Sentences with phrase «jobs on a film set»

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Eklund, on the heels of a controversial, year - long stint in California as an adult film star under the name Tag Eriksson, got to work taking odd jobs and hawking paninis outside the set of David Letterman's Late Show.

Set in a perpetually gloomy unnamed city, the film follows Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a retiring police detective, as he experiences his final week on the job, reluctantly working with assertive newcomer Mills (Brad Pitt).

Everyone knows about different acting methods and a lot of people knew about what Carrey did on the set of Man on the Moon but obviously we never saw it, but that's what this documentary is and although it's not spectacular or anything, it gives another look at the work of the actor and it becomes an excellent companion to the film and especially serves as a testament of one of Jim Carrey's best acting jobs.

That's one reason why I was impressed by a film that may not have come on your radar yet, although it has played at various American festivals — Life and Nothing More, by Antonio Mendez Esparza, a Spanish director working in the U.S.. It's the Florida - set story of a mother - son relationship, about a teenage boy going through problems at home and at school, and his mother, who keeps their household together through a series of diner jobs while dealing with the attentions of a fond but potentially troublesome suitor.

The film, which Gerwig also wrote solo following several previous screenplay collaborations including two with Noah Baumbach on her starring films Frances Ha and Mistress America, is set in 2002 Sacramento, California where Christine attends a Catholic school while also dealing with the shaky bond between her and her domineering, impossible to please mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf) who is trying to hold the family together by working double shifts as a nurse after her husband Larry (Tracy Letts) has lost his job.

Coming - of - age adventure follows 20 - year - old Lucy (Solo), a small - town girl from Ohio — who has never kissed a boy, never had a job and never really had friends — who discovers the delightfully bizarre films of the legendary Italian filmmaker and sets off on a journey across Italy to find him.

There are any number of minefields into which «Goodbye Christopher Robin» might easily have wandered — it's a fall - release biopic set in England between the wars, about the creation of a beloved classic of children's literature — but the film emerges mostly unscathed as neither a hagiography nor a hatchet job on A.A. Milne, the creator of Winnie the Pooh.

Of course it's been mentioned that he took the job so he could be on a film set and watch John Carpenter work.

Even having Cruise demanding David Koepp's original script be re-written by Robert Towne seemed to have little effect on him — he knew that as long as he had some great action set pieces, the film would do its job.

The film tells of a young Han Solo meeting Chewbacca and Lando, and getting recruited for a job that will set him on a path to becoming the galactic smuggler - scoundrel we all know.

The heart and soul of this film is the performance by DiCaprio, who does an amazing job on what has been rumored to have been an extremely difficult movie set.

A true jack - of - all - trades, Fessenden has basically worked every job imaginable on a film set.

She's generally dissatisfied with her job prospects and appears thankful for every opportunity thrown her way, and yet she informs a director on set that she doesn't feel comfortable filming a sex scene for fear of what Max's friends will think.

Part of this is because the first two films did such a terrible job setting up real characters, besides Katniss; this extra time gives the filmmaker an opportunity for audiences to connect with the characters who have been on the perimeter over two films.

I always wish on film sets that I could do 8,000 takes, but your job is to find the performance and allow it out of your mouth.

Set aboard a spaceship with interiors resembling the Discovery One from 2001: A Space Odyssey, the film features Captain Glenn (Patrick Wilson), whose mustache, chain - smoking, and predilection for drinking while on the job places him within the film's attempted anachronistic paradox, where «a galaxy far, far away» is actually the dregs of a 1970s social zeitgeist past.

Not to disappoint, this film also features such time - honored classic clichés like the killer that seemingly is able to keep pace with someone running full speed while he is merely walking briskly (just once I'd like to see a psychopath who drives everywhere), the scared teen bumping into someone they think is the killer when it clearly is a coat rack, the killer that insists on using some odd instrument of death when a gun would do the job ten times more efficiently, and the ending that sets up the sequel should this one prove a financial success.

2:00 pm — Sundance — Bob le flambeur Sundance is running a three - film set of Jean - Pierre Melville films, starting with this noirish crime film about an aging gambler / thief who takes on one last job — knocking over a casino.

Scott Eyman does a masterful job at recounting the cinema's several earlier failed attempts at sound films, and the later, fateful attempt that set an entire indusry on it's ear.

An entry level job in film and television is as a runner, supporting production staff on film and television sets.