Sentences with phrase «out of film school»

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Though Ng dropped out of film school with one semester left for the chance to document Willard's journey to the screen, I can't imagine she'll live to regret it: She's the best I've seen at compiling on - set footage with momentum since David Prior and should find steady employment in the specialized field of DVD production.

What makes it more unusual is that Lay the Favorite is not the work of fringe filmmakers or fresh out of film school novices.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The York University film graduate got his start at Spin Master fresh out of school, demonstrating toys in stores.

Another epic short film / music video mash - up, «Great God» finds Carman as both the cool teacher at a Christian school, as well as a heroic knight out to reclaim the good name of the medieval church.

Jared: We went to film school with this guy named Steve, and anytime that Lord of the Rings came out, he put out a film called Circle of Fire: The Dark Lord, or when X-Men came out he did The Mutants.

Jamal studied game film of his brother, and he spent most of his middle - school years working out with him before John left to play football at Carson - Newman.

The sense of being outside of time did not change when they departed two days early from school, when they spent three hours on the bus to Eugene staring out the window with their Walkman headphones on, when they wandered through the swirly paisley carpeted hotel hallways, or went in street clothes to have a walk around Autzen Stadium, where a sex scene in Animal House was filmed.

She is too occupied with her announcing duties for HBO, coaching Navratilova and Mayotte, speaking engagements, a fancy to get into television and film production, a new chain of play schools called the Discovery Zone that promote and study exercise for children under 12, and her longest - standing project, Team Tennis, which represents her most fervid interest: to take the sport out of elite clubs and bring it to the masses.

Based on the classic film, School Of Rock brings Dewey Finn and his students to life, as they set out to win Battle of the BandOf Rock brings Dewey Finn and his students to life, as they set out to win Battle of the Bandof the Bands.

In the film, six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago set out to fix school lunch and end up at the White House.

Inspired by the Oscar - winning film «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» Kat Sullivan, a former Emma Willard student who was raped by her history teacher at the elite Troy private school, rented out three electronic billboards — one of which is in Albany — to highlight her experience and support the Child Victims Act.

Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.

I mean, sure, I had them as a kid and I had an emergency pair for shoveling or playing in the snow, but an actual pair that didn't look like they came out of a bad 1990s film about ski school?

He was planning to apply to film schools and pretend he was going to a law school out of state.

The film is about high - school senior Bianca, played by Mae Whitman, who finds out living a gay life in the heart of Manila Philippines

The film, out Friday, tells the real - life tale of how 19 - year - old high - school dropout

Exposing a different side of Shrek (only brief buttock nudity is seen), the movie sidesteps some of the sexual innuendos played out in previous films, however it depicts a group of high school students stumbling out of a smoke - filled chariot where they've been sharing a joint between classes.

Katja (Diane Kruger, starring in her first film in her native German) met Nuri (Numan Acar) in college when she bought drugs from him; she eventually dropped out of school and married Nuri while he was in prison, serving time for his drug - dealing activities.

Find out in this fantastic, rousing film - but remove all fears of the typical teen - pop covered high school musicals from your minds, as the songs in this film are from legendary artists like David Bowie, The Beach Boys, ELO, and The Byrds.

Shortbus director John Cameron Mitchell revives the cartoonish mania of that outing and applies it to what resembles a film - school project held together with papier - mache and zany indulgence.

Special Guests: Seven out of the eight films shown will be in old - school 35 mm prints, and the other is in digital format.

Both films follow a group of students (in 1980, Maureen Teefy, Irene Cara, Paul McCrane, and Barry Miller are the stand outs, in 2009, it's Kay Panabaker, Naturi Naughton, Walter Perez, and Paul Iacono) through their four years at a prestigious New York performance arts school where they learn to act, sing and dance.

I love the way that Yates continues the dark tone of the film with a glimmer of hope as Potter and the gang continue to deal with their day to day lives at school and at times try to engross themselves in such truly childish things and forgetting about the fact that Voldermort is out there looking for blood.

Rushmore is also something of a high - water mark for Anderson, who is the inadvertent godfather of an irritatingly quirky school of US cinema that grew out of the late 1990s and came to give us such annoying films as Napoleon Dynamite and I Heart Huckabees.

