Sentences with phrase «movie about the filmmaking»

Movies about the filmmaking process may never get old, but self - referential hit men smell like yesterday's fish story.

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Then envision midnight - movie touches mixed into the filmmaking: flash cuts of predators and prey enhancing otherwise typical scenes of plans being hatched; monologues about brain capacity and the true meaning of time coupled with psychedelic visions and wormholes and explanatory objects materializing from thin air.

After his superior action - drama hit Heat, writer - director - producer Michael Mann came back with 1999's The Insider, a movie about serious issues that scores high marks in every regard — quality, entertainment value, awards and just plain good filmmaking.

The more you think about the choices the filmmakers put into a movie and the more deeply you place the results (intended or otherwise) into context, the better you can talk about to a movie in terms of how it worked and the more you can actually write about a film while respecting the filmmaking process and the history of film.

«Joe and I always talk about it, there's this filmmaking adage that goes, «You make a movie three times over: when you write it, when you shoot it, and when you edit it,»» Anthony Russo added.

Gerald's Game, a Stephen King adaptation for Netflix starring Carla Gugino, is good Coming Soon Daniel Dae Kim's stunt training for the Hellboy reboot / Film Hocus Pocus moves forward as a TV movie remake - none of the original actors or filmmaking team are involved David Poland on Blade Runner 2049 with no spoilers «It is Aliens to Alien»... whoa, that's high praise Billboard composer Danny Elfman interviewed about Superman's iconic theme (redeployed for Justice League) and his long collaboration with Gus Van Sant Playbill Judy Garland's final concert, restored / remastered from 1969 will be released for the first time i09 on why you should be watching the Exorcist TV series, back for Season 2 / Film Amazon still has a lot of work to do to catch up with Netflix and Hulu but they're diving into the sci - fi genre big time

«The Disaster Artist» is an entertaining movie, not just about filmmaking but about brotherhood — metaphorically speaking in terms of Wiseau and Sestero — and literally, in the relationship between Dave and James Franco.

FILM COMMENT caught up with the English - born, Iranian - American writer - director to talk about her movie, which opens New Directors / New Films tonight at MoMA, and why filmmaking is like dancing naked.

With the exciting news emerging about The Flamethrowers possibly being your next movie, how do you think it will feel now to return to feature filmmaking after this wonderful experience with Top of the Lake?

I'll write more about Hristov's filmmaking in a longer review soon, but it's a movie with a unique grip in more ways than one.

Moreover, the jokes about filmmaking directed at Ti West's character should go down well with horror movie fans.

Bilge's lucid summary of the twisty - turny documentary Kate Plays Christine — in which director Robert Greene follows around a real - life actress while she rehearses for a fictional movie about the life of a real person — got me thinking: Aren't we starting to need more words for the bounteously proliferating forms of nonfiction filmmaking besides just documentary?

Just as modernist painting bears the traces of the painter's movements and presence, and modernist literature has moved toward the first - person essay, the autobiography, and the diary, so the strain of modernist filmmaking that was launched with the French New Wave has integrated the filmmaker's methods with the movie itself, and turned fictions into documentaries about their making.

The ultimate filmmaking chameleon, in the past five years alone Steven Soderbergh has directed an action infused spy thriller, a globespanning medical disaster movie, a seventies - set comedy about corporate corruption, an experimental drama starring a hard - core pornstar, a four hour Che Guevara biopic, and a documentary about Spalding Gray.

It's been eight years since Mark Romanek last directed a movie (the unsettling thriller One Hour Photo starring Robin Williams), but he is about to make his triumphant return to feature filmmaking with Never Let Me Go, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.

The filmmaker discusses his writing process, what skateboarding taught him about filmmaking, and why he loves revenge movies.

Splitting the difference between Michael Mann and Brian De Palma, it's a sequence that could teach any number of big - budget Hollywood movies a thing or four about action filmmaking.

«I think the reason why Marvel movies work so well,» Mackie began, about the entity that holds them all together, «and the reason the MCU is so appreciated and sought after, is because it's a combination of both [independent and blockbuster filmmaking].»

I'm still going to keep making Mario Bros jokes about this movie and be fine with it... This week ok the podcast we discuss being alone and the film Prince Avalanche as David Gordon Green returns to much smaller scale filmmaking.

Vivid proof that filmmaking is more about creativity than money, this micro-budget British movie takes an inventive approach to the ubiquitous zombie genre.

This week's Empire Podcast sees a filmmaking Lawrence, famous for an association with The Hunger Games franchise, drop by for a chat about their new movie, Russian spy thriller Red Sparrow.

«If you go back and watch the original Highlander, whether the quality holds up or not or the filmmaking process holds up, there are things about that movie beneath just the shots and the lighting, there's a mythology there, for some reason, it hooks us.

At the recent press day, Tarantino and his actors talked about the advantages of shooting in 70 mm, how a Tarantino set differs from other movie sets, how Leigh and Russell played off each other while chained at the hip for 4-1/2 months, why Russell remained in character after his character met his demise, the decision to stay close to the script, Tarantino and Jackson's take on race relations in America, why a period film affords a filmmaker the opportunity to comment on the present in ways a present day film does not, what their filmmaking adventure was like for the veteran actors who have been with Tarantino from the beginning, and why Tarantino doesn't mind dancing on the edge of political correctness.

