Sentences with phrase «works as a film director»

Selected works as a film director include: Slowly This, Smile, Until, Deshotten, Dreams Are Colder Than Death, Adrian Young.

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That can work in the Red's favor if a director wants an edgy, harsher look, as appears to have been the case for Soderbergh's recent anxiety - soaked Side Effects or Robert Zemeckis's hard - hitting Flight — both filmed with Red cameras.

The former, which sells and installs beehives at various company locations, has inked contracts with clients including Delta and Chick - fil - A, while the latter works with film studios and directors including Darren Aronofsky — charging them as much as $ 50,000 a pop — to make a film or television production more ecologically friendly.

The actor (and now director) best known for his work in films including Juno and Scott Pilgrim and, of course, as George...

The actor (and now director) best known for his work in films including Juno and Scott Pilgrim and, of course, as George Michael Bluth on Arrested Development, will co-star alongside John Hawkes (Winter» sBone) in a new half - hour comedy from creator Charlie Kaufman.

The Director of Communications and Audience Engagement will work closely with the CEO to create, curate, and market an expansive collection of film clips (full episodes and movies as well as short clips) focused on bringing light escapist pleasure to the (mostly female) masses.

This 90 - minute feature film by Oscar - winning director, Danis Tanovic, tells the true story of a former Nestlé salesman who took on the company with the help of IBFAN when he realises that babies are dying as a result of his work pressuring doctors to promote formula.

Tigers is a new film by Oscar - winning director Danis Tanovic based on the true story of a former Nestlé baby milk salesman in Pakistan called Syed Aamir Raza taking on the industry with the help of IBFAN (the International Baby Food Action Network) when he realises that babies are dying as a result of his work pressuring doctors to promote formula.

First - time director, producer and film - maker Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to the outspoken critic while working as a journalist in Beijing.

Ingrid Dodd, Coastal's president, said in an email that the company's work included «meeting and greeting filmmakers, locations scouts, directors and producers to encourage them to film here in Nassau,» as well as «working with area hotels for lodging crew and talent.»

Prior to that, Halperin had her hand at Hollywood for more than 30 years, where she worked as an agent, film distributor, and on many television shows as a writer, director, and producer.

The first «American» film by the director of Time of the Gypsies is every bit as bizarre and imaginative as his earlier work, although it's also maddeningly indulgent and erratic.

Bryan Cranston does the best film work of his career (Affleck has a way of capturing what works about AMC leading men that other directors seem to miss as this follows Jon Hamm's best film work in «The Town»).

Already a familiar face in world cinema thanks to fine performances in such films as Open Your Eyes and Talk to Her, Spanish actor Fele Martínez teetered on the brink of international success in the wake of work for such internationally recognized directors as Alejandro Amenábar and Pedro Almodóvar.

This rambling film, which feels much longer than its actual length, might have worked as a distaff version of Nicolas Roeg's «The Man Who Fell to Earth» if it weren't for director Glazer's decision to turn the movie into something like a TV reality show.

It's not until the film segues into its action - heavy midsection that Battleship truly becomes an unwatchable piece of work, as director Peter Berg has infused such moments with an unreasonably over-the-top sensibility that immediately proves both disastrous and exhausting (ie it's all just so meaningless).

Just like director / writer Lorene Scafaria's last film, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, the soundtrack really works, as it's filled with songs that you should be listening to when life as you know it is ending, such as The Sun Ain't Gon na Shine Anymore by the Walker Brothers, The Air That I Breathe by The Hollies, and This Guy's in Love With You by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

This is Anderson's feature film debut as a director, after work on television.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

As an assistant to director Robert Altman, Rudolph worked on such major Altman projects as The Long Goodbye (1973) and Nashville (1975), ultimately getting a chance to direct his own film for Altman's production company, Welcome to LA (1977As an assistant to director Robert Altman, Rudolph worked on such major Altman projects as The Long Goodbye (1973) and Nashville (1975), ultimately getting a chance to direct his own film for Altman's production company, Welcome to LA (1977as The Long Goodbye (1973) and Nashville (1975), ultimately getting a chance to direct his own film for Altman's production company, Welcome to LA (1977).

As director, he does solid work, but peppers his film with some bizarrely picked pop culture references.

Jeunet, the imaginative French director behind such films as Amélie, Micmacs, and The City of Lost Children, turns to Reif Larsen's novel The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet as the source for only his second English - language feature (the first being Alien: Resurrection) and first shot in 3D.

First they wanted another film with Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, but Damon would only work with Paul Greengrass, the director of The Bourne Supremacy 73 and The Bourne Ultimatum 85.

Gilliam's vision for the film was ambitious and every bit as fantastical as his work on Brazil, but the studio opted for Chris Columbus following the director's two - hour pitch to executives.

Director Stanley Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson, kicks Paths of Glory off with an admittedly less - than - engrossing stretch, as the movie boasts (or suffers from) a somewhat talky first act that doesn't contain much in the way of compelling elements - although, by that same token, it's clear that the film benefits substantially from Kubrick's stellar directorial choices and a host of above - average performances.

