Sentences with phrase «modern films of this nature»

Typical for modern films of this nature, the action scenes are filled with shaky handheld cinematography and rapid cuts that mean there often isn't a single well - framed shot in the whole sequence (and if there is it lasts about a nanosecond before being replaced by one that isn't).

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The experimental nature of the film also proves a charm, the ten minute shots make interesting viewing and a high budget cyclorama backdrop that includes the empire state building makes the film look much more modern than anything else from the 1940's.

Cillian Murphy, who played Scarecrow in the Dark Knight trilogy, compares the grounded nature of Christopher Nolan's films to modern superhero movies.

Spike Jonze's return to the feature director's chair (and first time bringing a script he wrote entirely by himself with him) after a four year break is a thoroughly layered and personal film that is at times about the awkward nature of new relationships after a break up (and how we cope with that crushing in - between time), and at times about how technology shapes our modern world, and at times about how we demonstrate and understand love and relationships changes with both time and technology.

Blue Valentine is a love story for our times - a film which examines the elusive nature of love and the weighty burdens of commitment, while also examining the complexity of modern gender roles and new attitudes about the bonds of marriage and family.

by Walter Chaw Stop on any single frame of Alfonso Cuarón's remarkable war idyll Children of Men — a film that's rarely in repose, sometimes seeming composed of one long, frantic shot — and I suspect the sharp - eyed, educated viewer would be able to cull a reference to modern art, most likely one about men reduced to their base animal nature.

But, more importantly, there is an enduring nature of the film which leaves it both resonant and involving in ways that modern animated works all too often are not.

Screening: Au Hasard Balthazar at Film Society of Lincoln Center Featuring a star turn by Anne Wiazemsky, who died earlier this year at age 70, Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) has earned its place in film history for its rigorous, at times clinical look at the nature of fate and pain in modern society.