Sentences with phrase «indie film works»

Is everyone still scrambling to figure out how indie film works?

Not exact matches

He worked with stars like John Legend and Oprah Winfrey before launching his own multi-platform media company, Macro Ventures, which was behind the production of Denzel Washington's Academy Award - nominated feature film «Fences» in 2016, and more recently, the acclaimed indie film «Mudbound,» which Variety predicts may be the first Netflix feature to compete for an Oscar.

All the crazy truth about auditioning and working in indie no budget films and black box theaters in NYC.

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.

Following more minor film work, he landed the role of a British bouncer in the successful indie flick Party Girl (1995), which also starred nascent indie queen Parker Posey.

Taylor is absolutely mesmerizing, as admirers of her indie work in films like «I Shot Andy Warhol» already know.

But DuVall's extensive experience in indie films brings a not very mainstream sensibility to this dramedy, which in spirit is closer to the mumblecore works of Joe Swanberg and the Duplass brothers.

The younger sister of famous twins Ashley and Mary - Kate Olsen, the fashion forward beauty worked her way up through the indie film ranks before landing several major blockbusters.

Dunham is a divisive figure in the indie - film world, but not having seen her contentious debut, «Tiny Furntiture,» this writer is having a hard time finding an issue with her work here.

The director discusses his latest film, Manglehorn, starring Al Pacino, his work on commercials influencing his feature films, themes that recur through his work, and the difference between his indie films and those with bigger budgets.

You've worked in both indie films and mainstream fare — Do you see that as a conscious choice divvying up between the two?

Harris was up for Best Male Lead for his work in the indie film Beach Rats.

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.

And even as a low - key indie project this film works as a beautifully intense study of extremes.

She came of age in New York indie film, interning first at Killer Films with Christine Vachon, and going on to screen her work at festivals such as New Directors / New Films MoMA / Lincoln Center.

Another indie film, with the working title of «Bunnyman Bridge,» was being shot entirely with digital SLR cameras.

He had directed one of the quintessential works of the late - 20th century indie movement in Sex, Lies, and Videotape, a film that would have been a deserving Best Picture winner in Traffic, and one of the most entertaining and rewatchable movies ever made in Ocean's Eleven.

The indie director of «Pariah» has already received buzz for her work and with films like «12 Years a Slave» and «Moonlight» scoring Oscar gold of the years, the film's strong ensemble could be just what it needs to bring it over the hump.

A hit at the London Film Festival, the film encouraged an assessment of the director's fiction and film work, and gave notice of a cinema with time for naturalistic performance and authentic space years before the indie directors» apparent invention of «quirky» American representations.

David Lowery («Ain't Them Bodies Saints») Lowery is no newbie: the indie film lifer has been working under the radar for years now, and carries an editing credit on two of the year's finest independent films, «Upstream Color» and «Sun Don't Shine,» as well as the moody, as - yet - unreleased «Nor» easter.»

The film is helmed by Joel David Moore, who is better known for his acting work in films like Avatar, Dodgeball, and Grandma's Boy than his handful of indie directing credits.

On this week's Little Gold Men podcast, Katey Rich, Richard Lawson, Mike Hogan, and Joanna Robinson take a look at the films that are working to stay in the race, from the aforementioned Get Out to smaller efforts like The Lost City of Z or even the summer indie success story The Big Sick.

With memorable, distinctive roles working for Spike Lee and the Coen brothers, he launched a career that now regularly takes him from indie films to Michael Bay's Transformers movies.

Movies are a collaborative art, and that's especially true of these choice 2014 indie films, all of which boast ensemble work at its finest.

After working on a few more independent films, including «Reckless» (1984), «Old Enough» (1984) and «Heartbreakers» (1984), he made another important personal and professional connection when Martin Scorsese hired him to shoot a low - budget indie - style film that he was working on as a way of collecting his bearings after a string of increasingly complex and complicated productions, the dark comedy «After Hours» (1985).

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.

And that makes the «Hunger Games» film vulnerable to a newcomer like «Creed,» which reteams writer - director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B. Jordan — who first worked together on the critically acclaimed low - budget 2013 indie hit «Fruitvale Station» — and brings them together with Rocky Balboa himself, Sylvester Stallone.

