Sentences with phrase «episodic film»

Frances Scholz and Mark von Schlegell last collaborated on the episodic film Starlite, which was commissioned by the artist Cosima von Bonin as a component of her exhibition tour throughout Europe between 2011 and 2012.

Art Production Fund presents the world premiere of Delusional Downtown Divas, an episodic film commissioned by Peter Halley for Index Magazine.

The convoluted episodic film follows a number of adventures the unlikely duo get into while on the road.

The Laurents» interactions drive an episodic film with dark undercurrents: a fatal accident that will involve legal action, several attempted suicides, an ugly extramarital affair, African refugees, servants treated like children, and more.

The loosely episodic film follows the trajectories of five teenagers looking for meaning, connection, or just oblivion as they struggle with bad influences, wrong moves, and inarticulate yearnings.

Not exact matches

«Whether it's episodic TV, indie films or Hollywood blockbusters, video consumption is exploding across every device and brands are following those eyeballs,» said Brad Rencher, Adobe's executive vice president of digital marketing.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

The film explores the relationships of four sets of siblings who have Four sets of siblings struggle to work out their differences in this episodic comedy - drama from writer and director Carl Bessai.

Not particularly surprisingly, the film feels very episodic and bears the marks of test audience - tinkering.

The film's problems are its production quality and episodic script.

On the other hand, the pause between the two films» release would have given Tarantino ample time to address some of the criticisms that were made of Volume 1 - its episodic story, lack of three - dimensional characters, needless editing gimmicks and so on.

American Pie Presents The Naked Mile's latter half, as a result, moves along at a plodding pace that's compounded by an episodic structure, as the movie lurches from one ill - conceived set - piece to the next with little thought towards momentum or consistency - which inevitably does confirm the film's place as just another interminable waste of time designed to cash in on the original trilogy's success.

James» physical presence and dedication to a truthful performance has given him the pleasure of appearing in over 50 feature films, in numerous television projects (both episodic and long form), and on the New York stage.

The film's pervasively underwhelming atmosphere is perpetuated by the inclusion of several eye - rollingly misguided sequences (eg Santa and a few elves are trapped inside a child's bedroom), with the resulting lack of momentum ensuring that the episodic midsection, which revolves primarily around Arthur's ongoing efforts at finding said little girl's house, fares especially poorly and is, for the most part, nothing short of interminable.

Applying the episodic format and visual template of classic and spaghetti Westerns to a revenge saga mostly set in the Deep South just prior to the Civil War, the film makes a point of pushing the savagery of slavery to the forefront but does so in a way that rather amazingly dovetails with the heightened historical, stylistic and comic sensibilities at play.

As inviting and professional as the film looks, its plot is far too episodic to sustain viewer attention; for every brief oasis of energy, there's a barren wasteland of 20 minutes through which the audience must trudge.

It's just as clear, however, that the film's incongruously languid pace stands as an almost insurmountable obstacle virtually from the get - go, as filmmakers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg have employed an episodic structure that becomes more and more problematic as the thin narrative unfolds - with the ongoing emphasis on subplots of a decidedly underwhelming nature (eg Jim's continuing efforts at resisting the advances of a sultry neighbor) compounding the movie's increasingly lackluster atmosphere.

The episodic bent of the film's first half - much of the narrative seems to follow the central characters as they fight one fire after another - does test the viewer's patience to a fairly demonstrable degree, and it's clear that Backdraft, by and large, works best when focused on the rivalry and relationship between the central figures (and how it ultimately affects their respective work).

The film's episodic nature, which serves to underscore the moments of grim drama, adds to the problem.

Retardation to momentum is further well - secured by unevenness to pacing, because, at 106 minutes, this film's seemingly tight runtime is achieved through a combination of thinning and bloating, placing little attention to exposition, and plenty of attention to repetitious, almost episodic filler, which wear down momentum until aimlessness sets in, slowly, but surely wearing down dramatic bite.

As the story becomes more episodic, and Charley ends up further and further from home, so the film feels distant from its earlier, more nourishing scenes.

