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...runaway productions": movies shot abroad, especially in Canada, that ship jobs out of the U.S. Thus there may be some protectionist resentment against Brokeback, which is set in Wyoming and Texas but was shot mostly in Alberta. This would tilt the Best Picture vote to Crash, a low-budget, L.A.-made movie that has--as one of its stars and producers, Don Cheadle, boasted a month ago when the film won the sag ensemble award--74 speaking parts for actors. Hey, hey, U.S.A...
...shopping around for a psychological thriller with some heat on it.” As for their genre choices, Sandvoss says that they are a combination of the types of movies he wants to star in and the genres that have the potential to be low-budget successes. “You can sell a horror movie with a couple of visceral images, a couple of jiggling breasts, a couple of piercing screams,” he says. “Reese Witherspoon might not want to be in a $1.5 million horror movie, but there...
...video for “The Scientist.” No sir, it’s just good, clean (cheap) fun for THIS European pop-rock getup. As it turns out, this Malmros team is responsible for ALL of the group’s videos, which combine a delightful low-budget honesty with some startlingly artistic cinemachoreotography. The group’s frontman, who is a dead-on Swedish Jason Schwartzman/Luke Wilson mash-up, is lost at night in some Northland woods, carrying a shiny red suitcase past electronics, musical instruments, and various band members strewn about in the snow...
...across the screen. Inside the Chevy are Donal Logue’s Danny Macklin and co-writer Kirk Fox’s Gary Morgan, the unlikable central players of “Tennis.” Gary and Danny are acting buddies who meet on the set of a low-budget Indie film set in California—art imitating life, one assumes. What makes “Tennis, Anyone?” so vapid is its formulaic false dilemma. After shooting the film, the friends promise to call each other; the viewer is immediately shown a giant...
...even more impressive that the woman in the thin purple dress, drinking chai and wearing makeup and nail polish in various shades of pink, plays a biological man, albeit one who is in the process of becoming a woman, in Transamerica, a low-budget indie film about a transsexual father's road trip with her newly discovered teenage prostitute son. If people thought it was brave of Nicole Kidman to endanger her glamour by wearing a big prosthetic nose or Charlize Theron to put on fake teeth, Huffman is going to get the silver star. In one scene, for longer...