Sentences with phrase «young filmmakers looking»

Asked about his advice for young filmmakers looking to make money from their work, Carpenter responds, «Find a time machine and come back when I started.»

It's a film that still bears the mark of a young filmmaker looking for his voice (Scott largely based the photography on what Kubrick did in Barry Lyndon), but this tale of two military officers and their decade - long rivalry is thrilling nonetheless.

Not exact matches

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.

Another holdover from the fall festival circuit that will finally reach American theaters this year, the latest from highly regarded filmmaker Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours, Carlos) is a semi-autobiographical look at young French activists in 1971 Paris.

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.

Are there young filmmakers following in your footsteps who we should look out for in the next few years?

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.

«Smithereens» (Oct. 9 at the Music Box Theatre; www.musicboxtheatre.com) Three years before she directed Madonna in 1985's «Desperately Seeking Susan,» filmmaker Susan Seidelman's debut feature was this raucous look at a young woman in New York with a messy love life and punk rock aspirations.

Other high - profile titles screening at the festival, which opens Friday, include «Ginger and Rosa,» filmmaker Sally Potter's coming - of - age drama with Elle Fanning; «Midnight's Children,» director Deepa Mehta's adaptation of the novel by Salman Rushdie, who wrote the screenplay; and «Frances Ha,» a black - and - white look at a young dancer directed by «The Squid...

A family movie about a young girl who tries to show she's more grown - up than her parents realise when she attempts to look after a horse, Flicka did not attract very favourable reviews, and its box office take must have disappointed the filmmakers.

Jon Foster is one of those young actors not enough people know about, so he looks promising as the creatively unfulfilled filmmaker who pokes around where he shouldn't.

Though he's widely considered the father of contemporary independent filmmaking, John Cassavetes isn't a particularly good role model for young independent filmmakers looking to make a name for the...

«It's a delicate script,» Martin Scorsese praised, as he was the first one who urged the young Austin, Texas filmmaker to look into the project.

The film didn't emerge from Tony Richardson and John Osborne's Woodfall Films, which produced «Saturday Night and Sunday Morning», «A Taste of Honey» and «The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner», but it was very much part of the same movement of filmmakers coming to drama from documentaries and theatre, and looking to represent the lives of young working - class men and women more truthfully.

I've come through as a filmmaker, having convinced myself that my sort of movie is a form of painting, that it would not have happened without looking at paintings as a young visitor to MoMA, or then studying with Hans Hofmann and my admiration for the Abstract Expressionists.