Sentences with phrase «more dreamlike»

If «Sway» evokes a greenhouse full of tropical plants, it also suggests more dreamlike experiences.

She is known for creating pieces that were more dreamlike and darker than her male counterparts.

Graves» newest series is even more dreamlike, with the girls venturing into space and faraway mystical places.

Very few graphic novels are more dreamlike.

Even with the gameplay as familiar as always, the mid-air blocks and moving hazards seem more dreamlike and surreal than ever, floating somewhere between the device and your brain.

SAMUI SONG What starts out as a pretty straightforward crime thriller, slowly shifts into a more dreamlike, self - aware look at why you should be careful what you wish for.

I was aware that the other two films had been very linear in their storytelling and I wanted to go into more dreamlike territory and ambiguity, as well.

Awesome as spectacle but fairly perishable as anything else, Chan's stunts are for me a far cry from the more dreamlike feats of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, physical actors to whom he's often compared.

Long tracking shots remind in the best way of Wong Kar - wai's similarly urgent (if freer, more dreamlike) odes to love and betrayal.

Appropriately, the long takes in the musical sequences aren't there so the audience can «see the dancing,» as the old cliché goes, but to cast a spell: The unbroken camera movements, self - conscious as they may be, make the movie more dreamlike.

Slow West, however, abandons in large part the grittiness of the Western in favour of a more dreamlike quality embodied in the narrative and the camerawork.

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Or more subtly, they speak of the mass pathology as something passive, portraying ordinary people as (in Jim Garrison's words) «victims of a compelling nightmare, hypnotized and magnetized» in a dreamlike state like that of children following the Pied Piper (Darkness of God, p. 3) Interestingly, this view reverses Caldicott's formulation, in which the people were seen as adults and the leaders were the children.

It is telling that the band playing at the Bataclan theater where ISIS terrorists killed more than one hundred was Eagles of Death Metal, an instance of our Western dreamlike fantasy that we can make dark powers emotionally satisfying for entertainment but otherwise politically and spiritually harmless.

It really was all magical, we loved every moment, it was just how we had imagined and more; relaxed, beautiful, almost dreamlike to have everyone you love altogether in one space, having so much fun, feeling so loved and happy.

I found this to be a very enjoyable and dreamlike film, and, though it is really good, it seems even more so considering that it was the feature length debut of Sofia Coppola.

A collage of styles and emotional responses, the album incorporates every aesthetic we would expect from Radiohead without hearing the album, this time leaning more toward the dreamlike than to the arena sound, all the while sounding fresh and non-repetitive: «A Moon Shaped Pool» is irrefutably a Radiohead release and irrefutably its own.

It could be argued that the ending finally gives in and becomes the kind of film implied in the title; carefree and slightly more cinematic / dreamlike than realistic.

A harsh coming - of - age story set in a dreamlike, re-imagined, post-modern wild west, McLean's film manages to sidestep the arid ironies of most modern westerns on its way to far more interesting territory.

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As the story unfolds, and evolves from that of John Smith to John Rolfe (Christian Bale), it never loses its dreamlike aesthetic, conveyed through Lubezki's always - moving camera, but also through characters who say more in narration than they do in dialogue.

The story bears more than passing resemblance to Peter Weir's drama «Picnic at Hanging Rock,» a 1975 Australian drama with which «Strangerland» shares a dreamlike quality.

The film was shot by Larry Smith, cameraman on Stanley Kubrick's dreamlike «Eyes Wide Shut» and more recently the garish, hypnotic «Only God Forgives,» and so the images have a dynamic quality to match the forceful storytelling.

The crucifixion makes a brief, ethereal appearance and is all the more impactful because of it, but its Christ's journey and anguish in the desert that takes centre stage, providing for a dreamlike cinematic experience.

The execution is pedestrian, with Lado never venturing far down the more surreal or dreamlike paths favoured by his better - known compatriots in the genre arts.

Many of the tunes begin with a simple melody plucked out on a down - home instrument like a banjo or piano, then shift midway through to a more synth - dominated, dreamlike sound.

As they grapple with their own feelings and motivations as they rub up against their own, the film becomes more impressionistic and dreamlike, often flirting with tumbling over into nightmare.

The coral reef is more substantial and you will find dreamlike coral gardens, turtles, lobster, swarms of small fish and, with a little luck and depending on the season, whale sharks.

Rather than the more abstract approach that the thematically similar That Dragon, Cancer takes when dealing with themes of loss and remembrance, Fragments of Him elects to weave more conventionally structured tale; the monochrome tint of its characters and environments being much more similar to more traditional fare than the dreamlike aperture of the former.

Levels are cleverly designed with tremendous verticality thanks to the dual screens of the 3DS, making navigation through the game's retro dreamlike landscapes all the more fun and challenging.

On the other hand, many works have a more escapist quality — dreamlike or nostalgic — encouraging slower modes of engagement and reflection.

In terms of the 1980s, 1989 is a more familiar point of return, but earlier in that decade is slightly dreamlike.

Occupying the three main floors of the museum, and including a range of work from the artist's early career that investigates the representation of the female body, the event moved through to her more recent video installations that transform spaces into surreal dreamlike environments.

The artist is particularly interested in landscape and as such has created numerous images of the natural world, from detailed representations of plants and flora to more surreal, dreamlike panoramics.

Readers can also learn more about Ida Applebroog's strategy of separating her paintings into panels and about Susan Rothenberg's dreamlike drawings.

The opportunity for Calza to show work at fairs like 1:54 feels ever more important when looking at the outstanding work by East African artists that fills her booth, including Peterson Kamwathi's dreamlike meditations on our relationship to the universe; and the charged paintings of Beatrice Wanjiku, featuring amorphous figures in straitjackets.

Discussions will focus on the dreamlike landscapes, figures, and follies that fill the more than 1200 sketchbooks Scher has created over more than six decades of drawing.

After a study trip to Europe in 1856 - 8, his style of American realism, which up to then had been characterized by a hypnotic, dreamlike stillness - as exemplified by his masterpiece Fur Traders Descending the Missouri (1845, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)- became more contrived and sentimental, losing some of its appeal in the process.

Although «magic realism» is a term today more commonly associated with the 20th - century literature of Latin America, it was first coined in 1925 by the German art historian and critic Franz Roh to describe an emerging style of modern realist paintings with fantasy or dreamlike subjects, and is often seen as parallel to or overlapping with the New Objectivity movement.

Hendricks was represented by the Jack Shainman Gallery, which has had Yiadom - Boakye on its books since her first solo show, Essays and Documents, was held there in 2010, however she speaks a more gentle and dreamlike visual language in comparison to his.

Maureen Minehan lets that practical mantra guide her photography — yet visitors to «Threesomes,» her new show at Multiple Exposures Gallery, are certain to notice a dreamlike quality to her work, with lone subjects set off in the distance or lines that guide Read More...