Sentences with phrase «by the framing device»

After seeing the packed narratives within narratives of part one, Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One seems, as Miguel Gomes himself suggested, a very different film, connected to the first by the framing device, theme and some of the performers (assuming different roles in the new installment) rather than through narrative continuation.

The storyline is sort of held together by the framing device of Murphy's narrative, but while it does a job it's still a bit of a folksy irritant.

Buoyed by a framing device which establishes that A Love Affair of Sorts is about its own making, the film begins with Levy, as himself, rehearsing a scene with his lead actress, Lili Bordán.

Rather than being displayed in a straightforward and unambiguous way in a gallery or museum setting, they are often separated from viewers by a framing device, such as a vitrine, a box, or other clear zone of demarcation.

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Uber released a video in Asian markets that seeks to disprove myths about female drivers there, and Facebook has designed IWD - themed cards, photo frames, and backgrounds to adorn text posts by users on mobile devices.

The device had faceplates on the front and back framed by a wooden case, enclosing about 60 gears, Jones says.

Columns of the steel - braced frame are tethered to the foundation by viscous damping and steel - yielding devices that allow the building to rock during a quake.

To enable a three - story building to rock, the columns of the braced frame are not anchored to the building foundation, but tethered to the foundation by dampers and steel - yielding devices.

A team of biomedical engineers at Washington University in St. Louis, led by Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has developed the world's fastest receive - only 2 - D camera, a device that can capture events up to 100 billion frames per second.

He gets off on the wrong foot from the get - go by opting for a faux - documentary framing device that has his characters» present - day incarnations speaking directly to the camera.

Though Nickerson is the one recounting the tale of the Essex's demise, the movie includes moments from Chase and Pollard's perspectives that Nickerson's 14 - year - old self (played by Tom Holland) simply wouldn't be privy to, which makes the whole framing device pointless.

One thing I decidedly did not like was the framing device of Nick Carraway writing the story from a sanitarium, where he has gone to recuperate from the «morbid alcoholism» (I think those are the words we see on his diagnostic papers) brought on by the tragedy to which he was witness.

-- matricide, using the conversation as a framing device to flash back to his youth and reveal the bond between Norma Bates (Olivia Hussey) and her son (played by Henry Thomas).

For the new film, Osborne («Kung Fu Panda») and screenwriters Irena Brignull («The Boxtrolls») and Bob Persichetti have taken the generally more effective tack of nesting Saint - Exupery's story within an elaborate framing device set in the kind of modular modern metropolis prophesied by Jacques Tati's «Playtime,» full of technology and free of wonder.

This time he alludes to the art - cinema context much more directly by opening with music from Francois Truffaut's Jules and Jim and evoking the form of that film with offscreen narration (delivered by Baumbach himself) recounting the story in past tense and with old - fashioned devices such as irises and wipes and French New Wave devices such as fantasy inserts, fleeting flashbacks, freeze - frames, and jump cuts.

The isolating environment of the film is aided by director of photography Stuart Dryburgh's digital cinematography, which presents everything with an equal level of detail, whether the item within the frame is human, device or landscape.

Fidelity to Fitzgerald's novel is never an issue, though the screenplay by Luhrmann and usual colloborator Craig Pearce adds an unnecessary framing device to further distance the viewer from the emotional experience at hand.

David Bordwell contends that Tarantino deliberately signals his sources to his audience, «in order to tease pop connoisseurs into a new level of engagement,» while Aaron C. Anderson writes that by using framing markers and calculatingly phony distancing devices (like, for example, the black - and - white process shots in Pulp Fiction), «Tarantino draws attention to his film's status as a film, as a constructed work of fiction, and as a «simulation.

The film uses Meyers» words, but they're read by voice actor Yuri Lowenthal in an animated framing device that has a laid - back martial - arts expert indoctrinating a young know - nothing into the world of Hong Kong action cinema.

One of the best examples of this is the framing device for the main on - ship action: modern - day scenes in which an aged Rose (Gloria Stuart) tells her story to an expedition crew (led by Bill Paxton) searching for a legendary blue diamond called «The Heart of the Ocean.»

This feeling is only heightened by the film's framing device, the conversation between FBI agent Wesley Doyle (the late Powers Boothe) and Fenton, the killer's son (played by Matthew McConaughey) who narrates much of the film, with it feeling like it's going to also double as a serial killer origin story, albeit one with a big twist that we think we can see coming a mile off.

The film utilizes Turing's 1951 police interrogation by a sympathetic and curious detective (Rory Kinnear) as a framing device for the three significant time periods of his life.

The film's framing device, in which Clooney's Frank (whose childhood was defined by time spent in Tomorrowland) and Casey jointly tell the story, is mildly humorous but also shows signs of trouble.

Whereas the earlier films, mostly shot by Dietrich Lohmann, often framed the groups or members of the group in static tableaux in order to highlight their solidarity and opposition to a lone outsider, this film (Fassbinder's ultimate collaboration with Michael Ballhaus) uses an almost constantly moving camera and a remarkable succession of framing and fracturing devices within the camera frame to underscore the shifting alliances, individual isolation, and internal struggles of the characters.

Players are introduced to VR «s world via a framing device in which a history teacher is discussing the «Liberation War» of a hundred years earlier and the «five traitors» who started it, winding up executed by the government for their troubles.

