Sentences with phrase «film is in motion»

Others are great simply because they remind us that a worthy film is in motion.

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The Motion Picture Production Code, introduced by the major studios in 1930, was a direct progenitor of the Comics Code, while the modern film - rating system and the Parental Advisory labels created by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1985 are all part of the same bloodline.

Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who is the president Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a black woman, has struggled to enforce a change in diversity in film.

Motion picture theaters can sometimes determine the films to be shown, and they can in certain cases restrict the viewing of films to appropriate persons (for example, to adults).

Since almost all films seen in Canada are made in the United States, the approaches here will deal with the U.S. motion picture industry:

A serial nexus might be described as a «motion picture» film, in which a rapid series of individual occasions of experience project movement.

The movie certainly builds upon themes that Christ - followers might find challenging and counter-intuitive to western culture, but certainly in an insightful way that's also benefitted by some impressive voice acting and unbelievable set pieces you won't expect from a stop - motion film.

I used to do stop motion short films in college, but have been too afraid to do them for the blog (the quality of my old videos werent anything to brag about).

I'm hoarding 2 squares of this in my freezer at the moment for just the perfect morning... like tomorrow Cracking in to the top of the crumb and then the soft moist cake with your fork (or spoon) is one of those moments that should be captured on film and made in slow motion.

His pick - six to seal New Orleans's first NFL crown is a testament to his diligent film study of the Colts» China route, a staple of their three - wideout formations in which the receiver split the farthest wide motions underneath the slot receiver, who runs an in - cut for a short gain.

Oscar nominee Kate Hudson is in Buffalo to film her role in «Marshall,» the major motion picture being shot across Western New York.

Western New York has missed out on being the setting for a major motion picture, but Republican state Senator Patrick Gallivan hopes the loss of the movie «Draft Day,» starring Kevin Costner, will help push along a bill that would offer tax credits for films to be shot in New York state.

Johnson said the idea is to train the students in film production that relies on computer technology to improve on current uses like motion - capture to create movies like «Avatar» and video games like «Tron.»

Some cameras were designed to zip through hundreds of feet of film within a couple seconds, capturing every detail of massive fireballs in stunning slow motion.

Although Full can never confirm his theory, he is able to assess the motion of the computer - generated raptors in the film Jurassic Park.

Myhrvold's irreverent advice was just one of the cutting - edge food science and cooking tips that he shared during his talk, all the while dazzling the audience with film clips of wine glasses shattering, orange zest vaporizing, and a kernel of popcorn exploding in slow motion (as illustration of the kernel's «structural failure» to illustrate how water in food can become a «steam rocket» as the latent heat of the water builds up).

Watch a singularity form in a stretchy soap film This slow - motion lime - green bubble is trippy, but this is no lava lamp — it's a mathematics experiment

While slow motion is typically achieved by filming scenes with a high - speed camera, Benza and his team were able to achieve the same effect by bringing the footage into Apple's Shake digital - compositing software, then retiming it using a Shake plug - in called Furnace Kronos.

With two XUV pulses, we would be able to «film» the electron motion in the inner atomic shells without perturbing their dynamics,» says Dr. Boris Bergues, the leader of the new study.

And while the film is at times scarily atmospheric — a hunt in the cramped sewers under Baltimore, a horse chase through a foggy wood — it too often abandons the stony, old - timey horror that should be its main motif, because despite all the nonsense it works, in favor of slow - motion bullets and a super villain-esque masked crusader who is capable of impossible feats of speed and marksmanship.

Even a breaking glass is filmed in slow motion and accompanied by ominous soundtrack pounding — unless that thud is the movie hammering the same point home again and again.

The film, which is based on a television series (which was itself a spinoff from the Wallace & Gromit franchise), boasts a tremendously appealing stop - motion animation style that's heightened by an assortment of affable characters, and it's worth noting, too, that the movie's total absence of dialogue in no way hinders one's ability to get caught up in the briskly - paced narrative.

In 1991, Oedekerk also wrote a script for a motion picture, High Strung, in which he played the lead; the film didn't do well at the box office, but it later gained a cult following, and was reissued after bit player Jim Carey rose to famIn 1991, Oedekerk also wrote a script for a motion picture, High Strung, in which he played the lead; the film didn't do well at the box office, but it later gained a cult following, and was reissued after bit player Jim Carey rose to famin which he played the lead; the film didn't do well at the box office, but it later gained a cult following, and was reissued after bit player Jim Carey rose to fame.

Although it could use tighter editing — like most everything in this regrettably paced film — the third act reappearance of Gollum is terrific, and amplified by a go - for - broke motion - capture performance by Andy Serkis.

A great deal of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's performance, which comes as her finest career moment, as well as one of the year's early choices for 2002's Best Actress (personal list, of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be able to make it through the film).

Robert Zemeckis has been spending time in the motion capture lab the last few years directing The Polar Express 61, Beowulf 59, and A Christmas Carol 55, but he's returning to live - action film directing for the first time since 2000's Cast Away 73 with Flight.

It's not until the second half of the film that the action and pacing start to gel, as Bilbo and company make their way through treacherous mountain passes populated with goblins, beasts, and the withered creature Gollum (Andy Serkis), original owner of the magical ring that will eventually set larger stories in motion.

If you've caught any of the media blitz for the film you've seen the episode in which Ferrell's character swings at Galifianakis» and accidentally slugs a baby, but it's still funny to watch the characters» horrified reactions, smartly played in slow motion while we hear «My Country «Tis of Thee.»

