Not exact matches
J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the
style and technique of modern television and
cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli,
in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.
Soft pretzels seem indulgent, both because yeast doughs take time to rise and
cinema -
style pretzels are smothered
in butter, but soft pretzels are actually pretty easy to make and make pretty healthy treats for kids.
It's a low - budget winner combining a sharp, protean visual
style — one minute music video, the next
cinema verite — with impudent humour, raw emotion, a thumping good rap soundtrack and some pertinent lessons
in choice and responsibility.
This
style is fairly new
in cinema and has really defined the 2010s era, to see it combined with something that was so relate - able made for a very special film.
Oscar - nominated filmmaker Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) continues to explore experimental
styles of
cinema (see Timecode or Hotel) with this playful
in - joke about the act of artistic creation.
All that goes a long way to securing the film its status
in cinema history but,
in addition to how the passage of time is beginning to erode its impact, there are others drawbacks, not least of which is the stilted acting
style of both Lockwood and Dullea.
The convergence of spirituality and
cinema would occur
in style not content.
A first - rate
cinema intellectual — as a 24 - year - old graduate student he wrote «Transcendental
Style in Film,» a study of Bresson, Yasujiro Ozu and Carl Dreyer that is still worth reading (and has just been reissued)-- Mr. Schrader has been, to put it mildly, an uneven filmmaker.
Webb demonstrates an unexpected fluency for action
cinema, effortlessly integrating the real and the computer - rendered, giving Spidey a definite
style and muscularity
in the film's fight sequences.
He was known for his unconventional
style and techniques which found their roots
in his own unique philosophies behind the art of
cinema.
Get to know the season's brightest stars as they channel 70s
cinema in @VanityFair's 2017
Style Portfolio.
After a stellar career
in student drama at Oxford, he had joined the BBC, but he was soon also writing film criticism and,
in 1956, was one of the founders, along with Karel Reisz and Lindsay Anderson, of the Free
Cinema movement, espousing a
cinema free of commercial and political constraints and using a personal
style to capture working - class life and popular culture, which had been ignored by traditional British
cinema.
Unlike Kaufman's Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002)-- which is directly concerned with the possibility of art
in the
cinema and ultimately lapses into a farcical parody of the Hollywood
style — Eternal Sunshine presents its viewer with a classical boy - meets - girl, boy - loses - girl, boy - gets - girl romance structure.
Kdy sníh konečně taje, near - exhausting excessiveness and unevenness to plotting, an uneven and already questionable
style, and near - monotonous cold spells to atmospherics render the final product pretty decidedly underwhelming, but not the misfire that it could have been, because through a haunting visual
style, outstanding musical
style, intriguing premise, and generally stylistically sharp direction, Frantiek Vláčil's «Marketa Lazarová» stands as an adequately intriguing and occasionally engrossing, if overwrought classic
in Czech and art
cinema.
Filmed
in aquatic hues and bathed
in nostalgic mid-century
style, The Shape of Water is both a love story and a love letter to monster movies, musicals, and classic
cinema.
His feature debut, A Dark Song is somewhere
in - between an ultra-involving parental drama, a 60s -
style occult horror and an out - and - out black comedy, balancing the trio surprisingly well and delivering a thoroughly entertaining and refreshing new slice of British cult
cinema.
Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola, arguably the two pivotal figures of American
cinema in the 1970s, both rose from the turmoil of the transition from studio - based to independent production, to emerge as leading forces
in film production as well as film
style.
Infused with elements from his Calvinist upbringing and 1950s art - house
cinema (check out his newly reissued book Transcendental
Style in Film on Bresson, Ozu, and Dreyer), First Reformed revolves around the Reverend Ernst Toller (portrayed with devastating restraint by Ethan Hawke).
Already widely cited and used
in courses
in film studies, film genre, and art and avant garde film, this updated edition situates «Transcendental
Style», forty - five years later, as part of a larger movement
in post-war
cinema, the Slow
Cinema movement.
