Sentences with phrase «contemplative film»

I'm not sure what it is, but it seems like they've been trying to sell us on a lot of the same footage, but adding action, hoping to convince people it won't just a more contemplative film.

Room is a still, contemplative film for much of the time, and when the pace picks up its like being ripped away from a nightmare into consciousness only to find yourself free falling towards the ground a mile below.

A deeply contemplative film from a remarkably mature emerging director, Forest Movie challenges moviegoers to take a moment to pause and align their selves, whether this is through following the film's nearly imperceptible aesthetic...

It is also a contemplative film.

A deeply contemplative film from a remarkably mature emerging director, Forest Movie challenges moviegoers to take a moment to pause and align their selves, whether this is through following the film's nearly imperceptible aesthetic changes, through self - introspection — inspired or out of boredom — through falling asleep, or through any other means.

A slow and contemplative film from Mike Mills, the writer / director behind «Thumbsucker.»

When I spoke to Schrader at the SF Film Festival a month or so back, he told me that he had resisted making spiritual or contemplative films throughout his career, even though he was clearly drawn to them.

In the past, I've extensively talked and written about quiet, spiritual, contemplative films, but I've never made one.

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Though the pope has condemned the film and conservative Roman Catholic groups still picket when it is shown, it has inspired contemplative silence from many viewers.

As if my story is somehow that much more poetic or film - like: rain for contemplative days, sun and flowers for energetic days.

There are moments of real beauty in the film, which is an unassuming and contemplative excursion into how we love, and why.

Gun violence affects the Raineys with direct and traumatic force, disrupting the film's calm, contemplative rhythm.

At once elegant and sublimely silly, contemplative and gung - ho, balletic and bubble - gum, a rousing action film and an epic love story, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one bursting - at - the - seams holiday gift, beautifully wrapped by the ever - surprising Ang Lee.

In the logic of the film, for the camera to move at all would feel like a betrayal of its contemplative hunger.

Like all of Jarmusch's previous works, this one's not to every taste, as some will love it for all of its contemplative and offbeat charms, while others will think it a film about a nobody doing nothing and going nowhere in particular.

The film had stiff competition in the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards, running against Kelly Reichhart's sublime Wendy and Lucy and Lance Hammer's powerful, contemplative Ballast, which speaks to the idiosyncratic brilliance of Aronofsky and Rourke's collaboration.

We look at a handful of this month's films, including Star Wars spinoff prequel Rogue One, Jim Jarmusch's contemplative drama Paterson, science fiction drama Passengers, and Amma Asante's true story adaptation A United Kingdom.

The resulting meditation on father - son relationships, letting go and the preciousness of time is - helped along by one of the finest performances of Nighy's career - touching without being mawkish, and gives the film a contemplative weight that balances well with the carefree joy of the first half.

There is one brilliant commentary from the contemplative director of the film, Anton Corbijn, which is as thoughtful as it is precise about the location, the story, and its characters.

However there's more refined, contemplative poetry in this relative misstep than in a hundred Hollywood studio films.

This deeply contemplative and compelling film is an extensive look at grief, and how that powerful emotion affects people over many years.

A noir film that strips the genre to its diamond core, the film is also infused with its protagonist's quiet, contemplative, yearning romanticism.

Officially released in Japan in 1991 and finally getting it's re-release 25 years later, Only Yesterday is a quiet and contemplative master class on character study in film.

Where there's increasingly not much to enjoy or contemplate in von Trier's work, Refn's genre films in arthouse drag have become increasingly bewitching, and contemplative in their dissection of the masculine aesthetic and behavior.

Heightened by striking performances from the mostly inexperienced cast, and an impressive sense of aesthetic from Tsangari that warrants comparison to the works of Sofia Coppola, the contemplative and quietly compelling film mirrors the protagonists path from the curious to the creative.

While its contemplative nature and abrupt ending will definitely puzzle and even frustrate some audience members, the film's success can be found in its performances and its remarkable ability to quietly build tension as Reichardt gradually tightens the screws.

Olivier Assayas» Clouds of Sils Maria pairs Juliette Binoche, one of the greatest actresses of her time, with Kristen Stewart, one of the most ridiculed actresses of her time; to the shock of all, Stewart, playing the long - suffering twentysomething assistant to Binoche's celebrated but imperious screen acting legend, turns out to be the film's greatest treasure, even next to Binoche's superb work and Assayas» thoughtful, contemplative filmmaking.

