Sentences with phrase «dramatic narrative film»

Not exact matches

It's as if the film is trying too hard to sell its dramatic kick, and the harder it tries, as irony would have it, the harder it is to get a grip on the weight of a dramatic narrative concept that feels a tad thin, what with all of the fluff that is consistent in cheese, yet not even consistent in tone.

A deliberately paced literary film that takes too long to build narrative momentum and explore its central dramatic conflicts.

If it doesn't tie many (or any) of these thematic strands with a neat bow, that's in the nature of a film that chooses raw dramatic power over narrative finesse.

Sundance will premiere 16 American narrative feature films, and 26 films in the world cinema dramatic and documentary competitions.

This is perfectly in keeping with the style of the Broadway production, which features much more of this style than the film does, with Condon beefing up the dramatic dialogue for purposes of an easier narrative and deeper characterizations.

Only films that are world premieres are eligible for our U.S. Dramatic Competition program, but U.S. narrative feature films that have previously screened at up to two other festivals anywhere in the world are still eligible for our out - of - competition programs.

Tilton demonstrates in this video game score that he has all the hallmarks of someone who would be a great film composer — not just the composition itself (which is beyond reproach — the orchestration in particular is so impressive) but also his dramatic sense, which is honed to provide a gripping narrative here.

If this sounds like a «message movie,» it is, but unlike Bahrani's previous film, At Any Price, his agenda is seamlessly absorbed into the dramatic narrative.

The dramatic depths and character arcs that The Look of Silence possesses are ones scripted narrative films can only dream of achieving.

Presenting the world premieres of sixteen narrative feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film.

Alternatively, such family - orientated films have launched polemics from critics for substandard plots, economic production values and primarily, alienating heathens with sanctimonious ideologies, which trumpet a transparent proselytizing narrative that fails to inspire on any dramatic or entertainment level.

Tatum and Hill are great together, and as happens in the first film, the narrative too quickly splits the guys apart with a strained dramatic arc that drops the funny and drags out the middle stretch of the picture far too long.

The anticipated lineup of over 125 films will include U.S. Dramatic and Documentary Features, World Cinema, Premieres, Red Carpet Screenings and Studio Sneak Previews, Narrative Shorts, the Animated Shorts Film Category, sponsored by Amazon Web Services and Intel, and Documentary Short Subjects.

His film is a twisting, turning delight, with great performances illuminating a deceptively complex and well - structured narrative that crackles with erotic tension, dramatic weight and thrilling unpredictability.

IFMCA member James Southall said that War for the Planet of the Apes was «not just the best film music [Giacchino has] ever written» but that «the manner of the score, the construction of the dramatic narrative, [and] the very deliberate emotional prods... make it stand out as a special achievement».

Mind you, it's also a film I think is great too, but it also uses violence as a dramatic crescendo whereas «Bluebird» is much more honest and less melodramatic about the organic and natural direction where the narrative needs to take these characters.

It is the magnification of the flaws of ordinary people that provides his films with a dramatic narrative line through even the smallest slice of life stories.

- Bob [LOVED] While not as solid a film as Cloud of Sils Maria, Kristen Stewart continues to demonstrate that she is quite capable of driving a dramatic narrative.

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Heineman crafts the film with a confidence and intense focus that results in a tight, dark, and powerful narrative that's almost too dramatic to be true.

In terms of narrative structure, the previous Spielberg film that Lincoln ends up most resembling is Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), which while a more consistently entertaining film still provided a dramatic change in pace and style at the end to deliver a long feel - good sequence as a sort of reward to the audience for hanging in for that long.

Many films that lack dramatic events in the narrative suffer and drag.

What The Upside does do, I think, is set up Hart for a dramatic follow - up, an as yet only imagined future film that could really get him mixed up in an Oscar narrative.

«Burning Sands» is one of 16 narrative feature films that has been chosen to play during the festival's Dramatic Competition, which offers audiences a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film.

The film's lighter tone becomes more somber as the strike progresses, slowing the narrative pace to a crawl and making the middle section of the story feel sluggish before developing events push things along to a dramatic finish.

These narrative films ``... would help to break ground in Hollywood in terms of funding women storytellers and women who were directing the films...» The 2018 Sundance Film Festival will premiere three Gamechanger films: The Tale, a story about sexual abuse written and directed by Jennifer Fox; Nancy, a dramatic story blurring the lines of fact and fiction written and directed by Christina Choe; and The Long Dumb Road, a road trip movie filled with detours and bumps along the way, written and directed by Hannah Fidell.

From a screenwriting prospective the game offers little dramatic structure that could be transferred to a film, compared to a game like Uncharted for example, which offers a very cinematic narrative within the actual game.

Having featured her work previously, we're all too familiar with her staged, supernatural imagery, often emotional and full of narrative, presented as film stills or dramatic moments.