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film scenes set on housing estates
This beautifully unspoilt stretch of dramatic coastline was used to
film scenes set at the Dothraki camp, after Khal Drogo collapsed in episode nine.
Some featured artists in the upcoming project include the performance artist David Levine, who will stage reenactments of famous
film scenes set in Central Park.
While
filming the scenes set on Endor in the heavily forested Pacific Northwest of the United States for the 1983 film Return of the Jedi, Peter Mayhew — the actor who played Chewbacca — was required to be escorted by a crew of assistants wearing brightly - colored safety vests at all times while costumed in order to prevent hunters from mistaking him for the legendary cryptid Big Foot.
Not exact matches
Her iconic Princess Leia is
set to appear in the next two «Star Wars»
films, and insiders tell The Hollywood Reporter that at least two key
scenes are planned for «Episode VIII» (Dec. 15) and «Episode IX» (2019): a Leia reunion with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and a confrontation with Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), her son who killed Harrison Ford's Han Solo in 2015's «The Force Awakens.»
From the Inside Out - «Making Avengers: Age of Ultron»: A 20 - minute video going back 18 months showing what it was like on
set of the
film in Italy and Seoul, Sourth Korea; a look at the Avengers Tower; some of the behind - the -
scenes early visual effects of Ultron; early concept work for Quicksilver, the Hulk, and Vision; and more.
It's similar to the ways movie directors
set up blue screens behind actors so they can overlay scenery after they
film a
scene.
However, the rest of the Getty
scenes in the movie are clearly of Plummer, which Scott could pull off as they are mostly
scenes shot in one exterior location or interiors, which could all have been
filmed on studio
sets.
It's next door to where most of the Harry Potter
scenes were
filmed, and this studio holds nearly every costume, prop and
set from the
film.
A new Ron Perlman movie is
filming in Syracuse this week; crews
set up
scenes for
filming «Asher,» starring Perlman as an aging hitman who seeks redemption, last night and early this morning.
Dietl was
set to play the mayor of New York City in a movie
scene being
filmed Saturday afternoon, shortly after his appearance at Council Member Eric Ulrich's Howard Beach campaign office opening.
In fact, he told Twitter he got up to 5
sets of 75 reps (just days before
filming a Hercules movie fight
scene).
Despite the sinister
scenes of this thriller, The Talented Mr. Ripley, the 1950s
film set offers some serious inspiration when it comes to packing for a summer vacay.
Now, if you will, imagine yourself on the
set of a low budget independently funded horror
film and this is your first
scene.
The DVD also includes the 30 - minute «The Hidden Side of «Persepolis,»» which delves into how the comic book originally came about and how Satrapi
set out to adapt it to
film, and the 8.5 - minute «Behind the
Scenes of «Persepolis,»» which gets up close and personal with the voice talent and animators.
The
film's 1080p transfer is stunning, with the actors» skin tones, tanned or not, rendered accurately, and the bright colors of the Spanish -
set scenes countering the dark grading of the England sequences with exceptional clarity, though the level of grain is sometimes excessive, and as such distracting.
I've heard grumblings about Willis on
set and much like Cop Out, also written by the same filmmakers here, he caused reshoots and unplanned
scenes while
filming.
In the end, the movie is still a musical, entirely sung through with little or no spoken dialogue
scenes,
filmed on a big theatrical
set.
After a lyrical introduction that layers wistfully reflective voiceover over a spun - sugar cloudscape, the
film's opening stages are less concerned with
setting a
scene than they are with establishing a vivid and unshakable sense of trauma — zeroing in on isolated images of slaughter, human and otherwise, in disorienting darkness.
But where the first
film's sex
scenes, however tame in the grand scheme of things, were integral to
setting the terms and tone of the relationship under scrutiny, by this point they're mostly just (very) attractive digressions, while the once - tremulously mentioned Red Room of Pain has become merely another indulgent facility at Casa Grey, not to mention a handy spare bedroom in the event of a soon - resolved marital squabble.
Also included, Anderson's American Express commercial that remains a fun homage to Truffaut, a loving speech by Oakley Friedberg, the young son of
set designer Mark Frienberg, who spent time on location with his family raising funds for charity organizations, a silly trophy case application making fun of the
film's lack of critical awards, deleted and alternate
scenes, a stills gallery, and the theatrical trailer.
Fogelman is very careful to
set up the continuity of the
film, usually letting us know what the next
scene is going to be by having someone mention an upcoming event.
There's a
scene where Luthor
sets up a suicide bombing that has no impact on the story, and to me that
scene exemplifies the storytelling problems with the entire
film - lots of
scenes that are cool in the moment but that have no place in a larger tale.
All the more action - based
scenes, like the quidditch match, the broomstick lessons or the wizard's chess
scene near the end, feel like
set - pieces which have wandered into what otherwise resembles a recital rather than a
film.
