So much that these set photos, and there have been so many of them,
including shots of them filming the murder scene, are making me uncomfortable.
Not exact matches
But that wouldn't mean much if we didn't take the opportunity to involve and
include our employees in the brand activities -; going to some
of the events that we sponsor, getting to go on
film shoots, interacting with pro athletes.
It's a path that
includes the relatively low overhead
of shooting a
film entirely via a mobile device and an app (the studio said Sickhouse «s budget was similar to that
of a typical indie
film) while potentially tapping into various social networking platforms» massive built - in audiences
of users.
It was
filmed using a custom - built drone equipped with seven GoPro cameras and operated by a licensed drone pilot due to the complicated nature
of the
shoot, which
included dropping 30 feet into a field
of sharp agave; long, continuous
shots; and stabilization against the wind.
Spokespeople for the Clintons denied the various parts
of the Times report, but the impasse is nevertheless notable because parts
of the
film were already
shot over the last two years,
including on Bill Clinton's philanthropic trips to Africa.
Known as the Covered Bridge Capital
of Oregon, Cottage Grove has just under 10,000 residents and a number
of films have been
shot there,
including Buster Keaton's «The General.»
An unfiltered glorification
of crime, the movie is thought to have encouraged a number
of copycat killings,
including the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, during which 12 people were
shot dead, as the murderers supposedly yelled lines from the
film.
After determining that I was not just another moralist who wanted to influence
film content, but someone who was genuinely interested in
film, Shurlock relaxed and asked me a question that was very much on his mind: «We are trying to determine what to do about a picture in which director Sidney Lumet wants to
include a
shot of a woman's bare breasts.
And when Keith Smart had finished scoring 12
of his team's last 15 points,
including the winning 16 - foot jump
shot from the left side with five seconds remaining under massive pressure, most
of Indiana didn't even care that the
film Hoosiers» Dennis Hopper hadn't won the Oscar for best supporting actor just so long as this real - life Hoosier named Smart had.
What began a few years ago as a trickle
of small independent
films shot in and around Kingston has
of late turned into a veritable flood,
including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.
The hills are alive... During the first
of many backpacking trips, Gazzaley
shot 70 rolls
of film,
including this view
of Otago Peninsula on New Zealand's South Island, and experienced a sense
of connectedness with nature that he'd never felt before.
The still gallery
includes 100
shots; some
of these reprise elements already found in the
film.
Good things tend to come when Michael Winterbottom works with star Steve Coogan (24 Hour Party People, Tristram Shandy, The Trip), so we're happy to see Coogan starring as infamous British pornographer, club - owner, real estate developer, multi-millionaire, and so - called «King
of Soho» Paul Raymond in a dramedy that spans decades and
includes scenes
shot in black - and - white and color, constantly changing to match the
film styles
of each period.
The
film also stars Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett and Isabel Lucas, but a number
of additional actors have been seen on the beaches
of California
shooting scenes with Bale,
including Wes Bentley, Imogen Poots, Freida Pinto, and Teresa Palmer.
Many people,
including Harlan Ellison, have claimed that the Star Child was a last - minute addition to the
film — but in Agel's book, he said that one
of the first images
shot was
of a little boy in a leotard, for consideration as the Star Child.
It's the first
film to
include both a cameo appearance by Jesus and a full - frontal nude
shot of Harvey Keitel dancing in a drugged stupor.
Since much
of modern life —
including most
films — are forbidden in Hasidic culture, and because the
film was
shot semi-surreptitiously, it's unclear whether there could be repercussions in this strict, tightly - knit community for those involved in this secular undertaking.
For every grisly
shot of death and carnage in «E-Team,» Chevigny and Kauffman
include soothing images
of the couple in their Paris apartment, playing piano and tending to their bright 12 - year - old son; the
film's most tense sequence, when the investigators sneak into Syria, plays like a real wartime thriller.
The experimental nature
of the
film also proves a charm, the ten minute
shots make interesting viewing and a high budget cyclorama backdrop that
includes the empire state building makes the
film look much more modern than anything else from the 1940's.
