Miyazaki's input, combined with director Morita's ambitious storyboard work, helped shape The Cat Returns into its final
form as a feature film.
Not exact matches
As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative
feature films, five documentary
films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short
form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.
In this modern era, the Coen Brothers are often credited
as the life support system for classic noir, but the Coens appear to have serious competition in the
form of Australian filmmaker and stuntman Nash Edgerton, whose
feature debut, The Square, is a brilliantly twisty, gritty contemporary
film noir.
As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative
feature films, five documentary
films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short
form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.
The nominations covered 31 separate categories of
feature film, short -
form and television work,
as well
as individual achievements in character animation, design, effects, music, storyboarding, writing, voice acting and more.
Based on Patrick Jean's spectacular short
film Pixels sees aliens invade Earth in the
form of classic»80s arcade characters after mistaking a video feed
featuring footage of Pac - Man, Donkey Kong and Space Invaders
as a declaration of war.
A five - minute featurette called «Greetings From Bull Mountain» is the standard five - minute B - roll / soft - sell interview errata that
features a few additional male buttock shots; «King of the Mountain» is a two - minute music video that splices action sequences from the
film together with bloopers and sets it to music (something resurrected in
feature - length
form by this year's ESPN's X-movie); and nine chapter - encoded deleted scenes (blissfully sans commentary and running between fifteen seconds and a minute, each) are essentially long «comedy» shticks that prove for
as bad
as Out Cold was, it could have been even worse.
Plugged
as Disney's final traditionally animated
feature film (according to imdb.com), the movie symbolizes an end to the studio's original
form of drawing that began with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937.
The Natalie Portman - starring western Jane Got a Gun (a by - now infamously troubled production), finally set to premier at the end of January,
features Portman
as one of two or three women in the entire
film; contrast that with indie drama About Ray and the hotly contested remake of the Ivan Reitman classic Ghost Busters, a production attempting to further distinguish itself by pushing the words together to
form Ghostbusters — how crafty.
As discussed above, the second disc of this limited set, the DVD, contains only the
feature film itself, both in the traditional sense and in digital copy
form.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: ANIMATION «Kubo and the Two Strings» — Laika's most daring, innovative
film yet «My Life
as a Zucchini» — About little kids but not for little kids; a bold, 70 - minute
feature from Switzerland «Sing» — Delightful and triumphant, with terrific voice performances and song renditions «Trolls» — I can't stop the positive feelings I've had about this DreamWorks musical since I saw it 3 months ago «Zootopia» — Disney's live - action crime drama / social commentary disguised in animated
form has one of the year's best screenplays
As with yesterday's post, here again we have a short -
form work that was eventually expanded on and turned into a
feature - length
film by the director of the original.
«Big Hero 6 The Series,» based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios» Academy Award ® - winning
feature film, continues the adventures and friendship of 14 - year - old tech genius Hiro, his compassionate, cutting - edge robot Baymax and their friends Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Go Go and Fred
as they
form the legendary superhero team Big Hero 6 and embark on high - tech adventures
as they protect their city from an array of scientifically enhanced villains.
I am sure I am not alone in that I spend far more time watching abstract
films and short experimental videos than I do watching
feature films; in part because I make experimental
films, and in part because, to my mind, the most risk - taking visual artists don't necessarily work in
feature films; but instead work in video art and experimental filmmaking and newly emerging filmic art
forms, such
as gifs.
Priest - Perhaps post-apocalyptic vampire - killing priests made sense in graphic novel
form, but it's pretty wretched
as a
feature film.
The story of a little six year old girl who lives at a run - down motel with her on - the - brink mother in the shadow of Disney World in Orlando, Florida, The Florida Project
features one of the most incredible child performances I've ever seen from Brooklynn Prince,
as well
as a fantastic debut role from non-actress Bria Vinaite
as the mother / daughter pair that
form the
film's heart.
A Bigger Splash is directed with a fetishistic eye for the human
form and exotic locales by Luca Guadagnino, following up after six long years from his highly regarded 2009
film, I Am Love (which also
features Swinton,
as does his 1999 debut
feature, The Protagonists).
Slow West, John Maclean's first
feature length
film as writer and director, is a perfectly
formed gem of a movie.
But
as much
as the Oscar Shorts are an indication of those who will become important names in the world of
feature films, they are also a testament to the power of the short
form.
Varda has experimented with all
forms of filmmaking from shorts to documentaries to narrative
feature films during her more than 60 - year career, including such works
as the New Wave classic Cleo from 5 to 7, and Le Bonheur.
