Sentences with phrase «modest film works»

This modest film works best when playing in the thriller sandbox.

Not exact matches

Rami Malek — who, in an amazing bit of timing, signed on to the film just before the debut of Mr. Robot — stars in a dual role as Jonah, a modest family man who works overnights at a hotel and dreams of buying a plot of land in the mountains, and as Buster, an anarchist vagrant who survives by breaking in to the empty vacation homes of wealthy part - time Montana residents.

As his English - language debut and first time working with Hollywood actors, The Lobster marks the beginning of a new chapter for Yorgos, whose previous films (My Best Friend, Kinetta, the Academy Award — nominated Dogtooth, and Alps) were each made in Greece on an extremely modest budget with a crew made up of Yorgos's friends.

iHorror reports that Curtis is being paid a modest salary for her work on the upcoming Halloween film, in exchange for a slice of the profits if it is successful, the same profit - participation agreement that Blumhouse previously entered into with Ethan Hawke, star of the Blumhouse - produced films The Purge and Sinister.

The overly shiny CG work has never looked good in pin - point perfect HFR and most of this film has a jarring bloom effect that reminds me of an overbearing Skyrim graphics mod.

Coming to prominence thanks to (500) Days of Summer, the director then made the two Andrew Garfield Spider - Man films before returning to character - driven work with this spring's Gifted, which was a modest hit for Fox Searchlight.

Like the film «Brooklyn,» likewise concerning a recessive - seeming female protagonist working in early»50s New York City retail, «Carol» evokes the past on a modest but extremely crafty production budget.

Although the inky black - and - white photography recalls Gordon Willis's work in Manhattan, the film is much more in line with the modest tragicomedies of the French New Wave, with Frances figured as a better educated but just as coarse American cousin to Truffaut's Antoine Doinel, apologizing at one point for not being much of a «real person» just yet.

The voice work by Zach Braff as Finley and King as China Girl are also quite good, and their detailed animation and the actual attempt at a modest backstory makes these characters two of the most interesting in the film.

That's not to say the Coens» film is without its strengths: a good, if slightly familiar performance by Bridges; a nice, customarily modest turn by Damon, who may be the most versatile star working today; and, of course, the brothers» usual technical prowess.

And while that film is certainly impressive in its own right, it was refreshing to see the Academy give its top honors to Tom McCarthy's Spotlight, a more modest, but passionate movie about a group of hard - working, passionate people.

It's an interesting film to go back and visit after you've familiarized yourself with Baumbach's later work, mostly because the motifs he's consistently mulled over through the years are fully present here and it's fascinating to see how his directorial style has evolved since his visually modest debut.

Its origins, however, were modest: While working on his epochal 2006 eco - horror / giant - monster movie hit The Host (the highest grossing South Korean film to date), Bong happened to wander into his favorite comic book store in Seoul.

The film works best as a modest portrait of what the rock»n' roll life looked like in this time and place.

Though the film boasts some luxuriant, crisp effects work that puts many similarly - inclined Hollywood productions to shame, it still ends up coming across as something of a modest film.

Music Supervisor Tanya Sweeney gives essential advice to filmmakers working on modest budgets on how not to ruin a film with shoddy aural afterthoughts.

But the key member of the so - called «mumblecore» independent film movement reached a new level last year, when his romantic comedy Drinking Buddies was a modest hit, especially on V.O.D. Working with established stars like Anna Kendrick, Olivia Wilde, and Jake Johnson, Swanberg made his work available to a bigger audience than ever — which puts more attention on the two new films he had showing for audiences in January alone.

Shot on a modest (for a superhero movie anyway) budget by first - time director Miller (whose most well - known work prior to this film is likely the opening credit sequence of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Deadpool certainly isn't the flashiest film, but it does its best to look like it cost more than it did.

Shot on a modest (for a superhero movie anyway) budget by first - time director Miller (whose most well - known work prior to this film is likely the opening credit sequence of

The jurors — Sabine Breitwieser, Naomi Beckwith, Mario Codognato, Yungwoo Lee, and Ranjit Hoskote — also singled out three artists for special mentions: in the main exhibition, the late Harun Farocki (whose entire film catalogue is being screened there); the Aboundaddera collective, which is presenting videos from Syria; and Algerian artist Massinissa Selmani for «working in a modest medium which has the capacity to act beyond its scale.»

His collaborative film project with Brian Jungen, Modest Livelihood, was originally presented at the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre in collaboration with dOCUMENTA (13) with subsequent exhibitions of this work at the Logan Centre Gallery at the University of Chicago, Catriona Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver and at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

In celebration of a major exhibition of Barbara Hammer's work at KOW Berlin, we have put together our own modest gif retrospective looking at some of this Creative Capital Artist's most influential films.