Sentences with phrase «drawing upon the film»

To capture that, I drew upon films such as The Cabin In The Woods, Deliverance, 12 Years A Slave, The Descent, Onibaba, The Shining, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Upstream Colour, Under the Skin, Walkabout and Sampson and Delilah.

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I also draw upon my love of language, etymology, literature, history, film, and culture.

Drawing upon inspiration from his film career and travels around the globe to the far reaching corners of the world, Francis created each resort embracing its off - the - beaten - track location, making it an ideal destination for exploring the natural wonders of the area while relaxing in tranquil surroundings.

Drawing upon extraordinary archival footage, the film shuffles between the 1970s and the 2000s.

Taking inspiration from the personal life of his leading man (Lustig is a widowed grocer upon whose stories the screenplay is loosely based), Weinstein draws on his experience as a documentary film - maker to conjure a drama rooted in the reality of these characters and their community.

One that draws upon the iconic leadership of the film's central character: Thurgood Marshall.

(35) For Jodorowsky, the film drew upon his own childhood memories of the circus, and his «terrible» relationship with his mother, who allegedly tried to live through him and with whom he had little physical affection; characters with dominating or pseudo-incestual maternal relationships have figured into virtually all of his earlier films.

Though films «based on true events» are often painfully formulaic — and so too sports pics, which seldom do justice to the drama of actual on - field events — thanks to the unlikely acting tandem of Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, the formula drawn upon by Bennett Miller's Moneyball is a winning one.

That the film is ostensibly based upon a book (by Charles C. Thompson II) drawn from a true story goes only so far towards ameliorating some difficulties with the staging.

Sean Baker directs fiction films like a documentarian hesitant to work within a journalistic framework, often casting nonprofessional actors in roles that draw upon marginalized experience.

During his brief appearance, the writer - director drops the N - word multiple times, which drew a significant amount of criticism upon the film's release two decades ago.

While none of Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Saoirse Ronan, F. Murray Abraham, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum or any of the other names in the film has the drawing power that Roberts did in 2000, the fact that so many recognizable actors were assembled for the same film made them a type of collective draw — a fact which the film's marketers seized upon with highly colorful promotional posters highlighting the above names and many more.

Like Michael Dubo de Wit's remarkable film that draws upon the pastel naturalism of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli for what might be their best film in a line of classics, Del Mar's music is the equivalent of those soft brushstrokes on a big screen canvas of visual poetry, a score that profoundly captures a life at first seemingly lost at sea, only to soar under, and above it though its graceful music that touches the silent tides of nature's life force.

The story was recently transformed into a highly successful 8 - part television miniseries - a joint German / Canadian co-production filmed in Hungary that drew upon the expertise of Scott Free Films to yield a polished production that would put many feature films to shame.

While the home movie style of the film's footage and assembly draws upon the DIY aesthetic that one might associate with P - Orridge's work as artist and musician, I found myself wishing that Losier had something more to offer.

Although not quite as sharp and clever as the aforementioned Heckerling vehicle, Clueless, I Could Never Be Your Woman (its rather odd choice for a title is derived from a lyric to the 1997 White Town song, «Your Woman», covered by Tyler James in 2005, the same year this was filmed), is actually quite inventive in its own fashion, with Heckerling drawing upon her own experience in being an older woman working in a youth - oriented industry, making entertainment meant to appeal to people about 30 years her junior.

Directed by Robin Campillo, who also co-wrote the film along with Philippe Mangeot, drew largely upon their... Read more»

Coralie Fargeat's aptly - named feature film debut follows Matilda Lutz as Jen, initially drawn as a shy wallflower who is desperate to be loved (especially by her boyfriend, played by Kevin Jannsens), who is pushed to wild extremes when she's violated by the man she loves and his loutish group of friends who unexpectedly descend upon what was meant to be a quiet weekend away.

It's a decidedly old - fashioned film in its approach, drawing upon the vibe of MGM musicals of yesteryear, as well as the well - rgarded classics from the likes of Jacques Demy, especially his The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

The lush black - and - white cinematography hearkens back the those noir films upon which this film draws its inspiration, films like Double Indemnity and The Phantom Lady.

Whether it's the folk horror of The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge with its talk of witchery, imps and familiars, the giallo-esque Private View or the chilling psychological drama of episodes such as Tom & Gerri and The Understudy, Shearsmith and Pemberton clearly draw upon an innate and encyclopedic knowledge of genre film and television history.

It seems likely that the game may also draw heavily upon the Van Helsing film released back in 2004, in which Van Helsing was portrayed as a pretty serious badass.

