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The National Portrait Gallery acquired her portrait of film director Stephen Frears from this exhibition the following year, for its 20th Century Collection.

Not exact matches

Without breaking from (or evolving) his film style, Mexican director Michel Franco delivers a chilling portrait of a teen mother - to - be.

Cooper and his director of photography Masanobu Takayanagi (who also worked on the filmmaker's last two movies) paint a visually striking but harsh and brutal portrait of the scenery here, placing an emphasis on long shots of desolate landscapes and closeups of human anguish in order to create the film's dismal mood.

A gripping portrait of mental illness and family ties from a master director, and a film with a narrow focus and a cast of four (father, son, daughter, daughter's husband).

Following the exploits of the Paris police department's «child protection unit,» Polisse (which screened early on) helped to establish this year's Croisette - spanning theme of children in peril, which could be found to varying extents in fellow Competition entries Michael (kidnapping and pedophilia), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineties.

Corsicato compiles footage taken from around Schnabel's home, recent interviews conducted with family and friends, and an assortment of photographs and film clips spanning the artist / director's life in an effort to, if one trusts this documentary's title, provide an intimate portrait of Schnabel's psychology as it was generated from the unusual circumstances of his youth.

Jonze has been married, to writer - director Sofia Coppola — and you have to wonder if Theodore, who begins the film separated from his wife, is something of a self - portrait.

But even from the director of The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun, and Silence, this film stands out for its grace and nuance in its portrait of social intercourse as formal ritual.

Mike Leigh's 1990 comedy Life Is Sweet, showing at the Trylon microcinema as part of a monthlong retrospective of the director's early films, presents an intimate portrait of working - class life in Thatcher - era north London.

«Becoming Mike Nichols» / U.S.A. (Director: Douglas McGrath)-- This intimate portrait of director, producer, and improvisational comedy icon Mike Nichols shows his final and historic interviews filmed just months before hiDirector: Douglas McGrath)-- This intimate portrait of director, producer, and improvisational comedy icon Mike Nichols shows his final and historic interviews filmed just months before hidirector, producer, and improvisational comedy icon Mike Nichols shows his final and historic interviews filmed just months before his death.

The sessions are the subject of writer - director Stanley Tucci's film «Final Portrait.»

A portrait of the maverick director behind such films as «Holy Motors,» «The Lovers on the Bridge» and «Pola X.»

The longest of the supplements --» Spy Vision: Recreating 60's Cool» on designing the film and «A Higher Class of Hero» on creating the action sequences — are under 10 minutes apiece and the rest under five minutes each: a piece on the creator of the motorcycles in the film and portraits of the two stars and the director.

What follows is a stylishly decadent voyeur's delight: As if paying retribution for the understated tone of his previous films, director John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer, Normal Life) fills Wild Things with group sex, gratuitous nudity, graphic violence, an abundance of authentically sweaty Florida atmosphere, and more plot twists than a season's worth of Melrose Placof his previous films, director John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer, Normal Life) fills Wild Things with group sex, gratuitous nudity, graphic violence, an abundance of authentically sweaty Florida atmosphere, and more plot twists than a season's worth of Melrose PlacOf A Serial Killer, Normal Life) fills Wild Things with group sex, gratuitous nudity, graphic violence, an abundance of authentically sweaty Florida atmosphere, and more plot twists than a season's worth of Melrose Placof authentically sweaty Florida atmosphere, and more plot twists than a season's worth of Melrose Placof Melrose Place.

Extras: Two audio commentaries from 2003, one featuring director Ken Russell and the other screenwriter and producer Larry Kramer; segments from a 2007 interview with Russell for the BAFTA Los Angeles Heritage Archive; «A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible,» Russell's 1989 biopic on his own life and career; interview from 1976 with actor Glenda Jackson; interviews with Kramer and actors Alan Bates and Jennie Linden from the set; new interviews with director of photography Billy Williams and editor Michael Bradsell; «Second Best,» a 1972 short film based on a D. H. Lawrence story, produced by and starring Bates; trailer; an essay by scholar Linda Ruth Williams.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth MosOF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth MosOF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Not since 2011's «The Artist» has one film claimed both the Picture and Director accolades, and like «Birdman,» «Artist» was also a bittersweet love letter to show business and an audacious portrait of a tormented artist in transformation.

Anytime an outside crew films a location, there are bound to be stereotypes that would no doubt offend the locals, but the director, John Madden, seems to successfully straddle the line between romanticization and condescension, emerging with a respectful portrait of the city, instead.

