The»90s
rise of independent film brought compelling duos like Oscar winners Hunter and Anna Paquin, who played a mother sold into marriage and her daughter in Jane Campion's alternately elegant and raw «The Piano.»
Not exact matches
The
independent film sector is in decline, subscription TV is on the
rise and the Netflix row suggests that Cannes is still finding the best way
of riding both sides
of the seesaw.
Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola, arguably the two pivotal figures
of American cinema in the 1970s, both
rose from the turmoil
of the transition from studio - based to
independent production, to emerge as leading forces in
film production as well as
film style.
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN
FILMS Good (Unrated) Viggo Mortensen stars in this adaptation
of the C.P. Taylor play, set in Germany during the
rise of Nazism, chronicling the plight
of a previously decent college professor who finds himself increasingly compromised after his novel advocating euthanasia is employed as propaganda to advance the government's evil agenda.
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN
FILMS American Swing (Unrated) Wife - swapping documentary revisits the
rise and fall
of Plato's Retreat, the New York City sex club which opened in 1977 and catered to its orgy - loving clientele until the specter
of AIDS began to take the luster off the hedonistic lifestyle by the early Eighties.
Documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson also won Outstanding
Independent Documentary for the
film, Tell Them We Are
Rising: The Story
of Black Colleges and Universities.
With the
rise of digital filmmaking, which allows producers and financiers to be more directly involved in the creative process, did you feel more
independent in the past working on a studio
film like «Barcelona» (for Warner Brothers) as compared to «Love & Friendship»?
Further
film credits include American Sniper (2014), The Lost City
of Z (2016), Live By Night (2016), Foxcatcher (2014), High
Rise (2015, BIFA nomination) Burnt (2015,) The Girl (2012, Golden Globe, BAFTA, Critics Choice nominations) Interview (2007,
Independent Spirit Award nomination, Critics Circle Nomination) Mississippi Grind (2015), and Stardust (2007).
INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN
FILMS Brighton Rock (Unrated) Remake
of the 1947 crime thriller based on Graham Greene's classic novel about a ruthless hoodlum (Sam Riley) who romances the gullible waitress (
Rose Riseborough) scheduled to testify after witnessing him murder a rival mobster (Sean Ellis).