Sentences with phrase «early animal films»

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The sense of being outside of time did not change when they departed two days early from school, when they spent three hours on the bus to Eugene staring out the window with their Walkman headphones on, when they wandered through the swirly paisley carpeted hotel hallways, or went in street clothes to have a walk around Autzen Stadium, where a sex scene in Animal House was filmed.

Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.

The best scenes in White God show Hagen's early solidarity with the street dogs into whose company he's been forced; surely no recent fiction film has conveyed with such respect the way animals interact on their own terms.

And it invests Mowgli with a touch of optimistic environmentalist fantasy: where human mastery of fire and tools was presented in earlier films as a threat, and Mowgli's fated exit from the jungle as an unfortunate necessity, in this film the boy is shown using his ingrained ingenuity to solve problems beyond the capabilities of his animal pals, as when he builds a rappel and pulley system to help Baloo claim honey from a cliffside beehive he's been coveting.

Early on, the film devotes considerable time to illustrating how corporations slaughter and exploit animals for their fur, for their flesh, for cosmetic and medical research, and simply for entertainment.

«Overly sensitive viewers should avoid this enigmatic, ailing and, at times, shocking stylised black - and - white film due to the scenes of drastic violence towards animals»: unsurprisingly, the screening was more than half empty, all for the sake of an early scene in which a donkey is slaughtered.

It's rather early in the film when American Animals begins to toy with you.

Of course, based on the early buzz, it seems to have paid off, because even if the film doesn't dominate in the major award categories, it's sure to land a few technical awards for the stunning visuals and incredible animal effects.

Kevin Bacon's acting career began with appearances in some of the most notable and enduring films of the late 1970s and early 1980s: a small role in Animal House, bigger ones in the original Friday the 13th

My inherent mistrust of the decade that gave us disco fever and pet rocks aside, it's not like there haven't been late 70s / early 80s films with unlikable characters and minimalist storylines that I've enjoyed — Animal House and Caddyshack spring to mind.

Instead, the movie makes use of the earlier films» basic plot device (man turns involuntarily canine at the most inopportune moments) and hauls it into the New Millennium, adding plenty of computer generated effects, throwing in a politically correct storyline about the evils of animal experimentation, and making the humor a little ruder and cruder.

The film portrays her as a woman so damaged in early life, so beaten down by daily existence, that although her crimes are not forgivable, her actions are like the flailings of a wounded animal.

One great film that I saw very early on at the Sundance Film Festival was Animal Kingdom, directed by Australian filmmaker David Michôd.

«The Artist» — being a black - and - white silent film with no major stars — needed that early Cannes love and push, but this is a different animal, a film strictly in the crowdpleaser mode that seems far more suited to a Telluride or TIFF premiere where audience reaction and buzz will much more helpful for this film's inevitable Oscar campaign.

The most reliable and definitive diagnosis might possibly be by a series of radiographs which can show the early, middle, and late phases of the disease, but even then radiographic signs can be so minimal that they can be missed, even if the animal exhibits clinical signs and a number of films are correctly exposed.

Building on this process, how do you describe your current interactions with cinema / film / video, the stuff animals, and the audio manipulations in relationship to your earlier exploitations of pristine (virgin) objects and materials?

Indeed, the refrain of a great new film by Camille Henrot is «In the beginning...» These early stages are also filled with animals and evocations of the natural world: Eliot Porter's exquisite 1950s photos of birds in flight, Christopher Williams» forensic photos of Harvard's collection of glass flowers (1989).

The selection of works reflect Painlevé's constant explorations of new ways to engage with the audience, from his early portraits and close - ups of marine animals, his iconic film The Seahorse to later works such as the 1978 Phase Transition in Liquid Crystals.

The film, based on a Michael Crichton novel, was itself inspired by actual scientific breakthroughs in the early 1990s that allowed scientists to use DNA from museum specimens and fossils to recreate the genome — or genetic blueprint — of dead animals.