Sentences with word «scenarist»

Marvelous exercise in Grand Guignol, great sets, spooky atmosphere, fine screenplay by scenarist Charles Beaumont based on H.P. Lovecraft's The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and a splendid two - tiered performance by Vincent Price.

Action in the North Atlantic is solid wartime propaganda with a rather endearing inner lining of left - wing politics, courtesy (no doubt) of scenarist John Howard Lawson, who based his screenplay on a novel by maritime specialist Guy Gilpatric.

«Mr. Shyamalan has come up with a doozy of a premise for «The Happening,» one that will appeal to the doomsday scenarist in every pessimist, so it's a shame he doesn't know what to do with it other than mow people down.

WRITING IN SILENCE Richard Corliss profiles the pioneer scenarists who found a place of honor (and anonymity) in silent movies.

Versatile scenarist Jean Holloway has written scripts for radio, feature films and television.

Whereas Jason Reitman recognizes the volatility of the abortion / adoption issue in Juno and he and scenarist Diablo Cody carefully deflect and nullify anticipated audience reactions from either side of the fence, Affleck concentrates on what his film is about and chooses a style designed to keep his audience from being distracted from the central idea.

In Japanese with English subtitles, with the director's 1966 experimental film Emotion, a new interview featurette «Constructing a House» with the director Nobuhiko Obayashi, story scenarist (and daughter of the director) Chigumi Obayashi and screenwriter Chiho Katsura, and a video appreciation by director Ti West, plus a booklet with an essay by Chuck Stephens.

The Final Fantasy composer and scenarist then chose two members of the audience to appear on stage to form two teams.

Jonathan Coulton's end theme from Portal was performed in Japanese by vocalist Mariko Otsuka, the lyrics translated by none other than Nojima himself, the Final Fantasy series scenarist.

A lyrical scenarist of everyday strangeness, Crewdson's work will delight any fan of David Lynch or the Coen brothers.

He was the most politically conscious and satirical of the American artists, a splenetic and grotesque scenarist whose tableaux revile the American dream, mocking postwar affluence with dark echoes of the Depression and an atmosphere of fetid decay.

Despite the efforts of Producer Irving Thalberg, Director Frank Lloyd, three scenarists and $ 2,000,000 to give it balance, polish and direction, the picture lacks all three.

Shirley later divorced her husband Max, married Ulmer and worked beside him, as script supervisor or scenarist, from then on.

As a scenarist, though, he's clearly not so hot.

Brett Ratner is a little easier to take than usual in his screen - specific commentary with screenwriter (well, scenarist) Jeff Nathanson, but he's impossible in the included «Making Magic Out of Mire» (9 mins.)

And in case you're wondering why the scenarists went to so much trouble with these storylines, it's merely so they could play shark roulette with the characters when the ship goes down.

As a prank, the resulting image of a man trying to free himself from the vise - like grip the machine has on his genitalia — complete with a (hopefully) prosthetic member that stretches to painful extremes — is certainly shocking and slightly humorous, but Knoxville and the scenarists offer no reason that the character is in that predicament in the first place.

Fittingly, commentary on the games was provided by the scenarist in the organizing committee.

It also had a pretty interesting story, having been penned by the scenarist for Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor.