Sentences with phrase «challenging film works»

Nonetheless, The Decalogue is meant to be taken as a whole, and in its complete form, it not only ranks as one of the most ambitious and challenging film works ever attempted, but one of the most rewarding and unforgettable.

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To see if entertainment could offer a solution to this challenge, Ingber teamed up with Charles Reilly, Ph.D., a molecular biophysicist, professional animator, and Staff Scientist at the Wyss Institute who previously worked at movie director Peter Jackson's Park Road Post film studio, to create a film that would capture viewers» imaginations by telling the story of a biological process that was accurate down to the atomic level.

But the meat of the film is an intimate look at the thrills and challenges of May's final servicing mission, shown from the perspective of the astronauts who did the harrowing hands - on work.

Even though he has more than a dozen films to his credit, including work on the 2003 film version of The Hulk that garnered him nominations for two awards from the Visual Effects Society, Benza says it was a challenge to create highly athletic performances from bulky, animated characters that appeared to be the size of small buildings and weigh several tons.

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The Bottom Line Though the challenge of adapting the classic work of Dr. Seuss to film has tripped up moviemakers before, the efforts of Blue Sky Studio have managed to maintain a level of faithfulness to the material, in look, tone and story.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest film, a thriller as challenging as Antonioni's Blow - Up, is his finest work to date, writes Philip French

The film's challenging, somewhat flawed second half transforms Charley from working - class kid with a father, a semi-stable life and some pocket money to a young man, on the edge of the abyss.

Equally, if everything fails to work, the film is a slog that perpetually challenges the viewer to engage while offering little reason to do so.

The hard - working actress has made a career of choosing diverse and challenging projects both in film and television, starting with her acting debut in the movie JOE, which she soon followed with the 1975 cult classic THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

At the film's press day, Collider spoke to actress Katee Sackhoff (who plays the mother of the siblings in flashbacks) for this exclusive interview about what attracted her to Oculus, being a fan of director Mike Flanagan's work, how she approached this character, her concerns about having to be intensely physical with the younger actors, and the technical challenges of the show.

«Room» was very much that film, and a film that had enormous directorial challenges, including working with a young (albeit exceptional) child actor in Jacob Tremblay, having to spend a big chunk of the film in a terribly confined space, and creating and maintaining an involving tone with very difficult material.

and «Becoming Barbossa» (5 minutes) are interviews with Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush in which they discuss their thoughts on their roles and the film; «The Monkey's Name Is Jack» (4 minutes) introduces us to the capuchin monkey who played Jack, as well as her trainer, who explains some of the challenges involved in working with a monkey actor.

So, one of the broad challenges of this film was creating a really quiet environment where the logic has to work and every sound that you hear can't be too much because it's life or death for the characters.»

Was this perfection that is seen in the final product more challenging than in past productions you have worked on, given that this film was coming to Blu - ray?

It isn't perfect, but when it works, it's brilliant, and a definite recommendation for viewers looking for something a little more challenging than your typical adventure film.

«Working with Water» (10:58) explores the challenges of filming scenes on boats and underwater with some tangential reflections.

Like Frances Ha, The Squid And The Whale, and many of Baumbauch's other works, the film takes a sharp look at adulthood and the challenges that come with maturity.

The film challenges most presumptions, with an ethnic array of individuals as well as a couple of doting father figures, aging body builders who gently and affirmatively help train younger charges (as well as one's working as some kind of new agey therapist for the bodily laity).

Chalamet's work in Call Me by Your Name, a film I think is a more potent Best Picture contender than Darkest Hour, may well challenge the conventional wisdom.

You can see Gyllenhaal make a career U-turn after «Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,» working with young directors on independent projects or challenging studio films - «Source Code,» «Enemy,» «Prisoners,» and David Ayer's «End of Watch.»

The film would organically grow into an often beautiful and responsive work, challenging and tender, that would stand as a attestation to his trust and choice in cast and creative collaborators.

Some sound editors and mixers refuse to believe they work within a set of rules; in fact, some call themselves sound anarchists, believing that every film presents its own set of challenges and creative options.

The cinematographer had challenges even in finding a support crew who knew how to work with film, as digital has become, for many, the only way to shoot a film.

At the recent press day, Core, Ramirez, Bracey, wingsuit stunt pilot Jeb Corliss, professional free climber Chris Sharma, Alcon producers Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson, and 2nd unit director Philip Boston talked about how they went about creating the ultimate sports movie, how the actors viewed their characters and built the bro - mance, the challenges of coordinating a production that shot around the world in 11 countries and on 4 continents, why all the 2nd unit work was shot prior to the first unit work, why vision and authenticity were paramount, why the imagination, energy and focus required to shoot a film in camera is much greater than when visual effects are used everywhere, and why it took courage to make this film.

In critical assessments of a performance, the lengths to which an actor physically challenges himself can often be the sole takeaway from a film; however, Leonardo DiCaprio's work in The Revenant goes beyond simply suffering for one's art.

