Moments of seeming «home» footage speckled
by film grain punctuate the film, bridging years of life and marriage as the film progresses.
Not exact matches
However, repeated cycling caused «over-hydration'that trapped water molecules inside the thin
film structure — a development that degrades electrochromic activity
by generating irreversibly colored nickel oxide hydroxide
grains.
By annealing the
films to create larger
grains, they could change the types and distribution of
grain boundaries at the surface.
The most significant results were related to: i) the effect of vicinal surfaces on the
film growth; ii) the
films specifically grown for microwave applications: a clear correlation was demonstrated between the surface resistance, the losses and the concentration of high - angle
grain boundaries; iii) the effect of
film - substrate interdiffusion and its control
by epitaxial buffer layer.
The digital choice allows the movie to look clean, but perhaps the
grain of
film would have been better fitting for the overall presentation that Baumbach was going for (especially with some of the production design and set decoration (especially the apartments)
by Sam Lisenco and Hannah Rothfield, respectively).
Disney presents the
film on DVD in a luscious 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer * — gone is the excess filtering of their more recent live - action fare, replaced
by an unobtrusive, mood - setting mist of
grain.
The
film's low - budget, small - studio roots are evident in a transfer that's marked
by regular
grain and slight softness.
One should always take a movie that starts off with an «Inspired
by a true story» blurb with a
grain of salt, as the creative forces behind the
film are basically admitting that they are going to be making liberal changes in the events of a true story and twisting them for their own agendas.
(In English and German with subtitles) INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN
FILMS The Secret of the
Grain (Unrated) Cross-cultural drama, set in the seacoast town of Sete, revolving around the frustrating adjustment to life in France
by a family of Arab immigrants headed
by a divorced and depressed, 61 year - old patriarch (Habib Boufares) who dreams of opening his own restaurant.
Although there are occasional stretches of the
film free of nightmare
grain, the relative clarity is compromised
by a blurriness to the colours that is probably more the fault of the animation than of the transfer.
The cinematic feel of Little Nightmares is enhanced
by slightly offset colors, off focus and
film grain, making the game look like it's a movie shot on a
film stock.
Light
film grain is present for a natural, moderate, theatrical look, and a deep black level and perfectly tuned contrast complete the
film's intended effect, never disrupted
by digital artifacting.
As it stands, the 1080p 1.85 X 1 digital High Definition image looks fine throughout, shot with remarkable form
by Anderson as an uncredited Director of Photography, his use of the
grain in the advanced Kodak Vision 3 35 mm camera negative
film stocks is superior and impresses throughout as it usually does in all of his
films.
For a
film that goes against the
grain so often
by upholding age over beauty, it's unfortunate Meyers lacks the courage to give us an honest truth without excessive sugar - coating.
Most movie writers / critics have already listed the
films they especially want to see, or expect to do boffo box office — and last week, our own Michelle Alexandria went against the
grain by listing the movies she was least desirous of screening.
The fight choreography, ferociously edited
by O'Connor's team of four editors and shot with textured
film grain by Masanobu Takayanagi, is appropriately painful and gritty.
To coincide with current exhibition David Hepher:
Grain of Concrete, Flowers Gallery will host a panel discussion chaired
by award - winning documentary
film - maker, art critic and author, Ben Lewis.
The paintings of the early 90's, with the
grain of old black - and - white
film stock, recast his obsession with the overlooked mediums that deliver the messages
by which so many Americans live — in this case the scratchy
film of his childhood.
It could be the equivalent of somebody looking at an old
film, and realizing that the
film came from a projector, and discovering that there is an image in the projector, and that it's made of molecules of
grains of
film - and then trying to find the mystery of the story
by looking at ever more detailed molecules of
film, thinking, If I finally get to the heart of that, will it tell me where my story comes from?