Sentences with phrase «modern cinema as»

There are gems in modern cinema as much as classical cinema that I think are overlooked by putting too much empathsis on cross-comparing real life to fictional ones.

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The latest TV screens have a ratio of 16:9, the shape of modern cinema screens, but as most people still have 4:3 screens broadcasters seldom transmit new wide - screen programme material.

He seems to see cinema not as standing alone, but as part of a tapestry of modern arts.

The cumulative emotional effect is devastating: the final scenes here are as angry, as memorable, as overwhelming as anything modern cinema has to offer.

Directed with style by D.J. Caruso as the follow - up to his stylish tweaker noir The Salton Sea, the picture has a way with tension and the jump scare — at least until a Fatal Attraction / Astronaut's Wife conclusion proves again that the inoperable tumor of modern mainstream cinema is the ability to end.

Where Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven mined the subtext of Douglas Sirk's films, locating modern cinema's obsession as the uneasy illusion — the hypocrisy — of the traditional family, Down with Love is just an obnoxious magnification handcuffed, ironically, by its adherence to the dissolved Code and the new trend of political correctness.

Plus, the round - up of special features serves the film as a piece of cinema and a thematic reflection on the modern warrior.

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.

Fast emerging as one of modern cinema's foremost provocateurs, Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn blends visceral genre thrills with a seductively cold vision of human dysfunction.

«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.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

I got the sense that American Hustle fancied itself as the modern great crime movie, something cinema has been sorely missing.

If I say that I left the cinema thinking I'd seen a film about modern Britain, you may dismiss me as a driveller, and it wasn't a view I was about to state out loud.

If his filmography included only half the classics they do, he'd still be lauded as one of modern cinema's most influential visionaries.

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.

Kristen Stewart is fast becoming an icon of modern cinema, and her latest performance in Personal Shopper confirms her as one of most interesting and daring actors out there.

Larraín is to Chile as filmmakers like Cristian Mungiu are to Romania: cathartic creators who, undeterred by the passage of time, return to examine a regime under which the socio - political power of cinema was largely denied the public and apply its modern possibilities to treating the wounds of the past.

With the prevalence of modern female writers and directors in the media, such as Zoe Kazan, Tina Fey, Sofia Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow, and Jane Campion, strong and complex female characters are undergoing a renaissance as they continue to eclipse the underwritten female archetypes of cinema's past.

As previously announced, the inaugural LFF Connects will feature British filmmaker Christopher Nolan, internationally acclaimed for some of the most original, compelling and successful films in contemporary cinema (Interstellar, Inception, The Dark Knight, Memento), and Tacita Dean, lauded for her art work in film (and whose grand - scale Tate Modern exhibition FILM transfixed audiences).

Tracing the lineage of Japanese cinema can either lead from the traditional stage (Noh and Kabuki (as in Ozu, perhaps, or, more recently, Hayao Miyazaki)-RRB-, or it can lead from the American westerns of John Ford, as in Akira Kurosawa's work and, via a more circuitous route, the modern gangster cinema of Takashi Miike and Takeshi Kitano.

Though some may know of Greene's connection to the movies only by way of his brilliant scripts for Carol Reed's masterpieces The Fallen Idol and The Third Man, as Tonkin puts it, «No giant of modern fiction has ever had such a long and — mostly — fruitful liaison with the cinema as Graham Greene.»

If critics have a function anymore besides carving their own gravestones on the marble of modern cinema, it's to point a finger at films like Junebug, which sounds like a thousand other pictures but is actually something all its own: a Southern Gothic in the tradition of Flannery O'Connor that treats its characters as more than plot - movers or cardboard caricatures.

Slow cinema lodestone Journey to the West comes across as Tsai's brilliant and clever attempt at auto - critique, as he places the contemplative fundamentals of his cinema (as symbolised by Lee Kang - sheng and Denis Lavant) into the frantic, chatty, unwieldy maelstrom of modern urban life.

«Tim Burton stands as a titan of modern genre cinema,» said Fantastic...

Anyone with a passing familiarity with modern Austrian cinema outside of Michael Haneke «s work will not be surprised that arthouse horror «Goodnight Mommy» is produced by Ulrich Seidl, whose own «Paradise» trilogy, as well as 2015's terrific, underseen semi-doc «In The Basement,» share a certain chilly formalist distance with Fiala and Franz» movie.

Its star, Keira Knightley, has already made waves criticising contemporary cinema's obsession with rape, saying she found historical characters «inspiring» and that she avoids films set in the modern day as «the female characters nearly always get raped».