Wescoat's more recent series draws upon the same melodramatic theme of «big innocent sad eyes», again drawing from another artist, made most famous by Tim Burton's film titled «Big Eyes» — a beautiful film released 2014, about an artist's struggle for recognition.

Poaching upon the ubiquity of the photographed (or filmed) image, Songsong paints scenes drawn from contemporary events and personal snapshots, rendering them in stucco - like slurries of oil paint.

The work of Egyptian artist Basim Magdy (b. 1977, Egypt) spans from drawing to film, painting to slide installations that touch upon issues of science, war, and progress, hovering between a nostalgic look to the past and a disenchanted imagery of the future.

Drawing upon a diverse cross-section of subjects including a Japanese cannibal, footage from a British World War II film and portraits by Henry Raeburn, Tuymans» work silently glides from subject to subject.

Ericka Beckman's film You the Better (1983), drawing upon the adversarial nature of team sports, animates the absurdity of blithely entering into a game that can not be won.

After attending film school in the 1960s, Fisher worked as a commercial film editor, and his short experimental films often draw upon the behind - the - scenes aspects of filmmaking, such as the editing and storyboarding processes.

David Toop's text «Blow Up» draws upon ideas of sound, silence and noise as it relates to Latham's work, in particular his film works of the early 1960s.

She draws upon historical film, photographic archives and collections of artefacts to generate fantasy episodes.

They draw upon existing archives of film, photography and physical collections of art to invent new, apocalyptic narratives.

Documenting the passage of time, David Claerbout's drawings for a film examine the slow decay of a thousand years brought upon by natural elements, while Peter Liversidge's Polaroid diptychs focus on subtle atmospheric changes evoked in only a matter of minutes.

Working with Dr Cliff Lauson, Hayward Gallery Curator, the artists have selected over 250 objects, which come from both public and private collections, as well as draw upon informal collections and objects such as photographs, newspapers, films, domestic items, and artefacts.

Dennis Oppenheim, Objectified Counterforces, 1971 2:06 min, color, silent, super 8 mm film Objectified Counterforces records a drawing of the upright body's movement upon the earth.

When Isaac Julien started working with multi-screen film installations in the late 90s, he was naturally drawn to reflect upon...

Shumon Basar outlined a brief genealogy and draws upon examples from the films Metropolis, Alphaville, Blade Runner (and its recent sequel Blade Runner 2049), Ex Machina and a few Scarlett Johansson led titles.

For her presentation at Studio Voltaire, Hopf will create a new film work drawing upon references to silent cinema and feminist film material from the suffragette era.

With her latest work, Barbara Hammer, who is known for films about lesbian life, history, and sexuality that draw upon avant - garde tradition, examines the little - known aspects of the life of the Pulitzer Prize — winning American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911 — 1979).

Sculpture, installation and sound, drawing, prints, and film draw upon references from political, social or art history to literature and film, poetry and music.

Bismuth will also show framed pieces from his Following the Right Hand Of... series, here featuring a photograph of his actress subjects beneath a layer of Plexiglas upon which he's drawn the movement of their right hand throughout the duration of a feature film.

The following year, Wool drew upon the 1979 film Apocalypse Now for new text, taking the «Sell the house» line from a letter a character sends home from the jungle after going mad.

The exhibition brings together short films, drawings, photographs, ephemera, sculptures and installations where we see Franco draw upon childhood experiences including notions of identity, masculinity, sexuality and other essential life experiences and culminates in presenting a rejection of normative parenthood and suggesting alternative paradigms for parental relations.

According to the Baltic in Gateshead, where her work is currently on show, «she draws upon historical film, photographic archives and collections of artefacts to generate fantasy episodes».

«Robert Orchardson's work draws upon elements like modernist architecture and design, utopian texts, or details from science fiction films.

Her «hybridized practice draws upon sources ranging from critical theory to the dystopian dream worlds of speculative fiction and film.»

The exhibition also showcases Pindell's work with photography, film, and performance — mediums she has used to explore her place in the world — as well as works from the last two years, which draw on the beauty and innovation of her approach to abstraction to build upon contemporary conversations around equity and diversity.

According to the Baltic Gallery in Gateshead, where Price exhibited earlier this year, she «draws upon historical film, photographic archives and collections of artefacts to generate fantasy episodes».

Justin's clients include investors, developers, builders, religious trusts and corporate entities across industries with a broad spectrum of property interests — from wind farms to golf courses, manufacturing facilities to film studios, from rail infrastructure to air ports, from swimming pool developments to corporate headquarters and residential developments, town centres, schools and sporting facilities - giving Justin a wealth of knowledge and experience to draw upon.

Drawing upon ten years» experience as an animator for feature film and broadcast te...