Sentences with phrase «given the feature film»

What might have worked as a 10 - minute segment on Funny or Die, is instead unnecessarily given the feature film treatment, hurdling towards a limited release for audiences at theaters where beer is served so they can have an excuse to laugh.

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In a video she made laying out her own creative process, she confesses that she gave up on her first feature film when things got scary.

12 Years a Slave The misleading poster by Italian film distributor BIM Distribuzione featured the giant head of movie star Brad Pitt, who served only a supporting role in the film, while the movie's lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was given a tiny spot at bottom right corner.

They claim that their movie is the first feature length narrative film to give the public an opportunity under the new rules to invest in it.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

With just under two months to go until this year's Virgin Money Giving Mini London Marathon, London 2012 champions Mo Farah and David Weir are among the athletes to feature in a short film highlighting the event's role in inspiring young athletes.

June to October at the Wiener Library Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry This documentary is the first feature - length film to give a detailed insight into the life of internationally renowned Chinese activist Ai Weiwei.

Blacks are deep and consistent through the film and the level of depth and detail in the background gives the image a multidimensional look in parts of the feature.

A commentary featuring producer Jeremy Thomas and Ben Kingsley is your usual run - of - the - mill back - patting session, though the pair does intermittently provide deeper insight into the making of the film, and it's admittedly fascinating to hear the soft - spoken and eloquent Kingsley articulate the process by which he gave life to Don Logan while he observes the sheer cruelty of the character on screen.

It becomes very clear through viewing the film and selected extra features later on that Fincher had a very specific vision with this film, and it seems he's taken the opportunity given by this special re-release to go back and right the wrongs of the past.

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.

«The Angry Birds Movie» is not really a good film by any means, but for taking an app and turning it into feature film and trying to satisfy all ages, I think they did they best they could with what they were given.

To give this film a decent score would be an insult to the many low - budget features out there that scrape every penny they can find together to produce something good.

Everyone gave me a different answer for each question, and if you're tired of hearing my opinion, this features a range of opinions mentioning a variety of great films this year.

Marketed on the shoulders of big names that are little more than extended cameos in the film (Jonah Hill feels more featured in the trailer than the actual film, if you can believe it), there are bit players given as much room to play as the stars.

A bit more suspense would have gone a long way here, and while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been in the crowd - pleasing documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned in a slick - looking feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better films out there in terms of quality, while it's too straight - faced in execution to at least give us some choice b - movie thrills.

Yet, despite costing a meagre # 400» 000 to make, this first time feature filmmaker, along with an incredible cast and crew, have managed to push through the boundaries of their financial constraints to produce a calibre of film that rivals many of its Hollywood mainstream siblings, giving them a real run for their money.

(Oddly, one joke that is given time to breathe — and one of the film's few visual gags — is the bit featured in the trailer where Barinholz gets Poehler's music box stuck up his butt; it works better in the movie than in the trailer, but it's still a juvenile choice for a centerpiece.)

They'd been friends with the film's director, David Gordon Green, for nearly a decade, ever since he gave the Austin, Texas - based experimental - rock instrumental quartet its first significant movie placement in his 2003 film All The Real Girls (which happened to feature a young Zooey Deschanel as a co-lead).

Beginners is the semi-autobiographical second feature of writer - director Mike Mills, whose previous film, Thumbsucker, told of a teenager's efforts to give up the eponymous habit.

Anything but role models, these films feature silly adults giving children all the wrong messages: The Internship and Grown Ups 2.

With several years having passed since the last feature film, someone has decided to dust off the cobwebs and give Paul W.S. Anderson a shot at directing the famous plot.

This precedent was set in this film, his feature debut, as Makoto struggles to decide what course to take when she is given power beyond anything she could've previously imagined.

This is after all a story featuring teenage characters called Mr Fantastic (special power: stretchy limbs), The Invisible Woman (special power: take a guess) and the villainous Victor von Doom, adapted from a lightweight 1960s comic strip and given a twenty - first century makeover by a guy whose first film, 2011's «Chronicle», was an ugly, noisy found - footage mess.

That four - hour broadcast was recently reconfigured into a 101 - minute feature film titled Dorothy and the Witches of Oz and given theatrical release in a handful of random American cities February 2012.

