Sentences with phrase «make a feature film doing»

When «American Idol» has made such fun of itself by having specials with those rejected by the judges as being far too bad to be anything but entertainment at their own expense, it is mostly redundant to attempt to make a feature film doing the same thing.

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After years making slick commercials and music videos, Bay's first feature film didn't just bring a new spice to the buddy - cop movie with the teaming of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.

In short, says Brooks, they wanted to make sure they didn't get another Days of Thunder, the much - reviled (at least in racing circles) 1990 Tom Cruise film, which featured, among other cinematic inventions, scenes of Robert Duvall as a good - ol» - boy team owner who assembles stock cars in a barn.

Capturing three generations in the one picture by taking a photo that features a grandmother, daughter and granddaughter for example, makes the age difference become quite clear and in doing so, creates a wonderful family memory on film.

Zegna's ambitous «A Rose Reborn» directed by Park Chan - wook made our list, as did Alexander Wang's funny Autumn / Winter campaign film, featuring Chris Kattan as Mango, a character from the American comedy show Saturday Night Live.

It wasn't long after her 1998 graduation that the aspiring actress made her feature debut in the 2000 drama Our Song, with nominations for the film at the Independent Spirit Awards and the Sundance Film Festival serving to increase her exposure among cinephiles, even if the film did go largely unseen by the masses.

He made his first feature - film appearance in Jean Renoir's Paris Does Strange Things (1958).

The second film to be made from Woody Allen's successful stage comedy (following a 1969 feature starring Jackie Gleason), Don't Drink the Water is a made - for - television adaptation directed by and starring Allen himself.

A commentary featuring producer Jeremy Thomas and Ben Kingsley is your usual run - of - the - mill back - patting session, though the pair does intermittently provide deeper insight into the making of the film, and it's admittedly fascinating to hear the soft - spoken and eloquent Kingsley articulate the process by which he gave life to Don Logan while he observes the sheer cruelty of the character on screen.

Rees, whose one and only feature film until now was her 2011 debut, «Pariah,» has said she set out to make an «old - fashioned» movie, and she's done that, allowing her story to unspool at a refreshingly deliberate pace and her characters to find their own footing within the story and with one another.

Skinny, bug - eyed Steve Buscemi, the twitchy actor du jour of American independent films, makes a striking directorial feature - film debut with «Trees Lounge,» in which he also stars as a twitchy, hyperkinetic loser.

Working with an insanely talented crew that also includes cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto («Babel,» «Brokeback Mountain»), Affleck has made a film that features multiple locations, dozens of speaking roles, and the kind of tonal shifting that veterans routinely screw up and he's not only dodged the many potential pitfalls but made a modern classic by doing so.

While Emmy - winning Survivor producer and host Jeff Probst (born November 4th, 1962) has occasionally taken a seat besides Kelly Ripa on Live with Regis and Kelly and even directed his own award - winning feature film, chances are that when all is said and done, the role he'll be best remembered for is that of the firm but fair host who snuffed out more than his share of torches on the popular competitive reality show that made him a household name.

But they don't know much about what makes for a compelling feature film.

Normally, we'd dock a point any time a Criterion set doesn't include a commentary track, but it seems clear here that a conscious decision was made to ensure the disc containing the main feature had as little else on it as possible, to devote every available byte to presenting the film's images alone.

Patrick Marber, who is no stranger to controversial material, having adapted his play into film script with Closer, makes some alterations to the more subtle tone in Heller's book, but does make it more compelling for the purpose of a feature film experience.

Chronicling the high - octane career of Ayrton Senna, the fast - paced fourth feature from The Warrior, The Return and Far North director appeals to a broad audience and ranks among the best factual efforts of the year, a feat made all the more impressive considering the fact that the film does not include a second of new footage.

Don't miss: Bonus features include a look at the making of the film and a behind - the - scenes peek at Butler's training for his role.

The slate of HD extra features comprises the usual studio - sponsored assortment of interviews and B - roll highlighting what the filmmakers feel were the most impressive aspects of the production and post, plus some narrative material that didn't make it into the finished film.

«I Give it a Year»: «Borat» scribe Dan Mazer makes his feature film directing debut with this romantic comedy about a young couple (Rose Byrne and Rafe Spall) who are doing their best to stay married despite the doubts of their friends and relatives.

Paramount's overdue Blu - ray doesn't surprise, but its terrific feature presentation and good making - of featurette are enough to qualify this as a satisfying release of a substantial film.

What a tedious film.Over acting, wobbly plot, dialogue at times pure drivel and a laughable ending.It really was poor.The film goes straight into a Cul de Sac and can not get out.Way too much nudity from the metro sexual looking Tilda Swinton.Her androgynous body quite turned my stomach.A redeeming feature was the glorious sunshine and powerful light of Italy.The film meanders, wobbles and finally falls down.Older people like Swinton and Fiennes should really keep their pants on at all times.It is acutely embarrassing when the oldies need to do so much nudity (l suspect it is to appease their insecurity that they might not be physically desirable anymore) Horrible attempt at film making

It does feature a very impressive cast of actors, who all do very good work in their respective roles, which makes this film feel a few notches above made - for - TV fare.

Admittedly, we wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't interested in taking on another sitcom gig so soon after wrapping «Scrubs,» especially if he has any desire whatsoever to make a significant play for more feature - film work, but he was so darned good at berating Zach Braff that we'd be lying if we didn't admit to being kind of excited at the thought of pitting him against Cryer and Jones.

