Sentences with phrase «for celluloid»

An actor playing an actor while a film - maker films him for a celluloid portrait and an audience looks on — that's the intriguing, if slightly perplexing, basis of an experimental work by the British visual artist Tacita Dean, featuring the British actor Stephen Dillane, to be staged next week as part of the Sydney Biennale.

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«It's the truth I needed to get out there not only about Australia, but to the world, to say there's an alternative history, an oral history that we have passed down; and we're starting to use for celluloid to tell, and that's really important for us,» he said.

Paul Reubens's signature comedy creation, mischief - making bow - tied big kid Pee - wee Herman, was already a big live draw before Tim Burton's movie preserved this unique persona for celluloid immortality.

This film version plonks Neil Simon's Broadway smash on screen without rethinking it for celluloid.

Indeed, for a film that's being hailed as a momentous comeback for celluloid — a motion picture event in the truest sense — The Hateful Eight is an inauspiciously low - key affair.

Wet Asphalt should have been a satire instead of a thriller — failing that, it should have been recycled for the celluloid.

Not exact matches

Denominational publishing houses sold various Mother's Day gimcracks - for example, special Sunday school souvenirs, postcards, bookmarks, bulletins and celluloid buttons.

Recognizing that Pittsburgh was not a likely breeding ground for aspiring celluloid celebs, in June 1990 Cortese packed his car after graduating from college and headed off to Hollywood with $ 8,000 in his pocket («It lasted a week,» he says).

While celluloid would prove a wonderful substitute for ivory, Hyatt apparently never collected the ten - thousand - dollar prize.

Like other plastics that would follow, celluloid offered a means for Americans to buy their way into new stations in life.

Here celluloid's gift for facsimile achieved its ultimate expression, the complete transmutation of reality into illusion, as three - dimensional flesh - and - blood beings were transformed into two - dimensional ghosts shimmering on a screen.

Perhaps celluloid's greatest impact was serving as the base for photographic film.

Though it could, with effort, be made to mimic natural materials, it didn't have celluloid's knack for imitation.

For all its significance, celluloid had a fairly modest place in the material world of the early twentieth century, limited mainly to novelties and small decorative and utilitarian items, like the comb.

And although a single celluloid comb cost one dollar in 1930, by the end of the decade one could buy a machine - molded comb of cellulose acetate for anywhere from a dime to fifty cents.

For every perfect moment in motion captured in celluloid, there are about 104,000 of these.

The best argument for shooting on celluloid in the digital age gets made in the Romanian film When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism.

Cheap special effects and nonexistent horror in a «horror» flick make for one boring waste of celluloid.

A sloppy excuse for 95 minutes of celluloid... Andrew Fleming's film should be outlawed for its sheer laziness alone.

Keanu Reeves proves a surprisingly engaging host for this documentary inquiry into the ongoing transition from celluloid to digital filmmaking.

For as socially awkward as they can be — at some points they come across as remarkably put together, all things considered, but other times their disaffection and ignorance of social norms shines blatantly through the celluloid — they are remarkably self - aware.

For anyone looking for something as real or engaging as Biggie's music — or a good introduction to it — will be disappointed by this mediocre celluloid life - after - deaFor anyone looking for something as real or engaging as Biggie's music — or a good introduction to it — will be disappointed by this mediocre celluloid life - after - deafor something as real or engaging as Biggie's music — or a good introduction to it — will be disappointed by this mediocre celluloid life - after - death.

Really, for fans of Barry Lyndon, the only thing that matters in the entire history of home video is that Criterion's presentation of the most visually stunning film ever committed to celluloid is also among the most jaw - dropping transfers ever encoded onto Blu - ray.

His long takes, tracking shots, use of natural lighting, admiration for shooting on celluloid film and blend of comedy and drama have distinguished his films as pictorially attractive and thematically inimitable.

Letterboxed at 1.83:1 and enhanced for 16x9 displays, Steamboy itself receives a disappointingly murky presentation that appears to have been transferred from celluloid, adding a generation loss — not to mention minor grain and flecking — to a film that was created digitally.

When Van Sant and writer Dustin lance Black arrived at Dan White's infamous «Twinkie Defense,» a palpable disgust for him and those who continue to speak homophobic speech and practice homophobic violence rippled through the celluloid.

