Instead of blocking off parts of the camera lens, modern filmmakers use blue screens and green screens to replace portions of a shot with digital effects.

Christopher Nolan is a modern filmmaker noted for his preference of practical effects over computer-generated effects.

Manchevski continues to be the most prominent modern filmmaker in the country having subsequently written and directed "Dust" and "Shadows."

Indeed, the stamp of a modern filmmaker is all over the movie.

Scorsese is one of the greatest of modern filmmakers, and his best films are themselves significant works of film criticism, but what this phrase means isn't obvious.

Although for years already Kitano's largest audience had been the foreign arthouse crowd, Hana-bi cemented his status internationally as one of Japan's foremost modern filmmakers.

Guy Maddin is a modern filmmaker known for recreating the style of older films, and uses intertitles appropriately.

Allon and Labute derisively say the film proves that modern filmmakers think that only gore and glossy special-effects can scare audiences.

"The Decalogue" shows Mr. Kieslowski to be a modern filmmaker of a stature comparable to Ingmar Bergman.

The effect has also been studied by psychologists, and is well-known among modern filmmakers.