Sentences with phrase «dreamlike films»

His dreamlike films (Young Soul Rebels, Looking for Langston) infuse black...

Yet, Beres argues, it is his use of the traditional Chinese art form of ink that lends a quality of timelessness to his dreamlike films.

I found this to be a very enjoyable and dreamlike film, and, though it is really good, it seems even more so considering that it was the feature length debut of Sofia Coppola.

The Queer Palm Prize and Queer Palm Hornet Prize went to director Robin Campillo's feature - length film and Yann Gonzalez's short, dreamlike film «Les Iles»

Guillermo del Toro has created a richly sensual and dreamlike film that, in the end, seduced the Academy without being too threatening

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There is a scene in Pierre Huyghe's shadowy, dreamlike film The Host and the Cloud (2010) in which a woman produces a black rabbit from an unmarked box.

Not exact matches

Federico Fellini was one of the leading figures of the international cinema in the 1960s, whose dreamlike images and indelible characters made La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and Juliet of the Spirits among the most acclaimed films of that era.

Suffused with fantastical elements, dreamlike sequences and hallucinatory images, A Fantastic Woman stars Daniela Vega, a trans actress, and her performance roots the film in a kind of intimate verisimilitude.

The result is a film chilly and externalized in all the ways that Mood was bottled up and woozily dreamlike.

In contrast to the tragic denouement of the film, Shop on Main Street closes on a idyllic, dreamlike sequence, showing the smiling shopkeeper and clerk walking together through the countryside, free from all danger and fear.

Taking off from the format of a typical teenage sex comedy, Brickman deepens the characters and tightens the situations, filming them in a dark, dreamlike style full of sinuous camera movements and surrealistic insinuations.

The stories have an almost dreamlike sweep and imaginative energy, and the film never exhausts that exuberance.

It gives the film a dreamlike appearance, another thing that sets this apart from the genre.

As countless other critics will tell you, The Revenant resembles a Terrence Malick film, with its sparse use of dialogue, dreamlike atmosphere, and extensive reliance on nature shots.

In lieu of the earlier film's dreamlike expressive effects, Disobedience puts an uncommon faith in concisions of acting and editing (including a wordless, believable montage of grief), and in loaded moments and changes in point of view that would probably play differently on a second viewing.

To call the film a slow burn would be putting it lightly, but it's entirely compelling in the way that it patiently seduces the audience into an almost dreamlike trance.

Shot in soft honey hued yellows and baby blue pastels, there is no doubt you are stepping into a hyper - realized, dreamlike East coast college campus, and whether or not you're familiar with that world (or its sensibilities) will largely determine your enjoyment of the film.

Although the final few minutes don't quite live up to the pure, unchecked brilliance of the remainder of the film, Swiss Army Man's surefire strangeness, its brilliant, dreamlike soundtrack and its two bizarrely mesmerizing central performances make it a surreal venture into totally uncharted territory.

Resnais constantly blurs the line between fantasy and reality shifting the actors from the couch where they watch the filmed play so that they take an active role within stylized dreamlike scenes, where the fiction of the play becomes their reality.

This hypnotic urban poem on masculinity, violence and wisdom may be Jarmusch's most likeable picture — as funny and dark as anything Tarantino has ever filmed, but with a surreal, dreamlike quality and a soul full of integrity.

I've heard lots of polarized opinions on the film, and I'm mightily curious to check out its apparently dreamlike and poetic qualities.

A dreamlike wandering through the streets of Istanbul, Grant Gee's film recounts the tale of doomed love from Orhan Pamuk's best - selling novel The Museum of Innocence.

Much is made of Area X's dreamlike nature, but for much of the film's run we are too in the moment to be able to appreciate this fact.

With Mr. Salinas and Greenberg's consent, I offer to kickoff our visit with an immediate impression during the start of the film that distinguishes it's score from Cartel Land's... it deftly emerges with warm, melodic cello and higher - notes vibraphone progessions from a dreamlike silence, and only registers as a lilting, tender counterpoint to the viscerally intense imagery of ISIS - occupied contemporary Raqqa, Syria in the picture's opening sequence well after we're already emotionally all - in invested via what will certainly be a harrowing, yet inspiring cinematic experience.

The film works best as a tone poem with a dreamlike haziness; providing too much clarity would ruin it.

It could be argued that the ending finally gives in and becomes the kind of film implied in the title; carefree and slightly more cinematic / dreamlike than realistic.

But the best the festival had to offer were three stunning films that, in speaking of the human condition, took full advantage of the dreamlike nature of cinema: Shi (Poetry, Lee Chang - dong), Lung Boonmee Raluek Chat (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives, Apichatpong Weerasethakul), and Shakespeare's The Tempest, as re-interpreted by Julie Taymor.

