shoestring
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It was emblematic of her and Corbet’s then-burgeoning philosophy: of making lavish films on a shoestring, using stunning foreign environments to portray a bygone America and roping crew members and family into the collaboration.
From Los Angeles Times
Over the past five years, Tartt, Bandy and a shoestring staff have trained some 60 people on farming the mountain valleys.
He finally got some funding from Norman Lear himself and shot the movie on a shoestring budget.
Corman, affectionately known as the “Pope of Pop Cinema,” was a god of low-budget horror, a maestro who could turn a shoestring budget into something glittering, gothic, and gloriously unhinged.
From Salon
On the grandest stage, they simply couldn’t overcome their richer, name-brand foes, always in need of one or two more good players that they couldn’t afford on their shoestring budget.
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