Sentences with phrase «more independent films»

After appearing in more independent films such as The Resurrection, Finn moved into roles on television shows The 100 and Supernatural.

That's not to say that i don't enjoy more independent films.

After working on a few more independent films, including «Reckless» (1984), «Old Enough» (1984) and «Heartbreakers» (1984), he made another important personal and professional connection when Martin Scorsese hired him to shoot a low - budget indie - style film that he was working on as a way of collecting his bearings after a string of increasingly complex and complicated productions, the dark comedy «After Hours» (1985).

The same year, Schreiber had leading roles in two more independent films, The Daytrippers (which again paired him with Posey) and Walking and Talking, as well as a secondary role in the bloated Mel Gibson thriller Ransom.

Not exact matches

Captain Wallsworth, who regularly shares beautiful pictures and videos from above the clouds, told the Independent he hopes to film more of the city when he returns there.

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Demand for new independent film and TV content is growing rapidly as both traditional and non-traditional distribution channels, such as over-the-top streaming and other video on demand applications, become more popular.

LUNA is known for supporting female athletes, breast cancer research, independent films and so many more lady causes.

Lunch Line was also recently selected as one of six films to participate in the Whole Foods «Do Something Reel» traveling film festival (the films will screen together at independent cinemas in more than 40 cities in Aprl / May).

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

Of course it would take more than a small independent film to truly set Washington apart from the pack, and many saw her performance in the 2001 romantic drama Save the Last Dance as one of the few redeeming qualities in the otherwise forgettable teen drama.

Though the film would introduce Morton to her largest audience yet, it was a pair of independent features released in late 2002 and 2003 that would garner her even more significant critical attention.

The Renderyard online multimedia platform contains a wide selection of short films that include documentaries, animations, series, independent films and much more.

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

After substantial parts in two high - profile box - office disappointments, Terms of Endearment sequel The Evening Star (1996) and the Sandra Bullock - Chris O'Donnell historical romance In Love and War (1996), Astin focused on work in more idiosyncratic independent films.

Having won the Golden Lion at this year's Venice International Film Festival and a Special Filmmaking Achievement Award (but no mention in the ten best films list) from the National Board of Review, Sofia Coppola's Somewhere is one of the more highly anticipated independent releases of December, especially if you liked her previous films.

According to IMDB the budget for Jeff Who Lives At Home is estimated at 10 million (3 million more than Cyrus), which would still make the film eligible for next years» Film Independent Spirit Awards.

There seems to be a progressive gap growing between independent projects and the films that are considered to be more mainstream.

Unafraid to inhabit the ragged edges, she captures the black comedy that's at the core of this gritty independent drama, making audiences ache for more LaVona while keeping Rogers» original idea for the film intact.

Silver Linings Playbook was also up for quite a few gold men at last year's Oscars, including Best Picture, but winning Best Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards is a more fitting accolade for this black sheep film about, well, black sheep.

The Independent's Anthony Quinn comes closer to my take on the film; he's a little more reserved in his admiration, but it's deep admiration nonetheless:

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After a breakthrough performance in the 2013 independent film «Short Term 12,» she has been making more studio films, playing Amy Schumer's little sister in last summer's comedy «Trainwreck,» and getting cast in «Kong: Skull Island,» due next March.

Recognizing the new audience for them, the Sundance Film Festival and savvy new distributors began launching independent films to national attention, providing audiences with a more easily accessible alternative to the mainstream.

After all, underground cinema is less in thrall to the establishment of a name (filmmakers may often either move on to independent film or into other areas of activity), and much more likely to be a scene of greater experimentation.

In 1969 he established American Zoetrope, an independent film studio that helped launch the careers of George Lucas and Carroll Ballard, and has since produced more than 30 films, including «The Black Stallion,» «The Outsiders,» «Lost in Translation» and «The Good Shepherd.»

Though it has cut into theatrical viewing, the omnipresence of DVD screeners and the likely future streaming of contenders, by making it easier for voters to follow their taste into the world of independent, non-studio film, has turned the Oscars into a more accurate reflection of where we are today.