The film also features some great cameos by Seth Rogen, Kevin Smith and Ken Marino, and though that doesn't make it any less forgettable, it's not a bad way to spend two hours.

While it's entirely possible that «Demon» will appeal more to U.S. audiences after its June 24 release than it did to critics who saw the film at Cannes, at the festival, Refn said his intention was to make a «primal» movie that featured heightened reality in a way that could provoke drastically different reactions from viewers.

Nyong» o (who made her feature film debut with this movie, never mind being a first - time nominee) snagged the Screen Actors Guild prize, but Lawrence did win the Golden Globe and British Academy of Film and Television Arts prize.

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya: Isao Takahata's film, likely the last production by Studio Ghibli's two masters (Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises lost to Frozen last year), probably has no shot at Best Animated Feature (How to Train Your Dragon 2 is the heavy favorite), but if it did somehow get the prize, no win on Oscar night would make us happier.

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Dosunmu said other distributors courted the feature early on, but eventually went with Paladin for its theatrical release, noting: «People aren't used to seeing Michelle in this way, but Paladin was brilliant in letting the audience get a sense of the film instead of simply pushing it out in a way that doesn't make sense.»

This Blu - ray ports over most of the bonus features found on previous discs, including the original 19 - minute making - of featurette from the DVD and a commentary track with Lee and writer / producer James Schamus, who does a good job of leading his counterpart through a conversation about the film.

The following year (2002), Buena Vista Home Entertainment finally got around to putting the Muppets» fourth and fifth films (which were made at Walt Disney Pictures in the 1990s) on DVD and they did so with some impressive bonus features and clever menus, but inconceivable fullscreen - only presentations.

While Thomas W. Kiennast's black - and - white cinematography is quite beautiful to behold (Gröning's film certainly features some excellent cinematographic moments as well), Atef's film never manages to convey why we should care, today, about this brief moment in Schneider's well - documented life, including her never - ending struggle with the German press, her inability to escape the role of Sissi that made her instantly famous as a teenager, and the various tragedies that befell her, including the suicide of her ex - husband.7 The film is not a biopic per se (and Atef declared that she did not intend to make one): thus, audiences who are not already familiar with Schneider certainly will not come away from viewing the film with much of a sense of her life's story); yet, given it is not a biopic, one wonders what the film is, or what it tries to accomplish.

It also didn't make it onto the bonus features of the It, but you can see it being filmed in some behind - the - scenes footage.

He recently told BAZAAR that he was halfway done writing the script for his next feature saying, «it's a film I want to make in Europe, a Euro movie.»

It makes sense, in a way: they're trying to make the audience as paranoid as the protagonist, but the one thing that «The Conjuring,» the film in which evil doll Annabelle made her feature debut, did so well was balance the light with the dark.

In the feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular film franchises of all time to giant box - office success.

After Fellini made 7 feature films and one short (the «half») he was stuck for what to do next, so he made a film about a film director (Marcello Mastroianni) stuck for his next project.

«An Invasion of Planet - Conquering Bonus Features» (I'm thinking that Warner copywriters should make the switch to decaf) begins with the 7 - minute «DreamWriter - An Interview with Stephen King» — which, although conducted moments after he screened the rough cut of Dreamcatcher in September of last year, does not especially delve into his thoughts on the film.

However, the level of bad taste has sunk to an all - new low in what is supposed to be a cute holiday animated feature, with some events occurring that would probably have made this an R - rated film if it didn't feature animation.

I still remember my astonishment, sustained throughout the film, at his feature debut The Element of Crime — this blasted black - and - white world served up in curry - sauce monochrome, with an obviously English detective making his way through an obviously not - English city trying to solve a series of crimes — a climate of crime, really — which as I recall never did reach any identifiable conclusion.

As it turns out, the Cannes market this week does bring news of Slattery making his first feature film, and it will almost certainly be a much better thing than Fifty Shades.

You have to appreciate Aboud's bold attempt of making his first feature film that combines such different genres but it did not work as feature film.

I don't know what to say, other than, if Disney has been making a lot of steps in the right direction overall as a company, with features like Moana, and Star Wars, and (finally if late to the table) Marvel films, then asking for every movie, including period films set in Europe, might be over-correcting the ship.

It didn't quite, although he's rarely out of work, and when Polley came to make her feature debut with «Away From Her,» Montpellier was her only choice, and his haunting wintry images are almost as crucial to the film as Julie Christie «s astonishing performance.

Coming off the wonderful sports documentary Lenny Cooke why did you decide to make this a feature film rather than a straight up documentary?

Finally, writer - director Kate Barker - Froyland will make her feature film debut with «Song One,» also showing in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance and starring Anne Hathaway as another young woman with some growing up to do.

Don't Think Twice is the latest film written and directed by comedian / actor / filmmaker Mike Birbiglia, who made his feature directing debut with the indie hit Sleepwalk with Me in 2012.

Just this evening at the San Diego Comic - Con I caught up with Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (review) helmer Troy Nixey, who made his feature - length directing debut with the film, a remake of the 1973 made - for - TV movie of the same name about a family that discovers murderous tiny creatures living in the basement of their new home.

Though that doesn't make us any less excited for the film, which features performances from Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Teresa Palmer, and Natalie Portman.