Sentences with phrase «narrative about cinema»

Aaron Gerow lays out a history of film criticism in Japan to the present day, underscoring a narrative about cinema negotiated by professionals who gradually lose the ability to make a substantial impact on either audiences or the industry.

Not exact matches

However, Lee Marshall of Screen Daily writes, «If narrative cinema is all about the harnessing of character and atmosphere in the service of a strong story, then Matteo Garrone's follow - up to his 2015 Tale of Tales succeeds on every level.»

There's something about the compulsion to spend allowance money mindlessly zapping zombies, beasts and trolls that just doesn't add up to narrative cinema.

Allan Cameron's Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema, the subject of this review, does something similar — for the most part — to Puzzle Films and seems to sit clearly on the side of the debate that understands there is indeed something unique about the complex narratives of contemporary cinema, arguing that these films are different not only from classical Hollywood films but also from the art cinema and experimental films they oftenNarratives in Contemporary Cinema, the subject of this review, does something similar — for the most part — to Puzzle Films and seems to sit clearly on the side of the debate that understands there is indeed something unique about the complex narratives of contemporary cinema, arguing that these films are different not only from classical Hollywood films but also from the art cinema and experimental films they oftennarratives of contemporary cinema, arguing that these films are different not only from classical Hollywood films but also from the art cinema and experimental films they often resemble.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

At the Glasgow Film Festival, I talked to McArdle about making the leap from music video directing to narrative feature filmmaking, creating the aesthetic of dreams vs. reality, the influence of horror cinema on her film, and depicting female friendship on screen.

He'd done similar, equally compelling work prior to his breakthrough (2009's About Elly stands as arguably his strongest film), but with an increased eye on Middle Eastern cinema in the wake of Kiarostami's Certified Copy and the jailing of the more radical, uncompromising Jafar Panahi, coupled with the film's heart - tugging narrative, A Separation arrived at an opportune time for his country's rise to international cinematic prominence.

Buñuel's film is a comedy about the insanities of modern life, paralleling the themes of Cytter's works in which she conveys the perils and triumphs of contemporary life through alterations in conventions of narrative cinema.

Their foray into feature film culminated with «A Woman's Case» (1969), an experimental though narrative film about bohemian lifestyle and art that was heavily influenced by European modernist filmmaking and new wave cinema.

Some of his filmic works are narrative (short) films, while others are reflections and experiments about cinema, and a third group are multi-channeled video works.

Combining narrative films like «Body Double» and «A Short Film About Love» with experimental films, documentaries, and video art, the series demonstrates how the ideas of voyeurism, surveillance, and identity have been central throughout the history of cinema.