Shoestring
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52 examples of Shoestring in a sentence
The story was very clever and I could not believe that this was made on a
shoestring
budget by an independent filmmaker.
This film, shot on a
shoestring
(which might explain the poor quality - they should have shot it on film instead) in documentary style by Russell Mulcahy and Nic Knowland (who went on to helm the far less amusing HIGHLANDER and CATS respectively) at the Townhouse Studios in London, captures Cook and Moore in the process of recording the final Derek and Clive album.
Shot on a
shoestring
budget throughout Queens and the Bronx, the film's technical limitations would have been forgivable had it had a subject matter with heart.
They spend millions of dollars on rubbish movies and then this classic is produced on a
shoestring.
This film, with a
shoestring
budget and a few cast members, unexpectedly satisfied my longing for brilliant Filipino film-making.
But it's too obvious this was done on a
shoestring
budget--I take that back--shoestrings are more expensive than that.
Making this film on a shoestring, editing on a home rig, using money from his day job as a CSR to pay for film and actors.
It seems to have been made on a shoestring, at one point during the introductory scene the boom mike dips into the picture as it follows a young Harry Morgan down to the floor.
Always on a shoestring, this time McGonigle (Fields) enlists a local (Cleopatra Pepperday) to assist him in the play to keep it afloat.
The film relied on a
shoestring
budget and the only type of special effect is a repeated shot of this huge machine spurting out a gooey pile of hodgepodge that is supposed to look like human leftovers.
The film itself appears to be shot on a
shoestring
budget, and considering that, the cinematography is quite impressive.
It appears the film was made on a
shoestring
budget, or else the film-makers could not wait another day till the Czech flags, displayed for national holiday or a prominent festival, were taken down before shooting city scenes.
Sometimes it's as if we can forgive the most trying stretches of believability, just because a film was made in an era like the 50's with a
shoestring
budget.
Alan Ayckbourn's only major stage to screenplay (to date) is mucked-up with a lot of tricky camera work and opened up like a cancer patient, straying far off the path set by an excellent stager re: newcomer disrupting a provincial troupe staging John Gay opera on proverbial
shoestring.
"Syngenor" is nearly unendurable nonsense, made on a
shoestring
budget and featuring no redeeming elements whatsoever, apart from the over-the-top performance of David Gale.
I found out this film was produced on a
shoestring
budget and the best thing you can say, if you're lucky enough to view it, is "you'd never know".
Dragonblade is first and foremost an animated children's feature, produced on a
shoestring
budget - particularly compared to the sackfuls of money thrown at the likes of Shrek.
Normally speaking, the name Edgar Ulmer conjures up the idea of a good, solid film made on a
shoestring
budget.
Considering that it was probably made on a
shoestring
budget, it was a very good movie.
Lady Snowblood was shot on a
shoestring
budget and at an incredibly fast pace.
After her promising debut, Love and other Catastrophes, made on a
shoestring
budget and employing mostly ex-Aussie soap stars, Emma Kate Groghan misfired with this Friends-style "comedy" - if you can call it that.
The CPPC, too, is operating on a
shoestring
budget, and it is fighting an uphill battle.
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