Sentences with phrase «set of short films»

But Ghost Stories has more up its sleeve that a set of short films.

Not exact matches

The Universal Pictures film, which is a prequel spinoff to «Despicable Me,» fell a tad short of the domestic record set in 2007 by another animated film sequel — «Shrek the Third.»

This hilarious short film follows a group of friends trying to set up a date online.

With a short visit to Earth, a large part of this film is set in Sakaar and Jeff Goldblum as The Grandmaster totally aces his role.

STX Entertainment has announced that it is set to capitalise on the success of the hit comedy Bad Moms by launching a franchise of feature film spinoffs, digital shorts, and a reality series, beginning with a Bad Dads movie, which has been set for a July 14th 2017 release.

Some of these are only implicit; during the film's big softball - game set - piece, I was staring dumbly at the screen, trying to figure out if the guys in tight, bulging shorts and / or cut - off, midriff - baring T - shirts were being subtly coded as gay, or if those outfits were simply part of the tough - guy fashion repertoire of the time.

Rounding out the set is an international poster gallery, the film's international trailer, and a pair of short interviews («Casting Rebel» and «The Friend, the Doctor and the Real Estate Agent») on some of Rodriguez's more unique casting choices.

There's also a short retrospective about the casting process with audition footage (including some of a young Nick Nolte) and a brief discussion about recasting Harvey Keitel with Sheen two weeks into filming, Coppola's interview with Roger Ebert from the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, the original 1938 Mercury Theater radio reading of «Heart of Darkness» by Orson Welles, and a 48 - page booklet with never - before - seen archives from the set.

Similarly, the film suffers from a common problem in biopics that span more than 50 years, in that the editing suddenly leaps forward to another time period, just as things are getting interesting — this is particularly frustrating in the depiction of the central romance, but it also short - changes the sequences set during the AIDS crisis.

The film is the feature - length debut of writer - director Jonathan van Tulleken, based on his BAFTA - nominated short, and is set in the harsh, frozen Canadian tundra.

For the supplemental materials, there's an excerpt from the documentary Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema; Blow - Up of «Blow - Up», a new documentary about the film; two interviews with David Hemmings, one on the set of Only When I Larf from 1968, and the other on the TV show City Lights from 1977; 50 Years of Blow - Up: Vanessa Redgrave / Philippe Garner, a 2016 SHOWstudio interview; an interview with actress Jane Birkin from 1989; Antonioni's Hypnotic Vision, featuring two separate pieces about the film: Modernism and Photography; both the teaser and theatrical trailers for the film; and a 68 - page insert booklet containing an essay on the film by David Forgacs, an updated 1966 account of the film's shooting by Stig Björkman, a set of questionnaires that the director distributed to photographers and painters while developing the film, the 1959 Julio Cortázar short story on which the film is loosely based, and restoration details.

Rounding out the set is an insightful SFX featurette («Making an Actor Jump), a travel diary («Jumping Around the World»), a short discussion on the differences between the novel and the film, an animated graphic novel («Jumpstart»), and a handful of deleted scenes.

Limited Edition 2 Disc DVD set & Blu - Ray Extras: 36 minute Black Metal short film of deleted scenes, Alternate ending, Outtakes, The Cutting Room with musicians not in the film including: Enslaved, Ted «Nocturno Cutlo» Skjellum from Darkthrone, and Jørn «Necrobutcher» from Mayhem, plus more with Ulver, Immortal, Jan Axel «Hellhammer» Blomberg, Gylve» Fenriz» Nagell and Kjetil «Frost» Haraldstad, 46 more minutes of Varg Vikernes and a 45 minute class on the history of black metal with Fenriz

The movie set - pieces are stunning - the Gene Kelly-esque musical number «No Dames» (with Channing Tatum tap - dancing away admirably) in particular is a total delight and easily as good as anything from the best 50s musicals - but the rest of the film feels like an excuse to film these short love - letters to classic Hollywood.

Stavier Films have announced that Anthony Renwick McGill, a writer living in Dublin and co-founder, along with Savio Sequeira, of Stavier Films and The Da Vinci Theatre Company, has won the 2016 FEATURE FILM SCREENPLAY AWARD in the New York Short Film and Screenplay Competition for his screenplay Amazons Inc., a comedy thriller set in 1970's Ireland.

