Not exact matches
As the
film progresses and the ball starts moving away
from its center position
of the image because
of poor camera work, the algorithm can essentially rotate each key
frame so that the ball magically appears in the same spot in every
frame.
In France, Henri Bergson noted that reality is a dynamic flux, like a cinema,
from which abstractions, like single
frames of the
film, are made; for intelligibility the abstractions must be referred back to the élan vital
from which they were originally drawn; intuition is more perceptive
of reality than abstractions.
Another time sink Kowash helped alleviate was reading the size
of the shockwave
from frame to
frame, something that could take days to complete manually for each
film.
Personal or Handmade Touches - Handmade invitations (made by ourselves)- Handmade place settings (made by ourselves)- Handmade Guest Book (drop
frame — guests signed a wooden heart, and dropped them into a
frame)(made by ourselves)-
Framed pictures for table names (made by ourselves, and named after cars
from Harry's favourite
film)- Personalised cake topper and cupcake decoration (cake topper
from Ebay, and cake made by my Aunt)- Handmade bridesmaid's posies (made by my mum)- Personalised and hand painted wedding shoes (for Bride)(done by Beautiful Moments)- Personalised champagne glasses for Bride and Groom to use for toast (bought as a present by my sister and her family)- Ushers were bought cufflinks to wear that reflected their personal interests - Bridesmaids were given personalised flat shoes to wear in the evening (personalised by me)- Handmade bridesmaids dresses - Flowers and buttonholes, and bouquet all made unique, with my bouquet including charms with pictures
of my grandfathers on them.
There's little doubt, too, that the
film's hands - off vibe is perpetuated by Abdalla's sleepy, far -
from - charismatic turn as the one - note central character, and it's clear that The Narrow
Frame of Midnight's few moments
of electricity are thanks entirely to Choutri's captivating, Vincent Cassel - like performance.
Clooney's presence and the little bits
of English are the only things that set Corbijn's
film apart
from the clear influences
of Italian masters like Fellini and Antonioni in just about every
frame.
The ironic distance derived
from the
film's
framing device and fourth wall — breaking helps emphasizes the drab ordinariness and the utter acceptability
of such cruelty.
This is «Arrival» without any hint
of Amy Adams optimism, something Alex Garland's
film smothers,
from first
frame to last.
For an additional preview look at how all the
films have been newly tweaked for this Blu - ray release, including aspect ratio
framing, color corrections, soundtrack enhancement and the replacement
of the «Muppet Yoda» with an all - CGI version in the Phantom Menace, check out the report
from Slash Film.
After the painfully one - sided sexual adventure
of the first
film, in which she met Christian and was brutally exposed to his odd habits, and after Christian's even nastier control - freakishness in the ill - conceived «50 Shades Darker,» Ana is at last able to demand to hold the reins
from time to time — a narrative turn that manages to
frame their marriage as an empowering structure for women: now enclosed in the gilded cage
of their union, Ana can pull on the rope that Christian had tied around her neck.
Cinematographer Ryan Samul (2014's «Cold in July») holds a shot for maximum dread, whether it's on the smiley face spray - painted on a mailbox or the swing
of a swing set, but also pleasingly employs technical flourishes, like zooms, that help differentiate it
from the jittery style and often subtle
framing in Bryan Bertino's original
film.
As most
of the
films in the set were sourced
from older flat video masters, quite a rhubarb was raised over WHV's justifying the lackluster transfers with the contention that full -
frame transfers were Stanley Kubrick's preference.
The second bit
of censorship was to fix another animator prank: In the original cut, when Jessica Rabbit is thrown
from Benny the Cab late in the
film, she spins through the air and flashes her Barbie Doll pubes for a couple
of frames.
This sense
of dread stems partly
from our assumption that something bad is always bound to happen in a Haneke
film (Georges and Anne are favorite character names
of his), but more because we know that sooner or later, whether it happens within the time
frame of the
film or not, there's only one way that a story
of two very old people in poor health can end: these people are going to die.
William Girdler was able to make a good horror
film with Day
of the Animals, though the acting suffers, the plot is what keeps you involved
from the first
frame onwards.
Anderson likes to
frame his
films as tall tales, placing viewers at a gentle remove
from reality to a plane
of existence more fantastic and charmed than our own.
