Sentences with phrase «hundreds of films at»

There were hundreds of films at the festival, thousands of people, approximately 2,000 volunteers, press and industry, and just a plethora of film enthusiasts who come every year to watch and celebrate independent film.

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Some 200,000 copies of the DVD were handed out at over one hundred of America's top universities in late October 2011, and in the weeks following word of the film has spread like wildfire across the US.
This is observed in the increasing legitimacy of «media» as a singular noun, which conjures up the image of a television supermarket, with hundreds, thousands, millions of screens all showing the same picture at once, with legions of speakers playing the same rock music, all promoting a film showing in hundreds of thousands of small identical theaters worldwide on the same day.
Inspired by the new documentary film, A Place at the Table, fellow blogger Nicole Gulotta has asked hundreds of us to «donate» our posts today to help raise the issue of hunger and food insecurity in America, and I'm proud to join this chorus.
Addison Cooper, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and the founder of Adoption at the Movies, where he has reviewed over a hundred films for foster and adoptive families.
Alexandra Horowitz, an animal cognition researcher at Barnard College, filmed hundreds of hours of dogs at play.
This video shows three different species of siphonophore, filmed at depths of hundreds of meters off the coast of California.
Since 1985, hundreds of films launched at the Festival have gained...
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Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.
If you placed a few hundred random people into a movie theatre and asked them to invest their time in this film, I can guarantee that at least 50 percent would either walk out or despise their experience, but that's okay because not everyone likes every single piece of art.
On a scale of one to a hundred (one featuring no babies at all, and a hundred featuring all the babies in all of existence) this film could still only be classified as «babies».
Iannotta doesn't have a feature film to his name yet, but he's got a credit that isn't just handed to any man or woman with a movie camera — his documentary short, My Big Red Purse, was selected to play at last month's South by Southwest Film Festival, beating out hundreds of competitors in the process.
Precise, poetic insights such as these demonstrate Scott's unmatched skill at distilling the nuances of a two - or three - hour film into the suggestive brilliance of an eight - hundred - word response.
In June of 2010, I was able to visit the set of director Shawn Levy's Real Steel when the production was filming at a hundred year old Ford factory in Detroit.
It's a verifiable fact that the most important thing an entertainment blogger can do at year's end is to compile a list of ten films, out of the hundreds available *, that have proven themselves most enjoyable and memorable.
The film interrogated the realities of being a vampire, looking at the practical ramifications of living for hundreds of years.
A James Cameron film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't typically the kind of title that ends up at the Specialty box office, but a restored 3D version going out in several hundred theaters via a distributor that typically handles French titles in the U.S. makes for interesting bedfellows.
From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never seen and the drama is all in the conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades of film history and hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.
Told thru fresh, candid interviews with its key staff, and illustrated with hundreds of outrageous images from the mag itself (along with never - seen interview footage from the magazine's prime), the film gives fans of the Lampoon a unique inside look at what made the magazine tick, who were its key players, and why it was so outrageously successful: a magazine that dared to think what no one was thinking, but wished they had.
With over a hundred films in his C.V. (including silents), King remained one of the studio's leading directors for decades, and though he worked with superb cinematographers, his films consistently show a dramatic visual style that maximizes elements within a single shot, plus a knack for crafting kinetic action scenes — particularly the storming of the fortress at the end of the film.
She was the first black woman to win Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival (Middle of Nowhere, 2012), the first black woman to direct a film receiving an Oscar nod for Best Picture (Selma, 2014), and in 2018, the first black woman to direct a studio film budgeted over a hundred million with A Wrinkle in Time, an adaptation of Madeline L'Engle's 1963 Newbery Medal winning sci - fi fantasy novel.
«The Great Gatsby» is one of several hundred movies in half as many languages screaming, murmuring, jockeying for attention at the world's most magnetic film festival.
Brizé has made the sort of film that wins plaudits for preferring the «modest detail» to the «grand gesture,» to borrow from one trade paper review — a formula, replete with its quiet reverence of that «modest detail» that I've seen repeated at least several hundred thousand times since I first started making a practice of reading film criticism.
