Sentences with phrase «work as feature film»

You have to appreciate Aboud's bold attempt of making his first feature film that combines such different genres but it did not work as feature film.

Not thinking it could work as a feature film, they finally launched a revival series in the late 1980s with Peter Graves back as the head of the Impossible Mission force, but bad scripts, lack of energy and a writer's strike killed the show after two seasons despite an interesting cast.

Does it work as a feature film?

Switching careers, she earned an MA in Broadcasting and has worked as a feature film and television editor.

Not exact matches

But the narrative already has the makings of a feel - good Hollywood movie — so it should come as no surprise that a feature film dramatizing Ma's rags - to - riches rise is already in the works.

This 90 - minute feature film by Oscar - winning director, Danis Tanovic, tells the true story of a former Nestlé salesman who took on the company with the help of IBFAN when he realises that babies are dying as a result of his work pressuring doctors to promote formula.

The film, featuring interviews from experts and those in communities directly affected by flooding, explores how flood risk has been managed in the past and calls for authorities, organisations and communities to work together as the most effective method for flood prevention.

This slight film is actually an intentional feature as it works all night long, much like an overnight face mask!

Generally his film work less successful than this TV work, which features the fantastic Salem's Lot adaptation as well as work on Masters of Horror.

Featuring a strong ensemble cast and solid camera work, the film starts out as one kind of story before metamorphosing into a bittersweet tale of retribution that never fails to engage.

Suffice it to say, I now really want to see The Room, but perhaps only as a double back - to - back feature with this film - because they work so harmoniously together and it allows me to appreciate what actually happened here, what was really going on with this film (and why it is what it is).

This is Anderson's feature film debut as a director, after work on television.

Bowers has previously worked as a storyboard artist, but Fell is a relative newcomer to feature - length films.

2010 is supposed to bring both Shrek Goes Fourth and the feature - length spin - off Puss in Boots: The Story of an Ogre Killer, while DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg has claimed that a fifth and final film is in the works as well.

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

Jeunet, the imaginative French director behind such films as Amélie, Micmacs, and The City of Lost Children, turns to Reif Larsen's novel The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet as the source for only his second English - language feature (the first being Alien: Resurrection) and first shot in 3D.

A film praised by Variety's Guy Lodge as her «most richly strange feature yet» and a «willfully, gorgeously out - of - time work, one that tangles past and present with critical concern for the future,» her third feature is a fable that follows the eponymous peasant on a fantastical journey.

Based on the true story of a boxer wrongly accused of murdering three people in 1966, the film featured stellar work by Washington as the wronged man, further demonstrating his remarkable capacity for telling a good story.

The film has a clever premise that probably would have worked as a half - hour TV episode but fails to sustain a feature - length comedy.

Both Soderbergh and Shyamalan would continue to feature her such films as Ocean's Twelve and The Village, as Jones continued to rack up acclaim for her stage work, including a Best Actress Tony in 2005 for John Patrick Shanley's Doubt.

Writer - director Damien Power advances from his work on short films with his feature debut, a solidly visceral and harshly unforgiving pic that's lean and taut in its plotting and pacing, even as it shakes up linear chronology initially to tell its tale.

I was fortunate to see this film, Hogg's third feature, as part of a series showcasing all her work at this week's New York Film Festival.

At the same time, DreamWorks still has yet to make a film to put them on a par with Pixar in terms of being able to make animated family films that will last the test of time as classics in their genre, rather than populist features that work primarily in the here and now.

She comes to Shelter as VP of National Film & Television Publicity from senior director of publicity and awards at Focus Features where she worked on such films as Loving, Nocturnal Animals, Kubo and the Two Strings, The Beguiled, Victoria & Abdul, Darkest Hour and Phantom Thread.

PARK CITY, Utah — Ira Sachs» «Forty Shades of Blue,» the story of a marriage that does not work and never could have, won the Grand Jury Prize here Saturday night, as best feature film at Sundance 2005.

What might have worked as a 10 - minute segment on Funny or Die, is instead unnecessarily given the feature film treatment, hurdling towards a limited release for audiences at theaters where beer is served so they can have an excuse to laugh.

Joe Dante's a great filmmaker, but I wish he had made his return to features with a movie better than Burying The Ex, a glib, EC Comics - influenced horror comedy that would probably work better as a short chapter in an anthology film.

After the impact of these two features (the latter screening at Cannes and championed by such critics as Pauline Kael), Schepisi moved on to directing films overseas, including such varied works as Barbarosa (1982), Plenty (1985), Roxanne (1987), The Russia House (1990), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Last Orders (2001) and the HBO - financed Empire Falls (2005), which won a Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television.

In spite of several lines about how romantic comedies have given people seriously messed - up expectations about the way the world works, it's unsurprising that Tropper is already working on adapting the book as a feature film.