-- Kent Jones, filmmaker, writer, festival director «For students interested
in spirituality and
cinema, Transcendental
Style in Film is the one book I would label indispensable.
And while the film throws some shadows reminiscent of recent Greek «Weird Wave»
cinema (Papoulia also starred
in Yorgos Lanthimos's Dogtooth and Alps), such as its unhinged, barking mad, and eyeball - rolling
style of acting, this is a bigger, bolder, and angrier work.
Ultimately, he said earlier today, the mix of fantasy, romance, thriller and old -
style Hollywood is a movie that's «
in love with love and
in love with
cinema.»
«Filmmaker Robert Drew, a pioneer of the modern documentary who
in Primary and other movies mastered the intimate, spontaneous
style known as
cinema verite and schooled a generation of influential directors that included D.A. Pennebaker and Albert Maysles, has died at age 90.
Depicted
in Eastwood's unadorned, almost
cinema verité
style, this is interminable stuff — with each line delivered flatly by our non-professional trio.
However, with an idiosyncratic, art - house
cinema virtuoso at the helm, it is reasonable to expect that Vinterberg's aberration
in directing Far From the Madding Crowd could transgress and alter the conventions of the traditional period drama by bringing a distinctive avant - garde
style to a staid and stubborn genre.
In «i hate myself:)» Arnow fuses cinéma vérité with Lena Dunham -
style confessional
cinema, turning the lens on herself and her relationship with volatile poet James.
For most of its history, French
cinema has undergone periodic upheavals characterized by massive changes
in many areas — personnel, economics, typical film
style and content, and so on.
In place of ascribing preferred definitional clarity, Martin immediately proceeds to offer a rich sketch of the generative importance of mise en scène for film criticism and scholarship in providing a kind of justification for the taking - seriously of cinema that specifically addresses film style — and through this, often, authorship — before and beyond the more «literary» concerns of narrative and characte
In place of ascribing preferred definitional clarity, Martin immediately proceeds to offer a rich sketch of the generative importance of mise en scène for film criticism and scholarship
in providing a kind of justification for the taking - seriously of cinema that specifically addresses film style — and through this, often, authorship — before and beyond the more «literary» concerns of narrative and characte
in providing a kind of justification for the taking - seriously of
cinema that specifically addresses film
style — and through this, often, authorship — before and beyond the more «literary» concerns of narrative and character.
For every indie meandering such as I Love You Phillip Morris, there's a family feature
in the
style of The Grinch and a comic mis - step of the type of Fun With Dick And Jane, with the humorous rather than human elements considered by the
cinema - going public to be a highlight of his work to date.
In aesthetic terms, the film uses a naturalistic, gritty style that is very much in keeping with the New Hollywood cinema of the»70
In aesthetic terms, the film uses a naturalistic, gritty
style that is very much
in keeping with the New Hollywood cinema of the»70
in keeping with the New Hollywood
cinema of the»70s.
Though Ozu was discovered relatively late
in the Western world, his trademark rigorous
style — static shots, often from the vantage point of someone sitting low on a tatami mat; patient pacing; moments of transcendence as represented by the isolated beauty of everyday objects — has been enormously influential among directors seeking a
cinema of economy and poetry.
For his filmmaking debut, Krasinski appears to have called
in favors from nearly every famous person he's ever met, but he hasn't yet developed the authority or command to work their varying
styles and skills into seamless
cinema.
It is also pleasing to see that
in an age
in which the romantic comedy is such an unfashionable genre
in the
cinema that filmmakers are, at least, attempting to go back to basics and call to mind a
style of filmmaking
in the screwball comedy that is all too rarely visible
in the modern era.
Perhaps the most successful work this year
in this art
cinema mode, Maximilian Leo's My Brother's Keeper, betrays similar dissonance, if not outright discomfort, with Germany's well - resourced lives and affluent life -
styles.
