Take this as a stand - in for many
other films directed by women that, for whatever reason, aren't in this collection: Claire Denis's Beau travail being the obvious one that comes to mind, though there are many others.
Critics Consensus: Despite awesome special effects, Hollow Man falls short of
other films directed by Paul Verhoeven.
Critic Consensus: Despite awesome special effects, Hollow Man falls short of
other films directed by Paul Verhoeven.
Not exact matches
According to Variety and
others, that makes it the highest - grossing live action
film ever
directed by a woman.
It operates through the following segments: Cable Network Programming; Television;
Filmed Entertainment;
Direct Broadcast Satellite Television, and
Other Corporate and Eliminations.
Unlike
other independent
films in which big names are ridden into the ground like a sweaty mule, shoehorned into every possible scene in the movie, «Moms» Night Out» has an ensemble cast - an amazing feat for a
film with a budget just under $ 5 million, according to Andrew and John Erwin, the brothers who
directed the
film.
But unlike
other films with more
direct Christian messages, churches are much less likely to buy out theaters in bulk as they did for «Son of God» and «God's Not Dead,» a move that brought those
films big returns at the box office.
Paul's total acceptance of the path Christ sets him on is cast in
direct opposition to nearly every
other character in the
film.
Some would even call a
film like The Post,
directed by Steven Spielberg, a piece of light propaganda for the free press, while
others would celebrate it as a necessary gut check for how fragile our institutions and constitutional rights truly are.
Written,
directed, and produced in Wake County, the documentary, «Certain Proof: A Question of Worth,» debuted in April at Colorado's Vail
Film Festival and is slated for screening at four
other film festivals.
The
film,
directed by Bert Klasey, Chris Baron and James Allen Smith, also features neurosurgeon Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine, among
others.
This
film is
directed by Tom Shadyac, of Ace Ventura, Nutty Professor and
other comedy gem fame.
During his
film career, Adkins has been cast in mostly
direct - to - DVD movies like the two Undisputed sequels, Assassination Games, Ninja, however he finally got to get a bigger role in Stallone's ensemble cast testosterone - packed movie «The Expendables 2» and star along
other great action stars like Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, the all - powerful Chuck Norris, Jean - Claude Van Damme and many
others.
It's a Boy Girl Thing is a 2006 romantic comedy
film directed by Nick Hurran and written by Geoff Deane, starring Kevin Zegers and Samaire Armstrong and Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the
other's suitability as a
I don't really care that the story is ridiculous, Lang
directed the
film beautifully (Is there any
other director who used contrasting shadow and light so well?)
Apfel also
directed films for
other studios including Selig.
The
film lacks any kind of real «action», which makes it a departure from Mann's
other work like Heat or Last of the Mohicans, but it still feels like an action movie because of the aggressive way in which Mann
directs it.
Other notable
films notable
films include «Payback,» «Mighty Joe Young,» «Mumford,»
directed by Lawrence Kasdan, «The Hurricane,»
directed by Norman Jewison, «State and Main,»
directed by David Mamet, and «Amistad,»
directed by Steven Speilberg.
She has an impressive resume of her own, having co-written Bertolucci's Luna, Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point and co-written and
directed two
other films, High Season and Rough Magic.
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directed, writen, and produced by David Siegel and Scott McGehee, with only one
other film to their credit all the way back in 1993.
Visceral action (including an opening sequence that masterfully sets the tone for the rest of the
film); a sharply written and
directed script; rich, dynamic characters; and, as promised, the world's cutest cat (
other than yours if you have one) combine to create a gut - busting, endearing, salty - sweet, and highly re-watchable comedy.
Other recent
films include PRISONERS opposite Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal; OBLIVION, opposite Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman; the blockbuster OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN,
directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Freeman and Aaron Eckhart; Robert Zemeckis's critically acclaimed drama FLIGHT, with Denzel Washington; THE EQUALIZER which reunited her with both Fuqua and Washington.
1) You (and a spread of trolls on here and
other sites) keep calling it «Hollywood propaganda» but it isn't even a Hollywood
film - it's almost entirely financed by foreign companies (In France, Germany, Italy) was shot for 3.5 million in Italy,
directed by an Italian.
A clumsy start to the
directing dynasty Hitchcock would later build in America; The 39 Steps is unlike many of his
other films in the way it's put together.
On the
other hand, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw finds the
film «rich, disturbing and strange,» and writing for Time, Stephanie Zacharek sums up the thoughts of many critics, «Disjointed and
direct, exhilarating and soporific, cerebral and squirrelly: The Image Book is lots of contradictory things at once.»
