Sentences with phrase «hypnotic about»

There's something so fascinating and hypnotic about giant, colorful, sparkly art - exploding against an inky black canvas.

There was something hypnotic about the insanely popular video game franchise RollerCoaster Tycoon.

There is something hypnotic about Stuart Haygarth's aesthetic sense.

Still, there is something hypnotic about the film's rhythm, and I can not quite dismiss its images from my head.

There's ultimately something oddly hypnotic about Mirage, as filmmaker Hajdu has infused the proceedings with a deliberate and visually sumptuous feel that's heightened by the mystery surrounding the central character's very existence (ie who is he?

I think I was drawn to this piece mostly due to the symmetrical nature of the pattern, there is something calming and almost hypnotic about patterns that repeat themselves to me.

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What they have to say about the stimulation of needs through advertising and artificial obsolescence can in any case not be adequately explained by the hypnotic pull exerted on the wage - earners by mass consumption.

Examining his subjects with reference to their hypnotic sensibility and to such automatisms as hypnagogic hallucinations, odd impulses, religious dreams about the time of their conversion, etc., he found these relatively much more frequent in the group of converts whose transformation had been «striking,» «striking» transformation being defined as a change which, though not necessarily instantaneous, seems to the subject of it to be distinctly different from a process of growth, however rapid.»

It is difficult to put all the evidence in such a matter into words, to gather up into a distinct statement all that one bases one's conclusions on, but I have always felt that I had abundant evidence to justify (to myself, at least) the conclusion that I came to then, and since have held to, that the physical change which came at that time was, first, the result of a change wrought within me by a change of mental state; and secondly, that that change of mental state was not, save in a very secondary way, brought about through the influence of an excited imagination, or a consciously received suggestion of an hypnotic sort.

But it was a whole channel devoted to, basically, hypnotic fractal patterns and some odd programmes in bright colours (like one about a phallic vegetable chef and another about a grandfather who hid, fairly oddly, in a cupboard).

Deep, Somnambulistic Hypnosis It was clear to me that I needed to know much more about hypnosis itself and how to help expectant women with personal issues and hypnotic depth problems, as well as find some excellent birth hypnosis scripts.

The hypnotic state assists patients in accessing information about the root cause of their symptoms and promotes emotional healing at a deeper level

One school claims that hypnosis fundamentally alters a subject's state of mind; the other believes that there is nothing radical about it, that all the strange experiences and odd behaviors typically associated with hypnosis can be observed in people who are not actually in a hypnotic trance.

«Men's hot flashes: Hypnotic relaxation therapy may ease the discomfort that guys don't talk about.»

In 2012 another study in the same journal was published looked at hypnotic sleep medications (including benzodiazepines), and concluded that people taking them were about three times more likely to die during the two - and - a-half-year study.

Nick Cave, the dark master of the murder ballad and baddest of the Bad Seeds, opens up about love and death, heaven and hell, and the ins and outs of his creative process in Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard's hypnotic quasi-documentary.

The two amalgamate in an idiosyncratic slice of poetic realism that — while not necessarily saying anything new about cowboy virility — is still hypnotic in terms of sheer craft.

We Need to Talk About Kevin, Ramsay's hypnotic cinematic adaptation of the novel by Lionel Shriver, manages to combine her medley of heightened aesthetics with a keenly dark sense of humor and place.

Boyle revels in this filmmaker's mousetrap and uses filters, an exotic, pounding score, off - kilter flashbacks, and hypnotic dream sequences, to flesh out what is really a one - dimensional story about survival.

For the supplemental materials, there's an excerpt from the documentary Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema; Blow - Up of «Blow - Up», a new documentary about the film; two interviews with David Hemmings, one on the set of Only When I Larf from 1968, and the other on the TV show City Lights from 1977; 50 Years of Blow - Up: Vanessa Redgrave / Philippe Garner, a 2016 SHOWstudio interview; an interview with actress Jane Birkin from 1989; Antonioni's Hypnotic Vision, featuring two separate pieces about the film: Modernism and Photography; both the teaser and theatrical trailers for the film; and a 68 - page insert booklet containing an essay on the film by David Forgacs, an updated 1966 account of the film's shooting by Stig Björkman, a set of questionnaires that the director distributed to photographers and painters while developing the film, the 1959 Julio Cortázar short story on which the film is loosely based, and restoration details.

Admirers of Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan's hypnotic, expansive meditations on psychology and landscape (2011's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, for one) would do well to spend some time with Cocoon, his melancholic, wordless short — about a separated couple who meet again in their seventies — that started it all.

From Slamdance, we have three documentaries — The Modern Jungle (which analyzes the relationship between filmmaker and subject among dirt - poor peasants in Chiapas), Strad Style (about an unlikely violin maker and his quest to recreate a renowned 18th - century instrument) and Supergirl (a tale of the strongest 12 - year - old girl in the world)-- and three narratives — Dave Made a Maze (a demented fantasy about an out - of - control labyrinth), Future ’38 (a clever sci - fi look forward from 1938 to the year 2018) and Weather House (a hypnotic meditation on the end of the world).

