Sentences with phrase «who of independent film»

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Captain Wallsworth, who regularly shares beautiful pictures and videos from above the clouds, told the Independent he hopes to film more of the city when he returns there.

Winter's Bone is the highlight of Netflix's independent films section, telling the story of a young woman from the Ozarks of America who must find her meth - cooking father to avoid eviction after dad skips bail, leaving the family on the brink of homelessness.

Additionally, the legislation seeks to end the experiences most visibly depicted in recent cases of alleged abuse by actresses who worked for film producer Harvey Weinstein; their legal remedies were limited in many cases because they were considered independent contractors.

Director Steven Soderbergh had created a film that is truly one of the worst films in cinema, but he is also someone who hates Hollywood and loves the independent Film Industry.

Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).

John Sayles and Maggie Renzi are heroes of the American independent movement — filmmakers who create films of their choosing on terms of their own making.

Yet, there is a very real risk that you will be lableled as a racist for criticizing black panther, or the work of the 29 year old director who was given the keys to a $ 200,000,000 budget after making only 2 independent films.

But unlike too many American independent films, this one isn't essentially a PDF of the script acted out for a cinematographer who knows how to light faces.

«I love playing this character,» Johansson told Entertainment Tonight on the set of Avengers: Infinity War, before reports that a Black Widow film is in development, «and I think there is definitely an opportunity to explore the Widow as a woman who has come into her own and is making independent and active choices for herself, probably for once in her life.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Bordertown (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity, and violence, including a brutal rape) Jennifer Lopez stars in this fact - based thriller about an American journalist who goes undercover to investigate the murders of hundreds of women near U.S. - owned factories located in a Mexican town just across the border.

FRONTIÈRES attracts a rapidly growing section of the international film industry that skews towards young independent filmmakers who are well versed in innovative filmmaking.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

He burst onto the scene in 2013 with Fruitvale Station, a low budget independent film that premiered at Sundance and told the true story of a 22 - year - old African American who was killed by police in Oakland.

CHERISH is definitely recommended for those who love music and styles from the 70s and 80s, and who also enjoy quirky independent films full of kooky energy.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Fairy (Unrated) Romantic fantasy about a hotel's night watchman (Dominique Abel) who falls in love with the magical fairy (Fiona Gordon) who vanishes into thin air after granting him two of his three wishers.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Apart (R for violence, profanity and bloody images) Romance thriller about a couple of star - crossed lovers (Olesya Rulin and Josh Danziger) who share a psychological disorder which proves fatal for their friends the deeper they fall in love.

The 34 - year - old actress was joined by Greta Gerwig, who did an introduction of Frances Ha at the ceremony, which celebrated independent film makers.

The emergence of the campus underground, coupled with the establishment of film co-operatives like Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, London Film Co-op, the Intermedia Film Co-op (Vancouver), and the Independent Film Makers Co-op (Montreal), allowed an effective system of distribution to develop; this network of parallel co-ops also helped to establish lines of communication between filmmakers in different parts of the country who would otherwise not have had means of contact.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Christmas in Wonderland (PG for crude language) Holiday comedy about a couple of kids from L.A. who find a million dollars of fake money in a Canadian mall and go on a shopping spree while being chased by a hapless gang of counterfeiters and a Canadian Mountie.

An auspicious breakthrough for Mitchell (who scored a Best Director nomination last week from the Independent Spirit Awards), the film excels through harmonious design elements that serve an open metaphor that dynamically allows various interpretations — and also rattle even the toughest of nerves.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Amateurs (R for sex and expletives) Bawdy comedy about a bunch of local yokels in a small town in Middle America who come up with the bright idea of making a porno movie.

Interstate 60 will definitely appeal to people who like smart independent films with lots of humorous characters and especially for fans of «The Twilight Zone» style of stories.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 0s & 1s (Unrated) Digital Age comedy about a yuppie (Morgan Krantz) who's so dependent on his computer that his life starts to come apart at the seams when he discovers after a night of partying that someone has stolen his laptop.

We are interested in not just those directors who are long venerated — although there is no lack of passionate support for figures such as Robert Bresson, judging from the entries so far — but, equally, the major figures (criminally little - known as they may be) in any sector or mode or geographical region of cinema: animation (Chuck Jones), independent (Todd Haynes), film - essay (Chris Marker), «new Asian cinema» (Edward Yang), experimental, «third cinema», B - films, underground, women's cinema...

Emile Hirsch and Paul Rudd are two darkly funny actors who have joined together for a new kind of film with director David Gordon Green, who appears to be retreating to his independent roots.

The man who cobbled together a budget for his first film from loans and borrowed credit cards spent a fair amount of his second feature walking viewers through the myriad particulars of independent filmmaking.

In fact Peeta, who is still something of a liability during the actual games (he does temporarily die, after all), thanks to some sensitive writing, gets to deliver some decent dialogue that suggests his independent thought processes, and makes it clear that Katniss, to her credit and that of the film, has a choice to make not between Hottie 1 and Hottie 2, but between two different young men who are defined by different things in the wider world, and not just their relationship to her.

There is also a new feature length commentary with Adrienne Barbeau, who played Maggie, discussing her memories of the film with director of photography Dean Cundey, who credits Carpenter's vision for being so ahead of its time in even attempting to create a (seemingly large) whole different world on the tiny budget of an independent film.

Filmmakers who make such films are those who have been making films at the margins of the independent filmmaking scene.

