Not exact matches
A gripping two - and - a-half hour reinvention of the man - in - tights genre that delved into real moral and ethical ambiguities, it
showed maturity without going for R - rated grit and gore, and, in Heath Ledger's Joker, had one of the most iconic performances in
modern cinema at its centre.
In other words, «Homecoming» works by doing something that no Marvel (or DC) movie has done before, something that
shows how this monolithic cinematic universe might hope to sustain itself once Thanos has been vanquished to the great space armchair in the sky and
modern cinema's biggest mega-franchise becomes desperate for new ways to feel fresh.
This is
modern cinema at its most technically advanced, a fact that is delightfully
shown off in high definition.
The property's original 1929 gabled farmhouse has been added on to over the years, but the extensions are understatedly
modern and include a crystal grotto - style spa, a 16 - seat
cinema (
showing classics, blockbusters, and kids» flicks), and two swimming pools (one a sea - facing infinity pool, the other mountainside and ringed with boulders).
Tate
Modern will host another likely blockbuster during the Games, a
show devoted to Edvard Munch, drawing on recent research to present him as an emphatically modernist artist influenced by developments in technology, such as photography and
cinema.
Edweard Muybridge's animal locomotion series
showing how bodies move through time and space led to the birth of
modern cinema, which then strung together frames of grid - like imagery.
Since his Times Square
Show debut, his pictorial universe has been incredibly consistent and meticulously staged: a cinematic landscape often flattened into eerie planes and characterized by classic foreign sports cars, French pop singers, camouflaged Spitfires and troop ships, icons of European
cinema and snowy Alpine peaks — a series of very particular, rhapsodic infatuations, through which he has conjured a fully - realized, unironic,
modern - day narrative mythology.