Josh doesn't fully buy into Jamie's documentary idea — tracking down an old high school friend who submits a Facebook friend request for a filmed candid real life encounter — but he goes along for the ride and is surprised to see the project take a life of its own, when the subject turns out to be a decorated Army veteran traumatized by his experiences in Afghanistan.

The Strangers In about as simple a horror film premise as a high school screenwriting student might come up with, this night out with Scott Speedman («Felicity,» «Anamorph») and Liv Tyler («The Lord of the Rings» series) hits the standard horror buttons to ensure a spectrum of shocks so that inveterate genre fans won't won't be demanding their money back.

It's consequently not difficult to see why Election is now considered a classic high school comedy, although the presence of several decidedly adult themes (ie lesbianism, adultery, etc) ensures that viewers over a certain age will probably get a whole lot more out of the film than teens.

It's not the most promising way to kick things off (Brewer uses it to illustrate the deadly, post-party car crash that incites the no - song - and - dance law in the film's setting of Bomont, Tennessee), but its poor impression doesn't last long, as Brewer makes quick work of establishing a liberal and plausible adolescent atmosphere in which Big & Rich can be listened to just after Wiz Khalifa, an antagonist is offhandedly chewed out for using the word «fag,» and the black students nearly outnumber the white students in the high school hallways.

Countless films follow teenagers as they look for the one magical thing that'll get them laid or get them out of town, and even a lot of adult films seem to be based on the notion that you are who you sat with in the high school cafeteria.

Born out of an innovative public - private partnership between Stony Brook Graduate Arts and Killer Films, our MFA in Film turns the traditional film school on its head with a project - driven and arts incubator approach.

To pad out the rest of the film, writer / directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore have plucked some pop psychology from the parenting zeitgeist, stuffed it into a high school mean - girls formula and then added plenty of F - bombs and raunchy sex talk to make it edgy.

The Blu - ray's 1.85:1 element is basically flawless, which is nothing out of the ordinary for a brand new film but a pleasant surprise for a 1980s high school movie, which is far from guaranteed to look this terrific three decades later.

And yet, despite the casual swipes at characterization in a sprawling cast (the black girl who belts out gospel like Bessie Smith, the Asian boy desperately in search of cool), School of Rock isn't a terrible film, just one that could have been written and directed by anyone.

His new film, Free Fire, is built around a premise that is simultaneously old school and high concept: two groups of criminals in 1970s Boston arrange an arms deal in an old warehouse, things go south, guns are drawn... and they proceed to engage in a gun battle that plays out over the course of the entire movie, mostly in real time.

Yet it's hard to imagine Ryan Coogler writing and directing «Fruitvale Station» just out of USC film school without at least a little mentoring from his veteran producer, but Whitaker won't hear of it.

Biracial, militant radical film student Samantha White (Tessa Thompson) hosts a controversial radio show called Dear White People where she routinely calls out the racist practices of her school and its White student body.

I should point out that one of my main criticisms of that film comes from his choice to make his high school football games too action - oriented to believe, showing feats from amateur teenage players that would rival the most exciting plays in NFL history.

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When I shot one of my first 16 mm short films as a student, the light meter that I checked out from school was broken.

Born in Arkansas, writer - director Jeff Nichols came out of the same film program as David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, Jody Hill, Craig Zobel, Tim Orr, and Paul Schneider, all of whom graduated within a few years of each other from the University Of North Carolina School Of The Artof the same film program as David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, Jody Hill, Craig Zobel, Tim Orr, and Paul Schneider, all of whom graduated within a few years of each other from the University Of North Carolina School Of The Artof whom graduated within a few years of each other from the University Of North Carolina School Of The Artof each other from the University Of North Carolina School Of The ArtOf North Carolina School Of The ArtOf The Arts.

«It will scare the living shit out of all of you,» Curtis said just before the first footage was revealed in March, also calling the new film «hella scary ``, and later describing it as «old school meets new school with Laurie at the center of it... who has turned into a warrior.»

Billie will star opposite Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein in the film that follows two high school academic superstars who set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one night.

RD: Before Graham came on to Notes on an Appearance, I shared the script with a few other producers, some of whom came out of NYU's film school.