Recently topping The New York Times» list of the century's best films, writer - director Paul Thomas Anderson's compulsively fascinating portrait of capitalism and religion at war for the soul of America strives for greatness at every turn — and Day - Lewis recognized that subtlety had no place in such a searing vision.

One film that premiered in the later half of the Sundance Film Festival that has still left a lasting impact on myself and Ethan is a intimate portrait of a father and son from writer / director / actor Mark Webber.

Spielberg showed masterful restraint in his portrait of our nation's 16th president with Lincoln, and the film really is a triumph of the collaboration between director, actor, and screenwriter.

Sam Klemke's Time Machine / Australia (Director: Matthew Bate)-- Sam Klemke has filmed and narrated 50 years of his life, creating a strange and intimate portrait of what it means to be human.

In 1956, DeMille was Hollywood's oldest working director (then 75), and the final portrait of the pioneering force of the epic genre is a moving montage of comments, from the film's actors, the director's friends & family, and Bernstein.

• Limited Edition collection of the complete Blood Bath • High Definition Blu - ray (1080p) presentation of four versions of the film: Operation Titian, Portrait in Terror, Blood Bath and Track of the Vampire • Brand new 2K restorations of Portrait in Terror, Blood Bath and Track of the Vampire from original film materials • Brand new reconstruction of Operation Titian using original film materials and standard definition inserts • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing on all four versions • The Trouble with Titian Revisited — a brand new visual essay in which Tim Lucas returns to (and updates) his three - part Video Watchdog feature to examine the convoluted production history of Blood Bath and its multiple versions • Bathing in Blood with Sid Haig — a new interview with the actor, recorded exclusively for this release • Archive interview with producer - director Jack Hill • Stills gallery • Double - sided fold - out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artworks • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Dan Mumford • Limited edition booklet containing new writing on the film and its cast by Anthony Nield, Vic Pratt, Cullen Gallagher and Peter Beckman

Criterion's «Director Approved» release includes the French - language documentaries Making of by Raphael Duroy (a 26 - minute portrait with Olivier Assayas, Charles Berling and Juliette Binoche) and Inventory (a 50 - minute doc about the film's unique and personal approach to art) and an original 28 - minute, English - language interview with Assayas discussing his inspirations and aspirations for the film.

Directors, Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, of the film «Silent House» pose for a portrait in the Fender Music Lodge during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011 in Park City, Utah.

FollowingRome, Open City (1945) and Paisan (1946), director Rossellini turned to the ruined city of Berlin to complete his trilogy of films in this devastating portrait of an obliterated post-war Europe, and one of the most affecting films about childhood in the history of cinema.

His six selections were fascinating: films by his mentors (Malle's «The Fire Within,» Jean - Pierre Melville's adaptation of Cocteau's «Les Enfants Terribles»), as well as Joseph Mankiewicz's «The Barefoot Contessa» (pictured above), which had seemed kitschy to him when he first saw it at the age of 16, but proved influential over the years: «Kitsch or not, Ava Gardner, with her shoes off, haunted me into my 30s, and Humphrey Bogart's portrait of a director may well have been my role model.

Director, John Michael McDonagh, of the film The Guard poses for a portrait in the Fender Music Lodge during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 in Park City, UT.

French writer - director Bertrand Bonello's oblique, transgressive treatment of terrorism in Nocturama (Grade: A --RRB- positions his film as a modern - day answer to Weekend and the culmination of an informal trilogy that began with his opium - dream portrait of a fin de siècle brothel, House Of Pleasures, and continued with the anti-biopic Saint Laurenof terrorism in Nocturama (Grade: A --RRB- positions his film as a modern - day answer to Weekend and the culmination of an informal trilogy that began with his opium - dream portrait of a fin de siècle brothel, House Of Pleasures, and continued with the anti-biopic Saint Laurenof an informal trilogy that began with his opium - dream portrait of a fin de siècle brothel, House Of Pleasures, and continued with the anti-biopic Saint Laurenof a fin de siècle brothel, House Of Pleasures, and continued with the anti-biopic Saint LaurenOf Pleasures, and continued with the anti-biopic Saint Laurent.

is a deliriously biblical portrait of the artist as a godlike monster (for the record, I liked it), this new film by Paul Thomas Anderson offers a more graceful and far more complicated version of the same idea... Quiet, moody, and deeply perverse (I'll say no more), this fascinating movie reminds us that Anderson is the kind of alchemist - director who can turn somebody ordering breakfast into a classic scene.»

The 20 - minute biographical portrait Tati Story features generous clips of Tati on film, stage and TV, the six - minute Au - del de Playtime reveals rare behind - the - scenes footage from the city set he built on the outskirts of Paris, there's a rare audio interview with Tati from the Q&A of the U.S. debut of Playtime at the 1972 San Francisco Film Festival and Jacques Tati in Monsieur Hulot's Work, a 1976 program on the director made for the BBC art series Omnibus.

