Testimonials are important, and using
the medium of film as opposed to seeing a written testimonial is even more powerful.
Anton Vidokle's This is Cosmos turns its eyes to the stars and charts the Cosmism movement in Russia and its disavowal of death through cosmic energy, positing
the medium of film itself as an irradiation treatment.
Not exact matches
While Waits remains somewhat
of an anomaly in the music industry — he also acts, scores
films and plays and was a regular guest on Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour show — he serves
as an example
of a truly multimedia artist, able to promote his work in one
medium through the use
of others.
Questions which the body politic or the academic world are unwilling to confront head - on are often dealt with through the
medium of, say, science fiction: think
of the Matrix
films, or a novel such
as Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.
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On the exterior
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medium of film but also about.
Densely woven
as its sensory tapestry is, «White Shadow» never feels studied or affected in the way that
films from artists graduating to the
medium sometimes can do: There's plenty
of room here for observational, seemingly ad hoc asides.
But the power
of Ghibli can't be denied,
as their
films are an artistic
medium all on their own and continue to amaze us with wonderful stories brought to life with dazzling talent.
Fascinated by the
medium of film, Keaton soon began writing their pictures, and assisted in directing them; Keaton was soon starring in his own
films,
as well, though he and Arbuckle remained lifelong close friends.
Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio
films such
as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds
of such popular
medium - budget Universal Pictures productions
as House
of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.
It's unlikely anyone who hasn't seen Wiseau's
film will feel lost
as the players are all well established over the course
of the movie (not to mention that intro), and the surprise
of how the
film's story unfolds is certainly enjoyable the first time you hear it (no matter the
medium).
The look
of the
film (what I can only describe
as a
medium format photography look) is very unique and satisfying.
First Reformed is about Schrader's
film theories, about the transcendent possibilities
of the
medium,
as much
as it is about religion.
Given Nixon's lifelong inability to control the
medium or come out looking at all decent on it, the
film is
as much a cheeky celebration
of TV's candor
as it is a reminder
of this fascinating sidebar to American history.
Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures
of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments
as a guest star on episodes
of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own
as a star
of low -
medium budgeted independent
films such
as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(
as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings
of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (
as a disturbed young man who plays the role
of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).
Both Thor and Thor: The Dark World presented us with something drastically different than what was before it, including expanding beyond the cosmos and accepting the God - like characters
as normal, which really pushed the
medium of comic book
films, while also blending humor and action in a way that made the character both interesting and viable.
In addition to melding conventional setups with high grain inserts and smash zooms that tell the ninety - seven year history
of motion pictures (using, ironically, D.W. Griffith's Birth
of a Nation
as the starting point), Mr. Tarantino remains faithful to the
medium of film.
For the believer, its Blade Runner cyberpunk ultra-cool was an eye - opener, but to hold the
film up
as the standard for the
medium means that a lot
of people looking to it
as their introduction believe that anime is a little excitement cordoned off by long stretches
of confused, gravid exposition.
Linklater's preoccupation with temporality intensifies with each subsequent
film in the trilogy, so that time itself becomes both message and
medium, the principal subject matter
of the
films as well
as the basic building blocks
of their construction.
Akira's popularity obscures the finest examples
of the
medium,
films that manage to balance serious metaphysical musing with actual forward momentum (the two Ghost in the Shell
films, for instance); to tell adult tales in affecting ways (Grave
of the Fireflies); to redefine genre thriller (Perfect Blue), action (Ninja Scroll), and fantasy (Princess Mononoke); and to present children's fables
as artifacts that are
as useful for adults
as they are for kids (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro).
Normally this kind
of documentary manipulation would raise flags for some, but given Panahi's current predicament and subsequent longing for the
medium (and additionally the
film's unmanufactured feeling), it comes off
as an intensely personal, resonant rebellion, an incredibly beautiful movie and one
of his best
films to date (read our review).
If the experience
of reading Collins's novel is one
of being inside a horrifyingly brutal reality television show, the experience the
film adaptation offers is one more akin to watching one, and its success depends on our awareness
of this relatively new
medium as well
as our willingness to critique it.
The
film feels close to the recent Spider - Man and X-Men installments, not merely because
of common origins (
as one
of many noteworthy Marvel lines introduced by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby during the
medium's Silver Age), but also because
of its grand sense
of adventure, diverse roster
of powerful mutants, and epic stage
of effects - enabling spectacle.
I didn't think
of the book
as a narrative
medium to be translated into a
film until much later.
Predominately
filmed in
medium or close - up, the camera is in love with Lawrence, enhancing her role
as the embodiment
of all that's good in the world.
Criterion painstakingly restores and beautifully packages
Medium Cool on Blu - ray, positioning the
film as a definitive document
of the political tumult in late - 1960s America.
Also, contrary to the notion that some people have
of film as a dying
medium, it's still very much alive and wonderful things are being done in it.
As illustrated in the film, when Langlois was sacked as curator in May of 1968, there arose among the buffs such a clamour that grey - suited riot police came to bludgeon protestors like Godard, Truffaut, Jean Marais, and Jean Renoir — film, the medium of our time, for a delirious moment, became the catalyst for a new French Revolution, the Cinematheque a cathedral and Bastill
As illustrated in the
film, when Langlois was sacked
as curator in May of 1968, there arose among the buffs such a clamour that grey - suited riot police came to bludgeon protestors like Godard, Truffaut, Jean Marais, and Jean Renoir — film, the medium of our time, for a delirious moment, became the catalyst for a new French Revolution, the Cinematheque a cathedral and Bastill
as curator in May
of 1968, there arose among the buffs such a clamour that grey - suited riot police came to bludgeon protestors like Godard, Truffaut, Jean Marais, and Jean Renoir —
film, the
medium of our time, for a delirious moment, became the catalyst for a new French Revolution, the Cinematheque a cathedral and Bastille.
