Sentences with phrase «seen as auteurs»

I'm not the only one who regards it as Lewton's greatest film, and I assume the main reason for its neglect is auteurist thinking — only directors are seen as auteurs — and the absence of stars.

Not exact matches

The irony here is that television's new burst of prestige is partially due to the format speaking in an increasingly cinematic language: there's the attraction to auteur output (David Fincher's Mindhunter, Steven Soderbergh's The Knick, and Paul Sorrentino's The Young Pope come to mind), the inflating budgets, the flirtation with feature - length episodes, as seen with the likes of Westworld and Game of Thrones.

A section of fifteen deleted scenes totalling 22 minutes with optional commentary from Frankel and Livoisi is kind of maddening for Frankel's oft - repeated confession that he's never seen this material — trusting his editor that implicitly only betrays his TV training and makes it difficult to take Frankel seriously as an auteur.

The storytelling maestro, whose auteur status was championed by the French New Wave for the way he defined film as a manipulative medium, was overlooked by his industry peers because his playful, sexually menacing thrillers were seen as genre films.

Another noticeable change, as we pointed out after the lineup was announced, sees the programmers going for a selection less characterized by name - auteurs and headline - ready star collaborations but something altogether more obscure and diverse.

As for those critics who might be hoping to see something a little different from Anderson next time around, the auteur says he has no plans to change up his famously idiosyncratic style.

What makes «Year of the Rat» so vital is how, incidentally or not, it goes from denouncing the auteur theory (through not only the typically insecure observations of actors, but also the deflective statements of Morgan and long - time creative partner Wong) to validating it: In a coda, we see that the movie's poor box - office showing has shaken Morgan and only Morgan to the core; call filmmaking a «collaborative effort» to your heart's content, but as William Shatner, of all people, opines on the recent Star Trek V discs, at the end of the day no one on the set has as much emotionally invested in the picture's success as the person at its helm.

As for the actors in less central roles, Hank Azaria is, predictably enough, very funny as horribly be-toupeed porn auteur Gerald Damiano, and Chris Noth is chilling, but also strangely sympathetic and as interesting as I've ever seen him, as a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriagAs for the actors in less central roles, Hank Azaria is, predictably enough, very funny as horribly be-toupeed porn auteur Gerald Damiano, and Chris Noth is chilling, but also strangely sympathetic and as interesting as I've ever seen him, as a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriagas horribly be-toupeed porn auteur Gerald Damiano, and Chris Noth is chilling, but also strangely sympathetic and as interesting as I've ever seen him, as a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriagas interesting as I've ever seen him, as a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriagas I've ever seen him, as a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriagas a mobster a bit taken aback by the unpleasantness inside the Lovelace / Traynor marriage.

Hopper was not the only aspiring filmmaker who saw himself as a nascent auteur or as part of an American New Wave.

Fans of the Korean auteur (as well as fans of good sci - fi in general) were understandably very vexed by the decision to cut the film down by twenty minutes and add expository voice over, eager to see the director's original, uncompromising vision.

It is within this section that I hoped to see new works by established auteurs, such as Denis, Reygadas, Dumont.

Look closely at Audiard's work, however, and you can see that he creates entire cinematic worlds as distinctive as any proffered by more obvious «auteurs» like Pedro Almodóvar and Wong Kar - Wai.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

While box office numbers have repeatedly proven that people won't flock to theaters just to see him, Wilson has done well on three fronts: collaborating with his Texan pal the time - taking auteur Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums); reveling as part of Hollywood's so - called Frat Pack,

Indebted to Se7en for its overly intricate murder scenes, as well as to Requiem for a Dream's relentless music - video pacing, Saw doesn't announce first - time director James Wan as a new auteur, but as a media - saturated copycat.

Seeing as Garrel opened the Directors» Fortnight in 2015 with In the Shadow of Women, we expect another auteur of similar stature to snag the distinction, perhaps Roman Polanski's Based on a True Story.

Though I still think the Academy dropped the ball in some areas (Best Actress, in particular, could have been a far richer and more diverse race had the likes of Sally Hawkins and Kristin Scott Thomas been invited), it's true that, while 2008 hasn't been as rewarding for auteur works as some previous years, we've seen a lot of films either wholly constructed around their performances («The Wrestler» being a prime example) or saved by them (for my money, Anne Hathaway and Rosemarie DeWitt are the most focused elements of «Rachel Getting Married»).

As I watched auteur Pedro Amodovar's Bad Education, I was reminded of another film I had just seen a week before, Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda, which is based on the theme that one's life can be comic or tragic, depending on the way it is presented by the storyteller.

As I write this Thursday afternoon, we are still waiting to see two strong Palme contenders: The Wild Pear Tree by Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a Cannes favourite who took the top prize in 2014 with Winter Sleep; and Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's Capernaum, titled for a Biblical town where Jesus Christ is said to have performed miracles, which is getting good advance buzz for its story about an unhappy boy launching a lawsuit against the adults who vex him.

As noted, the film becomes less tiresome in its second half, when the scene shifts to the Cote d'Azur and the Cannes Film Festival, which is shut down by Godard, Truffaut (who is never seen) and fellow auteurs in support of the Paris rioters.

As an imperfect but heartfelt and exquisitely rendered portrait of the world's mysteries seen through wide, guileless eyes, the film can proudly stand next to VELVET GOLDMINE and FAR FROM HEAVEN in the oeuvre of an endlessly, passionately curious auteur.

Some serious critics, offended by what they saw as his publicity - mongering, tended to dismiss him as a phony, except in France, where he was one of the admired auteurs of the Cahiers du Cinema crowd.

It is to be seen as an «Auteur» as Hugh brilliantly spotted, i.e an Artist.