Sentences with phrase «out of their independent film»

While the Marcel the Shell book and app were developed through a collaboration with a traditional publisher, the concept for Marcel was born out of an independent film.

Not exact matches

In 1997, Posey starred in no less than five independent films, including Henry Fool, her third Hartley outing; the temps - in - hell comedy drama Clockwatchers; Linklater's adaptation of Eric Bogosian's SubUrbia; and The House of Yes.

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.

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 earned critical praise for her role in the independent feature REMEMBER THE DAZE, singled out by Variety as the «scene stealer» of the film opposite Amber Heard and Leighton Meester.

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.

But unlike too many American independent films, this one isn't essentially a PDF of the script acted out for a cinematographer who knows how to light faces.

Because not everybody embraces the beauty of Jason Statham beating a guy up while strapped to a chair and then jumping out a three - story window, Ruthe Stein has also picked several promising independent films as well.

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 voters.

The 1983 festival ushered in the «New Wave» retrospective of innovative American independent films from 1958 - 1967 while 1984 ushered out the video program.

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.

The fact that it is a female - driven independent comedy that stars several talented and underrated actresses leads me to believe that this may be one of the most popular and best - reviewed films to come out of SXSW this year.

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».

This year's Gotham Independent Film Awards recognized an especially wonderful lineup of indie films, including «Get Out,» «Lady Bird,» and «Mudbound.»

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Bonsai People (Unrated) Reverential biopic recounting the humanitarian effort of Nobel Peace Prize - winning economist Muhammad Yunis to wipe out poverty in the Third World by lending penniless people the seed money to start their own businesses.

Then he ventured out as an independent producer of films like war movie «Home of the Brave» and «The Men,» Marlon Brando's feature debut.

Now, as the year closes out, Get Out has become an awards season frontrunner, named Gotham Independent Film Awards» Best Feature and listed among the National Board of Review's top 10 films and earning a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comeout, Get Out has become an awards season frontrunner, named Gotham Independent Film Awards» Best Feature and listed among the National Board of Review's top 10 films and earning a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture, Musical or ComeOut has become an awards season frontrunner, named Gotham Independent Film Awards» Best Feature and listed among the National Board of Review's top 10 films and earning a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.

Carol was shut out of the Gothams, right after the fancier, West Coast version of these, the Film Independent Spirit Awards showered the film with nominations.

Having been nominated at the 2012 Gotham Independent Film Awards for «Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You,» it seems only a matter of time before someone picks up the movie, though Seimetz says she is sifting through distribution offers and trying to sort out what will work best for her film or rather what will be the best way to sell her film.

In effect, two lands of films are being produced these days in the United States: the products churned out by the large production companies, which are most often repetitive although there are exceptions, and the films that certain independent directors manage to make.

Echo Bridge isn't a big fan of them and certainly didn't seek any out when they bought the rights to this independent film last May.

OCT. 19, 2009 PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — After four days of independent film that drew nearly 9,000 attendees to several sold - out screenings and talk - of - the - town, standing - room - only after - parties, the New Hampshire Film Festival announced 2009 Granny Award winners during closing ceremonies Sun., Oct. 18.

«To offer independent films an opportunity to be perceived on a grand scale, we are, in the case of US - American director Miranda July, opening up the Competition for an extraordinary German - American co-production that will run out of competition in the Premieres section at Sundance.

Justin Kurzel's Snowtown was a remarkable film, a brash feature debut that signaled the emergence of a unique talent joining a slew of them coming out of the Australian independent scene.

Ever since the premiere of The Puffy Chair at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, Mark and Jay Duplass have been one of the most prominent filmmaking team on the independent circuit, turning out such acclaimed films as Baghead, Cyrus, and Jeff Who Lives At Home.

A couple of independent films close out this week's list.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Eden (Unrated) Romance drama, set in Ireland, revolving around a woman's (Eileen Walsh) desperate effort to save her disintegrating marriage when her husband (Aidan Kelly) of ten years starts hanging out in pubs where he has his head turned by younger women.

