Sentences with phrase «sensibilities as a filmmaker»

How has the experience of growing up and living in this state inform your sensibilities as a filmmaker?

Not exact matches

There's little doubt that Real Steel's biggest problem is its excessively deliberate pace and unreasonably overlong running time, as filmmaker Shawn Levy, working from John Gatins» screenplay, has infused the movie with an incongruously epic sensibility that all - too - often threatens to negate its positive attributes - with the fairly pointless (and surprisingly unpleasant) robot - vs - bull brawl that opens the picture effectively setting a tone of regrettable sloppiness (ie Charlie goes through two robots before settling on his final fighter).

It's clear almost immediately that filmmaker Shawn Levy just doesn't have the right sensibility for this material, as the director, known for his fluffy, decidedly comedic offerings, has infused This Is Where I Leave You with a terminally lightweight feel that grows more and more problematic as time progresses - as the absence of authentically heartfelt moments ultimately proves disastrous (ie the film possesses the feel of a glorified sitcom, for the most part).

By the time the shocking (yet not entirely unexpected) conclusion rolls around, Breathe has established itself as a promising effort from an exciting new filmmaker - with Laurent's stylish sensibilities setting her apart from many of her contemporaries (ie it's impossible not to be captivated by an outdoor tracking shot that follows a character through the rooms of her small apartment).

Filmmaker Craig Gillespie has infused the early part of I, Tonya with a blisteringly - paced sensibility that's admittedly quite difficult to resist, and it's clear, too, that the movie benefits substantially from Robbie's immersive turn as the far - from - likeable central character.

Director Stanley Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Arthur C. Clarke, has infused 2001: A Space Odyssey with a continuously striking visual sensibility that remains a highlight from start to finish, as the filmmaker suffuses the proceedings with one absolutely astonishing set - piece after another - with, for example, Dave's gravity - defying jog within the spacecraft's interior nothing less than jaw - dropping in its impact.

It's a strong (albeit familiar) premise that's immediately threatened by a surprisingly (and distractingly) low - rent visual sensibility, as filmmaker Craig Gillespie, along with cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe, has infused Fright Night with a hackneyed artificial darkness - ie it's almost as if the pair were trying to emulate the appearance of David Fincher's movies - that both holds the viewer at arm's length and highlights the laughably unconvincing computer - generated special effects.

It's a fairly stupid premise that's employed to progressively unwatchable effect by filmmaker Eli Roth, as the director, along with coscreenwriters Nicolás López and Guillermo Amoedo, proves utterly unable to elevate the narrative above its persistently one - note sensibilities - with the movie, by and large, coming off as a five minute short that's been clumsily, brutally expanded to feature length.

Double Play illustrates how the two filmmakers» sensibilities converge and diverge — Benning's solitary approach, say, versus Linklater's directorial self - identification as a kind of «coach» — as in an extended rendezvous you might find in certain Linklater films.

Leigh's legendarily free - wheeling sensibilities are certainly on full display here, as the filmmaker generally eschews solid instances of plot and instead emphasizes Poppy's seemingly random day - to - day activities (ie a visit with a physiotherapist and an encounter with a homeless man).

Filmmaker John Landis has infused Coming to America with a tremendously affable and consistently hilarious sensibility that proves impossible to resist, with the movie's compulsively watchable atmosphere heightened by the efforts of an almost uniformly charismatic cast - with Murphy's appealing turn as the film's hero matched by a top - notch roster of periphery performers (including James Earl Jones, John Amos, and Eriq La Salle).

Though the data tells us that women are interested in genres favored by Hollywood, female filmmakers encounter significant obstacles as they attempt to move from independent to more commercial filmmaking, and face deep - rooted presumptions from the film industry about their creative qualifications, sensibilities, tendencies, and ambitions.

«The movie owes a sizable debt to David Lynch and to Nicolas Winding Refn, who directed Mr. Gosling in «Drive» and «Only God Forgives,» but it reveals Mr. Gosling as a filmmaker with a poetic sensibility of his own.»

The Long Day Closes is the most gloriously cinematic expression of the unique sensibility of Terence Davies, widely celebrated as Britain's greatest living filmmaker.

Shelly has infused Waitress with an appropriately low - key sensibility that proves effective at initially drawing the viewer into the proceedings, as the filmmaker does a superb job of establishing the small - town environs in which the almost uniformly quirky characters reside - with the pleasant, easy - going atmosphere generally compensating for the movie's sporadic deficiencies (ie the difficult - to - swallow nature of Jenna's ongoing decision to stay with Jeremy Sisto's absurdly sinister Earl).

It's perhaps not surprising to note that Carpenter does a superb job of immediately capturing the viewer's attention, as Assault on Precinct 13 is rife with the various touchstones one has come to expect from the prolific filmmaker - including a memorable, self - composed score and a decidedly distinctive visual sensibility.

Director Rob Bowman certainly does an effective job of ensuring that The X Files never feels like just another episode of the show, as the filmmaker - armed with Carter's almost epic script - has infused the proceedings with a decidedly cinematic sensibility that's inherent in even the most innocuous of sequences.

Still, The Loved Ones - despite its thoroughly uneven sensibilities - stands as an above - average debut for promising new filmmaker within the horror genre.

Wong Kar - Wai's «My Blueberry Nights» isn't the first movie to use food, or even dessert, as a romantic metaphor, but this one is unquestionably the creation of a filmmaker with the sensibility of a woozy, love - stricken pastry chef.

In the wake of filmmakers as disparate as Todd Haynes and Abel Ferrara self - consciously toying with the limits of the biopic form, ostensibly killing dynamic subjects by pinning them to the wall, Saint Laurent isn't as radical a work of genre subversion as some of its adherents claim, but it sure as hell is beautiful, channelling its subject's hedonist spirit and delicate aesthetic sensibility in roughly equal measure.

I would argue that a film like this could only come from somewhere outside of America, as it embraces edgy cinematic sensibilities that most filmmakers are afraid of broaching.

The archetypal auteurs were not those filmmakers who controlled everything and produced works readily legible as Art but rather the unpretentious craftsmen working quickly within commercial constraints whose distinctive sensibilities nevertheless emerge against all odds as a kind of vernacular poetry.

But while Haigh, thirty - seven when he made Weekend, worked his way up the ranks of British cinema — he was an assistant to Ismail Merchant and worked as an assistant editor with Ridley Scott — his sensibility has more in common with the realist tendencies of the contemporary American independent scene, in particular the naturalistic intimacy and political intent of filmmakers like Kelly Reichardt and Ramin Bahrani.

Despite the show's adherence to an off - the - grid sensibility, fame and documentary practice are paired in dialectical subtexts throughout the exhibition via the inclusion of filmmakers such as Wiseman, Werner Herzog, and Vincent Gallo (who includes six full - page head shots of himself in the catalogue, in case you didn't recognize him).