To be clear, Cooper's
film is not an exhibition on gun - slinging, nor does it
set out to overwhelm viewers, although its few action
scenes are both brutal and timely.
It's no slight against Coralie Fargeat's vivid, vicious Revenge — a
film that will
set midnight movie devotees cheering for generations — that you've probably seen every
scene in it before, in some form or another.
Her vulnerability brings pathos to every
scene she enters, making you wish the whole
film could have been told through Rachel's bleary eyes — and
set in England, where she belongs.
Set in Cyprus and following the down - on - his - luck Yiannis as he tries to smuggle his dog Jimi across the buffer zone separating the Greek and Turkish sides of the island, the
film is a «laidback charmer» with «droll comedy, understated political commentary and an adorable
scene - stealing canine,» according to Allan Hunter of Screen Daily.
If there's one legacy I hope other
films pick up from this series, it's that it treats its sex
scenes the way the Fast and Furious franchise treats car chases,
set pieces to be gushed about while exiting the theater.
Despite the
film being
set in the late 90s / early 00s, the music is all from the early 90s and, clumsily, a number of posters in the background of
scenes are of
films released years after.
It's a stirring sequence that's heightened by Holbrook's engaging, downright poignant performance, with the
film's compulsively watchable atmosphere perpetuated by the initial
scenes set within the past - as Lawrence does a nice job of infusing such moments with a melodramatic and suitably old - fashioned feel that proves impossible to resist.
That
scene sets the stage for the plot of the
film, which surprisingly, takes place over a very concentrated point in time — only a month, really — when the Civil War was limping to an end, and Lincoln was rushing to pass the 13th Amendment to ban slavery.
Regrettably, the
film's place -
setting opening lays the
scene for a different, more exciting
film that never really unfolds.
In just a handful of
scenes Django Unchained reminds us that it is a
film set in one of the darkest and most shameful periods of American history.
With
scenes in the United Nations — this is the first time a Hollywood production has been granted access to
film there — it also has smatterings of Alfred Hitchcock's «North by Northwest,» a thriller also
set in and around the United Nations.
As for that key moment that
sets up the final act, I thought the
film established the character motivation adequately with the earlier
scenes showing us Schultz's reaction to some of the violence against slaves.
His
film moves along quickly and muscularly, from one serious action
scene to the next, to the extent that it almost stops mattering what the particulars of this conflict are, just that various twists and obstacles are
set up engagingly.
Likewise, offbeat choices in the
film's look and sound add edge from time to time: In a
scene set in a cramped turkey barn, a cacophony of bird noise eerily eclipses the dialogue, suggesting the animal chaos behind the veneer of agrarian Americana.
It's a great - looking
film, filled with wildly imaginative
sets and costumes that would have done the Maestro proud, and veteran director Richard Fleischer (The Vikings) rises to the occasion with some sharply staged action
scenes.
Their cell phones are smashed, other bodies are discovered, and at least one of those mask - wearing weirdos playfully apes that same
scene that
set the stage in the first
film (this one: outside, and all the better for it).
(Hitchcock's «North by Northwest,» among others, had to
film its U.N.
scenes on a look - alike
set.)
This compilation lasts 26 minutes, 52 seconds and shows exactly what it describes: behind the
scenes film from the Dictator
set.
Behind - the -
scenes video from the
set of Sam Mendes» Bond
film features star Daniel Craig as well as newcomers Léa Seydoux and Dave Bautista.
On Geena Davis (a rare tangent into the living, precipitated by his memories of Oliver Reed on Cutthroat Island): «Perhaps in a long laundry list of ludicrous events I have witnessed on
film sets, the one I most treasure is watching my leading lady having her makeup and hair assiduously attended to between each take of one
scene.
The
film even re-creates some
sets and famous
scenes for illustrative purposes.
Filming scenes all over again required not just having him around so computers could play magic, co-stars Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams had to return to the
set, money to the reported tune of $ 10 million dollars, was spent on the re-shoots, editing and revamping of the PR campaign.
The State of Play and Nowhere Boy actor tells Jason Solomons what made him
set his offbeat romance in his changing home town Liverpool and how the city's arts
scene played a role in the
film
One of the most impressive things of Bahrani and Bahareh Azimi «s script is that it
sets up
scenes which could have followed into much more dramatic outcomes but the writers chose to take the road less traveled and in an odd way, by taking the less dramatic approach, the
film removes itself that much further from the majority of indie
films that concern themselves with cramming the most amount of drama into the least amount of time.
«Beauty and the Beast» — You're invited on
set for the
filming of this beloved, classic
scene.
Real - life astronauts have given the
film their blessing but one or two artificial - looking
scenes betray the fact the
film was shot on
sets at Shepperton and Pinewood, not in outer space.