Taxi Tehran is the work of a unique director – and survivor.
At any rate, this promises to be an unmissable, and unique "director's cut".
Guillermo del Toro is an entirely unique director, making a name for himself by directing numerous cult favourites including Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth and Pacific Rim.
"Ang's a unique director because he trained to be an actor," Mr. Leung said by e-mail from China, where he is shooting a film with John Woo. "He's very quick and intuitive and is always offering his actors something new to work off of".
All of which makes the late Alan Clarke even more unique: a director of TV as revered as any writer, who stamped a gritty style on his 23-year body of work, collaborating with writers of a similar, socially concerned temperament and showing a bloody-minded determination to tell important contemporary stories.
Winter Sleep is a remarkable achievement from a unique writer-director.
They reside in a dilapidated '70s-style home in the unique world director and writer Jim Hosking created.
Mr. Rudel's musicianship, experience and baton technique during his reign as general director and principal conductor of the New York City Opera from 1957 to 1979 made him unique among general directors of opera companies.
Which is to say that work that was tasteful and culturally respectable but didn't reflect any particularly original use of the medium of cinema was usually preferred to riotous, lively, mercurial work that both expressed a world view and did so by way of images (and not images alone, but also performances, details, and moods) that were as unique to their directors as their fingerprints.
Cineastes will see parallels with Andrew Haigh's Weekend and Richard Linklater's Before Sunset among other films (the original French tile, Theo & Hugo dans le meme bateau, tips its hat to Jacques Rivette), but the film has its own specific vibe, thanks in part to the writer-directors' unique, immersive sense of the milieu and the leads' tender chemistry.
