Sentences with phrase «as dreamlike»

To be enjoyed as a dreamlike escape from the outside world.

The works from this series endow archetypal Surrealist tropes such as dreamlike landscapes with Lichtenstein's distinctive style, weaving Lichtenstein himself into an art historical narrative.

For her first solo show in New York, Kristalova presents surreal sculptures made in glazed porcelain, stoneware and patinated bronze that portray the awkwardness of youth, which the artist envisions as dreamlike amalgams of human form with elements taken from animals, insects and trees.

Destiladeras» golden, fine sands anticipate the promising future with the proposed construction of luxurious hotels, a beach club, first - class spas, restaurants and a golf course that will surely cement the Riviera Nayarit's reputation as a dreamlike destination for golfers from around the world.

Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg's debut novel is as dreamlike and as filled with potential horrors as one of his movies: Photographers Naomi and Nathan are lovers and competitors, but Cronenberg establishes early on that their two plotlines will not meet for a long time.

Maybe not as dreamlike and tantalizing as the teaser poster, but a beautiful Metropolis - under - glass terrarium all the same.

by Bill Chambers Sanity and fatigue are ineluctable corrupting influences on an aging filmmaker, but it brings me great pleasure and no small relief to be able to report that while Mother of Tears: The Third Mother — Dario Argento's long - gestating conclusion to his «Three Sisters» trilogy — is neither as artful as Suspiria nor as dreamlike as Inferno, it nevertheless surpasses expectations fostered by Argento's recent work to emerge as his best movie in decades.

To top it all off, they even custom - designed most of the details, such as the lace scallop edges you are about to see, as well as the dreamlike crochet embroideries that are just too cute to handle.

The winner of the Conservative contest therefore needs to be not only a brilliant negotiator, but also a genius that can deal with the gradual realisation of some in the «Out» camp that the deal available from the EU will be nowhere near as dreamlike as the one floated in the leadership contest.

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Or more subtly, they speak of the mass pathology as something passive, portraying ordinary people as (in Jim Garrison's words) «victims of a compelling nightmare, hypnotized and magnetized» in a dreamlike state like that of children following the Pied Piper (Darkness of God, p. 3) Interestingly, this view reverses Caldicott's formulation, in which the people were seen as adults and the leaders were the children.

I'm inclined to think that the intermediate state will be conscious to some extent, but perhaps somewhat dreamlike — not as solid and real as our physical existence.

Just back from his biggest success in Rome, where he presented the dreamlike Fendi Couture fall 2016 collection on the Trevi Fountain, Karl Lagerfeld took some time to concentrate on his namesake label, unveiling what could be regarded as the coolest fall campaign ever.

In the number «You Were My Lucky Star,» as Don puts the light on, you can see how he uses movie production to achieve a dreamlike illusion.

In the first segment, Maddin's camera drifts dreamlike through crowded trains as a floating kielbasa hangs from the ceiling and the director / narrator ponders just why the city boasts the most sleepwalkers per capita of any major international city.

As such, it's rather staid and old - fashioned, despite its jumbled chronology and dreamlike flashbacks.

As countless other critics will tell you, The Revenant resembles a Terrence Malick film, with its sparse use of dialogue, dreamlike atmosphere, and extensive reliance on nature shots.

This hypnotic urban poem on masculinity, violence and wisdom may be Jarmusch's most likeable picture — as funny and dark as anything Tarantino has ever filmed, but with a surreal, dreamlike quality and a soul full of integrity.

Beautiful from start to finish, it follows a similar pathway as the band's preceding albums with catchy energetic standout songs like «Burn the Witch», equally as catchy songs that stretch their energy across the song like «The Numbers» and «Tinker Tailor», slowly building to a climax, and punctuating, meditative tracks like «Daydreaming» and «True Love Waits» that incorporate gorgeous dreamlike instrumentals and Yorke's voice drawn out over 15 - second notes.

With Mr. Salinas and Greenberg's consent, I offer to kickoff our visit with an immediate impression during the start of the film that distinguishes it's score from Cartel Land's... it deftly emerges with warm, melodic cello and higher - notes vibraphone progessions from a dreamlike silence, and only registers as a lilting, tender counterpoint to the viscerally intense imagery of ISIS - occupied contemporary Raqqa, Syria in the picture's opening sequence well after we're already emotionally all - in invested via what will certainly be a harrowing, yet inspiring cinematic experience.

The film works best as a tone poem with a dreamlike haziness; providing too much clarity would ruin it.

But the best the festival had to offer were three stunning films that, in speaking of the human condition, took full advantage of the dreamlike nature of cinema: Shi (Poetry, Lee Chang - dong), Lung Boonmee Raluek Chat (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives, Apichatpong Weerasethakul), and Shakespeare's The Tempest, as re-interpreted by Julie Taymor.

Allonsanfàn Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani, Italy, 1974, 35 mm, 111m Italian with English subtitles In this dreamlike, 19th - century - set period piece, Mastroianni stars as Fulvio, an aging political revolutionary of noble birth who begins questioning his commitment to the cause.

I can not remember the last time a film gave me palpatations and sweaty palms as the protaganists move inexorably towards the dreamlike conclusion.

Back on the Croisette, our Jessica Kiang concurred: saying that it was «tonally in the same vein of sunny noir as, say, Francois Ozon «s «Swimming Pool,»» and that «Guiraudie creates an ambiance of eerie atmospherics that is at once crisp and observant, and oddly dreamlike, or nightmarish.»

«Tell me the story of us», Frances says to Sophie as they elaborately plot out their future in a whimsical dreamlike world.

