Director Sean Baker, fresh - faced stars Bria Vinaite and Brooklynn Prince, and Dafoe sat down with the L.A. Times at the Toronto International Film Festival to discuss the unique dynamic of pairing seasoned and non-professional actors, and how
filming blurred the lines between fiction and reality.
The best
films blur lines between genres, and that's exactly what writer - director Spike Jonze accomplishes with «Her.»
Special Features Alternate Ending Alpha Males — The cast describes how the tough characters in
the film blur the lines between the good guys and the bad guys.
The set and costume design is shimmery and glamorously detailed, with the fancy cars and mansions looking so stunning
the film blurs the line between period piece and pre-war fantasy.
Not exact matches
The result is a movie that
blurs the
lines between fact and fiction, documentary and feature
film, telling the story of childhood elation and adult struggle, in a motel where this happens every day and featuring dozens of extras who live within miles of the set.
He added, «There is a
blurring of
lines between buildings and the
film industry.
There's no reason the imaginative freedom that animation allows shouldn't be unleashed on adult themes, especially when graphic novels have entered the literary mainstream and when CGI has
blurred the
line between live action and animation in
films like «300.»
In the Season 4 finale, as Hank awaits sentencing, the
lines between his real life and the movie based on his life
blur as the
film's star hits on his ex-wife and he feels stirrings of passion for the actress hired to play Karen.
Full of uncomfortable character turns, the
film dives headfirst into parental and Oedipal trauma, the
lines between its female characters
blurring in gut - wrenching ways.
The
film is more an extended version of the song «
Blurred Lines.»
The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic was presented to: Christina Choe, for her
film Nancy (Director & Screenwriter: Christina Choe, Producers: Amy Lo, Michelle Cameron, Andrea Riseborough)--
Blurring lines between fact and fiction, Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child.
Resnais constantly
blurs the
line between fantasy and reality shifting the actors from the couch where they watch the
filmed play so that they take an active role within stylized dreamlike scenes, where the fiction of the play becomes their reality.
Lister - Jones said the
film was at least partially inspired by her relationship with Wein and the challenges they've faced as a couple who
blurs the
line between romantic and professional.
It's as if the
film were marking the point when the
line between real and stage violence
blurred.
And maybe this is due to the fact that the
lines between LGBT and non-LGBT
films have begun to
blur in 2015 when same - sex marriage is legal and LGBT activities are no longer sanctioned from mainstream cinema.
The
film does have three clear acts, although the
line between the second and the third is a bit
blurred.
This is a
film where the
line between thought and action, between the action and its representation, is
blurred to the point it almost completely disappears.
We're doing 10 episodes and I think the interesting part about it is exactly what you said, everything's changed so much; the
line between
film and TV has
blurred so much over the years, I think Jack Ryan is a product of that
blurring so much that I think that they're not even really considering it a TV show, they're calling it a movie that's being told in 10 parts; and that's not just an argument of semantics, it's actually true.
As the
lines between good and evil become
blurred, the
film pushes the concept of revenge to its most extreme limits, effectively transcending the police procedural and serial killer genres in surprising and thrilling new ways.
With his controversial new
film Nocturama opening in theaters, French director Bertrand Bonello spoke with us about what inspires him as an artist and how he
blurs the
line between realism and abstraction.
The
line between the real and the manufactured
blurs within the
film even as the
film itself, an anime of unusual beauty and skill, is a palimpsest of representations: a fiction, a drawing, a voice performance, a choreography, and so on.
Lines began to
blur between what was real and what was «the
film,» and if there was even a difference anymore.
He also saved money by recycling footage from earlier
films, which resulted in shorts that ultimately began to
blur the
line between remakes and rereleases.
Ex Machina is a science - fiction horror
film that, like so many others, plays on fears of the future: of artificial intelligence, of the
blurred line between human life and its imitations, of online surveillance shaping our experiences.
The «organic» quality of the sound work also bled into the
film's score: Bigelow hadn't originally planned to have music in the
film, but when that idea changed, Ottosson and composer Marco Beltrami («3:10 to Yuma») worked together to
blur the
line between sound and music.
In the
film, those
lines blur in spectacularly destructive fashion, when aspects of Elliott's latest memoir become challenged by reality — specifically, that his «dead» father is very much alive.
