Sentences with phrase «time a filmmaker made»

Emily Bronte's novel is one of the most unsettling books you'll ever read, so it's about time a filmmaker made a darkly disturbing movie out of it.

Only one first - time filmmaker made the cut this year: Hungarian director Lazló Nemes with Son of Saul, a Holocaust drama about an Auschwitz prisoner who devises a plan to save his adopted son.

Not exact matches

Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos said at the Television Critics Association press tour that the company wasn't in the market for a true - crime series at the time it picked up «Making a Murderer,» but he was impressed by the filmmakers.

Munn, who is involved in the Time's Up initiative and publicly accused filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual misconduct, said that while she believes that comedians exist to make light of dark situations, Chappelle crossed a line.

It appears the filmmaker is going to be making a much more elegiac and sobering gangster movie this time around.

Noel Murray at The Los Angeles Times also wasn't much of a fan, but wrote that we should «give credit to the filmmakers for making a faith - affirming picture that aims to be more thoughtful than maudlin.»

We don't know if the trailer, which is made by Jewish filmmakers, is completely kosher, but we guess there's enough time for the rabbis to sort it out in time for the next Thanksgivukkah.

American actor and filmmaker Benjamin Géza Affleck - Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California, and was raised in Cambridge, It's that time of year: for drinking and partying and then making New Year's resolutions.

At the same time, I'm drawn to the director's formal genius; rarely has a filmmaker worked with such horrible affairs and still made it seem so conventional.

The filmmakers make the time - honored mistake of going too far with animal fart and poop humor, and it takes away from the hoped - for effect of inuring Mr. Popper, and the audience, to the waddling animals.

The big difference in Swedish filmmaker Sara Jordeno's vibrant documentary portrait is that it surveys the lives of LGBTQ youth - of - color at a time when Black Lives Matter has become a national movement and trans rights is making a long - overdue entry into the political conversation.

She worked for a time as a designer and model before making her screen debut in 1931 in a comedy by Marc Allegret, who made his own debut as a feature filmmaker that same year.

«Contest» more than makes up for some first - time - filmmaker shortcomings with its sincerity and unexpected strengths in the storyline and cinematography.

Yet, despite costing a meagre # 400» 000 to make, this first time feature filmmaker, along with an incredible cast and crew, have managed to push through the boundaries of their financial constraints to produce a calibre of film that rivals many of its Hollywood mainstream siblings, giving them a real run for their money.

Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box - office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.

There is just something about the idea and setting that intrigues me and I think seeing something made by a first time feature length filmmaker is a must for everyone when attending a film festival.

Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master GEORGE A. ROMERO, is one of the great stories of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box - office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.

Fox and His Friends, Fassbinder's twenty - second feature, made when he was twenty - nine — a time of life when most filmmakers would be lucky to have half a film under their belts — is amusing, sometimes even hilarious, in its single - minded trudge toward dissolution.

It's considered one of the best concert films ever made, crafted with love from one of the great filmmakers of our time.

Logan Lucky's large ensemble cast brings a layer of amiable backwoods vamping to the tone of gentle self - effacement; Keough and Driver speak at opposite speeds with adept comic timing, and Tatum again makes an ideal muse for a filmmaker obsessed and fascinated by work.

This low - key character study from filmmaker Joshua Marston is built around a woman who prefers to make up her life as she goes along — one new, invented identity at a time.

On Robert Bresson [New York Times] The great French filmmaker Robert Bresson (1901 - 1999) not only made movies but also gave instructions about how his films might be watched and thought about.

The second is the direction by first - time feature filmmaker Bryan Buckley, an award - winning commercial filmmaker who shows enough talent to make his a name to note.

Unlike Thomas Quick, this was another literal - minded, straightforward documentary — many of the high - profile features this year were, almost as though progression of and experimentation with the medium took a momentary pause so filmmakers could in this turbulent time focus on making calls for change.

And while I question a lot of Tarantino's ideas personally, there is some commentary which I found at least interesting and at times truly thought - provoking... until they just keep repeating the same things over and over and over again, losing the larger message in the flood of Tarantino dialogue which now seems to be the crutch of an indulgent filmmaker... not the original voice who made such an impact on Hollywood 20 years ago.

Chase Hilton — this time of year always makes me so grateful to filmmakers for making these beautiful objects we can all enjoy and treasure.

Wyler Michael Moskowitz With Hitler laying waste to Europe and the United States refusing to answer the call to war, Jewish filmmaker William Wyler risks his career to make Mrs. Miniver, the most effective propaganda film of all time.

