Sentences with phrase «time filmmakers working»

Comparisons to Eminem's 8 Mile and Craig Brewer's Hustle and Flow wouldn't be too far - fetched, but Patti Cake $ is even more awe - inspiring when you take into account that it's a low - budget indie from a first - time filmmaker working with a relatively unknown cast whose biggest name is Cathy Moriarty.

Not exact matches

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.

There is a lot to learn from Alfred Hitchcock's work, his narrative was close to perfect and the skill to create suspense by depriving us of the payoff and restricting our view forcing us to imagine how bad the situation was, for the longest time just to deliver it at the peek of our attention, and that my friends, that is a gift for the film fanatic as for the filmmaker.

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).

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.

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.

It's a promising setup that's employed to curiously (and consistently) uninvolving effect by director Stanley Kubrick, as the filmmaker, working from a script cowritten with Terry Southern and Peter George, proves unable to wholeheartedly capture the viewer's interest right from the get - go - with the movie suffering from a stagy, talky vibe that grows more and more problematic as time progresses.

It's a seemingly foolproof premise that's employed to distinctly (and consistently) underwhelming effect by director Johannes Roberts, as the filmmaker, working from a screenplay cowritten with Noel Clarke, Dave Fairbanks, and Marc Small, offers up a narrative that's been jam - packed with generic, hackneyed elements that slowly - but - surely drain one's interest - with, for example, the movie's absence of sympathetic characters growing more and more problematic as time progresses.

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.

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.

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Framing the film around the definition of «Altmanesque,» Altman goes through the filmmaker's work one at a time in chronological order, starting with his work on television up to his swan song A Prairie Home Companion.

I was also curious as a first - time filmmaker, what was it like working with a cinematographer like Seamus McGarvey or production designer like Nathan Crowley on your first film?

And with the inclusion of American Spectrum, spotlighting 20 first time or initial works by American directors, and Frontiers, featuring cutting - edge filmmakers, the Festival has expanded their dedication to the independent filmmaking community.

There was a time when Sam Peckinpah was considered the greatest working American filmmaker — circa 1969.

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.

Filmmaker Tony Zierra worked closely with his subject on this new documentary chronicling his extraordinary time spent with the late great filmmaker, featuring a treasure trove of private photographs, footage and never - before - seen dFilmmaker Tony Zierra worked closely with his subject on this new documentary chronicling his extraordinary time spent with the late great filmmaker, featuring a treasure trove of private photographs, footage and never - before - seen dfilmmaker, featuring a treasure trove of private photographs, footage and never - before - seen documents.

While the movie feels every bit like the work of a first - time filmmaker (it's pretty rough around the edges, even for an indie), there's enough good stuff here to suggest that Martin has a promising future beyond the stage.

Releasing in May 2018, Paul Schrader's seminal text Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer will be reissued with a substantial new introduction representing his experiences and ideas as a filmmaker that have evolved over time, giving the original work both new clarity and a contemporary lens.

Releasing in May 2018, Schrader's seminal text Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer will be reissued with a substantial new introduction representing Schrader's experiences and ideas as a filmmaker that have evolved over time, giving the original work both new clarity and a contemporary lens.

Like the works of Antonioni, I find that Philippe Garrel is a filmmaker I am maturing into, his films revealing their layers to me over time.

The writer - director previously served as an intern on three of Terrence Malick's films — Weightless, Voyage of Time, The Tree of Life — and certainly picked up a thing or two from the impenetrable filmmaker, whose works often serve as meditations on life, death, and man's place in the natural world.

Lars von Trier) Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman, Jamie Bell Even aside from the whole persona non grata that resulted after his ill - advised comments while promoting «Melancholia» at the festival two years ago (and there have been some suggestions that Lars von Trier «s work is still welcome at the festival, just not so much the filmmaker himself), it's very unlikely that von Trier's latest will be on the Croisette this year, for the principal reason that it's not ready: the film's producer indicated that the two - part movie just wouldn't be prepared in time to screen for contention.

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.

First time feature filmmaker Lisa D'Apolito commented, «I fell in love with Gilda Radner while doing pro bono work at Gilda's Club, the cancer support organization Gene Wilder founded in honor of Gilda in Greenwich Village, where I grew up.