David Gordon Green's latest film, «Prince Avalanche,» seamlessly blends the two seemingly contradictory artistic instincts within the writer - director: It has the unhurried pace and richly naturalistic aesthetic of his early, indie dramas with the comic banter and oddball characters of his later work.

Consider that the first major riff of the film is indie - coffee - shop barista Delaney (Craig Robinson) saying to his boss, «You're asking a black guy to work on Black Friday?

Four female directors gathered for BFF's Director's Chair panel to chat about their most useful resources, the process of «letting go» to better their projects, and how Method acting works (and doesn't) on an indie film.

Instead of a victory lap after his 2011 Sundance win, the 31 - year - old toast of indie film circles went right to work on his fifth feature film, «Breathe In»

Once you get past Pixar's «Coco,» it's a weak year for major - studio animated films; that's why the Globes voters will probably give two of their nominations to smaller indie works, «The Breadwinner» (it's executive produced by Angelina Jolie!)

In his latest film Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach pairs his formidable skills with those of the rising indie star Greta Gerwig who has worked with Whit Stillman, Woody Allen, Ivan Reitman and co-wrote the screenplays for Hannah Takes the Stairs, Nights and Weekends, as well as Frances Ha.

This one is titled The Ranger, and it's the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Jenn Wexler, who has worked as a producer on a bunch of great indie films before this.

It's not far removed from Shannon's first part for Nichols, in his debut Shotgun Stories (which sits with Mud as the Nichols film most akin to the work of fellow indie Southerner David Gordon Green, who also produced Shotgun).

Making The Irishman is on a whole other scale than the small indie films Netflix has worked on so far.

The Disaster Artist, a Warner Bros film about a relatively obscure indie drama gone wrong, really had no right to work.

comparisons to a film that stands as one of the more transcendental works by an American indie filmmaker,

To address the elephant in the room, all you'll find on the docket today is a look at «Fading Gigolo,» an amusing indie film that includes some of Allen's finest work as an actor in years.

Or maybe you recognize him as the hardest working man in show business, popping up in all kinds of roles in all kinds of shows from micro-budgeted indie films to the soap opera «General Hospital» to his recent portrayal of twins in HBO's «The Deuce» series.

LMD: But you were doing the sort of indie British actor roles around that time, working with people like Ken Russell and Roman Polanski and making films like Maurice, and then your career took a huge turn with Four Weddings and a Funeral.

After making his debut with the indie film Lars and the Real Girl, episodic television work ensued, followed by a contretemps over the studio comedy Mr. Woodcock, starring Seann William Scott, Susan Sarandon and Billy Bob Thornton that saw him removed from the project.

Rushmore (1998) Wes Anderson's indie film, a work filled with incisive detail to pop sensitivities, remains a cultural milestone of Gen X and millennials.

As with his previous film, Like Crazy, indie director Drake Doremus employs intimate camera work and improvised dialogue.

Actress Greta Gerwig has parlayed her deft touch playing blond oddballs in small indie films into work with an impressive roster of filmmakers including Woody Allen, Ivan Reitman and Whit Stillman.

Having conquered the indie film world over the past decade, Joe Swanberg is making the leap to studio fare, as he has signed on to direct the romantic comedy «Work Wife» for New Line, TheWrap has learned.

Ex Machina became that rare indie to take the Visual Effects Oscar over much bigger studio blockbusters, and it is nice to report that the ingenuity that went into that film hasn't been sacrificed now that he is working on a bigger scale with an Oscar - winning star on board in Natalie Portman.

We know it really hasn't been that long since the comedian dove into more serious film roles - which is the lone reason for his second coming — but it's hard not to like the consistent work he's done for indie directors Wes Anderson and Jim Jarmusch.

A year later, he received Golden Globe, SAG Award and Critics» Choice Award nominations for his work in the title role of the indie film «Lars and the Real Girl.»

The film received much of its acclaim thanks to its legitimately beautiful iPhone 5s photography, but that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the movie's virtues, which back up what we suspected after «Starlet» — Baker's one of the most interesting indie filmmakers working.