And since independent film is where social progress typically finds its earliest, least compromised expression, we're now seeing more richly observant films like «Return,» a sensitively rendered drama that marks a promising debut for writer - director Liza Johnson, in rewarding collaboration with underrated actress Linda Cardellini.

Though the data tells us that women are interested in genres favored by Hollywood, female filmmakers encounter significant obstacles as they attempt to move from independent to more commercial filmmaking, and face deep - rooted presumptions from the film industry about their creative qualifications, sensibilities, tendencies, and ambitions.

The 2018 Sundance Film Festival kicks off today, marking the debut of some of the year's most exciting independent films, as well as shorts, VR experiences, and more.

We believe that by learning more about how women are faring in the independent film world, and by opening our own data at Sundance Institute for this study, we gain powerful insights into ways to positively affect progress.

It also highlights the effort that Linklater has made in support of Independent filmmaking and how he was influential in helping create the Austin Film Society whereby old film prints could be saved and showed, as well as raising money from filmmakers to help make more films.Overall, it does little but scratch the surface and a bit more in - depth analysis to his films would have been welcome but to paraphrase Billy Bob Thornton on the outtakes at the end; «Rick Linklater doesn't need anyone to make a documentary about him.

I was coming off a project at the time, and I really wanted to do an independent film that was more of an intimate, character - driven piece.

Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, Sony, Universal — all studios that have major films this year have decided to eschew the world's biggest film festival for whatever reason, giving us a much more esoteric and independent lineup.

The Duplass brothers have been responsible for some of the more original and entertaining films in the last decade, and have created some really great independent films.

Yes there are plenty of great horror films being made these days but they are more often than not independent films that never quite get the attention they deserve.

The British Independent Film Awards really spread the wealth this year, with only two films — «Moon» and «Fish Tank» — taking more than one award.

In one of the more positive reviews, The Independent's Geoffrey Macnab praised the cast and initial build up, yet said how «in the final reel, the film begins to unravel».

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by Bill Chambers Two Family House and Panic, a pair of overlooked films hopefully not destined to become overlooked DVDs, have more in common than a passing glance suggests, and their joint failure to earn even a pittance sounds the death knell for independent cinema as we knew it in the early -»90s.

Also, while the Independent Spirit Awards often award films I liked more than the Oscars, which they did this year, they do pick some awful movies.

On the second day, I watched more independent and low key films which is what I expected to see at SXSW in the first place.

Based on the more recent entries of the Tomb Raider video game franchise, the film follows Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander), an independent, risk - taking, eccentric girl with a thirst for adventure as she begins to unravel the mystery surrounding the disappearance of her father (Dominic West).

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Coming off a decade where the American genre film devolved into lowest - common - denominator investments and blockbusters ballooned skyward on the backs of sequels and franchises, Refn's modest exercise in crime pastiche and car - chase nostalgia parlayed both the exhaustion of Hollywood's narrative resources and — perhaps more importantly — the gathering mainstream curiosity in independent music's preoccupation with the sound and feel of the 1980s (the film's soundtrack has become one of the most popular word - of - mouth successes of the decade).

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And I would like it if we reviewed more independent and foreign films.

It's the second film by independent filmmaker Jon Sherman (Breathing Room), working with first - time screenwriter Eric Pomerance's script, but it feels like the work of more seasoned veterans, with a good balance of storytelling and character development that pays off quite well during the film's more romantic moments.

Every year, film fanatics — «film addicts» may be a more accurate phrase — head to Utah to see what Robert Redford, Sundance festival director John Cooper and his eclectic team of programmers, the alumni of the Sundance Institute's workshops / programs, returning veteran filmmakers and any number of fresh new voices have concocted in the name of «independent» movies.

Three independent movies from this year deserve a special mention... Bill Morrison's documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time, the socio - political history of a gold rush town, illustrated with film stock recovered from beneath an abandoned ice rink... Oxide Ghosts, director Michael Cumming's assemblage of VHS outtakes from the influential, more relevant than ever TV news satire Brass Eye... and Dispossession, a restrained documentary about the housing crisis that's provoked fiercely energetic audience discussions up and down the land, culminating in a panel discussion at Curzon Chelsea with director Paul Sng, author Anna Minton and Jeremy Corbyn MP.