Sentences with phrase «framing device in»

Recapturing the Scenic Wilds investigates natural history as a framing device in contemporary art, raising questions about the capture, collection and display of nature.

As for the series» nonsense framing device in general, and Desmond in specific, the less said, the better.

Developers Techland use this framing device in a couple of cool ways.

In the 1986 original, which was called The Hyrule Fantasy: Legend of Zelda in Japan, Zelda serves as a framing device in the grand pattern of the «rescue the princess» trope.

As related in a framing device in which Chan looks back on his life, his uncompromising artistic integrity and the defiantly political nature of his work derailed his career, and most of his later efforts went unpublished.

Luhrmann and Pearce take liberties with Fitzgerald's text, moving characters and settings around freely, even introducing a framing device in a sanitarium.

Players are introduced to VR «s world via a framing device in which a history teacher is discussing the «Liberation War» of a hundred years earlier and the «five traitors» who started it, winding up executed by the government for their troubles.

A delightful framing device in which garishly illustrated panels from the mag burst into life sets the macabre tone for this exercise in fun and reverential horror.

He keeps returning to the present - day, less - than - inspired framing device in which an old woman, dying in a New Orleans hospital as Hurricane Katrina approaches, listens to her daughter (Julia Ormond) read Benjamin's journals.

My list would be incomplete without this self - proclaimed Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure, which possesses arguably one of the most successful framing devices in contemporary literature.

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She says that while it's easy to rely on your technology devices to tell you where and when you should be somewhere, it's up to you to be mindful of arriving on time, prepared and in the right frame of mind.

Uber released a video in Asian markets that seeks to disprove myths about female drivers there, and Facebook has designed IWD - themed cards, photo frames, and backgrounds to adorn text posts by users on mobile devices.

VSP Global, the vision services giant, announced Thursday that it's launching a new «smart glass» product called Level which can track steps, calories burned, distance, and total activity time through a device located in the left temple of the frame.

The Halo device that will be on all F1 cars in 2018 is not a good - looking piece of kit, with fans comparing it to a flip - flop, basketball hoop or a Zimmer frame.

Rather than juxtaposing two different lens strengths in a single frame, Peyghambarian's device has special lenses that switch from close - to long - range viewing at the touch of a button.

But collaborative rendering lets the mobile device generate a rough sketch of each frame, or a few high - detail sketches of select frames, while the remote server fills in the gaps.

Additionally, the valve's self - expanding frame enables physicians to deliver the device in a controlled manner, allowing for accurate placement.

A team of biomedical engineers at Washington University in St. Louis, led by Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has developed the world's fastest receive - only 2 - D camera, a device that can capture events up to 100 billion frames per second.

Back in the good old days of 2007, when dinosaurs walked the Earth, nobody had really heard about eBooks, less still grasped how popular they'd become, allowing old books a new lease of life; and how devices capable of holding entire libraries in their diminutive frames, and still capable of being used as — of all things, telephones — would be ubiquitous.

Virtual Reality technology on the market today is continually increasing things like frame rates and screen resolutions in a constant quest to make their devices even more lifelike.

With that in mind, I created a set of «devices» designed to reduce friction and maximize work output over a 15 - minute time frame.

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Prior to determining in order to connect with each other you can even select to having a time frame on the internet first with speaking through mobile phone devices and webcams.

Yes, he constructs various shots as paintings in a frame, but he does so with such a stylish, subtle touch the device never feels forced, and works on an almost subliminal level to enhance the richness of the film's scope.

Consider the Greek tragedy framing device of Mighty Aphrodite, the trip to Hell in Deconstructing Harry or the musical sequences of Everyone Says I Love You (which features a brave Julia Roberts churning out a song in a voice only a mother could appreciate).

Then, in an obvious gimmick, he couches his weak story inside the framing device of a faux - documentary.

In an unnecessary and unenlightening framing device, Berge speaks directly to the late Saint Laurent as the couple's extensive art collection is being boxed up for auction.

In the aforementioned framing device, Ben Whishaw, playing a far too soft and obsequious Melville, shows up at the inn of pickled, traumatized Thomas Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson, typecast) one dark and stormy night seeking raw material from the former Essex cabin boy for his upcoming novel about whalers.

Ironically, the flat effigies of Mickey and co. that decorate the pop - up books in a framing device have more charm than the moving 3 - D counterparts do.

