Sentences with phrase «younger filmmakers like»

Whitaker makes a point of passing his luck on, not just to younger filmmakers like Coogler but also through the growing social - service foundations he's midwifed in Uganda, SouthSudan, Mexico and elsewhere.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

By playing up the maudlin aspects like the debasement of Mister's mother or going for poverty clichés like ketchup sandwiches, the filmmakers seem reluctant to trust their picture to their strongest asset: their young actors.

Like the beautiful «Stories We Tell,» directed by Sarah Polley, «Elena» is an extremely personal documentary directed by a young filmmaker in search of her past — or part of it.

With the abundance of film festivals, not to mention sites like Vimeo and YouTube, short films are becoming even more popular for young filmmakers who wish to get their movies out there.

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.

Many young independent filmmakers, inspired by the «mumblecore» movies of directors like Joe Swanberg and Andrew Bujalski, have attempted to make unscripted movies with varying degrees of success.

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

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The movie feels like part of a horror anthology, and indeed it's part 1 of Shyamalan's planned Night Chronicles, a «Twilight Zone» kind of series with his ideas executed by young filmmakers.

It Felt Like Love is an indie coming - of - age story about a young girl's sexual exploration from first - time filmmaker and writer Eliza Hittman.

The year also saw the rise of several invigorating young filmmakers in the likes of Stephen Chbosky, Nicholas Jarecki, Rian Johnson, and Benh Zeitlin.

May 20, 2018 • Sandhya Menon's new young adult novel follows aspiring filmmaker Twinkle Mehta, who addresses her diary entries to female directors like Mira Nair and Ava DuVernay and longs to change lives with film.

The ultimate haptic heroine of the AFI FEST was the unnamed protagonist of Krotkaya (A Gentle Creature), the third narrative film of the Berlin - based Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitza.45 The Russian title is that of the original short story by Dostoyevsky (1876) about a meek young woman inexplicably committing suicide, but, in its country of production (France), the film is called Une Femme douce — like the 1969 adaptation of the same story by Robert Bresson directed.

Japanese master filmmaker Hirokazu Kore - eda might be the best director of young actors working today: Films like Nobody Knows and I Wish have explored childhood and adolescence with grace, wit and extraordinary emotional depth.

The filmmakers commit for a large chunk of the run time to having Hope remain unapologetic and unlikable (much like Charlize Theron's character in YOUNG ADULT), but then they bail, gifting audiences with a completely inauthentic turn.

What do you think the attraction to it is for a younger generation of filmmakers like them?

Created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, the filmmakers behind mind - bending thrillers like The Sound of My Voice and The East, the show follows a young blind woman named Prairie Johnson (Marling) who returns to her sleepy hometown with her eyesight mysteriously restored after she disappeared for seven years.

Perhaps the filmmakers believe that, since it's aimed at a relatively young crowd (witness the «soft» PG - 13 rating), they don't have to worry overmuch about things like a well - crafted story.

Amongst younger filmmakers who seem interested in cinema as a medium in and of itself, I'll be fascinated to see where talents like Anderson, Peter Strickland, Andrew Bujalski, Jem Cohen, Pablo Larraín, Sofia Coppola, and Miguel Gomes can take us.

«These are the perfect films to engage the students (we do outreach with)-- obviously because it's something they will like, but those filmmakers are not some fuddy - duddies, but really young, vibrant voices that connect with a younger audience,» Kasper said.

Tracking young Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from childhood to college, the near - three - hour picture «feels much less like a greatest hits package and more analogous to being in the moment,» according to Rodrigo Perez's review, proving to be «warm, soulful, funny and quietly insightful,» and something of a crowning achievement for the filmmaker, feeling «disarmingly light on its feet, sweet, funny and playful in the early years not unlike the director's movies about kids, but as they mature, so does the movie.»

It Felt Like Love is an indie coming - of - age story about a young girl's sexual exploration from first - time filmmaker...

«It's something I would actually like to figure out how to do, and also produce young female filmmakers and give them support and guidance and find their voices and be able to get them on their way.»