Sentences with phrase «in filmic»

«ESTABLISHING SHOT» ARTISTS SPACE In filmic terms, «establishing shot» refers to the opening sequence of a scene, the images that spatially orient the audience and anchor subsequent events.

In this filmic portrait, fantasy and social realism, fiction and documentary overlap.

The collaborative strategy of the show is to evoke a mood that ricochets between an abject melancholy and a jagged tension as commonly reflected in filmic visions of dystopia.

At the vanguard of Appropriation Art and Neo-Expressionism in New York, when Cindy Sherman was clothing herself in filmic cliché and Renaissance costume, Jeff Koons was ransacking high and low culture and Jean - Michel Basquiat's image - poetry took the world by storm, Salle was a crucial figure in the 1980s art scene.

We have a lot of crossover in our shared visual interestsl it's evident in our filmic styling and the zine we made for the project.

Another, found in her filmic montages, creates connective tissue between pop / internet culture and autobiographical experience.

Often embedding herself and family members in filmic narratives, Eduardovna's work presents the familial structure as a model for society as a whole, while examining the changes that occur in the family once it has been displaced into a different societal structure — or once that structure collapses.

In this filmic experiment notorious Danish director Lars von Trier casts an odd group of actors, cultural personalities and amateurs to play the participants in a social experiment.

For what it's worth, «Dead Like Me» retains its 1.78:1 aspect ratio on DVD in 16x9 - enhanced transfers; shot in filmic HD, it certainly looks vivacious compared to the syndicated reruns.

If the aim of art is to touch the sublime, to strum the thread of the collective unconscious that binds us each to each, as it were, then Lynch becomes a figure like Rainer Maria Rilke or William Blake or Beethoven — or in filmic terms, like Luis Buñuel or Carl Theodor Dreyer or moments of Sergio Leone.

Right now, you could argue that we're in a new age in filmic storytelling, and that science fiction has been brought into the limelight in way that it hasn't enjoyed in years.

With her new film Kelly Reichardt returns to her feminist oeuvre after a brief foray in filmic activism with the eco-thriller Night Moves (2013).

2 is an anomaly, a cathartic sequel comprised almost entirely of backstory, in which the characters (and they can only be called characters: no middling everyman or woman composites reside in this filmic universe of bittersweet revenge) can engage in the most contradictory of human acts.

Not exact matches

I don't have it in me to be as cruel about this filmic failure as the critic of THE NEW YORKER.

Renée's filmic predecessor in raw middle age is Emmi, the romantic lead of R.W. Fassbinder's 1974 masterpiece «Ali: Angst Essen Seele Auf» (Ali: Fear Eats The Soul)».

Instead it insistently pushes its frenetic filmic artifice into the forefront, and it cut - cut - cuts through dialogue and action in such a way as to prove that the Great American Novel was a silly idea in the first place.

Damasio: When people testify in court, they make all sorts of errors and inversions of time sequences because memory is not like a filmic medium.

It's something I first got a hint of after seeing Ali a second time, then Collateral, but it really hit home with Miami Vice where I realized, to put it in literary terms that you might relate to, that it was a kind of filmic tone poem: sketchy, elliptical, subdued, but nonetheless beautiful.

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:

But I also was very interested in you know all of the sort of filmic incarnations of her work as well... And there's some wonderful observations and parts of internal monologue — well more internal monologue that Therese has — but observations of Carol that're in the novel that were really really useful to read.

«Tangerine» (July 10) Sean Baker's «Tangerine,» about a working girl storming through Los Angeles on Christmas Eve in search of the pimp who broke her heart, was shot entirely on an iPhone 5S, using an $ 8 app called Filmic Pro.

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.

Despite some pruning and rearrangement of the story and musical numbers, the flavour of the source material does shine through in this 1939 filmic The Mikado.

As previously noted in a Dazed feature praising Gerwig's filmic triumph: «Christine falls out with her best friend, she loses her virginity, and she discovers a passion for singing in school plays.

by Walter Chaw Arriving right smack dab in the latter half of a decade in American cinema that saw digital «reality» supplant filmic «reality» (and appearing the same year as James Cameron's Forrest Gump: Titanic), Hong Kong legend John Woo's high - camp Face / Off directly (and presciently) addresses issues of identity theft, terrorism, and the digital corruption of reality and indirectly addresses Woo's émigré influence on the modern action film.