Taking over for Davis Guggenheim, the directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk largely abandon the framing device of Gore's lecture (which he and his international team of trainees continue to give regularly) in favor of a nimbler, more on - the - go approach.

Scheherazade, as in the folk tales, is both character and framing device, doomed to tell stories for a thousand and one nights in order to postpone her execution at the hands of her husband the king.

For some reason, the V / H / S series persists in using a framing device that is, on its own, one of its shorts.

In the movie's inspired framing device, music - hall phenomenon Dan Leno (Douglas Booth), Lizzie's mentor and best friend, stages his own re-creation of her trial with upsetting results.

Structure-wise, Leitch uses a debriefing between Lorraine and her senior Eric Gray (Toby Jones)-- together with extraneous Chief C (James Faulkner) and CIA representative Emmett Kurzfeld (John Goodman)-- as the framing device to tell the story in flashbacks.

It seems like Depp was never told «no» to any of his ideas, and the film has to indulge the actor's notion that audiences wouldn't be able to get enough of his character, so we're also forced to endure him in the useless framing device.

In fact, the script is kind of clunky — there's even a bit where Tarantino starts narrating his own screenplay, not as an essential framing device but because he apparently loves the sounds of his own voice.

Using the character's written confession (in a location far from his beloved farm) as a framing device robs the story of any real suspense and, worse, fails to enrich the events on screen with emotional or moral substance.

But Chris Evans will return, even if it's in a Binary Augmented Retro - Framing (B.A.R.F) device.

A trite framing device, in which the travails of these people are cross-cut with the progress of the Voyager satellite through space, seems to suggest that their interactions are emblematic of present day human society in general.

In key scenes (Sahmi's meeting with the General, the montage sequence showing Houshang's attempts to raise money using repetitive framing devices, and several of Parviz's key scenes, which often function like dramatic monologues) the performances appear often to be slightly stylized and theatrical, offering, I believe, a degree of distanciation (in the Brechtian sense), somewhat in the manner of, say, Rainer Werner FassbindeIn key scenes (Sahmi's meeting with the General, the montage sequence showing Houshang's attempts to raise money using repetitive framing devices, and several of Parviz's key scenes, which often function like dramatic monologues) the performances appear often to be slightly stylized and theatrical, offering, I believe, a degree of distanciation (in the Brechtian sense), somewhat in the manner of, say, Rainer Werner Fassbindein the Brechtian sense), somewhat in the manner of, say, Rainer Werner Fassbindein the manner of, say, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

For the new film, Osborne («Kung Fu Panda») and screenwriters Irena Brignull («The Boxtrolls») and Bob Persichetti have taken the generally more effective tack of nesting Saint - Exupery's story within an elaborate framing device set in the kind of modular modern metropolis prophesied by Jacques Tati's «Playtime,» full of technology and free of wonder.

After seeing the packed narratives within narratives of part one, Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One seems, as Miguel Gomes himself suggested, a very different film, connected to the first by the framing device, theme and some of the performers (assuming different roles in the new installment) rather than through narrative continuation.

Morris departs from his head - on camera, an interrogatory framing device for which he is so well known, and instead frequently appears in shot opposite his subjects.

I can't keep them straight, honestly, though I do believe the framing device of little Liv and little Emma making a time - capsule pact was in Divine Secrets of the Ya - Ya Sisterhood and, er... Practical Magic?

It reminds me of routine wartime musicals — not special efforts like The Gang's All Here or Cabin in the Sky or Girl Crazy or The Sky's the Limit, but those wholly forgettable Betty Grable and Alice Faye vehicles, top - heavy with running gags, dopey character actors, corny subplots, and sentimental framing devices.

All good questions, and a tighter, punchier treatment with less reliance on flashy style — Haynes frames Mildred through mirrors and windows, a device that gets old quickly — might have resulted in a more satisfying entertainment.

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 loginess commences with a framing device that finds Depp's elderly Tonto as «The Noble Savage» in a circus - tent exhibit in 1930s San Francisco, relaying the story of his life to a little boy who fancies himself a masked bandit.

A staunch believer in the power of storytelling, Howard this time surprisingly foregoes establishing memorable characters — don't expect any Niki Lauda «s or John Nash «s here — in order to make room for a familiar but powerful framing device involving Brendan Gleeson's aged Tom Nickerson, the last living survivor of that crew.

In fact, it wasn't until tonight, when I was organizing some notes, that it occurred to me that all three Africa films use a similar framing device.