Sentences with phrase «veteran director»

The behind - the - scenes creative team includes Academy Award ® - winning production designer Rick Carter («Avatar») and «Watchmen» and «300» veterans director of photography Larry Fong, editor William Hoy and costume designer Michael Wilkinson.

The ceremony, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, also honored veteran directors with special awards.

And it is this uphill battle which is vividly recounted in Amazing Grace, a compelling bio-pic from veteran director Michael Apted of the 7 UP series fame.

I'll freely admit, many of the reasons to recommend Happy Feet reside primarily in the «bells and whistles», with some very good animation, nicely presented, and directed in a very competent fashion by veteran director George Miller (Babe: Pig in the City, The Road Warrior).

If the great veteran director John Huston had a hard time with it in 1982, why would we think Gluck could fare any better?

Veteran director Ridley Scott takes no prisoners in his epic vision of Imperial Rome, throwing us face first on the Coliseum floor and pounding us until we beg for mercy.

Veteran director Scott misses the directing line - up, which includes the aforementioned Iñárritu and Miller, as well as first - time nominees Lenny Abrahamson («Room»), Adam McKay («The Big Short»), and

Combine veteran director Mick Jackson (THE BODYGUARD, LA STORY, TEMPLE GRANDIN), legendary writer, David Hare (THE HOURS, THE READER) and Academy Award winning actor, Rachel Weisz, who, along with THE LOBSTER, is killing it in 2016, add a Holocaust theme and you can't miss with my tribe.

With Potter veteran director David Yates aboard, the film might have found its leading man.

It's a great - looking film, filled with wildly imaginative sets and costumes that would have done the Maestro proud, and veteran director Richard Fleischer (The Vikings) rises to the occasion with some sharply staged action scenes.

Besides Kidman and Penn The Interpreter also has the distinctive talents of veteran director Sydney Pollack to back it up.

Treading Water Not Even Michael Apted Can Save Narnia By Cole Smithey For the third Narnia franchise installment, veteran director Michael Apted takes over helming duties performed by Andrew Adamson on the first two films.

Acclaimed music video veteran Director X brings «Superfly» into 2018 with Trevor Jackson as the titular drug dealer.

Acclaimed music video veteran Director X brings «Superfly» into 2018 with Trevor Jackson as the tiitular drug dealer.

Turns out the two most handsome men on the planet also had an irrepressible comic chemistry, shepherded to the screen by veteran director George Roy Hill.

Harry Potter veteran director David Yates will helm all five films in the Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them prequel series.

The last gem is a short set of recollections from veteran director Robert Wise, who worked with Val Lewton, the producer of the original «Cat People,» when Wise was engaged to direct the film's sequel in 1944 at RKO.

All in all, in the hands of veteran director Joe Johnston (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and more recently, Jurassic Park III and next year's Hidalgo), The Rocketeer is a capable and satisfying drama / adventure.

A light that shines even brighter, considering Konami's recent actions have put veteran director Guillermo del Toro off of video game development for the foreseeable future.

In a year in which veteran directors whom I have consistently respected turned out work that I loathed (The Tree of Life and Hugo were two of 2011's worst movies) or that couldn't even get me to the theater (Almodóvar, Cronenberg, von Trier), I was very happy to see veterans like Herzog, Weir, and Breillat turn out work that kept them on their toes.

Veteran director Jay Roach (Meet the Parents) won an Emmy for the made - for - cable political comedy Recount, but here the script doesn't give him much to work with.

A long - unavailable underground hit that anticipated The Hunger Games novels by eight years, veteran director Fukasaku's epically violent, still - controversial and deeply influential genre masterpiece takes place in a dystopian alternate universe.

Veteran director Walter Hill helms this graphic novel adaptation about New Orleans (or, going by the film, Crescent City - NOLA's nickname) hitman James «Jimmy Bobo» Bonomo (Sylvester Stallone) who teams up with greenhorn D.C. cop Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang) to bring down the killers of their respective partners.

