Sentences with phrase «independent films seem»

It's a question swirling around the Sundance Film Festival at this tony ski resort this year as the fate of independent films seems to grow dimmer and the money to finance these ventures is as difficult to cobble together as political compromises -LSB-...]

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Following a substantial role in the independent romantic comedy Better Than Chocolate (1999), Crewson seemed to be on the verge of adding another hit to her resumé as one of Robin Williams» original owners in the fantasy Bicentennial Man (1999), but the film failed to live up to box - office expectations.

There seems to be a progressive gap growing between independent projects and the films that are considered to be more mainstream.

Although we've seen the struggle for individualism and personal power done many times before, particularly in independent films, Real Women Have Curves never seems to lack for freshness despite it all.

He seems better than this film, which plays out as a typical independent movie striving to be a mainstream hit.

But it's also a time when the various foreign films, documentaries, smaller American independent movies and a few genuinely unclassifiable flicks that also hit theaters don't seem like counterprogramming so much as complimentary.

Robespierre is among the greatest discoveries to emerge from the Sundance indie slate in the past few years and offers continued relevance to the festival, which seems increasingly distanced from its original mandate to support not only independent film but movies that take risks.

Having been nominated at the 2012 Gotham Independent Film Awards for «Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You,» it seems only a matter of time before someone picks up the movie, though Seimetz says she is sifting through distribution offers and trying to sort out what will work best for her film or rather what will be the best way to sell her film.

Although Crumb was made long time ago now, there seems to have been a recent trend in adapting independent comics to film.

Some big - budget projects that seemed guaranteed to find audiences didn't, while independent films that «weren't particularly strong on the page» turned out «beautifully» (but didn't always find audiences).

In Junebug, Southern compatriots Morrison and MacLachlan seem to be reaching for ephemeral grace notes more than overarching clarity, but the mesmerizing performance of Adams isn't transcendental — it seems to exist in a vacuum independent of the rest of the film.

She writes me: «At those Independent Spirit Awards (a million years ago it seems like) we had been told that you were not a fan of the film.

Things began so well with three strong independent films, but those days seem to be behind us.

I don't love every one of those films, but together, they certainly seemed as if they were the foundation for a serious independent - film movement.

«Ingrid Veninger is a true independent, a maker of intimate films that seem born of the moment.

This film is a must - see for serious fans of horror movies, as well as those who value the type of experimental filmmaking that independent filmmaking seems to foster under the right conditions.

2014 seems to be a good year for middle - aged English actors getting to ham it up and go crazy in independent films; Ralph Fiennes got to knock it out of the park last month with The Grand Budapest Hotel, and here comes Jude Law in the gangster dramedy Dom Hemingway.

The developers have long been fans of the 1994 independent film, and Randal seems to invoke the laid - back and free - spirited Randal Graves, considered to be «master of his own destiny» as well as a «danger to the dead and the living.»