Sentences with phrase «by funhouse»

The real events of Amin's spectacular rise and fall in Uganda are distorted by the narrative of this movie in much the same way the events of one's life are distorted in one's dreams — or, more comically (and the best elements of this film are comic), the way a body is distorted by funhouse mirrors.

Haynes finds, within the sensationalist and the melodramatic, a culture's vision of itself, distorted by a funhouse mirror but nevertheless evocative of the unvarnished truth.

Not exact matches

Some are distorted like a funhouse mirror through a «space warp» phenomenon first predicted by Einstein a century ago.

Aardman's biggest fans will be put off by the constant motion, which may induce headaches for people who prefer «TV Funhouse» to «Ice Age.»

Emboldened by how beautiful it looks, «The Post» isn't afraid to be playful with the past, even if that makes it less of a time capsule than a funhouse mirror.

By focusing on the tumultuous friendship between Violette LeDuc and Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Provost creates not so much a dichotomy of femininity as a funhouse mirror of it.

Together Rick and Holly go to explore a potential rip in the time - space continuum, which just happens to be inside a funhouse ride manned by redneck scam artist Will (Danny McBride, keeping up his yearlong streak of scene - stealing sidekick roles).

After landing the coveted «Discovery» award at this year's Toronto International Film Festival and being courted by distributors at a loss as to how, exactly, one goes about marketing a surreal, funhouse black comedy anymore, Aaron Woodley spoke to us by telephone fresh from an animating session on a new project while planning his sophomore feature, Blueberries.

29Rooms is an interactive funhouse of style, culture, & technology, brought to life by a group of global artists and visionaries across mediums, and powered by you.

It's a picture that has a couple of genuine - seeming moments drawn out like slow taffy until they're rendered a funhouse version of a genuine moment (the best bit of the film might be Drew dancing by himself — it only lasts ten seconds).

Chaplin conjures up an array of comedic moments that are both ingenious and hilarious; from the Tramp's escape from the police in a hall of mirrors funhouse, to a dazzling and dangerous tightrope act performed by the Tramp without a safety harness (but with the attention of several monkeys who are running loose in the circus and decide to join him on the tightrope!)

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 narrative attempts to tell a bizarre funhouse mirror version of a rags to riches story of a crazy director with no talent who becomes a celebrity in spite of himself by making a terrible movie badly, but Franco and his cadre of famous friends (his brother Dave, Alison Brie, Zac Efrton, Seth Rogen, and so on and so on) seem far too tickled making shot for shot remakes of scenes from The Room to latch onto anything beyond an extended SNL skit.

It's a film about video games made by a director who was a huge formative influence on the medium, observing his own reflection in a funhouse mirror.

I actually began my VR gaming journey by playing NVIDIA VR Funhouse, which is just simple and basic carnival games.

The VR Funhouse is developed by Nvidia featuring seven different carnival games, and challenges.

To this day I wonder if my RPG preferences have been shaped by beginning with what is essentially a Japanese funhouse mirror reflection of Americana in all its forms.

Funhouse (part 1) displays work by a dozen American artists: ART CLUB2000, Patterson Beckwith, Louise Bonnet, Josh Callaghan, Mark Chiat, Wendy Edwards, Steve Ellis, Danny McDonald, Jack Pierson, Rob Reynolds, Haim Steinbach, and Thomas Zummer.

, curated by Odili Donald Odita, Acme Art Co., Columbus, OH 1995 Works for a Funhouse, ES Vandam Gallery, New York, NY Gotcha!

The funhouse - style mirroring in Little Girls # 1 suggests the distorting effects of traditional notions of beauty and femininity imposed by this gaze.

Within the funhouse fracture of its surroundings flicker memories of earlier mirrored boxes, classics of postwar sculpture, by Robert Morris, Larry Bell and Lucas Samaras.

In November 2005, Kelley staged Day is Done, filling Gagosian Gallery with funhouse - like multimedia installations, [15] including automated furniture, as well as films of dream - like ceremonies inspired by high school year book photos of pageants, sports matches and theater productions.