Among Stephen King's earliest bestsellers, it took Carrie two years to go from page to screen, four years for Salem's Lot to become a TV movie, three years for The Shining to hit theaters, and four years apiece before The Dead Zone and Firestarter received celluloid treatments.

There's a mystery in play — a missing girl, a celluloid MacGuffin, an auto - industry conspiracy — but it's all bedrock for Gosling, the Inspector Clouseau answer to L.A. Confidential, and Crowe, a bruiser straight man who scores just as many laughs, to parade across.

While happiness seems eternally out of reach for the Phantom, this celluloid adaptation at least makes his story more accessible to those of us living off Broadway.

Romance is the prism through which identity and normalcy are redefined — a certain celluloid co-dependency that made 2002 (and 2001) the best years for film, and American film in particular, since the heyday of American cinema in the 1970s.

I have a certain respect for a moviemaker who dares to make yet another version of a novel that has already been put to celluloid many times.

Disney's approach to restoration was witchcraft in those early days of the format: Regarding celluloid as a transitory delivery system for animation, Disney archivists (somehow) managed to leach the image of film grain without harming fine detail.

But while the plot provides plenty of twists and turns, it's really just a framework for some of the most perfect comic performances put on celluloid.

The ability to study Brakhage's films frame by frame, and to read Fred Camper's superb commentary, also enhances the experience, easing the bittersweet film nostalgia for die - hard celluloid purists.

One of the high watermarks of our experience with ZombieSmash has been the «Finish Him» cam (a throwback to Mortal Kombat fatalities) where time freezes and you can bestow immeasurable pain on the last zombie of each level — all recorded in celluloid for you to seamlessly email to your friends, send to facebook or save them to your phone without leaving the game.

The picture might be the most overt iteration of film noir as a genre about emasculation ever put to celluloid, and trying to puzzle out whether Waldo's for real and chief gumshoe McPherson (Andrews) buys any of his honeyed hooey constitutes a good portion of what's fun and maddening in equal measure about it.

And with a bank account overflowing with money from unknown, possibly illicit, sources, Wiseau's ignorance of the filmmaking process proves to be less a barrier than an opportunity for an equipment rental company to sell him a package deal, including a staff of filmmaking professionals less interested in making Wiseau's vision come to celluloid life than collecting a regular paycheck.

I look up to Paul Thomas Anderson and Christopher Nolan for staying with celluloid, because that's what made this medium alive, and we are in danger of losing it.

Determined to make a documentary of Chiyoku's life, Genya brings her an old brass key that serves as a catalyst for a flood of memories that drown the both of them in a deluge of recollections celluloid and otherwise.

For once, Tarantino doesn't allude left and right to other movies, but instead makes celluloid itself a literal part of the story.

: Heaven Knows What played extremely well with the IONCINEMA team — our Jordan M. Smith called the film an «open - hearted, rawly bellicose realization of addiction has only been graced on celluloid but a handful of times, making the Safdie's film a new exemplar of narcotic cinema for the ages,» the directing team plus regular contributor Bronstein are undoubtedly at the top of their game early into their filmography.

Kevin Hart brings his own yappy style of humour and perfectly matches the Rock; they are undoubtedly the odd couple of the noughties and it doesn't take a genius to figure out that while this this may only be the second celluloid pairing for the two of them, it sure won't be the last... #listentothesoundofthedollarsrollingin!

As ever, it's odd that Nolan should be such a fervent champion for shooting on celluloid when so many of his images are monotonous and filmed in a color and lighting range that's more typical of digital.

Back for a ninth edition Sheffield's genre festival, Celluloid Screams has opened the Lament Configuration in the prestigious Tanz Dance Academy...

I previously ran the film blog Celluloid And Cigarette Burns along with writing for Unleash The Fanboy and have been a contributing editor for Forces of Geek.

She and writing partner Hannah Johnston are currently collaborating on two projects: co-editing an anthology forthcoming in 2010 from Macfarland Publishing (Bloodlust and Dust: Essays on HBO's Carnivale), and co-writing a book for I. B. Tauris (The Celluloid Bough: Cinema in the Wake of the Occult Revival).

So complete is Crowe's self - deception in regards to the validity of his celluloid mélange that the closing credits proclaim, «Written for the screen and adapted by Cameron Crowe.»

Christopher Nolan and Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip), representing the blockbuster and indie sides of the film industry, sit down for a 90 - minute chat about celluloid and their preference for using the physical medium over the digital format.

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