Tropes like the darkened souk setting, disco ball,
film loops of refracted light, and big empty stage have been in every show like this since 1980.
Not exact matches
Peep - show booths that ran
film loops came first, then camcorders and VCRs — many
of which were invented in Japan, but adopted first in the United States by porn directors.
Howe and Kaloyeros planned the
film hub, but Kennedy was left out
of the
loop until just before the governor announced the project in March 2014, he testified.
You even have the option
of filming video on a continuous
loop, making the camera perfect for capturing security footage or as a small car dash cam.
4 Some things never change: Edison's early
film loops included one showing «cooch» dancers; another reenacted the decapitation
of Mary, Queen
of Scots — arguably the first horror flick.
Although filaments like fishing line are thin, they are orders
of magnitude thicker than a soap
film in equilibrium, meaning that the area
of the soap
film can change depending on the point at which the
film contacts the
loop.
As such, a solution to the problem requires determining not only the shape
of the soap
film but also the shape
of the bounding
loop.
Researchers from the Kavli Institute
of Nanoscience at Delft University and EMBL Heidelberg now managed for the first time to isolate and
film the process, and witnessed — in real time — how a single protein complex called condensin reels in DNA to extrude a
loop.
The
film is further enriched by the performances
of Jeff Daniels as Abe, the future boss
of the crime syndicate, and by Paul Dano as Seth, a friend
of Old Joe who fears the
loop is about to be closed on him.
It's an excellent
film, with Renoir's usual
looping line and deft shifts
of tone, though today the balance
of critical opinion has shifted in favor
of the greater darkness and filigree
of The Rules
of the Game.
Meanwhile, as his / her story unfolds in linear fashion at first, the
film starts
looping back to reveal a complicated patter
of a life lived in overlapping eras, crossing paths in ways that send our tragic figure down that path as if fated.
Apparently the studio is also
looping Scarlett Johansson into the
film as Black Widow, a perk
of having actors sign multi-picture deals.
We don't see the
film's last seconds until it
loops back to the end, but, be forewarned at the onset: This party will go out
of bounds.
Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner
of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek
Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages
of the characters» lives) across the temporal
loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns
of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means
of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the
film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind
of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family
of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode
of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.
Escape Pod Artist: Jonathan Monaghan This seamlessly
looped computer animated
film chronicles a golden deer through glossy environments
of wealth, power, and authority through one continuous tracking shot.
Memento is highly recommended for anyone who likes to be thrown for a
loop while watching a mystery and not have everything wrapped up in a tidy bow by the end
of the
film, a la Jacob's Lader and its brethren.
Though a PG - 13 slasher
film is like the equivalent
of sex with clothes on, «Happy Death Day» gets around that hurdle by being less
of a straight - up slasher and more
of a darkly comedic murder - mystery that just so happens to involve a temporal
loop and a knife - wielding masked killer.
Jon Stewart's Rosewater is also caught in the
loop of films that maybe were intended for the Oscar race but didn't quite get there for whatever reason.
Agent Carter is set in the late 1940s after the close
of World War II and into the burdgeoning Cold War following up on the original Captain America
film, but focusing on the character's longevity - and
looping in her ties to S.H.I.E.L.D. and it's predecessor, S.S.R. - provides a potential framework for a device to tell the untold backstory
of the MCU, a currently favored conceit in Marvel comic books.
The
film twists itself too far and tries to keep throwing the audience for a
loop so often that by the end
of it all, it doesn't make a whole lot
of sense.
A unique sound effect buried within the score
of Matt Ruskin's new
film Crown Heights is an electronic feedback
loop or sort
of white noise that permeates the soundtrack, echoing the wall
of obfuscation and deafness that befalls Colin Warner (Lakeith Stanfield) as he's sent away for a murder he didn't commit.
The
film focuses on Ines, a photographer who is aiming to finish a project before the birth
of her first baby, an undertaking that
loops if not obsessively, then emphatically back to her family's pained past.
,» «Tree's Final Walk
of Shame,» «Worst Birthday Ever» with the filmmakers and cast discussing the challenges
of executing the time -
loop concept at the center
of the
film, including how to make each day feel different despite the fact it's being repeated, «Behind the Mask: The Suspects,» «The Many Deaths
of Tree.»
The interesting main menu consists entirely
of a creepy Michael Shannon in profile overlooking a
loop of the
film's closing highway traffic shot.
The sensation
of being caught in an endless
loop is reinforced by the main musical theme, by Kitano regular Joe Hisaishi, a piece
of treacle featuring piano and orchestra that's repeated so many times it drills its way into your skull, like one
of the elevator - music themes
of a comedy by Jacques Tati (or, perhaps closer to the mark, Ryuichi Sakamoto's main theme for Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, which featured Kitano's first
film performance).
Of course, there is far more to Powell's music than drum
loops, and the way he combines modern electronics and synths with an orchestra is as impressive as any other
film composer.
As bad as the
film is, I must admit, it is almost a bit
of a guilty pleasure because it is SO bad, that quite frankly, I was expecting to be thrown for a
loop with a surprise ending.
