Sentences with phrase «backlot of»

Mariah Robertson «s solo presentation at M+B Gallery in the New York backlot of Paris Photo LA was visually stunning.

A vulgar throwback to the Hope / Crosby road movies, «'' Strike Back»» finds Jay and Silent Bob traveling from their home state of Jersey to the backlots of Hollywood.

A sparkling sepia filter bathes the backlots of 1950s studios in a warmth that belies the business - like approach of both Brolin and the narrative at heart.

, has a lot to live up to as the follow - up to 2013's masterful Inside Llewyn Davis, and quite shrewdly the Coens have chosen to move on from that soulfully sad rumination of a folk singer on the brink by providing what could be their zaniest film this side of The Ladykillers, a screwball romp through the backlots of Hollywood at the height of its power and influence.

The town of Fort Smith, an assemblage of oddballs torn from the pages of Western novels and the backlots of classic Hollywood studios, is unprepared for Mattie Ross.

Her unmanned camera panning indiscriminately through the backlots of a film studio, pulling in and out of focus, swinging side to side, is an interesting idea (although of course the viewpoint never settles on anything the human eye could find interesting)- until you learn that it is spelling out the letters of the word Cinematography.

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Musk wrapped up 2016 with a presentation of the new roof product (on a studio backlot in Hollywood!)

The Streets of America used to be the backlot tour — they used to actually film here when the park first opened.

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Everything at night looks like it was shot on an empty backlot (there's a curfew to explain the lack of extras).

The Universal City backlot gets a good workout in the blood - spattered finale of Gunfight in Abilene, which barely made the theatrical rounds before entrenching itself on late night television.

The backlots, of which there were several, were all torn down in the»70s and replaced by real estate developments.

It is wider than it is tall, and it is packed with an incredible amount of information about the old MGM studio in Culver City, complete with a list of what films and television shows were shot on which backlot sets.

Commentary 3 — The Picture - Director of Photography Darius Khondji, Prodcution Designer Arthur Max, Editor Richard Francis - Bruce, Richard Dyer and David Fincher talk about the look of the film itself, the color processes used on the print, the locations scouted for the various shots, the detail used in the studio backlot constructions, the style David wanted to achieve and succeeded in doing, the clothing, the grittiness, the absolute black Fincher always wanted in Alien 3 but could achieve until now and more.

What seduces most about Ask the Dust isn't its verisimilitude, but its gloriously old - fashioned backlot sheen - the L.A. of old Hollywood movies and of our collective fantasies.

Such Moving Pictures Clayton picks his top 11 of the year The Film Doctor and his wife discuss Birdman and crisis of identity The Backlot does a readers poll of the greatest gay movies but YIKES some of the titles and their rankings.

Despite sun - bleached location photography by Marcel Zyskind, The Two Faces of January has the feel of a Forties backlot thriller — Athens and Istanbul are «exotic» in the most retro sense, laden with perils and marketplace grifters.

Much of the film looks as if it was shot on the same Vancouver backlot construction site, which it was.

The production numbers tend to grab at a number of visual ideas, but the simpler ones hybridize an old - fashioned backlot aesthetic with newfangled special effects.

No amount of resourceful set dressing can convince us that this poky MGM backlot is a perspiring slab of French Indochina in monsoon season.

Jonathan Mostow: If you're referring to the chase with Bruce and Radha, here's a great irony — that sequence was one of the few not shot in Boston — in fact, it was shot almost entirely on the Paramount backlot (to my knowledge, it's the largest and most complex chase scene ever shot on their backlot — which, if you saw it, you'd realize how tiny an amount of real estate it is — and so puling off a chase of that scope was quite a tricky bit of business).

And seven or eight documentaries that play in the Backlot, TFF's smallest venue, devoted to movies about movies and biographies of artists, including one I feel somewhat responsible for, Volker Schlondorff's 1977 «Portrait of Valeska Gert,» the Weimar era dancer and cabaret star, which I saw in Bologna at Il Cinema Ritrovato in 2016 and raved about.

Next up, the «Hospital Mask» is based on a famous backlot picture of Dick Warlock wearing the Halloween II mask right before they shot the final scenes at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, also sculpted by Justin Mabry.

Newsies is a revisiting of the Old Hollywood backlot musical, complete with rousing and utterly interchangeable songs and several athletically choreographed dance sequences.

The pair opened the show with an outrageous Mad Max: Fury Road homage, entering the Warner Bros. backlot on an outsized battle rig and surrounded by a horde of War Boys.

