Sentences with phrase «view as filmmakers»

Not exact matches

Yet all fiction writers (and playwrights and filmmakers, for that matter) must make similar imaginative leaps, and will be judged — as Styron has been judged — by how convincingly they portray the characters whose points of view they've done their best to assume.

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.

What has emerged remains very much a lover's discourse, but Denis and Angot's ultimately original screenplay takes a jointly personal, expressly feminist point of view, as Isabelle repeatedly muses aloud on the possibilities (and impossibilities) of love and sex for women like her — and, by extension, like the filmmakers.

It's a manipulative, disingenuous gesture that displays a lack of self - reflexivity from Chevigny and Kauffman, who clearly view their documentation as separate and more noble than the cacophony of spectacles and violence propagated by Hollywood filmmakers.

This is the time of the Ottoman Empire's last days as various nations become mired in World War I. International upheaval, as viewed from the intimate vantage point of a historical figure as enchanting and modern feeling as Bell, gives the filmmakers a variety of avenues to explore.

His subsequent career as a director did not quite hit the heights of that first film, but what followed still proved Hopper to be a fascinating filmmaker with a unique point of view.

Susan Wloszczyna: As an ardent admirer of Chilean filmmaker Sebastian Lelio's Gloria, about a mousy 50 - ish divorcee and office worker who yearns for romance but only on her own terms, it was no surprise that his A Fantastic Woman similarly managed to take my breath away while viewing the world through female eyes.

«Closely navigates Anton's world with a buoyant and organic hand... The filmmakers use him as a lens to view humanity.»

If you are one who enjoys these uplifting stories about overcoming great obstacles in order to make the world a better place, even if the roads traveled by the filmmakers are predictable and somewhat trite, you'll most likely find great value in viewing Freedom Writers as informative, entertaining, and thought - provoking.

As these filmmakers speculate, Paisley and McGuinness didn't so much convince each other of the rightness of their respective views as they settled on a kind of ideological détente, coming to respect each other's tenacity and intelligence through their heated dialectical exchangeAs these filmmakers speculate, Paisley and McGuinness didn't so much convince each other of the rightness of their respective views as they settled on a kind of ideological détente, coming to respect each other's tenacity and intelligence through their heated dialectical exchangeas they settled on a kind of ideological détente, coming to respect each other's tenacity and intelligence through their heated dialectical exchanges.

Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.

Budding filmmakers itching to make their own Creature Feature should view Anaconda as a modern lesson in overused monster movie techniques.

Guillermo Del Toro solidified my view of him as a visionary filmmaker with this film, and it still stands to me as a testament to what fantasy can and should do.

I generally try to keep a keen eye on all of the steps of the filmmaking process, but there's no viewing Prometheus as the product of filmmakers; Scott is notably successful at pulling a viewer into this world.

And while you'd half expect point - of - view cinematography to dominate, for the most part the filmmakers opt for fly - on - the - wall storytelling, establishing the viewers as third - party witnesses.

Octogenarian James Ivory, the acclaimed filmmaker of A Room with a View and Howards End, whose 1987 film Maurice was a landmark in gay cinema, was slated to direct Call Me, but he ended up writing the script and co-producing, handing over the reins to Guadagnino mainly as a result of financial pragmatism (Guadagnino refers to his production as «micro-budget»).

As I write, I've not yet viewed this DVD's supplements so I don't know if the filmmakers acknowledge Earth as an influence, but the two films share enough similarities that I find it hard to believe Earth didn't impact Skin in some wayAs I write, I've not yet viewed this DVD's supplements so I don't know if the filmmakers acknowledge Earth as an influence, but the two films share enough similarities that I find it hard to believe Earth didn't impact Skin in some wayas an influence, but the two films share enough similarities that I find it hard to believe Earth didn't impact Skin in some ways.

We heard a lot in 2006, as we do every year, about nasty filmmakers who were said to have viewed their characters (and, hence, their audiences) with contempt, or who «made fun of» them, or treated them with condescension, or who just don't seem to like them very much.

«1/2 Revolution»: (Denmark, Egypt) In January 2011, two filmmakers captured the reality of the Egyptian revolution as it occurred out of view from the world's media in the alleyways and streets away from the square — and in the process were arrested by the secret police.

Just as the respectable Oscar bait churned out by Harvey Weinstein's Miramax was financed by the less glamorous chillers and slashers of Bob Weinstein's Dimension Films, so too the slight pleasures of mumblecore cinema associated with the Duplass brothers, Lena Dunham and Great Gerwig find their ugly kid brother in a series of outré horror films that look back to the schlockier video rentals that must have punctuated these filmmakers» formative artsier viewings.

As an ardent admirer of Chilean filmmaker Sebastian Lelio's Gloria, about a mousy 50 - ish divorcee and office worker who yearns for romance but only on her own terms, it was no surprise that his A Fantastic Woman similarly managed to take my breath away while viewing the world through female eyes.

Writer / director John Michael McDonagh and actor Brendon Gleeson re-team (The Guard, 2011) in what can be viewed as one giant leap for both filmmaker and actor.

Pixar, which is based in Emeryville, Calif., knows San Francisco well, and filmmakers Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen have fun poking fun at the city as seen from an outsider's point of view.

There is also an avalanche of bonus extras, including: Extreme Cool View Version of Ice Age (which combines Scrat's Frozen Fun Facts with behind - the - scenes clips from the filmmakers and natural history experts), specific scene commentary by John Leguizamo as Sid, Behind the Scenes of Ice Age (an HBO special), Gone Nutty - Scrat's Missing Adventure (the animated short), Bunny (another animated short with introduction by director Chris Wedge), three multi-angle animation progressions, and six production featurettes.

It perfectly captures the feeling of an artist, their world view as well as the filmmaker behind the camera.

Nearly six years after the first Screenwriters Lab in India, the Institute views the coming year as an opportunity to craft support for independent filmmakers in a way that suits a landscape changing as rapidly as the country itself.

After viewing the film, students might discuss the filmmaker's artistic decisions, such as why he turned the animated people into paper dolls.

The subversive appropriations of commercial imagery in Hank Willis Thomas's Unbranded series, on view in the Block's main gallery, serve as a launching pad for this series, which looks at the ways filmmakers have used cinema to explore — and to dismantle — socially - imposed images and identities of race, class, gender, and sexuality.

While Pat O'Neill is primarily known as an experimental filmmaker, this small retrospective, which filled two moodily lit galleries with five decades» worth of sculptures, drawings, photographs, slides, and films, made a case for another, adjacent view of his practice — one concerned with fixed visual forms.

In conjunction with the Tribeca Film Festival, New Yorkers and festival - goers alike will be able to view the artwork of eleven major contemporary artists — to be given as prizes to winning Festival filmmakers.

In conjunction with the Tribeca Film Festival, New Yorkers and festival - goers alike will be able to view the artwork of eleven major contemporary artists - to be given as prizes to winning Festival filmmakers.

Other key works include Block Party (2002 - 2004) by French artist and filmmaker Pierre Huyghe celebrating the block party as a force of community and cohesion with New York City neighbourhoods, Clarendon Road (2000 - 2005) by Howard Hodgkin, deploying his characteristic brushstrokes and saturated colours to respond to the view of a London house, and Vulture (Dragon)(2010) by Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington.