Sentences with phrase «film making dreams»

Playing the film's production and release as an underdog story, The Disaster Artist, adapted from the book of same name by Wiseau friend and co-star Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, is an enormously entertaining look at film making dreams and the legacy that comes with making a truly terrible one.

The Disaster Artist is an enormously entertaining look at film making dreams and the legacy that comes with making a truly terrible one.

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Winfrey has inspired millions through her TV shows, films, publications, and philanthropy, including comedian and actress Tiffany Haddish, who tells Time, «she made her dreams come true.

The company that he dreamed up on an extended 2002 trip to Australia and Indonesia because he wanted to film himself surfing, that created an entirely new product category and the world's best - selling camera, that made him and his best friends who joined the company early on fabulously wealthy — that company was now a punch line, and maybe a threat to safety.

That's like watching a Fellini film on mute when Nino Rota's score is what illuminates it, intensifies it, and makes you feel like you're living in an Italian dream.

We're not exactly sure what the former reality television star has been up to lately, as her career seems to be at a standstill since her last web series in 2011, «Dream Maker», save for filming some scenes in «Scary Movie 5» that didn't quite make it to the final cut.

Albuquerque is famed for its colorful hot air balloons, spicy margaritas, and «Breaking Bad» film locations — but, to me, Bernalillo County is where breathtaking mountains call on young lovers to dream and make memories that last a lifetime.

I am crazy enough to decide after many years of work for the same company that life is about making dreams come true - which led me to becoming a film school student at the age of 30; — RRB - This is what I am actually loo..

Writer and director John C. Walsh based Pipe Dream in part on his own experiences as he was making his first feature film, Ed's Next Move.

Critic Consensus: Yet another film about a small town girl trying to make it in the City of Angels, Hollywood Dreams» improvisation and absurdity tests viewers» patience.

Synopsis: When aspiring film actor Greg Sestero meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true.

Her critically acclaimed film, I»LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS, opposite Blythe Danner made its world debut at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

The actor made his film debut in the Mary Steenburgen drama One Magic Christmas in 1985 and went on to do supporting work in a variety of films that included Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), and She's Having a Baby (1988).

A nonstop underscore of Latin pop, as well as several arbitrarily interpolated dream sequences and animated passages don't do nearly enough to make up for the film's unfocused frenzy and lack of genuine comic invention.

Beautiful stream of dream like film making brings forward a fascinating look at one woman's life and remembers the dog who was at her side.

It's never dull to watch pros like Pacino, Bening, Plummer, Garner and Cannavale interact - this is dream casting - and the film makes the most of that, along with a pleasingly comprehensive Lennon soundtrack.

After meeting in school, the aspiring actors head to Hollywood to pursue their big screen dreams, and end up making the 2003 cult film The Room.

Their films have always been about the pitfalls of dreaming big, but with enough silliness to make it not only palatable, but oddly noble.

Wanting to make sure his vision for the film would come to life with the nuance and edge it required, he made the leap to directing, a lifelong dream for the cinephile.

However, they do make great «wallpaper» cinema: films to turn on in the background during a cocktail party to entertain your guests (especially fun when Thunderbirds are Go casts aside narrative and indulges in a prolonged dream sequence at a night club in space — call it a camp precursor to the Stargate sequence in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey).

«I'm still dreaming the beautiful film we made might be seen ever again.»

Most director's dream of making just one must see film, Rob has near a dozen and I'm one of his biggest fans.

In tribute to the best, Warner Home Video's Blu - ray transfer of the film is truly «the stuff that dreams are made of.»

What makes Ruby Sparks so promising is that it is directly challenging the Manic Pixie Dream Girl construct that critic Nathan Rabin identified in his 2007 article on the Cameron Crowe film Elizabethtown:

While there are standout examples — like Darren Aronofsky's disorienting, eye - opening Requiem for a Dream, or the achingly beautiful narratives of animated animal - people addicts in BoJack Horseman — sagas like this one usually work better on the page than on the screen; the brief gloss of film can make drug use seem rather too appealing, while the idea of spending eight TV seasons with an addict seems rather unappealing.

The Lazarus Effect is directed by David Gelb, whose last feature film was — and I've rechecked this three times to make sure it's not an error — the fascinating 2011 documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, about an old Japanese man who runs a tiny but renowned restaurant in Tokyo.

When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true.

Tusk is not a particularly good movie, but the vivid anxiety dream at its heart makes it one of the most personal films this writer - director has ever made.

City of God and The Constant Gardener director Fernando Meirelles talks to Jason Solomons about his new film Blindness, working with cinematographer César Charlone and his dream of making a hopeful, funny film

A kid with an implausible dream, a neo-conservative Batman and Robin and a social network combine in unexpected ways to provide Kick - Ass [both the film and the character] with an eager - to - please rambunctiousness that makes it both infectious and scary.

I'd always dreamed of making a film in 3D.

In Nebraska, shot in delicately toned black - and - white» scope, he has made a film that is, at its core, an elegy for the Midwestern men of an earlier era and all the tales and dreams and heartbreaks they left unexpressed and buried beneath a habitually unfazed stoicism.

The blockbuster of summer 2011, this rollicking, crowd - pleasing film offers just enough to move us to 2012, when «The Avengers» makes fanboy dreams come true.

With Krieps on board, it also somehow feels like the Hitchcock movie Audrey Hepburn didn't get to make but clearly channeled through the unique mind of Anderson, a film - savvy writer - director responsible for such fever dreams as Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Inherent Vice, and of course There Will Be Blood, his previous adventure with Day - Lewis that also felt like a movie stitched together out of something not easily explained on first viewing.

Speaking to Variety's chief film critic Scott Foundas, Mann discusses growing up in Chicago, becoming interested in crime stories, the visual ideas he had for the film, the nonfiction book he discarded but still credited, the influence of real criminals and past films (particularly his eye - opening time shooting The Jericho Mile in Folsom Prison), choosing Tangerine Dream to do the score (a decision he still second guesses), the film's writing (including basing characters on real crime figures), casting, explosive stunts, changes made from the shooting script, and the modernist narrative.

Next I wanted to see what all of the buzz was about in regard to a film called Made in Japan about a Japanese country singer named Tomi Fujiyama who dreams of returning to the Grand Ole Opry after performing there in 1964.

Shot with a painterly genius for night lighting (all muted greens and blues) by Adam Greenberg and scored with an insistent throbbing by Eighties synth group Tangerine Dream (who provided a similarly effective score for Steve DeJarnatt's criminally underseen Miracle Mile), this pair of moments makes up the backbone and the soul of the film: the one serving up the drug theme, the other that feeling of consumptive eroticism.

In an original and electrifying film loaded with live musical performances, Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock - and - roll stardom.

Which is to say that the Best Picture winners, with seemingly increasing frequency, are prone to parsing the zeitgeist without delving deeply into any of the sundry particulars — which makes sense because, as popular film edges ever closer to its dream of total inoffensiveness, the picture that's celebrated as the year's best must be the one that best democratizes the annual caboodle.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 2, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Lorax (PG for mild epithets) Danny DeVito stars as the title character in this animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic about an idealistic 12 year - old (Zac Efron), raised in an artificial reality, who searches for a real tree in order to impress the girl of his dreams (Taylor Swift).

Many movie buffs know how John Ford made a deal with low - budget «B» picture studio Republic Pictures to finance his dream project The Quiet Man in exchange for making another of his popular «Calvary» films, Rio Grande.

The story of «Batkid» Miles Scott, the 5 - year - old leukemia patient who got to live his dream to be a superhero courtesy of the Make - A-Wish Foundation and much of San Francisco, is both the subject of a documentary, Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Round the World, and an upcoming narrative feature film in which Julia Roberts is set to star and produce.

One would think that the addition of Brigitte Lin (Swordman II, Dream Lovers) would make the film that much better, but the plot is so convoluted and the execution so ham - handed that her performance goes to waste.

Neither straight - up witty nor cleverly self - referential, the film is an interminable goof - off that, aiming to make fun of Shepard's chop - socky dreams, instead merely confirms his lameness as an unscripted comedian.

Her vividly sensual prose may make the novel a production designer's dream — and given what we've seen of the film thus far, it seems a likely awards contender in the design categories — but there should be more at play here than simple visual splendor.

Composer Justin Hurwitz and lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul contribute a pleasing score, with the kind of earnest verse («Here's to the ones who dream / Foolish as they may seem / Here's to the hearts that ache / Here's to the mess we make») on which Demy films thrived.

To hear Williams and Forsythe tell it, the making of the film was a dream come true, after which they continued with their careers and saw from the sidelines the heartbreak that followed the production: the death of Hayden in 1983 from a heroin overdose, the mutilation of the film for U.S. distribution, which threw director Sergio Leone into an understandable funk, and more.

«It isn't about the making of the worst movie ever — it's about people chasing the American dream,» says Goldberg, whose production company with Rogen, Point Grey, is making the film.

From writer - director Andrea Di Stefano, making her directorial debut, the film tells the story of a young Canadian surfer that meets the woman of her dreams.

It's that segment where Willis could make a prominent appearance (through flashbacks and / or dream sequences), though a fleeting cameo in another part of the film - «Saturday Night,» for continuity's sake - isn't out of the question.