Sentences with phrase «feature film form»

Even in feature film form, Peanuts stays pretty down to Earth and relaxed.

Not exact matches

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.
Soon, Green's Bible blitz idea took on a different shape — in the form of a feature film about those 1956 events: «Instead of doing a 30 - second commercial,» says Green, «we ended up doing a two - hour movie about the power of God's Word.»
Helmed by Chapman Way and MacLain Way and featuring multiple appearances by their uncle and former Maverick himself Kurt Russell, the docu launched in the Documentary Premiere section of this year's Sundance Film Festival on January 20... In play right now with several buyers at Sundance, according to sources close to the film, Battered Bastards chronicles how in 1973 Bonanza actor Bing Russell formed what at the time was America's sole independent baseball team.
This effortless liquid eyeliner features a unique combination of two film - forming polymers that make every look last.
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James» physical presence and dedication to a truthful performance has given him the pleasure of appearing in over 50 feature films, in numerous television projects (both episodic and long form), and on the New York stage.
This relationship forms the core of Michael Pearce's clammily compelling debut feature, which paints a very different picture of Channel Island life to that other film set on Guernsey involving books and potato peel pies.
Here's hoping that Flushed Away won't be the last gurgle from Aardman in feature - film form.
Michael O'Sullivan has covered the arts for The Washington Post since 1993, contributing reviews and features on film, fine art, theater and other forms of entertainment to Style and Weekend.
Unfortunately, they don't return to the form of their first feature (American Splendor 90), instead producing something closer to their last film (The Extra Man 56).
In this modern era, the Coen Brothers are often credited as the life support system for classic noir, but the Coens appear to have serious competition in the form of Australian filmmaker and stuntman Nash Edgerton, whose feature debut, The Square, is a brilliantly twisty, gritty contemporary film noir.
The tune works wonders in the film's trailer, and then in the full feature it takes on an entirely new form, the song being shot in one single close - up on Hathaway, making the moment incredibly raw and heart wrenching.
Infernal Affairs, a 2002 gangster film from the directing team of Andrew Lau (aka Lau Wai - keung) and Alan Mak, was less a return to form than a new direction: an ingeniously scripted tale of cop and gangsters featuring the top talent of the Hong Kong film industry and directed with a dramatic intensity and gritty realism that had been absent from most recent Hong Kong crime films.
As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.
The nominations covered 31 separate categories of feature film, short - form and television work, as well as individual achievements in character animation, design, effects, music, storyboarding, writing, voice acting and more.
It's just not worthy of a feature film in its current American form.
Boogie Nights (1997), Paul Thomas Anderson's first fully formed film after the frustration and battles of his debut feature Hard Eight (1996), was...
Based on Patrick Jean's spectacular short film Pixels sees aliens invade Earth in the form of classic»80s arcade characters after mistaking a video feed featuring footage of Pac - Man, Donkey Kong and Space Invaders as a declaration of war.
We live in a wondrous world where a film which breaks box office records in Denmark prominently features a chronic masturbator (the inimitable Mads Mikkelsen in his least embraced role in a year in which he's been part of every worthwhile blockbuster tentpole) and a reasonable - sounding description of the logic behind certain forms of bestiality.
A five - minute featurette called «Greetings From Bull Mountain» is the standard five - minute B - roll / soft - sell interview errata that features a few additional male buttock shots; «King of the Mountain» is a two - minute music video that splices action sequences from the film together with bloopers and sets it to music (something resurrected in feature - length form by this year's ESPN's X-movie); and nine chapter - encoded deleted scenes (blissfully sans commentary and running between fifteen seconds and a minute, each) are essentially long «comedy» shticks that prove for as bad as Out Cold was, it could have been even worse.
Finally, The Theory of Everything held up well enough for releasing company Focus Features, bringing in an estimated $ 2.5 million at the box office over the weekend, enough to gain a marginal profit against a $ 15 million budget... and still ahead of the critically acclaimed Wild, the Reese Witherspoon - starring film based on the memoir of Cheryl Strayed, which picked up a few theaters and some revenue in the form of an estimated $ 1.6 million.
Katrina has not featured widely in the film world, especially in feature form.
Plugged as Disney's final traditionally animated feature film (according to imdb.com), the movie symbolizes an end to the studio's original form of drawing that began with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937.
It tries to be some higher form of cinema, but in truth, it just kills the one factor that could have been a redeeming feature of this film.
Hopefully it will find an audience on DVD and, appropriately, online, because Blackhat is a sublime merging of form and content, a film about the experience of living in our interconnected world on a psychological, political and philosophical level that conveys this experience beautifully through its narrative, stylistic and generic features.
