It was the closest I had come to the plot device of a novel, but in the form of passive television consumption that moved well beyond what could be packed into a two -
hour feature film.
I believe this game would be amazing as a feature film, but just like all video game adaptations, I am very worried about how they can capture all the important story elements in a 2
hour feature film.
If Angry Birds can justify the script for a two
hour feature film, then the charming characters from Animal Crossing can justify a trilogy.
There are some stories and indeed portions of history, that simply can not fit into a two and half
hour feature film.
Not exact matches
As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative
feature films, five documentary
films, three episodic television series, and more than 40
hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.
Soon, Green's Bible blitz idea took on a different shape — in the form of a
feature film about those 1956 events: «Instead of doing a 30 - second commercial,» says Green, «we ended up doing a two -
hour movie about the power of God's Word.»
The trading area will be open 12
hours a day and will
feature an audiovisual system that will carry pin - trading instructional
films and all the latest in pin gossip.
Besides, she adds, it's hard for very young kids to follow the story of a
feature - length
film, and this can make the challenge of sitting still for two
hours even greater.
On midweek days, it shows
hour - long and
feature - length documentaries including Channel 4's Cutting Edge
films.
The
film has a clever premise that probably would have worked as a half -
hour TV episode but fails to sustain a
feature - length comedy.
Focus
Features has revealed that the company is teaming up with Working Title Films for Joe Wright «s Winston Churchill project, Darkest
Hour, and will release the
film domestically on November 24, 2017 in the U.S.
She comes to Shelter as VP of National Film & Television Publicity from senior director of publicity and awards at Focus
Features where she worked on such
films as Loving, Nocturnal Animals, Kubo and the Two Strings, The Beguiled, Victoria & Abdul, Darkest
Hour and Phantom Thread.
Fogelson's departure comes just
hours after Universal's executive team gathered at the Toronto
Film Festival premiere of «Rush» and for the FOcus
Features film, «Dallas Buyers Club» (executives pictured left: Focus
Features» Andrew Karpen and James Schamus, Universal's Meyer and Fogelson).
Searchlight's main competition has been Focus
Features, the prestige
film division of Universal, which this year racked up an impressive 14 nominations for «Phantom Thread» and «Darkest
Hour.»
Dean Devlin (writer / producer, «Independence Day») makes his
feature film directorial debut with suspense thriller «Geostorm,» starring Gerard Butler («Olympus Has Fallen,» «300»), Jim Sturgess («Cloud Atlas»), Abbie Cornish («Limitless»), Alexandra Maria Lara («Rush»), Daniel Wu («The Man with the Iron Fists,» «Warcraft: The Beginning»), with Oscar nominees Ed Harris («The
Hours,» «Apollo 13») and Andy Garcia («The Godfather: Part III»).
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.
The STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS UHD and Blu - ray Discs include the spectacular IMAX ® version of the
film and the package also includes a bonus Blu - ray Disc with more than two
hours of special
features.
Meanwhile, back to Polisse: for over two
hours, Maïwenn's third
feature film assails us with such unpleasantries as a father accused of raping his own daughter (when he tires of sodomizing his wife) and a gymnastics coach who gets a little too close for comfort with one of his young athletes.
EXTRAS: The Criterion release
features hours of new bonus material, including an audio commentary by writer / director Richard Linklater and various cast and crew, a making - of documentary, a Q&A with Linklater and actors Patricia Arquette and Ellar Coltrane, a video essay by
film critic Michael Koresky and much more.
This thin premise is better suited to a half -
hour sitcom than a
feature film (in fact, there's an episode of Frasier with a very similar setup), but it's strong enough to support some fun performances from a group of TV stars, along with a lot of weightless filler.
In a
film that
features nearly every character constantly, dourly announcing how much is at stake, the stunt ending reveals that nothing we've been watching for damn near three
hours has actually mattered and the obviously reversible nature of this semi-apocalypse will keep our heroes from ever meaningfully having to reckon with defeat.
As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative
feature films, five documentary
films, three episodic television series, and more than 40
hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.
Pennebaker's style is electric without ever being intrusive, and Criterion has REALLY loaded the box set release with
hours of special
features, including over a dozen performances cut from the original
film.
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.»
From the jump and not by design, December «Class of...» entries have
featured films lasting about three
hours (or more) and starring Robert De Niro and / or Al Pacino.
You could argue that Ezra Edelman's eight -
hour documentary, using the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson to examine race in America, is more a TV miniseries than a
feature film.
Otis at Monterey, with uncompressed stereo soundtracks Alternate soundtracks for all three
films featuring 5.1 surround mixes by recording engineer Eddie Kramer, presented in DTS - HD Master Audio Two
hours of performances not included in Monterey Pop, from the Association, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Blues Project, Buffalo Springfield, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Byrds, Country Joe and the Fish, the Electric Flag, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Al Kooper, the Mamas and the Papas, the Steve Miller Blues Band, Moby Grape, Laura Nyro, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Simon and Garfunkel, Tiny Tim, and the Who Audio commentaries from 2002
featuring Pennebaker, festival producer Lou Adler, and music critics Charles Shaar Murray and Peter Guralnick New interviews with Adler and Pennebaker Chiefs (1968), a short
film by Richard Leacock, which played alongside Monterey Pop in theaters Interviews from 2002 with Adler and Pennebaker and with Phil Walden, Otis Redding's manager 1987 interview with Pete Townshend on Monterey and Jimi Hendrix Audio interviews with festival producer John Phillips, festival publicist Derek Taylor, and performers Cass Elliot and David Crosby Photo - essay by Elaine Mayes Festival scrapbook Trailers and radio spots PLUS: A book
featuring essays by critics Michael Chaiken, Armond White, David Fricke, Barney Hoskyns, and Michael Lydon
The
film also
features some great cameos by Seth Rogen, Kevin Smith and Ken Marino, and though that doesn't make it any less forgettable, it's not a bad way to spend two
hours.