Containing everything
from mundane minutiae to sublime epiphany (the Zissou - type moment with the wolf at the end), it's a
film where tender care and the joy
of creation shows in every
frame.
The elegiac use
of the
film's title, then, can inadvertently be the game administered as a test as concerns this portrayal
of Turing — by the final
frames, we have a mere gasp
of understanding what his life was like, a rough, nobly hewn composite
from a perspective either too ignorant or too uneasy to deal with the realities
of those historically treated as sexual criminals.
Presented in widescreen and fullscreen on the same side
of a dual - layer DVD, the
film's image lacks depth here — there's a muted, Seventies quality to Barry Stone's cinematography that no doubt looked smashing on the big screen and probably would've been marginally improved at home by dispensing with the fullscreen version (thus lessening the compromise
of compression), which lops a significant amount
of visual information
from the right side
of the
frame (while restoring a negligible amount to the bottom — in one shot literally a pinkie toe).
His use
of perspective throughout is done to perfection and during its Iraq sequences, which are constantly referred to and visible right up until the emotional ending, the higher
frame rate only enhances the realism — almost to the point
of you looking away
from the screen as one
of the
film's most pivotal moments plays out.
The
film's premise is similarly revenge - fueled, as Bullock will enlist the aid
of Blanchett, Kaling, Bonham Carter's character to «steal a necklace
from the Met Ball in order to
frame a villainous gallery owner.»
In almost every
frame, the
film announces its project
of portraying a family pushed to the brink
of collapse — and, more specifically, a father who's taken on the impossible task
of protecting his children
from the unknown.
Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner
of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek
Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages
of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop
of their will - they, won't - they relationship
from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns
of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means
of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the
film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind
of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously
framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family
of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode
of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.
While the
film does not suffer
from the major
framing problems seen on Blackbeard's Ghost, some shots do seem to be poorly -
framed, particularly in wide shots when a fourth monkey's face isn't entirely in the
frame or the shot
of the town festival sign which loses one or two letters on each end.
As such, you're not missing an abundance
of visual information, and it is certainly not as noticeable and problematic as on Blackbeard, but as such this otherwise pleasant video transfer suffers
from the fact that Disney couldn't release the
film, displayed in the ratio that it was
framed for and intended to be seen in.
The appeal
of the
film is manifold - its serenity as The American meticulously goes about his craft; the paucity
of dialogue that heightens its few action sequences when they do occur; a superb ensemble
of actors led by Clooney that also includes Violante Placido (Clara), Thekla Reuten (assassin), Johan Leysen (controller), and Paolo Bonacelli (as a local town priest); the artistic
framing of the
film by director Anton Corbijn both in its interiors and the long shots
of the Italian settings; and simply the story's uncertainty that grips one
from its very beginning.
Writer / director Jeff Nichols («Mud», «Midnight Special») hasn't made one
of the worst
films of the year, but he has made, arguably, the dullest —
from the first
frame to the last.
In what turned out to be one
of the highlights at this year's CinemaCon was the stunning, 10 minute footage
from Peter Jackson's new movie, the epic 3D
film adaptation
of Tolkien's The Hobbit (which opens December 14) that was shot at a
frame rate
of 48 per second achieving an unprecedented combination
of uniformity and brightness.
Damon has his low - key charisma and Van Sant captures the enraged anomie
of the community, but, except for one big plot twist, everything in this
film is telegraphed
from the first
frame.
The
framing device serves largely to establish who the main actors are channeling, and the juxtaposition
of the personalities with their new forms is where most
of the
film's humour is derived
from.
The actors engage in the exaggerated performance style
of silent movie melodramas and comedies and Maddin digitally «ages» his
films with scuffs and scratches and cracks and even distorted
frames as if they were
from decaying nitrate prints
from the 1920s.
In the hours surrounding teaser trailer, Trank and screenwriter Simon Kinberg talked with Collider, Empire Online and Yahoo! Movies about their
frame of mind for the
film and setting it apart
from what they see as the commodified superhero action genre.
It is possible to truly step away
from the first
film and enjoy 10 Cloverfield Lane as a separate entity, putting us in a truly fascinating and unique
frame of mind when watching this sequel.
