Sentences with phrase «effects films led»

To no one's surprise, two blockbuster visual effects films led the way at today Visual Effects Society (VES) nominations.

Not exact matches

Authors of the study hope future studies will investigate the effects of other documentary films and see why some films lead to large - scale mobilizations and others do not.

However, although the ultrathin films and rubber sheets used in these devices adhere and conform well to the skin, their lack of breathability is deemed unsafe for long - term use: dermatological tests show the fine, stretchable materials prevent sweating and block airflow around the skin, causing irritation and inflammation, which ultimately could lead to lasting physiological and psychological effects.

The 1968 Rachel, Rachel was the outcome of Woodward's exile; she and Newman admitted it was carefully designed as a vehicle to resuscitate her career, and the ploy worked brilliantly — he directed, she starred, and together they led the film to four Oscar nominations, including Best Actress and Best Picture.The following year Woodward and Newman reunited onscreen for the auto - racing drama Winning, and again starred together in 1970s politically charged W.U.S.A., a reflection of the couple's high - profile support of liberal causes; when 1971's They Might Be Giants proved unsuccessful, Newman directed Woodward to Best Actress honors at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man - in - the - Moon Marigolds.

Oscar ® - winning visual effects studio Weta Digital is again handling the visual effects for the film, led by senior visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri.

I'll first note that the film is just plain bad, with an amateur cast (led by Taylor James), cut - rate special effects, who - cares storylines, and confusing details shoehorned in from the Bible.

The idea of a «natural» sound stage is almost at odds with a film in the Star Wars series, but the sound mix team here (led by the incomparable Gary Rydstrom) have created an electrically vibrant, totally involving mix that makes full use of the entire sound stage, with effects happily flying around the room in complete sympathy with what's happening on screen.

What the film does have going for it is a ghostly atmosphere that leads to a few surprising developments, including some color effects and a charmingly off - the - wall musical number.

Shane Black is currently in post on the fourth Predator film titled The Predator, and the lead on the visual effects team is an interesting pick.

With three different audio commentaries leading the pack, the disc also includes a backseat interview with stars John Cho and Kal Penn, a sound effects featurette entitled «The Art of the Fart,» eight short interviews with supporting cast members, a short featurette on the making of the CG - based Land of Burgers, eight deleted scenes and the film's theatrical trailer.

The Appendices — The Appendices Parts IX and X showcase an immersive multi-part history of the filming of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, covering pre-production in the various departments of the film in the months leading up to the start of principal photography, training, the work done on set and in the world of its digital effects.

Sichel's choice to make a film about her illness, of course, not only has the opposite effect of firmly directing her attention to her own mortality, but it also forces her to engage with technology and stress, two leading triggers of sickness today.

As a supervillain, Thanos solves a problem even Marvel Studios, the Kevin Feige - led movie studio owned by Disney (aka, the «Devourer of [Media] Worlds»), has fitfully overcome over the course of 10 years, 18 films, and 30,000 visual effects (someone actually counted).

Serkis's performance as lead ape Caesar has been widely praised since the first film in this reboot debuted in 2011, but the effects team — among them Joe Letteri, a three - time winner for Rings — has lost out to Hugo and Interstellar.

The casting realm has two shining stars this week, Liv Tyler who snagged the lead in Ti West's The Side Effect and Diane Kruger who's set to join the latest Stephenie Meyer book - to - film adaptation, The Host.

Not un-clever by any grammar school criteria, it's lamentably shallow as the basis for a feature goes, leading to a film that's basically every single teen formula in the history of teens (homecoming dance date intrigue, parties while the folks are away, old friends abandoned for cooler friends then reconciled, and so on) punctuated with horrible special effects and superhero puns.

The film launched a new wave of Hong Kong filmmaking and you can feel its influence in everything from Bruce Lee's martial arts thrillers of the 1970s to Jackie Chan's Drunken Master films to the Tsui Hark - led new wave of high energy, special effects laden adventures in 1980s Hong Kong, and of course, the Oscar winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee's tribute the magical, colorful genre that King Hu reinvented with this film.

As impressive as Edwards» low - budget effects are in «Monsters,» it's their performances that make the film so effective — Able was sympathetic, steely and vulnerable, while McNairy brought an unusual energy and a certain cynicism to his role, so it's no surprise that it has led to great things for the duo.

The Appendices — A multi-part chronological history of the filming of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, covering pre-production in the various departments of the film in the months leading up to the start of principal photography, the boot camp training for the main cast, the work done on set chronologically through the three shooting blocks and in the world of its digital effects.

Spider is being shown with a lot of the prints in release here, including the one I saw, and it's pretty enjoyable — a one - bad - thing - leads - to - another domino effect film with a morbid sense of humor.

The series that brought us Courtney Hoffman's The Good Time Girls (which led to her getting her feature debut over at Amblin) and Gabourey Sidibe's The Story of Four, a fiercely feminine and nuanced look at the effects of racism in America, now brings us a film by Kristen Stewart.

The overall effect is somewhat unsettling, which works as a lead in to the two final movies — the sense of destabilization and vulnerability is palpable — but by the same token, doesn't allow for a massive build to propel the audience into the ultimate showdown between good and evil that awaits in the final film (split into two installments currently being filmed).

Weta Digital take on the visual effects for both films, led by the film «Äôs visual effects supervisor, Joe Letteri.

Aware of this conundrum, the screenplay uses the scenario for two key decisions on the part of its leads: Kirk decides to break the central rule of Starfleet to save a member of his crew, and while surrounded by lava and waiting for the timer on the device to hit zero (The film uses a ticking clock a few times and to surprisingly successful effect), Spock kneels, outstretches his arms, and calmly accepts his fate.

