Sentences with phrase «engaging films often»

Not exact matches

The best part of Lars von Trier's fascinating, engaging and often didactic Nymphomaniac is that, despite the sometimes - grim tone and bleak color palate, it's an extremely funny film, playful, even.

Separately, these stories are often engaging, at least in the film's first half.

This was something like a miracle: Haneke's gracious affability aside, his has always been, openly and decisively (he's quite literally said as much) an oppositional cinema — often abrasive (his one noble failure, 1997's Funny Games, and its shot - for - shot English - language remake from 2008, being the prime specimens), always painstakingly conscientious and morally committed to disturb (all of his films from The Seventh Continent through The White Ribbon) art films that mean to engage and provoke the audience, not please or reassure in a way that could ever be mistaken for award - grubbing.

Known for complex narratives that often concern a network of characters engaging with the mediation of identity, truth and history, Egoyan's work over the last decade plus applies these concerns to a variety of film subjects, as well as installations, plays and operas.

In our dossier on «American Extreme», we are joined by guest co-editor Jack Sargeant: not, in this case, to make «sense» of these films as such, but rather to engage with more sensorially demanding cinematic experiences, often well beyond the scope of what is deemed acceptable.

Laughs are earned throughout this heart - warming story that never speaks down to its audience and never engages in the potty humor that so often undercuts these family - friendly films.

Written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer («Spotlight») and based on The Washington Post Publisher Katharine «Kay» Graham's memoir «Personal History» which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998, the film dramatizes the struggle within the newspaper over whether or not to publish the highly controversial Pentagon Papers in June, 1971 and it is an engaging and often exciting look.

The largely interior, dialogue intensive picture sometimes veers into feeling like a TV movie (not helped by Howard Shore «s often overbearing, obvious score) with its static visuals, but strong turns by Del Toro and Amalric (who thankfully ditches a sea of quirks early on and settles into the part) at least keep things engaging, even if the narrative remains stuck in neutral for large chunks of the film.

Room 237 is a smart, engaging, often funny film.

Experimental film often eschews sequential narrative structure in favour of evoking an emotional journey; the viewer is meant to be engaged by the aesthetic or imagery rather than by the characters or story.

They do a good job of engaging Barbanell and Taylor by asking them questions about the production of the film, but this can often steer the conversation away from on - screen comments.

When he teaches class, the film is lively, funny and engaging, even when it is contrived and cloying (which it is often), but one gets the sense that the macho actor is actually in his natural element among the children, and the resulting charm is infectious.

Technically proficient, consistently engaging and often quite funny, it is one of the more memorable and enjoyable of the 2009 films I've seen.

Credit Mann for making another sleek and often beautiful film, engaging his actors to deliver their very best in roles you're not accustomed to seeing them in, and allowing his characters the complexity they rarely get in action - driven vehicles anymore.

The height channels engage often, noticeable from the moment Selene drops from her lofty perch during the film's opening sequence.

From the first to the last frame, his films keep you engaged and, more often than not, transfixed.

Those kinds of quandaries engage all the Watchmen, and are presented in a film experience of often fearsome beauty.

It's worth seeing the film to watch Chan deliver a powerful and unique performance, truly doing an excellent job channeling that darkness he has so often eschewed in other movies, but «The Foreigner» never realizes that this role is its greatest strength and emotional core, and in doing so, ends up becoming a muddled affair that isn't as engaging as it should be.

Chilean - born Ruiz is a director whose love of storytelling and narrative play is often more engaging than the films themselves but with Mysteries of Lisbon, an epic based on a classic Portuguese novel (one yet untranslated into English), his engagement with the characters and their defining stories guides his direction, and his graceful camerawork and unerring eye for images both classical (like paintings in a cinematic frame) and fluid (his camera moves with purpose and grace) are in the service of the trajectories of the characters.

His elliptical, often abstract, animations deploy thousands of drawings across multiple custom screens, using the projected images to engage architecture as part of an immersive and multi-directional film experience.

In my experience, Creative Capital grantees often make work that is socially and politically engaged and / or an uneasy fit within the commercial gallery or film world.

Hopf uses a wide variety of techniques such as sculpture, installation, film and performance, often engaging subjects and materials that can be found in the immediate environment.

Searching for alternatives to museum - based exhibition practices, the artists in this exhibition sought to engage directly with local communities, often incorporating popular strategies from film, architecture, and theater, and grappling with political oppression.

Liane Lang's work takes the form of photography, film and installation and often engages in visual and conceptual interruptions to existing historic monuments and interiors.

Often presenting unsettling themes — such as a film about a smoking disconsolate moon, or watercolors of lonely, misshapen figures engaged in ritualistic acts — he confronts viewers with a world where there is no authentic resolution between the demands of the social world and the exigency of personal desire.

The format of taking an interesting personality — often involved in green technology or politics, but sometimes just a fascinating or amusing individual from the world of television or film — and going for a drive is a great way of creating engaging, insightful conversation.