The filmmakers are delving into same very dark places at the same time that they are making an escapist and, at times, tongue - in - cheek thriller.

ANOTHER first time filmmaker Adam Pesce, makes a very strong debut here, as he chronicles the ill effects on these islanders of their dreams of competing in the inaugural Papua New Guinea National Surfing Titles.

To some, James Franco's adaptation of Greg Sestero's chronicle of the making of Tommy Wiseau's The Room is a funny story about a kooky aspiring filmmaker making the worst movie of all time.

The project first germinated around the time of Sightseers and earns its «long - awaited» tag courtesy of some fine looking promos and Wheatley's ever - growing reputation as a master filmmaker in the making.

Personally, I wish the filmmaker hadn't put so much effort into trying to make Gordon - Levitt look like his older counterpart — particularly when Willis has about half the screen time of Gordon - Levitt.

Refn clearly has a love for the likes of Walter Hill and John Carpenter, as well as cult classics like Silent Running and Logan's Run, a film he was looking to remake for some time; von Trier has grander aspirations as a filmmaker, a compulsive need to make the audience feel something, anything, at the end of his works.

The filmmaker admitted that making the transition from being a reporter to a first - time feature film director on the anticipated thriller was both exciting and terrifying.

What most filmmakers forget is that it takes a special brand of smarts in order to make a movie that's dumb without actually being dumb, and also be really funny at the same time («Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle,» take a bow).

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Directed by David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada, 2006; Marley & Me, 2008; Hope Springs, 2012), and written by the eclectically random Allan Loeb, with a heavy, heavy hand you can see what the filmmakers are trying to do here — make sense of grief by using proxies (in this case Love, Time and Death) to draw out emotional responses.

«He stood up on behalf of his beloved fellow filmmakers time and again, and he believed with all his heart that creativity and artistic freedom could make a difference in the world.

First - time filmmaker Aselton creates one of the most assured thrillers in recent memory, throwing finely developed characters into a very nasty situation that makes us squirm in our seats.

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.

This by no means signifies C&B will review all films made by those filmmakers willing to pay for the time and effort of our writers.

As Pegg puts it, time is against Tarantino, and the filmmaker is unlikely to get his Trek made according to Paramount's schedule.

Broadway producer and first - time documentary feature filmmaker, director, and producer Amanda Lipitz has made her way from the Sundance Film Festival to a 200 theater opening of her passion project, Step.

,» «Tree's Final Walk of Shame,» «Worst Birthday Ever» with the filmmakers and cast discussing the challenges of executing the time - loop concept at the center of the film, including how to make each day feel different despite the fact it's being repeated, «Behind the Mask: The Suspects,» «The Many Deaths of Tree.»

Extras: Audio commentary with film producer and historian Bruce Block; new appreciation of the film and select scene commentary by film historian Philip Kemp; «The Flawed Couple,» a new video essay by filmmaker David Cairns on the collaborations between Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon; «Billy Wilder ABC,» an overview by David Cairns on the life and career of the filmmaker, covering his films, collaborators and more; new interview with actress Hope Holiday; «Inside the Apartment,» a half - hour «making - of» featurette from 2007 including interviews with Shirley MacLaine, executive producer Walter Mirisch, and others; «Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon,» an archive profile of the actor from 2007; original screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (BD - ROM content); theatrical trailer; special collector's packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Ignatius Fitzpatrick; collector's 150 - page hardcover book featuring new writing by Neil Sinyard, Kat Ellinger, Travis Crawford and Heather Hyche, generously illustrated with rare stills and behind - the - scenes imagery.

Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson has made six near - perfect films in his brief time on this planet, the latest of which,... read more →

That's exactly what Revenge delivers, but what makes this particular thriller stand out is that it hails from first - time French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat, bringing a refreshing female perspective to the proceedings that is not only empowering, but also downright bloody and merciless in its literal and figurative execution.

The only foreign language film to make our top ten this year, the Spanish generic hybrid The Skin I Live In saw leading man Antonio Banderas reuniting with filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar for the first time since 1990's Tie Me Up!

The Cleanse is both written and directed by filmmaker Bobby Miller, making his feature directorial debut after a whole bunch of award - winning short films, including Tub and End Times.

It has the simplified feel of a book - made - into - a-movie at times (among other things, the filmmakers leave out Lomax's first wife and three children), but it's still a tense and moving experience.