From the artist interviewing Orson Welles through a psychic, to recordings of
nighttime scenes in the Limpopo savannah, the works create evocative audio scenarios tempered with conceptualist strategies.
Though the sequel features far more footage of the giant beasts, including a spectacular
nighttime scene in which one of the bioluminescent creatures ejects phosphorescent spores into the desert sky, the story remains stubbornly focused on relatively uninteresting human concerns.
Not exact matches
Since last January, the Little Rock - based investment firm Stephens Group Inc., Huntingdon's largest shareholder, has been the target of activists, and Huntingdon's New Jersey lab has been the
scene of protests, vandalism, and,
in April, a
nighttime raid that «liberated» 14 beagles.
The picture ends up looking somewhat low on contrast
in several
scenes (particularly the
nighttime segments), although for the most part it sports pleasant visuals.
I noticed no issues with compression artifacts or banding, though there's definitely a bit of black crush
in nighttime scenes.
Home Entertainment features an overall solid Blu - ray transfer, but one that is perhaps a shade too dark during
nighttime sequences, making it hard for the viewer to decipher what is happening onscreen
in select
scenes.
The eye - opening documentary «Cartel Land» opens with a
nighttime scene that would not have looked out of place
in «Breaking Bad.»
He fills the gloomy town with colorfully abstract peasants and hard - bitten villagers, films the Talbot Manor like a haunted house, pumps fog through every
nighttime scene, silhouettes his figures
in the night with carefully calibrated backlights and sweeps through every transition with striking images that look more like TV commercials than portents of horror.
Director Harold Daniels is no visual stylist and there's a slackness to many of the
scenes, but he comes to life
in a
nighttime murder
scene that he transforms into a model of noir violence, an urban street fight
in the dark of the empty city picked out
in shards of light (credit likely goes to cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, RKO's crime movie vet), and the screenplay co-written by Steve Fisher has a bite of irony
in its twists.
Yet these moments are more than balanced by
scenes of genuine originality, horror and truth, as when we see images of naked slaves on display
in a genteel parlor, or, most unforgettably, become witnesses to the
nighttime entertainments of the mad slave owner (Fassbender), who insists that his slaves dance for him.
A jump
scene occurs during a
nighttime search
in the woods when an unexpected creature appears.
When events turn against our heroes, light and color ebb again, then return on tiptoe, and
in nighttime shots of the heroes zipping around Hogwarts or London on brooms, they're nearly silhouetted, and the backgrounds are shadowy compared to similar
scenes in Chris Columbus» early installments, which were often overlit
in the manner of a mid-60s live - action Disney adventure.
Oberoi is where the famous «Eat Street» lays, a vibrant
scene in which scores of restaurants and
nighttime venues compete to present the best dishes and entertainment.
But
in 2007, when his 1991 White Canoe, a
nighttime scene of a canoe on a lake, was sold at Sotheby's for $ 11.3 million — then an auction record for a living European artist — Doig went from being «a hero to other painters to a poster child of the excesses of the market,» says Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Only the golden haze from Bierstadt's Lake Tahoe, for instance, or the greens, yellows and reds of sirens, fires and traffic lights
in the
nighttime riot
scenes are still visible through Ms. Mehretu's dense accumulation of strokes.
Each built -
in theme has a separate photo displaying a daytime and
nighttime scene, along with showing the sun for the day and the moon for the night.
Credit: Jeremy Lips / Tom's GuideI enjoyed the rich, vibrant reds
in scenes of
nighttime traffic
in a 1080p trailer for Police Story, and the clarity of Jackie Chan's frown lines as he looked up at his captor.