This commemorative gift set also includes all 10 +
hours of bonus content from the equally amazing 2007 Ultimate Collector's Edition, as well as all five
feature film versions — The Final Cut, «92 Director's Cut, Domestic and International Theatrical versions and the rare Workprint.
It Needs: A more rounded, less saintly heroine; less grotesque caricaturing of its middle class characters (a regular
feature in Leighs
films); and a little less tea - drinking (it is hard on the bladder by the second
hour).
Along with the six episodes of the documentary series, the package offers an additional four
hours of bonus
features including NASA
films and highlights, interviews and mission clips.
Clips of the
film featuring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell and Blake Lively are included in the video, as well as footage of the rainy first
hours of the Riviera - set festival.
Aside from offering the uncensored version of the
film in a 1.85:1 video transfer and 5.1 Dolby Digital audio track, the single - disc release includes a few
hours of special
features and hilarious interactive menus that show the duo arguing over the audience's failure to choose an option.
Both versions of the Extended Edition include more than nine
hours of new bonus
features that will enrich the experience of the Trilogy as fans gear up for the December 12 theatrical release of the third and final
film, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.
This doesn't stop me from liking much of what I saw during this two
hours and forty - four minutes of
film work, but it did prevent me from seeing this as a lovable
feature film.
However, with its flimsy premise stretched out to an almost two
hour long
feature film, it becomes an endurance test of sorts.
Call it a miniseries, call it an epic
feature film, but however you slice it, don't skip Errol Morris's courageous four -
hour exposé of CIA wrongdoing, every inch the documentary event of 2017.
Featuring an unbelievable amount of footage, the
film is being dubbed as «the world's first 24 -
hour music video.»
Survivors (8:09)-- A short
film that takes place in The Darkest
Hour's universe and works much better than its
feature length counterpart.
Darkest
Hour on Blu - ray ™ and DVD comes with a
feature commentary from Director Joe Wright and two exclusive behind - the - scenes featurettes that show Oldman's extraordinary transformation into Churchill and gives an inside look at the making of this incredible
film.
Extras on the double disc DVD edition include a two -
hour documentary, The World is Watching: The Making of the Hunger Games, the full Panem propaganda
film that's fleetingly
featured in the
film, and interviews with the director as well as Donald Sutherland who plays the villainous president of Panem.
The other three
features are First Name: Carmen (1983), Detective (1984), and Helas Pour Moi (aka Oh, Woe Is Me, 1993), and the disc
features the half -
hour documentary «Jean - Luc Godard: A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma,» with
film critics and historians Kent Jones, Winston Wheeler Dixon and David Sterritt.
The Last Airbender is hopelessly overambitious, attempting to squeeze in all the major events from the 20 or so half
hour - long episodes that make up the first season of the show into a 99 minute long
feature film.
Mitch and Eddie collected
hours and
hours of audio, they passed a cassette along to a friend, who gave it to another friend and before they knew it, there were Shut Up Little Man comics, plays, as well as three potential
feature films.
Disney's combo pack delivers a dynamite presentation of the
film in four formats plus a strong
hour of bonus
features including the winning original short.
Comedian turned serious actor John Krasinski (13
Hours, Away We Go) makes his
feature film directing debut on a project that's unbalanced to a spectacular degree.
Trying to turn all this reporting into a coherent two -
hour - long
feature film is like using the ground meat from dozens of cows to produce a single burger (one of the many dangerous industry practices Schlosser assails in the book).
Extras: Audio commentary with
film producer and historian Bruce Block; new appreciation of the
film and select scene commentary by
film historian Philip Kemp; «The Flawed Couple,» a new video essay by filmmaker David Cairns on the collaborations between Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon; «Billy Wilder ABC,» an overview by David Cairns on the life and career of the filmmaker, covering his
films, collaborators and more; new interview with actress Hope Holiday; «Inside the Apartment,» a half -
hour «making - of» featurette from 2007 including interviews with Shirley MacLaine, executive producer Walter Mirisch, and others; «Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon,» an archive profile of the actor from 2007; original screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (BD - ROM content); theatrical trailer; special collector's packaging
featuring newly commissioned artwork by Ignatius Fitzpatrick; collector's 150 - page hardcover book
featuring new writing by Neil Sinyard, Kat Ellinger, Travis Crawford and Heather Hyche, generously illustrated with rare stills and behind - the - scenes imagery.
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Extras:
Hour - long French television broadcast of World War I veterans reacting to the
film in 1969; 2016 interview with
film scholar Jan - Christopher Horak; new restoration demonstration
featuring Martin Koerber and Julia Wallmüller of the Deutsche Kinemathek; an essay by author and critic Luc Sante.