Adapted from the memoir of the same name by the real Jordan Belfort, the script by Boardwalk Empire creator Terrence Winter uses voice - over narration as a framing device (like Goodfellas) in order to allow Belfort's story to unfold «in his own language,» so to speak.

Luhrmann and co-writer Craig Pearce have tried to enliven Carraway's narration by using a clumsy framing device, set in a sanitarium in 1929, where Nick is instructed to write down his memories of Gatsby as some sort of therapy.

Tony (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his wife and daughter, together with the other characters imagined by Edward, seem imprisoned by this arid environment, a framing device that translates the novel's inherent trashiness.

So begins a first act that is by turns handsome, fanciful, curious, and agonizing, charting the seeds of young Pi's spiritual growth in 1977 Pondicherry, India while shoddily leapfrogging to and from that horrid framing device (Khan provides excessive, if eloquent, narration).

Had that photographer seen the documentary to follow, by the time this scene, used as a cyclical framing device, is returned to, he'd understand why a smile might not be so forthcoming.

And yet, after a while, the sameness of Pi's survivalist escapades, and a certain touchy - feeliness in the voice - over narration (supplied by the adult Pi and played by the marvelous Irrfan Khan in a framing device), began to weigh on me.

More, because of the framing device, there's also little tension, the idea that Frank is going to get seriously harmed by any of the underworld thugs he encounters in his quest to discover the truth close to nonexistent.

Okay, so the framing device of the plot is a little generic but thankfully this is alleviated somewhat by the often amusing script and quirky characters that populate it.

That question of identity is further complicated, though never interestingly elucidated, by the film's final act, which returns us to the framing device and charts Bordán's frustrations with the shoot and with Levy's aggressive insistence that the actress share her character's feelings for her director / co-star.

Bracketed by a clumsy framing device that sees Bradley Whitford pretending he's in a documentary, ISTL begins with Hank's marriage to honky - tonk queen Audrey Sheppard (Elizabeth Olsen) and follows him through his rocky rise to post-war fame as «The Hillbilly Shakespeare».

Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals, religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass protests in the first place.

A simple - looking device, the reMarkable (the first product of a company by the same name) features a white plastic frame and bezel, an aluminum back panel and its 10.3 - inch Canvas display, which consists of five proprietary technologies.

Offering a 7 inch capacitive 800 X 480 pixel display, the tablet comes with a kid - friendly frame built around the sides and the rear of the device, along with enough software features built in to allow for safe operation by young minds.

Simpson's opening gambit is a «Note to Customer» from the publisher of Two Sleuths, the best - selling comic created by Miles and Hector, but she wisely uses this framing device lightly, allowing this exceptionally incisive, fine - tuned, and charming novel to unfold gracefully as she brings fresh understanding and keen humor to the complexities intrinsic to each stage of life and love.

Having written about whaling and the South Seas in both In the Heart of the Sea and Sea of Glory, I was fascinated by Mitchell's use of 19th century New Zealand and Hawaii as a framing device.

The 10.1 - inch display is framed on all sides by a 1 - inch - thick black bezel that makes it easy to hold the device without your hand accidentally touching the screen.

This device looks like a refined version of Sony's previous full - size reader (the PRS - 700), with a 6 - inch, 8 - grayscale E Ink screen framed by a metallic case (available in silver, black, or red).

Users have the ability to adjust the frame rate and resolutions, enable / disable audio, and even turn the recording on or off by flipping your device facedown.

The poster released by The Verge shows that the company is working on a new curvy frame of the device with the controls placed to its sides.

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Features: • Unity 3D engine • NVIDIA ® PhysX ® physics engine • Support for both OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL 2.0 • Available for Android 2.0.1 Eclair (API level 6) or higher • Possibility to configure difficulty level: easy, medium, hard • Possibility to configure way to control your vehicle: by touch, by slidem by using wheel and by tilt screen • Possibility to reduce visibility range, to increase frame rate on low - end devices • Possibility to change camera during game (in car, follow car, rotate cam, dynamic and static) • Works even on low - end devices such as Huawei Media pad (but with reduced visibility range) • Supports all screen sizes from e.g. Samsung Galaxy Mini (480 × 320) to Samsung Galaxy S3 or Huawei Tablets

PASS N PLAY WITH FRIENDS OR FAMILY Play 10 pin bowling with your friends for a round of 3, 6 or 10 frames on a single device as you pass and bowl turn by turn — just like real arcade bowling alley.

February 27 — March 5 I ♥ Neutrinos: You Can't See Them but They are Everywhere (70 mm Film Frames of Neutrino Movements — shot in 15 ft Bubble Chamber at Fermilab, Experiment 564 near Chicago — dunked in liquid nitrogen, neutrino movements events with invisible ink and decoder markers and highlighters, inked up by Monica Kogler and Jwest, film roll from Janet Conrad, MIT Professor of Physics) 2011, 37 seconds Roll of specialized film for scientific use of about 1,000 Images transferred to high - definition video on a hand - made telecine device, no sound Made while Jennifer West was an Artist in Residence at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA in 2011; Funded, in part, by the Nimoy Visual Artist Residencies program of the Nimoy Foundation.

It joins works by Jason Middlebrook and Matthew Ritchie that play with framing devices and the relationships between abstraction and representation.

Gulf Stream, one example of this method, features delicately layered passages of oil paint surrounded by denser expanses of vivid acrylic paint, a framing device that she would continue to explore the following year.