The rest of the film is made up of short vignettes that take us through 1950s Hollywood, introducing a lovable set of characters that roughly blend into the main story.

Extras: Two audio commentaries from 2003, one featuring director Ken Russell and the other screenwriter and producer Larry Kramer; segments from a 2007 interview with Russell for the BAFTA Los Angeles Heritage Archive; «A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible,» Russell's 1989 biopic on his own life and career; interview from 1976 with actor Glenda Jackson; interviews with Kramer and actors Alan Bates and Jennie Linden from the set; new interviews with director of photography Billy Williams and editor Michael Bradsell; «Second Best,» a 1972 short film based on a D. H. Lawrence story, produced by and starring Bates; trailer; an essay by scholar Linda Ruth Williams.

Features the original Japanese soundtrack and a well - produced English language version featuring the voices of Joseph Gordon - Levitt, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Martin Short, Stanley Tucci, Mandy Patinkin, and William H. Macy, plus the short featurette «The Wind Rises: Behind the Microphone,» Miyazaki's complete original storyboards (set to the movie soundtrack), press conference footage of the announcement of the completed film, and Japanese trailers and TV sShort, Stanley Tucci, Mandy Patinkin, and William H. Macy, plus the short featurette «The Wind Rises: Behind the Microphone,» Miyazaki's complete original storyboards (set to the movie soundtrack), press conference footage of the announcement of the completed film, and Japanese trailers and TV sshort featurette «The Wind Rises: Behind the Microphone,» Miyazaki's complete original storyboards (set to the movie soundtrack), press conference footage of the announcement of the completed film, and Japanese trailers and TV spots.

What I decided to do with my producers at The Fyzz was make a short prequel set in the world of the film.

Shorts TV and Magnolia's 2018 set of Oscar - nominated short films drew $ 615K at 180 screens for a $ 3,4 K average.

Instead of actually fulfilling the oh - my - God - this - is - awesome momentum set up right from the opening sequence (a delightful 5 minute short film in its own right) by hunkering down and making the story, ultimately, work, he relies almost entirely on smoke and mirrors: throwing whiz - bang - eveything - but - the - kitchen - sink - razzle - dazzle to keep us distracted.

We also get some interview / onstage footage of Andersson in New York in September of 2009 (speaking English this time), a short documentary on Andersson, a very cool little featurette on the movie's sets, 15 minutes of clips from earlier Andersson films (including his great Songs from the Second Floor), and a bunch of trailers for other Palisades Tartan releases.

The rest of the supplements are bite - sized pieces: «Welcome to New Penzance» features footage of the locations, «Set Tour with Bill Murray» is a quick 3 minutes, Bob Balaban introduces short segments of actress Kara Hayward (Suzy) reading excerpts from the (fictional) books featured in the film, and «Cousin Ben» features additional footage of Jason Schwartzman as Cousin Ben.

Of course, coherence is in short supply in contemporary action films, but I refuse to set the bar that low, especially for a movie with a $ 150 million budget.

«The Making of Moonrise Kingdom» consists of an 18 - minute featurette shot on the set of the film plus four storyboard animatics and narrator tests, five minutes of screen tests of the child actors, and a short piece on the miniatures used in the flood sequence.

Since that auspicious debut, he has continued to collaborate with Anderson on «The Darjeeling Limited» (which the pair wrote with Roman Coppola); the short film «Hotel Chevalier»; his animated feature, «Fantastic Mr. Fox» (for which he contributed his vocal talents); «Moonrise Kingdom» (part of Anderson's stellar ensemble cast of Murray, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton and Frances McDormand), which set a new record at the specialty box office over Memorial Day weekend for best limited indie debut of all time, and, the Academy Award nominated film, «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» whose eclectic cast brought back thespians Murray, Norton and Swinton, along with Willem Dafoe, Soirsae Ronin, Ralph Finnes, Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Owen Wilson and Adrian Brody.

Rounding out the set is a gag reel, a short video montage on Megan Fox, and a digital copy of the film.

His films since then have all come up just a bit short of that very high bar he set 13 years ago.

While most love a good Christmas movie å la It's a Wonderful Life, or White Christmas, I reveal in the non-traditional subgenre of any random film that happens to be set in the holiday season, even if it's just for a short scene.

Set to the viciously mechanical soundtrack of a roaring engine, Lelouch's notorious 1976 short film instills its images with a steady kinetic energy and provides — along with questions of «realism» and ethics in art — a substantially vicarious thrill.

