Sentences with phrase «american narrative film»

It did so at the dawn of a new era for independent American narrative film, as pictures such as Medium Cool, Easy Rider, and Putney Swope were also taking shape.

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This polemic against the American healthcare system benefited from a far more focused approach than his previous films, which covered so much ground they sometimes lost any sense of narrative or coherence.

His centerpiece is a narrative running from Metropolis to Dr. Strangelove, indicating that the power of film images affected first German rocketry and then, through the von Braun story, American space technology.

The result is a film of integrity and disclosure, a controversial chapter in American history that substitutes clinical accuracy for Hollywood embellishment, with an impressive attention to detail and an admirable respect for suspenseful narrative.

Sundance will premiere 16 American narrative feature films, and 26 films in the world cinema dramatic and documentary competitions.

One of the film's strategies is to pair the voice of Samuel L. Jackson intoning selections from Baldwin's writing with relevant images salvaged from American history, including segments that highlight the white supremacy encoded in Hollywood narratives.

The narrative twists and turns are mostly unremarkable teen romance stuff, but it all serves a greater purpose certainly less trod in mainstream American film, illustrating the essentially destructive nature of the closet.

BEST NARRATIVE FILM *** 12 Years a Slave *** American Hustle Gravity Inside Llewyn Davis The Wolf of Wall Street

Feeding into the narrative that Americans love movies about the financial institutions they hate, the film is based on former investment banker John...

Looking back to celebrate these groundbreaking storytellers reframes and expands the dominant narrative typically recounted about American independent film.

Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994) Seldom has a film, narrative or documentary, so probingly explored the American Dream.

Birth of a Nation (1915)- Considered the first true narrative film, it attracted widespread criticism for its portrayal of African Americans and its glorification of the KKK.

With its network narrative that blends crime and social commentary, La Granja echoes other Latin American films like «Amores Perros» and «Cidade de Deus.»

Hoop Dreams Year: 1994 Director: Steve James Seldom has a film, narrative or documentary, so probingly explored the American Dream.

Presenting the world premieres of sixteen narrative feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film.

Coming off a decade where the American genre film devolved into lowest - common - denominator investments and blockbusters ballooned skyward on the backs of sequels and franchises, Refn's modest exercise in crime pastiche and car - chase nostalgia parlayed both the exhaustion of Hollywood's narrative resources and — perhaps more importantly — the gathering mainstream curiosity in independent music's preoccupation with the sound and feel of the 1980s (the film's soundtrack has become one of the most popular word - of - mouth successes of the decade).

Chanel will partner with Tribeca Enterprises for the third annual «Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women's Filmmaker Program,» which works to support and promote emerging American women screenwriters and directors of short - form narrative film.

Great Directors on TCM: Akira Kurosawa Between his flawless translations of American genre films (especially crime films and westerns) to Japanese settings both contemporary and medieval, his groundbreaking experiments with cinematic point of view and narrative reliability, and his brilliant juxtapositions of Shakespeare with Japanese tradition, Akira Kurosawa can easily claim to be one of the greatest and most influential directors of all time.

But as with her queerness, her pop inclinations are a feature, not a bug, and it is difficult to separate Dirty Computer from the larger narrative of resistance across the arts today; from A Wrinkle in Time, a film dedicated above all else to instilling wonder and empowering young viewers; from Gabby Rivera's (now sadly discontinued) America comic book series, one centering a young, queer Latina, America Chavez, who repeatedly declares she is America; from An American Marriage, Tayari Jones's latest novel that emphasizes to be black is to be American.

Notably, the top films in both the narrative and documentary categories differ from the ones that took home the grand jury prizes, which singled out «I don't feel at home in this world anymore» and «Dina» in the American categories.

From the somewhat scattershot narrative — evoking at times a Nicolas Roeg film and Richard Lester's Petulia — we gradually piece together that Alec has twice left Marjorie for Katherine (Deborah Kara Unger), an American coworker, but has recently become obsessed with rejoining his former wife.

«American Animals» is his first foray into narrative film.

The apocalyptic stakes are pushed to the fringes initially — not for narrative convenience but for the narcissism of the film's 15 - year - old American protagonist, Daisy (Ronan).

Five narrative films were released to American theaters on the fourth week of February 1996.

Immersive and astonishing... Few films have captured an American reality in such depth, intimacy, and with such startling narrative twists.

The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players, until the true story starts to unfold, creates an unsettling feeling of dread absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, diminishing the emphasis on narrative and suspense.

