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Inspiring: In his acceptance speech the 53 - year - old Mexican director dedicated the award to young filmmakers as he said: «This is a door, kick it open, and come in»

In his acceptance speech the 53 - year - old Mexican director dedicated the award to young filmmakers as he said: «This is a door, kick it open, and come in.»

Not exact matches

Del Toro also said his win was a doorway to use fantasy movies as mirrors for the real world and invited young filmmakers to «kick it in.»

A handful of young children reveal their thoughts in Bay Area filmmaker Ellen Bruno's wonderful documentary, «Split,» which is, at times, heart - wrenching in its honesty although it's clear that parental conflict causes them the most stress, not the divorce per se, and not being able to see their father as much as they'd like.

It's probably safe to say no D.J. played Modest Mouse at the uptown event, but white hair was still a hot accessory later in the night, as the older crowd gravitated towards the velvet couches (under the taxidermic animals) while younger bunches of volunteers, filmmakers, and tech consultants crowded the bars and would - be dance floor.

As a reaction to the artistic and economic stagnation of German cinema, a group of young filmmakers issued the Oberhausen

The young actors have chemistry together and you have to appreciate how the filmmakers had the good sense of also casting such comic geniuses as Eugene Levy as Jim's dad and Jennifer Coolidge as Stifler's mom, and now the conclusion of the epic trilogy takes the Chris - Guest - company thing one step further by giving the part of Michele's dad to Fred Willard!

But the filmmakers could have failed their source material, as the would - be alchemists of countless other books for young readers have before them.

The Beijing - raised, London - and Mount Holyoke — educated filmmaker shares with the American Honey helmer an interest in young people at the margins, a knack for eliciting fantastic performances from amateur or under - the - radar actors, and what film critic April Wolfe described to me as a «dream - like realism.»

Like «American Honey» (2016), from another key British filmmaker, Andrea Arnold, «Lean on Pete» uses its young protagonist as a kind of search engine, looking for answers to his own fate and to the inequities at the heart of our nation.

What we have left in Godard Mon Amour, after the laughs dry up, is a thin sketch of a filmmaker who inspired a hero worship in his young bride that dissolved in squabbling, as had Godard's first marriage to another of his leading ladies, actress Anna Karina.

Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro returns to the phantasmagorical cinema that defined such early fare as Cronos and The Devil's Backbone with this haunting fantasy - drama set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and detailing the strange journeys of an imaginative young girl who may be the mythical princess of an underground kingdom.

In addition, one of the organization's core values is identifying new talent and nurturing young filmmakers by awarding promising talent with «Directorial Debut» and «Breakthrough Actor» awards as well as grants to rising film students and by facilitating community outreach through the support of organizations such as The Ghetto Film School, Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, and Educational Video Center.

Anticipating his own virtues as a filmmaker, Moullet wrote the following year, «The young American filmmakers have nothing to say, Sam Fuller even less than the others.

Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), this fast - paced and furiously stylish heist movie stars Ansel Elgort (The Fault in Our Stars) as a young getaway driver who steers to the beat of his own playlist.

Theoretically, this could be quite salutary, as Reygadas is developing into one of the world's most interesting and consistently surprising directors; his Post Tenebras Lux is easily one of the most anticipated Cannes competition films (and happens to be my advance pick as most likely to win the Palme d'Or), and younger Mexican and South American filmmakers unabashedly look to Reygadas as a model of artistic independence to follow.

It had been known that the filmmakers wanted to skew younger with the cast of the film, but fans love when these actors reprise their roles as their characters.

Nichols has quickly established himself as one of my favorite young filmmakers, and his collaborations with Shannon are always something special.

At its core, though, this twisted tale of American entrepreneurship — of young arms dealers gaming the Pentagon — captures something of runaway modern greed, played out as a bro movie from bro stars and a bro filmmaker that's equal parts comical and infuriating.

As a young man, with his thin sandy hair, elongated simian features and prominent dimpled chin, he looks a bit like Ed Begley, Jr.; the more old - age facial putty the filmmakers apply, the closer he edges toward James Woods.

Giving Woody Allen a run for his money as the most prolific filmmaker in the business, Noah Baumbach has released his second film of 2015, coming only a few months after While We're Young, his exploration of generational divides in the modern era.

With Lorne Michaels as a producer and a screenplay by three young TV - seasoned up and comers, various in - demand comedy stars gladly signed up to work with the Utah - based Mormon filmmaker despite his spotty track record.

Hounds of Love is written and directed by Australian filmmaker Ben Young, making his feature directorial debut after a few short films previously as well as episodes of «Prank Patrol» and «Castaway».

Just as exciting as the film itself is the fact that Wright, one of Britain's best young filmmakers and a man on a mission to take over Hollywood, will be joining us at the Curzon Soho in London for an exclusive post-film Q&A.

In 2011, his student film, Fig, which followed a young street prostitute's fight to keep her daughter safe, won the Director's Guild of America's Student Filmmaker Award, as well as the HBO Short Filmmaker Award.

In 108 grueling minutes, writer / director Ben Young's feature debut marks him as a filmmaker with confident vision and exciting potential.

Gordon has spent 10 summers as an advisor to young directors at the renowned Sundance Filmmaker's Lab.