The director, who last tried his hand at genre filmmaking with the low - key quasi-whodunit Cold Weather, goes all out with the stylized, Los Angeles - set thriller Gemini, his biggest project to date — something about a young movie star (Zoë Kravitz), her protective personal assistant (Lola Kirke), and a homicide detective (John Cho).

READINGS Books about all aspects of filmmaking and film culture Hank and Jim: The Fifty - Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart by Scott Eyman, reviewed by Steven Mears; Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face by Michael Tapper, reviewed by Justin Stewart; Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies by Andrew DeGraff, reviewed by Chloe Lizotte

There is so much to love about this movie, from the two leads playing off each other perfectly, to the exquisite filmmaking including fantastic dialogue with long - takes, to how deeply layered the screenplay is touching upon popularity, alcoholism, parenting, relationships and plenty more.

Hollywood loves making movies about making movies, and even though Lone Scherfig «s World War II romantic dramedy Their Finest actually hails from across the pond, it's still looking for that sweet spot of nostalgia for classic filmmaking crossed with the hardships of war.

READINGS Books about all aspects of filmmaking and film culture The Face on Film by Noa Steimatsky, reviewed by Michael Joshua Rowin; Jean Renoir: A Biography by Pascal Mérigeau, translated by Bruce Benderson, reviewed by Maddie Whittle; The Art of Selling Movies by John McElwee, reviewed by Justin Stewart

In Europe, Gillo Pontecorvo made the «The Battle of Algiers» about the Algerian War for Independence and the brutal response of the occupying French forces, while Jean - Luc Godard, one of the world's most highly regarded art - house filmmakers, made «Weekend,» a movie that stops dead in its tracks for a to - the - camera lecture about decolonization (Godard would quit mainstream filmmaking altogether shortly after to make experimental communist tracts as part of the Dziga Vertov group).

In September, HBO revived and retooled «Project Greenlight,» which is produced (more like touched) by entrenched movie stars Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, who still insist the effort is all about celebrating amateur filmmakers while showing the nitty - gritty of the filmmaking process.

We can talk a lot about the harm caused by certain studios when it comes to reshoots and edited versions of films, but when it doesn't concern huge movies where those stories will easily make headlines, it generally shows how much of a collaborative process filmmaking is and how there are producers who know a thing or two about development.

Wright is almost as passionate and knowledgeable about popular music as he is about filmmaking, and his movies always have at least one musical moment worth remembering.

Reminiscent of Taxi Driver (which Schrader wrote), First Reformed is an arthouse miracle of filmmaking and one of the most impactful, poignant, thought - provoking movies about faith ever made.

French screen legend Isabelle Huppert talks to host Eric Hynes about being an object of scrutiny in Claire Denis's White Material, how filmmaking is a questioning, and why movie acting is about just doing it.

Cameron's beef seems to be less with superhero films in general though and more about Hollywood's obsession with sequels, remakes and branding — which is strange coming from a filmmaker who is prepping a new series of «Terminator» movies (the sixth, seventh and eighth in that franchise), four new «Avatar» movies (sequels to a film many consider more a showreel for today's effects than a truly enjoyable bit of filmmaking), and a TV series based on his»90s film «True Lies».

He knows what it's gonna be, what it's gonna look like, how to shoot it... y ’ know, the other thing about this movie is that, for him, it's a return for him to a genre and a way of filmmaking that's the hallmark of his maturation as a young artist.

Peter Berg's movie about the BP oil disaster was his more successful film this year, and this kind of macho filmmaking was clearly something that voters responded to in Deadpool as well.

No mere jigsaw movie, David Fincher's thriller is also a nuanced character study, a satire of corporate culture, and a film about filmmaking.

Likewise, Taxi's surface is casual, even impish, but underneath the movie are serious questions about filmmaking and individual freedom.

Say what you will about the so - called mumblecore school of filmmaking — with its slapdash aesthetic and endless self - regarding conversations — but at least those movies seem to have something on their minds, beyond creating a mood.

Something of a cult classic, «American Movie» may be the finest movie ever made about filmmaking, or at the very least, the funnMovie» may be the finest movie ever made about filmmaking, or at the very least, the funnmovie ever made about filmmaking, or at the very least, the funniest.

He talked about what it's like to be part of a famous filmmaking family and still earn recognition on his own terms, the difficult process of shooting Kill Your Darlings that gives the movie an extra spark, how he prepared to play Kerouac at this stage in his life, his character's arc on Boardwalk Empire, American Hustle and the unusual way they shot the film, upcoming projects including an Errol Flynn biopic and a production of Strangers on a Train in London, and more.

In addition to a pair of insightful interviews by director Michael Roskam and star Matthias Schoenaerts (who talks about becoming obsessed with his physical preparation for the movie), there's also a cool making - of featurette that delivers a behind - the - scenes look at the filmmaking process.

Far and away the best movie ever made about a sentient, psychokinetic, serial killing tire, «Rubber» brilliantly satirizes slasher films, road movies, and filmmaking in general.

These were haunting moments of filmmaking somehow stuffed into a PG - 13 movie about monkeys ruling the world.

I talk about retro blasting, movies, film crews, books, music, Hollywood, animation, comic books, Gaming, writing and filmmaking.

I talk about retro blasting, movies, film crews, books, music, Hollywood, animation, comic books, Gaming, writing and filmmaking.