Sentences with phrase «independent film ever»

What happens afterward is arguably one of the most memorable scenes in independent film ever.

Not exact matches

For the first time ever in his career he went the independent film route and quickly found Brian Unkeless (the «Hunger Games» franchise) as a producing partner.

If you're willing to accept the premise, the thrilling new independent feature film presents one of the most scientifically and technically accurate tales ever put on screen.

Ever since the independent film, Super Size Me was released, research on the relationship between increasing obesity and increasing portion sizes has skyrocketed and the results have been virtually unanimous.

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.

With the exception of limited release independent films, no wide release has ever cracked $ 50,000 PTA.

Ten years ago, she won the best actress award at the Sundance Film Festival for the horror movie Teeth, and has been bouncing around independent film and episodic television (The Good Wife) ever since.

Ever since the premiere of The Puffy Chair at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, Mark and Jay Duplass have been one of the most prominent filmmaking team on the independent circuit, turning out such acclaimed films as Baghead, Cyrus, and Jeff Who Lives At Home.

Three independent movies from this year deserve a special mention... Bill Morrison's documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time, the socio - political history of a gold rush town, illustrated with film stock recovered from beneath an abandoned ice rink... Oxide Ghosts, director Michael Cumming's assemblage of VHS outtakes from the influential, more relevant than ever TV news satire Brass Eye... and Dispossession, a restrained documentary about the housing crisis that's provoked fiercely energetic audience discussions up and down the land, culminating in a panel discussion at Curzon Chelsea with director Paul Sng, author Anna Minton and Jeremy Corbyn MP.

Another writer - director who was himself, like Fuller, at the forefront of a particularly important moment in the history of American independent film, John Sayles, used his time introducing Park Row to eloquently characterize the film, in one of the overall best, most informed, beautifully delivered speaker presentations I've ever seen at TCMFF, as «Citizen Kane printed on butcher paper.»

Indeed, it's impossible to see the two halves as independent entities, however unintentionally, and as such, the product of the experiment lands as Verhoeven's most conventional film... ever.

Cast: Zac Efron, Dennis Quaid, Heather Graham, Clancy Brown, Kim Dickens Program: Special Presentations Headline: Rain on the scarecrow, whatnot Noel's Take: Ramin Bahrani's Man Push Cart, Chop Shop and Goodbye Solo all belong on the top shelf of recent American independent film, but ye gods is his At Any Price ever a misfire.

Eden was, to my mind, the finest film in the strongest collection of Seattle and Washington - born and - based filmmaking ever screened at SIFF, in a line - up that was framed by opening night film Your Sister's Sister (from hometown hero Lynn Shelton, whose recent work put independent Seattle filmmaking on the map) and closing night film Grassroots, shot in Seattle and based on the book by former Stranger political reporter Phil Campbell.

Even though she has been doing independent films for a while now, she still is as busy as ever appearing on TV Shows (recently on New Girl with Zooey Deschanel) as well as several films.

But the key member of the so - called «mumblecore» independent film movement reached a new level last year, when his romantic comedy Drinking Buddies was a modest hit, especially on V.O.D. Working with established stars like Anna Kendrick, Olivia Wilde, and Jake Johnson, Swanberg made his work available to a bigger audience than ever — which puts more attention on the two new films he had showing for audiences in January alone.