Out of time and overbudget, the movie previewed badly and was eventually sliced down to an abrupt 88 minutes (by, among
others, editor Robert Wise, who would go on to
direct such
films as West Side Story and The Sound of Music).
Without adopting the romantic and moralistic cliches that have crippled many
other films about addiction, Gus Van Sant
directs Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Le Gros and Heather Graham in one of the most influential
films of the late 1980s.
Written and
directed by Karen Leigh Hopkins, the
film's tone looks to be all over the place, but it's good to see James Badge Dale as something
other than a supporting character in an action blockbuster.
As such, it recalls not only the two
other sweetly appealing
films written and
directed by Cameron Crowe («Say Anything» and «Singles»), but also the great shaggy - dog storytelling style of James L. Brooks («Broadcast News»), one of its producers.
The fact that Mikkelsen is starring in «The Hunt,» written and
directed by Thomas Vinterberg, has special resonance in Denmark's movie culture: Vinterberg, along with Lars von Trier and
other filmmakers, was one of the founding members of the Dogme 95
film movement, which professed allegiance to an artifice - free visual aesthetic and rough, low - tech production methods.
From 1928 through 1931, Graves was co-starred with Jack Holt in a group of rugged Capra -
directed adventure
films, in which the two stars were usually at each
other's throats over a pretty girl.
Other films that came after it were far more fastidious in their rendering of the sexual aspect to these clumsy affairs, but this
film is far more psychological,
directing much of the
film's emphasis on the emotional toll of lying to yourself and your loved ones.
Though Kendrick is always fun to watch thanks to her charming personality and comic timing, it's difficult to see what attracted her to the
film other than the chance to reunite with Blitz, who
directed her in 2007's «Rocket Science.»
In
other plaudits from the jury of the International Federation of
Film Critics (Fipresci), Lukas Dhont's «Girl» took the nod for best
film in Un Certain Regard; and «One Day,»
directed by Zsófa Szilagyi, was chosen by the Fipresci jury as best movie in either Directors» Fortnight or Critics» Week.
Two
other films are currently growing in RHP's greenhouse, including Hill's L.A.P.I. and a biopic on modern teen outlaw, Colton Harris Moore, with Green circling to
direct.
Not many will debate against that Woody Harrelson is one of the greatest actors of his time (this year alone he has appeared in a wide variety of
films and given a pair of incredible performances in War for the Planet of the Apes and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), but his portrayal of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson in the biopic about the polarizing political figure simply titled LBJ (
directed by Rob Reiner of A Few Good Men fame among
other widely regarded classics) is a mixed bag.
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.
On the complete
other end of the spectrum, Bill Murray's first starring role in a movie was also the first
film to be
directed by Ivan Reitman, who would go on to
direct Murray in Stripes and Ghostbusters.
The actor's
other credits include Stoker, Beautiful Creatures and Blue Jasmine; he can be seen in The Yellow Birds and an untitled Warren Beatty -
directed film later this year.
(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-
directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French
film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any
other French
film and, for that matter, any non-English-language
film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and
directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language
film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.
It Comes at Night is both written and
directed by American filmmaker Trey Edward Shults, of the highly acclaimed Krisha previously, as well as a few
other short
films.
At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian
film industry, wrote and
directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing
film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s,
directed feature
films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous
others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in
Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed
film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary
Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.
Q: Because you've done a lot of acting in the past, when
directing the performances in the
film did you apply what you'd learnt or valued from directors on
other projects?
I admit my outrage with the
film grew in
direct proportion to the accolades it got, so when I saw her get the award, I just had had enough (correction: that was when the Academy snubbed 86 - year - old Emmanuelle Riva to give the Oscar to Jennifer Lawrence, but that's a whole
other story).
Made for a mere $ 4.8 million, the «Groundhog Day» - like horror
film directed by Christopher Landon and rated PG - 13 follows the success of Blumhouse's
other 2017 hits, «Get Out» and «Split».
This sets the
film apart from the
others with which it is normally bracketed — Woodfall's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962, also
directed by Richardson), together with Lindsay Anderson's 1963 This Sporting Life (produced by Reisz).
While
other films have played with her image, Life Of The Party (
directed by her husband Ben Falcone and written by the two of them together) is the first
film that leans so fully on the sweet side of her, with results that are more conventional than her best work but funny and sweet nonetheless.
The
other writer on the
film is George Gallo, who also
directed.
At least with his
other films one could say that the
directing itself was solid and there were just a few script problems.
The fight choreography is decent, which always immensely improves Lundgren's
films, and the supporting cast are better than a lot of Lundgren's
other direct - to - video co-stars.