The sole laugh I could muster at all of the sophomoric shenanigans came though an unintentional sight gag: the final
shot of the film shows a skunk (another DOA recurring gag) looking directly at us.
Not exact matches
According to a behind the scenes featurette for the
film, Bay used the spinning
shot to attempt to
show both sides
of the shootout without cutting away.
NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana - made
films are being
shown alongside the work
of filmmakers from across the world at the New Orleans Film Festival, which opened Thursday night with a red - carpet
showing of the Louisiana -
shot thriller «The Paperboy.»
Mr Trump is
shown 10 minutes into the 51 - minute
film making his December call for the US to bar all Muslims, in the wake
of deadly California
shootings in San Bernardino on 2 December.
BASC North regional officer Gareth Dockerty said: «The
film shows how upland gamekeepers and those involved in the provision
of land for
shooting engage with their communities to manage sensitive habitats in a sustainable way for wildlife and people.»
The
film shows Louise — whose book The Ethical Carnivore detailed two years
of eating only the meat she killed herself —
shooting a wigeon on her first ever wildfowling trip.
The
film, which premieres tonight at the University
of Wyoming in Laramie, will be accompanied by a touring photo exhibit
showing black - and - white
shots of some 40 female scientists donning beards, by photographer Kelsey Vance.
More than four years in the making, the 11 - episode series is crafted from more than 3,000 days
of film shoots utilizing state -
of - the - art equipment and techniques, and it
shows.
It is wider than it is tall, and it is packed with an incredible amount
of information about the old MGM studio in Culver City, complete with a list
of what
films and television
shows were
shot on which backlot sets.
I first have to say that the
film is beautifully
shot with some really great imagery
showing the bleakness
of the landscape and allusions to many
of the characters.
While most parody spy
films have the bumbling lead given understanding, OSS is
shot at, kidnapped, and
shown no mercy, even in the face
of his romantic lead, portrayed by the gorgeous Berenice Bejo.
Despite the PG rating, this
film briefly (but heavily) implies teens are partaking
of illegal drugs, and contains cigarettes (a brief
shot shows a smoke smoldering in an ashtray) and alcohol use as well as brief drug references.
Most
of his appearances
of the»50s were in Italian or European productions that seldom saw the light
of day in English - speaking countries, though he later
showed up in a number
of Hollywood - financed
films which required Italian or Spanish location
shoots.
Going in step with the
film's game vs. reality plot, several establishing
shots have a tilt - shift effect, as if beginning as miniature diorama models on a game board, and a continuous
shot of the group
of friends playing a game
of keep - away with a black - market Fabrege egg — a McGuffin — through every room
of a mansion is a tense, energetic, elaborately choreographed bit
of showing off.
Also impressive is director Wenders» use
of his and Lisa Rinzler's
shoots in Assisi, black - and - white, deliberately faded and silent
film,
showing an actor playing St. Francis who at the key point in his life heard God tell him to restore a dilapidated church — which I believe he did thinking that God's will is more important than his father's rage at the saint's alleged throwing away his money.
In the world
of live - action
films, changing a director when a
film is already in production is rare, though it happened this year on the independent western «Jane Got a Gun,» when Gavin O'Connor replaced director Lynne Ramsay after she failed to
show up on the first day
of shooting in New Mexico.
Tired
of endless talk
of the «death
of film,» Reverse
Shot's editors aimed to
show a way forward, or rather, how filmmakers themselves are already
showing the way.
Already one
of the most Halloween - friendly
shows on TV, we already know that the some scenes for the new season were
filmed in the South Pasadena neighborhood where John Carpenter
shot Halloween, reportedly even using some
of the same houses.
Last night at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX, just before a
showing of Penumbra, filmmaker Don Coscarelli (
of Phantasm, The Beastmaster, Survival Quest, Bubba Ho - Tep) introduced an exclusive first look clip and early look at the teaser trailer for John Dies at the End, his crazy new horror
film that he already
shot late last year.
Hayley Atwell «s Agent Peggy Carter was such a scene - stealing standout in Captain America: The First Avenger, she went from a supporting character in Captain America's debut
film to a One
Shot subject to the lead
of her own TV
show, Agent Carter (not to mention the fact that her cinematic arc was only just wrapped up in Captain America: Civil War).
,
showing how the actors were suspended by wires for much
of the
shoot in order to simulate the
film's fully zero - gravity environment.
Perhaps this can be also blamed on the lack
of inspiration
shown in the preparation for
shooting the
film — there is so little to the characterisations and the plot that it seems likely writer Scot Armstrong and director Kent Alterman felt the visual gag
of Ferrell in a singlet would be enough.
The plot interweaves the story
of what happens in the aftermath
of a police
shooting in Brooklyn's Bed - Stuy neighborhood told through the eyes
of the bystander who
filmed the act, a black police officer and a high school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand,
showing the impact
of racism and violence on a community.
Olson and Boise chose plaintiffs on the basis
of same - sex couples who behaved just like everyone else, and the still
shots of their homes and family photographs interspersed through the
film show all the trimmings
of a wholesome American family.
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.
What did work and
showed the potential the
film had if it could get away from the conventional treatment
of its subject, was the extraneous artistic
shots of Frida's paintings brought to life in a surreal manner ala MTV
filming techniques.
