Sentences with phrase «cinematic conventions with»

After decades of flouting cinematic conventions with movies such as Pink Flamingos (1972) and Hairspray (1988), Waters embarked on his photo - based work in the early 1990s.

Not exact matches

While never the most conventional screenwriter to begin with («Pulp Fiction» is a sprawling, ambitious jigsaw puzzle, for one), in recent years Tarantino's screenplays have pushed the envelope further, eschewing most cinematic narrative conventions, with his movies becoming more like filmed novels that don't bother with traditional structure.

After Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, David O. Russell continues his productive cinematic partnership with Jennifer Lawrence in Joy, and their latest collaboration strays from convention and expectation.

Hot on the heels of 1981's Body Heat, One Deadly Summer follows suit by updating noir conventions and archetypes, but while Lawrence Kasdan intensifies «noirishness» by amping the dial to 11, Becker integrates even more cinematic influences and engages with lingering post-WWII anxieties in a manner that broadens, rather than distills, the film's revisionist stakes.

Scott Pilgrim plays well beyond the hype, an enormous burst of energy and imagination that both plays with every cinematic convention we know of and re-invents the form entirely

But with both this and Dawn of the Dead, he has proven himself a consummate storyteller who can transform convention into cinematic magic & #Array; which is why it's with reluctant enthusiasm that we assign him the responsibility of restoring the luster of mainstream movies.

While the narrow tone and deliberately offbeat methods are sure to elicit derision from those comfortable with more standard cinematic conventions, they also make Cyrus stand out as an intimate and heartfelt piece of filmmaking.

If his last film, the atmospheric, if claustrophobically nondescript saga of love and woe To the Wonder was the acclaimed filmmaker's attempt to pick away at cinematic convention, it is with this one that he abandons traditional narrative constructs entirely.

Still, whatever its ultimate shortcomings, Dheepan offers a visceral ride in which real - world problems join with cinematic conventions to form a powerful tale of survival.

Mr. Douglas's play with the conventions of the cinematic espionage thriller is heady and gripping.

Dreamlands presents early experiments with cinematic space that jolt the spectator out of the conventions of seeing, postwar works that offer a darker and more fragmented experience of the moving image, and contemporary works that often exploit the infinite malleability of the digital image.

Drawing from desire, oneirism, and a fantasized depiction of nature, Prouvost's immersive films and installations challenge the relationship between language and understanding through complex stories and surreal moments with her unusual approach to cinematic conventions and imagery.