From the start of the film, the camera constantly works from Starling's POV, shooting both Dr. Chilton (Anthony Heald) and Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) as if they're filling her frame of vision — which, of course, they
From the start
of the
film, the camera constantly works
from Starling's POV, shooting both Dr. Chilton (Anthony Heald) and Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) as if they're filling her frame of vision — which, of course, they
from Starling's POV, shooting both Dr. Chilton (Anthony Heald) and Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) as if they're filling her
frame of vision — which,
of course, they are.
Here's a little blurb on Animal Kingdom
from the Sundance
film guide: «Wielding a formidable cinematic lexicon, writer / director David Michôd shows complete command
of every
frame as he shifts between simmering intensity and gut - wrenching drama.
To say I loved The Shape
of Water really would be an understatement, the
film inspiring in me such a range
of emotions that it left me reeling by its stunning final
frame, unsure how to process exactly what I'd seen outside
of the fact that I knew
from the bottom
of my heart that I had witnessed an article
of supreme originality that I wouldn't be forgetting anytime soon.
With its ambiguous ending, Tattoo seems to evoke François Truffaut's Les quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows, 1959), the legendary French New Wave
film about another «troubled» teenager who experiences freedom only when he is in motion — whether while spinning in a rotor's drum or when running away
from the reformatory in the
film's famous concluding tracking shot that culminates in a zoom - in - on - freeze -
frame image
of his gaze addressing the camera.
As in Citizenfour, the brilliant documentary
from Laura Poitras, Stone's
film is
framed with the then -30-year-old former government employee holed up in a Hong Kong hotel room for eight days in June
of 2013.
Gone Baby Gone isn't exactly the same story, though, since Patrick already knows,
from the first words and the first
frame of the
film, that he is a product
of the choices he didn't make.
A look at our SXSW 2015 coverage, a supercut
of first and final
frames from some classic
films, and a recommendation for the Iranian vampire western A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night help make up this week's Top 5.
Snyder himself hosts an ongoing commentary - «The Ultimate Watchmen Experience» - featuring behind - the - scenes shots, a timeline covering the history
of the Watchmen universe, remarks
from the director himself and (best
of all) a side - by - side comparison between shots in the
film and
frames from the graphic novel.
Szifrón avoids a lot
of elements one expects
from anthology
films these days; no
framing device, no wraparound story, and no narrative links between segments.
This time he alludes to the art - cinema context much more directly by opening with music
from Francois Truffaut's Jules and Jim and evoking the form
of that
film with offscreen narration (delivered by Baumbach himself) recounting the story in past tense and with old - fashioned devices such as irises and wipes and French New Wave devices such as fantasy inserts, fleeting flashbacks, freeze -
frames, and jump cuts.
The
film is a beautiful piece
of art, a painting come to life, every single
frame so carefully crafted
from the makeup to the costumes to the set design, to the way the camera moves
from one room to another, and to the incredible performances.
Tom Felton, he
from the «Harry Potter» franchise, plays the the nasty villain
of the piece (naturally), James Ashford, while Tom Wilkinson also pops up as Dido's adoptive father in Lord Mansfield, and rightly owns every
frame in which he appears; but it is relative newcomer Gugu Mbatha - Raw who shines throughout as the
film's title character.
They take visual inspiration
from the
films of the late 1960s and early»70s to study their characters through telephoto lenses and the inbuilt
frames of high - rise hotels, motor lodge motels, mid-century lobbies, and vintage TVs.
In an early scene
from Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, the panning camera reveals a
framed photograph
of a young, smiling blond woman — except, the image is on negative
film, which serves as a presumable correlation for disabled protagonist Jeff's (Jimmy Stewart) outlook on women, which is tested in his gaze and projected desire
from a lofty apartment window throughout the
film.
He explains that the
film's wiggly look is a result
of hand tracing
of video shots, with the images changing slightly
from frame to
frame because
of slight variations in the artists» many renderings
of the images.
Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes
of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere
of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere
of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new
film set in small - town South Africa
from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE
OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape
from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale
of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village,
filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular
frame in the centre
of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
of the screen; the European premiere
of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale
from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait
of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN
OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study
of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mos
of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.
The screenwriters make the assumption that audiences will already have a vested interest in Bond's plight
from the very first
frame due to the events
of Casino Royale, though the shift in the tone
of this
film to emphasize brutal action and CGI - laden stunt work makes tying the two
films together a bit
of a chore.