Sentences with phrase «written movies of the year»

It's one of the best, best - written movies of the year, for sure.

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(Alexander, whose last major movie was the 2010 drama Lifted, wrote last year: «There is no lack of female directors.

Ep559: Andy Weir, author of NYT bestseller «The Martian» (soon to be Ridley Scott / Matt Damon movie) on writing the year's science fiction smash

Who do you think is the best example of a well written strong female character in TV and movies you've seen in the last few years?

Over her 50 year career, she wrote numerous plays, movies, and television shows, published seven autobiographies, three books of essays and several acclaimed books of poetry.

Like Delaine Moore, a 43 - year - old Calgary mom of three who has written about her sexual explorations post-divorce and whose book, The Secret Sex Life of a Single Mom, is also being turned into a TV movie.

Written by Cleveland Oakes, June 2nd, 2017, at 7:15 a.m. Tweet to @Oakes945 Wonder Woman: Oh What a Wonderful World After years of trying and failing to make a great superhero movie that hasn't been helmed by Christopher Nolan; Warner Brothers and the DCEU have finally hit a home run.

Over the next 16 years, until Biró's death in 1948, he shared with Korda the intellectual control of the company that they'd both founded and, in conjunction with such writers as Arthur Wimperis and Miles Malleson, wrote the screenplays to a string of notable movies.

Movies like last year's «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,» for example, written and directed by «Lethal Weapon» writer Shane Black, got the spirit just right: Black's movie showed plenty of affectionate nostalgia for pulp tradition, but its sense of energy and movement felt wholly contemporary.

I haven't seen a movie this year with a more brilliant combination of imagination, emotionally moving moments, witty writing, visually interesting details and psychologically accurate behavior than Inside Out.

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.

When you're a screenwriter and the wife of a famous director who has been taking your suggestions for years, and when he offers to help write and produce if you direct your own movie, what kind of material do you go to?

A would - be black comedy written by Tracy Letts, based on his play, and directed by 76 - year - old William Friedkin, who has done little of note since he made «The French Connection» and «The Exorcist» during the Nixon administration, the movie stars Emile Hirsch as a low - level drug dealer who decides to kill his mom to pay off his superiors.

He then appeared in a number of psychedelic films, including 1967's The Trip and the following year's Monkees feature Head, and earned a new audience among anti-establishment viewers.With friends Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson in front of the camera, Hopper decided to direct his own movie, and secured over $ 400,000 in financing to begin filming a screenplay written by novelist Terry Southern.

Almost 30 years have passed since I wrote a heated article about French filmmaker Luc Moullet for Film Comment — the first extended defense of his movies and his film criticism in English.

The screenplay is written by Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant, the screenwriting duo responsible for one of the worst movies of last year, Taxi.

In 30 years of writing movie reviews, from my college newspaper to the web, I've learned a lot from readers.

After years of writing for television and cutting his directorial teeth on the 1979 TV movie The Jericho Mile, Michael Mann made his feature film debut with Thief (1981), a cool, gritty crime movie starring James Caan as the head of a high - end crew of professional safecrackers.

December 21, 2016 • Sam Sanders joins the PCHH roundtable for a conversation about some of our favorite writing, television and movies of the year.

Hanson worked in the industry for well over 40 years, writing and directing movies that will stand the test of -LSB-...]

About a year and a half ago (before I was writing for any sites), I went to the movie theater to go check out Paul Thomas Anderson's «The Master,» a film that not only deeply sat with me, but had me thinking for days on end about its rich themes and utterly impressive display of...

«In the year of the big - budget sequel, The Coen Brothers, Clooney and Christie proved a well - written, expertly directed and amazingly acted movie is just as important to filmgoers as special effects and loud explosions,» said Tim Gordon, president of WAFCA.

The feel - good movie of the year, so refreshing, captivating and openly anti-pessimistic, and it is not only well written and directed but works even better thanks to its great ensemble cast - especially Cooper and Lawrence, who have an amazing chemistry together.

All the original music for the film was written by Hawkes, and I instantly wanted to pair the movie into a double feature with Zoe Lister - Jones» «Band Aid» from last year (another terrific movie about the healing power of music).

I still love the power of fiction, and I've written pieces about movies in the past year that I'm proud of, like this one on David Lynch and this one on the intersection of movies and video games.

ATLAS SHRUGGED PART I Rather than take the time to come up with something witty to write about this heavy - handed screed that boasts all the production values of a bad made - for - TV movie from the early 1980s, I'll just substitute the word «novels» with «films» in this popular quote and be done with it: «There are two films that can change a 14 - year - old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

Written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, Infinity War squeezes in nearly every character of note from the past 10 years and 18 movies.

Film criticism, not without its own scandals last year, is now dominated not so much by erudite journalists but white, male geeks who, somewhere between their love of comic book movies and web design, decided they had the chops to write about cinema without relevant education or experience.

