Sentences with phrase «back story of any film»

Personally, I've never had much interest in any Youtube curiosities beyond their 15 minutes of fame, but that wasn't the case with director Ben Steinbauer who was compelled to track down Jack Rebney not only to learn the back story of the filming of the automobile ad, but to make a bio-pic chronicling his subject's life both before and since.

That said, there's an intrigue to the back story of a film as famous as «Psycho» and, to that end, «Hitchcock» doesn't disappoint.

Not exact matches

A week after The New York Times and The New Yorker ran back - to - back reports cataloguing Harvey Weinstein's alleged serial sexual harassment of women in Hollywood, actress Selma Blair saw a story on HuffPost about writer and director James Toback's new film that made her blood run cold.

Jeffrey Katzenberg that day told the story of how many times they went back a step or two in the production journey to get the right film they were looking to produce.

At the same time, the film harks back to Disney's first - ever fairy - tale feature, 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with its story of a princess in disguise living hidden in a forest; a villainess with access to supernatural powers; a supporting cast of lovable eccentrics; frolicking animal friends; and a handsome prince who awakens the heroine from a deathlike sleep with love's first kiss.

The film — which tells the story of a girl who claims to have visited heaven after nearly dying — brings back up a question most of us don't often consider unless we're reading the Old Testament: Should we expect miracles to happen more often?

«Soul Surfer,» the feature film based on the true story of surfer Bethany Hamilton being attacked by a shark and her journey back to surfing, opened last weekend in the fourth spot on the box office charts - partly a testament to its appealing family - friendly message and a marketing campaign that heavily targeted religious groups.

Back in 2012, a short film called Montauk from filmmaker Charlie Kessler garnered some attention at The Hamptons Film Festival for its intriguing sci - fi story about a government research lab conducting strange experiments outside of a small American town (which leads to a bunch of weird stuff happening, including a child going missing and a monster from another dimension being released).

I finally got around to watching «Pray the Devil Back to Hell» this weekend and, even though I already knew the story behind the film, was absolutely blown away by the remarkable courage and persistence of Nobel Prize winner Leymah Gbowee and the women of the Liberian Women's Peace Movement.

I read books that extended the original story 20 years into the future, played the video games, and have even recently spent an evening at Secret Cinema dressed as Han Solo, recreating A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back (two of the greatest films of all time).

generates a «sour» review they could (in theory) change the end of that very show as soon as they read it... the Story NXT tells is set on film (digital file) 4 days to 4 weeks before the Audience sees it, to adjust their sails for that would require back stage re-shoots and post production edits (look at Impact scrambling to re-write their Pre-tape to cover for ADR's release)... easier to let it ride, see if the opinions stay sour, and then IF Needed adjust the angle for the next taping, at which time they'll have a better idea for the correction and can make it look more organic

As far as I know, going back to Micah's original pickup and other stories, this is a video put together by a group of independent film guys in NYC, at least some of whom are gay.

This film pulls back the layers of a story as it relates to color, self - esteem, acceptance, and being secure with what you look like.

Another Sunday and another set of papers full of stories about MPs» allowances and expenses, on the back of last week's revelations about Jacqui Smith's husband's taste in films and the publication this week of MPs» allowance claims for 2007 - 2008.

Back to the film... What I love about Forks Over Knives is, in addition to hearing from incredible doctors like Colin Campbell (author of The China Study) and Caldwell Esselstyn, is that the film tells inspiring stories of real people, from all walks of life, who've embraced a plant - based diet and have thus reversed chronic health conditions like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.

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It was so interesting to see props and vehicles from iconic moments of films I'd watched as a child, there in real life, and fascinating to read the back - stories behind the vehicles.

Based on the DC Comics / Vertigo «Hellblazer» graphic novels and the Warner Bros. film, the supernatural thriller Constantine tells the story of John Constantine, a man who has literally been to hell and back.

All performances remain irrelevant in the face of such expensive, explosive combat and destruction, and there the film excels: You will feel blown back into your seat, starting 40 seconds into the story.

The film tells the story of Liam O'Leary an Irish property developer of humble origins who has made it big and fast on the back of the Celtic Tiger.

What we get is a collection of moderately violent action set - pieces untroubled by humour or broader coherence... Forster, who directed the Bond film Quantum of Solace, has done his best to piece together a story from these incompatible parts, but the final product has an elaborate uselessness about it, like a broken teapot glued back together with the missing pieces replaced by parts of a vacuum cleaner.

That story is still very much relevant today and it's crazy to see how accurately made this film was when looking back at what certain parts of the world were like when this movie was made.

This calm and quiet film tells the story of a Bangladeshi woman that gets married to far away London, where we find her 16 years later with husband and daughters, struggling in her uneventful life and still hoping to return back home to her sister.

There are two main stories really, one which sees Kronk back with «Yzma» again and the other revolving around his job as a camp counselor for the Junior Chipmunks, something that was touched on at the end of the first film.

The line takes us back to the beginning of the film, during which the eager voice of a boy asks his «baba» to tell him «the story of home.»

