Sentences with phrase «making fictional films»

Using student help, Hooper began making fictional films while an instructor at the University of Texas.

I can't ever recall seeing a movie that could be called an «autobiopic» before, afilmmaker making a fictional film about his own life.

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If you read the book on which the film is based, you can see that the facts damn Irish clericalism well enough without the added polemics displayed in a made - up speech by a basically fictional bitterly anti-erotic nun.

«Deep down we all hoped that people would come to see a film about a fictional country on the continent of Africa, made up of a cast of people of African descent.

Additional special features include audio commentary with Ben Affleck and writer Chris Terrio, interviews with the key players in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis including President Jimmy Carter, former CIA agent Tony Mendez, and the houseguests, a featurette on recreating the era for film, a peek inside the Canadian government, a bit about how Istanbul was chosen for shooting the film, and a look back at how the CIA made Hollywood believe in a fictional film.

Made with deft evenhandedness, Paul Devlin's accomplished film plays almost like a fictional drama, containing suspense, comedy and some colorful characters.

Film director Adam Rifkin spoofs Hollywood's star machine in concocting this fictional «mockumentary» about a director (Rifkin playing himself) who wants to make a documentary film about a rising young star.

It's an extremely silly device that pulls you out of the film every time it cuts back to him, although Petit is so self - absorbed and flamboyant (constantly jostling to be the center of attention) that it makes perfect sense that even his fictional self would be this theatrical.

The pulp - fictional hero is inhabited by the charismatic Andy Lau who, together with Chinese stars Bingbing Li, Ms. Lau and Tony Leung Ka - fai, makes Detective Dee the most purely entertaining film of our vanishing summer.

German / Austrian director Michael Haneke has become notorious for making films that are, essentially, extended meditations on discomfort, in which the lives of his fictional characters are marred by unspeakable violence and the minds of the audience are jarred by self - reflexive story twists.

Excerpts from the note read — «I am struggling to find the words to express my gratitude at this moment, but I will try... Deep down we all hoped that people would come to see a film about a fictional country on the continent of Africa, made up of a cast of people of African descent.

Making a convincing case for the humanistic potential of fictional re-staging, Berg's film throws into question the idea that dramatic reconstitutions are inevitably insensitive.

It perhaps explains why Epstein and Friedman resort to a fictional telling of an important story, but the complexity of the debates that Deep Throat and Lovelace's story provoke is lost in their simplistic film that's made enjoyable by good performances and incidental pleasures.

A fictional film made with the same group of actors over a twelve year period, Boyhood is certainly something to look out for.

But recreated on film, his stasis makes little sense; he comes off as the worst sort of amateur, a deer caught in the headlights put through manufactured fictional paces that he, perversely enough, lived for real.

Much like The LEGO Movie leveraged LEGO's partnerships with established fictional universes to create a juggernaut of animated film, LEGO Dimensions will make use of franchises like Batman, Lord of the Rings, The Wizard of Oz, and even Back to the Future -LRB-!!)

«Deep down we all hoped that people would come to see a film about a fictional country on the continent of Africa, made up of a cast of people of African descent.»

Schafer offers Seal what he secretly wanted most: To matter, to make a difference, but also to fly a state - of - the - art, off - the - assembly - line twin engine airplane that Barry embraces literally and figuratively like his spiritual, fictional predecessor, Pete «Maverick» Mitchell, once did in another Reagan - era, mainstream propaganda film, Top Gun.

We're a long way from McDonagh's last film, Seven Psychopaths, which was a gleefully glib (albeit frequently hilarious) meta cartoon crime caper, like what Charlie Kaufman might make if assigned to write a Tarantino knockoff with his fictional brother Donald.

This is the second, more serious problem with the film: it's fictional status means the filmmakers could have done anything they wanted to, and this is what they chose to film — a fabricated and unflattering characterization of a real person disguised as a documentary about the making of her film.

But the details are what make this film so interesting and even if this is a completely fictional account, it seems true and our need to fill in the gaps will cause what I think will be a massive audience to see this much anticipated film.

The film's undoing is that by setting the action in India, as opposed to a fictional India - inspired location, it makes frivolous use of the country and its customs.

