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If «Moonlight,» an indie film about a gay black man growing up in impoverished Miami, a movie made for $ 1.5 million, could win best picture, then why not «Get Out,» a social thriller examining race?
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THE KING OF PIGS is an emotionally punishing animated indie film about a group of friends whose brutal childhoods continue to haunt them as adults.
This acclaimed indie film about a precocious Cincinnati girl added Los Angeles this week and continues to show appeal as well as strong reviews in its early dates.
A heartwarming, naturalistic indie film about people who come together for healing.
Not exact matches
Ringelmann was specifically exercised about the inability of a particular film project to find funding, but her indictment of capital was as true for entrepreneurs as for indie filmmakers.
His last two films were dark indie movies (True Crimes and The Bad Batch), and he's been talking publicly about spirituality, philosophy and even the gospel.
Even after The Disaster Artist gave his own story and his cult - classic indie film The Room — largely regarded as the worst movie ever made — new prominence, little is known about where he comes from or who he truly is.
Many in Hollywood say they see the spiritual - memoir - turned - movie as the next hot genre, suggesting there are ongoing talks about turning Lauren Winner's «Girl Meets God» into a romantic comedy, Ian Cron's «Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me» into an action flick, Anne Lamott's «Traveling Mercies» into an indie road trip film, Kathleen Norris» «The Cloister Walk» into something really creepy involving monks.»
Calling myself a green beauty addict would be a bit of an understatement... What I enjoy most is sharing the magic in everyday life with others whether that's blogging about my latest beauty and fashion discoveries, acting in indie film, talking with a close friend, or singing obnoxiously loud in my car.
Calling myself a green beauty addict would be a bit of an understatement... What I enjoy most is sharing the magic in everyday life with others whether that's blogging about my latest beauty and fashion discoveries, acting in indie film, talking with a close friend, or singing obnoxiously loud in my car.
All the crazy truth about auditioning and working in indie no budget films and black box theaters in NYC.
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Indie veteran director Matthew Porterfield writes about how on his fourth feature «Sollers Point» he made a better film by remaining open.
Bill Sherwood's film is one of the first and most significant works (indie, of course) about the AIDS crisis that goes beyond the issue of coming out, placing its romantic triangle in the broader context of a vibrant gay community.
If you make a good film, then it's worthy of talking about, just as an indie drama that's up for Oscars is.
As far as the film itself is concerned, its a credit to its genre, another incredible reason to follow / watch / talk about indie animation and to share it with your kids so that they can be educated in film beyond the typical.
Husband and wife Tim (Jake Johnson) and Lee (Rosemarie DeWitt) are housesitting at a well - off home, which offers ample opportunity for snooping and class comparisons (their conversations about whether to send their son to private school ground the film in issues not often part of the indie milieu).
CRUST is a new indie horror film starring some of the genres favorite stars, and to be honest, not much is know about the project at...
Cianfrance asks questions about life and legacy too meandering for the film's good, resulting in an admittedly saggier middle section, but he reached way beyond the regular confines of indie cinema with Pines» episodic, decades - spanning tale, and that can not be ignored.
Aaron Godfred's feature film debut, Little Blue Pill, is a raunchy indie comedy about a young man who accidentally takes Viagra like pills and experiences all the side - effects that comes
One of the best things about video on - demand is the way it gives indie films a chance to reach a wider audience.
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.
My Life as a Dog: Criterion Collection Unrated Available on DVD and Blu - ray Swedish with English Subtitles Before cranking out hit films like The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, Swedish director Lasse Holstrom hit the scene big - time with this little indie about a boy who goes on a journey of discovery when he is sent away to give his dying mother some rest.
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Two big hits in 2014 (the franchise - starter, Divergent; YA phenomenon The Fault in Our Stars), a hotly - anticipated indie (Gregg Araki's White Bird in a Blizzard) about to roll - out, and the lead in the new Oliver Stone film locked in, Woodley is on track for super-stardom.
Small indie flicks about estranged relatives coming together via deception on behalf of one of the parties which ultimately results in a long - delayed reconciliation has become of the most basic formulas for non-studio films, which makes sense considering you could film one in the living room of a small house and produce an Oscar - winner if the script and performances are strong enough.
