Sentences with phrase «bleakness with»

In New York's neon - lit alleys and the shadowed hallways of apartment buildings, and in the solitary, anonymous figures that haunt the city at night, Jason Langer finds both threat and solace, developing a language of still yet cinematic poetry to charge the bleakness with a flash of intrigue.

Yet Lourie tells how the budding writer countered the bleakness with observations of the Arctic land, animals, and people.

Still, the film straddles these two paths of the post Korean New Wave well, balancing the bleakness with the joy.

On one hand, it shares a certain bleakness with its predecessor, its violence and drama presented with the same impassive eye.

Not exact matches

Still, if you want to avoid violence and stories of bleakness completely, you're going to have to literally cut entire chapters and books out of your Bible with a pair of scissors.

But his allegiance to the cause of Christ makes the bleakness of his life glow with glory.

Creativity as self - care is a very real thing, both generally speaking and also as a way to counter bleakness and darkness with beauty, light, liveliness, and inspiration.

Under the guidance of Cumberbatch, who serves as executive producer, Nicholls» translation is a surprisingly positive endeavour, combating the inherent bleakness and social commentary of Aubyn's stern prose with black comedy and an unceasing desire to better one's self.

I first have to say that the film is beautifully shot with some really great imagery showing the bleakness of the landscape and allusions to many of the characters.

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Over recent years, the film noir genre has largely served as a reference point for filmmakers, who dress up their movies with snappy dialogue and / or complex, violent stories but neglect the genre's bleakness.

«Frankie escapes the bleakness of his home life by causing trouble with his delinquent friends and flirting with older men online.

Now, The Hunger Games gets the finale it deserves, albeit with a film whose bleakness may take some younger fans of the series by surprise.

For all of the production problems, Fincher's vision is still eye - catching, with a roving camera, claustrophobic environs, gothic stylistics, and an overriding tone of bleakness and despair.

At times, Cianfrance startles us with the sheer bleakness of his vision.

This isn't to say that Haneke is a stranger to a smile — even Funny Games has some humour buried in the bleakness, its title not completely ironic — but with Happy End Haneke has come probably as close as he will to a screwball comedy.

The bleakness (well supported by Bruno Delbonnel's bruised cinematography) feels invigorating for the Coens: While many of their successes, from Barton Fink through A Serious Man, bump up against existential dread, they've never made do with so little comic relief.

I guess my point with Frozen River is if you are going to go misery bleak, then I need more than a clever device to propel character motivations forward in that bleakness, it needs to be the bleakness I know from experience, the ennui of life, and to do that you need to go whole hog and dispense with plot altogether.

Blade Runner 2049 is the cinematographer's third film with director Denis Villeneuve and, in an interview with Vanity Fair, Deakins explained the extent of the collaboration — designing the look of the world with the director, and even staying on set during postproduction to supervise visual - effects shots and ensure they maintained the spirit of bleakness he and Villeneuve had envisioned for the futuristic film.

It always stays true to the characters and the nature of how things generally play out in the real world, with a brilliant epilogue that gives the entire film an overall sense of the bleakness of the cold, uncaring world of drugs and crime.

From this bleakness, the Zabinskis bravely begin hiding Jews facing such a fate, beginning with a young girl.

When directors come on to franchise movies, of course they work to fit the tone; however, The Force Awakens is still without a doubt, a JJ Abrams movie, and The Last Jedi will be a Rian Johnson movie with all the amazing, beautiful bleakness that implies.

Nebraska is filmed in black and white, and in the earliest scenes the plain palette suggests nothing but bleakness — an impression heightened as David drives Woody through the empty country of the heartland with its open spaces and run - down towns.

For «relative» comparison, «Frozen River», with all of it's bleakness, sparceness, & nuanced acting, wound up being one of my absolute favorite films of 2008.

The bleakness and desolation of space is effectively captured by Boyle, with a sparse and subdued electronic score, provided by Underworld, who previously scored for Boyle on Trainspotting, working with 28 Days Later's John Murphy.

It's a film looking to challenge America's gauzy perception of the country's most famous political family, loaded with all the bleakness that task requires.

Salt and Sanctuary is one of the best examples of a soulslike, coupling the difficulty, bleakness, and gameplay of Dark Souls and packaging it in a 2D platformer with gothic, cartoonish visuals.

There's something about the Australian outback that bleeds through the screen and fills me with a sense of bleakness that I have never felt from a conventional western... and I love it.

Given the bleakness of this film's vision of the future of humanity, I don't begrudge the screenwriters (director Reeves, in collaboration with Mark Bomback) an attempt to include a single sympathetic figure from our withering branch of the hominid family tree.

Set in WWII London, with its blackouts and frenetic parties, and then in the bleakness of Free France as...

He has stated before that with Neverending Nightmares, he was «trying to create that feeling of bleakness and hopelessness.»

Despite my screen being filled with brown, black, and grey I was enthralled by the world, the bleakness forming a kind of beautiful destruction.

The first had its goofily quotable hard - boiled dialogue, but it wore thin early on; MP2's unrelenting bleakness gets funnier as the game goes on, with just enough genuine pathos to keep the pain meaningful and darkly hilarious.

And he closes with an appreciation of «the greatest American painter of the twentieth century» who was «intimately concerned with the bleakness of our spirituality in the absence of God» namely, Mark Rothko.

Recycled pieces of fabric, drapery, scraps of wood, wire, cut cardboard and paper, other photos, painted motifs, yarn, cord, ceramics, and stickers come and go, speaking not of Michelangelo but of a latter - day tween - on - a-budget twist on Giacometti's emaciated sickly figures — suburban sprawl and craft - store spree meet creeping apocalyptic bleakness on the one hand, and tenderness with a sweet attention to detail on the other.

-- Michelle Grabner, Artforum 2015 [Her -RCB- real subject is America [with] a bleakness that suggests the view of America in the best works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Joan Didion — Michael Brenson, New York Times

Committed to figurative painting at a time when it was out of favor with critics and collectors, Steers nonetheless gained appreciation for his expressionist - realist narratives of a life shadowed by isolation and mortality, yet infused with wry humor, camp, and what Steers himself called, a «gorgeous bleakness.»