But video downloads take forever over the Internet--eight hours for a 90-minute film over a well-functioning DSL modem.
That event propelled the movie into a box office hit, and the coincidence of a well-made fictional film with a real-life event with a very similar plot line led to a huge increase of public fears around the safety of nuclear power, and likely set the nuclear power industry back by decades.
Pacino and De Palma originally worked together on 1983's Scarface - a remake of a 1930s film - which saw Pacino portray a Cuban refugee who becomes a drug cartel kingpin in the US before his life gradually unravels.
Crash is a--I don't mind saying this--a remarkable film, in part because it very vividly depicts the fact that Hispanics, Asians and Muslims are part of what we have to talk about in race in the United States today.
In 1996, Will and I were turned away from a screening of Alexander Payne's "Citizen Ruth" (we had arrived late) and after much grumbling, settled on a consolation choice: a little-hyped Australian film about a troubled pianist.
Ascendant Films , a small movie producer, might spend several months arranging financing for a film--a process that involves a flurry of e-mails and faxes, often leading to plenty of miscommunication, lost time and ballooning costs.
One of them, in India, was Aravind Eye Care, a for-profit hospital that treats the poor for little or no charge, subsidizing the care with fees it charges well-off patients. (See a Forbes article on Aravind here.) Moraes Neto co-authored a documentary film, Setor Dois e Meio (The Second-and-a-half Sector) about the journey that will be released later this year.
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But they are often iconic, frequently arresting, fundamentally timeless, and occasionally shot through with genius (think of the Face Punch film-within-a-film in Twilight).
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Real life is fascinating, and the real history of the Thirteenth Amendment is complex and compelling, but nobody should deceive himself into imagining that the full history of three-year constitutional battle can be turned into a two-and-a-half hour film that gets your heart pounding and fills your eyes with tears as this wonderful story does.
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While the tactic could have hurt a weaker movie--not showing a film in advance is often interpreted as a sign of a stinker--The Grand managed to develop some low-key buzz anyway.
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In the past week, the Motion Picture Association - a group representing film studios - successfully applied for a court injunction requiring BT to block access to an infringing website called Newzbin2.
You could make a case for this as a feature-film version of the FCC's fairness doctrine, but it feels more like a blandness doctrine, a pulling and hauling of the tone-deaf script, which is credited to Matthew Michael Carnahan, to the point of perfect vacuousness.
Mr. Grahame-Smith crafted it from the beginning as a book-to-film franchise, building in a cinematic, three-act story arc, a central hero and villain and carefully timed dramatic twists that he refers to as "beats, " in screenwriter's parlance.
The final product is a most unusual film -- a montage of stills, brought to life through a mixture of dialogue, narration and sound effects.
She then describes the major surgery two weeks later where breast tissue was removed, saying it felt "like a scene out of a science-fiction film, " then writes that nine weeks later she had a third surgery to reconstruct the breasts and receive implants.
All of that and more point toward the ways this film is very much comfortable being considered a horror film as well as a sci-fi film.
The main aim of our get-together was to discuss why he put money behind a documentary film on a counter-culture clown named Wavy Gravy.
Geert Wilders - a film producer and also a member of parliament in the Netherlands - is facing a prison term there for "insulting" Muslims.
Directed by Neil Pepe and performed by a top-of-the-line ensemble cast led by Keith Carradine and Hunter Foster, "Hands on a Hardbody" is a fictionalized version of the much-admired 1997 film documentary about a Texas endurance competition whose contestants must keep one hand on a brand-new pickup truck until they walk away in frustration or collapse from exhaustion.
The property boasts a two-bedroom guesthouse, a state-of-the-art movie theater with a pop-corn machine and a piano for silent film soundtracks, and an antique-panel covered office with soothing waterfalls.
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It offers drop-in loading and a 24mm film that results in a high-quality, palm-size camera.
He did eventually settle down in 2011, at the age of 75, when he married Geraldine Lynton-Edwards - who he met in 1957 when he was a 21-year-old film-maker and she was a 16-year-old actress and ballet dancer.
He created one of his most fascinating works, "Close-Up" ("Nema-ye nazdik, " 1990), after a cash-strapped film enthusiast presented himself to a family as the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
This is not a multiple-choice film, though it's a multiple-theme excursion into the teeming minds of students and teachers alike.
She found herself in the unusual position of being berated by a campaigner against anti-Semitism, a British-born film-maker and academic called Danny Ben-Moshe.
Most analysts now agree that watching a full-length feature film on a mobile phone is unlikely to appeal to many mobile users.
He plays Ethan, an independent filmmaker in crisis, whose girlfriend, Claire (Kate Lyn Sheil), is cast in a low-budget horror film by a more successful director (Ti West).
Director Noah Baumbach's new film "Frances Ha" (Friday), a highbrow R-rated comedy, caused a sensation on the film-festival circuit last fall.
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