Sentences with phrase «minute film down»

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I film the majority of the interviews and edit a half hour or hour long interview down to three minutes.

The first two minutes of Justin Kelly's «I Am Michael» boil down the film's ideological tension to one brief conversation.

As you may have suspected from an additional 30 minutes of footage, the pace of the film is slowed down considerably.

Still, this was better than the last ten minutes of the film, which I spent cursing the filmmakers for shoving a stupid cotton candy, puppy dogs and Christmas happy ending down my throat which was so unconvincing that it was almost offensive.

The feature, Actors in Search of a Story, applauds the entire cast of the film (right down to the woman who plays Harold's psychologist for about two minutes of screen time), Building the Team profiles director Marc Forster and some of his crew, and Words on a Page focuses on budding young screenwriter Zach Helm.

So it turns out that it doesn't matter that all the promo material on the film — TV ads, trailers, everything — reveals the story's twist — Lincoln and Jordan and all their fellow citizens aren't survivors of a global disaster but rich people's insurance policies — because all that happens after the secret is revealed is that Bay can finally get down to doing what he loves to do: Stomp and crash and burn and destroy as Lincoln and Jordan escape into the real world — just 20 minutes into our future — and must be recaptured.

Retardation to momentum is further well - secured by unevenness to pacing, because, at 106 minutes, this film's seemingly tight runtime is achieved through a combination of thinning and bloating, placing little attention to exposition, and plenty of attention to repetitious, almost episodic filler, which wear down momentum until aimlessness sets in, slowly, but surely wearing down dramatic bite.

Out of time and overbudget, the movie previewed badly and was eventually sliced down to an abrupt 88 minutes (by, among others, editor Robert Wise, who would go on to direct such films as West Side Story and The Sound of Music).

I suspect that the Farrellys really had to work to get their film down to the 110 minute mark, where it is now, and a lot of jokes went out the back door.

At nearly two hours, this film could have easily been trimmed down to a mere 90 minutes.

Presented in 70 mm and with a running time of 187 minutes (because Tarantino), the film continues his love for old school cinema, right down to the three minute «overture» that opens the film, something I don't think I've seen since Dancer in the Dark.

Well, the latter was a little bit of a let down because Tara Reid is only in maybe 10 minutes of the film.

Filing off what little edge there was from the first film's supervillainy, introducing a host of mostly forgettable new characters (Al Pacino was initially down to voice the bad guy, but dropped out at the last minute), and doubling down on the adored - by - kids, annoying - to - adults Minions, the film has occasional moments of wit and invention, but it's mostly a bland retread without the heart of its predecessor.

The Aviator is a well made film, and one of the year's best, with enough great moments to make the three hours not seem so long, although some trimming down of certain characters and scenes could still be done (Jude Law's cameo as Errol Flynn seems to be just an excuse to get him in the movie for a few minutes).

deconstructs a few of the bluescreen - heavy sequences; «Entrevue avec les réalisateur» sits down with Pitof for 40 minutes; «Documentaire sur le tournage du film» (6 mins.)

Would have cut down on the screwball farce by ten minutes or so but otherwise a really good film

This is a really good representation of the film condensed down into two minutes.

Though it starts out as a fairly decent, low - budget action film, «Everly» gets progressively worse with each passing minute, dragged down by the terrible dialogue, poor acting and paper - thin villains.

So sitting down to speak with him about his haunting film «Martha Marcy May Marlene» as the final minutes of an Arsenal game tick away is cruel.

Whedon's first cut of Age of Ultron came in at nearly three and a half hours; eventually, he and Feige worked together to slice the film down to 142 minutes.

All that said, Gondry's been cutting the film down by as much as thirty - five minutes, so it'll be interesting to see if the new cut is more palatable.

And while it feels churlish to complain about too much care and intricate creativity lavished on a production when most Hollywood films suffer from a lack of same, at 2 hours 15 minutes it just wore us down.»

While such a heavy - handed approach certainly bogs the story down in parts, the film is worth seeing for Rogers» fantastic performance alone as well as the sheer bravery of story's final 15 minutes.

Gavin Smith Adaptation; Bloody Sunday; demonlover; Far From Heaven; Femme Fatale; Friday Night (Claire Denis); Ichi the Killer; Super 8 films of José Rodriguez; Unknown Pleasures; The Visitation (Nathaniel Dorsky); Video:; One Mile per Minute (Robby Abate); Down from the Mountains (Alfred Guzzetti); Music Video: Six Days — DJ Shadow (Wong Kar - wai)

, The Oranges — taking its cryptically metaphorical name from the affluent New Jersey neighbourhood in which the film is set — finds two close families rended asunder when Meester's Nina rebounds from heartbreak with her father's best friend, David (Laurie), whose loveless marriage has him sleeping in his «man cave» most nights and counting down the minutes'til his perfunctory mid-life crisis can begin in earnest.