When written out as a list like this, one might expect the film to go through these problems like a tick - box of «working - class misery», or for the inhabitants of Bradford to be manipulated by a director wanting to take pot shots at modern Britain.

From a young age, Clark Duke has worked on a diverse slate of projects in television, film and new media as a writer, actor, director, and producer.

Gaspar Noé's Climax (detailed below) was the big winner at the Directors» Fortnight, taking home the Art Cinema Award, and Lucia's Grace, directed by Gianni Zanasi and starring Alba Rohrwacher as a single working mother struggling to find balance in her life, won the Europa Cinemas Label Award for the section's best European film.

After studying Mandarin in post-Mao China, Jordan got into the film business as a camera assistant working with directors like...

«The Interpreter», overall, works fine as a film but works better when viewed as the capstone for a talented director's career.

Ensemble films like this don't always work, but in the hands of a master director such as Meirelles, Peter Morgan's script comes to life in a vivid and evocative way.

It's very atypical of the previous work of both director and star, and it's as personal a film, I suspect, as Cruise will ever make.

Unlike Ferrell, Wahlberg has a few especially strong films on his resume — a result of working with directors like Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David O. Russell — but both stars have appeared in far too many middling films, as you can see below.

For Hank and Jim, biographer and film historian Scott Eyman spoke with Fonda's widow and children as well as three of Stewart's children, plus actors and directors who had worked with the men — in addition to doing extensive archival research to get the full details of their time together.

She made her debut with a small role in Maid to Order (1987) and appeared sporadically in films such as Easy Wheels (1989), but first gained national notice when director Spike Lee cast her as an aspiring actress who works for a phone sex service in Girl 6 (1996).

Writer - director Damien Power advances from his work on short films with his feature debut, a solidly visceral and harshly unforgiving pic that's lean and taut in its plotting and pacing, even as it shakes up linear chronology initially to tell its tale.

David Nelson worked steadily but unspectacularly as a producer / director in the years to follow: in the early»80s he directed three theatrical films, the most prominent of which was the 1981 George Kennedy starrer The Rare Breed.

Even what's supposed to pass as dark comedy rarely works because the script (written by the film's first - time director David Veloz) never manages to capture the banalities of this industry town.

That Denis can produce a work that, without a trace of preciousness, is equal parts indebted to Barthes and Chicago blues, connected as arm is to shoulder to the film - historical legacy of post-New Wave French filmmaking, is only further justification for claim that the 71 - year - old is the greatest working director over the last two decades.

In this lively, illuminating and unexpectedly moving documentary, directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow engage in a personal and candid discussion with De Palma, exploring not only his life and work but also his singular approach to the craft of filmmaking and his remarkable experiences navigating the film business, from his early days as the bad boy of New Hollywood to his more recent years as a respected veteran of the field.

From 1963's Goldstein onward, Darden worked in films as a character actor and sometimes writer / director.

A successful stage director in New York by the late 1920s, George Cukor began working in Hollywood as a dialogue director and filling other uncredited crew roles on such films as All Quiet on the Western Front.

Some of the jokes fall flat, others are badly telegraphed and it weaves in and out of being a documentary and just a film to the point of distraction but it ' s hard for me to dislike the movie since I ' ve worked with people like this especially the director, Harry Penderecki... only not as likeable.

Enough Said is a romantic comedy - drama from Nicole Holofcener, the writer - director of other critically acclaimed films exploring the daily travails of mostly upper middle - class affluent women (and men) in such as Lovely & Amazing and Friends with Money — something that invites comparisons to the works of Woody Allen often.

It is also rumored that Dan Aykroyd and the original Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman will be involved with the new film, but expect them to only work as producers.

The director is known for premiering his work at either Venice (The Queen, Philomena, Dirty Pretty Things) or Telluride (Tamara Drewe), so his film's inclusion comes as a small surprise.

Yet, there is a very real risk that you will be lableled as a racist for criticizing black panther, or the work of the 29 year old director who was given the keys to a $ 200,000,000 budget after making only 2 independent films.

She comes to Shelter as VP of National Film & Television Publicity from senior director of publicity and awards at Focus Features where she worked on such films as Loving, Nocturnal Animals, Kubo and the Two Strings, The Beguiled, Victoria & Abdul, Darkest Hour and Phantom Thread.

Pushing a message as frothy as this one with points scored along political lines and with an almost complete lack of syrupy sentimentality to gum up the works, the film's inevitable box - office victory (penguins are more of a sure thing nowadays than Harry Potter) is cause for celebration, in no small part because Miller is one of the few directors who deserves the freedom to do whatever the hell he wants.

Despite writing the book and screenplay of «Fast Times At Ridgemont High» (1982), the film that established the parameters of»80s teen movies; despite establishing or redefining a host of contemporary film stars; despite major box office success, despite an Oscar, despite his role as a pop music shaman — there's little written about Crowe's work as a writer and director.