Sentences with phrase «whose early films»

Probably named after film director James Cameron, a lot of whose early films were partially horror.

My own interest runs more toward «Goksung,» the latest from Na Hong - jin, a master of the contemporary crime thriller whose earlier films, «The Yellow Sea» and «The Chaser,» remain two of my most memorably grisly Cannes experiences.

These are not exactly obscure works: The Intruder is the latest offering from French director Claire Denis, whose earlier films (including Beau Travail and Friday Night) have been widely seen at film festivals and in art - house theaters.

It takes a certain kind of mindset to spend one's days writing code — Bujalski, whose earlier films mostly orbited around bohemian - hipster types, seems at ease amidst the pasty introverts participating in the weekend - long hotel - set chess tournament that gives the film its narrative spine.

Not exact matches

Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.

As a sign of how well Daley and Goldstein have cast the film, there's an early scene featuring a deadpan Camille Chen as a fertility doctor, whose backhand insults and dives into inappropriate personal matters almost go past our notice.

The American remake of the French Canadian film Starbuck features Vince Vaughn as affable underachiever David Wozniak, whose mundane life is turned upside down when he finds out that he fathered 533 children through sperm donations he made twenty years earlier.

The enthusiastic reception given to that film made me fear the Anderson whose work I fell in love with early into this millennium was being replaced by an Anderson whose work was showier yet hollow.

Amazing, then, that after such early missteps, the film takes a sweet, lighthearted turn once the nostalgic Gil — whose novel is about a man dreaming of the past — finds himself transported to his beloved 1920s Paris every night when the clock strikes twelve.

With a 65 on Metacritic and a 76 % on Rotten Tomatoes, Mulligan, whose film and director were also tapped for Oscar nominations early in the race, is struggling to stay alive.

Chadha, whose last film The Viceroy's House tackled the tragic causes and epic scale of the partition of India, said she hopes Blinded by the Light will, by contrast, mix a little of the quirky British humour of some of her earlier films, such as Bhaji on the Beach (1993) and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) with the lively energy of 1980s high - school movies written by John Hughes such as Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club.

Charlie Kaufman — «Synecdoche, New York «Having written some of the defining screenplays of the early noughties (ok fine, «Being John Malkovich» was 1999) Charlie Kaufman became something of a brand - name screenwriter — one whose own input rivalled that of the directors he's most associated with (Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze) for authorial ownership over the finished film.

The Bourne Legacy, an action - thriller movie, is an expansion of the Bourne series by Robert Ludlum featuring a new hero whose fate hangs by the happenings from the earlier three films.

Mitch Glazer — «Passion Play» A writing veteran whose work goes all the way back to the early»80s when he wrote for «SNL,» Mitch Glazer «s first major screen credit (and most well - known film) is 1988's «Scrooged» starring Bill Murray.

John Carter's underperformance was nothing compared to the film Disney released a year earlier; Mars Needs Moms (whose epic shortcomings supposedly played a part in Carter's title losing the «of Mars») grossed just $ 39 M on a $ 150 M budget.

Prize is named for pioneering film writer Louis Delluc (1890 - 1924), whose early insistence that cinema is an art form that can transcend storytelling makes him the spiritual father of French film criticism.

The best scenes in White God show Hagen's early solidarity with the street dogs into whose company he's been forced; surely no recent fiction film has conveyed with such respect the way animals interact on their own terms.

You also fully believe the BFG's friendship with the little girl, Sophie, played by Ruby Barnhill, who early in the film threatens to be annoyingly bossy and stampy, but whose performance gives way to something more sweet and vulnerable — steering well clear of cute.

Next comes Rita, whose underpaid schoolteacher husband George (Kirk Douglas in one of his earlier film roles) was suspiciously dressed in a blue suit this morning and not for fishing.

Given the state of the art, as seen earlier this year in Coraline (whose director, Henry Selick, was briefly attached to this film), Fantastic Mr. Fox looks like a throwback to the Rankin - Bass holiday specials of the»60s and»70s.

Jeremy Lovering («In Fear») If you went to Sundance looking for the next Christopher Nolan or Rupert Wyatt (who both had films premiere at the festival early in their careers), you'd be hard pressed to find a better candidate than Jeremy Lovering, whose feature film debut «In Fear» has been scaring the living shit out of people in the Midnight strand of the festival.

Ava DuVernay introduced a new category entitled the Bonnie award aimed at rewarding the work of a female film - maker whose career shows promise at an early stage.

But there's another name attached to Lucky that has entertainment reporters asking questions: screenwriter Rebecca Blunt, who has no previous film credits and whose script is highly praised in early reviews.

Casey Affeck stars as a musician killed early in the film whose spirit returns to his home; Rooney Mara stars as the partner he can't quite leave behind, but who over time must move on with her life.

This is a new advance for Ceylan, whose semiautobiographical earlier films, while confessional and intimate, evoked a Chekhovian sense of social pathos through his characters» entrapment in the tedium and melancholy of the world around them.