HFR has great potential, but it will take some time before filmmakers fully understand how to use it and work with it.

Borrowing from Takashi Miike's Audition (seminal J Horror film) source material, Nicolas Pesce had time to dress, finesse his highly anticipated sophomore film and boy did he deliver with what comes across as a Cronenberg's Crash like love story featured in hotel room spaces rather than car wreckage and works as an homage to a plethora of influential filmmakers including De Palma and the Giallo set.

Tokyo Sonata, at first glance, plays less like the work of Kurosawa than like that of Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao - hsien, but as the story of downsized executive Ryuhei (Teruyuki Kagawa) unfolds, following roughly the same blueprint as Laurent Cantet's Time Out as Ryuhei conceals his unemployment from his wife and two sons, it comes clear that Kurosawa's brilliant, refined take on mass hysteria in his horror films has been translated intact.

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.

While Kress, like many casting directors, has filmmakers she works with regularly, this was her first time paired with actor turned director Scott Cooper, best known for having written and helmed «Crazy Heart,» which won Jeff Bridges an Academy Award.

I do nt know why filmmakers think that by upping the ridiculousness their sequels will therefore be a «better version» of something that worked one time and one time only.

At the same time, Rivers» second solo feature is the closest to «conventional» that his work as ever come — the term being used very loosely here, given that The Sky Trembles opens as a somewhat absurd behind - the - scenes documentary before following Spanish filmmaker Oliver Laxe off into the unknown.

When asked if living in France (the filmmaker splits his time between NYC and Paris) has had any effect on his filmmaking, Anderson said, «Well, I think I got more of the French sensibility in my work from watching French movies, probably, than living in France.

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.

Having worked with filmmakers such as Wes Anderson, Lars von Trier, Abel Ferrara and Paul Schrader multiple times, Dafoe is as likely to pop up in a foreign art film as in a big - budget Hollywood production.

The Work is directed by filmmakers Jairus McLeary & Gethin Aldous («Sea Nation»), collaborating for their first time as co-directors.

The filmmakers embrace the «moment» women are currently enjoying in pop culture: Thanks to female - centric works such as last year's «Bridesmaids» and this year's HBO series «Girls,» female characters can be seen confronting intimacy issues in sometimes startling ways and unconventional protagonists are getting screen time.

They recently received a grant to continue their work, so all of their time is spent in the lab with two fellow technicians (Peters and Glover) and a young filmmaker (Bolger) who's documenting their whole process.

Once upon a time, this section functioned as the festival's farm program, with filmmakers starting out there and then «graduating» to the Competition; in recent years, it's become more of a free - floating catch - all, showcasing ornery works by major directors (Claire Denis, Hong Sang - soo) alongside the up - and - comers.

Not just any ordinary director either but the one and only David Lynch, who is one of the world's great filmmakers and who himself has worked with Stanton a number of times in the past.

Minor or no, this is still a work by one of the all - time great (yet still misunderstood) American filmmakers, and its unavailability on other platforms makes this a must - watch.

McGarry, a first - time filmmaker, spent five years in production on Code Black while simultaneously working the hectic schedule of a young doctor in training.

For production designer Mark Tildesley, working with Anderson for the first time, the sense of collaboration with the filmmaker and star was invigorating.

Kill List and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley's A Field in England is drastically different from the British filmmaker's previous works, to the point that fans of his other films are having a difficult time wrapping their tastes — and minds — around this new one.

The work of a first - time filmmaker can sometimes be hit and miss.

As filmmakers, critics and the general public have pointed out time and time again, Ridley Scott's Alien worked so well because we rarely, if ever, saw the entire creature.

It's the second film by independent filmmaker Jon Sherman (Breathing Room), working with first - time screenwriter Eric Pomerance's script, but it feels like the work of more seasoned veterans, with a good balance of storytelling and character development that pays off quite well during the film's more romantic moments.

This was already great and I got this opportunity to work with filmmakers who believed in me as an actor... Then I got to go back and do «American Pie 4» and I had an absolute awesome time.

My take: I've written many times about my love of Mexican writer / director Guillermo del Toro, who I consider one of the greatest genre filmmakers working today.