It's fair to say that the premise doesn't deliver huge dramatic impact, but the
film has a poignant, reverberant quality shared by another
film — A GHOST STORY starring casey Affleck as a dead husband who lurks around his young wife (Rooney Mara), stalled in transition and caught in a
loop of time.
It's kind
of odd, scored and narrated like the kind
of corporate video you would imagine running on a
loop inside the
film's glass tower.
Basically faithful recreations
of lost fetish
loops, narratively strung together by thin bio sketches, the
film includes a surprisingly vibrant jazz score by Ryan, who appears in a short composer featurette with musicians.
Arnaud Desplechin's opening
film Ismael's Ghosts is a portrait
of a filmmaker (Mathieu Almaric) who is haunted by his past and thrown into a
loop when his wife Carlotta (Marion Cotillard) suddenly returns and re-enters his life.
The
film becomes a closed
loop of pain, with Kyle deploying to Iraq and returning home four times, with each trip back to the States underscoring the effects killing is having on his psyche, pushing him further and further away from his young family.
The main menu shows more effort than most new Warner Blu - rays, but simply
loops an unremarkable scored montage
of film clips before settling on static poster art.
Perhaps the
film's most distinctive shortcoming is its extremely poor use
of ADR (automated dialogue replacement), a.k.a.
looping.
The menu applies a ghosting effect to the edges
of a
looped 40 - second montage
of clips from the
film while an excerpt
of the
film's very»80s score plays.
The menu
loops a textured, otherwise ordinary montage
of film clips and an excerpt
of piano score.
Discovering him one night when she leaves the family's cave, Guy warns Eep
of an impending change, and that is when the true heart
of the
film kicks in, becoming a funny and heartwarming road trip
film about an out
of the
loop family who discover everything about how to live in the new world.
The
film messes with slasher tradition by killing one college girl (Jessica Rothe) over and over again, with each one
of her deaths resetting the time
loop.
The
film has a unique narrative structure, as Gilroy continuously
loops us around a never - ending search for the soul
of this fascinating character.
Menu: The menu design consists
of various
looping clips from the
film.
The easter egg is also likely a nod at Bill Murray's 1993
film Groundhog Day, which features a time
loop similar to the one that Doctor Strange employs in his battle against Dormammu at the end
of the
film.
The Endless This highly effective, psychological horror
film concerns two ex-cult members who return to their apocalyptic commune, only to get trapped into supernatural time
loops that challenge their memories
of the past.
In addition to that I think I gave Remedy several hundred ambient
loops, some
of which they requested and some
of which I created for them to use at their own discretion, everything from evil tornado
loops to abstract tones to strange fluorescent light bulb hums... much
of it inspired by early Lynch
films like Blue Velvet and Eraserhead.»
Bolstered by short
looped score excerpts, most
of the 16:9 menus features a different iconic still object pertaining to the
film.
He's the great man who also wrote and created The Thick
Of It, the film version of that series IN THE LOOP plus he co-created Alan Partridge and helped surreal comedian Chris Morris with the launch and writing on the spoof news show The Day Toda
Of It, the
film version
of that series IN THE LOOP plus he co-created Alan Partridge and helped surreal comedian Chris Morris with the launch and writing on the spoof news show The Day Toda
of that series IN THE
LOOP plus he co-created Alan Partridge and helped surreal comedian Chris Morris with the launch and writing on the spoof news show The Day Today.
Menu: The menu design consists
of several
looping clips from the
film.
Have you been feeling a little out
of the
loop whenever your friends talk about the artsy hit
films from last year?
But in this fifth installment
of the increasingly loosely related Terminator series — it essentially uses time travel as an excuse to
loop the third and fourth
films out
of its continuity — the time travel is more convoluted than thought - provoking.
The flashback, circular structure
of a narrative about a doomed man is an essential feature of film noir (see Sunset Boulevard, Out Of The Past, Detour, Double Indemnity, etc) and Lost Highway is structured like a Möbius strip, coiling back on itself in a way that reflects the disturbed consciousness of the protagonist, condemned to replay the tragic events of his life in an endless loo
of a narrative about a doomed man is an essential feature
of film noir (see Sunset Boulevard, Out Of The Past, Detour, Double Indemnity, etc) and Lost Highway is structured like a Möbius strip, coiling back on itself in a way that reflects the disturbed consciousness of the protagonist, condemned to replay the tragic events of his life in an endless loo
of film noir (see Sunset Boulevard, Out
Of The Past, Detour, Double Indemnity, etc) and Lost Highway is structured like a Möbius strip, coiling back on itself in a way that reflects the disturbed consciousness of the protagonist, condemned to replay the tragic events of his life in an endless loo
Of The Past, Detour, Double Indemnity, etc) and Lost Highway is structured like a Möbius strip, coiling back on itself in a way that reflects the disturbed consciousness
of the protagonist, condemned to replay the tragic events of his life in an endless loo
of the protagonist, condemned to replay the tragic events
of his life in an endless loo
of his life in an endless
loop.
If there's a tinge
of regret it's that none
of these
films take the concept
of a time
loop very far.