Sentences with phrase «role as an auteur»

A modest speaker despite his 50 - year career, Sidney Lumet was never one to overstate his role as an auteur.

More importantly, many lawyers, and in particular many important and therefore influential lawyers, actually thrive on that type of total concentration, and cherish their roles as auteurs as much as a skilled surgeon or a prima donna.

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In his final acting role, legendary auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder (clad in an iconic leopard skin suit) stars as hardboiled detective Jansen.

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Some critics have described Richard Linklater, the director of «Boyhood,» as a defiant auteur because of the personal nature of this coming - of - age story (which even features the director's daughter in a key supporting role).

Braff, best known to TV viewers for his lead role on the long - running, much - syndicated hospital comedy «Scrubs», graduated to auteur status as writer - director - star of the acclaimed, hit 2004 indie Garden State.

Just as Johnny Depp gave his career - best performance as Z - movie auteur Ed Wood, Franco achieves what could become his most iconic role.

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.

Rodriguez again takes his multifaceted role as director, writer, cinematographer, editor, composer, producer, production designer, and visual effects supervisor, taking the «theory» out of the auteur theory.

It's all a bit too perfect a play on Kojima's own status as The Auteur of Metal Gear Solid, a role he's always been ambiguous about enjoying, and the modern explosion of fan identification with celebrity.