Directed by Anthony Wonke, the feature - length film gives fans an extensive and in - depth look behind the scenes of the latest entry in the Star Wars saga, and you can watch the first 12 minutes of the movie right now.

While Dippold unfortunately gave into stereotypes and cliches in her feature film writing debut, the characters» free - spirited nature did garner genuine laughs.

In spite of several lines about how romantic comedies have given people seriously messed - up expectations about the way the world works, it's unsurprising that Tropper is already working on adapting the book as a feature film.

Perhaps one of the most surprising hits of 2014, John Wick was the movie that relaunched the career of Keanu Reeves and gave us an action film that was simple, well directed and featured fantastic practical action.

When you're watching a [narrative] feature film, you're often given bits of information at different times, not understanding [the whole story until the end].

Feature Commentary with Director Craig Gillespie: An intriguing and informative commentary in which the director gives you lots of interesting background info about the making of the film.

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«I Give it a Year»: «Borat» scribe Dan Mazer makes his feature film directing debut with this romantic comedy about a young couple (Rose Byrne and Rafe Spall) who are doing their best to stay married despite the doubts of their friends and relatives.

Michael Johnson gave himself quite the challenge making «The Wildness of James» his first feature film...

As such, like another second - tier Marvel title before it, Guardians of the Galaxy, that allows for some deviation from the core Avengers films in terms of how things will look and sound, giving us a movie that feels organically different in visual design than most we've seen before, even if it still retains the same formula structure of the rest of the MCU features.

For a film which features the word «irony» so prominently, it's suitably ironic that Reality Bites features a documentary given the commercial television treatment, as the movie as a whole has an underlying compelling story that feels like it has been drained of all uniqueness by the corporate interests handling the film.

Dern gives an engaging, against - type performance, though the script is stretched out very thin to support a feature - length film.

All of that changed last year when Disney released Tinker Bell, a direct - to - video feature film that gave the famous fairy a voice at long last, along with a whole world of fairy friends she could jabber with.

has been released by Focus Features today, giving wide audiences a first look at the film that set the Venice Film Festival ablaze earlier this year.

To say that Kenneth Lonergan's latest is the best film of his career may not seem like it means much, given that it's only his third feature in 16 years after You Can Count on Me and the notoriously delayed Margaret.

The film that blew audiences away is back and bigger than ever with more than two hours special feature material that will give viewers even more reasons to «Bring Him Home.»

Presented as a «sort of sequel» to Apatow's 2007 sophomore feature, Knocked Up, This Is 40 gives center stage to the earlier film's supporting characters: Los Angeles record label executive Pete (Paul Rudd) and his wife Debbie (played by Apatow's real - life wife, Leslie Mann).

Universal Pictures has announced that filming has wrapped on Dad's Army, the upcoming feature remake of the beloved British comedy series, and the film has been given a UK release date of February 5th, 2016.

In this clip from the special features of the film's home release, seen first on SPINOFF, the curtain's peeled back a bit on a few scenes to give viewers an idea of how things look before and after the movie magic happens.

From 3D cane toads on opening night (Cane Toads: The Conquest) to John Woo kung fu to close the program (Reign Of Assassins), possibly the world's first «womantic» feature (the Brisbane - based comedy Jucy) to the utterly indescribable (Tommy Wiseau cult phenomenon The Room), the new look festival — in a new timeslot and new venues (Palace Centro and Barracks cinemas, and Tribal Theatre)-- has assembled an amazing line - up, with films for young (well, 18 and over for the most part, given the severing of links between BIFF and Cine Sparks) and old.

Check out two new clips full of good advice from the following films: World War Z — This new clip from director Marc Forster's adaptation of the Max Brooks novel features an officer giving some good advice to Brad Pitt and his family about why one...

In his first feature film, director Josh Forbes does give the film the appearance of a much higher budget than in actuality.

Combining court records, interview transcripts, and the content of Ginsberg's poems, Rob Epstein's and Jeffrey Friedman's feature Howl explores the debut of, and outcry against, the text that gives the film its name.

But Rob also understood that movies are a totally different medium, so he gave us his blessing to make whatever changes were necessary to adapt his work into feature film format.

Given the speed and unpredictability of change in this arena, it's reasonable to wonder if a big - budget feature film, much less one based on a four year - old novel (by Dave Eggers, who co-wrote this adaptation's screenplay), can hope to speak to the needs of the moment.