Without a word spoken, the first two shots
in Thief, Michael Mann's groundbreaking 1981 feature debut, announce a simultaneously grim and dreamlike vision that seems,
in retrospect, perfectly poised between the great urban crime films of the 1970s and the formal aesthetics of the 1980s — the «
style decade» that Mann's subsequent
cinema and television work did so much to help shape.
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: «I'm something of an agnostic when it comes to De Palma, but he's unquestionably a director of consummate
style and skill, one whose most popular films — from Carrie to Scarface to The Untouchables — have become tremendously influential
in contemporary
cinema.
At once an homage to and a spoof of two signature
styles of late 1960s
cinema, «CQ» is an enjoyably eccentric entry into feature filmmaking by a writer - director who has the art form
in his...
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
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
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
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
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).
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What We Do
in the Shadows Even if you're sick of vampire movies, you'll enjoy this one, a mock documentary from New Zealand that follows,
in the
style of low - budget
cinema verite, four vampires sharing a house
in Wellington.
In this moment, Campion finds one of her earliest platforms for experimenting with expressionistic conventions of cinema like the chiaroscuro - style lighting of Ingmar Bergman, the inky suburban subconscious of David Lynch and Peter Weir's haunting images of lost girls.3 With this scene, Campion also perfectly encapsulates the isolating, confusing and ultimately frightening mood around adolescent, female sexuality in pre-feminist Australian suburbia of the «60
In this moment, Campion finds one of her earliest platforms for experimenting with expressionistic conventions of
cinema like the chiaroscuro -
style lighting of Ingmar Bergman, the inky suburban subconscious of David Lynch and Peter Weir's haunting images of lost girls.3 With this scene, Campion also perfectly encapsulates the isolating, confusing and ultimately frightening mood around adolescent, female sexuality
in pre-feminist Australian suburbia of the «60
in pre-feminist Australian suburbia of the «60s.
In this moment, Campion finds one of her earliest platforms for experimenting with expressionistic conventions of
cinema like the chiaroscuro -
style lighting of Ingmar Bergman, the inky suburban subconscious of David Lynch and Peter Weir's haunting images of lost girls.
Tony Black on screen legend Michael Caine... His recent political leanings aside, Sir Michael Caine remains one of the surviving legends of British and indeed American
cinema of the last fifty years, and this weekend's Going
in Style — a heist caper directed by none other than Scrubs «Zach Braff — sees him share top billing with fellow aged -LSB-...]
Fresh from the playfully exuberant A Hard Day's Night, which set the bar for rock and roll
cinema and inspired the modern music video, Richard Lester continued the same acrobatic, tongue -
in - cheek
style in The Knack... and How to Get It (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu - ray), his adaptation of Ann Jelico's lightweight play «The Knack,» creating a delightfully frivolous take on swinging London and the sexual revolution.
The Amityville Tapes — a
cinema verite -
styled sequel — had been
in development for quite some time, I wonder if this will be revived?
The 2010's should not only be remembered for being the decade
in which the greatest living actress earned her record - breaking 20th nomination, but also as the decade when she found a red carpet
style that fit her iconoclastic image as both the Grand Dame of American
cinema and someone who wants the world to think she «woke up like dis».
Hollywood, CA (November 1, 2017)-- The Hollywood Film Awards, continuing its tradition of recognizing excellence
in the art of
cinema in all disciplines of filmmaking, also announced today the honorees
in the categories of Cinematography, Film Composer, Editor, Visual Effects, Costume Design, Make - Up & Hair
Styling, Production Design and Sound:
Paul Thomas Anderson has always been considered something of a wunderkind, an idiosyncratic director with a clearly defined vision and a
style deeply influenced by both
cinema history and his upbringing
in the San Fernando Valley.
But his idiosyncratic
style is one of the most polarising
in cinema.
Classical Hollywood
cinema is the term used to describe the
style of filmmaking pioneered by the major studios
in the USA from the late - 1910s to the mid-1950s.