Sentences with phrase «making space films»

Also, there is some new bonus material, including a documentary on how techniques for making space films has evolved in the last 100 years or so.

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She begins clobbering computer chips with a hammer, just as the stereo switches to «Still,» the gangsta - funk Geto Boys track made famous in the printer - whupping scene from the 1999 film Office Space.

In addition, as Spielberg's shop moves more into the family space, it could run up against part of the deal that forbids DreamWorks from making animated films for any company other than DWA.

But all Royal Dick sucking aside, Summerhall is a terrifically cool space, with a fascinating community of international artists lounging in the courtyard, trolling the hallways, wandering in and out of its nearly 500 rooms (some filled with art, some abandoned, some undecided), playing music, watching films, hanging from the ceiling fans, getting naked, and making art in all mediums.

Gorrell immediately made the connection to the copy machine smashing scene in the film «Office Space,» and decided to call her project «Mom Space.»

Instead, the state will market the building as open work space - analogous to a convention center - where out - of - town film companies can swoop in for a few weeks, make a film and then leave.

The church's pastor, Father Walter Tonelotto, had told the senior center's leaders that he wanted to clear out the space so he could make more money off of it by hosting film crews, the New York Post reported.

At the time, he was reading about the making of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which spaceship computer HAL 9000 tries to murder its human crewmates.

In this wide - ranging, humorous talk, Seth Shostak takes a look at Star Wars and other science fiction films from the point of view of a skeptical scientist, tells stories about the movies he has been asked to advise, and muses about aliens from space and how we might make contact with them.

In this first - ever IMAX 3D space film, audiences will travel 220 miles above Earth at 17,500 mph to experience the making of the International Space Station — the greatest engineering feat since landing a man on the space film, audiences will travel 220 miles above Earth at 17,500 mph to experience the making of the International Space Station — the greatest engineering feat since landing a man on the Space Station — the greatest engineering feat since landing a man on the Moon.

The film doesn't find space to fill their characters out in more than broad swaths, but manages to make them both unappealing, having a superheroic pissing match that turns into literal grappling over the moral high ground.

Corbijn isn't making a stereotypical Hollywood thriller, with the stakes spelled out in neon and the loud fight scenes spaced every few minutes, but he doesn't seem to realize there is such a thing as being too vague, and in his efforts to make some kind of art - house / thriller hybrid, he goes too far the other direction and creates a nicely rendered film with no emotional hook.

Just as films about misunderstood benevolent aliens in the 1950s (The Day the Earth Stood Still, It Came from Outer Space) were calling for an end to the Cold War us - and - them mentality, District 9 is likewise making a strong statement about the damage that can be done when refugees are treated with suspicion before being given any compassion.

The film's uncomplicated plotting allows plenty of space for goofy little throwaway gags — like a running joke about the young McGregor's feeble attempts at birdwatching — that other films might have cut to make way for various subplots or emotional character moments.

When it comes to critics» lists of the worst films ever made, Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space (1956) used to nestle very near the top.

It's the audacity of the film - making, however, that's truly bewitching here: the eerie, long tracking shots, the dazzling flares from lighting sources that eclipse the figures, and the spaced - out spookiness of Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans» score, creating an isle full of noises, sounds and sweet airs.

And it's meticulously designed by Katarzyna Sobanska and Marcel Slawinski; the lounges and bars echo the mood of the underground spaces of Wajda's Fifties films (a friend also detected a flavor of early - Sixties Forman), but more than anything I was reminded of the melancholy retro of Aki Kaurismäki's Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana, while a wide shot of a car in a glum garage yard made me think of early Jarmusch.

Joe Dante is one of my favorite filmmakers, as he is one of the most diverse directors out there, making pure horror films like The Howling, kid - friendly iconic films such as Gremlins and Small Soldiers, as well as comedies such as this and Inner Space.

Eastwood hasn't made a bad film since «Space Cowboys,» and he's rarely surrounded by this much talent.

Considering the lack of space, lack of cast and lack of special effects it sure is loaded with suspense, thrills and solid film making.

Thematically, this is family friendly stuff, of the Ron Howard Apollo 13 ilk, and the film's visual power, featuring the work of Scott's returning DoP Dariusz Wolski, makes this 3D space epic seem superbly outfitted.

Castleknock native and Hollywood heartthrob Colin (38) had to make a dramatic transformation for his role in the film and gained 40 lbs in the space of two months.

Thunderbirds owes more to films like Spy Kids and the movie version of Lost in Space than it does to the original television series, so if you like slickly - made family sci - fi schlock targeted at the youngest of the audience members, you may not mind this mostly inferior knock - off.

However, they do make great «wallpaper» cinema: films to turn on in the background during a cocktail party to entertain your guests (especially fun when Thunderbirds are Go casts aside narrative and indulges in a prolonged dream sequence at a night club in space — call it a camp precursor to the Stargate sequence in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odysspace — call it a camp precursor to the Stargate sequence in Kubrick's 2001: A Space OdysSpace Odyssey).

