Sentences with phrase «claustrophobic world»

Inspired by the bureaucratic and claustrophobic world of Kafka, by the French filmmaker Jacques Tati and by German Expressionist cinema, Griffin turned the workplaces in which he photographed into stages and his subjects into actors.

The exhibition is Ed Atkins's largest installation to date, and benefits from the breathing space it's given at Martin - Gropius - Bau — not least because the tragicomic, chain - smoking personas that litter the institution are confined to the claustrophobic world of computer - generated animation.

Penetrating this mysterious environment, one is enveloped in a dimly lit, claustrophobic world, surrounded by a myriad of objects representing some primeval form of matter awaiting classification.

Ferraris presents a claustrophobic world of burquas and intense heat, escorts and cloistered households, but without painting Saudi in black and white.

And the set design, which looks like it was in storage since Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 wrapped in 1986, creates a claustrophobic world on the cheap.

The viewer finds themselves weaving in and out of her almost claustrophobic world, wandering through the bleak hallways with Christine as everyone tries to peer over her shoulder and possibly find a clue that'll help her uncover parts of sordid past that brought her to this point.

It situates them in the tense, claustrophobic world where any secular form of expression was an automatic taboo.

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Focusing on the title girl's desperate, almost feral search for a job, Rosetta revealed how the desire for employment becomes a fight to find a place in the civilized world through claustrophobic, hand - held long takes that literally bore down on the anxious rituals and movements defining Rosetta's losing battle with a society that has no use for anyone on the margins.

Yorgos Lanthimos [creates] a claustrophobic and implacable world that makes its characters pay for their transgressions.

For what it's worth, the soundstage during the diving - through - the - wreck scenes is effective, adding creaks, rumbles, bubbling water, and other noises to an enveloping aural environment, and it may have helped point the way for later, claustrophobic multi-channel sound design on films like Das Boot and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

Ironically, the scariest parts of this genuinely scary film are its quietest, and the formal innovation of the minimalistic and claustrophobic sound design — necessary to represent a world where breaking the silence will kill you — is what makes A Quiet Place stand out from standard horror fare usually committed more to jump scares than to skillfully calibrating a rising feeling of tension.

While LEGO Batman 3 improved on almost everything before it, the lifeless and claustrophobic hub worlds were a step back for the series.

The 2007 Yuma opens up the story's world a bit more, as it seems less claustrophobic than the 1957 edition.

The world of the film is claustrophobic and disconnected, just like Spider's.

Yet despite this, the world that exists over Max's rainbow is a sumptuous one to behold and the film is beautifully shot (in Australia) masterfully capturing both scenes of vast open spaces and claustrophobic tight spaces.

It's balanced execution of claustrophobic cinematography and traditional jump scares set the pace for a new franchise («Insidious: Chapter 2» and «Insidious: Chapter 3» followed) that reminded audiences of what horror films could be at their core: Films capable of absorbing audiences into a world filled with their darkest fears.

They rarely leave it, and when they do, there is a limited glimpse of the world outside, thus conveying the claustrophobic nature of their young lives.

Das Boot Year: 1981 Director: Wolfgang Petersen The Germans weigh in on World War II in a positively claustrophobic film set inside a submarine.

Carpenter's 1982 remake of The Thing from Another Planet is a pulse - racing, terrifying, claustrophobic horror - thriller that featured (quite literally) out of this world make - up and visual effects that remain as gruesomely effective today as they were then.

Significantly expanding the claustrophobic geography of most zombie pics, the aptly titled «World War Z» doesn't have a particular polemical axe to grind so much as it seeks to imagine how the world's ideologically disparate peoples and governments would respond if great masses of the populi did suddenly turn into rabid, flesh - eating beasWorld War Z» doesn't have a particular polemical axe to grind so much as it seeks to imagine how the world's ideologically disparate peoples and governments would respond if great masses of the populi did suddenly turn into rabid, flesh - eating beasworld's ideologically disparate peoples and governments would respond if great masses of the populi did suddenly turn into rabid, flesh - eating beasties.