The sophomore film from Damien Chazelle, whose forthcoming ode to the Hollywood studio musical La La Land is already the early - buzz frontrunner for 2017's Oscar race, Whiplash comes after 2009's jazz - infused micro budget musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, and doubles as a courageous confessional, of sorts.

They've served, for example, as the quintessential naive boy - scout and provincial maid in their early films and as older, more tortured versions of the same in the chapters that bookend Krzysztof Kieslowski's Trois couleurs trilogy, whose ironic casting suggests a blueprint for Haneke.

After being one of the early acquisitions at the festival, The Spectacular Now (from director James Ponsoldt, whose film Smashed made my favorites at Sundance last year) became one of the most loved film in Park City this year.

Here is one of the great, underrated film noirs — a movie whose reputation and stature was recognized early on by French critics and has continued to grow over the past half century.

Gandolfini made a name for himself early in his career as a character actor, whose performances were almost unrecognizable from one film to the next.

Ziad Doueiri, whose Hollywood credentials include being a cameraman for most of Quentin Tarantino's earlier films (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown), has made several films in his native Lebanon (West Beirut, The Attack, Lila Says).

The film focuses on the Cajun Latour family, in particular Alexander Napoleon Ulysses Latour, whose youth and innocence personifies the virgin wetlands, recalling the figures of Nanook and Moana from the earlier films.

One filmmaker I was very excited to meet was Ray Harryhausen, the great stop - motion animation artist whose many film works brought realistic dinosaurs and a variety of other gigantic, threatening creatures to the big screen, many of them wreaking havoc on American shores, during the 1950s,»60s and»70s, as well as one last extravaganza in the early 1980s.

The film's protagonist is Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand), a blue - collar mother from the titular town of Ebbing, Missouri, whose daughter was raped and murdered seven months earlier.

And the studio has decided to take a chance on a relative newcomer to direct the film: Chinese - American director Cathy Yan, whose debut feature, Dead Pigs, just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

Here is one of the great, underrated film noirs — a movie whose stature was recognized early on by French critics and has continued to grow over the past half century.

With the Seattle International Film Festival fast approaching, we discuss earlier films by two prominent directors whose films will be bookending this year's SIFF.

Disney has released all of their animated classics in original aspect ratio on DVD, and there is no reason to believe that the films of the»60s,»70s, and early»80s (whose 1.33:1 DVD aspect ratios are often called into question) are an exception to this practice.

Upcoming film series will highlight Figueroa's work with Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel, the Hollywood films that the cinematographer shot over his 50 - year career for directors such as John Huston and John Ford, the films of the early 1930s that spurred Figueroa, and contemporary Mexican filmmakers whose work invokes Figueroa's legacy.

The journal's «dossier» section, edited by Jacob Smith, is as wide - ranging as ever, with (among many others) Michel Chion exploring a phone conversation in The Player; Mack Hagood on the audio cue he calls the «tinnitus trope» (and for which I would never have guessed we have Arthur Hiller to thank); Jean Ma on a song from an early Chinese sound film whose soundtrack has been lost, and has thus reverted to silence; and Keir Keightley on some deliberately disastrous, «schizophrenic» lipsynching in Lewis's The Patsy.

«WALL - E» is officially the most overrated film of the year, but that having been said, this is one hell of a ballsy move on the part of the L.A. film critics (whose vote came down a lot earlier than I expected).

But 1983's «The Ballad of Narayama» is a film whose dark soul feels indebted to his early, anthropologically distanced studies of the carnal appetites of the underclass.

Director Steve James, whose work Ebert championed early in the documentarian's career, began filming while the critic was alive.

Johnstone is also reportedly in the running to direct the film, whose most - recent director Doug Liman left earlier this year.

In the film, Frank Langella plays Frank, a retired jewel thief suffering from the early stages of dementia whose son (played by James Marsden) buys him a robot caretaker / butler (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard) to take care of him.

Many of the cast members are veterans of earlier Leigh films, including the pear - shaped, pouty - lipped Timothy Spall, whose character blinks back tears as his big song seems doomed in dress rehearsal.

Lois Smith is a veteran performer whose movie credits include «East of Eden,» «Five Easy Pieces,» «Dead Man Walking» and «Minority Report,» as well as a couple of earlier Almereyda films.

The new film from Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar explores the life of its title character, Julieta, a woman whose life we see now and 30 years earlier, when she was considerably happier.

Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) is an ex Hollywood A-lister whose early 90s superhero trilogy both made and broke him, burning bright and cratering like the mysterious meteor that opens the film.

The only deserving film to win a nod from the competition jury (Assayas shared the directing award with Cristian Mungiu, whose Graduation is solid but hardly as adventurous as his three earlier features), Personal Shopper is as ephemeral as the ghost that haunts the imagination of Maureen (Stewart), whose recently deceased twin brother had mediumistic powers.