Sentences with phrase «about celluloid»

Until then, he'll have to brood while rehashing the past and dreaming about celluloid futures.

Christopher Nolan and Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip), representing the blockbuster and indie sides of the film industry, sit down for a 90 - minute chat about celluloid and their preference for using the physical medium over the digital format.

Not exact matches

Lifeless frames of celluloid passed in front of a bright bulb 24 times a second yield moving images convincing enough to make us believe there are living people up there on a screen, moving about with purpose.

James Mitchell Crowe writes about the somewhat exciting decay of celluloid materials, mentioning the spontaneous ignition of early film tapes...

For every perfect moment in motion captured in celluloid, there are about 104,000 of these.

Haneke and his actors, playing the bittersweet music of Haneke's crafted - down - to - the - essential script, show us fully and roundly what's at stake even as they depict its cruel, slow, biologically - mandated slipping away, and there's simply never been anything, no depiction of romantic / eternal love, more affecting put on celluloid: The fruits of Haneke's unwavering banishment of any easy sentiment or banal platitudes or reassurances about the human spirit is a pure, clear, penetrating, and overwhelming emotion.

They discuss the nude scene they're about to film, as well as the restrictions of working with 35 mm celluloid, which can never capture a take longer than 11 minutes.

A living, breathing celluloid invasion flick led by a breathless ensemble of off - the - grid, in - over-their-head rockers who sell the shit hitting the fan with every quaking splinter of their being, Jeremy Saulnier's grimy, nasty, punk exploitation film is a 12 - gauge blast of ultraviolence that doesn't stop to ask about your feelings as its slashing you up the middle.

The picture might be the most overt iteration of film noir as a genre about emasculation ever put to celluloid, and trying to puzzle out whether Waldo's for real and chief gumshoe McPherson (Andrews) buys any of his honeyed hooey constitutes a good portion of what's fun and maddening in equal measure about it.

THE BLU - RAY DISC by Bill Chambers Disregard what I speculated about the BD release of 300: I didn't think it would look better, just more artificial — but what the added resolution actually does is clarify the details beneath the sandstorm of grain, giving the image greater depth and a more persuasive celluloid texture.

What do the Quentin Tarantino and Interstellar stories say about the growing divisions between celluloid lovers and digital projection?

But considering that decade - plus development period, it seems Marvel got cold feet once cameras were about to roll, and Wright's singular vision was about to finally be printed on celluloid.

Baker said he's really excited about the look of the film, especially the way Zabe captured the sun - filled images on celluloid.

If you're a cinephile who adores features borne on actual celluloid, patronize your nearest 70 mm exhibitor and is enamored with the technology behind practical filmmaking, there's a lot to love about «Dunkirk.»

But the plot is incidental: what we get is three figures silhouetted against a large cinema screen making wise cracks about whatever piece of celluloid excrement they have to endure.

The Jurassic Park films are largely about children, and the Star Wars prequels provide not only a child lead for the first film, but a CGI abomination and some of the worst dialogue ever committed on celluloid.

«It's the truth I needed to get out there not only about Australia, but to the world, to say there's an alternative history, an oral history that we have passed down; and we're starting to use for celluloid to tell, and that's really important for us,» he said.

ABOUT PETER CANAVESE An officer and voting member of the San Francisco Film Critics Circle, Peter Canavese authors and maintains the website GrouchoReviews.com and is the chief film critic for both Palo Alto Weekly and Celluloid Dreams, a weekly radio show devoted to film (KSJS 90.5 FM in San Jose, CA every Monday at 5 pm and online at celluloiddreams.net).

Unfortunately, things derail fast in the third segment, which Kevin and Nick blame on the celluloid abortion known as Project X. There's a brief moment of sensibility as they also talk about The Lorax, though the show is dominated by talk about extreme fetish pornography, gay racist Klingons and Shweddy Balls.

What's even more astounding is thinking about how this was the first time that Fincher had used digital — up until this point his films were all shot with celluloid — at a time when the format still looked, in lesser hands, crunchy and flat.

Yes, I'm talking about film grain, that reality of celluloid that modern films have been so effectively been scrubbing away in the new film - to - digital - and - back post-production process.

Best Original Screenplay — 1985 What Won: Witness What Should've Won: Back To The Future or Brazil Witness was a decent action flick about Amish folks versus an evil Danny Glover, but was it really more original than cinema's first Oedipal time - travel comedy or the insane celluloid love child of Terry Gilliam and a typewriter?

Looking at early dime novels that dished sensational stories about the shoot -»em - up, rough - ridin» ways of the West, celluloid epics that celebrated the image of the wholesome, white - hatted cowboy, and TV serials whose handsome heartthrobs trotted through the dusty streets of Kansas cowtowns, George - Warren demonstrates how the myth of the range evolved in the media, shrewdly exploring the gap between the image and the reality of the wild frontier.

For Dean, what she loves about cinema is dying in a brutal purge of celluloid.

There is plenty of talk here about Los Angeles as a physical, mental, and historical site; hideous institutional architecture; gay pornography pioneer Fred Halsted; the revolutionary political stance and unlikely resurrection of Christ; the decline of celluloid filmmaking; and even catty commentary about the church - going habits of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

This Bushwick artist's first solo show, Soap by Matt Town will focus on a 16 mm celluloid film and sculptural installation about the creation and test drive of a soapbox derby car.