If one could allow the bright colours and intriguing movements to stimulate one's retinas without requiring any higher brain involvement, Avatar would be an extremely enjoyable film that would lead its genre in terms of effects and integration of real - life performance with animation.

The disc's primary making - of is «The Alien Agenda: A Filmmaker's Log» (34:19, HD), which includes a wealth of behind - the - scenes footage and interviews with Sharlto Copley, Blomkamp, producer Peter Jackson, co-writer Terri Tatchell, Jason Cope, director of photography Trent Opaloch, Vanessa Haywood, Mandla Gaduka, David James, special effects supervisor Max Poolman, lead set decorator Guy Potgieter, art director Mike Berg, art director Emelia Weavind, production designer Philip Ivey, sound design & alien vocals Dave Whitehead, supervising sound editor Brent Burge, and film editor Julian Clarke.

«The lush setting avoids the stifling grey look of so many other sci - fi films and the commendably - restrained special effects are as outstanding as the three fast - rising lead actors,» wrote Graham Young of the Birmingham Mail.

Would have been a much better film if there wasnt that dodgy russian accents and John Cusack as the lead alright special effects lets hope the real 2012 isnt like this

With its combination of startlingly effective visual effects, a trippy screenplay that served both as a enormously effective genre narrative a mind - bending meditation of what it means to be human and strong performances from the three leads, the film was celebrated as one of the best of the year and it even went on to become a modest commercial success as well.

It features comments from Blomkamp, producer Peter Jackson, co-writer Terri Tatchell, director of photography Trent Opalach, special effects supervisor Max Poolman, lead set decorator Gary Potgieter, art directors Emelia Weavind and Mike Berg, production designer Philip Ivey, sound designer Dave Whitehead, supervising sound editor Brent Burge, film editor Julian Clarke, and actors Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Vanessa Haywood, Mandla Gaduka, and David James.

In the film Bridges appears as a digitally rendered version of his younger self; captured by VFX company Digital Domain and leading special effects supervisor Eric Barba, who previously took Brad Pitt through the seasons in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Woodley's quite good in this too, but the film doesn't ask as much of her as I would like; she mostly becomes a case study for Sutter's effect on people that are close to him, as she is both charmed by his charisma but led into a habit of regular drinking.

Sadly, the only things this film really has in common with the original are similar creature effects and the return of the least memorable supporting character, now in the lead role.

Though digital effects artists are behind most of the robots in the film, actor Tudyk created about 80 percent of lead character Sonny's performance by donning a motion capture suit on set.

A letter written by Hanks» character in the Luisa Rey segment, a bit of dogma spat out by Sonmi - 451, Frobisher's endless letters, they all serve as a device to tell us that we're supposed to be watching a film about how the friendship between Ewing and the stowaway slave has a ripple effect that could lead to the salvation of man 500 years later.

71 - year - old West, a former movie stuntman and Elvis bodyguard, distils a lifetime of experience into his first lead role, to silently heartbreaking effect; novice Savane struggles occasionally to riff off an evidently bare - bones script, but it his guileless charisma that colours the whole film.

Meanwhile, Todd McCarthy of the Hollywood Reporter wrote of the film, «Intense emotional currents and the jagged feelings of volatile actors are turned loose to raucous dramatic and darkly comedic effect in one of the most sustained examples of visually fluid tour de force cinema anyone's ever seen... An exemplary cast, led by Michael Keaton... fully meets the considerable demands placed upon it by director Alejandro G. Inarritu... The film's exhilarating originality, black comedy and tone that is at once empathetic and acidic will surely strike a strong chord with audiences looking for something fresh.»

Among the topics tackled are the creative processes of Koepp and Gervais, leading characters, the minimal use of visual effects, filming in New York, and belief in ghosts.

While most of those movies relied on high - octane effects and a multitude of characters led by one or two big name stars, San Andreas amps up the levels of CGI action, though chooses to focus most of its attention on just the one troubled family, led by man - mountain Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson in perhaps his biggest, and indeed most important film role to date.

Rounding out the single - disc effort is a making - of featurette («The Blueprint of Murder»), a cast / crew discussion about the film's lead characters («The Personnel Files»), and a short special effects featurette («The Anatomy of Murder»).

You had taken substantial roles in films before Full Metal Jacket, but taking the lead role in a Kubrick film must have had an effect on your career.

Filmed over the span of a dozen years, as its lead actor aged from 6 to 18 and his co-stars went through similar 12 - year odysseys, writer - director Richard Linklater's «Boyhood» is ambitious, engaging fiction that aims to convey time's mysterious effects on character.

They have to think about the plot of their book when they write about their movie's film location, special effects, stunts, props, costumes, lead actor or actress, and the supporting cast.

Her silent films have a strong synesthetic effect, in that she causes the viewers to taste or smell the «ingredients» that led to her particular visual expression.

Over the next decade Longo became known as a leading protagonist of the «Pictures Generation,» working across drawing, photography, painting, sculpture, performance, and film to make provocative critiques of the anaesthetizing and seductive effects of capitalism, mediatized wars, and the cult of history in the US.

The scenario painted in the film «The Day After Tomorrow» seems extremely unlikely, even to most climate change advocates, but one could easily make a far more convincing version, based not on the effects of climate change, but the efforts of some crackpot to «save the world» from same by implementing some well meaning scheme that could all too easily lead to a disaster far more immediate and possibly far more destructive than anything a few degrees of temperature rise could produce.