Sentences with phrase «getting the film made over»

In this we get to hear from Beatty, as well as a lot of the actors involved in the making of the film who share their memories of getting the film made over a long period of time.

Not exact matches

These are simple but compelling films about people who get in over their heads, who make poor choices consistent with their human flaws and suffer the consequences.

The jury decision, he revealed, came only after some old - fashioned horse - trading: Bille August's «Pelle the Conqueror» won over Chris Menges» «A World Apart» in a 6 - 4 vote, but jury president Ettore Scola only got the «World Apart» supporters to stop arguing when he offered to not only give that film the Grand Jury Prize (second prize), but also let its lead actresses share the best - actress award, making it the only film to win more than one prize.

I have made a possible commitment to watching his The Sacrement sometime soon, but I keep getting put off by the occasional rant review over his style of filming.

For Paul Davidson at The Orchard (which recently picked up the big game hunting doc «Trophy»), a theatrical release only makes sense if they are willing to invest in getting the film in over 50 theaters.

At moments over the years, there were even hopes that the film actually might get made — at one point, Nicole Kidman was signed for the lead — but something always went wrong.

The film, which was finished last year but is only now getting picked up properly, launches across the pond in August, but there's no word on when it'll make it over here yet.

The reason you applied is because you wanted to advance your film, and this program offers incredible opportunities to help push your project over the hump to getting it made.

This power doesn't make women any less of a riddle to Tim, who apparently only uses his abilities to get laid, though no character ever seems to have a problem with money over the film's runtime.

The road to getting a solid US release date for Bong Joon - Ho's Snowpiercer has been a ragged one, with the disgruntled director reportedly battling Harvey Weinstein over what he felt were unnecessary cuts made to the film.

His gets a telemarketing job but struggles to make sells over the phone — in the first of many bizarre elements of the film, every time Cassius makes a call, his desk drops to the recipient's house; interrupting a couple having sex and even a man on the toilet.

After all the controversy over Jane Got a Gun — the Natalie Portman western that Ramsay was supposed to direct until she dropped out on the first day of filming — the mere fact of this movie making it to the finish line without any kind of drama would be a victory.

Look at so called «Film Twitter» or any of the great sites for film writing and you'll see the same story being written to death over the past two or three years: we're just not getting exciting movies, nothing like what made us all passionate about the medium twenty years ago, and there are no mid-size entertainments anymore.

I recently got into a discussion with blogger Lara Gabrielle and some of her readers on her website over what makes a film worthy of the title «classic.»

A lot of work is put into making Saginowski a very thought - out character and it pays off tremendously well, though you don't get the full appreciation until the film is over, but the rest of the cast isn't as fortunate in getting as memorable of material as Hardy is gifted by the script.

By the time «One Day,» a decades - spanning nonromance, gets around to making one of its main characters seem like an actual human, the film's just about over.

The film looks like a rushed production that a few friends got together and made over a weekend.

The moral quandary at the center of the film may not be an original one — Danish commander Claus Pedersen (Pilou Asbæk) must go to court over a split - second decision made during a firefight in which his actions saved a comrade while unknowingly leading to a number of civilian casualties — but Lindholm takes seemingly ages to get to that point, allowing the audience to soak in the monotony and incessant - if - buried burden of Pedersen's position: serving as ersatz father for his unit while knowing, intuitively, that his family desperately needs him back home.

Though early sales got off to a slow start, the dam burst over the weekend and a few major sales were made for at least three high profile and highly regarded films: Gavin Wiesen's Homework was bought by Fox Searchlight, Drake Doremus» Like Crazy was bought by Paramount, and Jesse Peretz's My Idiot Brother was bought by The Weinstein Company.

Owen and Roberts get to dish out some witty dialogue; develop a strange [and maybe false] relationship over the course of the film which is structured in both the past and the present — each arc developing chronologically until the very end, when there's a revelation that makes sense even as it dumbfounds.

Making a name for herself over the last several years with films including How to Tell You're a Douchebag and plays like LAByrinth Theater's Sunset Baby, actress DeWanda Wise found she made a strong impression in particular with the executives at Netflix, who suggested her to Spike Lee for his television adaptation of his iconic»80s feature, She's Got ta Have It.

In the interview, Pete talks about some of his favorite movies he recommends to friends, the evolution of the project over the years, how he got involved as a director, his vision behind the stark contrast between the beautiful, almost photo realistic backgrounds and the cartoony characters, a scene from the film that I felt was a homage to Jaws, the 1400 kid search for the main star of this film, how directing the voice actors for the English version of Miyazaki's Ponyo helped him in making this film, and find out who directs Peter Sohn when he performs in his own film.

12:15 am (20th)-- TCM — Broken Blossoms A few years after D.W. Griffith's controversial Birth of a Nation and epic Intolerance, he made this much smaller, much quieter film about a Chinese man (the non-Chinese Richard Barthelmess — and no, Griffith has not quite got over the racism that plagued Birth of a Nation) who becomes enamored with a young girl (Lillian Gish) whose father abuses her.

Williams claims to have written the film over one weekend, and both the clamp - like tightness of its structure and the bracingly realistic progression of its characters — if you get hurt, you stay hurt — make that entirely believable.

In the film, a 320 - ton steamship did in fact make its way over a mountain in South America, to get from one river to another by way of pulleys and the handiwork of more than 1,000 crew members toiling under Herzog's direction.