Sentences with phrase «from early cinema»

Steffani Jemison's videos comprise tropes appropriated from early cinema, drawn out to stage and suspend empathy with the subject.

The exhibition unpicks this encyclopaedia of references — from early cinema to black cultural history to jazz.

Khaisman is known for his «Tape Noir» projects where portraits of famous Hollywood actors from early cinema — James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Humphrey Bogart were created using utilitarian brown packing tape attached to a backlit acrylic screen.

Not exact matches

For example, Nora Dashwood, COO of the company's ArcLight Cinemas division, once learned from a theater assistant manager in his early twenties that «he could feel the air in the room go cold» around Dashwood whenever a problem arose.

A kind of low - level trickster god of indie cinema himself, Waititi lets his film go a little crazy: He's outfitted it with garish colors and costumes and set designs, some not - entirely - perfect special effects, and a synthesized Mark Mothersbaugh score that sounds like it was lifted from an early period Jean - Claude Van Damme flick.

Iron Fist was created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane in the early 70s and they've discussed how they got their idea for the character from Asian cinema.

Since the earliest days of the cinema, filmmakers have tackled biographical subjects, so there's a wealth of both positive and negative examples to choose from.

But in his new introduction, his observations about slow cinema from Tarkovsky to Kiarostami to Tarr are every bit as compelling as his earlier insights into film noir.»

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

Those distortions are given a life of their own with his digital tools and even become cinematic devices of their own, morphing from one image to another as if released by the ghosts of early cinema.

Boasting a bigger cast with a slew of newcomers who will supposedly be pivotal in the franchise's future, the upcoming comic book flick teases a crazy good time at the cinema, and based on the early reviews from the critics, it appears to fulfill its promises.

The third collection of the brilliant «Treasures From American Film Archives,» which showcases 48 rarities made between the years 1900 to 1934, is loosely organized around themes of social issues and engagement and reveals a side of early cinema forgotten in the popularity of the comedy legends and silent screen heartthrobs.

More than just a collection of thematic tropes, noir is also among the cinema's most distinctive visual forms, although its hallmarks have been cribbed to some degree from the austere lighting and canted camera angles of German Expressionism and other movements of the early eastern - European cinema.

Man With a Movie Camera Year: 1929 Director: Dziga Vertov Some groundbreaking movies from cinema's earliest days now seem merely quaint, their innovations fully absorbed into the DNA of modern filmmaking.

The film is full of both marked and unmarked point of view shots, allowing us to both get a sense of the subjective view of certain characters as well as allowing us to view the scene through a camera freed from some of the imposed restraints of restricted movement that are characteristic of early sound filmmaking and classical Hollywood cinema generally.

Hugo shows Scorsese's reverence for filmmaking, but far from just being a history lesson, he uses the latest techniques to delight in the magic of early cinema.

The Last Dog's debut of # 252,000 from 279 cinemas (and # 276,000 including previews) compares unfavourably with the opening salvo for Vega's own Women of Mafia back in early March (# 552,000 and # 571,000 including previews).

From his early films Benny's Video (1992) and 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) to his Palm D'Or and Academy Award winning Amour (2012), he has used cinema to paint a portrait of humankind alienated in modern society, lacking in compassion at best and utterly amoral at worst.

In his output from early in that decade, with its elements of fatalism and compositional sophistication, one can see the seeds of the poetic realist tendency in French cinema, a style whose popularization Duvivier would have a fundamental hand in a few years later (along with the likes of Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Jean Renoir, all of whose work has come to overshadow Duvivier's).

Paddington 2 is in UK cinemas from Friday 10th November and out in the US early next year.

Barton Fink (1991), the Coen brothers» fourth feature, represents a departure from their earlier excavations of classical American genre cinema,...

So they are both co-productions from the period just before the revived Australian cinema took off in the early to mid»70s.

Barton Fink (1991), the Coen brothers» fourth feature, represents a departure from their earlier excavations of classical American genre cinema, Blood Simple.

Lovelace charts Boreman's rise and ultimate fall, from her early meetings with eventual husband Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard), to her lusty dive into the world of X-rated cinema with Deep Throat and the problems that followed.

After celebrating Christmas with one of cinema's bleakest — and funniest — depictions of religion, MUBI prepares to ring in the new year with a look back at some of the earlier works of the best modern and upcoming filmmakers, from Yorgos Lanthimos to (coming soon) The Safdie Brothers.

The first (and probably the best) horror film from master Mario Bava works as both an homage to the Universal monster classics and an early harbinger of the graphic violence that would eventually become a large part of Italian horror cinema.

