Sentences with phrase «cinematic qualities of this film»

Admiring the cinematic qualities of this film is not the same as a declaration of enjoyment.

Not exact matches

Apart from the cinematic qualities that won it four Academy Awards, this film pulls off the difficult feat of presenting abstract mathematics on - screen — the idea called the Nash equilibrium, which had won the film's protagonist, John Nash (played by Russell Crowe), a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994.

The founders, Stephanie Danan and Justin Kern both hail from the world of film (one a producer and the other a screenwriter, respectively), which makes sense given that there is a cinematic quality to their collections — the individual pieces tend to move beautifully.

by Walter Chaw The problem with disconnected narratives and the (empty) conceit of alternating film stocks of equally shoddy quality is that what is intended as evocation of the character's grimy chaotic shiftlessness can come off as cinematic smoke and mirrors.

In an age where inexpensive, high - quality digital cameras have nominally evened the playing field between the big and small screens, Louis CK's show is one of the precious few that has any right being called «cinematic,» unfurling as a series of short films united by their maker's curiosity regarding family, pop culture and the contours of his narrow worldview.

It is finally no cinematic brilliance but only the unnerving quality of its subject matter that enables the film to touch its viewers» sensitivities without being at all sensitive itself.

It is in no way a bad film and it is, moreover, one of the better action films of recent cinematic efforts, far outstripping anything such as the Jason Statham release, Safe, for example; that film was just a rehash of multiple other action pictures but delivered with one tenth of the quality.

With this in mind, Elena Lazic, Manuela Lazic and Paul Ridd have conducted a full survey of cinematic King iterations, ranking by quality and faith to the writer's spirit in order to get some sense of the enormous wealth of Stephen King content available on film.

The film does work a bit hard by the end to play up the tale's inspirational qualities (best exemplified by its use of one of my chief cinematic pet peeves: closing on - screen text that goes beyond mere reportage of fact to make a labored statement), but it really did not have to, as the film's virtues and messages, much like man whose story it tells, speak plainly for themselves.

It's based on a series of graphic novels and director Edgar Wright, whose love of popular culture bounces through his films and TV projects with creative abandon, celebrates the graphic qualities of the comic book origins in a playfully cinematic manner.

The context of a midnight screening accords a certain aspect of cinematic malpractice, as though the qualities that engender the potential danger of the twilight hours somehow infest the material of film, making it dangerous or somehow scandalous.

The best thing you could do is go into the film expecting a cinematic experience; it rids itself of any conventional qualities.

With bulletproof performances of Cliff Robertson (Charly) and Geneviève Bujold (Anne of the Thousand Days), De Palma told a highly cinematic, Hitchcockian mystery with style, class and more than enough unique quality for the film to be able to stand solidly on its own feet, regardless of the similarities it shares with Vertigo, an inspiration that both De Palma and his screenwriter Paul Schrader acknowledged from the very get - go.

This trailer is atypical because rather than editing together footage captured while someone played the game, or making an expensive Hollywood production quality cinematic, it's more of a short film made using the game's engine.

Lined up on a wall, the Sunday Paintings have a cinematic quality: each panel looks like a frame in a film sequence — a moment in time stilled — as if each is a part of a larger ongoing whole.

Cindy Sherman draws on cinematic styling in her work Film Still # 60 (1980), creating a dynamic scene that suggests the narrative quality of a film persona.

Addressing the structure of the medium, the nature of the cinematic experience, the relationship between still and moving image, the quality of illusion, the power of narrative, the live act and its representation, Wallinger's film and video works have explored an astonishing thematic range with great intelligence and originality.

There is a cinematic quality to this work, as if from a still in a film that is using an exaggerated depth of field to achieve a toy - like quality to the subjects.

The artists in Celluloid all explore the remarkable qualities of analogue film and the so - called cinematic apparatus.

Doig's paintings, through their visual play of impasto and glazes, conjure the cinematic quality of a vintage film reel and the nostalgic glow of memory.