It's easy to sit back and judge fictional characters, but at no point do any of them make an obviously stupid decision, and much of the film plays out as a thriller as we root for the strong - willed young women to find a way out of captivity.

After opening with a personal quote from Kazantzakis, the film makes clear that it is not based on the Gospels but on the author's fictional novel.

A24 has unveiled the first trailer for the film The Disaster Artist, a fictional account of the making of the «best worst movie ever made» - The Room, as directed by Tommy Wiseau.

Rather, the bulk of the film is comprised of fictional stories that take place among many hotel guests and employees of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where Bobby Kennedy was to make his acceptance speech for winning the 1968 Democratic primary.

EXTRAS: In addition to a pair of production featurettes, there are some fictional promo videos made for the film and a gag reel.

The director makes a good but not perfect transition to fictional films here.

The Iranian exile is shooting in Tbilisi, Georgia, making his first English - language film, The President, in which the overthrown dictator of a fictional Caucasus country goes on the run disguised as a street musician and discovers the daily reality of the common people...

In the tradition of the best sci - fi, the film is much better at recreating an onscreen fictional universe than it is at creating a palpable sense of dread to make it work as a successful creature feature.

Peter Sarsgaard does good things withChuck Lane, the unpopular editor who discovers Glass's transgressions.But the real Lane reportedly served as a consultant on the film, whichprobably explains why the fictional Lane comes out as a hero.Screenwriter Billy Ray (Color of Night, Hart's War) makes hisdirectorial debut, and though the film is both seductive and maddening, you can't quite write it off.

Her first film roles in the Mike Judge work - inspired comedy «Office Space» and «Rock Star,» the fictional biography of wannabe Judas Priest front - man quickly proved to critics that she could make it in a world without her friends.

Directors Viewfinder: Creating a Fictional Family (5 minutes) allows Levy to talk about the making of the film and shows how he worked with the kids during filming.

While I'm not sure how much of this film is fictional and how much is «based on a true story,» I do know that this event took place and watching this movie constantly makes you wonder what would have happened if it were successful.

OK so here at Eight Interactive we make animated explainer videos for eLearning and not blockbuster films or fictional books.

Instead, that figure may represent what the fictional car will make in the film.

Ubisoft have made the film to «showcase the real stories behind Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands» fictional Bolivian setting.»

For the film, Woolfalk created the world of the Empathics, a fictional race of technologically advanced women who are able to alter their genetic make - up and fuse with plants.

The second video, entitled The white ghosts sailed in, is a fictional film documentary allegedly made in 1788 by Australian Indigenous people depicting Sydney Harbor with a film camera prototype discarded by Captain Cook.

Many of Prouvost's film and installation works center on the character of her lost «grandfather», a fictional fellow artist who «didn't really like conceptual art — he liked making bottoms».

Alongside writing, he has made a number of found footage films, including Disturbances (2010), The Serendipity Loops (2012) and Subliminal (2015), and contributed to many group exhibitions, made an edition of Tarot cards and fabricated retrospective solo shows under the entirely fictional identity of the British collage artist Robert Holcombe (b. 1923 — d. 2003)

He introduces the fictional character of Hanan, an art advisor to Sheikh Khalifa in charge of filling the empty museum, who makes the mistake of acquiring the painting collection of German novelist Erich Maria Remarque and film star Paulette Goddard (judged too Western by the Sheikh), and subsequently has trouble getting rid of it.

He made a documentary of the mission, and hired two screenwriters to follow him as he did it, so they could write a fictional version of the making of the documentary while themselves factoring into the documentary — and then, eventually, he would film the screenplay they come up with.

«On one hand there are my fictional characters, whom I suppose are a mixture of people I've seen in real life, films, media, comics... for them, I can make up a whole universe,» she notes.

By September, UTA Fine Arts had revealed two film projects, both of them documentaries: Maura Axelrod's study of the prankster - sculptor Maurizio Cattelan, and an absurdist quest for a quite possibly fictional sculpture by Ed Ruscha, made by Pierre Bismuth, a French conceptual artist best known for co-writing the Oscar - winning screenplay for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

In the show at the Barbican's Curve gallery, von Wedemeyer has created and collected a series of films — some factual and some fictional, others a confused amalgamation of both — that explores our ability to make contact with others, and the difficulty of truth, myth and the media.