Instead of keeping in tune with such an origin, the film's primary primate, George (a motion captured performance by Jason Liles) is simply an albino gorilla who's best friends with a primatologist / beefcake named Davis Okoye (Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson).

The movie was nominated for an impressive 13 Oscar Nominations including Best Picture, Best Director (Steven Spielburg), Best Actor (Danny Glover), Best Actress (Whoopi Goldberg), Best Supporting Actress Nominations for Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery, along with Best Supporting Actor (Adolph Caesar), and Best Original Musical Score for a Motion Picture (Quincy Jones) which was the first time in any Spielburg produced film that composer John Williams did not compose a film score for a Spielburg movie.

Wong Kar - Wai's movie about two love - struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color.

A stop - motion animated film, Frankenweenie will be filmed in black and white and rendered in 3D, which will elevate the classic style to a whole new experience.

As it happens, the Ireland - based studio was also responsible for producing world - class Oscar nominees «The Secret of Kells» and «Song of the Sea,» and though Nora Twomey worked on both films, «The Breadwinner» marks her solo directing debut, employing a similarly bold graphic style in its telling («hand - drawn» via a program called TVPaint), augmented by colorful story - within - the - story interludes designed to look like stop - motion.

The subject matter may be a little too in his wheelhouse to break him out of his recent creative rut, but Burton also has a second film due in 2012: Frankenweenie (October 5), an impressive - looking, black - and - white, stop - motion animated remake of his own 1984 short.

The Post is a film that feels in constant motion, where the camera is often hurtling forward to catch up to the drama, which here takes the form of heated negotiations between Post publisher Katharine Graham and her editor Ben Bradlee around the ethics and efficacy of continuing to publish the Papers after the Times had raised the ire of the Nixon administration.

After these notable performances, Mihok continued to create memorable and diverse roles in such films as THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, DARK BLUE, BASIC, CONNIE AND CARLA, director Shane Black's KISS KISS BANG BANG, 10TH & WOLF, HOLLYWOODLAND, SEX AND DEATH 101, THE LONGSHOTS, Marvel's PUNISHER: WAR ZONE, and the unsettling motion - capture performance of the Alpha Male creature that went toe - to - toe with Will Smith in I AM LEGEND.

It is the kind of film that never feels long, despite the nearly two - hour running time, because it is in a state of constant motion.

Containing as much forward motion as any film in recent memory, Good Time is as heartbreaking as it is exhilarating, and that's no small thing.

James Dean starred in only three motion pictures before he died in an auto accident at the age of 24, but he created such an indelible image in those films that he's still considered one of the great Hollywood icons of the»50s and remains a role model to rebellious youth to this day.

While I also enjoy those films, there's no arguing that this is Allen's best motion picture in the last decade, an exuberantly cinematic piece of work.

The film is computer - animated, in a sense, with real actors» motions being captured digitally and converted into animation.

In the end, there is just about enough narrative to hold interest, while the lyrical camerawork, constantly in motion, blurred images and all, offers a single emotion that is impossible to stretch over a feature - length filIn the end, there is just about enough narrative to hold interest, while the lyrical camerawork, constantly in motion, blurred images and all, offers a single emotion that is impossible to stretch over a feature - length filin motion, blurred images and all, offers a single emotion that is impossible to stretch over a feature - length film.

Brian De Palma demonstrates the drawbacks of a film - school education by overexploiting every cornball trick of style in the book: slow motion, split screen long takes, and soft focus abound, all to no real point... He's an overachiever — which might not make for good movies, but at least he's seldom dull.

Of the world premieres, the major gets for Toronto include Freeheld, Peter Sollett's LGBT drama starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page; Stonewall, Roland Emmerich's drama about the birth of the gay rights movement; Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van, which is rumored to feature an awards - worthy performance from Maggie Smith; Jay Roach's film Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston as the famed Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted in the 1940s; Terence Davies's anticipated follow - up to The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song; Charlie Kaufman's first stop - motion film, Anomalisa; and Eye in the Sky, Gavin Hood's thriller about piloted aircraft warfare, starring Aaron Paul and Helen Mirren.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

The problem with that film is the same problem with this one — it is written by people who seem to have no concept of research before writing a major motion picture, probably looking at other Hollywood movies for inspiration, recycling and rehashing in whatever way seems convenient.

Stewart plays out the film as if it were a traditional «haunted house» film, but because we already know it is about alien life, we merely watch the characters go through predictable motions until the story catches up with what we already surmise, and the only things keeping viewers reeled in are basic questions such as, «why are they doing this?»

Donald Sutherland is one of the most respected, prolific and versatile of motion picture actors, with an astonishing resume of well over one hundred and fifty films, including such classics as Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen; Robert Altman's M * A * S * H; John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust; Robert Redford's Ordinary People; Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900; Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now with Julie Christie; Alan Pakula's Klute with Jane Fonda; Federico Fellini's Fellini's Casanova and in Brian Hutton» sKelly's Heroes with Clint Eastwood, who later directed him in Space Cowboys.

The film is a look at the fleeting nature of attraction, all done in stop - motion animation and with enough imagination to shame most of its live - action counterparts.

Director Robert Zemeckis, working from a screenplay by John Gatins, has been loitering in the creepy motion - capture vineyards for a long time: «The Polar Express» and «Beowulf» are not likely to rank high alongside his «Back to the Future» films or «Forrest Gump» or «Cast Away.»