Awash in all the visual and aural possibilities of filmed entertainment, David Lynch's 18 - episode sequel to his 1990s TV series was the ultimate, uncompromising display of personal obsession and totally tuned - in to the dream nature of the whole filmic endeavor.

'' I was honoured to be brought on board as the British Sign Language / Deaf culture consultant for Dawn of the Deaf, it meant I could indulge in my love for horror films whilst consulting and pointing out to Rob the many filmic references in his film!

To watch Experimenter is to subject yourself to a form of filmic mind manipulation, in which the movie's central character, Stanley Milgram (played by a coolly cerebral Peter Sarsgaard), looks directly into the camera, at us, and seems to measure our reactions to his unlikely life story.

«Telling it in reverse was a neat filmic thing.

Now, at ESPN.com, Coogler's lovely reflection on DuVernay's career charts their parallel paths while also dialing in on the emotional power of DuVernay's filmic retelling of A Wrinkle in Time, a story that is, as Coogler sees it, a powerful and familiar reflection on loss and love, influenced by the loss of DuVernay's father:

In broad terms, this structure works well as a way of highlighting shared connections among the essays themselves, as well as the filmic works and theoretical approaches they investigate.

Spectators must suspend their beliefs in chronology, time and in many cases, their memories too, in order to fully experience the depth of Wong's evocative filmic creations.

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.

Not the biggest fan of Tom Stern - era Eastwood, but what we have here is completely un-digital in appearance, like a (velvet) painting come to life, and the surprisingly minimal presence of grain doesn't cause the image to look any less filmic.

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.

Again, Wong's arbitrary rhetoric finds expression in the poetic and brightly drenched tones of his unique filmic aesthetic, and his much - loved themes of loneliness, isolation, and longing rise to the surface.

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.

When, early in the piece, eldest son of the Friedman clan David addresses the camera directly in what he warns is a personal journal, Capturing the Friedmans subverts the exploitive voyeurism that defines cinema, particularly pornographic cinema, in a way that is as cannily, uniquely, ironically filmic as Michael Powell's Peeping Tom.

In terms of providing a realist document that was unrestricted by the limitations of filmic practices, Vogel built upon the verisimilitude of August Underground by attempting to circumvent the traditional release patterns of theatrical exhibition or of release via VHS and DVD.

Colour definition is somewhat soft and the Warnercolor palette is typically mercurial, but shadow detail is excellent and the nicely - filmic image betrays little in the way of digital enhancements or artifacts.

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.

Although he largely remains calm in the face of considerable provocation, James is someone who can't abide bullshit and in this most postmodern of films that includes traditional filmic pomposity, those moments which seem extraordinary - grand speeches and indulgent anecdotes which he slices through with castrating barbs and withering looks.

The 2.40:1 transfer shows off the sharp, interesting filmic look, while sound is offered in both DTS X (7.1 DTS - HD master audio for those who can't support it) and in a DTS Headphone 2.0 mix.

Straight in at number eight with a bang and a shower of glitter, American Hustle's strong showing in our best of 2013 is testament to director David O. Russell's winning formula - he serves up a fizzing cocktail of amusement and filmic finesse, which eschews the truth of the tale for something more fabulously cinematic.

In Lonesome, the heroes just miss each other through their parallel stories, but they rarely share the same filmic space.

The Happening has a strong premise, and with Shyamalan's neo-1970's filmic approach the film comes across as a mix between Panic in the Year Zero, Roger Corman efforts such as The Last Woman on Earth, and a J.G. Ballard short story.

Wenders, the most commercially successful exponent of the neue deutsche Kino, has become known as the most «American» member of the movement, in terms of his filmic content as well as the measure of success that he has achieved in carving his own niche as a European filmmaker in America.

«For all the varieties of filmic pleasure it mainlines and all the tried - and - true genre thrills it twists to its own ends, it draws the line at violence, which is always abrupt and sobering in the film.

I am sure I am not alone in that I spend far more time watching abstract films and short experimental videos than I do watching feature films; in part because I make experimental films, and in part because, to my mind, the most risk - taking visual artists don't necessarily work in feature films; but instead work in video art and experimental filmmaking and newly emerging filmic art forms, such as gifs.

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.