Sentences with phrase «filmed in vignettes»

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.

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To make his case, Robinson offers vignettes of four scientists, a linguist, an architect, a musician, a writer, a film - maker and a photographer in this lively book.

Well the film was wide release, so it makes sense there wasn't an entirety of focus on the specifics, but I still think it would have worked better if it was more like the trailers professed intentions; doco style, with vignettes of alien / human scenes that emphasized and helped explain, not found footage either, like for example, after talking about Wikus in the past tense, it could focus on him for a bit then move on, but it stuck with him, and the film changed gears, I just thought it would have been better to focus on other things, as opposed to dumbing the plot down to one man and his battle against the evil government / corporation, and still stay in the doco style, it could have worked, no?

Wenders is clearly intrigued by the connection between Francis and his namesake saint, opening the film with a gorgeous time - lapse shot of the Umbrian village of Asissi, and even recounting the life of St. Francis in recurring black - and - white vignettes.

His new film, screening in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival, combines his skills at narrative and documentary filmmaking to create a brutal mockumentary of loosely connected vignettes about the propaganda - and conflict - riddled Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.

It is something far more grueling and merciless, and as the film reveals itself in an increasingly jaw - dropping series of vignettes, it's likely to leave you in tatters.

He oozes charisma and fun and gentle idiocy to the point where this film becomes a vignette in the life of that crackhead idiot you love to talk to at parties.

Yet an actor in a Cameron Crowe film must be prepared to do things that fly in the face of conventional narrative: his characters are forever addressing the camera and declaiming their innermost thoughts in voice - over, the cumulative effect of which is an anything - can - happen atmosphere and characters of substance etched in lightning - quick vignettes.

But the film also has too many memorable vignettes to count: Haven Hamilton's prickly recording session, where he mercilessly browbeats a hippie pianist; Barbara Jean's squirmily uncomfortable, rambling psychological meltdown while performing live for an impatient, unforgiving audience; Sueleen's conflicted ambitions when her «big break» devolves into a cheap striptease act; gentle Mr. Green's quiet suffering at the hands of his flakey niece; John Triplette's negotiations with various talent, buttering each of them up with compliments while at the same time insulting the musical form (and its admirers) in which they practice.

Since director Sebastian Gutierrez likes to employ loosely connected vignettes in his films, these deleted scenes should fall into place pretty well.

The film is more a succession of splendid vignettes, some shot in Taipei, where Lee's mother dies and reappears as a ghost, and some in Paris.

It features a quartet of eerie vignettes involving four patients in the care of psychiatrist Dr. Tremayne (Donald Pleasence), who is attempting to justify his strange theories to a colleague (Jack Hawkins, who died shortly after his scenes were filmed) by explaining the horrific events that drove the patients to their current state.

I did a movie with Greta called Weiner Dog, and it's shot in vignettes but we actually didn't work together on the film but we met at the after party in Sundance.

In a bleak, almost dystopian version of 1984, Arthur interviews Slade's former friends and colleagues, allowing the film to dissolve into vignettes that explore Slade's life and career.

It isn't an accident that Certain Women's closest brush with genre — when attorney Laura's (Laura Dern) enraged client, Fuller (Jared Harris), takes a night watchman hostage — is both the film's only portrait of male indignation, and the only vignette that's deflated in near - comic anticlimax as quickly as it reaches its apex.

The film, featuring four vignettes of different characters in a style typical for Allen films, stars a slew of celebrities, including Ellen Page, Greta Gerwig, Alec Balden, Jesse Eisenberg, and Allen himself.

Six of the film's vignettes shot at a Brooklyn soundstage in March, 2015, while the rest of the feature shot in Connecticut that summer.

Originally a stage experience in which 13 vignettes play simultaneously, Manifesto the film is another vehicle for Cate Blanchett to be Cate Blanchett being awesome.

Once again, the film offers short vignettes of the lives of various characters in Basin City as they fight their own demons and confront seemingly unending corruption.

Wild Tales is a remarkable film from Argentina showing in six vignettes a range of human emotions and... Read More

Still, the second half of the film, in which a daydreamy clerk at a fast - food joint begins to occupy a customer's apartment while he's not there (she tidies up the place, adds some accents, and such), is a truly winning vignette.

This series of vignettes filmed in glossy, nostalgic black and white examines ten different conversations that on the surface have nothing in common... Read More»

The film's plot is a daisy - chain of comic vignettes, crafted to smuggle in back stories and examine the emotional baggage that hampers these relations.

The film consists of a series of vignettes that bear the unmistakable framing of Antonioni and are, in turn, ponderous, melancholy and heart - wrenching — or jaw - droppingly pretentious, depending on your taste.

While it's invidious to compare a female director's work to that of her spouse, it's plausible that two filmmakers who live and have worked together (she has acted in his films) may find styles and preoccupations rubbing off on each other, or separately making films that would be a dream double - bill; this is certainly the only MHL film that feels remotely like an Assayas one, and it's certainly different from the pared - down precision of her other, more vignette - like works.

