But Slow West utilises a massive arsenal
of cinematic techniques shunned by most commercial filmmakers, and shows that an arthouse film can hold both tension and big ideas at once.
The movie plays like a master's course
in cinematic technique delivered by the master himself, crammed with giddy effects and visual jokes.
Selected Works, 1942 - 1978,» currently on view at Foam in Amsterdam through Sept. 6, explores how Mr. Parks not only made television and Hollywood films, but also
employed cinematic techniques when taking and sequencing photographs.
They contemplate
early cinematic techniques of motion capture and ponder whether the puppets in their stop - motion animation drama Anomalisa might have been «faking it» on set.
Employing
impressive cinematic techniques and anchored by a tour - de-force performance from newcomer Mariam Al Ferjani, Kaouther Ben Hania's BEAUTY AND THE DOGS tells an urgent, unapologetic, and important story head - on.
The two documentaries share
common cinematic techniques: like The Cove, the filmmakers of Racing Extinction employ guerilla - style shooting tactics to create suspense and raise the stakes.
It's a quasi-religious fable about a man haunted by the past and facing a profound moral and existential crisis in the present, and it's a dazzling display of
virtuoso cinematic technique and showboat performances.
Liman combines
multiple cinematic techniques — most of which I'm usually not a big fan of: crazy camera angles, on - screen graphics, free - form editing and both text and voice - over narration — to get the documentary style look he was going after.
«And it's amazing that Blumhouse, QC Entertainment and Universal have empowered Jordan [Peele] to tell his side of the story, to have a black protagonist... it doesn't mean you have to
compromise cinematic technique.»
The surface of the movie is also glossy, with Cambridge's Gothic architecture,
precious cinematic techniques, and Jones in authentic»70s bowtie blouses.
Wheatley's model not only establishes Haneke as an unusual auteur, who bridges
mainstream cinematic techniques and counter-cinema approaches to draw attention to his special relationship to the spectator in terms of moral questions, but also successfully integrates the analysis of Haneke's moral intention, his means to achieve this goal and the spectator's response.
Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992) and Lumumba (Raoul Peck, 2000) are discussed from the important perspective of whether they represent racial - colonialist «appropriationist» or «assimilationist» narratives, and Bingham uses specific textual details (
including cinematic techniques), extensive background production research, and his own logical argumentation to substantiate his opinions on these significant issues.
Snowpiercer alternates between sudden violence, high camp, and heavy - handed political allegory with breakneck speed, and even when its disjoined plot mechanics seem a little too convenient, it's brimming with
new cinematic technique.
Coogler gooses his scenes using
actual cinematic technique and showmanship via long takes and memorable images, including a streets - of - Philly run that calls back to this hallmark of the series while, again, besting anything of its ilk in the sequels (particularly the weird Pied Piper version in Rocky II that has Rocky corralling Philadelphia's children).
American Montage draws on Brooklyn - based artist Adam Cvijanovic's merging of influences from nineteenth - century American landscape painting and twentieth -
century cinematic techniques.
Combining stop - motion animation drawn from collages of magazine illustrations and advertisementsn with filmed sequences and found footage, films such as Achoo Mr. Kerroochev (1960) and Breathdeath (1963) fused avant -
garde cinematic techniques with social critique and Cold War politics.
Drawing on the use of elliptical conversations in the 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais as a point of departure, the exhibition features works of art that utilize various cinematic conventions, such as editing, character development, narrative, mise - en - scène and montage, to reveal how our understanding of reality is often mediated by those
very cinematic techniques.
Throughout her career, she has been posing as her own model, masterfully
deploying cinematic techniques such as lighting, makeup, costumes, and set decoration to disguise her actual identity.
Photographers have visualized literary passages, constructed dreamlike imagery in darkrooms and studios, and drawn
upon cinematic techniques in their pursuit of fabricating alternate realities.
A number of scholars pay attention to how the films of this period in America (roughly the late 1930s to the middle of the 1950s, depending on who you ask) construct themes of paranoia, madness, secrecy, and disillusionment through their use of shadows, visual space, and
innovative cinematic techniques.
The fragmentation of time permeates the work of William Kentridge, from his explorations of
early cinematic techniques to drawing, to mime.
a visual marvel
of cinematic techniques, many of which were groundbreaking at the time in terms of what was acceptable for a sports documentary
To this day, I can't find one aspect of this film that doesn't inspire a feeling of awe, from Hitchcock's (Strangers on a Train, Under Capricorn) genius
in cinematic technique, to the outstanding ensemble of actors, to the lovely side stories and great music.
It also featured the innovative rolling backgrounds first created by a St Petersburg Conservatory of Music producer, and which were the inspiration for Eisenstein's
cinematic technique.
Second tier Hitch perhaps, but no less enjoyable for it, and still a marvel of
cinematic technique.
They discuss story, characters and themes, music and audio,
cinematic techniques, cast and performances, historical context, the film's reception and a few connected topics.
A feature - length commentary by writer John Rogers, director Les Mayfield, and editor Michael Tronick displays a good deal of self - knowledge and humour (a notably stupid scene is attacked by Tronick as being a «homoerotic bit of nonsense»)-- as well as a serious examination of
cinematic technique, philosophy, and execution.
Mullick and Tariq use a wide range of
cinematic techniques to convey the tenuous environment in which their subjects find themselves: the uneasy sense of oasis the runaways feel at one of the Edhi Foundation's clinics and those occasional moments where youths such as Omar lash out, puncturing the establishment's haven - like feeling.
The story may seem silly and unnecessary, but the true art in the film exists within
the cinematic techniques and visual styling.
Discover why Alfred Hitchcock's movies thrill audiences and inspire filmmakers, who continue to employ
his cinematic techniques to this day.
You would have to seek out the film, watch it, understand the controversy behind the film and how the film employed nearly
every cinematic technique available... to come to that conclusion.
Fast, funny, and remarkably filthy, Scorsese's new film is an irresistible display of
cinematic technique, Goodfellas retold as farce.
Though Kolker tells us a little about some of the cast and crew, he mostly concentrates on story, themes, and
cinematic techniques.
You name
a cinematic technique, Scorsese uses it here.
Which means that for all the recent advancements in
cinematic technique and film - making technology, you can always count on some hack to -LSB-...]
Colón puts to good use perspective, compelling page turns and
cinematic techniques.