Sentences with phrase «cinematic landscape»

In a modern cinematic landscape where CGI worlds full of anthropomorphic creatures dominate, the majesty and imaginative appeal of Alice's adventures seem too familiar, and dare I say, mundane.

A textbook «doomed teenager» movie setup that veers promisingly into «District 9» territory, director William Eubank «s «The Signal» aims for something beyond the current cinematic landscape, but doesn't quite reach the desired frequency.

Engaging with the political ecology of oil, ice, and water, the artist interweaves vast cinematic landscapes with documentary footage, science fiction poetry, and academic findings to narrate a changing planetary reality.

PAULINE KAEL By Paul Schrader and Howard Hampton For someone who was so small, Pauline Kael cast a giant shadow over the national cinematic landscape, and the one thing her followers and her detractors might agree on is her extraordinary talent.

And, of course, there is Attenborough's transformation into Christie, as vivid an onscreen monster as any of the serial killers who stalked the post-Psycho cinematic landscape.

The Revenant tells a harrowing story of endurance, set in a desolate but hugely cinematic landscape.

The iconic Devil's Tower location in Wyoming was originally a fictional location scripted as «Wamsutter Mountain» and Spielberg briefly considered using Monument Valley, but passed on it since he knew that cinematic landscape belonged to legendary director John Ford.

Namibia's vast and cinematic landscapes make travel by light - aircraft the perfect way to get around and to cover great distances quickly.

Matthew Ritchie investigates cinematic landscapes, Richard Tuttle exhibits textiles in London, Marina Abramović returns to New York, and more in this week's roundup.

The «Ten Possible Links» are a series of subtly vibrant and densely layered paintings that investigate the abstract imagery of Ritchie's sculpture and cinematic landscapes through multiple diagrammatic and painterly gestures.

Melika Bass explores the framework of the nocturnal cinematic landscape to construct a psychological portrait of urban memory.

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.

Version 2 has been built with social media in mind, so you can lock it in portrait mode as well as the more cinematic landscape.

The current cinematic landscape is so wildly different.

Feelings of nostalgic longing for a remembered past and a hoped - for future haunt, mingle, and coalesce in Shurts» cinematic landscapes which hover between representation and abstraction.

On May 25, 1977, director George Lucas forever altered the cinematic landscape by introducing theatergoers to an exciting galaxy far, far away.

Butch Bullet Stein is a Jewish junkie from the mean streets of Lovable outlaws, buddy comedies, and Westerns have always been a part of the cinematic landscape.

But while some are impatiently waiting for the paint to dry, astute viewers will see a cinematic landscape bloom.

In 1982, Godfrey Reggio altered the cinematic landscape with Koyaanisqatsi, an immaculate, haunting film composed of documentary footage of life on earth that pondered the fraught relationship between man, modernity, and

In this cinematic landscape, that is what you call a revelation.

In a cinematic landscape littered with remakes, copycats and formulaic fluff, playing against expectations is almost always a wonderful thing, and...

It flaunts its influences on its sleeve and happily pays homage to its heroes, but Burning Annie also carves its own place in the cinematic landscape, feeling wholly original and exciting.

In my opinion, there have been very few filmmakers that have changed the cinematic landscape for the better since my birth some forty years ago.

And while those two certainly changed the cinematic landscape, I wouldn't say their effect has been good or for the better.

Particularly in a cinematic landscape where a lot of ink has been spilled regarding the marginalization of women - led movies, as well as the lack of female directors and screenwriters.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Year: 2000 Director: Ang Lee Ang Lee's Oscar - winning epic is not only the highest - grossing foreign film ever, but also happens to be yet another foreign film that changed the cinematic landscape: a kung fu flick with heart and soul.

So after looking at the cinematic landscape and looking past, say, Beauty and the Beast and Power Rangers fan servicing, we've singled out 50 movies we're anxious to get our eyeballs on.

Last year's cinematic landscape was littered with father figures who are inept and adrift.»

I didn't love it, but I'm glad there's a place for films like this in our cinematic landscape.

I've always been one of her staunchest defenders — she's a burst of mint in a cinematic landscape dominated by take - me - to - the - dark - side brooders and self - bruisers — although I'd be the first to admit that nothing about the girl screams «rifts in the space - time continuum».

With minority representation at the forefront, not to mention a three - dimensional female lead, Moana continues Disney's recent efforts to diversify the cinematic landscape.

And while it would be fantastic if that's weren't such a refreshing rarity, this is the cinematic landscape we're living in and at least we can appreciate the fact that this specific rarity completely nails everything it sets out to accomplish.

Sure, there's also all kinds of dreck on the way, but the cinematic landscape for 2013 looks enormously exciting, from $ 200 million blockbusters to tiny indie pictures.

So, who is shaping the cinematic landscape in 2015 and beyond according to Filmmaker?

Since the release of Unbreakable, the cinematic landscape has changed so drastically.

Jeff Nichols has been steadily turning out films that prove to be fascinating contributions to the cinematic landscape.

Housing an absolutely terrific, star - making performance from stand - up comedienne Tiffany Haddish, this raunchcom is what's been missing from our cinematic landscape for far too long.

Yet it was also a time of great artistry, with gritty realism staking a firm claim on the cinematic landscape along with lush melodramas, socially conscious dramas, and bright musicals.

Costner is a perfectly fine addition to the over-50s action - hero stable that the current cinematic landscape has been so obsessed with ever since Liam Neeson murdered his way across Paris.

by Ian Pugh Already something of a dinosaur in a season that saw Indiana Jones explode onto the cinematic landscape, For Your Eyes Only was the first 007 film that found Roger Moore looking too old to be a roguish, oversexed secret agent.

An atrocious year politically, the cinematic landscape didn't provide nearly as engulfing a refuge as Peak TV, making for a diminutive list on my part.

Michael Mayer's film adaptation, while certainly reverential to Chekhov's classic, feels utterly conventional in today's cinematic landscape.

In a cinematic landscape where every other teensploitation or gross - out comedy seeks to out - atrocity the next, it says something that Freddy Got Fingered garnered something like universal outrage.

But in Burke & Hare it is clear that Landis has little to offer the current cinematic landscape.

It's fitting that, in this year of women dominating the cinematic landscape, the last big movie release of the year is thoroughly and utterly stolen by its female cast member (and a droid that looks like a beach ball, but that is neither here nor there).

Perhaps unsurprisingly, this cinematic landscape (you might recognize it from the U2 album cover), is also home to hip towns with names like Wonder Valley and Twentynine Palms, where an arts scene is blooming.

This body of work constructs sculptures inside of photographs, using the language of sculpture in an image and creating a cinematic landscape inside of the image.

They're now among the reddish monoliths of Monument Valley, a cinematic landscape inextricably associated with the cowboy - Western genre.