While its cast, from its talented young leads to a never - better Ben Kingsley as Méliès, was regrettably snubbed, the film vied for Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay honors and likely wound up the runner - up in the first two of those categories to The Artist, a kindred French production which took its love for early cinema in a drastically different direction (full - on emulation) to nonetheless comparably delightful results.

He received his M.A. in Native American Studies, focusing on Native American exploitation in early cinema and his B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma.

She was even thrown into a film that felt like it was ripped from cinema screens sixty years earlier — the musical dramedy Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, where she plays a scatterbrained American actress attempting to break into the business, as well as navigate relationships with three very different men.

The film has that dated look of»70s and early»80s cinema, but the clean and detailed element suffers from nothing worse than some infrequent light grain and barely perceptible print imperfections.

«Early Man» is the new comedy adventure from Academy Award winning makers of «Shaun the Sheep» and «Wallace and Gromit», and to celebrate its release in cinemas March 29, we've got five double in - season passes to giveaway!

In short, it's kind of a 3D cinema where you watch a recording of a select number of songs from the Game Symphony Japan 23rd concert, which took place earlier this year.

Hannah is a painter whose recurring subjects are drawn from early to mid-century cinema and literature.

Featuring his multimedia, cinematic installations, with playful animation and tricksy, theatrical filming evocative of early cinema, Kentridge's work tackles themes ranging from revolution and colonialism to loneliness and comic tragedy.

This exhibition follows the artists from their early video installations and websites to later large - scale sculptural work and feature - length films, screened daily in a gallery cinema.

True North's counterpart, Fantôme Afrique, weaves cinematic and architectural references through the rich imagery of urban Ouagadougou, the centre for cinema in Africa, and the arid spaces of rural Burkina Faso, and is punctuated by archival footage from early colonial expeditions and landmark moments in African history.

It was an early announcement from Steve that he was going into cinema and with great success — he won an Oscar.

The background inspiration for these works range from Taaffe's love of classic Japanese cinema to the earliest temples of the Asuka.

It will be presented by 25 high - contrast black and white photographs, which are from editorial images of the 90's for VOGUE, HARPER»S BAZAAR, INTERVIEW and many other international magazines, to his personal work inspired by modern dance, landscapes, early German and East European cinema and photography.

In conjunction with Tokyo 1955 — 1970: A New Avant - Garde, MoMA presents a 40 - film retrospective of the Art Theatre Guild, the independent film company that radically transformed Japanese cinema by producing and distributing avant - garde and experimental works from the 1960s until the early 1980s.

Lit from below, the mask with its grotesque and exaggerated expression has a menacing gaze reminiscent of early horror and expressionist cinema.

Anri Sala has never turned back from his early training in cinema.

One of her earliest pieces, My Boyfriend came back from the War (1996), played with these notions, broaching the borders of cinema and that of the webpage.

Works included in the exhibition range from film posters painted by Peter Doig for his weekly film club in Trinidad, a video projection, Ligne de Foi, 1991, by James Coleman, Polaroid photographs by film director Andrey Tarkovsky, which were selected by Dominique Gonzalez - Foerster for their poetic representation of landscape, photographs presenting an example of early self - cinema by Victorian photographer Lady Clementina Hawarden and the screening of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's iconic The Red Shoes, 1948.

This important moment in the history of the museum marked a defining shift towards a view of contemporary art that locates it within the broader landscape of contemporary visual culture — a direct reflection of the growing importance, from the early 1990s onwards, of film and cinema in contemporary art production, as well as the convergence of film and visual art as once - distinct media.

From an early age he was interested in art, cinema, and theatre.

Her series of works on paper The Russian Ending 2001 borrows its title from the early Danish cinema tradition of making two alternate endings for a film: one happy for the American market and one tragic for the Russian market.

What was odd about this scene was that these special guests turning up in the limo had, just 20 minutes earlier, walked away from the front door of the cinema to a bar about 150 metres away, to then be driven back to the place they had just come from for their apparent grand arrival in a stretch Hummer.

An example of this comes with a report from the Telegraph that says cinema staff in the UK will use military - grade night vision headsets to combat piracy during the UK's early run of the new Bond romp Spectre.

This, together with evidence from other studies that «brand awareness» has strong relationships with cinema - going, internet use, chat room visits, listening to music and TV - watching among early adolescents, 13 and that smoking is associated with fashion - consciousness, particularly among young women, 32 suggests that image and identity may be important mechanisms linking consumerism with these two aspects of adolescent substance use.