Chad Hartigan, who premiered his third film Morris from America at this year's festival, described a larger epidemic of movies becoming two things: «One is the hundred - million - dollar movies you see in the theater, and the other is everything else you watch on iTunes or Netflix.»
In addition to that I think I gave Remedy several hundred ambient loops, some of which they requested and some of which I created for them to use at their own discretion, everything from evil tornado loops to abstract tones to strange fluorescent light bulb hums... much of it inspired by early Lynch films like Blue Velvet and Eraserhead.»
It was actually quite encouraging to experience the film with hundreds of people and watch just how well it worked the room, drawing laughs at all the right spots.
are all stop - motion films that have grossed hundreds of millions at the box office, while being hailed by critics and fans.
Every year, we are greeted with the possibility of hundreds of new films: wide releases across the nation, independent gems in the art houses, huge swaths of new opportunities at a litany of film festivals.
Beyond that, the film makes her seem stupid when it means to make her comically naive: Megan's total lack of exposure to normal teenage life makes her a fish out of water, but asking her host mother about «transpo at oh - seven - hundred» (i.e. the school bus) is a little much.
Positioned as a prequel, the film follows a team of scientists at an Antarctic dig site, where they've discovered a hundred - thousand - year - old spacecraft wedged below the earth's surface.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening Thanksgiving 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS Australia (PG - 13 for violence, sensuality and profanity) Romance drama, set at the dawn of WWII just before the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese, chronicles the love relationship which blossoms between a genteel heiress (Nicole Kidman) and the rough - hewn rancher (Hugh Jackman) who helps her drive a herd of 2,000 head of cattle to market across hundreds of miles of unforgiving terrain.
Career highlights include June's Big Topic (1984), which became a television series; the film adaptation of Oh, Xiangxue, which was included at the 1991 Berlin International Film Festival and received China's Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers awards for film.
Even if you missed these, you've probably seen it portrayed in some of the hundreds of movies filmed there, from classics such as Breakfast at Tiffany's and Barefoot in the Park to more recent films such as the Spiderman movies.
Amazon is pumping hundreds of millions of dollars in bidding on movies and shows that debut at Sundance or other film festivals.
He will also bring the reader inside the hotel for those one hundred terrible days depicted in the film, relating the anguish of those who watched as their loved ones were hacked to pieces and the betrayal that he felt as a result of the UN's refusal to help at this time of crisis.
An epic scene in the film set at the golden gate bridge that could have been awesome was a let down - in the movie there were hundreds of cars in danger of sliding off the bridge, but in the game the bridge is completely barren of any cars, and that is pretty much how the game is treated throughout.
Wikipedia lists the major film releases of 2012 at about two hundred and sixty flicks.
Culled from the artist's archive of hundreds of color slides originally shot using Ektachrome film (which Kodak discontinued in 2013), Harris initially presented selections from his archive publicly as digital projections at Yale University, as well as in conjunction with the exhibition Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art at New York University's Grey Art Gallery and the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2013 - 14.
In the 1970s, Warhol was a regular at the New York disco Studio 54, and he received hundreds of portrait commissions from wealthy socialites, musicians, and film stars.
Sonali Gulati is a feminist, grass - roots activist, filmmaker and educator who grew up in New Delhi, India and has made several short films that have screened at over three hundred film festivals worldwide, such as the Hirshhorn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and at film festivals such as the Margaret Mead Film Festival, the Black Maria Film Festival and the Slamdance Film Festival.
(Brennen, 1995) In gas - free water, the pressure due to interfacial curvature rapidly drives micron - sized bubbles into solution, but in air - saturated water (22 mg l - 1 at STP), but in the presence of film - forming impurities, either present naturally or intentionally added, microbubbles may last for tens to hundreds of seconds.
At any given time, the service offers hundreds of films, from obscure documentaries to summer blockbusters — but not all of them necessarily qualify as «great.»
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