Sentences with phrase «film study so»

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I did Film Studies at grad school and I imagine I become tediously boring to non «film buffs» so I'll shut up about films.

... studying film and learning the tendencies of their opponents, becoming so familiar that he can often predict the play by formation, down and distance, etc..

Anyways, I'm oh so happy the Sharks swept those chickenshits and have a cool amount of time to rest up and prep for Vegas, study some film and get their game plan set.

That suggests thin films of water have formed at the location in the past, so studying the chemical composition can reveal much more about the martian past.

«We attached the polyethylene film to one of the battery electrodes so that an electric current could flow through it,» said Chen, lead author of the study.

So Reynolds and the study's first author Brian Schmatz, who came up with the water - based method, set out to make electrochromic film inks safer for everyday environments.

I studied an Arts Degree with drama and screen as my majors, so I have an extensive knowledge of theatre and film history which never comes in handy.

I did a term in film studies at college, and I like to know details, so actors / actresses names, directors, film scores.

This modest film falls into the category of «character study», which generally means there there isn't a real plot or story follow, so much as a brief peek into a life of someone for a while, perhaps in the hope of learning a thing or two about a different mode of life, or as a reflection of our own.

Billed as an elaborate murder - mystery, Gosford Park is not so much that (the murder doesn't occur until well over halfway through the film) but rather a dense societal study, as would be expected of Altman.

A four - hour western with only one semi-bankable star was a tough sell — so tough that Sony finally gave the film away to Miramax, who decided to push it as a romantic drama instead of character study.

So we're left with just one genuinely «great» film on the list — Michael Haneke's devastating relationship study Amour.

However, the number of films with female directors during the study period was so low that it prohibited statistical analysis.

And so to act in the modelling scene, I studied and imitated Pathé films of models from the 50s.

A spry, sun - bleached and often rather sexy study of what makes a family in modern America, «The Kids Are All Right» breezes by so pleasurably it's easy to forget what a daring and very necessary film it is.

Equal parts black comedy and a study of mental illness, the film often strikes the perfect balance, so that we, the audience, find ourselves laughing uncomfortably.

The whole film feels not like a call to arms against Australian policies, so much as a study of life adjacent to them.

You know, I'd trained, the first things I'd ever made in my film class were in black - and - white 16 mm, so there's echoes of that training to expose film, print film — I'd studied all of Ansel Adams's technical manuals, The Camera, The Negative, The Print.

The primary reason the film works so well as horror is the same reason it works as the study of a deteriorating mind: Kent's dedication to the subjective point of view of the protagonist.

In doing so, the film becomes a deep and surprising character study of these men, who may easily be described as real life monsters.

Yet for all its handsome pleasures, the film is also a curiously remote drama — great to gaze at from a distance, less so when studied up close.

These portraits summarise the film: it is a minor tale in its scale and cinematic form, but the performances and the writing are so intimately drawn that it becomes an unexpectedly moving character study about welfare and painful upbringings.

A film that's not a tearjerker but may very well make you cry, it's a drama / character study that brings so much to the table that it sneaks up on you.

It would be easy to expect the film to be about race, given the setup in the trailer and the premise of a bigoted Irish cop working with an African - American, but this film can not be so easily pigeon - holed, and ends up being far more of a character study (albeit an uproariously funny one) of Gleeson's character.

The film may be fashioned as a thriller, with a lot of racing against the clock and attempts to bargain with the kidnappers, but it's more noteworthy as a study of the corrupting influence of wealth, especially when that wealth exists simply so that a man can say that he has it.

«McDonagh's latest work is simply exceptional; a film so rich with narrative fluidity, profane laughs, standout performances and complex character studies that its tremendous emotional hits — often arriving when you least expect them — might just leave you agog.»

Any movie like this made for the most part since the 1980s would talk the talk about showing the changes, but not show it, show it badly and / or be more sexually oppressed than not, but Russell has zero trouble from this first film he had control over himself dealing with all kinds of human sexuality, yet that freedom is incidental to character study, capturing the story and bringing it to life as he does so well here.

After clearing up her misconceptions, Robbie spent the next year or so studying Harding obsessively, watching numerous interviews and film of her skating.

But as the film progresses, Vigalondo reveals the wild card up his sleeve: this is less a monster movie and more a character study about the so - called «nice guy» in town (Jason Sudeikis) becoming unable and confronting the failure of his hapless dreams and choosing to wreak havoc instead.

Looking at Mike Figgis» resume, the bulk of his films has been dramatic character studies, so one would wonder why he would suddenly shift gears and opt to make a suspense thriller.

The film doesn't have any answers, except that this is a problem — with the best known studies showing that 22 veterans per day commit suicide (a statistic that's inserted into dialogue here, just so we understand the scope)-- and that whatever we're doing as a country isn't nearly enough.

I was shamefully unaware of the specifics regarding his life and career, so this film provided me an insightful behind the scenes study.

This attention to detail in the writing, direction and that sublime performance from Emily Beecham, is testament to the film's success and what makes this magnetic character study so special.

With The Grand Budapest Hotel, Anderson seems to be not so concerned with history, but with the history of cinema; we can see references to Kubrick and F.W. Murnau, and the plot descends into an elaborate caper full of bizarre character studies, wondrous sequences (including a superb cat - and - mouse chase where Gustave and Zero zoom down a precarious mountain atop a toboggan in pursuit of Willem Dafoe on skis), and meticulously - designed, glamorous sets that are reminiscent of the traits of classical Hollywood films and murder - mysteries.

I am teaching «La Haine» so I also added some slides on how to observe and justify those techniques in the film that we are studying.

Research studying Skin - So - Soft versus other repellants suggests that, if anything, SSS traps the insects in the oily film instead of repelling them.

Smith: We studied the film and original score, then discussed what makes the Alien sound so unique.

Suddenly and coincidently, we gather around the table, study the model — and by doing so repeat one of the key scenes in the film.

If you say so Mr film producer and media studies consultant.