While at the film's press day, filmmakers Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley spoke to Collider for this exclusive interview about how Vacation ended up being their feature directorial debut, why their humor tends to lean more towards the R - rated, why Ed Helms and Christina Applegate were the perfect heads of this Griswold family, getting Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo involved, which cameos they were most impressed with, being of the mind - set that comedy can be short, and why test screenings can be a good gauge for comedy.

Although the film is short at 86 minutes, even that seems too long — there is fully half - an - hour of scene - setting during which the story makes no progress before the two main characters find themselves on the island, and once they arrive there significant chunks of the time is filled with their rolling in the sand or with musical numbers designed to let Madonna strut her stuff.

Though it most comes alive in game sequences, which are depicted with many layers of sound and perspective and set to short clips of hip hop, hard rock and at one point Bill Withers, the film also depicts parties, publicity, and the filming of a rap music video.

In addition to the four features the set is packed with special features, including a number of short films.

The centrepiece of the presentation is a collection of six short featurettes that cover some of the creator philosophies of the series and film (interviewed are director Shinichiro Watanabe, acting the fool in shades, character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto, who offers the best insights in general, and both sets of voice actors: American and Japanese).

Having taken a short break from independent films for a short while, I was able to watch Nothing Without You with a fresh set of eyes and an eagerness to get back to the indie scene.

And while allowing for the possibility of technical error at the film's Venice press screening, even the trippy visuals fall short of the inventive standard set by Wenders» previous 3D work.

Disc Features - High - definition digital restoration, approved by cinematographer Mark Lee Ping - bin, with 5.1 surround DTS - HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu - ray edition - @ «In the Mood for Love,» director Wong Kar - wai's documentary on the making of the film - Deleted scenes with director's commentary — Hua yang de nian hua (2000), a short film by Wong - Archival interview with Wong and a «cinema lesson» given by the director at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival - Toronto International Film Festival press conference from 2000, with stars Maggie Cheung Man - yuk and Tony Leung Chiu - wai - Trailers and TV spots - The music of In the Mood for Love, presented in an interactive essay, on the DVD edition - Essay by film scholar Gina Marchetti illuminating the film's unique setting on the DVD edition - Photo gallery on the DVD edition - Biographies of key cast and crew on the DVD edition - Two new interviews with critic Tony Rayns, one about the film and the other about the soundtrack, on the Blu - ray edition - A booklet featuring the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film, an essay by film critic Li Cheuk - to, and a director's statement (DVD edition); a booklet featuring an essay by novelist and film critic Steve Erickson and the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film (Blu - ray edition)

If you love Nick Park's amazing clay animation duo of Wallace and Gromit, then get set to enjoy this Complete Collection of his award - winning short films, A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and A Matter of Loaf and Death.

That's because this set includes only the shorter 168 - minute cut of the film and not the roadshow version of 187 minutes.

His first film as writer - director, 1997's Gattaca, a sci - fi tale set in a genetics - obsessed future, was nothing short of brilliant.

In the short - term, the nature of domestic terrorism and identity will likely not be at the forefront of most audiences» minds as they flock to see Downey Jr's charismatic performance and the film's action set pieces.

The DVD and Blu - ray are both released on single disc and two - disc sets, that latter with the usual making of featurette and deleted scenes, plus a short featurette on the film's set design and locations and a brief «Shooting Diary,» all in Cantonese with English subtitles.

The set - up of child and fantastic friend is familiar, but the didactic execution seems more conducive to a short film or a repetitive TV series.

I think the biggest problem this film faced was the comparison between father and son because people set the bar so high that it ended up falling just short of the expectations.

It's perhaps a contrived set - up (based on David Constantine's short story), but that's the last thing in Haigh's film that's anything less than utterly truthful, particularly when it comes to performances from the two leads that come close to being the best roles of their 50 year careers.

In Lebanon, where the film is set, I started to plan the shoot alone, with a miniscule budget, minimal crew, and a handful of actors — just as I had made my short films.

Besides the standard box sets, there will be a monster 11 - Disc set collecting the two Cars films, along with all of the Mater's Tall Tales shorts.

«Disney's Rootin» Tootin» Cowboy Heroes» is a 2 1/2 minute montage of clips from the studio's cowboy films and shorts, set to the score and theme of Apple Dumpling Gang.

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?