Sentences with phrase «small scale film»

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The Marvel series are smaller scale than a feature film and Shade VFX is the sole vendor.

The purpose of the disaster film is not to make small conflicts bigger but to make big ones smaller - to reduce unthinkable catastrophes to a human scale.

Filmmakers, media companies, and the music industry are only taking on small - scale VR projects, like promotional and marketing - related short films, and are not investing huge amounts of money on bigger projects until VR becomes more mainstream.

While a number of ferroelectric materials are known to science and are already used in different applications, their crystal structure does not allow them to be scaled down to a small enough, ultra-thin film for use in miniaturized devices.

They had a smaller scale structure of the hotel which was used in the Garris version down there, the walls filled with memorabilia showcasing the many films shot there.

A decent, well - made, small - scale genre film with a great cast of on - the - cusp players, The Lazarus Effect begins as a modern - day spin on Frankensteinian mad science, but segues into more demonic matters.

Otherwise, a great small - scale film that has a lot to say.

A docudrama that in its early scenes feels like a documentary — the co-directors have a nonfiction background, and the actors are actual carnival performers — the film plays out like a small - scale fairy tale.

Towne prepped what would have been a big - budget endeavor by helming the smaller - scale drama «Personal Best,» about female track - and - field athletes, but in order to be allowed to complete the film, Towne had to give Warner Bros. the rights to his beloved «Greystoke» script.

This is a small - scale film that's more gorgeous than many expensive blockbusters, and Universal Studios Home Entertainment has given it the red - carpet treatment.

The pressure to make bank isn't as urgent on TV or in films made on a smaller scale in other countries.

That Marion Cotillard is generating serious awards buzz for her performance in the small - scale Belgian drama Two Days, One Night is a testament to the film's quiet emotional power.

Although Jaws wound up ushering in an era where bloody, explosive spectacles dominate the summer moviegoing season, Spielberg's film is clearly working on a much smaller scale.

Instead, Dredd is a small - scale introductory escapade — outside of an opening chase scene and the sequences set within the Grand Hall of Justice, the film confines itself within the concrete interiors of Peach Trees.

Marc Webb, who is also back in small - scale drama mode after work on two Spider - Man films, is behind the camera for the movie.

While the film I happened to catch — Mikael Buch's small - scale drama Simon & Theodore — was fine enough, I would have paid double to simply witness the audience reaction to another TJFF selection: Sebastian Lelio's taboo - busting romance, Disobedience.

But while that film, a teen romance set in the early 1970s, was a rather intimate, small - scale film, Assayas has come up with something much grander with «Something In The Air» (or «Apres Mai»).

One insider said of the smaller - scale X-Men films last month.

Some very good points in here To be honest, I like seeing huge battles as a climax in blockbusters... but I agree it's pretty cool when films go for a smaller scale ending that's less epic and more personal.

Catching Fire presents mostly the same story as the first film, but speedier and with a slight twist as previous Hunger Games winners Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (the grim - jawed Josh Hutcherson) cause trouble for the capitol of Panem, the post-war-rebellion version of the United States, after their previous victory, which inspires small scale rebellions across the nation, mostly evident via graffiti.

«Big Effects, Small Scale» it is a brief look at the film's effects, I would have loved for this to be a lot longer since the effects are critical in this film.

Curtis's free - floating anxieties are intended to connect up with our fears about the collapsing economy, about the safety of the world and our families, but Nichols never loses sight of the small - scale human dramas at the film's core

The Wall arrives on Blu - ray with a solid AVC - encoded transfer that does plenty of good for a smaller - scale film such as this.

is misleading because while draped in Darius Khondji's luxuriant, golden - hued cinematography like the silks of Lady Liberty's gown, and decked in loving period costume and detail, the film is really a small - scale human drama in which those Gray staples, a love triangle and a love / hate brother-esque relationship, play out beat by minutely observed beat.

The story of a garbageman named Simon Grim (James Urbaniak) who becomes a celebrated poet after meeting the garrulous, frustrated title character (Thomas Jay Ryan), Henry Fool remains Hartley's most commercially successful film (on a very small scale), but it didn't exactly appear to be the launch of a franchise.

With Chef, he seems to be returning to his roots by writing, directing, and starring in a film that is far smaller in scale and budget compared to those films.

The actor is exceptionally melancholy and somber in the film, which makes director Alexandros Avranas» latest an off - the - beaten - path selection for moviegoers on the hunt for a small - scale mystery.

