Sentences with phrase «from filmic»

Ant - Man was another example of Marvel's slow fall from filmic grace, not a terrible movie but by no means an exciting one.

was another example of Marvel's slow fall from filmic grace, not a terrible movie but by no means an exciting one.

from a filmic perspective.

The Look of Silence is almost equally incredible, though the only thing that even slightly holds it back is that it is slightly more conventional than the Act of Killing from a filmic perspective.

Arguably, the aggregate of Nineties cinema deals with the evolution from filmic to digital reality (from 1989's sex, lies, and videotape on through to the end of the following decade's American Beauty, The Truman Show, Dark City, The Matrix, Fight Club, and The Blair Witch Project), but it's here in 2007, six years post-9 / 11, that the phrase «it's just like in the movies» gains the kind of existential dread it deserves.

From this filmic record and original interviews, Morgen weaves together his subject's fascinating life story, both public and private.

Aside from the well - noted fact that more superior long - form drama (and comedy) can be found on television than in cinemas, the two most interesting motion picture experiences I had in 2012 were in galleries: The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010), a staggering and hypnotic achievement of which I still have some of its 24 hours to catch up with, and two multi-screen installations by Candice Breitz: «Him» and «Her» in which many scenes from the films of Jack Nicholson (in Him) and Meryl Streep (in Her), isolate the actors from their filmic background leaving the actors to speak to and interrogate each other across space and time on many themes of character, identity, success, failure, anger and disappointment.

Not exact matches

And Tarantino's filmic annotations are starting to feel increasingly compartmentalized from his true aims.

I would describe the image as aggressively filmic — grain, though it fluctuates, is in abundance from the opening shot, and there is even some unapologetic neg damage from 01:34:08 to 01:34:14, as you can see from the streaks in the blown - up frame below:

First time director Eddie Mullins was a film critic for a decade prior to becoming a filmmaker, and as a result has an encyclopedic pool of filmic reference from which to pull from.

Still, while edge - enhancement is at a minimum and the colours are saturated but free of bleed, it looks like a film from 1969 — a thin patina of filmic grain preserving a sense of authenticity in the experience of watching it at home.

Black Sunday finds itself in an excellent 2.35:1 anamorphic video transfer that preserves the particular filmic quality of a seventies production, distracting often enough from the fact that the black levels are spot on and that there's a minimum of edge enhancement.

A master of filmic idiom and conflicted characterization, writer - director James Gray has long stood apart from both the mainstream and the indie demimonde of American film — a true original who is also steeped in movie history.

The colours are deep and rich with that essential filmic quality that comes from an old negative lovingly preserved; fans of My Friend Flicka are in for a treat, and there are few 1943 Technicolor films in this kind of shape on home video.

While the core story of two US Marshals in 1954 investigating the seemingly impossible disappearance of an escapee from an island based prison for the criminally insane is compelling, the film's ultimate achievement is its manipulation of perception on a filmic level.

By the time Ellison unveils the «neck boil sex» moment, Kuso has devolved into a filmic manifestation of a high school boys» diary, filled with gross, puerile wanderings of the mind that might shock the kid's mom, but just bring raised eyebrows from everyone else.

Javier Bardem takes the film's hardest role and makes it look like the easiest (he takes his character, a filmic villain only marginally different from Halloween's Michael Myers and the like, and makes him real).

This slight but crucial distinction offers another layer of complexity to the filmic Morvern; as a young woman already far from home and therefore set on a journey of reinvention.

Since the first filmic foray into wishing for lives that are not our own, everything from Freaky Friday to Dream A Little Dream and Dating The Enemy to The Hot Chick has attempted the premise, with The Change - Up the latest soul switching effort.

is a strong visual experience that left me rather cold from a narrative / emotional perspective, but I can see how it worked as a filmic experience for others.

With good choreography and marvelous performances from Harrison, Hepburn, and Holloway, «My Fair Lady» is able to join the prestigious rank of filmic musicals that are neither twee nor lugubrious.

But each is a construct to plumb reality in a considered, theoretical, and, ultimately, playful fashion, as Delson continues the filmic experimentation begun during her collaboration with Jill Godmilow on the genre - bending Far From Poland.»

Brought to us from Turkey by means of France, there might not be a movie that better typifies 2015 as the year women ruled the filmic roost than the furious polemic against the patriarchy that is Mustang.

If the movies «Hot Fuzz» imitates are mostly surface pleasures, in a sense it's appropriate for «Hot Fuzz» to mimic that directly — though Wright's film is more enjoyable than most of its filmic inspirations because it is packed with comic detail, from the editing to the sound design to the songs on the soundtrack.

His film predates social media, but it's like a lumbering filmic version of that one Facebook friend who shares random GoFundMe pages and tired old memes, lists their job as «SAG - AFTRA,» has profile pictures of bouquets of flowers with captions like «You know what they say, love is blind» (an actual quote from the film).

