Sentences with phrase «since film school»

«Since film school, I had been doing a lot of weird artistic movies that I was proud of but that a lot of people weren't seeing,» James confessed of his recent career phase.

Disney has paired female directors with a male director on their big animated features but Boden and Fleck have apparently been working together since film school.

Not exact matches

Since the release of my three films I have attended Harvard law school and hired a locution tutor who has improved my speaking abilities rather dramatically, therefore I can now say, I too am white!

Since then, Palatucci's fame has only grown: books, documentaries, and films have been devoted to his life; streets, buildings, and schools have been named after him; and awards have been presented in his name.

Since graduating from film school, Olson has been trying to get some Hollywood - type movies made.

The founder of the Mexican school of horror cinema is considered director Juan Bustillo Oro, who directed over 50 films since the

The founder of the Mexican school of horror cinema is considered director Juan Bustillo Oro, who directed over 50 films since the 1920s.

His solo audio track is full of boring film - school footnotes, but the one with McConaughey — clearly recorded before Sahara «s release, since they're talkin» sequel — is fun and informative: You have to know the code word to get a camel to run fast (so thieves don't get far).

Getting short - shrift in all of this is Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas, The Rules of Attraction), who is pushed mostly to the side here — although that may be intended irony, since his character was the most sexually experienced in the original film, making him the guy most likely to have had his glory day in high school, only to go downhill from there.

Because she's already been on the run since the last film, and because at the very beginning of this one she offers up a very funny everybody - stay - away - from - me - because - I'm - bad - news speech to her new school's homeroom class, she seems to know very well who she is and, more importantly, seems to lack not one ounce of determination or fortitude on her spooky mission into the most stylized depths of the pointless occult, only trading it in for helpless fear when the script arbitrarily decides she must.

Presented in 70 mm and with a running time of 187 minutes (because Tarantino), the film continues his love for old school cinema, right down to the three minute «overture» that opens the film, something I don't think I've seen since Dancer in the Dark.

It seems strange to say it, but without thinking much about it, I saw more films at the theatre in 1999 than I probably had in any year since the matinee of my movie - love in high school.

Since «George Washington» (2000) opens with a teenage girl's dreamy, wise - beyond - her - years narration as the camera floats in slow - motion through waving fields of grass and glides along railroad tracks, you probably don't need to be told that first - time feature director David Gordon Green, then just twenty five and fresh out of film school, was a big Terrence Malick fan.

«Byron and I have been friends for over a decade, and my business partner, George Furla, has known Byron for over 30 years since their USC film school days,» he said.

It was one of my first REAL foreign film experiences in my high school film class and it's always stuck with me since.

Having made just four films since being Oscar - nominated for his tremendous performance as a junkie school teacher in 2006 drama Half Nelson, Ryan Gosling is now hitting the big - screen three times inside two months.

Though Ng dropped out of film school with one semester left for the chance to document Willard's journey to the screen, I can't imagine she'll live to regret it: She's the best I've seen at compiling on - set footage with momentum since David Prior and should find steady employment in the specialized field of DVD production.

One of the most terrifying moments in It Follows, the best American horror film since The Blair Witch Project, tracks a group of teenagers into a high school, where they're trying to investigate the origins of a being that's relentlessly tracking one of them.

Like onetime indie darling David Gordon Green (who has since graduated to less reputable mainstream fare) Nichols cut his teeth at the famed North Carolina School of the Arts, and the connection between the two men has never been clearer than in the seductive opening stretches of this film.

«The Fabulous Baker Boys» isn't the most scintillating screenplay, and its runaway box office success probably says more about the year it was released than the film itself, but it's a wonderfully sumptuous throwback to the grand glamour of old - school Hollywood — and none of its stars were ever quite as luminous, before or since.

Especially since the film was shot in his home town of Pittsburgh and even his home and former high school are PIVOTAL locations to the film.

The Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago began in 1972 and since that time, it has been home to several cutting edge «film festivals that celebrate diverse voices and international cultures...» One of those innovative festivals includes the upcoming Chicago European Union Film Festival (CEUFF), now celebrating its...

Though it's been six years since his last film, the Sam Rockwell - led high school basketball drama, «The Winning Season,» Strouse is back with his most personal movie to date.

Mike White hasn't directed a film since making his debut with Year Of The Dog, though he's been busy with TV projects, including a TV spin - off from School Of Rock.

Since then, Don has written about film and pop culture for Film Threat, Film School Rejects, Adobe Airstream, Devil in the Woods, Pop Culture Press, the Los Angeles Journal, and was Managing Editor for Smells Like Screen Spirit for just shy of a decade.

has been writing film criticism professionally since before graduating high school.

Not because of the lack of them existing, no, since the number of female film school graduates in directing and editing across the United States is almost equal to that of men.