The final film of acclaimed Polish director Andrzej Wajda's near 70 - year career presents a warts - and - all portrait of revolutionary avant - garde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski.

Director Milos Forman was shaped by European sensibilities but his films were shrewd and intimate portraits of the yearnings, transgressions, politics, sexual fascinations, rebelliousness and complicated conformities that soothed, rattled and challenged...

International director Olivier Assayas (Paris, je t» aime) has written and directed a fascinating narrative portrait of an international film and theatre actress struggling with age and relevancy in the fast - paced evolving world.

Neruda Directed by Pablo Larraín Chile / Argentina / France / Spain, 2016, 107m Spanish and French with English subtitles Pablo Larraín's exciting, surprising, and colorful new film is not a biopic but, as the director himself puts it, a «Nerudean» portrait of the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's years of flight and exile after his 1948 denunciation of his government's leadership.

The film features a period - perfect recreation of late - 1950s America and a gloomily oppressive portrait of East Berlin after the construction of the Berlin Wall, a sharp screenplay co-written by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, and the directorial signatures that remind us again that Spielberg is one of the great directors.

Favreau is one of those rare directors who remembers his own childhood and can actually re-create what kids might want to see in a film; he also builds a remarkably accurate portrait of two brothers.

Vertical Entertainment has revealed an official US trailer for the release of the psychological horror - thriller Rupture, from director Steven Shainberg (of the film Secretary over a decade ago, as well as Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus).

Director Clay Tweel delivers a bold and moving portrait of beloved Spokane born, former WSU and New Orleans Saints football player Steve Gleason, who at age 34 was diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease and courageously filmed his journey for the public eye.

The film hardly breaks any new ground; in fact it's almost customary now for British actor - turned - directors to start out with uncompromising portraits of domestic misery, as evinced by Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, and Mullan himself.

«Selma»: Despite a few flaws — the film's final act meanders briefly before finding its way to a powerful climax — director Ava DuVernay's all - too - timely portrait of Martin Luther King Jr.'s influential (and dangerous) civil rights march in Alabama contains some of the most powerful moments I saw in any movie this year.

When a biopic on Alfred Hitchcock, as big a legend as there is among directors, failed to reach expected returns a few years ago, it isn't surprising that another warts and all late 60s portrait of the great Jean - Luc Godard (who at 88 will have his latest film premiere in competition at Cannes next month) isn't gaining traction.

Isiah Medina enters the mix in the Best Director category for 88:88, his incendiary experimental film, while Sofia Bohdanowicz's Never Eat Alone, a docu - fiction portrait of an elderly matriarch played by the director's own grandmother, is up against Werewolf and Hello Destroyer for Best First Film by a Canadian DDirector category for 88:88, his incendiary experimental film, while Sofia Bohdanowicz's Never Eat Alone, a docu - fiction portrait of an elderly matriarch played by the director's own grandmother, is up against Werewolf and Hello Destroyer for Best First Film by a Canadian Ddirector's own grandmother, is up against Werewolf and Hello Destroyer for Best First Film by a Canadian DirectorDirector.

Giordano has a talent for turning a few words into a portrait - in - depth, an example being his description of a slender young dilettante as looking like every French film director's dream — «unbearably lonely, ultra-sexy, Sartre - reading Gallic beauty.»

In the preface, Seitz states that this isn't just a portrait of the director responsible for iconic films such as Scarface, Platoon, Wall Street, JFK and the loony Natural Born Killers, but a celebration of one of America's film titans.

AS: Portrait of Wally is my first documentary, but I have been a director, writer, producer and editor in film, theatre and television for nearly thirty years.

Germany's artist, film and theatre director Christoph Schlingensief died of lung cancer last year so his pavilion became a memorial self - portrait.

Presenters are Mark Dean Johnson, professor of art at San Francisco State University and director of the Martin Wong Foundation, who also moderates; Julia Bryan - Wilson, professor of modern and contemporary art and director of the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley, whose Fray: Art and Textile Politics includes a chapter about the Cockettes and Wong's design work for them; Sergio Bessa, director of curatorial and education programs at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and scholar of concrete poetry; Marci Kwon, assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University; and artist and filmmaker Charlie Ahearn, who introduces his 1998 film portrait of Wong, whom he knew personally.

The exhibition includes portraits of fashion designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte, the artist Kara Walker, film director John Waters, fashion editor Cecilia Dean and New Yorker theatre critic and occasional curator Hilton Als.