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It's hard to believe it's been 15 years since writer director Niki Caro's sleeper hit «Whale Rider» arrived in theaters, introducing the world to actress Keisha Castle - Hughes.

Not exact matches

Writer - director Ken Loach has been making movies about the British working class since the mid-60s, and this masterful dramatic feature proves that even after all these years he can still work himself up into righteous, white - hot rage.

Since the franchise was effectively rebooted with Casino Royale, an approach more becoming of comic books has been employed: different writers and directors come in and somehow try to stitch all the character's actions together into an overarching narrative.

It all sounds like a recipe for the most noxious liberal jerk - off movie since «Crash,» but in the hands of writer - director Richard LaGravenese, Freedom Writers turns out to be a superb piece of mainstream entertainment — not an agonized debate over the principles of modern education à la «The History Boys,» but a simple, straightforward and surprisingly affecting story of one woman who managed to make a difference.

Franco mines the role for fun, especially since Wiseau proves equally hopeless as an actor, a writer and a director.

In recent times, and especially since «First Reformed» debuted at the Toronto Film Festival last fall, the writer / director has spoken about his work in numerous interviews and discussions, and his comments — which I encourage interested readers to seek out — are invariably as stimulating and insightful as they are candid.

It feels even darker since the subsequent murder of its writer / director / supporting actor Adrienne Shelley who didn't live to see the film's release.

But this isn't exactly News to anyone; George Lucas, who seems more like a world - leader to me than just a plain «ol writer / director, has been wowing audiences since the release of A New Hope in 1977.

Finally, writer / director Rebecca Miller's first film since 2009's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Maggie's Plan, wasn't expected to make it on to this autumn's circuit because it finished principal photography just a few months ago.

Since Graham is a veteran of the Hollywood scene, and since this is her first outing as writer and director, we can assume she knows what she's talking aSince Graham is a veteran of the Hollywood scene, and since this is her first outing as writer and director, we can assume she knows what she's talking asince this is her first outing as writer and director, we can assume she knows what she's talking about.

While shooting this pilot was Bigelow's first gig since winning her historic Best Director Oscar for 2008's «The Hurt Locker,» the driver behind the project was writer John Logan, whose biggest credits at that time were «The Aviator,» «The Last Samurai,» «Gladiator» and «Sweeney Todd.»

A few scant days since word broke that the Kick - Ass 2 writer / director is developing an X-Force film for 20th Century Fox comes word that Sony is looking to secure his services for an action film called Go Fast.

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Since the case was highly - publicized, and the subject of a couple of best - selling books in the early 1980s, writer - director Phyllis Nagy's revisiting of the events plays fast and loose with the tone and tempo of the story.

Moreover, as illustrated by the trailer above, All Is By My Side isn't so much a conventional memoir - it simply can't be, since the Hendrix estate refused to allow writer / director John Ridley to use any of the songs created by its artist subject.

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

But since the new film from writer - director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud) works best as a very strange road - trip movie, that cliché feels apropos.

Mowgli , which has been in development since 2012, cycled through rumored directors, including Harry Potter writer Steve Kloves and Alejandro González Iñárritu ( The Revenant ), before finally landing on Andy Serkis.

In the Fade (Fatih Akin, director & writer) I've liked Fatih Akin's films ever since seeing Head - On in 2004 and The Edge of Heaven in 2007.

It feels like far too long since French writer and director Xavier Beauvois's bucolic and earthy filmmaking graced the screen stateside.

I must say, though, that I didn't find it all that extreme, since writer / director Julia Ducournau references so many other horror films (and does it so well).

Ever since their 1998 modern classic «There's Something About Mary,» writers - directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly have struggled to try to recapture lightning in a bottle and conjure up yet another raunchy comedy with a heart of gold.

The star - studded film from British writer / director Richard Curtis has been a fan - favorite in the holiday movie genre since its release.

writer - director Greta Gerwig is the first female nominee in the best director category at the Academy Awards since Kathryn Bigelow in 2010.

Lady Bird writer - director Greta Gerwig is the first female nominee in the best director category at the Academy Awards since Kathryn Bigelow in 2010.

Zoe Lister - Jones (a regular on TV's «Whitney») has been acting regularly since 2004, and this is her first «all in» film project where she is writer / director / producer / lead actress.

And since independent film is where social progress typically finds its earliest, least compromised expression, we're now seeing more richly observant films like «Return,» a sensitively rendered drama that marks a promising debut for writer - director Liza Johnson, in rewarding collaboration with underrated actress Linda Cardellini.

