Sentences with phrase «time filmmaker john»

Sounds like a solid western to me, and if it's already getting picked, then it sounds like first - time filmmaker John Maclean might have a bright future ahead of him.

The true - life thriller was one of the films we tipped to start a bidding war and with the distribution company negotiating for multiple territories, first time filmmaker John Krokidas must be feeling real good.

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).

Filmmakers John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein have infused Vacation with an almost aggressively episodic narrative that grows more and more problematic as time progresses, as the movie suffers from a hit / miss ratio that is, to an increasingly palpable extent, far more miss than hit and it does consequently become awfully difficult to work up any genuine interest in the protagonists» continuing exploits.

By the time The U.S. vs. John Lennon is done, the filmmakers have reinforced the sense that pop music once produced prophets, as well as profits.

For the six - minute spot accompanying the title track from its new EP The Spoils, filmmaker John Hillcoat (The Road, Lawless) spends the entire running time focused on the expressionless...

I chuckled less than half a dozen times — and about half of those are credited to the duo of Banks and John Michael Higgins, who return as the competition commentators and now (for some reason) documentary filmmakers.

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.

«Strong Island» uses photographs, diaries, music, and the sprawling testimonials of Barbara and the filmmaker himself to engross us in the lives of the Fords with a nostalgic detail — a three - dimensional feeling for how time and place intersect with social - cultural coding — that John Updike would have appreciated.

The New Zealand - born filmmaker gives us a stylish vision of the death of the old ways, of the inescapable impact of the passage of time and the modernization it brings, to some degree in the vein of John Ford's unforgettable The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance or Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven.

More previews are arriving as premieres come closer and closer, and now another has landed, this time giving us a first peek at the Australian film «Tracks» from filmmaker John Curran («Stone,» «The Painted Veil «-RRB-.

For the six - minute spot accompanying the title track from its new EP The Spoils, filmmaker John Hillcoat (The Road, Lawless) spends the entire running time focused on the expressionless countenance of Cate Blanchett.

Actress and filmmaker Ashley Bell is our avatar onscreen, and (with producer - writer - editor - cinematographer John Michael McCarthy III and director of photography - executive producer Roddy Tabatabai) she manages to make us feel as if we're experiencing a great adventure alongside her in real time.

First - time feature filmmaker John Maclean takes a strikingly original approach to the Western, creating a realistic road trip for two very different men.

The subject is still in place, after all, and the filmmakers — writer John Romano («The Lincoln Lawyer») and first - time feature director Ewan McGregor — can replace the diatribe with dialogue.

Hollywood couple Emily Blunt and John Krasinski are set to work together for the first time in Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's final movie.The married stars, who are expecting their first child together next year (14),...

First - time feature filmmaker John Maclean takes a strikingly original approach to the Western, creating a...

One of our favorite lists that kicks off this time is from filmmaker John Waters» - his Top 10 favorite films from this year.

Shot on a shoestring budget in just 16 days, «Blood Stripe» has already garnered several awards: It received the U.S. Best Fiction Feature Film Award at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival; the Audience Award at the 2016 Austin Film Festival; the John Schlesinger Award for First - Time Filmmaker at the 2016 Provincetown International Film Festival; and both the Audience Award and the Indie Vision Breakthrough Performance Award at the 2016 Twin Cities Film Festival.

First - time filmmaker Lemmon has infused Kotch with a very slow and very gentle feel that admittedly proves an ideal complement to John Paxton's subdued screenplay, with the movie benefiting substantially from Matthau's strong work as the somewhat unlikable protagonist.

Carnage — international trailer review Directed by: Roman Polanski Starring: Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz, Kate Winslet Rating: Not Yet Rated Release Date: December 16, 2011 TRAILER SCORE: 9/10 Thoughts by TSR: There's reason for excitement any time a film from a personal favorite filmmaker is coming out.

The film, which features C.K. as a thriving - yet - emotionally - stunted TV producer, follows him as he confronts (but apparently does nothing to stop) the fact that his 17 - year - old daughter (played by Chloe Grace Moretz) is being seduced by a famous filmmaker (John Malkovich) four times her age.

All of these familiar elements, and the fact that Kurosawa himself was drawing influence from American western directors like John Ford, make The Hidden Fortress an enjoyable film, but sometimes the movies that influenced a generation of filmmakers lose some of their luster because they've been borrowed from so many times.

Remy Auberjonois is the director / co-writer of BLOOD STRIPE, for which he received the John Schlesinger First Time Filmmaker Award from the Provincetown Film Festival.

Die Hard director John Mctiernan has been released from prison after serving time for lying to federal agents.The filmmaker was ordered to spend a...

His interviews with Andy Warhol, Stan Brakhage, Susan Sontag, John Cassavetes, Carolee Schneemann, Yvonne Rainer, Claes Oldenburg, Kenneth Anger and Michael Snow, among many other avant - garde artists and filmmakers for his weekly column in the Village Voice between 1958 and 1977, are gathered here for the first time in this substantial publication.

Currently regarded to be the nation's most successful and influential art school, an «American Bauhaus,» at the time BMC attracted a seemingly bottomless pool of vanguard artists that were to influence the course of American post-war art: painters Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Joseph Albers, Franz Kline, Wilhelm DeKooning; poets Robert Creeley, Jonathan Williams, M. C Richards; filmmaker Arthur Penn; architect Buckminister Fuller; sculptors John Chamberlin and Ruth Asawa; and musicians John Cage, David Tudor, Morton Feldman and Earle Brown.

Seductive Subversion includes Marisol's John Wayne sculpture, commissioned by Life magazine for an issue on movies; the French sculptor, painter, and filmmaker Niki de Saint Phalle's eight - foot - tall Black Rosy, one of her «Nana» sculptures exploring the role of women; Rosalyn Drexler's oil and acrylic work Chubby Checker, inspired by the poster for the movie Twist around the Clock, and Home Movies, based on frames from old gangster movies; the Times Square — inspired Ampersand, a multilayered, stylized, and illuminated neon ampersand in a Plexiglas cube by Chryssa, one of the first artists to utilize neon in her work; and a seventeen - foot - long triptych by Idelle Weber.

John de Graaf, a Seattle filmmaker and campaigner trying to cut the amount of time people devote to work, wore a T - shirt that said, «Medieval peasants worked less than you do.»