Sentences with phrase «alchemy film»

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Following a few misadventurous days in Davis» life, as he loses a friend's cat, sleeps on various sofas, goes on a brief road trip and plays a few gigs, there is no real way of explaining in words the alchemy that takes place that transforms that bare - bones logline into such an engaging film, though Oscar Isaac «s wonderfully soulful, star - making turn has to take a good portion of the credit, with the supporting cast of Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, Adam Driver and Coens regular John Goodman also contributing to the rich tapestry of the film.

The film doesn't seem in any position to discover a much larger audience on home video, where it reaches DVD (but not Blu - ray) from little Alchemy rather than TFA's larger sometime partner Paramount.

Is making a great comedy film by design, alchemy or accident?

Also directed by Fleming, the film is a romantic drama with screwball attitude, show - biz color and a melodramatic streak, an alchemy that isn't always smooth but seems just right for the era.

Esther Kahn, the first English - language film from French director Arnaud Desplechin, attributes great performances to an alchemy of approaches.

Especially considering the fact that the picture was shot over a decade ago, just on the brink of the cinematic digital revolution when the alchemy of actual film was still (just barely) the preferred medium over the pixelized perfection of digital cameras.

The emotional alchemy that takes place as the two movies play off each other is extraordinary, and I couldn't see a single film giving that experience, no matter how expertly assembled it was.

In April, I talked with Sachs about the film, his great cast (Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, and Rachel McAdams), the period and that subtle alchemy of tone and genre (the biggest revelation was the film's never - identified setting: «Married Life» takes place in Seattle!).

More than just a splatter film (though as a splatter film, it's one of the best), Evil Dead II is joy and aptitude coming together in a wondrous alchemy to produce a classic, nigh - unclassifiable slapstick / gorefest.

«Easily Woo's best film and just as easily the best action film of the nineties, Woo perfected a cinematic alchemy» — BH on the rare unspooling of the 35 mm print (TIFF Bell Lightbox, July 29th)

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Extras-wise, «Art & Alchemy» (15 mins., HD) interviews the titular veteran of TV's «Dallas» (oh, what Inferno could've been had James Woods, as planned, gotten to do it instead), a hunk of wood with little to say about the film besides the standard glowing platitudes.

As Michael Meade says off camera at the beginning of the film, Alchemy is about entering the darkness to find the hidden gold.

For example, are game - designers just attempting to re-create the wheel other primarily visual medium have — the amount of film - theory visible in Survival Horror games is really quite notable — or is there a genuine unique alchemy in the fledgling craft?

With film captions that read like experiments in alchemy, West lists everyday solvents, alcohol, energy drinks, make - up and perfume as ingredients in the development process.

The filmmaker referenced many of the ideas he wrote about in his book, Devotional Cinema, specifically, the alchemy that occurs when light on film is aligned with a subject matter of true purpose.

Her Creative Capital, Edge of Alchemy, premieres with a film and solo exhibition at Catherine Clark Gallery through April 15th.

It is this distinctive artistic alchemy that is central to the exhibition, in which she reforms the banal — hairnets, balloons, wires and cling film — into the graceful, ephemeral and opulent, often bringing ambiguous and sinister undertones to otherwise pretty pieces.