Sean O'Connell realized almost 10 years ago that he could combine his love of movies with his tolerance for writing, and maybe even make a living of it.

Because she looked about fifteen, and because for many years she misrepresented her date of birth, a myth grew up around Anita, alleging that she was writing Griffith scripts from the age of 12; vestiges of the Anita Loos legend were utilized for Peter Bogdanovich's 1975 film Nickelodeon, in which Tatum O'Neal played a pre-teen silent movie scriptwriter.

I certainly consider myself a fan of Woody Allen «s films and am in awe of his prolific ability to write and direct a new movie most every year since 1969.

When I was younger, it was easier to write stuff for myself because I could write the romantic lead in a movie and play the part, but now, I'm 78 years old and I can't be the guy who's flirting with the girl and gets the girl, so it limits the kinds of parts I can do.

SKIP THIS MOVIE IF: catching a few glimpses of the amazing sites in Rome is not enough reason for you to sit through some of Woody Allen's worst written dialogue in years.

The Lodges» story has its roots in a screenplay that Joel and Ethan Coen wrote in 1986 — the same year, incidentally, that gave us David Lynch's «Blue Velvet,» the greatest dark - side - of - suburbia movie ever made.

The action sequences are tame in comparison to any other action movie made in the last 10 years and the self - referential humor and one - liners which were a big part of the first two are lazily written and unoriginal.

«Split into chapters, replicating short stories, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is top - tier Noah Baumbach and it's really beautiful to see Sandler giving it his all and crafting such a warmhearted but damaged character,» we wrote in our review of the movie when it premiered at Cannes this year, «while Stiller — a Baumbach regular — is very funny as the youngest Meyerowitz, doing his best to distance himself from his father and siblings, but realising home is where the heart is.»

A year later, Warner Bros. hired Edge of Tomorrow's Doug Liman to direct the film, with Scott Rudin producing, and Michael Gilio writing the script, but then Liman dropped out due to scheduling conflicts... and that's kind of where we're at with this movie.

As of writing this, I can boldly and positively say that Gone Girl is my favorite movie so far of 2014 and that's saying a lot because there have been some amazing movies this past year.

Alex Garland, a novelist - turned - cinematographer, has written some of the most geeked - about movies of the past 15 years: Sunshine, The Beach, 28 Days Later, and even a terrific video game called Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (if you haven't played it... play it).

Written by Katie Dippold (The Heat, last year's Ghostbusters) and directed by Jonathan Levine (The Night Before), Snatched is a movie in the flimsiest sense; in terms of craftsmanship, the best that can be said is that it clears the very low bar set by the typo in the expository opening crawl.

The fact that this was almost 10 years ago should be a sign not only that these movies tend to suck, but also that the current SNL cast and writing staff haven't created any memorable characters worthy of the big screen.

And Dylan Farrow's open letter, in which the 28 - year - old wrote for the first time about the allegations first made 21 years ago during a custody battle between Allen and Mia Farrow, not only opened by saying that Allen «sexually assaulted» Farrow, but it called out Blanchett by name, along with stars of other Allen movies.

Get Out: The most astonishing writing - directing debut in years, Peele's mash - up of horror and comedy and social satire is, also, flabbergastingly, the most trenchant new movie about American race relations.

It feels strange, given what an authorial stamp Mike White has had on the movies he's written (School of Rock, The Good Girl, Chuck & Buck), that he's only ever directed one feature film, 2007's Year of the Dog.

At the start of the year, the 29 - year - old was basically unknown: his first feature, musical «Guy And Madeline on a Park Bench,» had been well - liked but little - seen, and prior writing credits on 2013's contradictorily - titled «The Last Exorcism Part II» and Elijah Wood - starring B - movie «Grand Piano» didn't exactly suggest our next great auteur.

What strikes me most about this movie, which I had long wanted to see but hadn't until now, is that Williamson alone is credited as writer, even though its concept bears a strong resemblance to Killing Mr. Griffin, a novel Duncan wrote five years after the source of I Know What You Did....

The fourth film in a horror franchise, released on the first weekend of the new year, is just about the easiest movie to write off ever.

The Disaster Artist, which is directed by James and out in wide release Friday, is a comedy chronicling the making of 2003's The Room — the film written by, starring, and directed by Tommy Wiseau, which has been christened both the worst movie ever made and, in the years since, a cult classic.

Still finding it difficult to get back into the swing of watching superhero movies and writing on this site, but this past weekend I managed to watch one of the MCU movies that I missed last year even though it took me nearly a week having it from the library before actually watching it.

Since this will be my last real installment in this year's Club except for a short valedictory post, I'll end not by quibbling with a master but by saluting a couple of movies that did that thing to me, sending me home in a happy daze, wanting to write and talk and read and, I don't know, draw about them.