While there are moments of humour, the film doesn't take the characters forward from where we left them in Shrek 2, feeling more like the next instalment of an episodic TV series than a genuinely worthwhile sequel.

If there's a knock on the film it's the episodic structure that follows Django and Schultz as they move from one adventure to the next, but it always has connective tissue and never ceases to be engaging.

But Foster is unable to give the episodic, fragmented film a coherent feel; her prosaic, sometimes irritating picture proceeds scene by scene, with the requisite climaxes and anticlimaxes along the bumpy road.

Any one of the stories might merit its own film, and yet, this feels like one of those recaps played in the first minute of an episodic TV series, except that it goes on for over an hour.

Keep The Lights On feels episodic in nature as it leaps forward every 2 - 3 years, with Thure Lindhardt's performance serving as the film's anchor.

Whereas Cemetery of Splendour moves at a slow, fittingly oneiric pace, Guy Maddin's The Forbidden Room wildly careens from one episodic fragment of its re-imagined film history to another.

Cianfrance asks questions about life and legacy too meandering for the film's good, resulting in an admittedly saggier middle section, but he reached way beyond the regular confines of indie cinema with Pines» episodic, decades - spanning tale, and that can not be ignored.

Are people still into these episodic ensemble films with swollen celebrity casts?

The film's plot is extremely loose and episodic, and its intersection with politics «pretty primitive» by Joel's own admission (especially, I'd add, relative to the sophisticated undercurrents of The Big Lebowski).

More than anything else, in fact, the look and episodic composition of the film reminded me of Wojciech Has's The Saragossa Manuscript, a Polish film based on a Polish writer's French - language novel set in Spain (that's no doubt as European as it gets).

Employment statistics for women in the director's chair are as grim as ever: only 9 percent of the top 250 domestic grossing films and 28 percent of supposedly diverse festival films had a female director in 2015; in TV, only 18 percent of first - time episodic directors were women over the five - year period from 2009 to 2014.

Bright and genial, it lacks the cruel edge of many of their comedies (in particular their most recent, 2008's Burn After Reading), and its moderately haphazard, episodic plotting is a far cry from the clockwork precision typical of their films.

This cohesiveness is a remarkable achievement for a film that compresses a life story into three episodic segments, each running about 40 minutes.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

The film is very episodic in nature and it hopscotches from cosmic vampires to telepathic interspecies links to an apocalyptic movie.

The script is the feature film debut for longtime television writer Pell, which comes through in its episodic, strung - together structure.

The film is strangely episodic.

The film manages to preserve the episodic structure of the book without imposing a classic plot.

You see I want to talk about the film's structure, how its episodic and unfocused storyline actually points toward its origins as a manga, and how while having little in the way of actual plot the film uses metaphor and subplot as text rather than subtext.

These new films will be separate from both the episodic Skywalker saga and the recently - announced trilogy being developed by Rian Johnson, writer - director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

An unusual, constantly surprising post-WWII odyssey, this film may feel a bit thin and episodic, but it tells an evocative story with darkly moving emotion.

The film has very much the feeling of a Kammerspiel, with a small ensemble cast and a somewhat episodic structure.

The editing for this particular film felt more episodic in nature than anything previous.

Hurt Locker's script is episodic, but the film turned out good and was well - acted.

From the episodic chronicling of a relationship in the Before trilogy and the real - time unfolding of the chamber play Tape to his upcoming Boyhood, which was filmed in vignettes over the last 12 years to reflect the aging of its protagonist, Linklater is primarily concerned with capturing specific moments of significance and preserving them like celluloid time capsules.

«The Last Jedi» certainly sounds like one of the more ominous «Star Wars» films in the episodic collection, and new comments from the movie's...

That makes the film patchwork and episodic, but it also makes On the Road a rich ensemble, with memorable cameos from Viggo Mortensen as Old Bull Lee, Alice Braga as a migrant labourer, and Steve Buscemi as an uptight travelling companion who shares an eye - watering night with Dean.

This is one of 24 residential Labs the Institute hosts each year to discover and foster independent artists in film, theatre, new media and episodic content.

Not that the first film was some kind of miraculous comic masterpiece; it was messy, episodic and unapologetically smug.