Sentences with phrase «young director»

At the end of their rope, the big producers and distributors looked toward fresh, young directors as their last hope to draw in the massive youth population.
Instead there seemed to be too many works from younger directors.
She's definitely a promising young director to keep our eyes on.
He is one of the most talented young directors I have ever met.
But this is a movie that deserves to be seen — it's a work of maturity and confidence from one of the indie world's best young directors.
However, that hasn't stopped other young directors.
But like many rising young directors of his generation (e.g. Star Wars rebooter J.J. Abrams), Coogler carries around the little - boy version of himself, a kid at heart whose dreams have been colonized by the»70s blockbusters.
Beginning with «Easy Rider» (photographed by Kovács), they helped redefine the way movies looked, from grabbing shots on the fly for young directors making personal films on low budgets to using natural light to give a heightened realism to their studio productions.
An ambitious young director with indie - film cred might not be an obvious choice to direct a sixth sequel in a franchise with diminishing returns.
WHY: Derek Cianfrance was hailed as one of the most promising young directors in Hollywood after 2010's «Blue Valentine,» and while he continued to build on that potential with «The Place Beyond the Pines,» his latest movie represents a major step back.
She said the presence of young directors like Green and Jeff Nichols («Take Shelter,» «Mud») in the city brings a whole new generation of recognition.
Snyder is a promising young director who has scored hits with the excellent Dawn of the Dead remake and 300 and he seems to be the guy for the job, especially as Watchmen's stylized comic book world will benefit from extensive CGI background work.
In the 1970s, cinema was defined by young directors making names for themselves: Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and so on.
Filmmaker Tom Ryan has won the award for Best Young Director at this years Irish Film Festival Australia for his current feature film «Twice Shy».
Jonathan King, Participant's EVP, Narrative Film, commented, «Lluis Quilez, the latest in the wave of talented young directors out of Barcelona, did a wonderful job crafting a chilling ghost story with a powerful message, and we are thrilled to have Vertical on board to deliver it to audiences.»
In 1999 it looked as though American filmmaking might be on the cusp of an exciting period not unlike the Coppola - Scorsese - Allen 1970s, with several original young directors coming into their own at once.
Marvel Studios has gone and made its first movie without a white guy named Chris in the lead role (kidding) and from 112 seconds of evidence we have, they made a great decision hiring exciting young director Ryan Coogler (hot off Fruitvale Station and Creed) to direct.
Following slain 22 - year - old Bay Area resident Oscar Grant's last day on earth, docu - drama Fruitvale Station is a resounding debut feature from young director Ryan Coogler, who's as prone to take Hollywood by storm as his star, Michael B. Jordan.
Too many young directors do not understand direction.
Many young directors obscure the face, shoot it at an odd angle, or complicate the shot in some other way.
It's a sci - fi that J.J. Abrams is producing and a wonderful, young director named Julius Onah is directing.
I'm talking about young director Jason Reitman, the scion of Ivan («Ghostbusters»), battling suspicions of Hollywood nepotism, and one - time stripper Diablo Cody who, prior to this, had never written a script.
Her first few films were made by rising young directors Beth B., Sara Driver, and Susan Seidelman.
Nichols is one of my very favorite young directors.
BBats: What young director (3 or less films) are you most excited about seeing over the next decade?
The exceptions hover film greatness: Rebel Without a Cause, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Dazed and Confused, The Breakfast Club, and Say Anything... Along comes young director James Ponsoldt and his adaptation of Tim Tharp's novel.
And she tried to stay hip by sometimes overpraising the work of hot young directors like Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma and Steven Spielberg.
Then, when I started my own company, I stopped directing at that point and went back to producing, so I needed young directors, and I made a point at that time to try to develop them by starting people in certain areas.
There are also a number of younger directors still making plenty of films that have yet to get a best directing award — Ridley Scott has been nominated 3 times (Thelma and Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down), Terrence Malick has been nominated 2 times (Tree of Life, The Thin Red Line, Paul Thomas Anderson has been nominated once (There Will Be Blood) and Tim Burton has never received a directing nomination.
The actors also left strong impressions, not least on young directors like Philip Kaufman, who cast Ben Carruthers in his first two pictures (1964's Goldstein, 1967's Fearless Frank) and Lelia Goldoni in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).
The Big Mo, or Momentum, continues to build behind Whiplash, by the brilliant young director Damien Chazelle, and surely no - one will be able to find a bookmaker ready to take a bet on JK Simmons for best supporting actor.
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He became a favorite of young directors such as Tarantino, Kevin Smith and Robert Rodriguez, who cast Parks in two of his «From Dusk Till Dawn» films.
THE MAYOR OF SHARK CITY by Michael Sweeney & Nick Creature When a difficult film shoot spirals hopelessly out of control into a living nightmare, an ambitious young director must face his greatest fears to turn a troubled production into the biggest movie of all time.
It was a time when the studios, reeling from their failure to attract the new generation of filmgoers, briefly threw their gates open to outsiders — mainly young directors formed by film schools and highly conscious of the European art film tradition.
The prospect of a great young director, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, winning his first Oscar is matched by the possibility that Scorsese will win a much - delayed one.
From young director Julius Ramsay, Midnighters is a layered, enigmatic thriller set in the Gothic backwoods of New England — the perfect place to get away with murder.
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Taken together, and reflecting on all the elements of the story, «Dementia 13» defines itself as a satisfying horror mystery that laid the groundwork for future greatness for it's young director Francis (minus the Ford) Coppola.
One of America's most exciting young directors delivers half of a great movie with this investigation into religious cults.
With «Creed,» Coogler proves he is one of the most skillful young directors around.
He randomly saw a DVD of young director Cary Fukunaga's work and got Mr. Golin's permission to take a red - eye to New York and sign him.
The movie then dumps us beside a windmill somewhere in Spain, where a cynical young director, Toby (Adam Driver), is shooting a TV commercial.
Even if it isn't the very best, it's far better than anyone thought it had a right to be, and it should catapult Coogler to the upper echelon of young directors sought for bigger and better projects today.
The mercurial young director moves far outside genre to portray a world where terrorism criss - crosses with crime and ordinary lives.
Awesome fierce young director, Ryan Coogler, really had a vision for this movie.
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