It takes more than a worthy subject to make a good documentary, after all; it takes intelligent, specific, directed filmmaking.
Walking out of the theater, I was buzzing: Like every Tarantino film, Inglourious Basterds delivers zippy entertainment, masterful filmmaking, and intelligent dialogue.
"That film, I thought, was one of the very rare American films that I would compare to the serious, intelligent, sensitive writing and filmmaking that you find in the best directors in Europe.
He's very intelligent and is working on a career in filmmaking".
"Side Effects" is intelligent, but it doesn't express much joy in filmmaking.
Other movies influenced by Polanski's distanced, intelligent urban horrors include the often brilliant piece of filmmaking "Morvern Callar," the director Lynne Ramsay's second film, which was featured at the Director's Fortnight Festival.
"The material, even from a new screenwriter, was intelligent and distinctive enough to attract very high quality filmmaking talent and actors, and to help elicit extraordinary work from all involved.
Turning a notoriously docile, none-too-intelligent species into a source of menace is an impressive, if improbable, feat of filmmaking.
Filmmaking receives special oversight.
