Sentences with phrase «allegorical film»

«Cremaster 3,» actually the fifth film in visual artist Matthew Barney's non-linear sexual - anatomical - allegorical film cycle, was shot in part at the Saratoga Racecourse.

It is, rather, an allegorical film tackling questions of contingency and loss.

Not exact matches

As the struggle with Voldemort suggests, the premise of the story is allegorical — good / light against evil / dark — with obvious revivals of the genre traditions of British heroic legend and medieval romance, even though the films have modern elements.

But unlike the rigorous skepticism of films like Blood Simple, Fargo, and Burn After Reading, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore uses its allegorical narrative to further a simplistic political message meant to give it an aura of timely social commentary.

And as for Jackson's novel being an allegorical criticism of society, I'll refer you to Nelson Gidding who wrote the screenplay adaptation for the original Robert Wise film.

Screenwriter Ray Bradbury masterfully captures the allegorical elements in the Herman Melville original without sacrificing any of the film's entertainment value (Bradbury suffered his own «great white whale» in the form of director Huston, who sadistically ran roughshod over the sensitive author throughout the film).

His new film is both allegorical and intimate, with a suggestiveness that goes way beyond its spare story line.

In the late 1920s, Fritz Lang was the star director of Germany's Ufa Studios, the biggest film studio outside of Hollywood, and one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the world for such ambitious epic visions as Destiny (1921), the Die Nibelungen (1924) films and especially Metropolis (1927), his allegorical science fiction classic that is still considered one of the great films of the silent era.

No film this year, however, addresses the matter with more thematic exactitude and near - scientific scrutiny than Michael Haneke's grimly riveting «The White Ribbon,» a film which differs from the ones previously mentioned by taking an entire community, as opposed to a solitary family, as its allegorical subject.

On the surface, Anton Corbijn's film is a pared down tale of a professional gunsmith - for - hire adrift in Europe, but in Joseph Natoli's allegorical reading the film also has its finger on the pulse of a conflicted and disorientated nation.

The film teases the audience with clues and foreboding hints at the causes of the malaise, but never offers anything concrete or literal, instead creating a rich allegorical framework from which an endless array of fascinating questions are raised as to how power may be intermingled with issues such as history, education, class, family, gender, sexuality and ultimately the impossibility of human communication and understanding.

This is borne out by the film's relative lack of interest in anything that happens after Grant dies — the compelling story of the cell phone footage, the trial, the controversial verdict, and the unrest and memorialization that followed is told mostly through curt, pre-credit-roll titles.Yet the film also tries hard for a verite style, as opposed to something more allegorical, and so we have to conclude that we're supposed to accept its less believable moments at face value.

An allegorical pseudo-documentary, the film depicts an Italian television crew's visit to a dilapidated auditorium (a converted 13th - century church) to meet an orchestra assembling to rehearse under the instruction of a tyrannical conductor.

Genre played a welcome role in the Competition, represented by a black - and - white neonoir (F.J. Ossang's 9 Fingers, winner of the Best Director prize), an allegorical werewolf film from Brazil (Good Manners, from the team of Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas, winner of a Special Jury Prize), and a comic reimagining of a popular gothic parable (Serge Bozon's Madame Hyde, which won the Best Actress award for its star, Isabelle Huppert).

Shyamalan understands too well his own formula and with Signs, his third overtly supernatural film after The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, he displays an unbecoming self - consciousness that renders his ostensible subject allegorical subtext, with his own favourite issues (the father / son dynamic, the comic book spirituality) the only reason for the film's existence.

is beloved by Oscar voters — and her committed turn as an allegorical Mother Earth is great, no matter how off - putting they may find the film as a whole.

The film is nicely balanced between sweet fish - out - of - water comedy and frantic interstellar epic, and includes a surprisingly frank allegorical treatment of 9/11 and the ensuing wars in the Middle East.

Aside from that, somewhere down the road from today, we may look back and wonder about the sudden proliferation late in this decade of films centred on Robin Hoods literal and allegorical, robbing from a broken system of fiscal governance to give to (or, at least, not directly take from) the common guy.

The film feels it was made specifically for Greek viewers, as all of the allegorical elements feel poignant and intentional, but not knowing anything about contemporary Greek society leaves you with the feeling of «this means something; I just don't know what it is.»

Sprawling future Western quais - epic Young Ones offers a poignant deconstruction of sci - fi and western films, an allegorical gaze into a murky future that strips both genres down to the studs and builds them up as one.

Classic old - fashioned 19th century set humanist backstage drama period film that was filmed during the Paris Occupation and might have an allegorical message comparing the Occupation to the film's plot about seeking freedom.

The film's other motif of puppets manipulated by unseen hands (carnivorous machines, funhouse mannequins, children's toys, Trevor's «Howdy Doody» nickname) finds allegorical reduction in the perverse hangman's game that forms The Machinist's central means of symbol - dispensation, provoking a slow - advancing existential dread.

