Sentences with phrase «basis of the film sets»

The quasi-historical basis of the film sets it apart from the fantasy and whimsy that usually dominates Disney animated features, and the animators further set it apart through their drawing style.

Not exact matches

Unhappy with Hollywood's plan to leak The Fifth Estate via its international network of movie theatres, Assange, the WikiLeaks founder on whom the film is based, set out to sabotage its release.

Definition of CULT 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents 4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator 5a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalOf Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalOf Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalof deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalof the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animalof 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.

Based on the classic film, School Of Rock brings Dewey Finn and his students to life, as they set out to win Battle of the BandOf Rock brings Dewey Finn and his students to life, as they set out to win Battle of the Bandof the Bands.

And while her humble two - story home in Queens is no mystery mansion, the set - up sounds strikingly similar to the plot of the 1985 film «Clue,» which was based on the board game.

But it was worth it: At my own home film school, I taught myself a new set of skills that would be the basis for a new career.

Georgia Tech researchers have developed electrochromic film inks that are water - based, making them safer for diffuse application in settings where the kinds of safety precautions and protective equipment that are standard in handling volatile organic chemicals would be impractical.

Angelina Danielle's passion for acting recently landed her the principle role of Hope in the all Michigan based TV sitcom / film «Percipience» which is set to be released in 2016.

I think the problem is that the film arrived before local industries set their rules on this, says the helmer about South Korean exhibitors demanding Teen film is a film genre targeted at teenagers and young adults in which the plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers and young adults, such

Now comes The American, a European - set film from photographer - turned - director Anton Corbijn (he made Control, about Joy Division's Ian Curtis), a thriller based on a 1990 Martin Booth novel that promises some high - toned excitement, and a chance to see the dark side of George Clooney - that is, the side that isn't being a handsome scamp or earnest humanitarian.

Further pressing the internationality of this story, the original book this film is based on, Ismail Kadaré's Broken April, is set in Albania, though little else has been changed in the adaptation.

Based on the autobiographical novel by Jan Guillou and set in the mid-1950s, the film relates the experiences of a troubled young man who's enrolled into a hidebound private school.

His next project (which, though it doesn't begin filming until next month, is currently slotted for an end - of - year release) is a New York - set period dramedy based on the stranger - than - fiction, real - life FBI sting operation (ABSCAM) that brought down numerous crime figures and corrupt government officials in 1980.

I scurried out to buy a copy of the book based on my experience of the film, and found it refreshingly unique; Garland says he read the source material but once and then set it aside and basically filmed his memory of the experience of reading it.

Beast is loosely based on an actual series of murders that occurred in the Channel Islands, where the movie is set, and where Beast was actually filmed.

According to publicity, the 1955 TV series based on The Count of Monte Cristo was filmed on the standing sets from the 1934 film.

Yet, despite the good acting, the middle section of the film, set at the Capitol, is attenuated and rhythmless — the filmmakers seem to be touching all the bases so that the trilogy's readers won't miss anything.

Director Jon Amiel's 2009 film Creation is set during the period when Darwin was conducting the research that would later form the basis of his monumental work and forever change how the human species viewed itself in relation to the rest of the natural world.

Based on part one of the Chaos Walking series, The Knife of Never Letting Go, Liman's film is set in a future where all men have «the noise,» allowing them to hear each other's thoughts.

Based on Veronica Roth's trilogy of best - selling novels, the «Divergent» films are set in a walled, post-apocalyptic Chicago, where survivors are ritualistically sorted into five factions.

Most of the novel based films are is set in North Carolina, often in a picturesque small town that happens to be the perfect setting to sprinkle with romance.

Angelina Jolie directs this Cambodia - set feature film based on Loung Ung's memoir, «First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers.»

Based on a series of novels by Philip Reeves, the film is being written by Jackson and his long - time writing partners, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, with Lord Of The Rings visuals vet Christian Rivers set to direcof novels by Philip Reeves, the film is being written by Jackson and his long - time writing partners, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, with Lord Of The Rings visuals vet Christian Rivers set to direcOf The Rings visuals vet Christian Rivers set to direct.

In comparison to recent films based on the life and work of the Beats, like Howl and On the Road, Kill Your Darlings is presented less abstractedly, with Krokidas choosing a highly stylized aesthetic while employing the bold juxtaposition of the period setting and a contemporary soundtrack featuring the likes of TV on the Radio.

Lee's latest film went to the festival with distribution already in place — in April, Focus Features set the fact - based feature for an August 10 theatrical release date, picked to reflect the one - year anniversary of the Charlottesville protests, which took place on August 12, 2017.

