Sentences with phrase «process about making the film»

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For my money, The Ides Of March — with its dark view of human nature and satisfyingly twisty plot — is one of the most entertaining films ever made about the political process.

I don't know how to approach what this has to say about the thought process behind scripting this movie, as the film seems to make no presumptions whatsoever.

We talk about Avedisian's dual roles as actor and director, the aesthetic of the film, the difficulties of making comedies, and his writing process.

The Face of an Angel centers on a director (Bruhl), who is hired to make a film about a murder trial in Italy, but ends up finding love with a young bartender in the process.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

When we spoke with Heineman at Sundance, we asked about the process of making the film and his inspiration:

The disc is packed with extras, including some deleted scenes that add very little, a blooper reel and a featurette detailing how Wonder Woman fits in with Batman and Superman as a DC flagship character that are all fairly throwaway, but there are a few neat production featurettes that detail how director Patty Jenkins approached making what could have been a potential disaster given the negativity towards the DCEU's previous movies, and also interesting effects details about the lighting, costumes and the chosen colour palette that may not sound like much but actually prove to be quite enlightening about the whole filming process.

He has made a remarkable film about the artistic process of the great painter and sculptor Giacometti, with a stunning cast led by Geoffrey Rush.

Personally, I would love to watch the film while listening to Spielberg, Dreyfuss and gang discuss all the great old stories about the trials they went through while in the process of making history.

That last point is particularly important, because although it's easy to admire Tarantino's bravura storytelling — not to mention his moxie in resurrecting a large - format anamorphic film process that's been dead for 50 years — the schematic structure and derivative narrative he employs makes The Hateful Eight about as nuanced as bloody bootprints in the snow.

Lincoln is a film about procedures, showing the sausage - making process behind the crafting of one the most important pieces of legislation ever passed by the American government.

Plus, director Wes Anderson guides us through the animation process of a particular scene, and he sits down with several members of the cast for a revealing Q&A about the making of the film.

The philosopher Stanley Fish has written that the way the film alters the real - life Northup's memoirs, cutting out the process by which Northup's freedom was made a public crusade and presenting it instead as a surprise, «is so abrupt and so quickly achieved that it is made to seem miraculous and the audience is not invited to generalize from it to any optimistic conclusion about the merits of the liberal state informed by the rule of law.»

What's left is this appreciation of a film that is delighted with cinema and experimental without being a jerk about it (very much like Lars Von Trier's Zentropa, specifically in a black - and - white rear - process cab ride with none of that feeling that Tarantino's trying to make a point as opposed to recognizing something that looks cool and feels right)-- a film that is Tarantino in all his gawky, hyperactive, movie - geeking, idioglossic splendour, fully - formed and trying only a bit too hard.

At the film's Los Angeles press day, Woodley talked about how Jennifer Lawrence encouraged her to take the role, what she shares in common with her character and how they differ, what inspired her to take a course in urban survival skills, what the experience was like doing many of her own stunts, her most memorable sweaty palm moments, zip - lining over the streets of Chicago and climbing the Navy Pier Ferris Wheel, her challenging fight sequence finale with Theo James, working again with Miles Teller, and what she learned about herself in the process of making her first large scale studio movie.

We interview Colossal director Nacho Vigalondo about making his unconventional monster movie and the process of helming an American film.

Soft - spoken, down - to - earth, witty, informative; Hertzfeldt is a joy to listen to and his stories about the process of making the World of Tomorrow films are always funny and insightful.

Blu - ray Highlight: The 30 - minute documentary «Between Good and Evil» is an excellent retrospective on making the movie, featuring interviews with various cast and crew, as well as a few Kubrick experts, about everything from the casting process, to filming in East London, to the director's notoriously long shooting schedules and much more.

Funny, gripping and as perceptive as anything ever made about the power and process of advertising, it was also one of the most visually bold films of the year, thanks to Larrain's decision to shoot on bona - fide 1980s - style video.

I don't know, this has been like a three - year process and I'm just approaching the tail end of it... I've learned a lot from making this film, both about myself and about filmmaking.

We can talk a lot about the harm caused by certain studios when it comes to reshoots and edited versions of films, but when it doesn't concern huge movies where those stories will easily make headlines, it generally shows how much of a collaborative process filmmaking is and how there are producers who know a thing or two about development.