Key players, aside from Baye, are veteran director Xavier Beauvois and, in her screen debut, a riveting actress named Iris Bry who was planning on a career in library science until a chance meeting with the film's casting director changed everything.

The original film celebrated the diverse inclinations of the horror genre, while also poking fun at it thanks to veteran director Craven helming the vehicle.

Veteran director William Friedkin (who also collaborated with Letts on Bug) keeps the intensity level high despite the lack of traditional action.

The fact that Charles Darwin's pioneering On the Origin of Species requires patience to comprehend — inadvertently feeding a phony, fundamentalist controversy about its truthiness — seems to have stymied veteran director Jon Amiel (The Singing Detective), who chose to dramatize everything except what's important about Darwin.

Now, 65 years later, as part of The Mouse House's current trend of remaking / reimagining classics from the vault (which will continue over the next few years with new versions of «The Jungle Book», «Pete's Dragon» and «Beauty and the Beast»), veteran director Kenneth Branagh brings to life the latest live - action interpretation of the glass slipper story.

Eszterhas» success nevertheless saw the film get a green light with veteran director Arthur Hiller («Love Story,» «The In - Laws,» «The Hospital») nominally in charge.

Jane Birkin presented the honorary Palme to veteran director Agnes Varda, who won a standing ovation.

Now the icing on the cake comes courtesy of veteran director Clint Eastwood, whose film THE 15:17 TO PARIS lends this inspirational trio a cinematic platform of which to tell their harrowing tale.

Veteran director Agnieszka Holland — whose credits range from «Europa, Europa» to episodes of «The Wire» — doesn't always have this sprawling material under control.

Veteran director James Ivory, 89, won the adapted screenplay award for «Call Me by Your Name» and saluted late colleagues Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Ismail Merchant.

Traveling to accept an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg — masterfully played by veteran director Victor Sjöström — is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death.

Veteran director Bill Condon clearly hasn't opted to make a political film, or even bring a personal touch to the material.

Still best known as the screenwriter of Taxi Driver (1976), veteran director Paul Schrader indulges his two big passions — Calvinism and bloodletting — with this audacious drama.

Veteran director Daihachi Yoshida, whose offbeat drama «The Scythian Lamb» also screened in competition, later emailed his congratulations to first - time feature director Ueda, adding that he had walked home alone after the «One Cut» screening «feeling envious of your success» and «determined to make a film Udine audiences will like.»

Veteran director recognised by the British Academy despite his latest film, artist biopic Mr Turner, failing to secure any major - category nominations in this year's Bafta awards

After the huge success his film has had with the critics awards (winning a half dozen Best Picture prizes) and how Miller himself has performed with them, the Australian born Oscar winner (for Happy Feet, no less) has bulleted past Ridley Scott (The Martian), who was set to claim the «veteran director without a Directing Oscar» label.

A dear professor named Bill Mackie taught film production, veteran director Edward Dmytryk an editing workshop and I took film criticism courses with Tom Schatz, and did a lot of what would now be called interdisciplinary study, mixing courses in folklore and anthropology and psychology with courses in Communications and film studies.

The film marks veteran director Sydney Pollack's return to the genre so dear to his heart.

The acting gives those scenes potency, and veteran director Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields) whips up a political thriller / prison flick / award - baiting melodrama gumbo around them.

While the Women are Sleeping — The latest from veteran director Wayne Wang stars Takeshi Kitano as a creepy guy who befriends a young novelist who is suffering from writer's block while on vacation with his wife.

That Tsui Hark also tapped into the core of what makes the goofiest martial arts films tick is something that, more than 30 years later, is still a testament to a director who made a film more veteran directors wouldn't touch with a 10 - foot, bamboo, 8 - diagram - nurtured pole.

Liv Ullmann was not the only veteran director unafraid to mince her words this year.

Hollywood actor Jeff Daniels has joined the list of handful people in the industry, who are not completely turning their backs on veteran director Woody Allen.