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This week, Consequence of Sound: Film editor Dominick Suzanne - Mayer joins us to break down the mind - bending time travel microbudget indie Primer!
A decade ago, Gerwig was a ubiquitous young actress appearing in a range of microbudget features, from Joe Swanberg's «Hannah Takes the Stairs» to the Duplass brothers» «Baghead.»
It feels like just yesterday that this addendum to the venerable Austin, Texas music gathering (which kicks off March 9th) began programming scrappy microbudget indies and a multitude of rock docs for curious visitors.
Just when this black - and - white, microbudget movie seems poised to spring an indictment of the Dickensian social order, it ends, but in a redemptive ray of color.
«I suggest microbudgets as a catalyst to get the ball rolling or as an accelerant to make existing projects more successful.»
But while «A Quiet Place» remains the horror film of choice at the box office, Blumhouse's microbudget strategy has paid off again as the film only has a $ 3.5 million production budget and has also beaten pre-weekend projections of a $ 12 - 15 million start.
These include Moonee (Brooklynn Prince), the hyperactive child of 22 - year - old Halley (Bria Vinaite), an unemployed single mother with bright - green hair who spends most of her time dodging rent deadlines from the motel's patriarchal manager, Bobby (Willem Dafoe, the first name actor to surface in Baker's typically microbudget filmography).
That they managed to procure both studio backing and actual stars for a project is not really a surprise; the shock is that this modest middle ground between microbudget and the multiplex is where they've actually belonged since the beginning.
The latest microbudget spook - em - up from Blumhouse Productions is long on dares and short on scares.
Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson's otherworldly microbudget thriller combines cult dynamics and Lovecraftian horror to deliver something remarkably new.
There's an additional tweak of reality: Sheil, a marvellous actress with a CV of terrific microbudget productions, is presented, in Greene's scenario, as having a wide expanse of time to visit libraries, shops and relevant locations in Sarasota.
And they've earned it again this year, handing Best Picture and Best Actress to the quietly stunning «Wendy and Lucy» — between this and its unexpected AFI list placing, Kelly Reichardt's microbudget drifter tale is having a very good week indeed, while I'm glad some folks are acknowledging what a banner year Michelle Williams has had professionally.
«Twilight» star Robert Pattinson goes against type as a small - time hood in the grungy microbudget heist movie «Good Time.»
«V / H / S» contains contributions from some of the more ambitious microbudget American filmmakers working today, not all of whom exclusively work in horror.
Heavyweight directors such as Pedro Almodóvar and Oliver Stone have stopped by to talk shop; microbudget indies, cool retrospectives, and critically acclaimed international films and docs round out the programming.
Originally this game was going to be number five on the list but after looking back at the microbudget funding, it got bumped up a few spots.
A strong contender is emerging in the shape of Eran Creevy, who made a storming debut with the microbudget «Shifty» a few years ago, a low - key drama that featured top - notch performances from Daniel Mays and Riz Ahmed, and oodles of filmmaking talent behind the camera.
With a cast of unknowns, an obscure second - time director and a story about two high - school kids who befriend a young woman with terminal leukemia, this microbudget indie is about as far from the obvious Oscar heavy - hitters as we can imagine.
Ouija, costing under $ 20 million to make and based on the classic Hasbro board game, summoned up another victory for Blumhouse Pictures, Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes and Universal following the microbudgeted Purge franchise.
First - time feature filmmaker Trey Edward Shults is taking the global film scene by storm with his microbudget drama, «Krisha,» which screens in the prestigious Critics» Week program this week at the Cannes Film Festival.
I am not as aware of such productions as I «d like, but my favorite Canadian film of recent years is a local one (although not of the microbudget variety), and that is Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell.
After a string of studio comedies, followed by a microbudget indie and a couple of dramas, he's back on screens this fall with the political satire Our Brand Is Crisis.
The most buzzed - about movie at Sundance was probably «Catfish,» a microbudget documentary directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman about Ariel's brother Yaniv, a 24 - year - old New York photographer who is contacted on MySpace by an 8 - year - old Michigan girl who wants permission to paint one of his photos.
Well, there's a microbudgeted horror film about some kids who get into big supernatural trouble because they didn't follow the rules.
His last film, Tangerine, a microbudget comedy about two transgender sex workers in Los Angeles, was entirely shot on iPhones.
Mark Duplass, a mainstay of indie cinema's microbudget «mumblecore» movement, and recent convert Olivia Wilde ably play a scientist...
Mark Duplass («Safety Not Guaranteed»), a mainstay of indie cinema's microbudget «mumblecore» movement, and recent convert Olivia Wilde («Drinking Buddies») ably... Continue reading →
There's the microbudget black and white feature debut Pi; the drug - addled, head - spinning Requiem For A Dream; the ambitious, time - spanning love...
Never a major box - office presence with his microbudgeted, sex - drenched horror, women - in - prison, and porn films, Franco also spent the majority of his hyper - prolific career toiling in critical derision, often even among genre fans.
New Orleans native and Mount Carmel Cub Stephanie Langhoff has been named the head of Duplass Brothers Productions, started recently by Jesuit products Mark and Jay Duplass to produce everything from TV projects to microbudget indies to studio films that the brothers direct themselves, according to Deadline.
The independent production is skillfully cobbled together on a microbudget (as horror films often are) by writer / director team Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead — the minds behind similarly Lovecraftian indie thrillers Resolution and Spring.
The microbudget pic (est $ 4.5 M before P&A) tells the story of Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) a young African American who goes to meet his white girlfriend's (Allison Williams) family (Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener) for the first time.
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