After more than 40 films, most of them for the budget - challenged AIP, he was hired by 20th Century Fox and given the resources of their studio, casting department, and backlot for his recreation of 1929 Chicago and the most famous gangland slaying in American history.

With his faithful army of degenerate chainsaw - wielding Good Guy Dolls, Chucky will unleash havoc upon guests as they navigate a portion of the world - famous backlot.

In terms of resume, Zophres also did the Hollywood backlot fashion for «Hail, Caesar!»

Gregory Ratoff directs with an understated sense of shadowy threat — he does love those hard shadows and partially obscured faces and stormy nights — and makes great use of the Victorian - era backlot street scenes and set.

For daring to dream of an old - school Hollywood musical with a modern soul, and for applying his talents to some virtuosic backlot spectacle, Directors Guild winner Damien Chazelle will cap his magic year with a Best Director statuette.

Players will also experience the online multiplayer mode that redefined Call of Duty by introducing killstreaks, XP, Prestige and more, and battle head - to - head in 10 fan - favorite maps from the original multiplayer mode, including classics such as «Crash,» «Backlot» and «Crossfire.»

She crafts a Marquise de Merteuil of loosey - goosey cunning in Milos Forman's 1989 film Valmont (still one of Bening's most underrated turns) and delights as a winking backlot floozy during a cameo in Mike Nichols» Postcards from the Edge from 1990.

Damien Chazelle («Whiplash»), channeling both classic MGM musicals and the French New Wave at its most self - reflexive, somehow makes us believers in a backlot world of gravity - defying romance.

THE SECRET LIVES OF PETS (Alexandre Desplat / Backlot Music)

In mainstream films, especially in the 1980s, the Los Angeles you saw wasn't the real one; it was a character with this backlot sort of atmosphere.

It'd be one thing if Allen had his own backlot / soundstage and a troupe of actors, but, nope, he moves all over the world and never fails to attract at least a handful of famous and talented actors in demand.

Mendez has to set up a production office on a studio backlot (manned by a pair of old - school movie men, played with gusto by Alan Arkin and John Goodman), buy ads in the trade mags, create storyboards and a script and then make his way to Tehran, sneak into the Canadian Embassy to meet with the State Department six and prep them to act like screenwriters, producers, and cinematographers, eager to explore the exotic marketplaces of the city and the scenic desert backdrops that ring Tehran.

The desperation with which jokes are used to combine the backlot locations into a mock - up of an actual movie?

Mirroring the Scream 4 film concept of a «movie - within - a-movie» theme, the Terror Tram: Scream 4 Your Life experience will introduce guests to the fictional «Stab» slasher film franchise and beckon them to visit the production of «Stab 8,» currently «shooting on location on the backlot.»

Empire another big get for rising star David Oyelowo who was so good in Middle of Nowhere and also eye - catching in The Paperboy - he joins the increasingly crowded Insterstellar for Christopher Nolan The Backlot on HBO's new gay series starring Jonathan Groff.

There's beautiful footage filmed on the Warner Bros. backlots, impressively covered synchronized swimming and dance numbers, impeccable lighting, and subtle changes in visual style that mimic the films of the period.

Additional revival screenings will include Orson Welles» «Too Much Johnson,» while the «Backlot» program of films about artists will feature Walter Fasano's «Bertolucci on Bertolucci,» Chuck Workman's «Magician» and Ethan Hawke's «Seymour.»

A very light helping of bonus material resides on Disc Two: «Backlot» (24 mins.)

What most riders don't know is that just several hundred feet away on the movie studio's backlot, director J.A. Bayona (A Monster Calls) is combing through footage of the latest installment in the series, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the cover of EW's Summer Movie Preview issue.

Many a leased X1 was shifted on the basis of being a «crossover», while 3 - series wagons stood by collecting dust on dealership backlots.

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The members of The Backlot (formerly AfterElton) love to chat about the latest in gay books.

Woven into the story of Sultan's enchantment with Sunny's (he eventually left his job at the Paris Review offices in Manhattan to work as a bartender at Sunny's once the place began opening more regularly) is the story of the rise, fall, and gentrification of Red Hook, Brooklyn, a once - seedy and crime - filled backlot to Manhattan's glittering cinemascape.

We've compiled a list of recommended reads for the mother figure in your life — whether her interests lie in cultural artifacts or the 24 - hour news cycle, Hollywood backlot backstories or intriguing historical tales.

In 1984, a group of studio employees on the Warner Brothers backlot decided something had to be done for the growing number of homeless cats in their workplace.