Sentences with phrase «than any film school»

If you pay attention, you can get a much better — dare - I - say — education than any film school could ever offer.

While the film works as a weird, trippy, tongue in cheek horror film set at Disneyland, it's nothing more than a film school - made B - movie.

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The app offers more editing capabilities than Instagram, and each filter preset is designed to emulate the effect of an old - school film camera.

LeBron James teared up at the Toronto film festival as he watched More Than a Game, a documentary that follows James and teammates in their pre - high school and high school years.

In the end, Oliver agreed to help revamp LAUSD menus without actually filming in the schools and, according to the L.A. Times, he's agreed to do so «following federal and local regulations and costing no more than 77 cents a serving.

The film tracks key moments in school food and child nutrition from 1940s, 1960s, and 1980s to the present — revealing political twists, surprising alliances, and more common ground than people realize.

The film tracks the behind - the - scenes details of school lunch and childhood hunger from key moments in the 1940s, 1960s, and 1980s to the present, revealing political twists, surprising alliances, and more common ground than people might realize.

Rather than going to film school I did a PhD at a university where I could also dabble in student journalism.

I'm a lonely 21 year old film student that goes to a school with less than 15 % girls.

Other than Graham, who doesn't really have much to do here, there's a surprising lack of women in the movie, which might make this as much of a guys» film as «Old School.»

Moodysson's teen protagonists are more complex than both the high school stereotypes (the nerd, the jock, the beauty queen) in films like «American Pie» and the self - absorbed philosophers on «Dawson's Creek.»

At a running time of close to two hours, School for Scoundrels is clearly much longer than it has any right to be - although, that being said, there's little doubt that the film remains consistently watchable thanks to Todd Phillips and Scot Armstrong's surprisingly clever screenplay and the uniformly effective performances.

Unlike the previous generation of American filmmakers, Tarantino learned his craft from his days as a video clerk, rather than as a film school student.

Probably more than any other filmmaker, his name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences: at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in every one of the director's movies.Originally trained at a technical school, Hitchcock gravitated to movies through art courses and advertising, and by the mid -»20s he was making his first films.

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.

The result is an unbalanced but never less than entertaining film, enthralling and deflating in roughly equal measure, and studded with moments of true, old - school glory.

Dated badly... It's difficult to pinpoint the film's raison d'être, other than to sate the ambitions of a bunch of preening stage - school prima donnas.

It's consequently not difficult to see why Election is now considered a classic high school comedy, although the presence of several decidedly adult themes (ie lesbianism, adultery, etc) ensures that viewers over a certain age will probably get a whole lot more out of the film than teens.

Kubrick and Nabokov (who adapted is own novel) raised the age of the grade school «temptress» and left most of the seduction to suggestion, and still made a more provocative and sensitive film than the 1997 remake.

It's hard to pick an adjective to describe the film's portrayal of women — particularly Rebecca De Mornay's late teens call girl (it's always implied she's only a little bit older than Cruise's high school senior).

Recommendation: While it helps to be a follower of the Alexander Payne school of film, Nebraska is a thoroughly well - made film that deserves a wider audience than it's getting.

Critics are somewhat mixed on the film, but the reviews are far more positive than what we read for The Hangover sequels, and they're about on par with the reviews for Phillips» Old School, Starsky & Hutch, and Road Trip, his more well - liked movies.

A mix of the old and new school, «Kingsman: The Secret Service» is a lot cooler than its clunky title might imply — a hyper - stylized, gratuitously explicit action film that would make James Bond blush.

But with its flat presentation and dearth of any riveting moments, the film plays more like an after - school special about the pitfalls of teen decision - making than it does a documentary about young women struggling to make something more of their lives.

The film is suppose to represent the series» great civil war but it's execution barely rates higher than a middle school scrum.

The last time director Thomas Carter made a feature film, it was the inspiring true story of high school coach Ken Carter who, though leading an undefeated team, believed there was something more important to the future of his players than winning.

I've always looked to his work because, more true for his films that he directed than those he just wrote, he told the story of high school teenagers better than most.

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.

She studied filmmaking at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has directed, written, and acted in more than 30 films including Europa Europa, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and 2 Days in Paris.

This time around the theme is buried underneath the surface of a high school coming - of - age film that demonstrates there is more to life than living in the spectacular now.

The movie is reminiscent of older - school art films, offering a broad humanistic lesson with absurdism and black comedy more sad than barbed.

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.

After all, «Jennifer's Body» is a comedy first and a horror film second, and nobody writes high school characters better than Cody at the moment.

The film did more for his post-High School Musical than any of his stints in and out of rehab.

That the movie doesn't actually exist might flummox some old - school guardians of the sanctity of non-fiction film - making, but Greene makes it clear early on that his interests lie less with a news report than with what Werner Herzog dubbed «ecstatic truth».

The producers should also be commended for hiring inexperienced young actors in the lead and supporting roles rather than the typical seasoned stars of the high school / frat pack genre, who you would normally associate with films of this nature, and they by and large acquit themselves rather well.

Perhaps the biggest irony of the film is that Dash (still looking fantastic at 40) and Rudd (in his late 30s), are playing not only younger than they are in their respective roles in the film, but the characters themselves are stars of a TV show that requires them to be high school age.

The present - day set universe of witchcraft and wizardry school, Hogwarts, has already been explored in exhaustive detail across eight films and a play, so a change of scenery should be more than welcome.

The end result feels more like an art - gallery installation than a movie (or, worse yet, a film - school experiment gone horribly wrong), and there's ultimately exceedingly little here that actually works.

The Revenant, while entertaining from moment to moment, ultimately feels like film school on a much grander and more experienced scale - but with the same tendency to overindulge in technique and form, rather than substance and feel.

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's an old school caper film with a little more self - reflexivity than most.

The piece might be most fascinating as a study in the evolution of a filmmaker, as Linklater made no fewer than 8 other films during the making of «Boyhood,» from «School Of Rock» to «A Scanner Darkly» to «Before Midnight.»

Cameron Crowe crafts one of his best films around the end - of - high - school ennui and the uncertainties that come with that time in your life, but Say Anything... is aging faster than you might think, despite its many classic lines and moments.

And unlike a movie like We Were Soldiers - which never became anything more than an old - school, John Wayne-esque «let's rally around our troops» type of war film - Harrison's Flowers feels brutally realistic.

However, by ditching the high - concept, flimsy mystery premises of their previous films and instead providing old - school action / thriller gravitas, Serra and Neeson manage to deliver their best film yet - one that should more than suitably appease fans of the genre, and / or Neeson's career as an action star.

In film school, life, whatever, they're equipped to do this job, in many ways, better than us.

But unfortunately, Gosling is more interested in the cool factor of watching Mendelsohn pimp - dance his way toward a cowering Hendricks than he is in the film's grad - school — ready themes.

Susan Wloszczyna: Few films are more of the moment than From Nowhere, as it encapsulates the rising fears of undocumented U.S. residents in the form of three very different Bronx high schoolers as uncertain legal circumstances stand in the way of their achieving their hopes for a better future.