Sentences with phrase «indie film scene»

Indie film scene started when digital distribution of film became practical.

The 64 - year - old Brit, founder of the Recorded Picture Company, has been a big wheel on the indie film scene for nearly 40 years.

Back in 1996, Wes Anderson announced himself as an exciting new voice in America's burgeoning indie film scene, adapting his earlier short film into a feature - length heist caper starring the then - unknown Wilson brothers.

One of the break - out stars from this year's indie film scene is actress Brit Marling.

Not exact matches

One of the most impressive things of Bahrani and Bahareh Azimi «s script is that it sets up scenes which could have followed into much more dramatic outcomes but the writers chose to take the road less traveled and in an odd way, by taking the less dramatic approach, the film removes itself that much further from the majority of indie films that concern themselves with cramming the most amount of drama into the least amount of time.

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.

«This film really encapsulates early «90's filmmaking and the thriving New York indie scene of that time, said Grady.

Directing tandem Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead first hit the indie movie scene when their feature film debut Resolution took the genre by storm, delivering a skin - crawling psychological haunter that still has people talking.

Release: Friday, July 10, 2015 (limited)[Netflix] Written by: Sean Baker; Chris Bergoch Directed by: Sean Baker How I felt when I first tucked into indie dramedy Tangerine — yes, that film, the one shot entirely on the iPhone 5s — and how I felt when the last scene faded to black couldn't have been more radically different... Continue reading Tangerine

A director of indie films, a documentarian of Los Angeles» punk rock scene, and a Season 2 story editor on «Roseanne», Penelope Spheeris perhaps wasn't an obvious choice to helm Wayne's World, but that hit 1992 «Saturday Night Live» comedy benefitted one of Hollywood's few female filmmakers.

But the film's real joy is Gerwig, a fixture of the mumblecore scene now making her play for more mainstream indie stardom; gawkily endearing here, with a perceptive quality that fends off the cutes, she deserves to get it.

Austin is America's unofficial indie music capitol, but this unpretentious city is also home to a flourishing film scene.

So for me, the argument scene between Stephen Strange and Christine Palmer, that fight scene in the apartment — even to this day, every time I watch the movie, it feels like, «How did I get this scene from this gritty little indie film into this Marvel movie?»

8:00 pm — IFC — Clerks Kevin Smith burst onto the indie scene with Clerks, a low - budget dialogue - heavy film about clerks at a convenience store.

Plenty of other female critics, besides me, are flagging the problem, which includes a scarcity of substantial and complex female characters in narrative films, whether Hollywood or indie, that fail to pass the Bechdel test (at least one scene with two female characters who have names, talking to each other about anything other than a man).

His startling «We Are Still Here» announced a director who was willing to do things a little differently from the rest of the indie horror scene, and this film really makes his unique voice clear in that it doesn't feel like anything else that came out last year.

* Asked how he feels about going from very small indie films to a massive, effects - driven fantasy / comedy, Green said: «Well, just like probably all of you guys like to see different kinds of movies every week — a little of this, a little of that — it's fun professionally to, like, get in the ring and design creatures and have guys in suits and puppets and just, y ’ know, bring in all this stuff... I remember when I was a kid, and if something like «Behind The Scenes of Return of The Jedi» would come on, I'd just be glued to the screen, wishing that one day I'd be able to get my hands dirty doing something like that.

Smaller films such as Moonlight, Fences, and Hidden Figures proved to us that not only are there great films being made in the indie scene, but also by black through white people.

For some, it's a commonly unspoken rule that while critics purport a policy of impartiality to all their reviews, there is a slanted favor towards films from the indie scene.

Filmed with handicams, starring a pair of art - house favorites, and scored by blog buzz band Grizzly Bear, «Blue Valentine» couldn't look like more of a stereotypical indie romance if it tried — but who wants to ring in the New Year with hopeful thoughts for 2011 and a round of «Auld Lang Syne,» when you can head to the theater and watch Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams getting it on in this bleak romantic drama, already the center of a ratings controversy over the NC - 17 the MPAA slapped on it for an «emotionally intense» sex scene?

Having taken a short break from independent films for a short while, I was able to watch Nothing Without You with a fresh set of eyes and an eagerness to get back to the indie scene.

In this light, Marczak's film turns out to have a completely coincidental yet nevertheless fitting companion piece in theaters right now: Terrence Malick's Song to Song, which chronicles a similar phase in young - adulthood through a love triangle of its own, albeit set in the gritty indie - music scene of Austin, Texas, rather than in the big - city glamour of Warsaw, Poland.

«Hey James Franco, now that you have a Golden Globe why don't you give speaking roles that don't require nudity in your upcoming films to the dozens of women who have done full nudity + sex scenes in your indie films and art projects?»

Written, directed, and produced by its star, Tommy Wiseau — an enigmatic figure about whom little more is known now than when the film came out over a decade ago — The Room is regularly celebrated with midnight screenings at indie movie theaters around the world, by a rabid fan base that upholds such sacred traditions as hurling plastic spoons at the screen during one key scene.

While it bears many of the thematic and stylistic hallmarks that made Rudolph a reliable figure on the»80s indie scene with such films as «Choose Me» and «Trouble in Mind,» this mannered character study comes across as more affected than affecting.

In 2006, writing and directing duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck made a lot of noise in the indie scene with their debut feature film «Half Nelson.»

Coming up through the «mumblecore» film movement as a director and screenwriter, Andrew Bujalski made the leap to the higher - budgeted indie scene with Results.

For the first time, Hansen - Love is working partly in English, with American indie stars Greta Gerwig and Brady Corbet turning up for NYC - set scenes, but it's relative newcomer Felix De Givry who takes the lead for a film that seems to be the director's biggest in scope and scale yet.

Though Krasinski has strong moments in slapstick - y scenes opposite Clooney, on and off the football field, the film was another one that helped construct Krasinski's desired, if synonymous film image: an all - American guy, who often played working class folk (even when he was a Hollywood filmmaker in Ry Russo - Young's indie drama «Nobody Walks,» he was a sound designer).

One company, IndieReader, launched in 2009 with a very specific goal: the fan the flames of an indie book movement that had the same credibility and following of the indie music and film scenes.

Scenes from the interview give the impression of being an indie film starring the influential actor who shares his commercial success in a friendly manner.

Branching Paths is a new film on the Japanese indie game scene, and we're featured in it!

From the blockbusters to the best indie films you've never heard of (but should) and everything in between, KMR covers the film scene with wit, erudition, and a wicked sense of fun.