Sentences with phrase «with auteur»

Of course, there's a difference between a work of art with an auteur creator like Brütal Legend and a faceless all - in - one entertainment monolith, but one can dream, right?

In the same year, to do BioShock Infinite and work with an auteur like Ken Levine and be a part of a franchise — the original BioShock was one of the first games in a long time to scare the piss out of me.

I suspect Ubisoft's model of spreading development across multiple studios allows for technical brilliance but saps their games of the meaningful narrative drive you get with an auteur, or a tightly knit studio, or even just vision.

In terms of writers who pair with directors, few have the winning bond that scribe Diablo Cody has with auteur Jason Reitman.

We are delighted to reprint the result of that invitation here, with the auteur's permission.

Word is that Ben Stiller steals the show and Adam Sandler stretches a bit, which is what working with an auteur did for him the last time he tried it (Punch Drunk Love)

Also included are relevant excerpts from the famed 1967 interviews with auteur and film geek par excellance, François Truffaut, and an episode of «Alfred Hitchcock Presents,» «Mr. Blanchard's Secret», directed by Hitchcock.

This is the type of film that will inspire a multitude of essays (both visual and written) and think pieces about how Villeneuve and DP Roger Deakins (who also shot PRISONERS with the auteur) construct their bold visual narrative alongside screenwriter Taylor Sheridan's written one.

Plaudits collected at this year's Sitges by young helmers, often with low - budget pics, confirm the growing interest among festivalgoers and juries in titles that combine genre elements with auteur filmmaking.

Sircar enters a gentler realm with his narrative here, the likes of which is synonymous with auteur James L Brooks.

We've finally gotten a Star Wars film with an auteur's tenor (and Johnson's use of red really resonates), and not only that but The Last Jedi hosts a bevy of badass women being smart, solving problems, kicking ass, and taking names (the aforementioned Ridley is joined by the likes of Gwendoline Christie, Laura Dern Lupita Nyong» o, Kelly Marie Tran, and a stunning final bow from Carrie Fisher each memorably offset the testosterone).

Previously collaborating with Tarantino on Django Unchained, as one of several costumers working under costume designer Sharen Davis (The 5th Wave, Get On Up), Hoffman has found a fruitful collaborative relationship with the auteur and had a lot of fun tinkering with western archetypes on Tarantino's latest.

A vast library of carefully curated film collections offers an opportunity to catch up with auteur filmographies, cult classics and independent and world cinema gems.

Written and directed with auteur - ish panache by Gideon Raff (who also exec - produced on Homeland), Prisoners of War - or Hatufim in Hebrew - is less the labyrinthine thriller, more a skilful and probing analysis of loss and separation.

And after a 2016 that saw them partner with auteur directors like Nicolas Winding Refn (The Neon Demon), Whit Sitllman (Love & Friendship), Todd Solondz (Wiener - Dog), Jim Jarmusch (Paterson), and Park Chan - wook (The Handmaiden), they certainly don't seem to be abandoning their artist - focused strategy.

They're poised to land their first ever Best Picture Oscar nomination for 2016, and Amazon Studios isn't slowing down in 2017 with an auteur - heavy slate.

The film's title («Return» in English) is echoed by the return / resurrection of the protagonist sisters» mother thought to be a ghost (and played by former Almodóvar muse Carmen Maura, returning to work with the auteur after a falling - out that lasted a decade).

«Midnight in Paris» McAdams teamed up with Owen Wilson (again) and Woody Allen for the 2011 Oscar winner «Midnight in Paris,» kicking off a stretch of prestige films in which she worked with auteur director such as Terrence Malick on «To the Wonder,» Brian de Palma on «Passion» and Wim Wenders on «Every Thing Will Be Fine.»

Indeed, the film is framed around her experiences with auteur during this crucial period in his life.

As with any auteur, there is, for better or worse, the question of the image.

Their curious non-competitive status notwithstanding, these narrative and documentary premieres read like a wanna - see list for major indie names, either behind the camera or in front of it: movies you'd see whether it was the world premiere or not, with auteurs / filmmakers whose surnames stand on their own, like Solondz, Lonergan, Reichardt, Lee, Herzog, and much more.

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Using clips and interviews with auteurs like Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, and more, the documentary entrancingly explains what made Hitchcock a singular director.

If Dalwood demands of his viewers a certain art historical diligence and knowledge, so the Otolith Groups's film works demand a familiarity not just with auteurs, but also goings - on in the underground art and film scenes of the patchouli - drenched late 1960s.

Not exact matches

I've been enjoying The Word on the Street, a 2003 translation that casts the Big Guy as a Hollywood auteur with a taste for sweeping gestures.

Anvari doesn't appear in Iranian Cinema Uncensored, Shiva Rahbaran's fascinating collection of interviews with many of Iran's major auteurs.

Under normal circumstances, you would be forgiven for thinking that Pitt appropriated the property (à la Tom Cruise) for his own megalomaniacal ends, but the actor has appeared in enough ensemble pictures (and worked with enough dreamy auteurs like Terrence Malick) to dispel the idea that his vanity pushed out other considerations.