Inspired by contemplative sci - fi films of the 1970s, Midnight Special also stars Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver and Sam Shepard.

However, Field's film is its own beast in the end — an intelligent and contemplative drama that merits discussion, even about the things that make little sense to include, and yet, the story is so self - conscious, there must be some reason that all f these lives are meant to intersect in their awkward ways.

[notification type =» star»] 87/100 — While its contemplative nature and abrupt ending will definitely puzzle and even frustrate some audience members, the film's success can be found in its performances and its remarkable ability to quietly build tension as Reichardt gradually tightens the screws.

For a western featuring no shootouts, no showdowns, and limited violence of any kind, Meek's Cutoff is a film that contains extraordinary tension within its contemplative pacing.

It may not really strike as deep a chord as Michell seems to be going for, but the contemplative nature of the film does offer some occasional food for thought, and as long as the film stays within modest boundaries, it manages to score some points.

This Is Not a Film (directed with Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 11), shot while Panahi was under house arrest in his Tehran apartment, is a tantalizing hybrid of documentary self - portrait and contemplative fiction, at once an act of rebellion and a singular example of film as legal loophole: Panahi was effectively telling his persecutors, «You never specified that I couldn't make a film like this, because you never could have anticipated me making it.»

Director Hou Hsiao - Hsien slows things down and savors every moment of this lush, contemplative, exquisitely shot Wuxia film.

There's a murder mystery subplot that doesn't quite mesh with the rest of the film, but as a whole, the picture is full of so many touching moments and contemplative images.

Schrader — who is best known for his screenplays for Martin Scorsese, but has also written and directed movies like American Gigolo, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, and Affliction — has never made anything as minimalist and contemplative as First Reformed, a film of empty spaces framed in boxy Academy ratio.

Two distinctive breakout performances also caught Seattle's eye as Kate McKinnon's comedic turn in summer blockbuster Ghostbusters joins newcomer Lily Gladstone in the quiet, contemplative Certain Women, a film which Michelle Williams also co-stars in.

Oz Perkins delivers a creepy and contemplative debut with The Blackcoat's Daughter, a horror film with familiar devices used in unexpected ways to establish its tone.

Contemplative, playfully loose and exploratory (but nothing like mumblecore, to which some have lazily drawn comparisons), «Prince Avalanche» is a distinctly singular David Gordon Green film which feels like the logical, next - phase direction for the filmmaker.

Jackie Brown marks a departure for Quentin Tarantino as he provides a film that seems more contemplative and slow - paced than his first two flicks.

Despite the overwhelmingly harsh nature of much of Se7en, the film moves between visceral and evocative moments and quieter, more contemplative scenes with aplomb.

NATHANIEL DORSKY By Max Nelson Light streams in from every corner in the works of the great avant - gardist, who has been crafting films of contemplative beauty for more than 50 years

Even, the normally plucky and cheerful Reynolds seems to have been miscast for a the role of Jordan, since most of the film calls for him to look sullen and contemplative as his character tries to decide whether the green power ring is meant for him.

It's a slow moving drama, not dissimilar to many films involving the loss of a loved one, with rich, quiet scenery and contemplative conversations.

Yasujiro Ozu has been acclaimed as the most «Japanese» of Japanese film directors for his sedate, contemplative family dramas and subdued comedies, but he began his career as a director of lively silent films more indebted to Hollywood style than the quiet restraint and rigorous simplicity of his future films.

8:00 pm — IFC — The Thin Red Line Breaking Terrence Malick's twenty - year filmmaking silence since 1978 ′ s Days of Heaven, this film applies his contemplative and poetic view of the world to a WWII story.

This isn't an easy film, not in any way: its pace is contemplative and deliberate; it's more about puzzling out personality than it is a police procedural; and perhaps most uncomfortably for some viewers, all the major players are female.

The two major fight sequences — the first and best in a sports store, the second in an armory — are well shot and unfussy in a way that none of the film's more laboriously «moody» or contemplative sequences are, which suggests that a better film might have been made, ironically, had Hyams's vision been scaled back.

The mood is uncompromising and contemplative, nudging the viewer to lean into the film rather than be overrun by special effects, quick - cut editing and manipulative music.

The film for which the late director, perhaps the greatest of all modern artists, won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, it attracted strongly divided critical responses and has emerged as one of his most definitive works, an immensely contemplative work on suicide and the human condition that takes place, as with many of Kiarostami's works, mostly over a series of car rides.