Sentences with phrase «with auteur directors»

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.

«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.»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey) The talent: By this point in his career, auteur - photographer Ceylan is a self - standing arthouse brand — which is just as well, since the other names involved are unlikely to ring many bells with non-Turkish viewers.

The opposing forces are a direct reflection of the challenge undertaken by director and co-writer Craig Brewer, who only half sells out as he tries to leave an auteur's mark while remaining faithful to a source that's loaded with dated, studio - friendly hokum.

Burwell, however, will get his auteur fix with «I'm Not There» director Todd Haynes.

He showed a brief spark in 2008 with his Spanish installment, «Vicky Cristina Barcelona,» but the aging director is sadly less than a pale shadow of the auteur / performer who enthralled audiences in the «70s, «80s, and even the early «90s with masterful comedies such as «Annie Hall,» «Crimes and Misdemeanors,» and «Husbands and Wives.»

Similarly, I'd prefer to think that the dullness of Damage isn't attributable to the remarkable Jeremy Irons, whom I consider an auteur — that is, a more powerful creative presence than any writer or director he works with.

The rest are of the supplements are just grace notes: a relaxed interview with actor Rod Taylor, a tribute to «The Original Inglorious Bastards» with director Enzo Castellari and actor Bo Svenson (who both make cameo's in QT's film), a mock - featurette on «The Making of Nation's Pride» (with the performers all in character — Eli Roth has a blast playing the sneering autocratic German auteur of this «lost» classic of Nazi propaganda cinema) and montages showing the playfulness of QT and his cast and crew on the set.

Director Peter Bogdanovich received the organization's Auteur Award, while visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull was feted with the Nikola Tesla Award, whose previous winners include Rick Baker, Dennis Muren, Richard Donner, Stan Winston and James Cameron.

Betsy's Wedding finds the auteur Alan Alda, as writer / director / star, trying to nail down a Woody Allen ensemble vibe, albeit with a zippier pace.

Two other Turkish films from noted auteurs were in the retrospective section: Semih Kaplanoglu's Süt (Milk, 2008), a rich story of a young man's quest to become a poet, done with sharp social observation by the director, but degenerating into hazy symbolism by the end, a device that also marred the director's next film, Mal (Honey, 2010); and Kasaba (Small Town, 1997) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the director's debut feature, already displaying his steady hand and broad compassion.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

It is a joy to see The Grand Budapest Hotel do so well in the Globes, with nominations for best comedy / musical, best actor for Ralph Fiennes and best director for that remarkable and singular auteur, Wes Anderson.

But I'd like to take issue with my colleagues and stand up for the less showy, more versatile directors who have sometimes been underrated in the rush to anoint auteurs.

As with all such things, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle: Bright is an entertaining - enough high - concept feature with a few glaring holes that fans of its director, cop - corruption auteur David Ayer, will likely enjoy.

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive contends that the answer to the eternal struggle between what is real and what is fantasy comes in the form of a Keatsian confusion — it's the difference between Adam's dream and Eve rendered flesh, blurred in the mind of the creator and his audience.A film is a dream of the director made tangible, a conceit familiar from the fourth wall - breaking in Ingmar Bergman's Persona (banishing any mystery there might have been regarding the visual references to that film in Lynch's piece), and a movie's characters therefore become projections of its maker's sublimated longing (clarifying too the auteur's use of wardrobe and colour schemes from Hitchcock's meditation on objectification, Vertigo, as well as those of his first collaboration with inamorata Tippi Hedren, The Birds).

Seeing as Garrel opened the Directors» Fortnight in 2015 with In the Shadow of Women, we expect another auteur of similar stature to snag the distinction, perhaps Roman Polanski's Based on a True Story.

The pop - cultural consensus on horror director Tobe Hooper would seem to be that, with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he somehow made one of the genre's defining masterpieces right out of the gate only to squander a promising career on a string of strange mediocrities that ultimately marked him more as a hack - for - hire than an auteur in the tradition of more respected contemporaries such as John Carpenter, Wes Craven, or George A. Romero.

As I write this Thursday afternoon, we are still waiting to see two strong Palme contenders: The Wild Pear Tree by Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a Cannes favourite who took the top prize in 2014 with Winter Sleep; and Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's Capernaum, titled for a Biblical town where Jesus Christ is said to have performed miracles, which is getting good advance buzz for its story about an unhappy boy launching a lawsuit against the adults who vex him.

The sequel shares a director with Keanu Reeves» instant cult classic about a bad, bad man who kills a whole bunch of even worse men to get vengeance for a very good dog, although stuntman - turned - auteur David Leitch's co-direction of John Wick was uncredited.

Having been on the Croisette before with his debut film Un 32 août sur Terrre (Un Certain Regard), and the Directors» Fortnight was home for his epic short Next Floor and sobering Polytechnique, the Quebecois helmer saw his critically lauded Incendies and Enemy receive a pass from the fest, but it was this work that ultimately convinced backers with deep pockets to have the auteur filmmaker move onto large - scale productions (Prisoners, Story of Us, the Blade Runner sequel), and in turn Sicario is now among the hopefuls for the Palme d'Or.

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

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With the franchise safely re-established, Disney has now turned to indie auteur Rian Johnson (director of Looper and Brick) to shake things up.

Korean auteur director Joon - ho Bong has previously delivered a couple of artistic and interesting genre movies with The Host and Mother.

Goat seems content enough to draw the line between frat house meatheads and pledges without giving either side real heart, emotions or drive, which is uniquely surprising since its written by indie auteur writer / director David Gordon Green (All the Pretty Girls, Pineapple Express) who normally imbues his projects with a sense of Southern trash poetry and striking teen angst.

Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.

Black Panther cowriter / director Ryan Coogler has already shown he's capable of retaining his auteur sensibilities while working on a franchise movie, with his Oscar - nominated Rocky sequel / spinoff Creed.

Oficial Fantàstic will also showcase young maverick directors such as Sebastián Silva and his Magic Magic, and genre auteurs like Shane Carruth with his new film Upstream Color, or Marina de Van with Dark Touch.

With a resume comprised of collaborations with David O. Russell (American Hustle, Joy) Lasse Hallström (The Hundred - Foot Journey) and other auteurs, Sandgren found an exciting energy in wunderkind writer / director Damien Chazelle that inspired him to shoot a musiWith a resume comprised of collaborations with David O. Russell (American Hustle, Joy) Lasse Hallström (The Hundred - Foot Journey) and other auteurs, Sandgren found an exciting energy in wunderkind writer / director Damien Chazelle that inspired him to shoot a musiwith David O. Russell (American Hustle, Joy) Lasse Hallström (The Hundred - Foot Journey) and other auteurs, Sandgren found an exciting energy in wunderkind writer / director Damien Chazelle that inspired him to shoot a musical.

Noah Baumbach, this year's BAM Cinema Club Chair, brings the work of the legendary auteur Brian De Palma to BAMcinématek with a look at the genre the iconic director redefined: the thriller.

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

With such high profile slices of movie beefcake determined to make their mark as auteurs as well as deliverers of dialogue, now is a good time to look back at some other aesthetically - pleasing performers who put their necks on the line as bona fide film directors...

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.

Wes Anderson's oeuvre is a genre unto itself, with the name of the director serving as a shorthand for an accessible mode of twenty - first century auteur filmmaking.