Except for a well - staged scene depicting the attack on the marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the best scenes in «Selma» are the small - scale ones: Oprah Winfrey (also one of the film's producers) as an bedraggled activist denied the opportunity to vote; a scene where King's wife, Coretta (Carmen Ejogo), confronts him about his philandering; a cameo involving the father (portrayed by that marvelous actor Henry G. Sanders) of a murdered man in Selma.

(15) More crucial, however, was a nebulous idea for an intimate, small - scale film based on the life of children.

I don't know what the actual process was, but this feels like the sort of intimate, small - scale film where the director had the actors live together for a few weeks before shooting began.

Holofcener's last film «Please Give» ended up on many of our year - end lists in 2009, so while we're not expecting «big things» exactly — that's hard to say about small scale dramas about regular people — we are, as usual, excited and grateful that we live in a world where, despite all the tentpole tendencies, there's still a very viable space for Holofcener to make movies.

The man who takes a simple - ish romantic comedy and builds a fully functional airport terminal to film it in is never really going to work on a small scale, maybe.

The small - scale dramedy skillfully examines four relationships in various stages, and with a charming mix of humor and pathos, the film shows how these eight characters must confront the stresses in their relationships.

Still, for all the acclaim it has received, Zhao is well aware that a small - scale film such as «The Rider» — the cast of which consists entirely of non-professional actors, including Jandreau's father, Tim, his sister Lilly and several of his friends — is in a lopsided battle for attention against studio behemoths such as Dwayne Johnson's «Rampage» and the upcoming «Avengers: Infinity War.»

That's also when the film goes from great to greater, as the mostly small - scale back - and - forth between Gerwig and Kirke expands to a dizzying series of interactions between nearly a dozen characters over the course of one afternoon.

The scale of the film serves to reinforce these themes; the camera angles, the score, the set design all point to one specific idea: the humans are really really small, and these monsters are really really big.

It's the director's smallest - scaled effort since «Reservoir Dogs,» his first film that could easily work on the stage.

The Florida Project is a deliberately modest - sized film made by an artist whose sense of ethics is matched by his pursuit of exciting and tough - to - render behaviors and situations and the small - scale delights and disasters of life on the tips of the edges of the margins.

Shakespearean at heart, Coogler's film mixes royal melodrama with big spectacle and sometimes the excellent small - scale elements get overwhelmed by the humdrum larger routine hard at work.

A departure for Payne, known for small - scale character - driven dramas, the film stars Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig as a couple who shrink themselves as a cost - cutting measure.

I'm still going to keep making Mario Bros jokes about this movie and be fine with it... This week ok the podcast we discuss being alone and the film Prince Avalanche as David Gordon Green returns to much smaller scale filmmaking.

Though Robert Redford may be the very platonic ideal of a movie star — a matinee idol from films such as «Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,» «The Sting,» «The Way We Were,» «The Electric Horseman» and «Out of Africa» — he has of late been involved with smaller - scale, socially conscious dramas.

I have experienced something similar on a much smaller scale, for when I give friends and other associates my standard introductory «mini-festival» of Hindi popular cinema, the title that consistently connects the strongest is this film — which initially surprised me, considering it's as undiluted an example as any of the very un-Hollywood masala formula: broad, often silly comedy mixed with earnest, tear - jerking sentiment, all peppered with the occasional song and dance over the course of a typically lengthy run time of just over three hours.

«Krisha» — Gems don't come much smaller in scale and budget than this film.

He is back with a film that is on a smaller scale yet is possibly...

The film brings Trevorrow back to smaller - scale drama before he returns to blockbuster filmmaking with Star Wars: Episode IX.

Although smaller in scale and ambition, and lesser in terms of emotional content, this sequel is lighthearted, comical, occasionally charming, and while, on the whole, it's really all a superfluous money grab, it is well made and amiable enough to garner a recommendation for anyone who enjoyed the first film and is anxious for more.

Making The Irishman is on a whole other scale than the small indie films Netflix has worked on so far.

The end result of all this work and anticipation was «Star Trek - The Motion Picture» (1979), a bloated behemoth of a film that satisfied few (though when director Robert Wise was afforded the chance to recut it years later for home video, that version did play somewhat better) but made enough money to warrant a sequel that would be produced on a much smaller scale.

There isn't anything wrong with either kind of consciousness, and in fact my favorite films of the festival were intimate, small - scale dramas that derived their power to move from their strong sense of personality and human experience.