Sentences with phrase «directorial style of films»

Fincher's actual directorial work has slackened a bit since the Fight Club days, but despite the straightforward directorial style of films like Zodiac and The Social Network, he's still managing to outlive his reputation as a visual specialist and music video bred guy into a solid as a rock film director that will capably shoot anything that he is given, and get the best possible performances from his actors.

Not exact matches

Once the fear has passed, just in time for nap, visual and musical style are sometimes played in an immersive fashion by highlights in a directorial performance by Nicolas Winding Refn that bring some life to the film, though not as much as John Turturro's inspired lead performance, which does about as much as anything in bring the final product to the brink of decency, which is ultimately defied by the serious underdevelopment, overambition, monotonously unfocused dragging and near - punishingly dull atmospheric dryness that back a questionable drawn non-plot concept, and drive «Fear X» into mediocrity, in spite of highlights than can't quite obscure the many shortcomings.

Again, the film's style is pretty frantic, but it's also refreshingly nifty, offering anything from editing snaps to comic panel and onomatopoeia bounces that Randall Miller, as director, utilized well enough to sustain a degree of entertainment value, kept up after style dies down by directorial plays on music.

Bresson, along with Ozu and Dreyer, formed a trinity at the heart of Schrader's book Transcendental Style in Film, and the filmmaker has faithfully returned to them again and again, channeling them in most of his directorial efforts, working within the so - called «Tarkovsky Ring» (films made within this ring will find commercial distribution, films like those of Bresson and Roberto Rossellini, while films outside of this ring are destined for museum and festival existences).

Pair her contribution with Baumbach's directorial style of cutting shots like a ping - pong match, and the film becomes oddball hilarity.

The combination of an overblown narrative and an overwrought style, and neither structure aspect's being as realized as they should be, render the film, well, sort of monotonous, at least when pacing is further stiffened by a chilled directorial atmosphere which dull things down, occasionally as tedious.

«Afterglow» doesn't depend on a visible style as much as some of Rudolph's films; he seems so interested in the story, which he wrote himself, that he doesn't need to impose directorial distance.

Instantly recognizable as a Terrence Malick film, Knight of Cups has the same low - and - wide photography, the philosophical voice - overs, the general human malaise peppered with joy, that has been his signature directorial style since his coming out of hiatus with 1999s The Thin Red Line.

Goddard could not have chosen a better directorial debut than Cabin due to the fact that the film gets to show a little bit of every style of horror film.

«Dancer in the Dark» While it's now remembered as the film where Lars Von Trier «s exacting directorial style drove Björk to declare she would never act again, it needs to be reassesed as one of Von Trier's most distinct works to date.

These Marvel films have a pretty serious glass ceiling, whether it's because of their unrelenting desire to focus more on what is to come than what is currently happening, the samey directorial styles and color palettes or the thematic foundation rarely taking any real chances, but it is refreshing to see a film flirt with breaking through, even if it falls short doing so.

Though Altman's films compare with Coppola's as chamber music does with grand opera, their work in the 1970s exemplifies what ultimately became the prevailing style of American film direction in that era: maverick resistance to studio - imposed time and budget constraints, insistence on directorial authorship, reliance on location shooting, use of improvisational acting, an emphasis on ensemble playing rather than star performances, Fordian gatherings — weddings, church services, parties, dinners — as exponents of group character (both Altman and Coppola had Catholic upbringings), and a revisionist approach to the mythic archetypes of the Hollywood genre film.

The direct simplicity of this film's title perfectly represents Michael Haneke's directorial style.

While Novocaine is certainly not a typical thriller in the content and directorial style, at its core it is just another innocent - man - accused storyline and, as many of the films in this style, the result is less than satisfactory once you find out what's going on.