essentially in charge no matter who is directing.

After several months of awards campaigning in the US, which saw many of 2016's titles soaking up significant adjudication (with items like Toni Erdmann, Elle, and The Salesman all remaining prominent fixtures on the awards circuit) while other titles are just making it to theatrical release (Personal Shopper), we're about to reset the clock for a new crop of items from internationally renowned auteurs.

This is happening, for one reason or another, a lot lately; for example, the film Tomorrowland, the newest live - action effort from Pixar auteur Brad Bird, has moved from December of 2014 to May of 2015, mostly to accommodate Disney's other holiday releases.

With such high profile slices of movie beefcake determined to make their mark as auteurs as well as deliverers of dialogue, now is a good time to look back at some other aesthetically - pleasing performers who put their necks on the line as bona fide film directors...

He's made a comic French New Wave pastiche about Jean - Luc Godard's early years with perpetually ubiquitous Louis Garrel as the auteur and Stacy Martin as his young lover (the other leading star of the film).

Other celebrated auteurs looking for their first Foreign Language nomination are Belgian brothers Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne, who went home from Cannes empty - handed but whose film Two Days, One Night will likely have their highest stateside profile yet due to the presence of Marion Cotillard in the lead role as a woman who has a single weekend to convince her co-workers to give up their bonuses so she will not be laid off.

His criticism as a writer for the Cahiers du cinema is just as important as his filmmaking, too — he's the one who first started the idea behind the auteur theory, though many others have modified it far from his original intent