In an interesting decision, director Alex Keshishian elects to shoot the half - dozen concert numbers (including «Express Yourself,» «Vogue» and «Live to Tell») in color while filming the backstage material in black - and - white — these behind - the - scenes vignettes include Madonna hanging out with her back - up singers and dancers, impatiently putting up with then - boyfriend Warren Beatty (who pretty much nails the movie's inadvertent theme when, after someone asks Madonna if she'd like to talk off - camera, he comments, «She doesn't want to live off - camera, much less talIn an interesting decision, director Alex Keshishian elects to shoot the half - dozen concert numbers (including «Express Yourself,» «Vogue» and «Live to Tell») in color while filming the backstage material in black - and - white — these behind - the - scenes vignettes include Madonna hanging out with her back - up singers and dancers, impatiently putting up with then - boyfriend Warren Beatty (who pretty much nails the movie's inadvertent theme when, after someone asks Madonna if she'd like to talk off - camera, he comments, «She doesn't want to live off - camera, much less talin color while filming the backstage material in black - and - white — these behind - the - scenes vignettes include Madonna hanging out with her back - up singers and dancers, impatiently putting up with then - boyfriend Warren Beatty (who pretty much nails the movie's inadvertent theme when, after someone asks Madonna if she'd like to talk off - camera, he comments, «She doesn't want to live off - camera, much less talin black - and - white — these behind - the - scenes vignettes include Madonna hanging out with her back - up singers and dancers, impatiently putting up with then - boyfriend Warren Beatty (who pretty much nails the movie's inadvertent theme when, after someone asks Madonna if she'd like to talk off - camera, he comments, «She doesn't want to live off - camera, much less talk.

She (and, for that matter, Cooper) is mostly seen in vignettes taken from the book (yes, there is indeed some adaptation going on here), but the film's twists afford Streep an opportunity to display her dramatic and equally formidable comedic chops all at once.

And like an Altman film, though truthfully his influence must be nominal at best, the vignettes herein take some blackly comic byways, occasionally giving in to cynicism (a disastrous hourlong odyssey into town results in a mugging, hardcore drug use and sex trafficking in a crackhouse in one of the most ludicrous Grand Guignol montages ever assembled).

Directors Peter Middleton and James Spinney have adapted these recordings to visual cinematic form, with actors lip syncing the words in filmed vignettes that feel like a narrative film, especially with fine performances from Simone Kirby playing Marilyn and Dan Renton Skinner bringing John's experience to the screen.

The film will be comprised of four unrelated vignettes, featuring American and Italian characters in Rome.

While the name evokes some kind of horrific anthology film where B - list actors and actresses pair up in a series of vignettes abou...

The reason why it hasn't is simple: Emmet is a completely fictional character, and the documentary - style talking head introductions to the film's individual vignettes (by jazz historians and enthusiasts, including Allen himself) go a long way in convincing the audience of the film's truth.

Appearing only in the first of three vignettes, Ali is tasked with creating a complex and compelling father figure who casts a shadow over the rest of film, inspiring our young protagonist to gradually mould himself in his image.

Two - time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett plays 13 different characters in a series of vignettes embodying the artistic and political manifestos of Communism, Dadaism, Futurism, Minimalism, Surrealism, and other movements in this film by German visual artist Julian Rosefldt.

A passion project from producer Salma Hayek, the film adapts the poetry of Lebanese artist, poet, and writer Kahlil Gibran in a series of vignettes similar to Disney's Fantasia.

In what can only be described as a particularly unique set of casting, Torun's film shuffles across the city with vignettes about a collection of individual moggies, following them around as they roam the streets, finding food, fighting, hunting, battling for attention from humans who aren't so much owners as casual caretakers, and thieving fish from markets and ports.

This film is basically a series of short vignettes covering the Summer vacation antics of a few elementary school kids who live in two motels just outside of the Disney World property in Orlando, Florida.

This is only one of many great vignettes (and I've left out the real punchline in the locker room after Patric's monologue) in Your Friends & Neighbors, a film that was overshadowed in the Rated - R adult arthouse zone by Todd Solondz more visually graphic Happiness which was release in the same month.

The highlight of the film comes in an all - too - brief seriocomic vignette involving the humans running through bed chambers of apes engaged in all manner of alien mating, vanity, or hygiene habits preparatory to slumber.

According to our Tribeca review from Rodrigo Perez, the film «is vignette - driven, but also classicist in structure,» with an effectiveness at «mining the comedy in dreariness» that's as reminiscent of «Office Space» as it is of Altman.

Bing Liu's Kartemquin film, «Minding the Gap,» etched a memorable vignette of three young men coming of age in Rockford, Illinois.

Co - writer / director Gurinder Chadha clearly did nt have a great deal of confidence in the (admittedly weak) material, so the film is filled with these musical vignettes which do next to nothing to advance the story.

This video vignette was filmed at the John F. Kennedy Montessori Elementary School in Louisville, Kentucky, which is in its second year of participation in the SAM Project.

This video vignette was filmed at Vose Elementary School in Beaverton, Oregon.

The vignette also features original dialogue recorded by actor Adam Driver, who plays the role of Kylo Ren in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens film.

The Thor vignette was released in honor of Thor: Ragnarok's U.S. debut this Friday, and it even features content that will be in the game that was inspired by the film and its characters.

In a series of vignettes shot on 16 mm film, we witness what seems to be an intimate ritual among fishermen in a coastal village in northeastern BraziIn a series of vignettes shot on 16 mm film, we witness what seems to be an intimate ritual among fishermen in a coastal village in northeastern Braziin a coastal village in northeastern Braziin northeastern Brazil.

Three of his films from the series Mobile Homestead (2010 — 11) present a vignette of Detroit's civil history as the narrative to his public art project in his hometown.

After her death in 1983, he made a short video collage incorporating vignettes filmed during their meetings.