More shocking than funny, the film revolves around a couple of lifelong platonic friends (Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen) who have been roommates since graduating from high school.

The supposedly comic film, Evil Woman, centres on a trio of losers who have been friends since school days, have dead - end jobs and do open - air gigs in car - parks for small change as Diamonds in the Rough, a cover band for their hero, Neil Diamond.

While I generally ignore all action, adventure, horror, thriller, and genre films these days, and I don't think I've gone to the theatre solely to drool at a hot guy on screen since high school, Jake Gyllenhaal is one of my weaknesses.

BFFs since grade school, Londoners Jess (Drew Barrymore) and Milly (Toni Collette) are together in crisis at the start of Catherine Hardwicke «s film.

But then, the film starts piling on details of the two, both awkwardly single for the first time since going out with the high - school sweethearts they married, both raising a crop of kids on their own.

Adam Sandler returns as Lenny, a Hollywood player who since the first film has moved his family to his rural hometown, where the kids can bike to school and Dad gets plenty of Guy Time with pals Eric (Kevin James), Kurt (Chris Rock), and Marcus (David Spade).

I left this building exactly 60 years ago when I graduated from the USC film school and they had the ceremony out in front of the library, and I haven't been back since — not to this building.

The film follows high - schooler Eugene Bell (Cregger) as he falls into a four - year coma just as he's about to consummate his relationship with longtime girlfriend Cindi (Raquel Alessi), with the remainder of the proceedings detailing the wacky road trip that ensues as Eugene and best friend Tucker (Moore) attempt to track down Cindi (who has, in the years since, become something of a celebrity after posing for Playboy Magazine).

Since Director William Oldroyd's reputation is on the line with his first full - length movie, he is fortunate in starring Florence Pugh as title character, a woman whose prior film experience has been only in «The Falling,» wherein she played a charismatic pupil in a 1969 English girls» school faced with a mysterious fainting epidemic.

That title might even be a stretch, since the titular vehicle doesn't make much of an impact in the film besides serving as a shiny prop for the laid - back soundtrack featuring blues, R&B, and old - school hip - hop from artists including Bobby «Blue» Bland, Erick Sermon, and Marlena Shaw.

For the uninitiated, or those who perhaps haven't come upon the text since high school (like me), the film opens with the arrival of Don Pedro and company to the home of the wealthy and charming Leonato (a never - better Clark Gregg).

Also, since Kevin has no time to read anything more than picture books (because you'll remember he read The Lorax several weeks ago), he invites Film School Rejects» Associate Editor Kate Erbland into the Magical Studio in the Sky to discuss the book and film.

It is a character, not me, but since it was [my] first feature film that I was writing when I was in school it is based on what I have lived.

However, all the marketing for his sophomore effort Upstream Color seems to suggest that he's taken a few lessons at film school since we last saw him, because it looks breathtakingly beautiful, enigmatic, and fascinating.

Judged on its own, without Criterion's stamp of approval, the cult that's gathered around Equinox since its 1967 bow as The Equinox would be seen as lowbrow Philistines, but slot this baby in as # 338 in a collection of films that, for the most part, wouldn't trip many controversy meters in regards to the «masterpiece» criteria and suddenly an entire school of film criticism — the school that actually has enough faith in film to describe sublimity outside of the irreproachable canon, and enough faith in itself to remark upon it when it's uncovered — is given a shot in the arm.

Both films take the form of curdled dark comedies about raging misanthropes who abuse their positions of authority — or at least their power over small children, since drunken mall Santas and Chicago's public - school teachers both lack real power — to engage in criminal schemes.

Although I'm probably way too old to be admitting this, but I'm a connoisseur of sorts of high school films, and Mean Girls is one of the best that I've seen in a while (at least since Cant Hardly Wait).

While this role is something very dark for Efron, he is still playing the hunk as he has in every film since he graduated from High School Musical to film.

Since graduating from the UK's National Film and Television School, Ramsay had won the short film Jury prize at Cannes for her graduating short Small Deaths (1996), and her second, Kill the Day (1996), won the Prix du Jury award for best film at France's acclaimed Clermont - Ferrand International Short Film Festival.

Editor's Note: Since this video was filmed in 2001, the Urban Academy has become a member of the New York Performance Assessment Consortium, a coalition of public schools in New York State that uses a system of performance - based assessment in lieu of high - stakes exit exams.

Some old school photographers having been coming here since way back in the day, when photoshop was a place you went to buy film.

Since graduating from the Slade School of Art in 2009, artist and film - maker Ed Atkins has been busy.

Since graduating from the Glasgow School of Art in 1991, where he majored in environmental art, Shrigley has produced over 7,000 works, including drawings, sculptures, films, and spoken - word albums.