As a psychological thriller, Berberian Sound Studio is often hypnotic, but it's also a little one - note: About halfway through its slim running time, the film begins to repeat itself, offering only minor variations on its Blow Out - meets - Suspiria metholodogy.

Teorema An unwelcome visitor brings about oddly welcome changes in Pier Paolo Pasolini's hypnotic 1968 oddity.

Technically, the cinematography, in real nighttime conditions (about 75 % of the film is shot in darkness), is hypnotic (the only visual flaw of the film is a too obvious imposition of a rock face that is illuminated in a lightning strike as the doctor urinates), and cinematographer Gokhan Tiryaki gets major kudos, but, even more so is the almost nonexistent soundtrack, whose power is palpable, and shows how utterly superfluous most soundtracks are.

Even more hypnotic in terms of sheer craft is the Amazon Studios release «You Were Never Really Here,» the latest declaratively titled film from the Scottish director Lynne Ramsay («We Need to Talk About Kevin»).

Married to the swooning, hypnotic camerawork that has been the hallmark of Park's collaboration with DP Chung Chung since Oldboy, it has about it the perversity of a Victorian chamber drama squeezed through the filter of a very Korean take on class and sex — attitudes partly shaped by living in the shadow of one of the two or three most unstable regimes in the world.

The A.V. Club recently spoke with Gosling about working with Brooks, the role REO Speedwagon played in creating the feel of Drive, and the hypnotic effect of cars.

But thanks to a hypnotic suggestion by self - help guru Tony Robbins (playing himself), shallow Hal has been programmed to only see the inner beauty of people, and there's something about Rosemary...

It's a mental workout, to be sure, but the filmmaking is so hypnotic and immersive that it's entirely possible to get lost in the film's world without understanding a single thing about it.

Michael Almereyda's biopic about controversial American social psychologist Stanley Milgram is hypnotic, and to a fault, but it still... Continue reading Experimenter

Back in the market, people collapsed, then got up, their hands pressed to their wounds, as if they had smashed eggs against their bodies in hypnotic agreement and were unsure about what to do with the runny, bloody yolk.

The pungent aroma of spices almost had a hypnotic effect on the chef's preparing the food as they reminisced about times past, current, and future and culminated into a joyous meal we could all enjoy!

The real - life players in El Paso might not be instantly recognizable, but Groom retains a sense of mystique about them as he stirs the pot with colorful characters, and tosses in generous doses of high - voltage action, all served on the hypnotic canvas of Mexico's Sierra Madre Mountains.

I'm not sure I followed the author's notes about the cover, but I can't deny the hypnotic attraction this image has, although I'd still strengthen the title.

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Sorry, that breeze just started up again and the hypnotic palm leaves are rustling, so I think I'm going to have that nap I was talking about!

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This week it is all about peaceful and hypnotic tunes that are perfect for writing, reading or simply relaxing to.

What's most notable about Crying, though, is just how fast and smooth it is; every level offers a constant onslaught of enemies and bullets that swoop and pulsate across the screen in hypnotic and slightly eerie fashion.

There is a slow - motion inexorability about his films — they are so slow, so detailed, so hypnotic, so careful to avoid a linear narrative, that you can be unaware from one moment to the next of how the bigger picture accumulates.

Situated in a hexagonal space built into the gallery, the artist projects his film about cellphone inventor Martin Cooper projected onto three mirrored walls, reflecting the piece's hypnotic imagery in a continuous, disorienting loop.

If the works were purely abstract they would be about, perhaps, how to «draw with color» and after viewing the series of similar faces they do become almost abstracted; however, the lure of the face with its hypnotic, spiraling irises always persists, challenging our emotional responses:

Braun's films are, quite frankly, hypnotic, entirely mad and revelatory of what this show is really about — the urban jungle.

Sit on a chair facing a gallery wall, don headphones and listen to a woman's hypnotic voice directing you to focus on the pebbled, white surface and think exclusively about what you see.

All the sports enthusiasts out there will be glad to hear about a hypnotic model of sports bike edition to be launched by Ducati Two Wheeler... read more

All the sports enthusiasts out there will be glad to hear about a hypnotic model of sports bike edition to be launched by Ducati Two Wheeler soon.

A fast - paced 35 - second trailer set to hypnotic music offers a quick glimpse at the «revolutionary» upcoming Android phones, revealing enough about them to whet our appetite, capture our imagination and preview some very specific major upgrades, but also leaving out plenty.

Let's just hope Magic Leap can pull off the kind of hypnotic experiences RollingStone is raving about on a relatively wide scale, at a decent price, in the not too distant future.

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