The Writers Guild of America's nominations for 2014 films have given us a largely predictable set of choices, based on the previously reported ineligibility of major contenders like Selma, The Theory of Everything and Mr. Turner.

As you play through the Play Set, we visit lots of locations that are from the film like Jakku, Takodona, the Star Killer base.

The 50th anniversary of the assassination of former United States President John F. Kennedy is next year and a film is set to be released based on the experiences of two Secret Service... Continue reading →

More than anything else, in fact, the look and episodic composition of the film reminded me of Wojciech Has's The Saragossa Manuscript, a Polish film based on a Polish writer's French - language novel set in Spain (that's no doubt as European as it gets).

Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and his team of set designers have taken great care in recreating the Norwegian base camp and following the frightful events just as they had been described in the previous film.

Based on the novel by James Ellroy, the new film is reminiscent of Chinatown, both in terms of its setting and its theme of the pervasiveness of corruption.

The excitable adverbs in the film's opening text set the desperate, straining tone: «Based on irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly,» the latter the skater's ex-husband, who would serve jail time for his plotting of the Kerrigan leg - clubbing.

The film mightn't have set the box office aflame like many predicted it would (based on those early word - of - mouth screenings that the...

Directed by Sean Ellis, the film is set in World War II and based on the true events of «Operation Anthropoid», a mission where Czech operatives were to assassinate SS officer Reinhard Heydrich.

The 30 - year - old actor is set to helm the forthcoming film, based on the David Barclay Moore novel of the same name, after Endeavor Content acquired the big screen rights to the project - and he can't wait to get started behind the camera.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 10, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Dragonball Evolution (PG for intense action and brief adult language) Sci - fi martial arts adventure, based on the Akira Toriyama novel about a young warrior (Justin Chatwin) who, with a handful of friends, sets out on a quest to save the planet from an evil king (James Marsters) bent on world domination.

In this historically - based film, the setting is the Château of the Prince de Condé, the date is April 1671.

Set in the world of high - stakes poker, the film is based on the memoir by Molly Bloom that Sorkin adapted himself.

The film feels very much like a low - budget version of another big screen Star Wars - tinged film based on existing franchises, Flash Gordon, with its cheesy sets and costumes, and juvenile presentation.

Based on a novel by José Saramago, it's set in one of the most blandly unthreatening cities on the planet, Toronto, which in this film becomes an angry and malign metropolis.

The film is the feature - length debut of writer - director Jonathan van Tulleken, based on his BAFTA - nominated short, and is set in the harsh, frozen Canadian tundra.

For the supplemental materials, there's an excerpt from the documentary Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema; Blow - Up of «Blow - Up», a new documentary about the film; two interviews with David Hemmings, one on the set of Only When I Larf from 1968, and the other on the TV show City Lights from 1977; 50 Years of Blow - Up: Vanessa Redgrave / Philippe Garner, a 2016 SHOWstudio interview; an interview with actress Jane Birkin from 1989; Antonioni's Hypnotic Vision, featuring two separate pieces about the film: Modernism and Photography; both the teaser and theatrical trailers for the film; and a 68 - page insert booklet containing an essay on the film by David Forgacs, an updated 1966 account of the film's shooting by Stig Björkman, a set of questionnaires that the director distributed to photographers and painters while developing the film, the 1959 Julio Cortázar short story on which the film is loosely based, and restoration details.

The film is based on a true story, and the tone of the movie is set right away as we watch footage from a cell phone camera of the policy brutality against the real life Grant and his friends by the Bay Area Rapid Transit officers.

Some of the other extras are more production - based, like the location featurette «James Bond in the Bahamas,» an in - depth featurette on filming the sinking palazzo sequence («Death in Venice»), and storyboards for two of the film's big set pieces.

As the film opens up with the title card, «Based on a True Story,» Coogler sets an expectation of honest storytelling that we are intended to not to ring false.

Setting the film at the end of the 20th century may seem kind of arbitrary, since the novel it's based on was published in 1992.

It's pretty safe to say that if you belong to the first set, you're far more likely to enjoy the film than the second, as this is definitely a film aiming more for Eddie's fan base, not particularly concerned with its story or plot elements when they get in the way of allowing Eddie to do his thing in front of the camera.

The questions of racism, of vengeance and of actions you condemn and condone are uncomfortable to consider but doing so reminds you that whilst this is a film, it's also partly based on reality and very much located in the mind - set and the lives of a large percentage of Americans living today.

Ahead of this week's Licenscing Expo, a promotional poster has arrived online for Angry Birds, the upcoming animated feature film based upon Rovio's hugely - popular mobile video game series... The Angry Birds movie is set for release on May 13th 2016 in the UK and May 20th 2016 in the States, with a voice cast that -LSB-...]