With more
shots of mutant killer babies — thanks to stop motion effects — and the munching
of human flesh, the
films included here work more often than they do not.
I'm sure others are assuming the release date is for Deadpool 2, but Ryan Reynolds has a couple
of films lined - up first which
include the action flick Hitman's Bodyguard (currently about to
shoot), voice work on Croods 2 and the Mars thriller Life.
Audio Commentary — Director Derek Cianfrance and his
film studies professor, Phil Solomon, discuss the
film, the
shooting process, and the reasons Cianfrance chose to
include some scenes in lieu
of others.
Blu - ray Highlight: In addition to an excellent six - part documentary that runs the entire gamut
of production — from location
shooting in Romania, to Nicolas Cage's (creepy) performance capture
of the Ghost Rider, to special effects and more — the Blu - ray also
includes a feature similar to Warner Bros.» Maximum Movie Mode where directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor dissect the
film (sometimes pausing it to discuss certain scenes in more detail) with the help
of behind - the - scenes footage.
The other elements
of the
film come together splendidly as well, from the loving - but - not - trite
shots of Manhattan, courtesy
of cinematographer Ben Kutchins (the «Veronica Mars» movie), to a first - rate comic ensemble that also
includes Jason Mantzoukas, Andrea Savage, Natasha Lyonne, Amanda Peet, and Marc Blucas (plus brief but memorable appearances by Adam Brody, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Billy Eichner and Michael Cyril Creighton).
While the
films marks Olsen's screen debut and is certainly the most anticipated
of her upcoming features, it's hardly the only place she'll appear: The 22 - year - old has already
shot four other
films,
including the dramatic comedy «Peace, Love and Misunderstanding» opposite Jane Fonda and Catherine Keener, and she plays Josh Radnor's younger friend and love interest in the college - set «Liberal Arts.»
Nolan's awe - inspiring masterpiece «Interstellar» will be released on 4K Ultra HD in a 3 - disc Combo Pack that
includes the
film on 4K UHD and in high definition on Blu - ray, as well as a bonus Blu - ray Disc ™ with three hours
of in - depth, behind - the - scenes content detailing the epic
shoot, the scientific realities explored in the
film, a look at creating the stunning visuals, and much more.
The
film also
includes some real harm to horses, which does put a dampener on things, but the UK version has those
shots cut out for any
of you horse lovers.
Some
of the biggest movies in Hollywood
filmed in Georgia
including Baby Driver, I, Tonya, Guardians
of the Galaxy 2 and Black Panther have all
shot in Georgia.
Films that might have fit this putative strand
included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner
of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek
Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages
of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop
of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns
of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means
of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the
film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind
of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed
shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family
of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode
of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.
The entire gag takes a long while to play out (the money
shot - close - up on a set
of buttocks most definitely not those
of the 62 year - old Willis), though it is infused with the kind
of nutty energy that Willis last exhibited in his 1991 megaflop, Hudson Hawk (a
film that has since acquired an army
of «guilty pleasure» defenders,
including yours truly).
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The appeal
of the
film is manifold - its serenity as The American meticulously goes about his craft; the paucity
of dialogue that heightens its few action sequences when they do occur; a superb ensemble
of actors led by Clooney that also
includes Violante Placido (Clara), Thekla Reuten (assassin), Johan Leysen (controller), and Paolo Bonacelli (as a local town priest); the artistic framing
of the
film by director Anton Corbijn both in its interiors and the long
shots of the Italian settings; and simply the story's uncertainty that grips one from its very beginning.
with great sequences,
including movies within the movie (these are more introductory sequences for our cast), a smart banter between different religious figures on how Jesus should be portrayed, and some beautiful imagery (the
film is
shot by Roger Deakins
of «Skyfall» and «No Country for Old Men»).
Other violent events in the
film include the point blank
shooting of a man and an exploding surface - to - air missile.
