Sentences with phrase «celluloid film»

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.

Armen Eloyan was born in Armenia in 1966, where he began his career hand - painting animation onto celluloid film.

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.

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.

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.

Tacita Dean's Kodak pays homage to celluloid film, which, as digital formats proliferate, has become largely discontinued.

Even in her earliest work, Mendieta explored the possibilities intrinsic to the medium of film, incorporating scratches made directly onto the emulsion of celluloid film.

Sabrina Gschwandtner's second solo exhibition at Shoshana Wayne Gallery continues her exploration into intricate quilting motifs, expanding on her already complex imagery with the addition of deaccessioned celluloid film strips of female hands hard at work — sewing, threading, knitting and crocheting their way into our human consciousness.

I disagree, and I think that the long - term trend is clear to anyone who follows the development of technology: despite the recent rebound of paper book sales, traditional books will all but disappear in 20 years, taking a niche position similar to vinyl records, celluloid film, waxed cotton jackets, and veteran cars.

Nolan also continued to champion the preservation of celluloid film during a three - day trip to Mumbai, India.

His long takes, tracking shots, use of natural lighting, admiration for shooting on celluloid film and blend of comedy and drama have distinguished his films as pictorially attractive and thematically inimitable.

A trim, informative 99 - minute primer on celluloid film, which to many viewers has a warmth and feel as soothing as buttered popcorn, and the brave new world of digital cinema.

Ironically, the world opened by celluloid film nearly killed the celluloid - comb industry.

Not exact matches

Only in the past few years have a large percentage of films been shot digitally, and shooting on celluloid is still alive and well.

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.»

Heffner, who is also chairman of the motion picture industry's film rating system, suggests that the anger of the «lords of print» derives from their awareness that Stone and his «fellow celluloid / video Pied Pipers will become our nation's leading storytellers.»

Perhaps celluloid's greatest impact was serving as the base for photographic film.

1 The first celluloid roll film was developed in 1887 by Hannibal Goodwin, an Episcopalian minister from Newark, New Jersey.

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

Even if an hour of film that is pure character development is added back in, that doesn't change the fact we're still starting with two - and - a-half hours of celluloid that has none to start with.

The best argument for shooting on celluloid in the digital age gets made in the Romanian film When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism.

The unfamiliarity wears off swiftly since the quality of the riffing is superlative here, exhaustively poking a particularly primitive film pulled from the overflowing 1970's vault of celluloid shame.

When originally released, Wings included a sequence lensed in the wide - screen «Magnascope» process; even when seen «flat», however, the film contains some of the best flying sequences ever captured on celluloid.

An 80 - minute, hand - drawn animated French film without dialogue and with one of the most depressing finale acts ever committed to celluloid: this is The Illusionist.

A sloppy excuse for 95 minutes of celluloid... Andrew Fleming's film should be outlawed for its sheer laziness alone.

And as if perfectly timed to chime with those canvases in celluloid terms is Mr Turner, the ravishing film that stands as a testimonial to what one might call Late Leigh.

They discuss the nude scene they're about to film, as well as the restrictions of working with 35 mm celluloid, which can never capture a take longer than 11 minutes.

It transcends merely bad, merely tedious, merely irksome and plummets into that very special category of film, the one that so tries and tortures its audience that, emerging again from the soul - sucking black hole of celluloid disaster, it no longer fears... Read More»

Really, for fans of Barry Lyndon, the only thing that matters in the entire history of home video is that Criterion's presentation of the most visually stunning film ever committed to celluloid is also among the most jaw - dropping transfers ever encoded onto Blu - ray.

A living, breathing celluloid invasion flick led by a breathless ensemble of off - the - grid, in - over-their-head rockers who sell the shit hitting the fan with every quaking splinter of their being, Jeremy Saulnier's grimy, nasty, punk exploitation film is a 12 - gauge blast of ultraviolence that doesn't stop to ask about your feelings as its slashing you up the middle.