These films are interesting, though, in that they feature almost no battle sequences and instead focus on the relationships that male groups form amid the surrounding danger or in war's aftermath.
Robert Eggers» The Witch is indeed a directorial debut featuring a cast of little knowns, but isn't in any way, shape, or form a film that I'm having an easy time waiting for.
Boogie Nights (1997), Paul Thomas Anderson's first fully formed film after the frustration and battles of his debut feature Hard Eight (1996), was conceived when he was 17 years old.
«Independent artists are embracing diverse forms of storytelling — from feature film to New Frontier to episodic content.
The Natalie Portman - starring western Jane Got a Gun (a by - now infamously troubled production), finally set to premier at the end of January, features Portman as one of two or three women in the entire film; contrast that with indie drama About Ray and the hotly contested remake of the Ivan Reitman classic Ghost Busters, a production attempting to further distinguish itself by pushing the words together to form Ghostbusters — how crafty.
Plans for a Black Widow movie actually predate Marvel Studios in its current form: Lionsgate previously held the film rights to the character, and in 2004 announced development of a feature to be written and directed by David Hayter («X-Men,» «Watchmen»).
All three discs feature both English language and original Japanese soundtracks (with optional English subtitles), the complete film in storyboard form set to the soundtrack, and Japanese trailer, plus a bonus DVD copy of the film.
As discussed above, the second disc of this limited set, the DVD, contains only the feature film itself, both in the traditional sense and in digital copy form.
The film opens with affluent, attractive married couple Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Jim Green (Joel Edgerton) at an adoption agency, where they wish to explain their qualifications not on an application form but in a feature - length story.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: ANIMATION «Kubo and the Two Strings» — Laika's most daring, innovative film yet «My Life as a Zucchini» — About little kids but not for little kids; a bold, 70 - minute feature from Switzerland «Sing» — Delightful and triumphant, with terrific voice performances and song renditions «Trolls» — I can't stop the positive feelings I've had about this DreamWorks musical since I saw it 3 months ago «Zootopia» — Disney's live - action crime drama / social commentary disguised in animated form has one of the year's best screenplays
Funny Games (1997), his fourth feature, couches those themes in the form of a horror film, but one in which he challenges expectations by twisting the conventions back in on themselves.
The only extras Pom Poko has to boast are direct ports from the Japanese release - a section of trailers and tv spots, plus the whole film in storyboard form, which is the only feature present on Disc 2.
Not only does it boast a pair of talented leading men in Tom Hardy and Shia LeBeouf, but the film also features the likes of Guy Pearce (who shaved off his eyebrows for the role), Gary Oldman (back in villainous form), the prolific Jessica Chastain, and the underrated Jason Clarke.
As with yesterday's post, here again we have a short - form work that was eventually expanded on and turned into a feature - length film by the director of the original.
Formed in 2010, Crime Scene Pictures is backed by private equity from ArtPhyl and finances / produces 2 - 3 feature films per year.
«Big Hero 6 The Series,» based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios» Academy Award ® - winning feature film, continues the adventures and friendship of 14 - year - old tech genius Hiro, his compassionate, cutting - edge robot Baymax and their friends Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Go Go and Fred as they form the legendary superhero team Big Hero 6 and embark on high - tech adventures as they protect their city from an array of scientifically enhanced villains.
With his latest feature, A Field in England, film form comes to the fore.
After working in film criticism and commencing his filmography in the docu form, Massoud Bakhshi saw his feature debut land a spot at the Cannes Film Festival's Directors» Fortnight with 2012's A Respectable Family.
In a nice move, the spine features a portion of the Pixie Hollow tree that aligns with the covers of the first two, presumably forming the entire image once all five films are placed together.
The submission deadline for films hoping to compete in the Oscar race for Best Animated Feature is Nov. 1, meaning entry forms and supporting material must reach the Academy today, THR reports.
I am sure I am not alone in that I spend far more time watching abstract films and short experimental videos than I do watching feature films; in part because I make experimental films, and in part because, to my mind, the most risk - taking visual artists don't necessarily work in feature films; but instead work in video art and experimental filmmaking and newly emerging filmic art forms, such as gifs.
Priest - Perhaps post-apocalyptic vampire - killing priests made sense in graphic novel form, but it's pretty wretched as a feature film.
Whether it is a feature film, documentary or other form of media, Sam wishes to tell compelling, entertaining stories that also create awareness of the real issues that shape our lives.
The story of a little six year old girl who lives at a run - down motel with her on - the - brink mother in the shadow of Disney World in Orlando, Florida, The Florida Project features one of the most incredible child performances I've ever seen from Brooklynn Prince, as well as a fantastic debut role from non-actress Bria Vinaite as the mother / daughter pair that form the film's heart.
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