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Primer and Her are both excellent, although I find Primer to be the far superior of the two.
The Evil Dead (1981) was also Indie, a great film with a somewhat troubled production, though decidedly not for all tastes.
I've yet to see Ex Machina, but I plan to catch it eventually.
Moon is good, but personally I think Source Code, also directed by Jones but not Indie, is superior.
Oh, yeah, and The Road Warrior, also from 1981, what a fantastic Indie film!
The Evil Dead (1981) was also Indie, a great film with a somewhat troubled production, though decidedly not for all tastes.
I've yet to see Ex Machina, but I plan to catch it eventually.
Moon is good, but personally I think Source Code, also directed by Jones but not Indie, is superior.
Oh, yeah, and The Road Warrior, also from 1981, what a fantastic Indie film!
You should know the Star Wars episodes One, Two, Three, Five, and Six are all independent films.
Everyone knows what I mean by Indie films, and Star Wars isn't it, even if it technically fits the definition. indie isn't just having a low budget or not being made by a big studio, its a style (regardless of genre). A series that eventually got sold to Disney for $4 Billion (or whatever it was) doesn't match my definition of Indie.
Not all indie movies are done in the kind of style you seem to be talking about, so it's not that you hate "indie movies", you just hate that specific style of movies. I'm pretty sure there have been studio movies that have been done in that style too, so I don't really know if it's fair to even say "indie", it's just that style of movies you don't like.
They clearly don't otherwise it wouldn't be a point of discussion.
Since I don't have this specific of definition of indie film I feel confident in saying that the original SW was definitely an indie film.
I didn't include it because Fox paid for it directly, but yes, it's the most indie like, even if it doesn't technically qualify.
Fair point.
Do we don't. What constitutes this "style"? Give some examples. Maybe toss us some film titles.
I get what he's saying though, when I hear "indie" movie I generally think of that arthouse style or that hipster kind of movie like Adventureland or Scott Pilgrim. Is there a better way to describe those? The kind of niche movies that are typically produced as indie pictures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_film#Indie_film
By the early 2000s, Hollywood was producing three different classes of films: 1) big-budget blockbusters, 2) art films, specialty films and niche-market films produced by the conglomerate-owned indies and 3) genre and specialty films coming from true indie studios and producers.
Obviously, no one can speak for everyone but I won't pretend that a certain style doesn't comes to mind when I hear "indie" picture. Movies from the likes of The Asylum may be independently produced but I don't see them typically referred to as indie movies. I don't know if their movies are independently produced but it's like Wes Anderson vs Paul WS Anderson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_film#Indie_film
By the early 2000s, Hollywood was producing three different classes of films: 1) big-budget blockbusters, 2) art films, specialty films and niche-market films produced by the conglomerate-owned indies and 3) genre and specialty films coming from true indie studios and producers.
Obviously, no one can speak for everyone but I won't pretend that a certain style doesn't comes to mind when I hear "indie" picture. Movies from the likes of The Asylum may be independently produced but I don't see them typically referred to as indie movies. I don't know if their movies are independently produced but it's like Wes Anderson vs Paul WS Anderson.
I believe they would be considered "indie" films--these are the types of movies that are picked up for distribution at film festivals. For me an "indie" film often has the characteristic of being the vision of a writer/director although admittedly that is not always the case. But they can be a variety of genres and styles--and although I know what people are saying about art-house films, that style is pretty malleable. The Coen Bros are often considered art-house movie makers but their films bend genre and style.
Way back when I mentioned that "indie" films may make a resurgence, I was really thinking about lower budget writer/director movies, either made independently or with studio money like in the classic "auteur" films of the 70s by Scorcese, Allen, Coppola. It seems to me that studios might not have the funds to invest in big risk/big reward blockbusters in the number they have been produced over the past twenty years.
Indie movie. The key thing is that most indie movies require outside distribution via a distributor. Sometimes that distribution will be via a distribution company. If lucky, they'll be made a deal to be distributed by a studio's indie label, such as Sony Pictures Classics, for instance. But for the most part, if they don't get outside distribution, they don't get seen. On top of that, most indie movies get limited distribution and tend to get very limited exposure in theatres.
My favourite recent example of an indie movie is The Last Full Measure, and it's one I really wish would have gotten wider distribution and notice given it took 20 years to make. It's about a real Vietnam War hero (William H. Pitsenbarger) that has the officers he served with campaign to get him recognized with the due deserved. They trotted out Sebastian Stan to play him, and Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Ed Harris, Samuel L. Jackson and Peter Fonda as their present-day counterparts in what otherwise would have been pure Hollywood blockbuster material. But it goes that the writer decided to write the script without studio funding or commitment, and that was after shopping it around with no studio being interested in making it.
But I think the sentiment of an indie movie is in something like The Lighthouse which doesn't really fit in the conventional sense of a movie. But they come in all shapes and sizes, not to mention genres.
Oh, thank god, we can stop debating what constitutes an independent film. Production has resumed, and now we can start speculating whether Pattinson himself is back on set yet, or not.
The movie’s release date has been delayed from October 21st next year to March 4th 2022
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/variety.com/2020/film/news/the-batman-delays-release-1234793625/amp/
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New set photos. We see Zoe Kravitz and Robert Pattinson and John Tuturro. Looks like they're resuming filming on that funeral we saw in the trailer. This time exterior shots
From what I noticed with all the delays it's taken a very long time to do even this scene. It's been over a couple of months?
http://www.justjared.com/2020/10/12/zoe-kravitz-as-catwomanselina-kyle-see-the-batman-set-photos/
There are mobsters at the Mayor's funeral(scene from the trailer) and at one point Bruce will confront Penguin
https://twitter.com/ljwr_/status/1315695064895696898
From what I noticed with all the delays it's taken a very long time to do even this scene. It's been over a couple of months?
http://www.justjared.com/2020/10/12/zoe-kravitz-as-catwomanselina-kyle-see-the-batman-set-photos/
There are mobsters at the Mayor's funeral(scene from the trailer) and at one point Bruce will confront Penguin
https://twitter.com/ljwr_/status/1315695064895696898
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