Filmmakers, especially those operating in the indie horror space, love these non-endings because they make viewers think about the film and draw their own conclusions.
We just need to raise the funding, and Kickstarter seems like a great way to collaborate with Alex's fans, the cast's fans, and people who care about film preservation and indie filmmaking in general to make this happen.»
The opening act in Toronto feels like a standard indie comedy about (yet another) white male's arrested development, the piano - based score and aversion to dialogue feels indebted to silent films, and once the film transitions to the wilderness it goes into European arthouse territory (the title card doesn't appear until James ends up in BC, a choice that implies this is where the film really begins).
Not to be confused with the indie comedy about an improv group, Don't Think Twice (which we highly recommend seeing), this film is a creepy horror thriller about a demonic witch.
IFC Midnight has debuted a short teaser trailer for an indie horror film titled The Autopsy of Jane Doe, a new thriller about morticians who encounter a «Jane Doe» body unlike any other.
Produced by Jason Blum and Michael Bay and directed by indie horror maestro Mike Flanagan, the film cost about $ 9 million to make.
To me this creative artsy indie comedy is about as close you can come to a perfect and complete film.
Arts journalist and broadcaster Richard Watts guest hosts this episode of Hyphenates, talking about the films of December 2014, comparing notes on the best films of the year, and looking at the films and career of indie filmmaker and key figure in the New Queer Cinema movement, Gregg Araki.
Indie - turned - Hollywood - blockbuster auteur David Lowery will have two films released in about six months (Pete's Dragon this past summer and Sundance - slotted A Ghost Story next week).
On making the leap from indie films, the rarity of black female protagonists in YA, and addressing criticism about how her new movie portrays disability.
Time to take a look at one of my favorite films of Sundance, the indie thriller Margin Call, written & directed by J.C. Chandor, about a 24 hour period revolving around the financial crisis - as boring as that sounds, it's actually pretty damn good.
«Jeffrey Westhoff on «The Boy Who Knew Too Much»»: The veteran Chicago film critic chats with Indie Outlook about his excellent debut novel.
The remaining slots, if there are any, are left for the year's most talked - about art and indie films.
For our money one of the most watchable and unusual young actors about, Dane DeHaan has been mixing quirky indie films with bigger box - office fodder.
A prankish comedy - thriller overtly about desperation and insecurity, Baghead begins with a dead - on Q&A at a Los Angeles indie film festival, where an underground auteur (Jett Garner) condescendingly responds on matters of budget and improvisation.
But the era of the low - budget indie film had arrived and all anybody wanted to know about was how low the budget was, did I have a great backstory about the film getting made, and «what was I trying to say about the suburbs.»
Mark Duplass talks about how to make a successful indie film and the stress that comes with making...
Back in 2012, I was contacted about a film called «Sushi Girl», an indie revenge thriller with a knock out cast including Tony Todd, Noah Hathaway, James Duval, Andy Mackenzie, Mark Hamill, Cortney Palm and even the legendary Sonny Chiba.
Brian Eno scored the film and Alfonso talked about getting the legend to be apart of this little indie darling.
The Natalie Portman - starring western Jane Got a Gun (a by - now infamously troubled production), finally set to premier at the end of January, features Portman as one of two or three women in the entire film; contrast that with indie drama About Ray and the hotly contested remake of the Ivan Reitman classic Ghost Busters, a production attempting to further distinguish itself by pushing the words together to form Ghostbusters — how crafty.
«Lady Bird» grossed about $ 49 million at the domestic box office in theatrical release, a very respectable haul for an indie film.
What really has people hot and bothered about «The Hangover» being nominated is that this film is a raunchy, ode to man - boyhood that is not exactly a touching artsy comedy like the critically acclaimed «Little Miss Sunshine» and «Juno,» who both worked their poignant indie charms to garner accolades.
For the entire fest everyone spends pretty much all day at the Drafthouse (which was re-opened this year with nine screens after a complete renovation), discussing / chatting about films when not in one, and enjoying indie video games, libations aplenty, and tasty food the rest of the time.