In Silent Hill 2, we are really proud of the analog
film kind of style.
Not exact matches
There's a certain
kind of film I see at many festivals: oblique, short on narrative and incident (or filled with repetitive incident), shot in a
style that favors long (distance and time) shots
of people doing nothing, or doing mundane things like crossing the street in real time.
McCarthy plays that
kind of scene with enough
style, confidence and wit to pitch the jokes past the straight men, and the
film is an example
of her doing what she does best.
Allied is unusually linear, after the initial setup: Max is told he married a German spy in Marianne; against orders and behind Marianne's back, he sets out to disprove it.2 The apologist urge is to call it a maturation
of Zemeckis's
style, to tell a story so simply and economically (even if we've
kind of been here before with Cast Away), but the
film feels conspicuously underdeveloped as opposed to streamlined, to the extent that the big reveal seems as if it was decided on a coin toss; it's easy to imagine the opposite outcome without any sort
of retrofitting to accommodate it.
Not For Conservative Anti-Mexican White People In Arizona Or People Who Dislike Major Stabbings: The fleshed - out theme
of illegal immigration and the corporate / political exploitation
of that issue, dealt with in a gut - level exploitation
film style, is
kind of brilliant.
With echoes
of Kubrick and Lynch, but in true Malick
style, it's the
kind of film we need...
Sure, there are elements
of style and structure that harken back to classic
films, but this character, Louis Bloom, he's one
of a
kind.
The Russo brothers are action -
film virtuosi, using different
styles of action to tell different
kinds of stories throughout the
film.
Allen is one
of the craftsmen
of it's
kind and although this pales in comparison to his earlier stuff, his idiosyncratic
style has been missing from
films for far too long and its a pleasure to revisit his neurotic world.
In place
of ascribing preferred definitional clarity, Martin immediately proceeds to offer a rich sketch
of the generative importance
of mise en scène for
film criticism and scholarship in providing a
kind of justification for the taking - seriously
of cinema that specifically addresses
film style — and through this, often, authorship — before and beyond the more «literary» concerns
of narrative and character.
The opening shots imply that the floridly romantic «
style» is not necessarily that
of the
film as a whole, but an idea
of the
kind of visual representation a group
of isolated, intelligent, impressionable, hormonal young women might make.
He's a young composer on the rise, and should have no problem finding work if he continues to carve out this
kind of unique, varied array
of musical
stylings for each
film.
This
kind of tone used to depict the interconnectedness between sex and crime set by Cool Hair evokes Harmony Korine's polarizing 2012 feature
film Spring Breakers starring Vanessa Hudgens and James Franco, but Mr. Orozco - Cubbon delivers this content much more naturally and with the poise and confidence
of an experienced filmmaker who already has a well - defined
style, knowingly and purposefully playing with the two intertwining dynamics that keep the audience on its toes.
I've been sceptical about this
film - maker's pictorial sense in the past, even in the widely admired Pan's Labyrinth from 2006, which called to my mind Tarantino's shrugging response to a certain
kind of film infatuated with its own visuals: «Pretty pictures...» But Crimson Peak has more narrative sinew and black comic
style than this.
EV: Now that we've made the genre
film with the more flashy
style, it's easy to say that the movies before were
kind of naturalist and realist, and this is completely different.
The
film also weaves in lots
of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century -
style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts
of one
kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).
This is the
kind of film that includes a romantic comedy
style run - across - town - to - tell - the - leading - lady - something scene, and Jackman, bless him, runs so hard that you'd think Barnum was rushing to defuse a bomb.
It was fun to figure out how to approach that but still [keep the
film] in my
style, and to have this
kind of beautiful, dreamy world that I like — but with a plot!
The documentary -
style film isn't the
kind of project that usually commands a nine - figure budget, but the 2010 oil rig disaster had elements straight out
of a movie.
It was the same
kind of style and really
kind of a beautiful little
film,» Welsh explained about how Baird came on board.
Wong has the
kind of utterly unpredictable
style that brings to mind two other distinctive filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino (who is presenting this
film) and Jim Jarmusch.
Earlier in his career one might have looked to Soderbergh to aim higher than a»70s -
style caper
film that could have been a vehicle for Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed, but if you're going to make that
kind of movie, this is exactly the way you want to make it.
In terms
of narrative structure, the previous Spielberg
film that Lincoln ends up most resembling is Close Encounters
of the Third
Kind (1977), which while a more consistently entertaining
film still provided a dramatic change in pace and
style at the end to deliver a long feel - good sequence as a sort
of reward to the audience for hanging in for that long.
But whether she's working closely with her editors or she's leaving them little choice in how to cut her
films because
of how lean her scripts and footage are, this
kind of short, snappy, collage - like approach to storytelling has become Gerwig's «
style» — which undercuts the argument that there's nothing distinctive about the way her movies look and feel.
Strong plays John, a «memory detective», which is apparently a
kind of shrink who walks around in other people's memories (in a
style familiar to viewers
of TV» sHannibal), and whose visions are therefore easily translated to
film.
The
film is packed with amazing sequences
of them casting themselves as the stars
of their favorite movies, creating elaborate costumes, memorizing all the dialogue, and re-shooting those
films, Be
Kind Rewind -
style, at home.
And if you're any
kind of movie buff, the
film is a great look back at the Coen brothers» burgeoning
style.
Pialat's more naturalistic and exploratory camera
style, largely derived from the 30s
films of Renoir, describes a
kind of wandering investigation
of events and locations played over a subdued acting
style, which seems indebted more to Robert Bresson than to Renoir.
Like Valentine's Day in 2010 and New Year's Eve in 2011, prescription his latest
film features a star - studded cast, approved multiple story - lines and sitcom -
style comedy and like the feedback
of those earlier
films, the Mother's Day reviews have not been
kind.
It was written to go along with a series
of essays on Lau Kar - leung, which I guess didn't materialize, but it's a
kind of timeline
of Shaolin - related stories, mapping all the
films I could think
of into a generational chronology, from San Te and the 36th Chamber through the destruction
of the Shaolin Temple, the spread
of its various disciples and their fighting
styles throughout Southern China, folk heroes like Fong Sai - yuk, Wong Fei - hung, Wing Chun up to Lau himself.
Sometimes only minimally altering her appearance, she has taken familiar representations
of female sexuality from
film, art, pornography, fashion, and fairy tales and created an impressive gallery
of women
of all shapes, sizes, classes, periods, and
styles that together form a
kind of pathology
of womanhood.