The low -
budget indie picture reprised, in many ways, characters Stanton had inhabited, as he plays a prickly loner in a small desert town.
Not exact matches
1080p, AVC - encoded transfer for The Disaster Artist shows off all the polish you'd expect from a modern studio
picture, even one with roots in low -
budget indie filmmaking (represented by the windowboxed «footage» from the fictionalized filming of The Room.)
Last year's best
picture winner, «Moonlight,» was a low -
budget indie, for instance, and this year's crop of best
picture nominees were primarily art house productions.
This makes for a stellar lineup of headliners of Best
Picture contenders in Chalamet and Kaluuya,
indie darlings with Pugh and O'Connor, and the big
budget superhero badassery of Thompson.
The
picture might end up being the
indie success story of 2014 bar the higher -
budgeted «The Grand Budapest Hotel.»
Basically, it is good news that Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel have performed so strongly: excellent films in that «
indie - literate» middle ground that many in the industry have been worrying had been neglected in the general rush to big -
budget, big - box - office superhero
pictures.
After spending a decade - plus making big -
budget studio
pictures, Jon Favreau returns to his
indie roots, making his warmest, funniest, most personal
picture since «Swingers.»
Rupert Wyatt
Indie Work: Wyatt had only short films behind him (most notably 2004's «Get The
Picture») when he made his first film in 2008, the low -
budget prison thriller «The Escapist,» which starred Brian Cox, who'd also appeared in the short, alongside Joseph Fiennes, Seu Jorge, Liam Cunningham, Dominic Cooper and Damian Lewis.
This is a truly
indie film, which Grayfinanced with his own money, holding the
budget down to $ 600,000, a startling accomplishment for a feature length
picture with name brand actors.