Sentences with word «celluloid»

Two miniature sculptures in the show take the form of a shipwreck and a shack, their walls formed by strips of celluloid prints of Varda's first two feature films, La Pointe Courte and Le Bonheur.

One of the high watermarks of our experience with ZombieSmash has been the «Finish Him» cam (a throwback to Mortal Kombat fatalities) where time freezes and you can bestow immeasurable pain on the last zombie of each level — all recorded in celluloid for you to seamlessly email to your friends, send to facebook or save them to your phone without leaving the game.

It's a fact that illustrates the evolution of world cinema on queer issues — a rather positive evolution after decades of the «celluloid closet.»

Tacita Dean, in the book accompanying her recent Turbine Hall installation at London's Tate Modern [1], essentially campaigns for the preservation of celluloid film by rallying film makers, writers and artists to speak out against the immediate threat of obliteration of her (and their) medium.

As with celluloid, Bakelite was invented to replace a scarce natural substance: shellac, a product of the sticky excretions of the female lac beetle.

Butler's skillful, carefully executed acrylics are so free of texture they seem almost silkscreen, but he is going for a surface even more elusive, since these images are stand - ins for celluloid: The words «The End», «L. Butler Pictures», and a date in Roman numerals appear in the center of each painting like a vintage movie's last frame.

I put these facts on the record not to support a return to Prohibition, which I strongly oppose, but to set the historical record straight and temper the revisionist view of legalizers who take their history from celluloid images of 1930s gangster movies.»

The Grand Theater, an abandoned, pigeon - filled movie theater in downtown Paris, serves as the protagonist in a narrative that explores Paris as a meta - location constructed through celluloid and soundtrack.

When aspiring to the stuff of celluloid dreams, one technology company's thoughts appear to have been cast back to iconic mid-1990s film Clueless and the wardrobe technology of fashion - forward style diva Cher Horowitz.

Installation view of Ralph Provisero exhibition at Celluloid Drag: Some Spaces Between Film and Architecture.

Still a staple in film critics» conversations since it's inception into celluloid (I had to), Christopher Nolan's sci - fi heist thriller won over our hearts and minds with it's wig - out - worthy concept of dream hacking.

According to another SDSU study, Celluloid Ceiling, women accounted for 18 % of directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 grossing films in 2017, a number that's on par with women's representation in 1998 — two decades ago.

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This Bushwick artist's first solo show, Soap by Matt Town will focus on a 16 mm celluloid film and sculptural installation about the creation and test drive of a soapbox derby car.

The surface is glossy and luminous like celluloid film, creating a hyper - real intensity which immediately engages the viewer with the physicality and the compositional qualities of the paintings.

We tell you how to get the best results from your DVD player and take a closer look at the technical processes involved in converting celluloid images into zeroes and ones.

I have quite a few true vintage celluloid necklaces — and this shop makes the most amazing vintage - inspired pieces (like this berry necklace) that are such a stunning approximation of original vintage.

Based in New York, Morrison has designed original ways to pursue his passion: working with archival footage, especially «damaged» ones, and to play with the exquisite textures of shapes and colours created by the disintegration of nitrate or celluloid filmstrip.

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Theron's use of vulnerability in her work becomes particularly fascinating when those approaches move away from traditional celluloid heroes, best exemplified in her work in Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody's dark comedies Young Adult and Tully.

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While Quentin Tarantino once threatened to retire if celluloid goes completely extinct, Nolan has a more moderate view.

A mix of H.P. Lovecraft madness, David Cronenberg biological mutation and David Lynch small - town weirdness, it teasingly dangles explanations never delivered and escapes never sought, while diving into one of the most gonzo horrors to twist onto celluloid in years.

Until then, he'll have to brood while rehashing the past and dreaming about celluloid futures.

James Mitchell Crowe writes about the somewhat exciting decay of celluloid materials, mentioning the spontaneous ignition of early film tapes...

Similarly, phenolic resins are used in the artificial amber beads while celluloid, glass, and casein (which happen to be plastic made from milk) are also sold as amber.

Lifeless frames of celluloid passed in front of a bright bulb 24 times a second yield moving images convincing enough to make us believe there are living people up there on a screen, moving about with purpose.

Our brains don't use celluloid with an optic sound track attached to it.

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The Counselor (2013) Bardem went back to the hairstylist's chair to play fun - loving drug lord Reiner in Ridley Scott's The Counselor, his second run at bringing celluloid life to a Cormac McCarthy character (the Pulitzer Prize - winning novelist wrote the screenplay).

On hand are such celluloid phantoms as Josef von Sternberg's unfinished Roman epic I, Claudius, in which Charles Laughton reputedly gave the performance of his career; and Sergei Eisenstein's adaptation of An American Tragedy.

For his cinema program Burning Celluloid Hlebo explores the use of cinema in education, and the theater as classroom.

Few films in celluloid history have been as eagerly anticipated as the first installment in the «Star Wars» prequel trilogy, 1999's «The Phantom Menace.»

In Lost Days Monk appropriates Lost Day, a flip - book of a film by Gilbert & George, and re-films the book from front to back and then from back to front, thus inverting the process by «returning» the work to it's original celluloid form.

Since talking heads are arguably the chief reason that documentaries are generally shunned by movie audiences, less time could have been spent listening to the array of interviews, and more celluloid on the damage done in Oklahoma City.

Among Stephen King's earliest bestsellers, it took Carrie two years to go from page to screen, four years for Salem's Lot to become a TV movie, three years for The Shining to hit theaters, and four years apiece before The Dead Zone and Firestarter received celluloid treatments.

Baumbach milks considerable comedy from his latest celluloid venture, the physical comedy centering on the Ayahuasca ceremony when all participants carry buckets to release the impurities — throwing up vigorously.

The after effects of electrocution, burned hands and damaged vertebrae have long dissipated (Jackie says), but the flying three - story fall has since become celluloid legend.

The following article first appeared in Rolling Stone magazine, March 15, 1973, written by Grover Lewis, «Robert Mitchum: The Last Celluloid Desperado.»

Made in a specifically DIY approach, West's hypnotic videos are a product of her idiosyncratic experimentation into what happens when celluloid film surface is subjected directly to a wild array of processes, chemicals, materials, and events.

«As petroleum came to the relief of the whale,» the pamphlet stated, so «has celluloid given the elephant, the tortoise, and the coral insect a respite in their native haunts; and it will no longer be necessary to ransack the earth in pursuit of substances which are constantly growing scarcer.»