Sentences with phrase «of independent films with»

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The Kevin Smith era (like it or not) started with this different kind of independent film that had countless pop - culture references and adolescent humor.

Independent films don't typically rake in money at the box office, with the occasional exception, but the Oscar - buzz was sure to help The Birth of a Nation financially.

Filmed on location on Necker Island, Branson's private retreat in the Caribbean; at his home in Oxfordshire and in Oslo for a meeting with «The Elders» - a independent group of global leaders put together by Branson and Peter Gabriel.

At least three of these movies are independent films, each with a budget of $ 6 - 8 million.

The film, which airs tonight on PBS's Independent Lens, begins with the sound of knocking, followed by a deep sigh.

SKYMARK, a leading independent manufacturer of flexible film packaging solutions, was presented with a silver award at the European Flexographic Industry Association (EFIA) annual print awards.

SKYMARK, a leading independent manufacturer of flexible film packaging solutions, was presented with a silver award at the European Flexographic Industry..

Helmed by Chapman Way and MacLain Way and featuring multiple appearances by their uncle and former Maverick himself Kurt Russell, the docu launched in the Documentary Premiere section of this year's Sundance Film Festival on January 20... In play right now with several buyers at Sundance, according to sources close to the film, Battered Bastards chronicles how in 1973 Bonanza actor Bing Russell formed what at the time was America's sole independent baseball team.

Perhaps one of your children enjoys watching independent French films with you while another wants to spend time kicking around the soccer ball.

The complainant alleged that the release and distribution of FAHRENHEIT 9/11 constituted an independent expenditure because the film expressly advocated the defeat of President Bush and that by being fully or partially responsible for the film's release, Michael Moore and other entities associated with the film made excessive and / or prohibited contributions to unidentified candidates.

What began a few years ago as a trickle of small independent films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.

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.

That's exactly what happened with this Preen prism dress from the brand's Spring 2014 collection, spotted on a member of the Swedish royal family, an Order of the British Empire recipient and an independent film actress.

A decade ago it was unimaginable to make a film without major financing, but now given the nature of new media and available technology, independent filmmakers can tell their stories with a limited budget.

Gen Art focused on the promotion of independent art, music, fashion and film through events and I was already familiar with the organization prior to starting.

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) celebrates Britweek with independent cinema on April 28th with a selection of UK and local films.

With that pallid skin tone and permanently pestered expression (the kind of face you hate to love), Buscemi has appeared in virtually every major independent film of the last 10 years (Parting Glances, Mystery Train, Reservoir Dogs, Living in Oblivion, and Fargo are just a few titles).

Skinny, bug - eyed Steve Buscemi, the twitchy actor du jour of American independent films, makes a striking directorial feature - film debut with «Trees Lounge,» in which he also stars as a twitchy, hyperkinetic loser.

When Wes Anderson's feature debut Bottle Rocket was released just two years after Pulp Fiction, the market had been saturated with cool, quirky, independent crime films, most of them trying to be the next Quentin Tarantino.

And if small independents with a cast of mostly starless no - names is your favorite fare, then you ll love the new film called «Bottle Rocket».

At the same time, the film presents us — pointedly — with another layer of nostalgia, with a vision of a vibrant world of newspapers and reporters and editors and independent owners that itself is now dying out.

Highly original and filmed with perfect assurance, River of Grass is one of the finest independent films of recent years.

The film opens with the sliding up of the garishly - decorated garage door of the Tennessee State Headquarters of the independent (Replacement Party) candidate Hal Phillip Walker.

Along with appearances in a couple of independent film releases, she continued working in television on the Fox prime - time soap opera Pasadena.

Of course, being a low - budget independent film with relatively little star power, no high concept, and minimal sizzle, The Intervention was destined to make do with the obscurity of limited theatrical releasOf course, being a low - budget independent film with relatively little star power, no high concept, and minimal sizzle, The Intervention was destined to make do with the obscurity of limited theatrical releasof limited theatrical release.

Additional film credits include TALK TO ME; the 2006 Oscar ® winning Best Picture, CRASH, which Cheadle also produced; HOTEL RWANDA, for which his performance garnered Academy Award ®, Golden Globe ®, Broadcast Film Critics Award and Screen Actors Guild ® Award nominations for Best Actor; OCEAN»S ELEVEN, OCEAN»S TWELVE, and OCEAN»S THIRTEEN, directed by Steven Soderbergh; Mike Binder's REIGN OVER ME with Adam Sandler; the Academy Award ® winning film TRAFFIC and OUT OF SIGHT, both also directed by Soderbergh; Paul Thomas Anderson's critically acclaimed BOOGIE NIGHTS; BULWORTH, SWORDFISH, MISSION TO MARS, John Singleton's ROSEWOOD, for which Cheadle earned an NAACP Image Award nomination; FAMILY MAN, directed by Brett Ratner and starring Nicolas Cage; COLORS, HAMBURGER HILL, and the independent features MANIC and THINGS BEHIND THE SUN.