If you're a longtime reader of the Marvel series, you'll likely laugh at Reynolds» portrayal of Deadpool, you'll dig Will.i.am's Wraith, and you'll already know enough about Logan / Wolverine's back - and - front story to wonder how on earth an X-Men film could be so... bland.

Director Rupert Goold shoots True Story with a pulled back approach, never quite placing all of the blame on Christian, while also questioning every single word that he speaks up until the film's exposing finale.

Purists may be dismayed that the story has been split into two films (The Hobbit: There and Back Again follows in 2013), but there's no arguing with Peter Jackson's track record in adapting J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved fantasy novels; his three Lord of the Rings films earned Metascores of 92, 88, and 94 and collected 30 Oscar nominations combined.

Issues regarding pacing and structural tightness are among the more considerable in this film, which promises to be rather extensive as a biopic, only to succumb to anything from repetitious filler, - at its worst with the forceful and recurrent insertion of a recital of Oscar Wilde's own short story «The Selfish Giant» - to meandering material whose being backed by steady directorial storytelling by Brian Gilbert leads to moderate bland spells.

It does have a few holes story wise, but the performances from Granger and Walker alone make this worthy of a view, and it is not hard to fall in love with how Hitchcock shoots his films, as well as the music he selects to raise the hair on the back of your neck at the precise, appropriate time.

Smaug is expected to cover much of the remaining story in J. R. R. Tolkien's original novel, highlighted by a major battle with the titular dragon, while the third film (There and Back Again, due July 18, 2014) will focus on the Battle of Five Armies as well as materials found in Tolkien's notes and appendices.

In addition to succeeding on the most important measures of story and character, Coco also evokes marvel on a technical level, something even lesser Pixar films can fall back on.

The back and forth makes up the bulk of True Story and, for the first hour or so, the film is riveting.

The story of what went on behind the scenes was as interesting as what ended up on the screen — if not more so — as the world learned when Greg Sestero, a star of the film and compatriot of Wiseau, pulled back the curtain in his 2013 book The Disaster Artist, in which he chronicled his life as a friend to Wiseau and the ridiculously lengthy and taxing production of The Room, while also trying to shed some light on the legend of Tommy Wiseau.

While the attack on the train is compelling and one of Eastwood's best sequences, unless you are interested in a travelogue of major European cities, the rest of the film which fills in the character's back story, does not rise to the same level.

Based on a real - life story of a tobacco - company research scientist (Russell Crowe) and the ramifications of his decision to disclose industry secrets to the American public on an episode of 60 Minutes, it was a moody, intense affair that many critics touted as one of the year's best films; it netted 7 Oscar nominations in the process.Mann was back in the Academy Award hunt two year's later with Ali, a biopic of the beloved boxer Muhammad Ali that focused on both his athletic accomplishments and his political battles.

After two successful sequels (1980's The Empire Strikes Back and 1983's Return of the Jedi) that extended the story of the first film, Lucas took some time off to produce movies for others, with mixed success.

How many of us have gone out for a round of films, and gone back to the house or driven out to a bluff overlooking the town and just started rambling a story together.

With films like Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, and Cast Away, Robert Zemeckis has told some of cinema's most enduring, iconic, and moving stories.

Because, while allowing young blood to infuse the look, dialogue, and story of the film with dotcom generation sensibility, Scorsese goes back to the reliable basics of his latest works to anchor The Departed:

Meanwhile, as his / her story unfolds in linear fashion at first, the film starts looping back to reveal a complicated patter of a life lived in overlapping eras, crossing paths in ways that send our tragic figure down that path as if fated.

Jeff Nichols, the talented director of «Shotgun Stories» and «Take Shelter» is back at Cannes with his third film, «MUD.»

The French mayhem maestro is back with his first film as director since 1999's «The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc» (he's been off producing action flicks such as «The Transports» and «Kiss of the Dragon»).

A delicious film that repays watching and listening carefully as the story unwraps itself carefully backed by the music that is part of the dialogue too.

The film follows five separate stories, completely unconnected but for the far reach of the Neapolitan Camorra (the Mafia organization that runs Naples), and it jumps back and forth between them at seemingly random points.

Lowery went on to direct Pete's Dragon, one of my favorite films of 2016, and he's back at Sundance this year with a surprise low - budget film titled A Ghost Story.

Allied is unusually linear, after the initial setup: Max is told he married a German spy in Marianne; against orders and behind Marianne's back, he sets out to disprove it.2 The apologist urge is to call it a maturation of Zemeckis's style, to tell a story so simply and economically (even if we've kind of been here before with Cast Away), but the film feels conspicuously underdeveloped as opposed to streamlined, to the extent that the big reveal seems as if it was decided on a coin toss; it's easy to imagine the opposite outcome without any sort of retrofitting to accommodate it.

If there's this huge plotline or back story that is necessary to fully understand the complexity of the movie, then by God put that in the film.

Alden Ehrenreich, who steps into the Harrison Ford holster for this spinoff, says all of that back story makes the film «part of the great expansion of the Han Solo world.»

The film holds nothing back as it shows the story of how three different individuals all arrive at the same