Sentences with phrase «more celluloid»

Frankly, the superhero movies are getting overwhelming at this point, with Marvel cranking out more celluloid than James Franco ever could.

Since talking heads are arguably the chief reason that documentaries are generally shunned by movie audiences, less time could have been spent listening to the array of interviews, and more celluloid on the damage done in Oklahoma City.

Not exact matches

... could have used more movie - specific discussions of the aesthetic implications of celluloid versus digital.

Haneke and his actors, playing the bittersweet music of Haneke's crafted - down - to - the - essential script, show us fully and roundly what's at stake even as they depict its cruel, slow, biologically - mandated slipping away, and there's simply never been anything, no depiction of romantic / eternal love, more affecting put on celluloid: The fruits of Haneke's unwavering banishment of any easy sentiment or banal platitudes or reassurances about the human spirit is a pure, clear, penetrating, and overwhelming emotion.

It transcends merely bad, merely tedious, merely irksome and plummets into that very special category of film, the one that so tries and tortures its audience that, emerging again from the soul - sucking black hole of celluloid disaster, it no longer fears... Read More»

While happiness seems eternally out of reach for the Phantom, this celluloid adaptation at least makes his story more accessible to those of us living off Broadway.

It's more that in selling a story which is so naturally loaded with rich, subtextual goodness, this vital added value is hardwired into the celluloid.

Mild, welcome grain helps maintain the persuasion of celluloid, though, while saturation is strong and hues seem much more accurate than the pink tones of the film's VHS and LaserDisc incarnations.

She also had a slight lisp that renders her a bit goofy — less a celluloid confection and more a real person with flaws.

THE BLU - RAY DISC by Bill Chambers Disregard what I speculated about the BD release of 300: I didn't think it would look better, just more artificial — but what the added resolution actually does is clarify the details beneath the sandstorm of grain, giving the image greater depth and a more persuasive celluloid texture.

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

As ever, it's odd that Nolan should be such a fervent champion for shooting on celluloid when so many of his images are monotonous and filmed in a color and lighting range that's more typical of digital.

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.

Previous transfers of The Squid and The Whale have looked more incontestably filmic, while the Criterion Collection has done away with a good deal of the celluloid artifacts.

Obviously, this is an allusion to Rick's profession, a notable somebody in the world's largest manufacturer of celluloid dreams, all more or less tied to a sprawling city known for its proliferation of psychics and mediums as both tourist attractions or acceptable lifestyle conditions.

Here's that rare movie that equals its source material: While the mid-point plot twist is easier to spot in the film — and while the pitchfork scene in the novel is far more disturbing than on celluloid — the movie is more ambiguous than the book, and that in turn makes it far more haunting on multiple levels.

But there's so much more wrong with Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius than just the music, the winking title, and the truism that for as boring as golf is to watch on television, it's that much more boring to watch in reverent celluloid slow motion — no, the picture is also fatally tagged by a terrible screenplay and terrible direction (that includes a half dozen ball's - eye view shots: not as interesting as you might misunderstand), as well as the dreadfully persistent belief that the measure of a man's life are the crescendos and valleys rather than the caesuras and grace notes.

Far more delicate - seeming in person than on the screen, Ms. Swinton is dressed in a loose brown shirt that she'll pull over her legs, knees folded against her chest, several times during the course of our conversation — a charming, almost alarmingly childlike pose from an actress I most readily associate with ferocious, audacious turns in Derek Jarman's free - verse celluloid poetry and best - of - bad - movie appearances in everything from Vanilla Sky to The Beach to The Statement.

What's even more astounding is thinking about how this was the first time that Fincher had used digital — up until this point his films were all shot with celluloid — at a time when the format still looked, in lesser hands, crunchy and flat.

Best Original Screenplay — 1985 What Won: Witness What Should've Won: Back To The Future or Brazil Witness was a decent action flick about Amish folks versus an evil Danny Glover, but was it really more original than cinema's first Oedipal time - travel comedy or the insane celluloid love child of Terry Gilliam and a typewriter?

Shooting Once Upon a Time in Mexico with HiDef instead of celluloid cameras apparently allowed for more spontaneous implementations of CGI — Rodriguez claims that he solicited some 330 unallotted F / X shots (many of the niftiest of which Rodriguez deconstructs in the vein of football play - by - plays) and still came in under budget, though I'm not convinced that the sloppiness encouraged by the flexibility of DV (the phrase «we'll fix it in post» is a veritable mantra on HiDef productions) isn't largely responsible for the inflated number.

Watch: Quentin Tarantino & Paul Thomas Anderson Discuss 70MM, The «Reprieve» For Celluloid & More In 40 Minute Talk

There was less music but more action the next night, when celluloid - film advocate Tacita Dean brought the panoramic chalkboard drawings she made for Documenta 13 to Marian Goodman.

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.

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