She appeared with Kevin Costner in Message in a Bottle before going on to make the independent film Happy, Texas, the supernatural thriller Stir of Echoes with Kevin Bacon, and Can't Stop Dancing, a comedy in which she acted alongside Margaret Cho and Janeane Garofalo.She had a fine turn in the well - reviewed indie Ghost World, and a small turn in the infamous turkey The Adventures of Pluto Nash.

According to AWFJ President Jennifer Merin, «SLIFF is one of the country's top regional showcases for independent and international film, and it has been a delight to collaborate with them and to honor them for presenting such an exciting slate of films by and about women.»

The Coens represent independent film with Fargo as well as any film from the»90s, setting their outlandishly funny tale in one of the most offbeat, curiously charming corners of the country, a stroke of genius.

The new Halloween - themed independent horror film I See You continues to fill out its cast with some of our favorite people, as our friend Damian Maffei is the most recent addition.

The Underdog: Mudbound, which, despite favorable reception and other accolades (the Robert Altman Award at the Independent Spirit Awards and a special Gotham Jury Award for the film's ensemble), still must contend with the Netflix of it all.

Back in March, news broke that The Russo Brothers (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War) and Drew Pearce (Iron Man 3, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation) were working on a Ghostbusters film independent of the Feig one, that could potentially star Tatum and Pratt and eventually crossover with the ladies.

Elsewhere, the Gotham Independent Film Awards named Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman best film ahead of Boyhood, with Michael Keaton winning best actor for his turn as a faded former star of superhero movies vying to make a comeback.

Part of this comes from the excellent characterizations provided throughout the film, with many archetypical elements of Hispanic women getting together for a tug - of - war between old - fashioned values and the new independent spirit.

A24, a producer and distributor of independent films, has only been around since 2012, but in just four years, the young company has already managed to establish itself as a potent brand name with a string of impressive releases, including (but not limited to) Room, Obvious Child, Spring Breakers, The End Of The Tour,.of independent films, has only been around since 2012, but in just four years, the young company has already managed to establish itself as a potent brand name with a string of impressive releases, including (but not limited to) Room, Obvious Child, Spring Breakers, The End Of The Tour,.of impressive releases, including (but not limited to) Room, Obvious Child, Spring Breakers, The End Of The Tour,.Of The Tour,...

With three best - picture Oscars in the last 10 years, out of 12 nominations, the specialty film label has outpaced far bigger rivals thanks to a consistently off - beat slate of independent releases that have clicked with audiences and academy votWith three best - picture Oscars in the last 10 years, out of 12 nominations, the specialty film label has outpaced far bigger rivals thanks to a consistently off - beat slate of independent releases that have clicked with audiences and academy votwith audiences and academy voters.

«We were frustrated with what we call the middle class of independent film,» the Emmy - contending brothers tell TheWrap

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (R for profanity, nudity, violence, drug use and graphic sexuality) Legendary director Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Network, The Verdict) assembles a talented ensemble for this suspenseful crime thriller about two brothers (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke) whose perfectly planned heist of their parents» (Albert Finney and Rosemary Harris) jewelry store goes horribly wrong when their accomplice improvises with disastrous results during the botched robbery.

She reprised the role of Googie Gomez in the film version of The Ritz, followed by Alan Alda's The Four Seasons, the award - winning independent film I Like it Like That and the comedy - drama Angus, with George C. Scott and Kathy Bates.

But, so long as you can follow the story well enough, and don't mind the rather lengthy takes that Soderbergh enjoys during scenes of running or driving, Haywire is worth seeking out for a smart, stylish, and off - speed action film that blends traditional thrills with Soderbergh's independent experimentation with the process of genre filmmaking.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

He burst onto the scene in 2013 with Fruitvale Station, a low budget independent film that premiered at Sundance and told the true story of a 22 - year - old African American who was killed by police in Oakland.

A few gentle comedy dramas followed with Penny Marshall's Renaissance Man and Herbert Ross» Boys on the Side.Many film roles opened up in the late»90s, from Victor Salva's independent comedy Rites of Passage to the big - budget Robert Zemeckis mystery What Lies Beneath.

This isn't the first time that the media giant has gone from left field with their choices, hiring directors famous inside the world of independent film but not much farther than that.

Something with an awards - worthy performance, or perhaps something that heralds the arrival of an exciting new voice in the world of independent film.

The cast is rich with good character actors, most of whom play the funniest lines with a droll delivery and poker - faced ambivalence, which also lends this independent film a good deal of zany charm.

The 2013 Sundance Film Festival is just around the corner, with hundreds of independent films and their filmmakers setting up shop in Park City, Utah.

Some liked it less, but according to The Independent, it's Sofia's best - received film since Lost in Translation, and Kiki's being singled out as one of the breakout performances, if not the breakout performance — if you can call someone with a 20 year career in Hollywood a «breakout».

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Fairy (Unrated) Romantic fantasy about a hotel's night watchman (Dominique Abel) who falls in love with the magical fairy (Fiona Gordon) who vanishes into thin air after granting him two of his three wishers.

The screening was part of Film Independent at LACMA's ongoing film series and featured a Q&A afterward with del Toro, actors Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, and composer Alexandre Desplat.