Sentences with phrase «new narrative films»

A handful of new narrative films garnered attention from festivalgoers in Telluride, but, it was the ones rooted in reality, like Lady Bird, that were among the best of this year's offerings.

Not exact matches

Pollock, whose documentary, «Strange Fruit,» premiered at the South by Southwest Festival on Saturday, claims the new security tape featured in the film points to a cover - up of evidence on the part of Ferguson police, and a false narrative painted about Brown by city officials.

They claim that their movie is the first feature length narrative film to give the public an opportunity under the new rules to invest in it.

We've got a new feature length narrative film almost done being edited and we need some key positions to join the team and carry the film through it's release.

Turning an album into a gorgeously - rendered art film was new, unexpected, and revolutionary, and Beyoncé did it while weaving a narrative about womanhood, motherhood, loss, reconciliation, and yes, race.

[Director José Luis Guerín is] a meta - narrative, semi-doc mad scientist, and his new film is not only both fish and fowl, but a rarefied gender provocation of a kind that could make fourth - wave feminists» heads spin.

But somehow Sorrentino is able to fashion the film's diverse elements into an emotional narrative that makes it all feel fresh and new.

His new film, screening in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival, combines his skills at narrative and documentary filmmaking to create a brutal mockumentary of loosely connected vignettes about the propaganda - and conflict - riddled Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.

Utilizing both a documentary - style news format and a classic, cinematic narrative, the film is said to explore genre themes with a new twist on structure.

New for 2011, films in competition were also eligible for Jury Awards for Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Score / Music, Best Screenplay (narratives) and Breakthrough Performance (narratives).

For the past 7 years, she led media engagement and social impact initiatives supporting documentary film and is now bringing her expertise to narrative projects as Advisor on Impact & Social Innovation for Killer Content and their new creative studio venture Level Forward in partnership with filmmaker and philanthropist Abigail Disney.

It is fine with me if there are two, ten, or a hundred cinemas, but I think we have to understand that the most important new movies will not be coming from the directors who make better and better films in conventional narrative modes, no matter how much we may admire and enjoy what they accomplish.

As was the case with the first film, Deadpool 2 doesn't try overly hard narrative wise, this new jaunt sees Wilson in a state of depression and in a situation where he finds himself trying to protect Hunt for the Wilderpeople star Julian Dennisen's mutant teenager from time travelling super-soldier Cable but it's all an excuse to give audiences more of what they came to love in the first outing.

Furman sacrifices a new narrative style for character focus, making each film into an underdog story with a clearly defined hero.

Now two new featurettes dive into the fascination that Disney himself had with the innovations of the future, and the ideas he had in order to make civilization more efficient, not to mention the narrative in the film as well.

From the giant screaming spider - scorpion hybrids the «Gladers» call «Grievers,» to the virus - infected zombies they call «Cranks,» to a return of a shady, long - thought - dead character from their past (who could've been an entirely new character and it wouldn't have mattered), to Thomas» middle - finger salute to Janson, the callbacks to the previous two films don't do much but add padding to the narrative.

A vérité style narrative featuring professional and non-professional actors, and produced with a crew made up largely of women, Newman offers a new take on the sports film which wisely avoids sentimentality and melodrama.

The newer film has a clearer narrative, attempting to squeeze a «Bourne Identity» - style thriller between bong hits.

Through AFI's Narrative Labs project, with support from the Sundance Institute and New York's Cinereach organization (which has also helped produce small, memorable films from Citizenfour to Beasts Of The Southern Wild), Howe was able to complete Gabriel, which stars Rory Culkin as a young man navigating a mental illness that distances him from his caring and frustrated family, and leads him on an increasingly desperate quest throughout the film.

Sarah Polley's new film, Stories We Tell, is an exploration of the functions of narrative as they relate to the telling of our life stories.

In the trailer that announced Monáe's new album, the singer alluded to a narrative film that might accompany Dirty Computer.

As this new trailer — which is more of a behind - the - scenes glimpse at the production than a proper narrative trailer — reveals, the film will feature a new song from talented musical boy Nick Jonas.

As to where it is all leading... well, Apes fans will be agog to know how a certain New York statue is holding up, and whether this film can in narrative terms do anything other than mark time.

For a film like this to work, the two leads need to have the acting ability to carry the entire narrative, and Cullen and New certainly achieve this under the skilled direction of Andrew Haigh.

After seeing the packed narratives within narratives of part one, Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One seems, as Miguel Gomes himself suggested, a very different film, connected to the first by the framing device, theme and some of the performers (assuming different roles in the new installment) rather than through narrative continuation.