Unfortunately, the depictions strike you as incredibly contrived and artificial, like a young filmmaker's idea of what high school today might be like.

Without giving anything away, the 72 - year old auteur's filmmaking remains incredibly sprightly; one scene is as shocking and heart - stopping as anything a younger British filmmaker might serve up, and the final third of the film lets him tackle the issues facing today's youth with surprising credibility and nuance.

The announcement, made by Josh Berger, president and managing director for WB U.K., Ireland and Spain, came as the studio praised the third year of its Creative Talent program, aimed at providing jobs and opportunities for young filmmakers across the world in various parts of the filmmaking industry.

As such, it's not outside the realm of possibility for the Academy to recognize another young filmmaker for a daring piece of work, and J.C. Chandor certainly fits that bill.

Few working filmmakers are as in tune with the curious predicament of being young and capable yet too lazy to bother fighting an uphill financial battle, and still fewer that manage to casually assert their cine - literacy without making a show of it (see the one - two punch of Sansho the Bailiff and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid visual quotations that close the film).

The Coen brothers continue to plough their esoteric furrow, as indeed does Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater is finally getting the recognition he deserves, and younger filmmakers like Shane Carrugh, J.C. Chandor, Spike Jonze and British director Steve McQueen are exploring cinema's real potential.

The «dissident Revolutionary Lettrists,» as Wollen called them, were led by two young filmmakers, Guy Debord and Gil Wolman, who went on to become situationists.

Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.

In addition to debuting her film, Denis was in Toronto to serve as a Governor in TIFF's Talent Lab, a comprehensive four - day program in which she, Jim Stark, Sandra Oh, and Ramin Bahrani mentored twenty young filmmakers.

The film debut of Nancy Meyers» daughter, Hallie Meyers - Shyer, follows Reese Witherspoon as she deals with motherhood, a recent separation... and the three young filmmakers she agrees to let stay with her for an extended period of time.

«A Filmmaker's Journey» does gain the upper hand, however, by furnishing us with, in addition to the sight of Jackson as a younger, substantially thinner filmmaker, an overview of an aborted screen adaptation of The Lord of the Rings that was to have starred The Beatles (John as Filmmaker's Journey» does gain the upper hand, however, by furnishing us with, in addition to the sight of Jackson as a younger, substantially thinner filmmaker, an overview of an aborted screen adaptation of The Lord of the Rings that was to have starred The Beatles (John as filmmaker, an overview of an aborted screen adaptation of The Lord of the Rings that was to have starred The Beatles (John as Gollum!).

Just two years older than Scorsese, Bertrand Tavernier was too young to come of age as a filmmaker during French cinema's most widely - celebrated époque, the New Wave.

Last but certainly not least, few if any films at Cannes this year were as highly anticipated as Beyond the Hills, the third feature by director Cristian Mungiu, who won the Palme d'Or in 2007 for the astonishing 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the movie most responsible for drawing international attention to the exciting new wave of young Romanian filmmakers.

More crucially, and the thing that truly reminded us of her talent, was Ry Russo - Young «s «Nobody Walks,» in which Thirlby gives one of the more undervalued female performances of the year as an aspiring filmmaker staying with an L.A. family (John Krasinski and Rosemarie DeWitt) who up - ends their lives.

The Slumdog Millionaire filmmaker will direct the show, comprising a sequence of monologues adapted by writers such as Sir David Hare, Neil LaBute and James Graham, retelling the first - hand accounts of 15 young children growing up in the rural township of Rammulotsi, South Africa.

Ford did more than any other filmmaker to enshrine Lincoln as a saintly rustic, most memorably in the classic Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), and Spielberg seems to follow his lead in the first dialogue scene of Lincoln.

Ed Zwick's son Jesse Zwick establishes himself as a young filmmaker to watch with this touching dramedy.

As a younger man I got very excited about upcoming movies, gathering all the information about them I could, reading endless publicity fluff interviews with the filmmakers, watching trailers... until one day I realised it was all a bit of a waste of time.

In 1957, two young critics from Cahiers de cinéma published a study of Alfred Hitchcock, drawing attention to the artistic and moral complexity of a filmmaker previously classed as a mere entertainer.

A second trailer has surfaced independent war - torn drama TWICE BORN (or VENUTO AL MONDO) Penelope Cruz leads the film, directed by Italian actor - turned - filmmaker Sergio Castellitto, as a single mother attempting to put some demons to rest when she returns with her young son to Sarajevo, the home which she shared with his father (played by Emile Hirsch) before his death during the harrowing Bosnian conflict of the 1990s.

Home Again (Blu - ray + DVD + digital) Details: 2017, Universal Studios Home Entertainment Rated: PG - 13, mature themes, sexual situations The lowdown: Reese Witherspoon stars as Alice, a recently separated mother of two, whose life is further upended when three young filmmakers move into her guest house.

It's terrific fun, but it also makes a point, while minting breakout stars of most of its young cast and reinventing Famuyiwa as an indie filmmaker to watch.

«Kicking and Screaming» (1995) While it still feels very much conceived in the shadow of filmmaker Whit Stillman, who also made thoughtful, erudite comedies about young people in the city trying to figure it all out, Noah Baumbach's formal debut «Kicking and Screaming» still feels as oddly relevant today as it did twenty years ago.