Regardless of opinion, he was not only one of the biggest stars of the postwar era but also one of the most powerful, and as the writer, director, and producer of many of his features, he qualified as a comic auteur firmly in the tradition of Chaplin and Keaton.Born Joseph Levitch in Newark, NJ, on March 16, 1926, he was the son of borscht - belt comics, spending the majority of his childhood living with relatives but joining his parents each summer as they performed in the Catskills.

In the years since Chris Columbus «sleepy debut films, the series has had its ups (Alfonso Cuarón «s immaculate «Prisoner of Azkaban «-RRB- and its downs (Mike Newell «s gonzo Bollywood «Goblet of Fire «-RRB- before settling in with its designated auteur, David Yates, who has helmed the last four films including this, the final entry, «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.»

The «auteur» side of Karlson took a back seat to commercialism with his handling of the Dean Martin «Matt Helm» spy spoofs of the 1960s.

After all, the 71 - year - old French auteur, whose film Beau Travail remains one of the great works of the last few decades, has taken an especially grim turn as of late, with movies like Bastards, White Material and The Intruder exploring some of the darker sides of contemporary humanity.

The same can be said of Quentin Tarantino («Pulp Fiction», «Inglorious Basterds»), a talented auteur who «graces» the movie - going public with a new film every 3 years or so.

He's still working to rebrand himself as something beyond a torture - porn auteur, and he may have convinced himself that this movie, with its talk - radio debates, wants you to «make up your own mind» about its hero's odyssey.

Synopsis: Mad Men auteur Matthew Weiner makes his feature directorial debut with You Are Here, a mix of comedy and drama that stars Owen Wilson as Steve, a g...

Filmmakers Jake Paltrow (Gwyneth's brother) and Noah Baumbach (WHILE WE»RE YOUNG) keep things simple with this expansive retrospective on the 75 - year - old auteur's career.

Critics have seemingly cooled on Tarantino's pop culture patchwork technique over the years, mistaking cleverness for ironic detachment and his singularly innovative mode of theory - to - practice film geekery for plagiaristic slapdash kitsch just as Tarantino is reaching personal heights as an auteur, and it begs the question: did Shakespeare have to deal with cooler - than - thou backlash from his detractors?

Unlike Chaplin and Keaton, they were not themselves great auteur directors, or worked with any; the same could be said of Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers, but their respective phenomena overrided the impact of any decision - making body behind the camera, as a hurricane is to a weatherman.

I was once a very harsh critic of Mr. Tarantino, the video store clerk turned auteur, who seemed to be preoccupied with the inventiveness of his in - jokes and visual quotations of scene compositions from other films.

The result is a worthy serialized companion piece to the auteur's prior efforts in the genre: poised, pulsating with dread, and permeated with cautious optimism that, perhaps, scrupulous rationality might help us triumph over modern - day irrationality.

The South Korean auteur avoids his usual über - narrative, which indulges in sensationalism and tortures, and deals with Waters» Victorian thriller carefully.

However, if anyone is up to the task it's the auteurs responsible for Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance and Lady Vengeance, and A Tale Of Two Sisters and The Good, The Bad, The Weird respectively, with their choice of English - language projects seemingly designed as a challenge.

Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz (wife of auteur Ulrich Seidl) and Severin Fiala first present Goodnight Mommy as a mystery with a horror film premise — two nine - year - old twin brothers question their mother's identity after a facial surgery leaves most of her...

She regards the aforementioned Ruiz — with whom she recently introduced their fourth collaboration, the Balzac adaptation «Nucingen Haus,» at the London Film Festival — as a close mentor, and is quick to compile a list of auteurs she has long desired to working with, including Steven Soderbergh, Danny Boyle and Mike Leigh.

A selection of heavyweight titles from top - drawer auteurs has been unveiled for this year's Cannes film festival, with previous winners of the Palme d'Or, Jacques Audiard, Michael Haneke and Ken Loach, all back in contention.

Top Films From Contemporary Film Auteurs: Almodóvar (Live Flesh), Assayas (Cold Water), Bellochio (Fists in the Pocket), Breillat (Fat Girl), Coen Bros. (Burn After Reading), Demme (Something Wild), Denis (Friday Night), Herzog (The Wild Blue Yonder), Leigh (Another Year), Skolimowski (Four Nights with Anna), Zulawski (She - Shaman)

Steamboy's auteur is typically glum in «Interview with Katushiro Otomo» (5 mins.)

Till now, Rudolph has been the con auteur of his generation, thus Jaehne takes a portable picnic... er, a movable fête with a guy who swears he is the Alan Rudolph

Genre thrills of a much tamer, more virtuosic variety arrived in the form of Gravity (Grade: B --RRB-, which proves what the Mexican auteur Alfonso Cuarón can do with an enormous budget — and also that he may need a better writing partner than his son, Jonás.

The fest's identity has always been indie and American: With one - of - a-kind auteurs Whit Stillman, Todd Solondz, Kenneth Lonergan and Ira Sachs (among many others) returning, this year's edition looks certain to deliver on its huge promise.

While he has developed a special bond with Martin Scorsese over the past fifteen years, there's hardly a well - regarded active auteur left with whom DiCaprio has not collaborated.