The American is a far more narrative driven film but to an extent it shares with The Limits of Control a focus on the process, waiting and build - up rather than being a guns blazing action film.

The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players until the true story starts to unfold creates an unsettling feeling of dread, absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, weakening the emphasis on narrative and suspense.

And against a backdrop of American indie film that has of late favored tone and mood over more finely honed narrative, it marks Dunham as a fresh new voice and unique multi-hyphenate.

Dallas Buyers Club certainly sounds like an Academy favorite; a true American story about a controversial person, but the narrative of the film never quite reaches the emotional payoff it aims for.

For the first act, we are introduced to our main characters: a poor Latin - American mother and daughter (Carmen Ejogo and Zoe Soul, the real hearts of this film), an insufferable yuppie couple on the brink of divorce (Zach Gilford and Kiele Sanchez) from which we get the lion's share of our Crash - style white guilt narrative, and Frank Grillo as a grieving father / ex-soldier who feels the urge to Purge one particular soul on this night.

Lawrence Roeck's film has been explicitly conceived as an opportunity for the younger Eastwood to emulate the persona that cemented his elder's legend, fusing elements of The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, Unforgiven, and the Dollars trilogy into a revenge narrative spanning portions of the American West during the period of unrest following the Civil War.

The film introduced many of the elements that would earn Malick his passionate following: the enigmatic approach to narrative and character, the unusual use of voice - over, the juxtaposition of human violence with natural beauty, the poetic investigation of American dreams and nightmares.

Although the criteria presumably remain constant («One narrative film directed by or written by a woman... making its North American, International or World premiere»), TFF has been a bit oblique about who the actual candidates were this year for this prestigious award.

Far from a series of empty stylistic flourishes and unrestrained fanboyism, Kill Bill demonstrates a keen understanding of narrative and character development — a reminder of why it is that Tarantino is possibly the most influential American director of the last decade on the strength of just four films.

«Burning Sands» is one of 16 narrative feature films that has been chosen to play during the festival's Dramatic Competition, which offers audiences a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film.

Writer / Director / Producer Charles Burnett shares his career development process in narrative and documentary filmmaking with Killer of Sheep (1978), his seminal film, which was definitive in highlighting African American cultural experience.

Park Chan - wook's The Handmaiden (South Korea), his first film since his superb but unheralded American debut Stoker, returns to the intense imagery, twisting narratives, perverse subcultures, and elevated emotions of his Sympathy trilogy with a story of con artists in 1930s Korea.

As Last Flag Flying eases into being a road - trip film (a distinctly American genre I didn't realize I missed so much until I was riding sidecar), Linklater, always better at time - constrained narratives, hits his stride, the guys» camaraderie making Cranston's shenanigans almost palatable.

Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.

The film transports the myth - laden narrative of Norman Mailer's novel Ancient Evenings (1983)-- itself based on the Egyptian Book of the Dead — into a contemporary American setting.

And indeed such dynamics, as seen particularly in the «expat - savior» narrative that rescues Hayek's «last belly dancer» and whisks her safely to the protagonist's American home, are unavoidable in Nabil's film.

«I have spent most of my career making films about history, about moments in the American story that have been left out of the larger narrative.

Compelling features of the Winter Show include two of Walker's 2009 films — which are based on narratives from archives of a bureau established in 1865 to assist African Americans with the transition from slavery to freedom — presenting the artist's signature black - silhouette cut - out figures, which almost impossibly convey the complexities of race, gender, sexuality and power in their stilted and provocative movements.

The complex spatial and temporal relationships that his narrative films suggest are explored most boldly in the Primitive project (2009), which received its American debut at the New Museum.

The double sided film installation, Flora, by the artist team Hubbard / Birchler is the narrative of an American woman, Flora Mayo, an artist who goes to Paris to study sculpture.

The video exhibited in ABOUT - FACE is titled Nước (Water / Homeland), and is an experimental narrative short film about a queer Vietnamese American teen who attempts to piece together and understand their mom's experience as a Vietnam War refugee.

[18] In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer's hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.

Walker's diaristic work nods naturally to 19th - Century Romanticism and the intensity of landscape conjured by Caspar David Friedrich or Frederic Church, while the American landscape's representation on film — the way that nature can become a protagonist in a narrative — is an equally strong inspiration.

Artist and filmmaker Martha Colburn depicts a frenetic, whirlwind narrative of an epic topic — the history of American war from Bunker Hill to Baghdad — collapsed into a 10 - minute animated film in the Museum's latest New Media Series installation, Triumph of the Wild (2008 — 9).