Sentences with phrase «of the independent film movement»

Would you consider the African American filmmakers of the 20s the prototypes of the independent film movement?

For those who admire Cassavetes» work and his filmmaking philosophy, then Criterion's set is a celebration of the independent film movement.

John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, said, «The films selected for our 2014 Festival show that filmmakers are empowered and emboldened by the 30 - year legacy of the independent film movement.

Not exact matches

Thanks in large part to the independent film movement of the late»80s, the boyishly handsome James LeGros went from being an underrated bit player in Hollywood schlock to a well - respected character actor.

John Sayles and Maggie Renzi are heroes of the American independent movement — filmmakers who create films of their choosing on terms of their own making.

9/2, 3 p.m. 9/7 7 p.m. RICHARD LINKLATER: DREAM IS DESTINY A rare and unusual look at a fiercely independent style of filmmaking that arose from Austin, Texas in the»80s and how Richard Linklater's films — Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Waking Life and Boyhood — sparked a low - budget, in - your - own - backyard movement in this country and around the world.

I don't love every one of those films, but together, they certainly seemed as if they were the foundation for a serious independent - film movement.

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.

They represent the culmination of a cultural change that began as the 1980s indie film movement shifted control of American film production away from the major studios to the entrepreneurship of individual (not necessarily «independent») outsiders.

Having come up through the American independent film movement of the early - mid» 00s commonly known as «mumblecore», Greta Gerwig began her career as an actor in a number of low budget films that would typically revolve around the complicated love lives of self - involved, twentysomething hipsters living in New York City.

She has expanded the concept of Beat to include examples of work from other movements and tendencies that co-existed, sometimes overlapping, with it - abstract expressionism, neo-dada, bebop and cool jazz, and independent film.

Developed in response to a new generation of filmmakers who were producing works outside the studio system, the series presented independent and experimental films that reflected many of the key issues of the day, from the Vietnam War, drugs, and the Black Panthers, to homosexuality and the women's liberation movement.