If you're the type who likes small, independent films full of colorful characters engaged in extraneous conversations, The Daytrippers may be right up your alley.

Mary Harron: A Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter, known for her socially - conscious independent films such as I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) about Valerie Solanas» life that led up to her failed assassination attempt of Warhol, and The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), a film about the 1950s pinup model who became a cult icon of sexuality and helped popularize pornography.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Azur & Asmar (Unrated) Animated fairytale about a couple of boys raised like brothers in a castle, one, a motherless, young aristocrat (Cyril Mourali), the other, the son (Karim M'Ruba) of the family nanny (Hiam Abbass), who grow up to find themselves rivals in a race to find a princess (Thissa d'Avila Bensalah) in a magical, faraway fantasyland.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS A Bird in the Air (Unrated) Romance drama about a freewheeling librarian (Rachel Nichols) who helps an uptight loner (Jackson Hurst) locate the owner of the loquacious parrot that flew into his trailer home.

Ever since the premiere of The Puffy Chair at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, Mark and Jay Duplass have been one of the most prominent filmmaking team on the independent circuit, turning out such acclaimed films as Baghead, Cyrus, and Jeff Who Lives At Home.

(In English and German with subtitles) INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Secret of the Grain (Unrated) Cross-cultural drama, set in the seacoast town of Sete, revolving around the frustrating adjustment to life in France by a family of Arab immigrants headed by a divorced and depressed, 61 year - old patriarch (Habib Boufares) who dreams of opening his own restaurant.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Good (Unrated) Viggo Mortensen stars in this adaptation of the C.P. Taylor play, set in Germany during the rise of Nazism, chronicling the plight of a previously decent college professor who finds himself increasingly compromised after his novel advocating euthanasia is employed as propaganda to advance the government's evil agenda.

For those who admire Cassavetes» work and his filmmaking philosophy, then Criterion's set is a celebration of the independent film movement.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Che (Unrated) Steven Soderbergh directs this four - hour bio-pic chronicling the political exploits of Che Guevara (Benicio Del Toro), the daring Argentine Marxist who led the Cuban revolution with Castro (Demian Bichir) before inciting guerilla warfare around the rest of Latin America until his assassination by the CIA in 1967.

With so much bonus material offered on an independent release like «Garden State,» the DVD release is impossible to pass on for fans of the film and is also a smart post-Christmas purchase for those who haven't yet experienced Braff's cinematic vision.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Eldorado (Unrated) Unlikely - buddy comedy about a Belgian auto dealer (Bouli Lanners) who befriends the young burglar (Fabrice Edde) he catches in the act of robbing his house.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS A Bloody Aria (Unrated) Appearances can be deceiving in this gruesome examination of bullying about a perverted music professor (Byeong - jun Lee) who kickstarts an escalating roundelay of revenge after making unwanted advances on his pretty protégé (Ye - ryeon Cha) while driving her to an audition.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suss (Unrated) WWII documentary examining Jew Suss, an anti-Semitic feature film produced by Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels in 1940 and directed by Veit Harlan who was later tried for crimes against humanity but exonerated after raising the «I only followed orders» defense.

With her 25 years of experience at the San Francisco Film Society, Film Forum, and Film Independent and the Los Angeles Film Festival, Rachel Rosen is in a unique position both as a woman working in the film festival world and as someone who has been in a position to watch the changing landscape for women as festival professionals and as filmmakers.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Bucket List (PG - 13 for profanity and a sexual reference) Oscar - winners Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman co-star in this bittersweet end - of - life saga as terminally - ill cancer patients who make a break from the hospital after compiling a checklist of everything they want to do before kicking the bucket.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Beeswax (Unrated) Quirky ensemble comedy, set in Austin, Texas, centering on a couple of identical twins, one, a wheelchair - bound paraplegic (Maggie Hatcher), the other, a clothing store owner (Tilly Hatcher) who rekindles a romance with an ex-lover (Alex Karpovsky) in order to get legal help with a lawsuit filed against her by her business partner (Anne Dodge).

Another writer - director who was himself, like Fuller, at the forefront of a particularly important moment in the history of American independent film, John Sayles, used his time introducing Park Row to eloquently characterize the film, in one of the overall best, most informed, beautifully delivered speaker presentations I've ever seen at TCMFF, as «Citizen Kane printed on butcher paper.»

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 2 Days in Paris (Unrated) Romantic comedy about a French photographer (Julie Delpy) and an American designer (Adam Goldberg) living in NYC who decide to vacation in Paris to rekindle the passion in their relationship only to have the plan derailed by the presence of her intermeddling parents and the resurfacing of her still flirtatious ex-boyfriends.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Departures (PG - 13 for mature themes) Foreign Film Oscar - winner revolving around the plight of an unemployed cellist (Masahiro Motoki) who moves back to his hometown where he discovers the true meaning of life when he takes a job as an undertaker over the objection of his wife (Ryoko Hirosue) and friends.

The»90s rise of independent film brought compelling duos like Oscar winners Hunter and Anna Paquin, who played a mother sold into marriage and her daughter in Jane Campion's alternately elegant and raw «The Piano.»

But those in the know have been keeping tabs on Nichols since his breakout sophomore effort, the provocative apocalypse tale Take Shelter, and over these three films (also including his debut, Shotgun Stories, and the moderately successful and excellent Mud), he has established himself as a strong Southern voice on the independent scene, the sort of director who makes you sit up and take notice whenever he announces a new project.