Sentences with phrase «conventional narrative»

A more conventional narrative would simply have the honest cop bringing down the mob in the regular course of his duties.

This changes the film into a more conventional narrative that is ultimately less satisfying, but still intriguing.

Now that we have some distance on this period of American art, we can see that there were equally valid and important artistic expressions that have been omitted from conventional narratives of art history», explains Jeremy Lewison.

It is fine with me if there are two, ten, or a hundred cinemas, but I think we have to understand that the most important new movies will not be coming from the directors who make better and better films in conventional narrative modes, no matter how much we may admire and enjoy what they accomplish.

Ever since The Bird with the Crystal Plumage in 1970, Dario Argento's thrillers have been moving away from conventional narrative into plots of increasing absurdity, often full of red herrings, that gratify the director's delight in stylistic excess.

Tsai Ming - liang's latest feature, his first in four years, won the the Grand Jury Prize at last year's Venice Film Festival, where his long takes and disregard for conventional narrative resulted in a few walk - outs along with all of the praise.

Not as satisfying as Lola nor as profound as much of Princess, Heaven at least shows that Tykwer could direct a mostly conventional narrative film with success if he wanted to, and even though some will be lost to the film during the metaphoric climax, the story is still interesting and directed with competent finesse.

All have thought seriously about the form of their work, and the three film - makers combine images from the past with more recent footage as a way of playing with conventional narrative and visual structures.

With his resistance to the very idea of conventional narrative coherence and resolution (beyond mocking their cliches), it's no wonder that the most perfect film Maddin has created so far is probably 2000's «The Heart of the World,» an epic of quasi-archival fetishism just six giddy, succinct minutes long.

They are also quite lovely, shot with Nair's usual eye for detail and sometimes sporting more experimental framing than in her more conventional narrative pictures.

Although he can be an out - and - out classicist (Les Destinées, Summer Hours), Assayas in modern mode inclines to the expansive, and to associative thought processes — which is to say that his films do not always cohere in conventional narrative terms.

Somewhere between his debut feature Badlands and this year's Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick peeled conventional narrative from his films; his work became unashamedly naked.

The screenplay is smart and unpredictable with shocking bursts of cruel violence, and as one comes to realize that the film will not be following rigid, conventional narrative beats, it keeps zigging where the viewer thinks it will zag.

Conventional narrative building blocks are ignored, while the audience is purely engaged by sensory elements, throwing more brutal violence and profane language at them with increasing intensity.

(1) Indeed, beginning his fimmaking career in the 1960s, Schroeter has been an important and influential proponent of the New German Cinema, although his personal eccentricities and refusal to use conventional narrative tools in his films have rendered his work somewhat obscure and less marketable than some of his more famous contemporaries such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog and Volker Schlöndorff.

It's also more classically well composed than 99 % of conventional narrative fiction — in fact, a common (and correct) observation is that the story couldn't have been any more interesting or dynamic had it been fabricated from nothing.

Plot wise the story follows a fairly conventional narrative for a boxing movie and yes, there's a montage, but everyone loves a montage right?

Flamenco, Flamenco achieves something akin to pure form in movement, opting to abandon conventional narrative in favor of an unchained camera that engages kinetic dancing and performing not as a musical number or set piece, but as a degree of storytelling in and of itself.

Phillips perceptively explores the tension between the amiable Shonzi and serious Todd, and how, as brothers, they provocatively and humorously get under each other's skin — though this interplay of contrasting behaviors offers a level of idiosyncrasy that the film's too - conventional narrative ultimately skimps on.

Faber trails «fully immersive» version of The Thirty - Nine Steps, and a bespoke ebook using digital format to rethink conventional narrative.

Even conventional narratives can implement small sections where story is told through the environment much like what Dishonored did during its hub missions.

Rachel Harrison's oeuvre challenges conventional narratives of the history of sculpture and how we experience objects as individuals in space and time.

FLY's numerous screens and wide range of cultural references evade conventional narrative, synthesizing the onslaught of information streams that compete for our attention in contemporary life.

Process in Rommel's case substitutes for traditional rituals of painting onto a canvas, while her approach to her material as an element bears distinctive visual forms complicating conventional narratives.

Opie's choice to create photographs within the classical genre of landscape and focus on the unique qualities or changing conditions of the land allows her to destabilize conventional narratives surrounding the American wilderness, revealing its reality to be as susceptible to change by time and intervention as our own bodies.

Forgoing conventional narratives and metaphors, Cunningham believed that dance should refer to movement itself.

Overlaid onto the imagery, a libretto - like text inflects the video's barrage of stimuli, applying lyricism to episodes that intentionally frustrate conventional narrative expectations.

Neither is it the time to break out amazingly creative cover letters that defy conventional narrative structures: keep your cover letter relatively conservative and formal.

Macfarlane first explores how the sweeping dimensions of the Anthropocene, in time and geography (and I'd add uncertainty), make it a tough fit for conventional narrative or mental models: Read more...

These were conventional narratives of companies gone bad and there were issues of corporate malfeasance and such, but that's not what happened in the story of BlackBerry.

In these videos, conventional narrative structures are set aside in favor of a complex, multi-linear fiction.

But even after the documentary affectation gives way to a more conventional narrative, the film has trouble ringing true.

According to the conventional narrative, science and religion have been at war for some three hundred years.

There is a conventional narrative about Vatican II, a dramatic story about what happened at the council and the impact it had.

I'm glad that Scot and others will try to rehabilitate the conventional narrative - to make it less violent, dualist, etc..

In part this is a reflection of the conventional narrative of the past, imagined from the perspective of Western Europe and the United States.

There are interesting challenges here to the conventional narrative, but confidence in the author's credibility is severely undermined by his getting through the story with nary a reference to a certain bishop, Karol Wojtyla, who almost everybody else thinks was at the center of it.

Gause emphasizes that there is no evidence to support the conventional narrative that the war against Iraq was motivated by calculations about oil in the Gulf region.

W.E. is a Wallace Simpson biopic that shuns a conventional narrative; the story of Simpson's epochal affair with King Edward is told in tandem with the story of a 90s Manhattan - ite and Simpson devotee.

The conventional narrative of New York City after the 1970s fiscal crisis emphasizes what mayors, police commissioners, developers and other powerful people did.

In her memoir The Pill That Steals Lives, Katinka Blackford Newman tells a story that rarely makes it into the conventional narrative.

While such stories may come from the far end of the spectrum of experiences, they provide an important counter to the conventional narrative.

Though it does have its own version of a three - act structure, this film is not a conventional narrative that will fit into a tidy box and it's not a story so much as an experience.

Yet an actor in a Cameron Crowe film must be prepared to do things that fly in the face of conventional narrative: his characters are forever addressing the camera and declaiming their innermost thoughts in voice - over, the cumulative effect of which is an anything - can - happen atmosphere and characters of substance etched in lightning - quick vignettes.

Jerry Maguire doesn't have a conventional narrative drive, and that's part of its charm; it's a movie of quick feints and jabs.

It is not a conventional narrative.

Throwing out conventional narrative, Mike Mills dug into his memories of growing up in a matriarchy in Santa Barbara in the 70s, «trying my hardest not to think of it as film,» he told me in December.