Sentences with phrase «like celluloid»

The surface is glossy and luminous like celluloid film, creating a hyper - real intensity which immediately engages the viewer with the physicality and the compositional qualities of the paintings.

Now, I've been known to like celluloid crap and appreciate the cult value of it, and if it does it for you, then go off and rub mustard in your hair or whatever you weirdos do.

Shot with the Viper, the HiDef camera of choice among maverick filmmakers, Zodiac looks on the format like grainless celluloid, but not like celluloid that has fallen victim to DVNR; there were moments where I felt as if I was seeing things as they'd appear through a window onto the set.

In fact Shyamalan is a more like celluloid Stephen King than he is an Orson Welles.

From the episodic chronicling of a relationship in the Before trilogy and the real - time unfolding of the chamber play Tape to his upcoming Boyhood, which was filmed in vignettes over the last 12 years to reflect the aging of its protagonist, Linklater is primarily concerned with capturing specific moments of significance and preserving them like celluloid time capsules.

Stephen Milton Jack O'Connell's latest role reads like a celluloid «what - if» and a parallel glimpse of the road not taken.

Not exact matches

Copal, glass, phenolic resin, celluloid, and casein can look like amber.

Like other plastics that would follow, celluloid offered a means for Americans to buy their way into new stations in life.

For all its significance, celluloid had a fairly modest place in the material world of the early twentieth century, limited mainly to novelties and small decorative and utilitarian items, like the comb.

Anderson has long been a proponent of shooting on celluloid and releasing his films theatrically, which puts him on an anti-streaming team that also includes directors like Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino.

This focus may, like myself, leave some viewers disappointed that the marvellous work of Waking Life gets very little discussion yet it's probably his most thought provoking film and shadows the fact that, to begin with, Linklater was a philosopher that just happened to choose celluloid as the medium in which to express himself.

He's driven around in his limo by the still fabulous looking Edith Scob (who's worked with some of the most thrilling directors ever to commit image to celluloid, like Franju and Zulawski), and let the cinematic references begin.

Part of the appeal comes from two leads, Andrea Riseborough and Clive Owen (pictured right), whom one could imagine having a high old celluloid time in some contrastingly fetching romcom, or the like.

Lustig's own sensibilities grew in that nutrient bath, too, like some scruffy avatar from Clive Barker's classic yarn «Son of Celluloid».

Some cinnamon skin tones aside, David Eggby's rote cinematography could scarcely ask for a more ideal platform; the image nicely retains the film's celluloid structure, wearing a light coat of grain like a badge of honour.

Following the huge misfires like the Aaron Paul vehicle Need For Speed, the late - 80s attempt to bring Super Mario Brothers to the big - screen, the recent Tomb Raider and even that early vehicle for Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson, Doom (and countless others) Tinseltown hasn't quite managed to successfully transfer the allure of the source material to celluloid.

Watching it feels like getting stoned on celluloid while reading Raymond Chandler and listening to the Fugs.

The infinifilm Rush Hour 2's greatest strength is a 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer that approximates the natural, chemical quality of celluloid like few others I've seen.

The film was shot on three - perf 35 mm stock to allow for smaller magazines and therefore lighter cameras / increased mobility; according to Greg Carson's worthwhile supplemental featurette, «Obtaining Cover: Inside Code 46», director Michael Winterbottom purposely avoided digital video because he wanted the crispness of celluloid, and yet there is often a PAL - like quality to the image here that considerably softens definition and shadow detail.

Played by Daria Nicolodi, Argento's muse and lover in their first celluloid collaboration, Brezzi is one of the auteur's women investigators — woman racionators bridging the traditionally feminine role of intuitors (like our graphically - dispatched psychic) with the traditionally masculine role of perpetrator and discerner / judge / punisher.

Films like «Silent Hill» and «Resident Evil» attempt to take video game worlds that feel inherently cinematic in their storytelling structure and gameplay and make them as entertaining on celluloid as they are on - disc.

Where Halloran's matte surface looks very much like plain paper, his Duralene polymer is more like Mylar or celluloid, and acrylic ink stays put between his hard edges.

The technique involved dissolving sheet celluloid in acetone to create a viscous liquid that Margo would pour onto a smooth surface like Masonite, wood, or metal in order to create a raised surface.

The atmosphere of film, as stuff, as celluloid, that it creates made me think of classic English films like Night Mail or Fires Were Started.

These new paintings feature celluloid - like images of scrolling banners both with and sans mottos.

Lê also displays his more recent and breathtaking abstract celluloid - like C - print scroll paintings.