Most
of the features that make Lewis» directorial work such a remarkable exception to the dominance
of a realist aesthetic in Hollywood filmmaking are brilliantly apparent in The Errand Boy,
including the foregrounding
of sound manipulation (most blatant in the sequence involving the post-synchronisation
of the song «Lover» for a musical
film, and in the tape manipulation
of Kathleen Freeman's reaction to having been left by her driver in the back seat
of a convertible receiving a car wash) and the placement
of actors in a
shot so as to highlight the presence
of the camera (as when Morty, an undirected and oblivious extra in a
film - within - the -
film cocktail - party scene, keeps looking at the camera from the background
of a
shot in which other extras, in their roles as party guests, intermittently block him from the camera).
The hot topics
included discussions about more and more movies being released in 3D, the ongoing conversion to high definition digital projection, and the newest innovations:
films being
shot in a higher frame rate, and what was described as «the cinema
of the future»; the introduction
of laser projection which offers the promise
of a brighter light source and savings on bulb costs.
«Star Wars» Sequel: All six previous «Star Wars»
film have
shot some scenes at U.K. studios, but almost all
of the production on J.J. Abrams» upcoming sequel will be done in the country,
including the visual - effects work.
And it's full
of everything we love about the prolific filmmaker,
including his stalwart casting
of familiars Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and others,
including Demian Bichir and Jennifer Jason Leigh, as well as his pithy one - liners, and sprawling Western
shots, this time captured on 70 mm
film.
EXTRAS: Sadly, there's no audio commentary by director Darren Aronofsky, but the Blu - ray does
include a two - part featurette on the construction and
filming of the ark and a behind - the - scenes look at location
shooting in Iceland.
Anderson has long been a proponent
of shooting on celluloid and releasing his
films theatrically, which puts him on an anti-streaming team that also
includes directors like Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino.
The first feature is called «
Shoot the Moon (The Making
of Hugo)», it runs about twenty minutes and
includes great both cast and crew discussing the
film and its production.
It is packed with interesting interviews (
including one from 1978 with Donald Pleasance who fails to conceal his contempt for the project) and production trivia (e.g. the mask
of the killer originally bore the face
of William Shatner), and
includes two scenes which were
shot later to make the
film long enough for NBC to televise.
This is an abstract making -
of alternating B - roll
shot in a variety
of media, watermarked outtakes (
including one from a deleted scene between Phoenix and Amy Adams), and snatches
of dialogue from the
film that gives the impression
of a tight - knit cast and crew there to serve Spike's vision.
Considerably more is made
of the
film's debt to John Ford, specifically The Searchers (a debt underscored in an alternate ending that apes its famous bookend
shots), than to the graphic novel series on which Goodman's script is allegedly based, and we learn that the phrase «brutal functionism» was coined to describe the movie's props,
including a blade fashioned from Damascus steel that took 100 hours to sculpt for a few seconds
of screentime.
Altman is more engaging on «Imagining Images,» an archive featurette in which he freely discusses his influences,
including Persona, and confirms that Images was conceived and
shot in the same improvisational style as many
of his other
films, even if it feels more hermetic and controlled.
Speaking to Variety's chief
film critic Scott Foundas, Mann discusses growing up in Chicago, becoming interested in crime stories, the visual ideas he had for the
film, the nonfiction book he discarded but still credited, the influence
of real criminals and past
films (particularly his eye - opening time
shooting The Jericho Mile in Folsom Prison), choosing Tangerine Dream to do the score (a decision he still second guesses), the
film's writing (
including basing characters on real crime figures), casting, explosive stunts, changes made from the
shooting script, and the modernist narrative.
Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act
of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that
includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel
of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely -
shot «The Night
of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record
of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print
of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967),
filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas
of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.
Directed by Wayne Wang, it's companion
film,
shot on the set during downtime while
filming the movie, is very funny, has a cast
of dozens (
including some great scenes with Jim Jarmusch and Lou Reed) and ranks # 44 this year.