Medium jumps are never an easy thing to do, whether it's today's commonplace practice
of remaking an old television series
as a
film residing between homage and parody, or
as in the case
of The Muppet Movie, simply bringing characters who found popularity on TV to a cinema audience.
I wish I could say this question was neat to ponder in an abstract sci - fi way, but the near future for
film looks kind
of dystopian, at least
as we have traditionally understood the
medium.
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.
So while Vernon, Florida has become something
of a
Medium Cool for a new generation
of film brats (All the Real Girls director David Gordon Green cites the work
as one
of his all - timers), The Thin Blue Line has become the moment that many point to
as the definitive modern reintroduction to the debate about the matter
of degrees that separates fiction from non-fiction cinema.
Everyone's favourite characters, much
of the surreal narration (delivered with perfect dryness by Stephen Fry), and the original's distinctive theme music, are all present and accounted for — and in an age where CGI has become the slick new
medium for special visual effects, an inordinate amount
of physical modelling and creature puppetry have been used to give the
film a refreshingly organic retro look,
as though the crew from the original TV series had been lured back to their old tools by a much bigger budget.
Such shots are frequently celebrated in
film — think
of Martin Scorsese's use
of tracking shots over the years, or the self - parodying opening
of Robert Altman's The Player — but critics rarely call attention to them on TV, perhaps because TV is more
of a writers»
medium, or perhaps because they're simply not
as showy
as others, often blending into the background.
Renowned for its impressive cinematography and lighting, along with the use
of interconnected sets and intimate close - ups, this was a
film that pushed things forward
as far
as storytelling through the
film medium.
There are two possible effects that come from lifting the title
of a respected movie classic: on the one hand, it can be perceived
as an audacious, assuring wink to savvy viewers that you're aware,
as a filmmaker,
of your movie's debt to hallowed classics
of the
medium; on the other hand, it can serve to accentuate how much more desirable revisiting older, better
films would be, than to sit through a pretty bad new one.
«Kate Plays Christine «In the other Sundance
film dealing with the Christine Chubbuck tragedy, «Actress» director Robert Greene takes an elliptical run at the story, telling it through the novel
medium of following an actress, Kate Lyn Sheil,
as she is preparing for the role
of Chubbuck, which she will play in the
film - within - the -
film.
GLAAD's
film (and other
medium) nominees
as well
as the nominees and winners
of GALECA (the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association) are after the jump with commentary and in some cases links.
Tonkin charts Greene's love for
film through the decades — from his years
as a famed
film critic (during which he wrote, Tonkin says, «perhaps the most notorious notice in the history
of film criticism» about Shirley Temple) to his days
as a movie insider and collaborator with such luminaries
as Alexander Korda, Alberto Cavacanti, and,
of course, Reed, with whom he made his most lasting mark on the
medium.
The limitations
of the
medium are evident and thus the 1.85:1 imagery is grainier than and not
as sharp or defined
as most modern
films.
He
films his characters» conversations at right angles, a two - shot with them facing each other, perpendicular to the camera, followed by
medium close - ups
of each actor
as they face the camera directly and speak in turn, Green not cutting until they've finished what they have to say.
That it messes with structure and
medium is nothing new, but
as with the casting
of Downey Jr. and Monaghan
as grammar - school classmates (even
as it's commenting on Hollywood's treatment
of women, it's guilty
of it),
as it's fucking with the way we look at
film and understand narratives, it's indulging in the topsy - turvy, smart - alecky vogue
of Guy Ritchie / Christopher Nolan chic.
Viewed solely
as two family friendly
films, the double feature works because
of the intelligence behind both and the similarity
of the approaches regardless
of the
medium employed to bring it life.
The question
of the title
of the
film therefore takes on a deeper resonance
as one considers the tantalizing mélange produced by a marriage
of noir, the western, and a jazz movement founded on unrest and violence, sold through a uniquely Japanese
medium (animé, natch) that has been the vehicle for some
of the most profound examinations
of nihilism, violence, and romanticism (thinking especially
of masterworks like Grave
of the Fireflies and last year's Spirited Away) in the modern cinematic vocabulary.
Other
films carried the torch for
film as a
medium for social justice: the angry, bracing I, Daniel Blake, Spotlight — which played like the taut political thrillers made by Pakula and Lumet in the 70s — and Katharine Round's lucid expose
of the effects
of inequality, The Divide.
Film scholar Gilberto Perez, in his brilliant work The Material Ghost: Films and their
Medium, expresses
as well
as anyone I've read the physical experience
of watching a
film on screen: The...
Even disappointments can often have that one scene that catches you off guard or moves you unexpectedly, a hallmark
of film's power
as an artistic
medium.
Apropos
of his own
films» fixation upon the natural world and their vaguely pantheistic bent, Malick likened silent cinema to a tree that was cut down prematurely, and described Ménilmontant
as an indication
of how the
medium may have evolved had talkies come around ten years later.