In addition to its focus on the tactility of
film, his work is infused with the influences of other art
forms, including painting, which he studied in college, and music, which
features prominently in his collaborations with celebrated composers such
as John Adams, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and Steve Reich.
It's easy to look at a movie like «Draft Day»
as a cynical attempt to promote the upcoming NFL draft in the
form of a
feature - length
film, and to be honest, we wouldn't argue.
However, the most accurate precedents for «Happy - Go - Lucky» date farther back still: the
film is not so much a new direction for Leigh
as a throwback to the gentle character - oriented comedy and wispy, free -
form narrative of his breakthrough
features «High Hopes» and «Life is Sweet.»
These letters
form the basis of «Trumbo,» a documentary about the writer's life based on the play «Trumbo» by his son Christopher and
featuring powerful staged readings of the letters by such performers
as Brian Dennehy, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Liam Neeson, David Strathairn, and Michael Douglas — whose father, Kirk, interviewed in the
film, helped break the blacklist in 1960 by insisting that Trumbo be credited
as the screenwriter for «Spartacus.»
The
film places an emphasis on blood over flesh when it comes to Jennifer (and Needy
as well, in a childhood flashback of the girls
featuring either a kissing - a-cut-to-make-it-better or
forming - a-blood-bond-via-quick-blood-sucking you'll - have - to - decide move by Needy on Jennifer's cut palm which may or may not
form a psychic connection between the girls, you'll have to decide on that, too), which in turn draws one away from demonic connections towards vampiric ones, which sets Cody against Whedon; a battle Cody can't really hope to win.
When racial minorities do
feature in such
films, it's either
as token characters whose ethnicity is never meaningfully commented upon (Lando Calrissian being the classic example) or in the
form of analogies that themselves reek of racism (like the insect - like, ghettoized aliens in District 9, or the orcs in Netflix's Bright that inexplicably invoke Latinx and black stereotypes, even though those races also exist within the world of the
film).
This material — available in
film form or
as a varnish for coatings —
features unmatched optical and mechanical properties, including 90 - percent optical transparency and 2H surface hardness.
An interesting origin point to keep in mind when considering the way cross-media interactions are affecting comics is that the Electricomics project actually spins out of an idea that Alan Moore had in making his
film series with Mitch Jenkins, Show Pieces, and the same idea is a
feature that may yet find its way into a TV or
film version of this universe
as it progresses toward a longer
form that will be called The Show.
This
feature aims to answer two questions: can videogames be considered an art
form, in the same vein
as a
film, or a piece of music, or even a painting?
Performa: New Visual Art Performance presents an authoritative introduction to the genre, many
forms including radio broadcast, dance, live installation, new technologies,
film and video, music, historic reconstructions and lecture -
as - performance, and provides a vivid tour through the world of contemporary performance,
featuring inventive documentation of works by some of the most significant artists of our time, including Jesper Just, Francis Alys, Christian Marclay, Laurie Simmons, Tamy Ben - Tor, Melik Ohanian, Michael Smith, Christian Holstad, and Gelitin.
The artist's 2009
film Evaders
features the mighty Pyrenees, which
formed the mute backdrop to philosopher Walter Benjamin's escape from the Nazis (his flight ended with his suicide in 1940, having been refused entry at the Spanish border),
as well
as the blurred view from the train to Auschwitz.
Featuring scholarship by museum director and curator Helen Hirsch, this modest, concise publication includes intimate details and color reproductions of Dzama's meticulously composed imaginings, which take the
form of drawings, sculptures, collages, installations, and a
film — Une danse des bouffons (or A jester's dance)-- which made its European debut
as part of the exhibition.
Encompassing prints, drawings,
films, books, photographs, sculptures, videos, and comic strips, the exhibition
features such artists
as Vija Celmins, David Hammons, George Herriman, Robert Rauschenberg, Martha Rosler, and many others,
forming a dense network of formal, technical, and conceptual connections and intersections.
Indeed, EMIT can feel like a fully -
formed marketing push toward the inevitable
feature film, exhibiting costumes, plush dolls, action figures, drawings resembling concept and storyboard sketches,
as well
as a video piece that serves like a movie trailer.
The series began
as a poetic interpretation of the science fiction world in Tsang's forthcoming
feature film «A day in the life of bliss» — and has since evolved into its own
form.
Rose Wylie makes large - scale paintings and drawings that
feature familiar
forms drawn from sources
as varied
as Egyptian painting, sports and
film stars.
Sunday afternoons will show artists» long -
form works and prizewinning
feature films by artists such
as Clio Barnard, Tacita Dean, Mark Leckey, Malcolm Le Grice, The Otolith Group, Ben Rivers and the influential television work of Adam Curtis.