Sentences with phrase «time filmmaker who»

The one that has survived most in recent years is the Director's Cut, a 165 - minute edit preferred by Peter H. Hunt, a young first - time filmmaker who worked in television for most of his subsequent career.

An impressive indie - noir from a first - time filmmaker who takes a simple idea and turns it into a surprisingly...

An impressive indie - noir from a first - time filmmaker who takes a simple idea and turns it into a surprisingly powerful film.

Not exact matches

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.

From filmmaker Steve Hoover and executive producer Terrence Malick, the documentary Almost Holy follows a vigilante pastor in the Ukraine nicknamed «Crocodile Gennadiy» who goes to extreme — at times controversial — measure to save orphaned, street children from drug addition and predators.

They still end up doing most of the caretaking and household chores, even if they work full time,» says Montreal filmmaker Sharon Hyman, who is working on a documentary called Apartners: Living Happily Ever Apart.

Filmmaker Josh Fox, who has spent a lot of time on the road with Sanders in recent months and is not a fan of Clinton, said the Democratic runner - up has revealed that America is more progressive than anyone previously suspected.

A federal judge who spared Dinesh D'Souza prison time for illegal - campaign contributions shot down the conservative filmmaker's nervy request to push back reporting to a halfway house until after January...

«The craft of popular moviemaking is based on hard - won, practice - forged, psychological principles that have evolved over a long time, fitting stories and their presentation to our cognitive and perceptual capacities,» adds Armstrong, who suggests that professional psychologists can learn much from studying the structure of filmmakers» products.

Alexis Gambis is a French - Venezuelan scientist - veered filmmaker who has been featured by The New York Times, TED, Nature, Science, Cell, The Village Voice, and WNYC; he is Founder & Executive Director of the Imagine Science Film Festival.

An aspiring filmmaker and motion graphics artists who spends time embracing the beauty within.

The white family who, like so many others at the time, flees from South Africa in The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat also draws empathy from the filmmaker, who as a resident of South Africa herself, realized that there were whole generations of Caucasian immigrants who knew no other home.

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.

By the time we arrive at «the incident,» the filmmakers are simultaneously mainlining and distorting the scandal's iconic figures and moments: posing a bloodied Harding over Kerrigan's (Caitlin Carver) bruised body; imagining a scene of Harding and Kerrigan bonding over pizza, booze, and En Vogue in a hotel room; and introducing «bodyguard» Shawn Eckhardt (Paul Walter Hauser) and «hitman» Shane Stant (Ricky Russert), the moronic goons who wrenched Harding's narrative away from her and turned it into tabloid grist.

The filmmakers have long stopped pretending to find anything troubling or transgressive about Christian's appetites — he might wield that vibrator a bit punitively at times, but really, who doesn't — leaving them little to do besides cut away distractedly to Hyde's harebrained scheme and usher the Greys toward the more ominous prospect of long - term commitment and parenthood.

Also not a fan is Justin Chang of the L.A. Times, who writes about this «hectoring, masturbatory slog» of a movie, «Lars von Trier is a stupid, arrogant troll and, when the mood strikes him, a reasonably talented filmmaker.

Most filmmakers who elect to employ it resort to clichés and don't spend a lot of time carefully considering the implications of paradoxes.

As anyone who has seen Maddin's stunning 2000 short film «The Heart of the World» (possibly the pinnacle of his career) can attest, he can cram more complex storytelling and memorable imagery into a few minutes of screen time than most filmmakers can muster in an entire career.

Somehow, even the jokes that worked in the trailer don't work anymore; it's as if the guy who cut the trailer had more of a knack for timing than the filmmakers behind this sloppy mess.

It was a time of big budget, Oscar nominated studio films like Misery and early genre work from filmmakers who would go on to become the best in the business, like Fincher's Seven, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, Tarantino and Rodriguez's From Dusk Til Dawn, and Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder.

FIRST TIME FEST also features a retrospective series called First Exposure which showcases the auspicious and ambitious debuts by artists who went on to become major filmmakers.

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The big winner: Winter Sleep, a three hour, sixteen minute long Turkish film from filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who last brought his masterful Once Upon a Time in Anatolia to Cannes a few years ago.

That may be a crushingly pretentious thing to say about a filmmaker who shuffles moods, genres and visual palettes with enviable ease, and who can leap from the sun - streaked LAPD noir of «Rampart» (2011) to the gloomy Manhattan neorealism of «Time Out of Mind» (2014) without breaking a sweat.