Death Proof (# 40) Quentin Tarantino's minimalist revenge flick masterfully juxtaposed a Sixies and a modern view of feminism to tear down Stuntman Mike's steely resolve and reinstate women as an authoritative force of the cinema, succeeding where more obvious feminist pieces like The Brave One failed.

If you go into Your Highness thinking of it as lesson in modern - day cinema, you'll leave with these three conclusions: 1) Danny McBride is still not much of a screenwriter 2) David Gordon Green still hasn't found is stride directing «action comedies» and 3) Justin Theroux is an incredibly underrated comedic actor.

The whole movie may as well have been caught on sepia, despite its modern setting, because Turturro seems nostalgic for the New York cinema of the past.

The 2.40:1 picture is inexplicably a smidge less sharp and detailed than you'd like (maybe because it's compressed to fit on a single - layered disc), but as clean and vibrant as modern cinema should be in 1080p.

High - Rise (Ben Wheatley, 2016) Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump have confirmed themselves to be the modern masters even as they move towards more mainstream cinema.

As great filmmakers have inspired modern painters, so to have great painters influenced the mise en scène of directors and cinematographers throughout the history of cinema.

It's as if the stoic / pragmatic spirit of that earlier time, also to be found in English literature (think of Ford Madox Ford's World War I — era Parade's End), had survived the transposition to modern cinema, specifically the strain initiated by Alain Resnais with the somber uncertainties and temporal splintering of Hiroshima mon amour (1959).

[As a result,] there are some aspects of classic cinema and some of modern cinema, so it was a mixture between classic and modern cinema, filtered through Greek tragedy.

As seasoned in visual effects cinema as perhaps all but Cameron, Spielberg, and George Lucas, the director maximizes the impact of this fundamental scene, letting us look behind the curtain of a relatable modern experience turned vivid nightmarAs seasoned in visual effects cinema as perhaps all but Cameron, Spielberg, and George Lucas, the director maximizes the impact of this fundamental scene, letting us look behind the curtain of a relatable modern experience turned vivid nightmaras perhaps all but Cameron, Spielberg, and George Lucas, the director maximizes the impact of this fundamental scene, letting us look behind the curtain of a relatable modern experience turned vivid nightmare.

But it is easy to appreciate as an appealing product of a transitional era in cinema, when old - fashioned ambition gave way to modern styles and realism.

The announcement includes details of the enterprise relaunching Universal's iconic characters into modern cinema, as well as confirmations of superstar cast and that Academy Award ® winner Bill Condon will direct Bride of Frankenstein.

Nevertheless, the exciting pulp quality of the role gives it a special place in modern cinema, and as conceived with Thurman, is one of Tarantino's more interesting creations.

Its similarities to that cornerstone of modern Asian cinema do not however prove to be its undoing as Memories of the Sword is an often beautifully realized, artfully photographed cinematic experience filled with rich characters and even richer histories.

Peele challenged modern Hollywood cinema by painting the White American family as the enemy.

He doesn't go so far as to insult any of their films directly, but throughout the three - minute video, Boyle adopts a tone of paternal apology, as if he hates to be the one to break it to us, but Pixar kickstarted the modern death of cinema.

It was hailed as a modern masterpiece of British cinema and, to this day, still remains one of my all time favourite films.

Today, the film is considered one of the great cult classics of modern cinema — «the «Citizen Kane» of bad movies,» as Ross Morin dubbed it in 2008 while an assistant film professor at St. Cloud University in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

This revered tenet of modern French cinema has been cited as a key influence on Luca Guadagnino's forthcoming feature Call Me by Your Name, and is a rare treat on the big screen.

Though written as a book before nearly all of the books this feels influenced by, as a film, The Giver feels very much crafted to fall into a modern - day sensibility of cinema.

As a result of this exceptionally offbeat aesthetic, his trademark dry wit, Anderson has won critical acclaim from both sides of the Atlantic, and there are certainly not many modern directors whose films can create such an air of anticipation amongst the more cine - literate of regular cinema attendees.

The villa features a private tropical garden with a pool, a modern double - storey living pavilion with great entertainment facilities such as a billiard table and a home cinema set and the 2 bedrooms are perfectly comfortable.

The cutting edge architectural design of FV by Peppers is matched by the inclusion of some thoroughly modern facilities, such as indoor Moonlight cinema, private lounges, an outdoor tropical lounge, heated u-shaped skyline pool, yoga studio and a gym boasting the latest in exercise machines.

The inside of the museum is even more impressive and houses the most important modern art museum in Europe with more than 50,000 works of art from 5,000 artists, as well as a library, cinema and various performance spaces.

Set in a quite location, Villa Violino offers to its guests rooms combining traditional Apulian architecture and the modern luxury, as well as a charming garden and a stunning swimming pool with an outdoor cinema.