Similar in approach to Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine (which has so far only screened locally at festivals) Green
blurs the
line between documentary and fiction, to make a
film about the making of a
film.
The
line between acting and reenacting here is
blurred, but in case you were thinking this might be a semi-autobiographical flash in the pan, she already has a sci - fi picture and Andrea Arnold «s next
film in the can, and we're very curious to see how her effortless authenticity translates to a story less close to home.
By the time the second half comes along, the
film's refusal to
blur the
lines or vary the dialogue leaves it floundering for ideas.
What makes the story truly special is the
blurred line between Mark the actor, and Mark the character in this
film who struggles with telling his real - life 2 - year old son about death.
Here's our rundown of our favourite
films to have
blurred the
line between reality and fiction.
But there's almost an «Inception» - like twist when hypnotherapy sessions start to
blur the
lines of reality and move the enigmatic picture beyond a simple heist
film.
The
film, with backlit shots of pilgrims strolling across twilit hillsides exhibiting amazing detail, has never looked brighter, so the few instances that the dragon is inserted into the frame betray the sort of sharp
lines that James Cameron would finally address in Terminator 2 with his own animation
blurring techniques, replicating the imperfections of the human eye at a distance and while observing motion.
Whilst the first SCREAM movie represented the horror genre by picking it apart, the sequels focused more on
blurring the
lines between our reality and
film.
It was pretty clear that Hopkins was attempting to
blur the
lines between genres and try to mix and match tones, but the
film went from way too cutesy and light - hearted to way too serious.
The supporting characterizations are thin and nondescript, almost as if McCarthy and Falcone watched
films like Neighbors, The House Bunny, Legally Blonde and the aforementioned Back to School and decided to see if they could create situations and characters that would purposefully
blur the
line between homage and plagiarism.
As Imogen notes, the
lines between the truth of the
film and the con within the diegesis begin to
blur, and this is where the
film is particularly affecting.
Back in 1997, Michael Douglas and Sean Penn starred in a
film called The Game, where Douglas was put through his paces in a live - action role - play that intentionally
blurred the
line between fiction and reality.
With the
film releasing only weeks after the Boston Marathon bombing and in the midst of the Syrian and North Korean crises, this disturbing plotline involving terrorist activity
blurs the
line between news and entertainment in unsettling ways.)
And this, too, is how we find Natalie Portman, whose starring turn in the
film so frequently
blurs the
line between performance and total persona, between a shadow game and a fully realized resurrection of history.
The
film that left Sundance shell - shocked
blurs the
lines between fiction and nonfiction, past and present, victim and hero.
To these ends, Lucas trained an entire generation of
film readers and video renters to manually measure aspect ratios onscreen, hunt down multiple and multi-region releases of the same title, compare alternate run - times and conflicting versions of the same
film, and in the process, appreciate the ever -
blurring line between exploitation and art house.
Christina Choe, for her
film NANCY / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Christina Choe, Producers: Amy Lo, Michelle Cameron, Andrea Riseborough)--
Blurring lines between fact and fiction, Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child.
In the context of that
film, Ex Machina used a more «typical» robot A.I. but it still
blurred the
line between robot and human and so that for me really overwhelmed.
Wasikowska's
film is lovely but unsettling, a dreamy mood piece about a young mother whose baby constantly cries, with the
line between reality and fantasy thoroughly
blurred.
These are daring sequences not only for how out - of - character with the rest of the
film they are but also for how they
blur the
lines of science and religion — history and legend.
These narrative
films ``... would help to break ground in Hollywood in terms of funding women storytellers and women who were directing the
films...» The 2018 Sundance Film Festival will premiere three Gamechanger
films: The Tale, a story about sexual abuse written and directed by Jennifer Fox; Nancy, a dramatic story
blurring the
lines of fact and fiction written and directed by Christina Choe; and The Long Dumb Road, a road trip movie filled with detours and bumps along the way, written and directed by Hannah Fidell.
Even Netflix has made some of the year's best accessible to so many, even if it has
blurred the
lines of the TV vs.
film divide.
Speaking with Collider, Alex Kurtzman stated the new series will «
blur the
line» between
film and television.
Electronic Arts announced today the car culture icons who have inspired the narrative behind the reboot of Need for Speed, and revealed how technology is
blurring the
lines between live action
film and in - game.