Stephen Earnhart's superior, feature - length making - of doc Source of Pride: A Documentary About the Making of Pride and Glory (1:07:07, SD) shows us warts and all in the troubled and contentious process of getting the film in thmaking - of doc Source of Pride: A Documentary About the Making of Pride and Glory (1:07:07, SD) shows us warts and all in the troubled and contentious process of getting the film in thMaking of Pride and Glory (1:07:07, SD) shows us warts and all in the troubled and contentious process of getting the film in the can.

They talked about the challenge of making a movie when so much of it is spent on indoor conversations, the four - week rehearsal process, how Oldman prepared to play Churchill, how long the first cut of the film was, and we even talked about the Los Angeles premiere guests like David Fincher and Roger Deakins.

«For Your Consideration» captures certain essential, absurd truths about how movies are made these days: The marketing process begins before the film is made and then continues during production and post-production all the way through its release; the fate of a picture is often determined by rumors and perceptions that take shape long before the movie itself has even wrapped, and rumors take on their own reality.

Hardly the mere home invasion thriller it's been marketed as, this is an angry film for an angry time, a heavy, at times lumbering, allegorical work about woman and man, nature and God, painstakingly made from a script the writer - director claims he dashed off in five days; its unrefined, somewhat all - purpose symbolism is evidence of an almost demonic process, and its confusions, self - lacerations, and silliness would be less welcome if Aronofsky hadn't in the process mounted the most technically impressive filmmaking of his career.

I caught up with Fog to talk about the process of making a film that breaks with convention and challenges the viewer to think about what they're seeing on screen.

The first - time director (who's joined by several cast / crew members throughout the process) does a wonderful job of explaining just about everything on the making - of the film.

Through this concentrated, hands - on process, the Fellows workshop and make key discoveries about their scripts, collaborate with actors and find a visual storytelling language for their films.

«One of the best movies ever made about making movies, DE PALMA s not a film for those who wish to retain romantic notions about an artist's process.»

Blu - ray Highlight: There's some really good supplemental material on the disc — like audio commentaries with the movie's producers, consultants and composer Cliff Martinez, as well as demonstrations on film processing, editing and dialogue editing — but Soderberg and writer Stephen Gaghan's commentary track is jam - packed with so much great information about making the movie that you'll definitely want to start there.

«I'm from a place that I'd never been to and that nobody who I loved had been to because they couldn't afford to go,» says Coogler, who grew up hearing about Africa but went for the first time only late in the process of making his previous film, Creed.

About Gilbert and Sullivan responding to withering criticism of «Princess Ida» by making a comeback with «The Mikado», it's the kind of film that perhaps shouldn't work but does — magnificently, thanks to a clutch of great performances and unshowy but precise direction, which ensures the movie succeeds on three levels: as an illuminating, partly self - reflexive meditation on the creative process; as an unusually vivid insight into just how different the world was as recently as the 1880s (all that wariness of the newfangled telephone!)

Here, the filmmaker and art historian talks about the process of making the film.

Winogrand focused his camera and snapped the shutter, but much of the work of a traditional, film - based photographer takes place in the darkroom, where images are cropped, tones are enhanced or lightened and decisions are made about the developing process that will be used (silver prints, sepia tones, platinum, dye transfer — lots of options).

Featuring an extensive interview with Douglas Gordon on the process of making his 2016 film I had nowhere to go: Portrait of a displaced person, this video, produced by Berlin Art Link, includes clips of Jonas Mekas and revealing anecdotes about the creation of the film.

A documentary film was made about the artist and his process, The Ivory Knife, produced by Red Parrot — the Martha Jackson film company that documented artists in their studios and artist interviews — which received the Gold Eagle Award in the 1966 Venice Film Festival.

They also need to write about them and, in the process, incorporate media theory, game studies, film criticism, anthropology, history, philosophy, and scientific studies, perhaps as a way of indicating that they are engaging in art making rather than basic Internet use.

I recently made a film about my ceramic process and I've had incredible feedback globally from it - it's true what they say, «moving image sells».

In the film she talks about what abstraction means to her and explains her process as she makes each new mark on the canvas.

Filming the process of making art or getting an artist to talk about their work can be an illuminating experience or a bit like having the curtain pulled back in the Wizard of Oz; what was magical or inexplicable becomes mechanic.

Recordings of lectures given by Sargy, films about him and also extracts from what he called his «audio sketchbook» — notes he made in the process of making paintings.

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