Letterboxed at 1.83:1 and enhanced for 16x9 displays, Steamboy itself receives a disappointingly murky presentation that appears to have been transferred from celluloid, adding a generation loss — not to mention minor grain and flecking — to a film that was created digitally.

Even in the age of Blu Ray and High - Def TVs, mainstream films are translated to video in a complex process that often results in color and sound being slightly «off» from the theatrical (i.e., celluloid) standard.

Romance is the prism through which identity and normalcy are redefined — a certain celluloid co-dependency that made 2002 (and 2001) the best years for film, and American film in particular, since the heyday of American cinema in the 1970s.

According to the latest Celluloid Ceiling report, women comprised a scant 15 % of all directors, writers, producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 films of 2007 («The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind - the - Scenes Representation of Women on the Top 250 Films of 2007,» Martha M. Lauzen).

Anderson has long been a proponent of shooting on celluloid and releasing his films theatrically, which puts him on an anti-streaming team that also includes directors like Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino.

This film is everything you'd dread seeing in celluloid / digital form - badly written, not well acted, not particularly well shot, and unimaginative - these last two totally unforgivable given the film's supposed to be set in Hawaii.

Disney's approach to restoration was witchcraft in those early days of the format: Regarding celluloid as a transitory delivery system for animation, Disney archivists (somehow) managed to leach the image of film grain without harming fine detail.

Indeed, for a film that's being hailed as a momentous comeback for celluloid — a motion picture event in the truest sense — The Hateful Eight is an inauspiciously low - key affair.

This focus may, like myself, leave some viewers disappointed that the marvellous work of Waking Life gets very little discussion yet it's probably his most thought provoking film and shadows the fact that, to begin with, Linklater was a philosopher that just happened to choose celluloid as the medium in which to express himself.

It's a mix of loving homage to rhythm and blues, scattershot comedy, on - the - spot musical, and the most outrageous car chase film ever put to celluloid.

The ability to study Brakhage's films frame by frame, and to read Fred Camper's superb commentary, also enhances the experience, easing the bittersweet film nostalgia for die - hard celluloid purists.

THE DVD by Bill Chambers It's not clear from the press release whether Lovely and Amazing, which was shot in 24 fps HiDef, bypassed a celluloid intermediary in its transfer to DVD, but whatever the case, the film looks technically as lush on the format as the all - digital Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones.

A painter and cinematographer turned director, a craftsman turned celluloid dreamer, an industry veteran who created, almost single - handedly, the uniquely Italian genre of baroque horror known as «giallo,» he directed the most graceful and deliriously mad horror films of the 1960s and early 1970s.

This film version plonks Neil Simon's Broadway smash on screen without rethinking it for celluloid.

The picture might be the most overt iteration of film noir as a genre about emasculation ever put to celluloid, and trying to puzzle out whether Waldo's for real and chief gumshoe McPherson (Andrews) buys any of his honeyed hooey constitutes a good portion of what's fun and maddening in equal measure about it.

Mild, welcome grain helps maintain the persuasion of celluloid, though, while saturation is strong and hues seem much more accurate than the pink tones of the film's VHS and LaserDisc incarnations.

When translated into film, however, Barker's work (including that which the author has shepherded to celluloid himself) takes on a certain seediness that undermines the essential elegance of the writing.

From the episodic chronicling of a relationship in the Before trilogy and the real - time unfolding of the chamber play Tape to his upcoming Boyhood, which was filmed in vignettes over the last 12 years to reflect the aging of its protagonist, Linklater is primarily concerned with capturing specific moments of significance and preserving them like celluloid time capsules.

During one of her regular outings to see the film «The Purple Rose of Cairo,» Tom (a dashingly young Jeff Daniels), one of the film's leads, breaks through the celluloid fourth wall to enter Cecilia's life.

We are so fortunate to still get great guests and films, and to have the facility at the beautiful movie palace, the Virginia Theater, to show movies on celluloid as well as in 70 mm.