While Hudlin's directorial history in feature films is questionable (his TV work is great), the subject matter of a young Thurgood Marshall before his time as a Supreme Court Justice seems very Academy - friendly.

Her work as a writer includes the short film «Intersection» and the feature film Paper Chase (Gunpowder & Sky) which will shoot this summer.

After graduation, he worked as an assistant director for TV commercials, documentaries, and feature films.

Dill Scallion would have probably been better as a short film ranging in 45 minutes or so, but as a feature, it only works so much.

Those film historians who've summed up Kemp's post-Z Cars TV appearances as «sporadic» evidently haven't seen his small - screen work in such miniseries as Winds of War and its sequel War and Remembrance (he played German general Armin Von Roon in both); he also played Cornwall in Sir Laurence Olivier's 1983 television adaptation of King Lear, and was featured in the internationally produced historical multiparters George Washington (1985) and Peter the Great (1986).

Sadly, these are the only highlights in «The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,» a slow, humdrum comedy that would have worked better as a 10 - minute sketch than a feature film.

He entered films during the silent era as a stunt man, gradually working his way up to featured roles.

Most of the features that make Lewis» directorial work such a remarkable exception to the dominance of a realist aesthetic in Hollywood filmmaking are brilliantly apparent in The Errand Boy, including the foregrounding of sound manipulation (most blatant in the sequence involving the post-synchronisation of the song «Lover» for a musical film, and in the tape manipulation of Kathleen Freeman's reaction to having been left by her driver in the back seat of a convertible receiving a car wash) and the placement of actors in a shot so as to highlight the presence of the camera (as when Morty, an undirected and oblivious extra in a film - within - the - film cocktail - party scene, keeps looking at the camera from the background of a shot in which other extras, in their roles as party guests, intermittently block him from the camera).

The nominations covered 31 separate categories of feature film, short - form and television work, as well as individual achievements in character animation, design, effects, music, storyboarding, writing, voice acting and more.

This is Grunberg's first feature film, but he has worked as an assistant director for the likes of Peter Weir, Oliver Stone, Tony Scott and even Gibson himself, which equipped him with the experience to craft impressive set - pieces.

Despite the palpable sense of cinematic tremor that's worked into scene after scene, the focus of the film remains on faces — on Mackie's subtly desperate clutching to military rules as an illusion of order, Geraghty's soft - featured guilt and fear, and Renner's «rowdy boy» coolness threatening to crumble into despair.

Pellington directed from a script by Stuart Ross Fink, and his previous work includes more music videos than I can list, the feature films ARLINGTON ROAD and HENRY POOLE IS HERE, as well as bringing both UNITED STATES OF POETRY and BLINDSPOT to television.

This interruption ended with Hardly Working, which was followed by Smorgasbord (which was released in North America as Cracking Up), the last feature film that Lewis has directed.

Barber previously worked with Lonergan on his acclaimed debut feature, «You Can Count On Me,» and she has provided music for films such as «Mansfield Park,» «Hysterical Blindness,» «A Price Above Rubies,» and «When Night Is Falling.»

This doesn't stop me from liking much of what I saw during this two hours and forty - four minutes of film work, but it did prevent me from seeing this as a lovable feature film.

Borrowing from Takashi Miike's Audition (seminal J Horror film) source material, Nicolas Pesce had time to dress, finesse his highly anticipated sophomore film and boy did he deliver with what comes across as a Cronenberg's Crash like love story featured in hotel room spaces rather than car wreckage and works as an homage to a plethora of influential filmmakers including De Palma and the Giallo set.

Featuring the best work from Carrey and McGregor in years (and a reminder of Carrey's phenomenal and chameleonic talents when given the right material), a smart and witty script adapted by the directors from McVicker's novel, and a cracking pace that neither hurries nor languishes, it combines the highlights of the heist and escape genres with dashes of dark humour and irreverence to create a film best described as a wicked delight.

As aware of its own quality as it may be however, even if interpreted as the flawed work of the film's narrator, it does not excuse the fact that this feels like a lifeless and rushed featurAs aware of its own quality as it may be however, even if interpreted as the flawed work of the film's narrator, it does not excuse the fact that this feels like a lifeless and rushed featuras it may be however, even if interpreted as the flawed work of the film's narrator, it does not excuse the fact that this feels like a lifeless and rushed featuras the flawed work of the film's narrator, it does not excuse the fact that this feels like a lifeless and rushed feature.

Though the film's basis as a big - screen version of Peter M. Lenkov's 2001 comic of the same name doesn't disprove its borrowings from either source of similar material, such associations might actually work in the feature's favour; indeed, the resemblance to both ranks among the movie's few highlights.

But his previous work as a feature director, 2005's «The Baxter,» was another sweet and off - kilter romantic comedy; both films are far less caustic and a lot more compassionate than most of his other comedy work.

This is his first feature film after working as a composer and songwriter.