Sentences with phrase «if narrative cinema»

However, Lee Marshall of Screen Daily writes, «If narrative cinema is all about the harnessing of character and atmosphere in the service of a strong story, then Matteo Garrone's follow - up to his 2015 Tale of Tales succeeds on every level.»

Not exact matches

It's as if Carlos Saura were calling the bluff of spectacle - oriented narrative cinema that necessitates excusing its excesses with characters and plotting.

It is fine with me if there are two, ten, or a hundred cinemas, but I think we have to understand that the most important new movies will not be coming from the directors who make better and better films in conventional narrative modes, no matter how much we may admire and enjoy what they accomplish.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

This movie is ridden with plot holes, it has an unacceptable amount of logic issues, Mystique's costume is distractingly fake and silly looking, Anna Paquin gets a title card yet is in five seconds of the movie, multiple story beats are repeated and the narrative puts into question everything that's happened in previous «X-Men» films, but, if you can get past the fact that the «Days of Future Past» narrative is downright ridiculous, you can still enjoy some of the mindless, summer fun — and Quicksilver's sequences, because that's high quality cinema right there.

If, as she continues, «texts or figures that refuse to be redeemed disrupt not only the progress narrative of queer history but also our sense of queer identity in the present,» then there would seem to be nothing more of a drag to the savvy contemporary moviegoer than politically démodé gay cinema.

Because its imagery — which also calls to mind Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, the cinema's every modern representation of revolution (the few decent scenes in Roland Emmerich's stupid The Patriot, for instance), and even the militarism of choreographer Busby Berkeley — is far more virile than its screenplay, Drumline's seductive aesthetic is without strong narrative pillars, if a rather welcome imposition: the film's saving grace is the brilliant execution of its march numbers.

But we do have this very small audience in mind when we get to a crossroads and think cinema storytelling narrative language says if this plus this equals an unlikable character, then you just don't do that.

It's a narrative set - up anyone with a passing interest in cinema will know, and if there's another thing other than the aesthetic developer Supermassive Games absolutely nailed, it's the simple implication of a cause and effect system known as the butterfly effect.