I've seen Secrets and Lies three times since it premiered at Cannes in May, and each time the movie's apparent rough patches have seemed smoother — clear evidence that writer - director Mike Leigh knows exactly what he's doing and why.

Actually, in the unlikely case that we were to get a lone director this year, Ghost Writer, along with Another Year, are the films I could see getting such a nom since both are very much «director's pictures» and both come from academy favorite filmmakers.

Those two films were the sophomore efforts of filmmakers we've since come to revere and Seven Psychopaths is the work of another man now on that path: writer / director Martin McDonagh.

For her first narrative feature since Winter's Bone (the Ozark - set documentary Stray Dog was made in the interim), writer - director Debra Granik adapts Guggenheim recipient Peter Rock's 2009 novel My Abandonment, about a father (Ben Foster) and his 13 - year - old daughter (newcomer Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), homeless yet living in surprisingly peaceful fashion in empty urban wilderness on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, until a small mistake derails their lives in shattering fashion.

A feature - length commentary featuring director Ortega, producer Mike Finnell, lead choreographer Peggy Holmes, and writers Bob Tzudiker and Noni White starts in the pits with exhausting recountings of where the kid cast members have wound up since the «triumph» of Newsies (it's like a biblical genealogy)... and continues in the pits with never - interesting back - patting and masturbatory aggrandizement.

Since his return to low - budget filmmaking after a fallow decade, the writer - director (and actor) has made vérité - style profiles of an unrepentant convicted perv (RSO: Registered Sex Offender, 08) and a sad - sack troubadour who'll chew your ear off over his last break - up (Harmony and Me, 09).

Despite being, in a sense, the most straightforward, linear narrative movie the writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson has made in quite some time (perhaps since «Punch Drunk Love» — and this is not the only respect in which the two films resemble each other), «Phantom Thread» could be the filmmaker's most fascinatingly oblique work.

Since then, the writer - director has seen his share of ups and downs, from the highly regarded Unbreakable to the widely derided The Last Airbender.

But then «Whiplash» premiered at Sundance, and the buzz around the writer / director of the scintillating, thrilling jazz - drum - themed investigation into the cost of greatness has only got more thunderous since.

When writer / director Paul Thomas Anderson made his acclaimed drama «The Master» (2012), he originally intended to shoot roughly 20 % of his tale of an alienated young man (Joaquin Phoenix) falling under the spell of the charismatic leader of a new religious movement (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in 70 mm, but wound up shooting nearly the entire thing in the process (the first narrative film to do so since the aforementioned «Hamlet»).

Since things are seldom what they seem, writer - director Baumbach introduces a major twist three - quarters of the way into the story, and suddenly it all makes sense.

Over-indulgence, bombast, and excess have been part of Vaughan's filmmaking DNA ever since he severed ties with the similarly over-indulgent, bombastic, and excessive writer - director Guy Ritchie, transitioning from producer to director more than a decade ago.

Even better, the film has been written and directed by a queer woman: Angela Robinson, who directed the lesbian action - comedy classic D.E.B.S., and who's since been a writer / director on TV shows like The L Word, Hung, True Blood, and How to Get Away With Murder.

Writer - director Paul Thomas Anderson's best film since his 2007 masterpiece, «There Will Be Blood,» reunites him with that movie's star, Daniel Day - Lewis.

The ambitious project marks 10 years since the death of the Nobel Prize - winning writer and is being led by director Jamie Lloyd.

The writer - director found her script «hard for people to understand» since it lacked the usual teenage - wasteland raunch.

Since his leap to filmmaking, Landesman's been concerned with true - life tales, but he's been stronger as a writer (Kill the Messenger) than a writer / director (Concussion).

Sounds awesome to us, and the creative team behind this one — including Gone Girl writer Gillian Flynn and director Steve McQueen, who hasn't made a movie since his 2013 film 12 Years a Slave won Best Picture — makes this project even more enticing.

The movie: British - Polish writer - director Pawel Pawlikowski's first film since his Oscar - winning Ida tracks a doomed romance across Europe, spanning the entirety of the 1950's.

The director of Dallas Buyers Club, the writer of An Education, and baity source material will give Witherspoon her best chance at another nomination since she won this category for Walk the Line.

Re-teaming writer Mike White and director Miguel Arteta for their first feature - film collaboration since The Good Girl,...

The original script was written by Larry Stuckey, but John Hamburg, writer of the first two movies and director of Along Came Polly and the upcoming I Love You, Man, has since been brought in for a rewrite.

Since making his international breakthrough in the mid -»90s, the French writer - director has built a career of messy, novelistic ensemble mosaics like A Christmas Tale and Kings & Queen that don't so much move from A to B as zigzag wildly across the entire alphabet, taking special...