Sentences with phrase «film drinking buddies»

His previous film Drinking Buddies didn't have much of a narrative drive either, yet its rambly quality and ruminations on love were charming and slyly meaningful.

Not exact matches

«The Hangover» isn't in the same league by a long shot, but it is an amiably warped romp that suggests what you might have wound up with had Hunter Thompson been hired to do the script for a Hollywood buddy film: drugs, heavy drinking, a road trip, Las Vegas — it's even got its share of fear and loathing.

Since the 2013 film «Drinking Buddies,» Swanberg has been working with Hollywood actors — indeed, with stars — and his new feature, «Digging for Fire,» made on a likely scant budget, has a cast that any director could envy.

Since the 2013 film «Drinking Buddies,» Swanberg has been working with Hollywood actors — indeed, with stars — and his new feature, «Digging for Fire,» made on a likely scant budget, has a cast that any director could envy, including Jake Johnson (who co-wrote the film with Swanberg), Rosemary DeWitt, Brie Larson, Anna Kendrick, Orlando Bloom, Mike Birbiglia, Judith Light, Sam Elliott, Jane Adams, Ron Livingston, Melanie Lynskey, and Jenny Slate.

I feel that Drinking Buddies is that film.

In the upcoming episode, guest Joe Swanberg reveals that Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice is his favourite film of all time, and talks about the influence it had on Swanberg's biggest hit, 2013's Drinking Buddies.

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Considering Drinking Buddies had roughly ten times the amount of budget that director Joe Swanberg had for previous films, many thought this to be his crossover into the Hollywood system.

Swanberg had met with Lynskey for a part in «Drinking Buddies,» his previous film, that didn't end up working out.

Drinking Buddies is somewhat of a crossover from micro-indie films into a larger budget film for Joe Swanberg; it contains a well - known cast (Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick) and much higher production values (having a dedicated director of photography, etc.) than his previous 14 films.

«Happy Christmas» also features Mark Webber and — naturally — Lena Dunham, filling out a cast of rather famous faces, much more in line with «Drinking Buddies» than the director's earlier, lower - profile films.

The Duplass brothers proved it is possible to make a big budget film still feel small and intimate a few years back with Cyrus, Swanberg solidifies the transition can be achieved with Drinking Buddies.

Shot on grainy 16 mm film («Drinking Buddies» was shot digitally), the look of the film (lensed by Ben Richardson of «Beast of the Southern Wild» fame) is definitely a step backwards, and it appears as if the filmmakers only used available light, which doesn't make for the most flattering photography.

In Wind Across the Everglades, the next film he directed, in 1958, an Audubon Society game warden (Christopher Plummer) and a renegade bird trapper (Burl Ives) in the swamps of Florida wind up as temporary drinking buddies and fellow celebrators of «protest.»

The film is littered with solid Australian actors and performances from Leah Purcell's small role as Farmer's receptionist to Rex's Broken Hill drinking buddies played by John Howard, Alan Dukes and David Field.

Brooklyn - based distributors Factory 25 have announced that they have acquired the distribution rights to Drinking Buddies director Joe Swanberg's latest film, All the Light in the Sky.

«Joe Swanberg has been evolving steadily as a filmmaker, and with DRINKING BUDDIES, he's delivered his best work yet?a truly funny, smart and insightful film about real adult relationships,?

Van Steemburg joined Magnolia Pictures and Magnet Releasing in 2008, and during his tenure, worked on the negotiation of films such as Joe Swanberg «s «Drinking Buddies,» Lars von Trier «s «Nymphomaniac,» Nicolas Winding Refn «s «Bronson» and others.

Join in the conversation by watching next weeks films: Captain America: The Winter Soldier & Drinking Buddies

Swanberg is an indie idol, but Drinking Buddies is the first of his films to look like a «Sundance movie,» which is to say that a true independent voice is lost to convention.

I had never seen a Joe Swanberg movie until Drinking Buddies, and if the rest of his work hadn't been thoroughly trashed by people I trust, this film would have led me to check out the rest of his filmography.

Uber - prolific (with over a dozen films in seven years — some of them very rough around edges, which could lead some to opine he's too prolific), things really transformed for Swanberg last year with the release of his breakthrough indie comedy «Drinking Buddies.»

Both this year's Happy Christmas and last year's Drinking Buddies are perfect diagrams of how to make this brand of indie film.

Swanberg has been growing his profile of late, collaborating with Anna Kendrick on his last three films — «Drinking Buddies,» «Happy Christmas» and «Digging for Fire,» the latter of which was acquired by The Orchard out of Sundance.

DRINKING BUDDIES helmer Joe Swanberg's next film 24 EXPOSURES has just got a brand new one - sheet poster.

Really hated his film «Drinking Buddies».

Mumblecore was yet another classification that was used far more often as an epithet than as a self - descriptor, but it's still a handy way of categorizing those low - key, deliberately kind of aimless, sometimes indifferently filmed movies of the early Duplass brothers» era, producing filmmakers like Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies; Happy Christmas), Lynn Shelton (Your Sister's Sister), Adam Wingard (You're Next), Andrew Bujalski (Results), and Lena Dunham (you know who Lena Dunham is).

The reveal happens midway through the film (much faster in the previews, alas), after John and Jane have each had a chance to demonstrate how they seduce men with their charm and good looks (every man wants Pitt to be his drinking buddy and Jolie to be his Madonna / whore), they're pitted against one another in a sequence that rivals the last hour of The War of the Roses in domestic deconstruction.

Finally, there's Joe Swanberg's dramedy «Digging For Fire,» co-written by and starring Jake Johnson, who did his best film work to date in the director's «Drinking Buddies.»

Writer / director Joe Swanberg has become a festival favorite with such previous films as Drinking Buddies and Happy Christmas.

Ben Richardson, who worked with the director on the recent Chicago projects «Drinking Buddies» and «Happy Christmas,» teams up with Swanberg again for «Digging for Fire,» which was shot on warm, pleasing 35 millimeter film in the canyons and on the beaches of Los Angeles.

** Drinking Buddies and You're Next were interesting parallel examples of how the indie - film market is working these days.

But the key member of the so - called «mumblecore» independent film movement reached a new level last year, when his romantic comedy Drinking Buddies was a modest hit, especially on V.O.D. Working with established stars like Anna Kendrick, Olivia Wilde, and Jake Johnson, Swanberg made his work available to a bigger audience than ever — which puts more attention on the two new films he had showing for audiences in January alone.