When writer / director Paul Thomas Anderson made his acclaimed drama «The Master» (2012), he originally intended to shoot roughly 20 % of his tale of an alienated young man (Joaquin Phoenix) falling under the spell of the charismatic leader of a new religious movement (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in 70 mm, but wound up shooting nearly the entire thing in the process (the first narrative film to do so since the aforementioned «Hamlet»).

Though the film's narrative never fully develops and fails to explore the deepest parts of this cautionary tale, the full commitment from the directing style and its performers transform a seemingly A-typical story to something new and dynamic.

BeFilm is a New York Based film festival that focuses on short form documentary, experimental, narrative, animation and 3D films.

It's a disturbing film, in that all the things we might normally attribute to ineptitude - the fractured narrative, the confusing visuals, the repugnant lead character - seem intentional, possibly the harbinger of a new aesthetic.

The short film Cutting Grass was awarded Best Narrative at BeFilm The Underground Film Festival in New York.

In the New York Premiere of the narrative film Love Is Strange, Ira Sachs shines in his writing and directing of the challenges faced by two mature gay men, played by Alfred Molina and John Lithgow.

(1) Indeed, beginning his fimmaking career in the 1960s, Schroeter has been an important and influential proponent of the New German Cinema, although his personal eccentricities and refusal to use conventional narrative tools in his films have rendered his work somewhat obscure and less marketable than some of his more famous contemporaries such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog and Volker Schlöndorff.

The film streamlines that narrative, excising much of Ronit's New York life, downplaying (not always for the better) the life of the Orthodox community in favor of Ronit's emotional recoil.

Internet Movie Database users, who shows less reverence to classics and are remarkably quick to embrace certain new releases, currently rank it 115th among narrative films.

Presenting the world premieres of sixteen narrative feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film.

With a starry cast, including Elisha Cook Jr, James Mason and a never - better George Dzundza, Hooper's film coherently draws together its various convoluted narrative strands, setting the central supernatural mystery against the backdrop of petty disputes within a fundamentally rotten New England community.

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2017 NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: With a conventional story of friendship and racial inequality, «Mudbound» is a visually poetic experience and reaffirms the genius that was shown in Dee Rees «inaugural narrative «Pariah» six years ago.

Crowe's new film is being judged against his last narrative feature, «Elizabethtown,» and from there, there's no place to go but up.

Indeed, the notion of these documentaries as belonging to a particular genre is challenged the most by French and Japanese films that borrow narrative techniques from their coinciding «new waves.»

The Tribe / Ukraine (Director and screenwriter: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy)-- Set at a Ukrainian boarding school for the deaf, the film's narrative unfolds purely through sign language without the need for employing subtitles or voiceover, resulting in a unique, never - before - seen cinematic experience that engages the audience on a new level.

There's a moment about three - quarters of the way through BPM — this crucial shot's placement in the narrative, neither too early nor too late, is another mark of this film's exacting delicacy — when we get a glimpse into the dream world of Sean, a passionate lover of both life in general and his new boyfriend in particular, who's unrelievedly furious at the prospect of dying this far before his time.

In the capable hands of director Matt Reeves and motion - capture star Andy Serkis as Caesar, I'd gladly watch more new APES films by 20th Century Fox to see just where the narrative will take us and how closely it will skew to the original franchise storyline.

However, Justin Kelly's new film, «JT Leroy,» focuses the narrative elsewhere.

The larger narrative pays homage to the first films as well (search for lost Jedi Knight, blow up big enemy weapon) and, uninspired as this is, Abrams and co. introduce enough twists into the formula to make old tricks feel new again.

The film follows different characters «from person to person» in New York City, handing off the narrative to each one as it continues on.

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While The Image film lacks graphic penetration, there's no doubt Radley Metzger used the film to test the possibility that a fusion of erotica, structured narrative, and hardcore elements could create a new and successful hybrid.

With the new film comes a new director, Francis Lawrence, who gives us less character touches but more emphasis on action (thankfully, with less of the shaky - cam effects of Gary Ross), which may please those looking for the dystopic film to just keep moving, even if it seems to skip some narrative steps along the way.

That it messes with structure and medium is nothing new, but as with the casting of Downey Jr. and Monaghan as grammar - school classmates (even as it's commenting on Hollywood's treatment of women, it's guilty of it), as it's fucking with the way we look at film and understand narratives, it's indulging in the topsy - turvy, smart - alecky vogue of Guy Ritchie / Christopher Nolan chic.