Sentences with phrase «nonprofessional actors»

As before, Bujalski's preference for nonprofessional actors, his ear for the rhythms of conversation among bright young 20 - somethings and his adept use of a roving, hand - held camera (this time shooting in fuzzy black and white) lend the film an invigorating energy.

He makes some interesting points about casting nonprofessional actors who can behave realistically onscreen, but mostly this is a painful round of questioning from someone armed only with minimal press notes, like «coming - of - age movie.»

Filmmaker David Gordon Green creates a nuanced, diffuse portrait of a rural North Carolina community in repressed turmoil, its inhabitants (portrayed by nonprofessional actors) consumed by anxiety, economic woe and lethargy in equal measure.

Under the tutelage of socially active Belgian playwright Armand Gatti, Jean - Pierre learned about the political and artistic possibilities of film and video, as well as the creative potential in using nonprofessional actors.

The artists engage a recurring cast of nonprofessional actors as well as invented or adopted characters, ranging from puppets to dummies, plush animals, makeshift robots, and rejected toys, who rehearse power dynamics and emotional entanglements.

Populated with utterly convincing nonprofessional actors (casting alone accounted for years of pre-production), the film gains its force through a steady accretion of seemingly minor incidents and inconspicuous subtexts.

Sean Baker directs fiction films like a documentarian hesitant to work within a journalistic framework, often casting nonprofessional actors in roles that draw upon marginalized experience.

And just as Bicycle Thieves employed nonprofessional actors, Fruitvale has its own methods of evoking a sense of realism.

Though Bresson favored nonprofessional actors, director Anton Corbijn has secured George Clooney to play the title role of a top - of - the - line professional assassin.

Not all of these films are, strictly speaking, children's films, and some are documentaries; but most of them feature children, and in many respects they establish a particular kind of filmmaking that The White Balloon exemplifies: loosely scripted narratives with documentary elements that employ mainly nonprofessional actors.

Nonprofessional actors play versions of themselves in Chloé Zhao's tale of a fallen rodeo rider.

Nonprofessional actors like his leads usually need time to get used to a camera.

In your last interview with Film Comment in 2003, you discussed your preference for nonprofessional actors and the naturalism they are able to convey.

Since 2011, Italian filmmaker Roberto Minervini has made three films taking place in Texas, using nonprofessional actors and seamlessly merging documentary with fiction.

Cast with utterly convincing nonprofessional actors, Western is a gripping culture - clash drama, attuned both to old codes of masculinity and new forms of colonialism.

In Monte Hellman's hypnotic road movie Two - Lane Blacktop, folk singer James Taylor gives a lead performance that is both unassuming and arresting, the kind of askew, unshowy, vanity - free acting that perhaps only a nonprofessional actor is capable of.

In Monte Hellman's hypnotic road movie Two - Lane Blacktop, folk singer James Taylor gives a lead performance that is both unassuming and arresting, the kind of askew, unshowy, vanity - free acting that perhaps only a nonprofessional actor is capable o...

Both are helped by an excellent ensemble, many of them nonprofessional actors.

Using a low budget and nonprofessional actors, the film is quietly moving, with a subtle synth score, evocative cinematography and organic, internal performances.

Kes brought to the big screen the sociopolitical engagement Loach had established in his work for the BBC, and pushed the British «angry young man» film of the sixties into a new realm of authenticity, using real locations and nonprofessional actors.

Nonprofessional actors might have lent some authenticity to the mundane events, but it's hard to imagine one getting through the convoluted speechifying that makes up most of the dialogue.

Director Amat Escalante uses artful long takes, nonprofessional actors, and moments of abject miserableness — in one terrible - to - watch scene, a character has his genitals lit on fire — to sketch the story of a decent Mexican family churned up by their country's corrupt police force.

«A grainy little movie acted by what appear to be nonprofessional actors, who are besieged in a farm house by some other nonprofessional actors who stagger around, stiff - legged, pretending to be flesh - eating ghouls.

Bujalski's Funny Ha Ha, in 2002, was one of the first to be coined «mumblecore,» and the awkward but natural performances from its nonprofessional actors became a defining characteristic of the movement.