There are enough other
cinematic influences in the video — including the theories of Francis Ford Coppola's famed editor, Walter Murch, whom Rose interviewed at London's Serpentine Gallery during her solo show there earlier this year — that later on, in the fray of the Stella opening, I turned to her and asked, «So when are you going to make your feature film?»
Working through an enormous canon of
cinematic influences in a far more satisfying way than Carax's glib offering (Gomes» titular allusion to Murnau is no coincidence), Melbourne's resplendent Forum Theatre proved a fittingly grand venue for Gomes» expansive vision: this film is a joy to watch.
Not exact matches
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.
Add
in Pattinson's central performance, subtract the sum total of the Safdie Brothers
cinematic and literary
influences (Of Mice and Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Straight Time, among others) and Good Time emerges as the next, necessary step
in the Safdie Brother's evolution into top - tier, must - watch filmmakers.
But if the North Korean stuff was ultimately more of a means than an end, I had to appreciate the irony of Kim Jong - un bending Hollywood to his will, thus endowing him with the
cinematic influence that his famously movie - obsessed father had always wanted and validating the daddy issues that Randall Park used to humanize the young dictator
in The Interview.
Jones does more than just report on that interview, he also includes contemporary filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Richard Linklater, and David Fincher discussing the
influence that the book had on them as
cinematic artists
in their own right.
With its dead ends and changes
in perspectives, Louder Than Bombs is the kind of multi-faceted, ambitious, incompletely resolved American drama that American filmmakers never seem to get around to making: novelistic
in subject and structure, but completely
cinematic in the way it expresses itself, even if Trier's camera style never rises to the sophistication of his
influences.
I've long been
in love with film noir — those sumptuous, cynical tales of the darker side of life, an American
cinematic phenomenon that started
in the 1940s and was greatly
influenced by German Expressionism and French Poetic Realism.
He may well plagiarise but his knowledge of world cinema and the heavy
influence it has on his films,
in some ways, allows a wider audience to access some wonderful
cinematic ideas they normally wouldn't.
Ford's
cinematic influences are overtly placed — everything from the iconography and satire of DR. STRANGELOVE (as shown
in the war room scene), to the narrative drive of STRAW DOGS (as shown
in the grippingly tense scenes with fictional Tony's harassers, led by a perfectly - cast Aaron Taylor - Johnson), to the tangible feel of David Lynch's oeuvre, to the cunning bite of Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES.
Blood Feast is venerated by gorehounds and has a «so bad it's good» reputation among horror buffs, but what's really breathtaking about it is its shameless demonstration that,
in the grand
cinematic scheme, artistic merit, cultural
influence, and commercial success have precious little to do with each other.
All
in all, Netflix's
influence as a film studio is slowly growing and Annihilation could be a boon to their
cinematic business.
There's no way for me not to be
influenced by Malick just because I have definitely found a great deal of value
in what he is contributing to cinema, on a formal level and the
cinematic grammar that he employs.
For our release of The Soft Skin, out next week
in Blu - ray and DVD editions, critic and filmmaker Kent Jones created a new video essay exploring Truffaut's
influences, from literary to
cinematic.
In this interview, we discuss the film, what it means to be an active ally, his
cinematic influences, and his incredible ensemble cast.
Self - congratulatory types may observe The Raid 2: Berandal
in terms of its smorgasbord of
cinematic influences, and pat themselves on the back for catching its touchstones: the A Better Tomorrow and Infernal Affairs trilogies, the filmography of Johnnie To, Th...
In later years Salvatore Argento's
cinematic influence would be directly seen on the production credits of many of his son's films, along with those of Dario's brother Claudio, who acted as producer on many of his works.
It has been a long time since I saw Blade Runner, and watching it anew
in Ridley Scott's new, preferred «final cut» is to be reminded just how many
cinematic science - fiction visions of the future have been
influenced by it.
It's definitely under the
influence of the modern games industry with a more focused story line and heavier reliance on
cinematic «experiences», but none of that matters when you're carefully stalking a target from the crowd, waiting for them to wander into your trap and kill themselves
in some spectacular way you made look like a complete accident.
As a
cinematic experience, Squadron felt very much
in tune with the way things
in general were trending at Origin, to such an extent that one might well ask who was
influencing whom.
In order to build Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 «s four - player cooperative campaign, the team at Treyarch had to completely overhaul its A.I. technology and rethink how it
influences combat, storytelling, and level design, all the while maintaining the
cinematic immersion that the series is known for.
Dialogue production is our responsibility and with no director
in the traditional
cinematic sense, our ability to
influence narrative can exceed that of linear media.
Jean Renoir's ceramic art before his
cinematic career further shows how his Impressionist father
influenced his style, while
in his films there's an echo of the elder Renoir's visual legacy.
While his earlier works tended towards abstraction, it was during his residency
in Europe that Dewantoro was strongly
influenced by the Romantic landscapes of 19th century visionaries William Turner and John Constable, initiating the development of his own
cinematic landscape paintings.
In tandem with the Scorsese Collects gallery exhibition, this series illuminates the conjunction of graphic and
cinematic influences that shaped Martin Scorsese's aesthetic.
Filmmaker, poet, and writer Ahmed Bouanani (1938 — 2011) was a towering presence
in this landscape, pioneering a
cinematic and poetic language that
influenced a generation to come.
Buchanan's background
in the history and techniques of painting and drawing is a strong
influence on her visual form, making her video pieces less
cinematic and more spatially related to painting.
Victorian aesthetics,
cinematic framing, pre-Raphaelite painters and artists from the Golden Age of Illustration also figure prominently
in Ortiz's
influences that contribute to her mastery of light and drafting.