Hot on the heels of 1981's Body Heat, One Deadly Summer follows suit by updating noir conventions and archetypes, but while Lawrence Kasdan intensifies «noirishness» by amping the dial to 11, Becker integrates even
more cinematic influences and engages with lingering post-WWII anxieties in a manner that broadens, rather than distills, the film's revisionist stakes.
Not exact matches
Working through an enormous canon of
cinematic influences in a far
more satisfying way than Carax's glib offering (Gomes» titular allusion to Murnau is no coincidence), Melbourne's resplendent Forum Theatre proved a fittingly grand venue for Gomes» expansive vision: this film is a joy to watch.
But if the North Korean stuff was ultimately
more of a means than an end, I had to appreciate the irony of Kim Jong - un bending Hollywood to his will, thus endowing him with the
cinematic influence that his famously movie - obsessed father had always wanted and validating the daddy issues that Randall Park used to humanize the young dictator in The Interview.
Jones does
more than just report on that interview, he also includes contemporary filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Richard Linklater, and David Fincher discussing the
influence that the book had on them as
cinematic artists in their own right.
When asked what his
cinematic influences were for the latest — and supposedly final — Wolverine stand - alone movie, director James Mangold reeled off an impressive and enticing list that included none -
more - classic Western Shane, indie - hit heart - warmer Little Miss Sunshine and Darren Aronofsky's bruising character piece The Wrestler.
I think his
influence was
more on the
cinematic side, personally.
It's definitely under the
influence of the modern games industry with a
more focused story line and heavier reliance on
cinematic «experiences», but none of that matters when you're carefully stalking a target from the crowd, waiting for them to wander into your trap and kill themselves in some spectacular way you made look like a complete accident.
Examining structures linked to the entrenched powers of colonialism and institutionalized racism that magnify inequality, the artists will exhibit painted allegories for the administration of power, sculptural proposals to renew (and destroy) monuments, and
cinematic works that engage the modes of propaganda that
influence mankind
more and
more each day.
Buchanan's background in the history and techniques of painting and drawing is a strong
influence on her visual form, making her video pieces less
cinematic and
more spatially related to painting.