Sentences with phrase «of film school»

More experience overall than being in two years of film school in terms of practical, hands - on filmmaking.

Neither took the traditional path of film school, yet both were hyper - prepared by early careers as self - starting actors and writers.

I began having flashbacks of film school — was I ready?

In the end, she decided that being a litigator was the second best thing to being an actress, so she went to law school instead of film school.

He dropped out of film school in the early»90s to make a documentary about the notorious punk rocker GG Allin, and by the end of the decade he was making his first mainstream comedy, the American Pie - lite college romp, Road Trip.

Capy started as a gleam in the eye of a trio of film school students, Kris Piotrowski, Nathan Vella and Anthony Chan, who were unsatisfied in their various workaday jobs.

In Luis Nieto's documentary, we watch as a Japanese primatologist and film lover, Hirokazu Shibuya, hears of Capucine and brings her to a research centre in Japan that serves as a kind of film school for primates.

He described the experience as «a bit of film school for me in terms of problem solving, technique and using a budget», before sharing an anecdote in which Emmerich, despite having a $ 75,000,000 for Independence Day, was ordering sets to be built at the last minute from leftover pieces of other film's sets.

In fact, it's an entire semester of film school condensed into 110 scintillating minutes.

Unfortunately everyone else in the film feels as if they're artificial and that the story seems more of a film school treatment than a believable real life story, as this good looking film comes down from the hills onto the village cobblestones where the pedestrians walk without letting us know what's on its mind — except to let us know that «Americans don't care about history, they just want to live in the present.»

In 1969, director Alexander Mackendrick retired from the film industry and became founding dean of the film school at the newly established California Institute of the Arts.

The Wind and the Lion (1972), the sophomore feature of the film school - trained screenwriter turned director, takes on a romantic tale of rebellion and response, honorable ancient codes and modern military might, and the first stirrings of the United States of America, the modern, maverick young country in a political culture dominated by the history - seeped empires of old Europe, as a world power.

However it will appeal to a certain type of film school cineaste who will find it endlessly fascinating.

Stock characters abound: a predictably bitchy Hollywood producer, a prima donna host, a lovestruck straight out of film school camera boy, and uptight religious parents.

James Franco's decision to wear a Time's Up pin has been described as a «slap in my face» by a former pupil of his film school.

During my years with FILM COMMENT, now ending, I managed to publish some excellent film articles on documentary, blacklisting, censorship, propaganda, interviews with film directors, news of the film schools and festivals, reviews and so forth.

The worst possible marriage of film school navel gazing and the pretensions of a creative writing program, «Listen Up Philip» asks us to waste our time watching two successful, but utterly loathsome writers as they alienate everyone around them, including the women who (astonishingly) love them.

This book inspired him to write his first novel Red Earth and Pouring Rain, most of which was written while he attended writing programs at John Hopkins University and the University of Houston (having dropped out of film school early) from where he earned an MA and MFA respectively.

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«You can learn more from John Sturges» audio track on the Bad Day at Black Rock Laserdisc than you can in four years of film school.

Reiter told Digital Trends he credits Channel 101 (Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab's monthly short film festival where the audience votes on which films return the next week) with not only getting his name out to the right people but with being a kind of film school.

For anyone who happens to be sane, however, no, it's not, it feels as if the whole thing has been made by a 19 year old who's done one semester of film school.

Neither took the traditional path of film school, yet both were hyper - prepared by early careers as self - starting actors and writers, he an uncanny impressionist on his sketch show, Key & Peele, she an indie - film chameleon in movies such as Frances Ha, Mistress America, and 20th Century Women.

Since «George Washington» (2000) opens with a teenage girl's dreamy, wise - beyond - her - years narration as the camera floats in slow - motion through waving fields of grass and glides along railroad tracks, you probably don't need to be told that first - time feature director David Gordon Green, then just twenty five and fresh out of film school, was a big Terrence Malick fan.

Hollywood star James Franco has been accused of abusing his power by Sarah Tither - Kaplan, a former student of his film school.

Fresh out of film school, the young Turk directors from USC and UCLA who defied authority and found their chief point of view intentionally «ironic,» directors like John Landis, Robert Zemeckis, Joe Dante and believe it or not, a young Steven Spielberg, wanted to make their mark in cinema with a raw and raunchy sensibility.

(It was never produced, though it did win an award that paid for a year of film school.)

Just out of film school, Alisa Kovalenko and Liubov Durakova set out to document the war in their homeland, embedding themselves with soldiers on the front in Eastern Ukraine.

Mark and I were friends and he'd been helping me navigate coming out of film school.

The feature itself runs under 80 minutes, but bonus features include a clutch of trailers and a 12 - minute making - of featurette in which director Maloney sits for an interview and answers questions about the genesis of the project, which was (unsurprisingly) his first right out of film school.

For what I presume was a relatively low - budget production I think it was beautifully shot; although there are a few shots that were straight out of film school and they come across as almost too artsy for this film.