Sentences with phrase «oblique narratives»

Ghostly figures, a theatric use of light, teasingly oblique narratives and the type of paint handling ability that can only be won over years of practice all add up to one potent image after another.

In keeping with the director's late style, it's a series of disjointed and overlapping ruminations and jokes, half - oblique narrative and half - essay film, shot in an experimental digital 3D that is guaranteed to slice out your eyeballs.

«This is a movie that I wanted to be about a dog and have an oblique narrative.

On the surrounding walls, Cantor's early possibly dream - inspired paintings added an enigmatic, oblique narrative.

At home, there was Barry Flanagan before he turned to bronze and Carl Plackman and Martin Naylor's oblique narrative installations.

A relationship to an oblique narrative runs through my work; references to things outside of the work connect to an unknown social or cultural context.

Not exact matches

There's a certain kind of film I see at many festivals: oblique, short on narrative and incident (or filled with repetitive incident), shot in a style that favors long (distance and time) shots of people doing nothing, or doing mundane things like crossing the street in real time.

Despite being, in a sense, the most straightforward, linear narrative movie the writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson has made in quite some time (perhaps since «Punch Drunk Love» — and this is not the only respect in which the two films resemble each other), «Phantom Thread» could be the filmmaker's most fascinatingly oblique work.

His impressionistic take on the notorious Charles Starkweather killing spree of the late 1950s uses a serial - killer narrative as a springboard for an oblique teenage romance, lovingly and idiosyncratically enacted by Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.

Although the criteria presumably remain constant («One narrative film directed by or written by a woman... making its North American, International or World premiere»), TFF has been a bit oblique about who the actual candidates were this year for this prestigious award.

As in the book, music is an essential part of the narrative, serving as an oblique reflection of Morvern's state of mind.

The popup is organized in a way which suggests a kind of historical narrative progression, in contrast with the nonlinear configuration of Vertical Elevated Oblique.

An oblique, troubling narrative takes shape as you watch each of the separate films.»