The new show based on Peter Weir's 1975 film, Picnic At Hanging Rock (Amazon, May 25), debuts this month — we're interested to see how the series reframes the dreamlike mystery of the original.

Anyway, I loved the dreamlike atmosphere, the religious symbolism and, especially, the soundtrack and the way the director uses it in the manner of a silent film to highlight and explain the actions (or non-actions), facial expressions and emotions being played out on screen when there isn't any dialogue present.

I can not remember the last time a film gave me palpatations and sweaty palms as the protaganists move inexorably towards the dreamlike conclusion.

With its new release date comes a new trailer that paints a dreamlike atmosphere for the Crispian Mills - directed feature film and it looks pretty damn interesting.

Wildly off - kilter close - ups sandwich gorgeous vistas to create a dreamlike frame for the utterly brutal mess of a film unfolding.

The film's minimal dialogue and meditative images give it a mesmerizing, dreamlike quality, and yet images of the sinking ship and of Alec teaching the horse to eat out of his hand are also touchingly realistic.

Snow globes, dog - eared pop - up books, vintage advertising, silent cinema, Ealing comedies and the Spirit of ’45 all feed into the essence of the film, and King offers a dreamlike vision of London which mixes mid-century fervour with a modern embrace of cultural diversity.

The film's beautiful art direction approximates a crooked, twisted fairytale, with dreamlike sequences that never quite reveal what is true and what might be a hallucination.

In a film dreamlike and visionary, blending reality and imagination, it reconstructs the last day in the life of this great poet.

Yet it's in style and tone that the film comes alive, its prowling, dreamlike atmosphere, down - to - earth performances and unerring visual confidence echoing early Terrence Malick or the best of Harmony Korine.

Without a word spoken, the first two shots in Thief, Michael Mann's groundbreaking 1981 feature debut, announce a simultaneously grim and dreamlike vision that seems, in retrospect, perfectly poised between the great urban crime films of the 1970s and the formal aesthetics of the 1980s — the «style decade» that Mann's subsequent cinema and television work did so much to help shape.

A harsh coming - of - age story set in a dreamlike, re-imagined, post-modern wild west, McLean's film manages to sidestep the arid ironies of most modern westerns on its way to far more interesting territory.

Classic films like Carol Reed's 1949 film - noir masterpiece The Third Man and Jean Cocteau's dreamlike interpretation of Beauty and the Beast from 1946 have been sublime highlights of my festival roster so far, as has the German / Polish family film Winter's Daughter.

Volumes One and Two may have had viewers scratching their heads, and this portion of the film is by no means conventional, but there's a musicality and dreamlike quality to The Enchanted One which resonates long after a tremendous tracking shot of Chico Chapas draws this sprawling epic to a close.

Though the «sex equals death» rule isn't as prominent in modern horror movies that defy those decades - old tropes, «It Follows» is very much a retro homage to «70s and «80s genre classics, from the «Halloween» - esque synth score, to the striking similarities to «Nightmare on Elm Street,» both in Jay's perpetual helplessness and the film's dreamlike atmosphere.

The film's general strangeness, deadpan humour and dreamlike tone capture the bewildering events that follow as she goes to live in a witch camp.

Abbasi moved to Little Rock, Arkansas at age nine and uses his experiences to bestow the film with a depth and richness that transcends the present moment, creating a story that resonates on a dreamlike register.

Using mostly a half - French, half - Japanese cast and crew, with locations restricted to Nevers, France, and the titular city, Resnais» film is an intense, intimate film: poetic dialogue, newsreel images of Hiroshima bomb victims, intense physical foreplay, a revolutionary flashback structure, political subtext, and a decisively striking use of modernistic Japanese architecture, contrasted with roughly hewn and ornately decorated stone homes in Nevers, France collectively evoke a dreamlike atmosphere, as a romance is joined during its fiery rise, and left when the morning embers offer a mere faint and dusty glow.

I was aware that the other two films had been very linear in their storytelling and I wanted to go into more dreamlike territory and ambiguity, as well.

The whole film feels ethereal and dreamlike, which given the idea came to Mitchell in a recurring childhood nightmare, is to be expected.

It's with brute savagery and dreamlike beauty that director / co-writer Alejandro González Iñárritu (director of last year's best film, Birdman) brings this familiar tale roaring to life.

In this sophomore feature, Wheatley showed a fierce command of the film medium, creating a dizzying religious parable set among a world of violent crime and ethereal justice with dreamlike sadistic cults operating levers best left unmolested.