Mark Duplass keynote address Duplass is a hero to many in the independent film world because of how he and his older brother, Jay Duplass, have carved out viable careers without compromising their artistic integrity.

Three years ago, it started out as an experiment to provide a singular festival experience exciting enough to draw new viewers to independent film and to showcase the renegade spirit of independent artists.

I take an early bite out of the independent horror film from director Debbie Rochon called «Model Hunger».

2014 didn't have a cult film in the making like What We Do in the Shadows, or a true sleeper like Straight Outta Compton (or Spy, for that matter), or a blockbuster hitting the sweet spot for audiences and critics alike like Mad Max has done, or a traditional standalone nonfranchise blockbuster like The Martian, or an animated film with the acclaim of Inside Out, or a little horror movie that could like It Follows, or an unexpected independent drama that ran forever like Room....2015 was a year like 1999 or 1994.

Michael Barker and his copresidents at Sony Pictures Classics, Tom Bernard and Marcie Bloom, have brought out some of the best and most successful independent and international films of the last two decades, from Women on the Verge of a Nervous Break

To Sleep with Anger (1990) Beginning with his UCLA student film, the austere neo-realistic «Killer of Sheep,» director Charles Burnett has carved out a distinctive and exalted niche in American independent cinema.

A household name, the character of Bond has enough cultural heft and influence that he warrants interpretations from independent sources besides, and given that Sean Connery was lured out of a twelve - year retirement from the character — hence the title, Never Say Never Again — as well as the room for improvement left by the original Thunderball, the film had the potential to be more than just a cynical cash - in.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS All She Can (Unrated) Overcoming - the - odds saga about a high school weightlifter (Corina Calderon) who sees winning an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas as her only ticket out of a godforsaken Texas town.

Handed out annual by the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), the Gothams dole out a handful of pre-announced tribute awards as part of a ceremony that focuses on indie films.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Aurora (Unrated) Deliberately - paced drama contrasting a sedate family man's (Cristi Puiu) unremarkable home life with his explosive alter ego which only comes out at night while he's roaming the streets of Bucharest.

There are quite a few hostage movies out there now, the cheap single set style appealing to independent film - makers, and while M. Night's supernatural creation is world's away from them in terms of tone, it is clearly great casting that sets his story apart from the competition.

It's a strong reminder as to how powerful an independent film can be and why they are often some of the best horror films out there.

Alex Garland: Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich worked out that the rights to Judge Dredd were available, and within financial range of an ambitious British independent film company.

Sun Don't Shine's elemental plot — it doesn't get much more basic than two lovers, a car, a corpse, and a fuzzy plan to get out of one hell of a jam — unfolds in such enigmatic, elliptical bursts that it can be easy to forget the film is a noir, not just another artily shot independent film about overly intense people yelling at each other.

There were many other films at Park City shown out of the official competition but reflecting the spirit of independent filmmaking.

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Surprisingly, in spite of world events of continual concern and alarm, this year turned out to be quite an exciting year in terms of films released in the United States (often meaning that foreign or independent films were made in the previous year, but found distribution this year).

Wheatley and Jump remain exemplary at going out and getting independent, personal films made.Just as Scorsese lent a helping hand to Free Fire, Wheatley has put his name on the poster of Gareth Tunley's The Ghoul.

Independent films, The Iceman, From Up on Poppy Hill and The Lords of Salem round out this week's latest releases.

Sundance has grown from the small American independent film festival it was 30 years ago, and now has about a dozen sections with some presenting films in competition, and other sections presenting films out of competition.

Before becoming a professional critic, Mondello spent more than a decade in entertainment advertising, working in public relations for a chain of movie theaters, where he learned the ins and outs of the film industry, and for an independent repertory theater, where he reveled in film history.