The directorial debut of Ruairi Robinson, the young Oscar - nominated Irish filmmaker who at one time was set to helm the «Akira» remake, it might seem to have a generic set - up, but if Robinson's shorts are anything to go by, we should expect to see something visually spectacular.

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.

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.

After a string of incredibly successful art house favorites throughout the late 1960's and early 1970's, Herzog, who alongside trailblazing filmmakers Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Wim Wenders, was a major figure in the German new wave movement, turned his gaze to the film he correctly acknowledged as the single most important German movie of all time.

What I'm not so fond of is the cop - out ultimately taken by the filmmakers, who can't seem to follow through on their promisingly metaphysical premise (let alone the theme of obsessive love), electing instead to eliminate all ambiguity — now would be the time to dig up that gift - wrapped box I told you about earlier — which reduces the film, in the end, to little more than a cheap, if rather expensive - looking, joke.

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.

Given that the plot motor is Thanos's worry that the universe is overpopulated, sly self - awareness is shown as the filmmakers embrace drastic solutions to the problems of braiding multiple franchises into one — though some jiggery - pokery with Dr Strange's time - juggling amulet (and Cumberbatch's knowing line readings) suggest any shocking plot developments can be rolled back later, especially with sequels in development for characters who seem to be permanently written out in a tragic finale that's also an old - fashioned cliffhanger.

Dunkirk is one of the best World War II films to come along in quite some time, and it shouldn't be a surprise it's a filmmaker as gifted as Christopher Nolan who has delivered it.

Featured characters include Jack Warner, Eartha Kitt, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, and Pier Angeli... Underrated English indie filmmaker Duane Hopkins, director of 2008's Better Things, is finally back with his second feature, Bypass, a lost - youth drama about a young small - time fence (played by rising star George MacKay) who comes to a crossroads in his life...

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.

Zobel is a very economic filmmaker who provides deep insight through carefully crafted dialogue, never wasting any time or even any extra shots on anything that isn't necessary.

Directed by filmmaker Christopher Landon, the time - loop horror story is about a college student who relives the day of her murder until she finds out who the killer is.

The time seemed right to explore this new opportunity to further strengthen our relationship with the Institute and partner with two young independent filmmakers who's commitment to pushing the boundaries of creativity and innovation mirrors ours.

The Times caught up with the filmmaker, who is nominated in the original screenplay category, shortly after the news Tuesday.

In his Paris years Gitai became friendly with Fuller, who was also living there at the time, and the American filmmaker acted in several of Gitai's Golem films and theater pieces.

(I figure that by the time I'm trotting out references to «Inspector Gadget», it's not me who's barely trying, but the filmmakers.)

It is with Platform that Jia joins the ranks of contemporary filmmakers like Tsai Ming - liang, Hou Hsiao - hsien and Wong Kar - wai, who have all been at the vanguard of analyzing the qualities of cinematic time and its relationship to time in one's non-cinematic experience.

His name doesn't spark an immediate opinion among cinephiles in the fashion of Christopher Nolan, M. Night Shyamalan or Alfonso Cuarón, to name some filmmakers who have been releasing movies for roughly the same amount of time.

After three films, each a master work, he has established himself as a gifted, confident filmmaker with ideas that involve who and where we are at this time.

Sang - soo is a filmmaker who has long been interested in rebuking cinematic traditions of time, viewpoint and narrative structure.

But this time around it's rising filmmaker Jean - Marc Vallee who has gotten behind camera, proving himself with two very well - received but perhaps underrated efforts in «C.R.A.Z.Y.» and «The Young Victoria.»

Filmmaker David France is an award - winning journalist and best - selling author who has written for the New York Times, Newsweek, and New York magazine, where he is now a contributing editor.

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.

Wiseau fit his definition and the cult filmmaker also fascinated Toby Emmerich who, at the time, ran New Line, taking it over to Warner Bros when he switched jobs.

Larraín is to Chile as filmmakers like Cristian Mungiu are to Romania: cathartic creators who, undeterred by the passage of time, return to examine a regime under which the socio - political power of cinema was largely denied the public and apply its modern possibilities to treating the wounds of the past.

Mohammad Rasoulof is a filmmaker on the ideological front - line, a fearless campaigner who's spent time in Iranian jails for publicly denouncing the country's rigged 2009 presidential elections.