Not exact matches
A third
film, The Law and the Prophets (McGraw - Hill Text Films, 1970; 51 min., 2 reels,
color), not only offers a good summary
of the
Old Testament but also demonstrates the influence
of the Bible on Western art, for, it shows great works
of painting and sculpture inspired by the Bible.
This
film boasts beautiful
color footage
of old Baja, before Pemex stations lined the Cuota and Libre.
From its bold
color palate to its expressive score, this
film is an unabashedly
old - fashioned piece
of entertainment, yet never in a kitschy sense.
Near the beginning
of the
film, after a grim montage
of old newsreels and photos
of southern black labor and lynching
of blacks, a
color fade takes us from archival footage
of blacks exiting a New Orleans train to a shot
of Junior alone with his suitcase in front
of the station.
Some
of the tributes to the almost 75 year
old original
film include a gingham dress, the witches crystal ball, a bunch
of singing munchkins, the wicked witch's cackle, horses
of a different
color, fire balls, the poppy field, crows
of caution, Glinda's bubble, creepy wicked green skin, a lion and creative use
of scarecrows.
The
color footage used in the
film is primarily
of Auschwitz in 1955, coming off as a ghost town
of ghastliness; the
older, black - and - white scenes are the ones inspiring anger and revulsion, showing in rapid succession the rise
of the Third Reich, the building
of the camps, and the atrocities committed therein.
For all the controversy over the explicit sex in writer - director Abdellatif Kechiche's three - hour adaptation
of Julie Maroh's graphic novel «Blue Is the Warmest
Color,» the
film is ultimately just a sensitive and honest coming -
of - age story, showing how a teenager discovers who she is with the help
of her
older lesbian girlfriend, then has to find herself again when they drift apart.
A sensation at the Cannes, Toronto and New York
film festivals (it opens Oct. 6), the movie is set at the Magic Castle motel near Orlando, a sun - kissed lavender flophouse where Halley (Bria Vinaite), a ne'er - do - well sexpot with exploding rose tattoos and hair dyed the
color of fiberglass, lives with her 6 - year -
old daughter, Moonee (the remarkable Brooklynn Kimberly Prince).
It's Marvel's first
film centered around a hero
of color, and Black Panther is one
of the
oldest and best: the ruler
of a fictional African nation called Wakanda and one
of the first black superheroes in comics when Marvel introduced him in 1966.
This doesn't necessarily mean he was always ahead
of his time: one
of the best things about Eyes Wide Shut — evident in such artisanal qualities as the
old - fashioned sound track, the grainy photography, and the exquisite
color balances (such as the dark blue lighting
of a bathroom behind one
of Kidman's monologues)-- is that it isn't a
film of the 90s in most respects but something closer to what movies at their best used to be.
As stated previously, the
film print has been deliberately aged to look much
older than it is with all kinds
of scratches, splotches,
color fades and the like.
Hartigan's interest in incorporating an eclectic range
of images into her paintings — including mannequins,
coloring books, images from
film,
Old Master paintings, and store window displays — vitalized her art but eventually caused the influential critic Clement Greenberg to withdraw his support.
Its «retro» sensibility is augmented by the use
of old - school photogravure for the still images and 1970s
color - reversal
film stock for the three - screen video installation.
Meanwhile, a video and set
of color - saturated,
Old Hollywood - style
film stills by Alex Prager was estimated at around $ 40,000, but brought in $ 62,500, setting a new record for the artist.
Lawrence Weiner's contribution is his Filofax which he considers his sketchbook; Gerhard Richter loaned a three - ring binder with installation diagrams, designs for frames and
color notes, which document one year
of work; John Chamberlain's contribution includes crushed cigarette packs which are sketches for his sculptures; Robert Ryman loaned a
film labeled «
Old Fasteners» which contains drawings for the hardware on his paintings.
There's also markedly more intensity in the image's
colors versus the
old Blu - ray versions
of the same
films.