The invisible world is so close in Shyamalan's films that his pictures have a claustrophobic feel, forcing the characters to speak in undertones and urgent whispers that consistently fail to keep the paranormal at bay.

Themes of humanity, identity, instinct, sex, bestiality, compassion and cruelty roil around in the hothouse jungle fabricated in the studio out of fog and flourishes suggesting the primitive and the perverse, a feral world as claustrophobic as it is intimidating.

Soon enough, what begun as a claustrophobic still drama has exploded into life as a white - knuckle thriller, which sees Jack presented with the biggest room of all: the world.

Gone are the studio's usual penchant for garishness and lack of stylistic unity; the claustrophobic, sealed - in worlds; the horrible neon colors; the feeling that everything's been dipped in a hard plastic coating.

Aronofsky directs from a script by Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John J. McLaughlin — and he sets up the oddly claustrophobic, brittle world of Nina Sayers with a mix of bold strokes and subtle nuance.

-- than THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD and is a masterful exercise in claustrophobic suspense.

The submarine film, typically entrenched within the confines of a World War II drama, often magnifies claustrophobic pessimism (as in Wolfgang Peterson's magnificent film Das Boot) or the violent clash of political skulduggery (i.e..

Their existence is made up of routines to keep the innocent boy occupied, and lies to make Jack, who has never known anything other than the claustrophobic confines of their cramped 11 × 11 cell, ignorant of the world beyond their prison.

With its dark colour palette and intensely claustrophobic design, The Babadook presents an autumnal Australia worlds away from the eternal summer most of us picture.

I also love the stories within stories and the marvelous use of models and bright colors to accentuate the artificiality of the world Anderson constructs, as well as the claustrophobic spaces and symmetrical compositions.

Berberian Sound Studio may have just missed the mark but it's a interesting modern - day look into the world of old - school horror and will no doubt find many fans who enjoy a stylish claustrophobic film with an amazing lead in Toby Jones.

It is a terrifying, brilliant experience, giving us a claustrophobic, intelligent thriller and making it seem like the easiest thing in the world.

Author Rosamund Lupton offers up one frightening scenario in The Quality of Silence, a tight, claustrophobic thriller that will enclose readers in a world of cold from which there's no escape.

Even though I love open worlds, I'm a little nervous that an open, meandering gameplay style could dilute the impact of both the story and the claustrophobic atmosphere.

Amanda Ripley's claustrophobic game of cat - and - mouse (read our review here) with the murderous Xenomorph has all but made us completely forget about the colossal failure of last year's Aliens: Colonial Marines, offering a tense and exhilarating descent into the world of true survival horror.

One of the most irksome aspects of past AC games was the constricting mission structure that turned the sprawling game world into a claustrophobic corridor.

The top - down view felt incredibly claustrophobic, and, at least for me, made getting immersed into the game world incredibly difficult.

Explore a strange world through the confines of a radar screen in this claustrophobic survival game.

Unlike the claustrophobic and Dystopian areas of the previous games, Shadow Fall is a much more open - world game which features both bright and dark gaming environments.

While LEGO Batman 3 improved on almost everything before it, the lifeless and claustrophobic hub worlds were a step back for the series.

Coming off the back of other open - world games I had been playing, Yakuza 0 felt limited, and its almost corridor - like structure claustrophobic.

VILLAIN: A diabolical genius, Bruce Nauman has persuaded naïve curators and critics around the world that his habit of torturing clowns, tormenting viewers with claustrophobic tunnels, and filming strange nocturnal surveillance videos is a force for good — when really his endgame is infinitely more disturbing, resolving itself only at his viewer's point of death.

Her fantastical cityscapes are claustrophobic and lonely, where the post-apocalyptic undertones of a machine - ruled world invite the viewer to contemplate where our growth - focused lifestyles might lead our future generations.

The apartment doesn't feel claustrophobic — especially in the dining room — despite being small and having a mixture of furniture and furnishings from around the world and from all decades.