I have to wonder how Baywatch made it through test screenings without the film's runtime being cut down to 90 minutes.

I sat down with Korine at the last - minute interview session ostensibly to talk about his role in the film, but the conversation quickly digressed.

Fans of the Korean auteur (as well as fans of good sci - fi in general) were understandably very vexed by the decision to cut the film down by twenty minutes and add expository voice over, eager to see the director's original, uncompromising vision.

The film underwent heavy re-editing and, at a brief 78 minutes (with transitions filled in by a narrator who doesn't appear until the film is almost over) it feels like a film cut down to the bone.

Personally, I've never had much interest in any Youtube curiosities beyond their 15 minutes of fame, but that wasn't the case with director Ben Steinbauer who was compelled to track down Jack Rebney not only to learn the back story of the filming of the automobile ad, but to make a bio-pic chronicling his subject's life both before and since.

Both films competed for family love along with Minions, which looked like a great 30 minute premise that was stretched into an dumbed down film.

Instead of actually fulfilling the oh - my - God - this - is - awesome momentum set up right from the opening sequence (a delightful 5 minute short film in its own right) by hunkering down and making the story, ultimately, work, he relies almost entirely on smoke and mirrors: throwing whiz - bang - eveything - but - the - kitchen - sink - razzle - dazzle to keep us distracted.

The film starts at level - nine melodrama, as one of four sisters in WW2 era New Zealand screams her way out of the house to fulfill her lifelong dream of being a sexual plaything for lonely soldiers and hardly tones down for more than five minutes at a time from there on as the various other sisters get romantically involved, or not, with various other servicemen.

They essentially took the entire film and cut it down to 2 1/2 minutes, including every major plot point!

performance where Redmayne breaks down into tears every 20 minutes — it's much more nuanced, and the film is all the better for it.

While there's no denying the talents of the two stars, I would take a guess that filming Jackie Chan (The Accidental Spy, Shanghai Noon) and Chris Tucker (Jackie Brown, The Fifth Element) interact with people while walking down a busy street for 90 minutes would provide just as many laughs.

The next extra video is a 24 minute short public information film called Hospitals Don't Burn Down (1978), also directed by Trenchard - Smith.

Christopher Nolan and Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip), representing the blockbuster and indie sides of the film industry, sit down for a 90 - minute chat about celluloid and their preference for using the physical medium over the digital format.

Running time: 91 minutes Studio: Fox Home Entertainment DVD Extras: Unrated version of film, Fox trailers, viral videos, two auditions and a «Down and Dirty» music featurette.

A true mark of a film's quality is when I put my pen down and let everything unfold, which happened about fifteen minutes in.

I understand that with old, forgotten films — particularly ones where the crew speaks little to no English — it must be difficult to assemble anyone who worked on them to sit down and record for 90 minutes.

The only place where the movie really falters is in the final minutes, which is a little too nice for the events that precede it, because even though the subject matter may be bleak, «Starred Up» is a truly captivating film about the ineffectiveness of the penal system and hands - down one of the best prison dramas in recent memory.

Stories of post-production on «Django Unchained» have detailed a desperate battle to cut the film down to a 2 hour 45 minute running time, with some suggesting that Harvey Weinstein was pressuring Tarantino to edit the picture.

Also on the Blu - ray is the short film (about 13 minutes) wherein Puss must use three devilish kittens to track down a thief and retrieve a stolen jewel.

On top of this, Paramount ordered Mann to trim his original 210 minute cut of the film down to 96 minutes.

Pointing out all the stereotypical film techniques — down to Lethal Weapon «s music, in fact — well, if Hot Fuzz had been fifteen minutes — or even eighty - five — but it's two hours.

Her breathy narration bogs down the first and last 30 minutes of the film and she's outclassed and outgunned in every department by Del Toro, Travolta, and Hayek.

Jackie Brown: How It Went Down provides a 38 - minute and 55 - second documentary about the film's creation.

Wong Kar - wai revealed that the film's rough cut was 4 hours, and finally he cut it down to a 130 minute version.

Hence the 91 - minute flight is shot in real time and, a few brief preliminary scenes aside, the film's scope is narrowed down to a handful of settings: five windowless control rooms and the inside of the passenger jet.