Veterans Frank Langella and Glenn Close
show up as Brian's parents and give the
film a nice
shot of humor.
Filming on Creed 2 is now underway, as confirmed by set photos
showing Dolph Lundgren and Florian Munteanu
shooting scenes at Philadelphia's Museum
of Art, where the famous «Rocky steps» are.
is a bit more obvious to that end,
showing the
filming of additional
shots with the crew in plain view.
They go to the effort
of sourcing different music for the trailers, generating titles but then suddenly stop the creativity to
show a slide deck
of the
films most memorable
shots.
Pretty quickly, the
film turns into a horror
show, with the airborne, microscopic spores from a plant on the planet serving as the way those killer aliens end up in their human hosts (Scott offers a microscope - level
shot of the infection entering a crewmember's body through his ear canal, which is simultaneously frightening and deviously amusing).
It's the first
film to be partially
shot with a 120 frame per second rate (most
films are
shot with at 24 fps) and excerpts were recently
shown at the National Association
of Broadcasters
Show in Las Vegas last month who were reportedly blown away.
«Test
Shot Comparisons» (2:15)
show us a handful
of animation and effects tests, each followed by the corresponding clip from the final
film.
Video transfer is surprisingly substandard for the first
film, which
shows a lot
of graininess in some
of the
shots.
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.
I'll
show it to my children because it's a
film about female friendship and lord knows there aren't enough
of those, and I'll
show it to significant others, because if they don't swoon a little as Frances dances to «Modern Love,» or beam at the final
shot, then I won't be entirely sure it's going to work out.
John Ford's Fort Apache is an odd
film, consisting more
of sidetracks than
of an actual story, but it
showed a new restlessness in Ford, and a willingness to question the norm (and foreshadowing the themes
of The Man Who
Shot Liberty Valance).
That
of course brings to mind a short
film, akin to the «Marvel One -
Shot: Item 47»
shown last year.
Briefly: Legendary may have
showed off some proof
of concept footage for Duncan Jones «upcoming Warcraft at Comic Con, but the
film isn't actually cast and
shooting just yet.
It's not every director who can
show three kids (including an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes) perforated by bullets without so much as flinching, but that's Cooper's M.O., refined over the three
films since his relatively marshmallowy «Crazy Heart»: As in «Black Mass» before this, violence packs more punch if depicted matter -
of - factly, which somehow registers as «realistic» these days (although one suspects that it would be far more horrifying if his victims suffered slow, agonizing deaths after being
shot).
Release: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 [ESPN] The minute I realized that «E» from Entourage would be directing one
of ESPN's 30 - for - 30 documentary
films, Big
Shot, I was set on focusing my eyeballs on the nearest T.V. that would be
showing it.
A new supposed behind - the - scenes image from
filming shows a
shot of Doctor Strange and Spider - Man teaming up, with Strange ominously telling Peter «Protect them, they're not dead.»
There are also two archival segments from The Dick Cavett
Show from 1971 featuring Pauline Kael (making a case for the film) and, in a later show, Altman, and a gallery of stills shot on the set of the film by photojournalist Steve Schap
Show from 1971 featuring Pauline Kael (making a case for the
film) and, in a later
show, Altman, and a gallery of stills shot on the set of the film by photojournalist Steve Schap
show, Altman, and a gallery
of stills
shot on the set
of the
film by photojournalist Steve Schapiro.
An hour long TV
show is more like a
film, because you
shoot out
of sequence.
This geographic intimacy is captured vividly by cinematographer Hélène Louvart, who also
shot «The Wonders» and documentaries «Pina» and «The Beaches
of Agnès,» (among others; whether capturing a boardwalk fireworks
show or the thick clouds
of a vape bar, «Beach Rats» has an experiential, almost docudrama aesthetic whose lived - in authenticity is in keeping with that
of the
film as a whole.
It also
shows how the effects landscape has changed as so many
of the backgrounds were done with green screen that could be looked at live as the
film was being
shot.
Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King
of Jazz, the
film drew from Broadway variety
shows of the time to present a spectacular array
of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers overseen by Whiteman himself (including a larger - than - life rendition
of George Gershwin's «Rhapsody in Blue»)-- all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson and beautifully
shot in early Technicolor.
The self - reflexive quality
of The Larry Sanders
Show was of a different nature, bouncing between the drama behind the scenes (shot on film) and the «show» itself (shot on video in traditional TV talk show style), but it wasn't about acknowledging the conventions so much as deconstructing the busin
Show was
of a different nature, bouncing between the drama behind the scenes (
shot on
film) and the «
show» itself (shot on video in traditional TV talk show style), but it wasn't about acknowledging the conventions so much as deconstructing the busin
show» itself (
shot on video in traditional TV talk
show style), but it wasn't about acknowledging the conventions so much as deconstructing the busin
show style), but it wasn't about acknowledging the conventions so much as deconstructing the business.
Shot on digital cameras, the
film looks so clean and sharp it
shows up the cheap costumes, props and effects and lessens the visual splendour
of Jodorowsky's imagery.
Not only does it not really draw us into the action, despite its first - person perspective, but a sizable portion
of the
film is actually not
shown to have been
shot by any
of the characters we see on the screen.