Their rollicking space adventure is reminiscent of the recent film, and exploring the neon - soaked space city of Knowhere makes for the most unique setting.

But what really separates this space opera sequel from the rest of Marvel's films is Gunn and his cast's willingness to abandon the Marvel cinematic universe's more polished and formulaic veneer and drill into the heart of what makes this movie and the Guardians franchise so impossibly irresistible: pure fun.

Even when the films» stories are set in distant lands and deal with ancient empires, her cleanly organized frames (often filled with carefully spaced plants and animals) and characters» lightness of motion make the fantastical always seem within reach.

As writer and director, Lucas unabashedly uses «Star Wars» to pay tribute to all the grand adventure films ever made, be they westerns, swashbucklers, fantasies or space operas.

In A Quiet Place, John Krasinski's third film as a writer - director - actor (The Hollars, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men), a cheaply made, disposable children's toy, a plastic and metal reproduction of the space shuttle — a symbol of both triumph and tragedy in American culture — portends an abrupt, premature end for the unfortunate member of a...

Considering the space travel that will be required of the Avengers in at least one of the upcoming two films that make up the Infinity War story, it could be related to new tech developed to allow them to do so.

Filmmakers, especially those operating in the indie horror space, love these non-endings because they make viewers think about the film and draw their own conclusions.

For top dramatic pictures, the selections made by the HFPA's fewer than 100 voters were the historical drama «12 Years a Slave»; the Somali piracy thriller «Captain Phillips»; the 3 - D space spectacle «Gravity»; «Philomena,» about a mother's search for her son; and the car racing film «Rush.»

There's being a fan of Robert Zemeckis» 1985 film Back to the Future, and then there's loving it so much that you make a genuine attempt to break the time - space continuum.

While the lack of content concerns may make this a film teens can experience, it's unfortunate these space visitors aren't as clear about our wrongs or how to right them.

Thankfully, the actors have plenty of space to add sardonic wit, creating tension between them that makes the film more entertaining than it has a right to be.

Though the strong work of Sandra Bullock and George Clooney — the only two actors who appear on camera — is essential to what the film accomplishes, the great lure of «Gravity» is the way director Alfonso Cuarón, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and visual effects supervisor Tim Webber have collaborated to make us feel we're stranded in outer space ourselves, no questions asked.

He has rapidly emerged as simply one of the most exciting filmmakers working today, over the space of a mere three harrowing, excoriating but unquestionably brilliant films that tackle adult subjects with unflinching humanism, even as they utterly refuse to compromise in their depictions of emotional and physical brutality — qualities that make him peculiarly suited to tackling something as potentially explosive as a slavery drama.

The characters themselves, as previously mentioned, are highly competitive (it doesn't matter if it's Space Invaders, ping pong, or other more absurd exercises), with the film suggesting that tough - spirited camaraderie between teammates build a stronger relationship, paving the way for a unified force that can actually make the playoffs and potentially win championships.

Kevin Jerome Everson By Max Nelson For years, the Charlottesville - based artist has been making films about America's marginalized people and spaces, including his latest, Tonsler Park, shot on an Election Day that will live in infamy

«However, all the way through the film, when I was making the film, the film was called Space Vampires.

While some films void of color such as Escape From Tomorrow and Computer Chess did not make our list, a film set in the black void of space did (Gravity).

Holofcener's last film «Please Give» ended up on many of our year - end lists in 2009, so while we're not expecting «big things» exactly — that's hard to say about small scale dramas about regular people — we are, as usual, excited and grateful that we live in a world where, despite all the tentpole tendencies, there's still a very viable space for Holofcener to make movies.

The Disaster Artist also makes good, possibly great art out of a film considered by many the worst film ever made (Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space excepted).

The new production circumstances of Code Unknown gave him the space and budget to retry and perfect some of the thematic strategies risked in the glaciation trilogy, but it is the combination of the fates of semi-established African residents in Paris with those of Romanians in the country illegally and begging in the streets that makes the film feel more global in scope than his earlier work.

But what makes the film more than a mere vengeance flick is that it is actually a fairy tale disguised as a humble western in the same way that the Star Wars franchise is actually a space opera about a son redeeming his father who fell from grace.

Watching events unfold via her point - of - view, a soundless space, somehow makes the film more terrifying.

One day I got a phone call from a guy who said that he had been the former head when he was there, and he was trying to make a film and he was hoping that the players could give him some help for rehearsal space, wardrobe, etc..

Cuarón masterminded the audacious deep - space thriller Gravity (for which he won the best director Oscar) and was handed the reins of a Harry Potter film, but has also made more intimate, Mexico - set dramas such as Y Tu Mamá También.

Instead, it's a film that understands exactly what it is and what space it occupies, and at the end it's not merely an extraordinary character piece (Blair's turn would be star - making in a just universe), it's also a nimble thriller full of outrageous fortune and stunning reversals meted out perfectly between its breathless moments and the moments where it breathes.

The film is about a team of American astronauts on a space station who make a terrifying discovery that «challenges all they know about the fabric of reality, even as they desperately fight for their survival.»