Appropriately, the long takes in the musical sequences aren't there so the audience can «see the dancing,» as the old cliché goes, but to cast a spell: The unbroken camera movements, self - conscious as they may be, make the movie more dreamlike.

Fictionalizing a 24 hour period in Cave's life which unfolds as a first - person documentary peppered with woozy, dreamlike encounters that may simply be ghosts of a dimly remembered past, «20,000 Days» is saved from unbearable self - indulgence by the deadpan but unmistakably self - aware direction.

Szumowska pulls off a virtuoso, dreamlike sequence at the insufferably dull dinner party as her interviewee's «clients» take the place of her companions around the table, like leering ghosts at the feast, illustrating Juliette's increasing sense of disconnection from her own existence.

Centering on the rich and priviledged David Aames (Tom Cruise) and his quest to have it all, Crowe is keen on depicting the life of a playboy turned upside down as this trek into the dreamlike and the surreal is palpable and haunting.

Awesome as spectacle but fairly perishable as anything else, Chan's stunts are for me a far cry from the more dreamlike feats of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, physical actors to whom he's often compared.

Classic films like Carol Reed's 1949 film - noir masterpiece The Third Man and Jean Cocteau's dreamlike interpretation of Beauty and the Beast from 1946 have been sublime highlights of my festival roster so far, as has the German / Polish family film Winter's Daughter.

Though the «sex equals death» rule isn't as prominent in modern horror movies that defy those decades - old tropes, «It Follows» is very much a retro homage to «70s and «80s genre classics, from the «Halloween» - esque synth score, to the striking similarities to «Nightmare on Elm Street,» both in Jay's perpetual helplessness and the film's dreamlike atmosphere.

The film's general strangeness, deadpan humour and dreamlike tone capture the bewildering events that follow as she goes to live in a witch camp.

Whether it's a long tracking shot of a steaming dog - diarrhea trail soundtracked by Debussy's «Clair de Lune», or a surreal, gut - wrenching hallucination suffered by the lonely old widow of the final story (Ellen Burstyn)-- in which her multiple past selves visit her as a reminder of her failures and missed opportunities — these expressionistic touches, rather than dreamlike whimsy, hit deeper disappointments and realities.

Using mostly a half - French, half - Japanese cast and crew, with locations restricted to Nevers, France, and the titular city, Resnais» film is an intense, intimate film: poetic dialogue, newsreel images of Hiroshima bomb victims, intense physical foreplay, a revolutionary flashback structure, political subtext, and a decisively striking use of modernistic Japanese architecture, contrasted with roughly hewn and ornately decorated stone homes in Nevers, France collectively evoke a dreamlike atmosphere, as a romance is joined during its fiery rise, and left when the morning embers offer a mere faint and dusty glow.

I was aware that the other two films had been very linear in their storytelling and I wanted to go into more dreamlike territory and ambiguity, as well.

A young couple who is separated, must journey through the astonishing and dreamlike worlds of Cirque du Soleil to find each other, as audiences experience the immersive 3D technology that will allow them to leap, soar, swim, and dance with the performers.

The next scene shows us a reflective Marnia in a dreamlike scenario, as the narrative gives way to focus on her plight.

As the story unfolds, and evolves from that of John Smith to John Rolfe (Christian Bale), it never loses its dreamlike aesthetic, conveyed through Lubezki's always - moving camera, but also through characters who say more in narration than they do in dialogue.

SAMUI SONG What starts out as a pretty straightforward crime thriller, slowly shifts into a more dreamlike, self - aware look at why you should be careful what you wish for.

In Part 2, the actress and her character both seem a little out - of - sorts, dispirited and perhaps even disinterested in what is unfolding as the story rumbles on to its deadly conclusion (and to its wholly unreal, dreamlike denouement).

The film ends as it began, with a visually stunning and dreamlike sequence — this time brimming with sound.

«Uncle Boonmee,» directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, traces the dreamlike final days of a man dying of kidney failure as the ghost of his dead wife returns to tend him and his long - lost son comes home in the form of a furry jungle spirit.

The Widers use a variety of cameras and film formats to grant the movie an almost dreamlike feel, and they're aided immeasurably by Bishop's meticulous daily journal, which is read with tenderness and humanity by Lori Singer, bringing Bishop elegantly to life as the chronicler of her own story.

That said, if one hasn't seen the original, there is much to like in the twisted and dreamlike comedy of the mise - en - scène and the fine performances (Emmy Rossum is quite good as the sister — she was not in the short).

Only American Honey (Andrea Arnold, 2016) was the lightning strike of dreamlike, personal cinema that I look for in a new favorite film; Only Yesterday (Omohide poro poro, Isao Takahata, 1991), already as old as I am, was the only new theatrical release that struck me as a work of rare artistic genius.

As a depiction of suburbia it's dreamlike and beautifully photographed.

As they grapple with their own feelings and motivations as they rub up against their own, the film becomes more impressionistic and dreamlike, often flirting with tumbling over into nightmarAs they grapple with their own feelings and motivations as they rub up against their own, the film becomes more impressionistic and dreamlike, often flirting with tumbling over into nightmaras they rub up against their own, the film becomes more impressionistic and dreamlike, often flirting with tumbling over into nightmare.

The episode yields a mute baby sister named Saoirse, though Ben is too young to comprehend why or how this happened, and Moore reveals the entire sequence in short, dreamlike bits so as to align the audience with his awestruck confusion.

Even with the gameplay as familiar as always, the mid-air blocks and moving hazards seem more dreamlike and surreal than ever, floating somewhere between the device and your brain.