The mood in the room remained effusive as the film screened, the rousing sports drama proving an effective crowd - pleaser that has some allegorical ties to recent political events.

Directors Robert Wilson and Jason Lapeyre will surely claim that their make - believe war film has a deeper, allegorical message, but that's a bit of a stretch when the concept itself is so flimsy.

Hardly the mere home invasion thriller it's been marketed as, this is an angry film for an angry time, a heavy, at times lumbering, allegorical work about woman and man, nature and God, painstakingly made from a script the writer - director claims he dashed off in five days; its unrefined, somewhat all - purpose symbolism is evidence of an almost demonic process, and its confusions, self - lacerations, and silliness would be less welcome if Aronofsky hadn't in the process mounted the most technically impressive filmmaking of his career.

A good cast of character actors and a refreshing, almost allegorical setting makes for a film that's worth watching more than once.

The films Mamet has directed range from sophomoric (House of Games) to grating (State and Main) to just incompetent (Heist), though Spartan reminds the most of one he only wrote: the wilderness howler The Edge, with its machismo over-examined and placed in a context that isn't allegorical as it must be, but hardboiled realism as it can't be.

Departing from the oblique allegorical style of his earlier films, he makes an important and impressive attack on state corruption, violence and censorship in contemporary Iran.

While thematically LaBruce's films are all variations on the theme of queer punk negation and radical sex critique, his foray into the world of zombie - porn in the 2000s represents a stylistic shift from the frequently didactic, manifesto - like approach of his earlier films, to the metaphorical and allegorical style that typifies the zombie genre.

For what it's worth, James Spader does nice work playing against type as an intellectual nebbish, and Russell incorporates what could've been an albatross — the death of his character's young son — into his every delayed gesture without seeming merely thrown by the film's premise, whose machinations are so befuddling as to deter one from inspecting Stargate for political and allegorical angles.

The zombie films capitalise on the rich allegorical capacity of the genre to build on themes of sexual repression and alienation in modern capitalist society.

Given the allegorical method of Darren Aronofsky's storytelling the film is open to much interpretation and criticism.

Set in the fictional country of Zubrowka (a very fine bison - grass vodka IRL), the film displays an unbelievably precise, irreverent and occasionally very funny eye for the minutiae of a vaguely Germanic, vaguely Eastern European country marked by recognizable, if allegorical 20th century history.

With a budget of just $ 5 million and a box office gross close to 40 times that, allegorical horror film Get Out has emerged as 2017's biggest surprise hit.

The exhibition will feature photographs from Shonibare's allegorical «Fake Death Pictures» series, sculptures, and the film «Addio Del...

Highlights include Neshat's moving film, Rapture, 1999, a two - screen, black - and - white video projection in which an allegorical narrative about the stark divide between Muslim men and women plays out on opposing walls.

The exhibition will feature photographs from Shonibare's allegorical «Fake Death Pictures» series, sculptures, and the film «Addio Del Passato» («So Closes My Sad Story») that collectively explore themes of desire, love, repression and power.

She employs conceptual and methodological approaches borrowed from artistic and academic practices such as theater, film, anthropology, linguistics and journalism, to explore new representational strategies that examine and interrogate the allegorical character of the present political moment.

The film's protagonists compare the human characteristic of authoring to the natural phenomenon of eruption as a revolutionary and transliterative allegorical device.

The exemplary mode of Russian literature, art and film of the first half of the 20th century, the allegorical informs much of Kantarovsky's work.

The exhibition opens with the allegorical short film, Will / We Must by Zhou Tiehai, which the artist produced in 1996 when he was 30 years old.

The exhibition features photographs from Shonibare's allegorical Fake Death Pictures series, sculptures, and the film Addio Del Passato (So Closes My Sad Story) that collectively explore themes of desire, love, repression and power.

Amboy is both an allegorical figure and a geographical site: a vector by which the film proceeds, interrupts itself, transmits its story, and unspools its own making in the same filmic time and space.

PART 2: LIGHT AND SHADOW The ESSAY «Light and Shadow» discusses... flicker films, Plato's allegory of the cave, H.P. Robinson's allegorical images, working with the absence of light, Tony Conrad's slow emulsions, photography as fairy magic and sun drawings, Adam Fuss's photograms, Hiroshi Sugimoto's feature - length exposures, Cai Guo - Qiang's explosions, light as cancerous radiation, light and shadow in city planning, contrast and lighting in works by Rineke Dijkstra, Jacob Riis, Weegee, Adrienne Salinger, and others, O. Winston Link's environmental light, darkness and light as metaphors for knowledge, morality, and power, pools of light in Expressionism, film noir, and works by Hans Bellmer, Esther Bubley, and Anna Gaskell, Group f / 64, available light in the work of Roy DeCarava, Yinka Shonibare's interpretation of Dorian Gray, public projected images, Indonesian shadow play, Gregory Barsamian's kinetic sculptures, flickering portraits by Christian Boltanski, Kara Walker's silhouettes, and more...