At the film's Los Angeles press day, Woodley talked about how Jennifer Lawrence encouraged her to take the role, what she shares in common with her character and how they differ, what inspired her to take a course in urban survival skills, what the experience was like doing many of her own stunts, her most memorable sweaty palm moments, zip - lining over the streets of Chicago and climbing the Navy Pier Ferris Wheel, her challenging fight sequence finale with Theo James, working again with Miles Teller, and what she learned about herself in the process of making her first large scale studio movie.

Gosling is one of the very best actors working today, and constantly picks unique and challenging roles in mostly superb films.

At a recent roundtable interview, Anderson and production designer Adam Stockhausen talked about how the project first came together, what inspired the story, the influence of Viennese writer Stefan Zweig's work on the multi-layered storytelling approach, their collaboration on the vision for the movie, how they created this rich, lush cinematic world and brought the audience into it, how Anderson cultivated a communal atmosphere on set and made available a large selection of books and films to the cast during production, Stockhausen's favorite day of shooting, and the challenge of using different aspect ratios.

His magnificent film is both a work of technical brilliance and artful intelligence that challenges our knowledge of both cinematic conventions and the histrionic lives of Russia's yesteryear.

As well as working on big budget Hollywood Movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Naomie Harris (Jane) continues to choose challenging and exciting roles in smaller and more diverse films such as THE FIRST GRADER.

When Australian cinematographer John Seale got word of the Sisyphean development of Mad Max: Fury Road in its early stages, he was just glad that it wasn't his cross to bear, not realizing that he would soon find himself working on one of the most infamously challenging productions in recent film history.

Let the Games Begin: A Look at The Ringer (7 minutes) isnt your typical featurette, as it focuses solely on the challenge of making the film and the work which went into making it a positive experience.

Sean Baker, the award - winning director and co-writer of the great new movie, «The Florida Project,» joins Justin in studio to discuss the film, what drew him to tell this story, the juxtaposition of the hidden homeless living right outside of the most magical place on Earth, the importance of getting the details exactly right, how the movie was inspired by «The Little Rascals,» wanting to show how children make the most out of any situation no matter how dire, how desperation plays a big role in the film, the wonderful performance from Willem Dafoe, the relationship between Willem and the child actors, the challenge of working with child actors, the way Florida is portrayed in the film and what he plans to do next.

He talked about how Thor: Ragnarok is a Taika Waititi movie set in the Marvel universe, how excited he was to work with Cate Blanchett, how his armor and look in the film were designed by WETA (the same people that did Lord of the Rings), the challenges of filming the ending action set piece during additional photography, and a lot more.

While celebrating the premiere of their very first feature film at the Tribeca Film Festival, Meyer and Matheny sat down to talk about the challenges of transitioning from short films, the honor and pressure of working with Sir Ben Kingsley, the infectious high spirits of their young cast, and more.

They reflect on their film, from conception to reception, touching upon such topics as the intense opening scene, their research trips from scuba diving to a sewage treatment plant (the latter, for a cut sequence), working with Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks, the animation challenges, this being seen as the less desirable project to the concurrently advancing The Incredibles, and the film's enduring legacy.

Margot Robbie provides equally great work in the lead, and the film does a whole lot to challenge the conventional structure of a biopic.

We learn about the additions made for the extended edition of the film as well as working with the cast, changes from the Tolkien book, effects, location and set challenges, plus many other areas.

That challenges his manhood, but luckily, I hit puberty just before we started filming so it all worked out.»

Cinematographer Mauro Fiore «Äôs work on this intergalactic romance is stunning, especially when you consider the film «Äôs central challenge: depicting an imaginary, digitally crafted world with a tenacious sense of realism.

The most important thing is whether the film works as a finished product, despite the challenges the production team faced.

Perhaps working in English for the first time is a challenge, but it isn't the language that fails the film.

by Bill Chambers The Lucio Fulci apologists like to say that gore and general impropriety are the raisons d'être of his work, not storytelling, but there's a built - in fallacy to that implicitly macho challenge: It presumes that his films are light on narrative when in fact it's narrative drive that they lack.

Allen and Albert Hughes, directors of «The Book of Eli,» talked with CBR news about how they work together, the challenges of making a film like «Eli,» working with stars Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman and more.

Director and writer Cary Fukunaga and newcomer Abraham Attah talk «Beasts of No Nation», the challenges of filming in Ghana, and working with Idris Elba Beasts of No Nation can be...

After directing three huge stars in your previous three films, what were the challenges you faced working with the four leads in Deliverance?

At the film's recent press day, Speedman spoke about his creative collaboration with Egoyan with whom he worked previously on Adoration, how Egoyan wrote the role specifically with him in mind, why he was drawn to the complicated character and enjoyed the challenge of an enigmatic story, the backstory he created for his character, his research with the Kitchener - Waterloo detectives, working with Reynolds and Dawson, how they had fun while doing serious work on a dark movie, and his upcoming films: October Gale, a romantic thriller with Patricia Clarkson, and Out of the Dark, a horror - thriller with Julia Stiles.

But really, there are so many working pieces to complete the pixie dust filled puzzle, and every film has their own unique challenge.

She said filming scenes while each actor was wearing a working «web cam» camera that was recording the actual first person POV footage used throughout the movie presented all kinds of extra challenges while trying give a believable performance.