Jackson may not boast a sterling track record post-Return of the King, and The Hobbit may have suffered a heap of development hell, passing from Jackson to (eventual co-writer) Guillermo del Toro like a certain burdensome bauble, but shame on all who doubt the enduring, enveloping power of Jackson's Middle - earth, an immersive and comprehensive filmic world if ever there was one.

Considering how much Edgar Wright has done in the action comedy genre in his career, and the result we got from this Peyton Reed directed filmic equivalent of the color beige,

Considering how much Edgar Wright has done in the action comedy genre in his career, and the result we got from this Peyton Reed directed filmic equivalent of the color beige, Ant - Man is perhaps the most worrying example of Marvel Studios choosing homogeneity and brand building over artistic vision.

Brought to us from Turkey by means of France, there might not be a movie that better typifies 2015 as the year women ruled the filmic roost than the furious polemic against the patriarchy that is

The film was shot on an iPhone 5S using an $ 8 app called Filmic Pro and some prototype lenses from Moondog Labs, all with a very small budget.

Films like Jean - Luc Godard's Breathless, Agnes Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7, and Alain Resnais» Last Year at Marienbad frequently employ filmic techniques that place the viewer in a heady, alienated state of mind; think of the discontinuity editing employed in Breathless, the gritty cinema vérité style of Cléo, or the trance - inducing tracking shots in Marienbad.

While these parental influences assured Argento's filmic fascination from an early age, he assimilated influences from a wide range of the fantastic arts.

Using every filmic trick he ever learned from Steven Spielberg, Columbus delivers a dazzling match, with zipping and zooming bludgers and quaffles, and dipping and diving Chasers, Beaters and Keepers.

It carries an unmistakable filmic quality, with production standards set so high that it borders on being indistinguishable from cinema.

There are points - many of them - where this game is simply breathtaking, with an overall presentation that is very filmic in nature, making it stand apart from the pack.

Main image: The Walking Dead games from Telltale Games pushes filmic narrative to the fore rather than fast - paced action.

Edith Finch is a major structural evolution of what people have termed «walking simulators,» first person narrative storytelling, a hybridization of filmic story with narrative drips from static object interactions.

Arguably — and often labeled — the greatest painter of his generation, Luc Tuymans signals in every canvas the necessary limits of the medium, even the coda to its drawn - out death: his reliance on fleeting photographic and filmic imagery, his refusal to spend more than one day on a canvas, and perhaps most of all, his indifference to craft bring the Belgian artist into head - on confrontation with painting, and endow his subjects — from the untouchable (the Holocaust) to the pedestrian (flowers, pigeons)-- with an unmistakable air of violence inflicted.

... Prager takes her cues from pulp fiction and the fashion images of Guy Bourdin to construct filmic narratives starring women disguised under synthetic wigs, dramatic makeup, and retro polyester attire.

Experimental filmic collage exploring the interstices of science, technology and the supernatural from artist and writer Luke Pendrell.

Recent awards include the inaugural Mario Merz Prize (2015); the Award for Filmic Oeuvre created by Louis Vuitton and Kino der Kunst (2013); the Abraaj Capital Art Prize (2012); the Schering Foundation Art Award (2011), as well as The International Commissioning Grant and an award from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, in 2005.

Rosa Barba's film Outwardly from Earths Center (2007) merges the filmic genres of documentary and science fiction to create an ambiguous journey to Gotska Sandön, an island off the coast of Sweden in the Baltic Sea.

Pointing to Robinson's figurative paintings of romantic scenes, he says, «They're somewhat filmic; they almost appear like stills from a romance movie.»

Experiencing this piece under new conditions, notably, without viewing the work as originally conceived as a filmic audience — from a specific set time, beginning to end — contributes to the shift in emphasis of the work as a cinematic deconstruction to a phenomenological experience.

Straub (b. 1933) and Huillet (1936 — 2006) were partners working intimately from the early 1960s until Huillet's death, continually pursuing a writing and filmic practice dedicated to profoundly interpreting the art, literature, and institutions of Western culture.

This pack of tarot cards draws from Dawood's film A Mystery Play where filmic sequences were based on the tradition and pastime of Tarot and the degrees of initiation that are rooted in the practice of Free Masonry, inextricably linked to legendary British occultist Aleister Crowley.

Internationally acclaimed artist Doug Aitken's latest filmic piece Station to Station takes viewers on a journey from New York to San Francisco in 10 stops, over 24 days.

Works in the Whitechapel Gallery display Terrains of the Body, drawn from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., show that images of the body by contemporary artists are increasingly performative, filmic and incisive in their ability to tell compelling stories.

The 700 - piece retrospective, up from the 22nd of this month through April 26, will place Burton's playful artwork alongside storyboards, props, and costumes from grim fantasies such as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Sweeney Todd — which, Magliozzi hopes, will give viewers a more nuanced perception of the director's filmic vision.

His gallerist suggests that this concern for packaged, visual narrative comes both from Arunanondchai's ongoing fascination with filmic narrative as well as his appreciation for similar environments by other artists, including especially Mike Kelley's «Kandor» series of miniature cities inspired by Superman's home world.