Sentences with phrase «of artistic»

It has a look and energy that has the stamp of artistic visionary Tim Burton all over it, and for good reason — director Henry Selick had just finished directing two films produced by Burton, The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, and it's adapted by Sam Hamm, who worked on the Burton comic book flicks, Batman and Batman Returns.

The film's pursuit of a higher form of artistic truth merges with Dickinson's own.

If this glib description of the synopsis hasn't already left you with the impression that this movie suffers from a lack of artistic ingenuity, let me assure you this won't be showing up on award's ballots for 2014.

For De Palma, Obsession, Dressed to Kill, and Body Double are less the oft - accused rip - offs of previous Alfred Hitchcock films than rigorous reckonings with a burgeoning postmodern dilemma; not merely the «anxiety of influence,» to quote literary scholar Harold Bloom, but something more akin to outright agony, where questions of artistic lineage from the outside spool the proceedings within into a nightmarish phantasmagoria, the implications of which are still to be unraveled.

But, looked at objectively (or, as objectively as possible when judging any piece of artistic expression) we're looking at a completely average, by - the - books, documentary that reveals very little real insight, and keeps hitting the same point over and over ad nauseam.

It creates an added layer of artistic pretension for a movie that should have stayed in the grindhouse.

In many ways a complex exploration of the twin challenges of artistic creation and parenting, Goodbye Christopher Robin nevertheless strays distressingly from the real facts of the case.

One truly can compare the watching of how big studios and their hired bigwigs operate as the equivalent of watching how sausage gets made, as many of us to very much enjoy the end product, but we would be less pleased if we were to know how a kernel of inspiration from the mind of a writer can be second - guessed and repackaged due to executive decisions made by relatively visionless empty suits who are in the creation process solely to make money, squeezing out all trace of artistic merit where it interferes with bottom - line profit.

The idea that characters must be likable can become a sort of artistic tyranny, of course.

Now my mom has to believe it could happen to me, if I achieve the same level of artistic merit.

It should be mentioned that this is Baumach's second film in a row to have characters making poor ethical decisions in pursuit of artistic success.

Despite stricter Academy rules for performance capture and traditionalists decrying the technique's lack of creative merit, Tintinclearly pushes boundaries with a new kind of artistic layering of animated expression.

His latest film, which had its world premiere at Cannes this morning, sees him returning to an examination of artistic sensibilities in the 19th century, a subject he hasn't broached since 1999's Topsy Turvy.

«All I can do is take care of the artistic side of things and it is great to be putting out a film like this with such a strong female presence.»

The Playlist found the first trailer for the film on YouTube, and if you're familiar with Hero, House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower, you won't be too shocked to see plenty of artistic slow - mo, thematic colours, extravagant costumes, and melodramatic acting.

In a screenplay overrun with concerns of artistic purity and staying true to oneself, the film finds no space to thematize wealth as a source of Anna's supposed betrayal beyond Kate's vague assertions of her selling out.

The impact of these artistic choices is essential to the success of the film overall in that they create an air of mystery around Amina, which is countered by the blunt reality of the final act, which includes a conversation between Sandra and «Amina» that's one of the best scenes at Sundance this year.

Venturing deeper into the mainstream, Hedges has lost most of his artistic credibility.

Coogler excelled showcasing long - form action beatdowns in Creed so it's disappointing to see what felt like a total lack of artistic vision and unique take on any of the action spectacle.

The long preview version had long ago supplanted the original theatrical release for theatrical showings, while the home video version was a revision of its own, a hybrid of the two existing versions combined without any consideration of artistic intent or narrative consistency.

The show finds Joseph Fink, creator of Welcome to Night Valeand Alice Isn't Dead, in conversation with one of his artistic heroes, John Darnielle, singer and songwriter of the Mountain Goats.

The Theatre Program provides peer - to - peer, artist - driven, artist - to - artist mentorship and exchange rooted in a process of artistic inquiry and exploration

The Sundance Institute Theatre Program provides a unique catalytic process of artistic engagement in the world of theatre development programs.

It's a film of artistic discovery, but also one of weariness and exhaustion.

Director, writer, pulp fiction author, raconteur and all - around maverick character Samuel Fuller was as proud of his military service as any of his artistic accomplishments.

Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.

An extensive selection of work from across the world is presented including the World Premieres of William English's HEATED GLOVES and THE HOST, in which director Miranda Pennell delves deeper into her past and her late parents» involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP); Ben Rivers» THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS, the feature element of Ben's current Artangel installation at BBC White City; EVENT FOR A STAGE by Tacita Dean, a filmed presentation of her live theatrical happening in collaboration with actor Stephen Dillane at the 2014 Sydney Biennial; the European Premiere of Omer Fast's REMAINDER, a London - set thriller adapted from Tom McCarthy's acclaimed novel of the same name; the European Premiere of INVENTION which highlights the possibilities of camera movement and the development of artistic apparatus and Kevin Jerome Everson's PARK LANES, set in an American bowling alley over the course of a day.

Torpedo Man, the superhero of his artistic cosmology, is portrayed on the left.

Marginalized from society, or at least the art world, due to disability, isolation, or lack of artistic training, outsider artists «are basically following their own personal vision,» Russell says.

The Lego Movie was a crazy, erratic affair to be sure; the film certainly spread its wings in terms of artistic creativity.

With its gorgeous widescreen compositions and sophisticated look at American male obsession, this stripped - down narrative from maverick director Monte Hellman is one of the artistic high points of 1970s cinema, and possibly the greatest road movie ever made.

Along the way, the whole realm of human emotion and community experience is chronicled, satirized, critiqued, and explored, with Kurosawa at the peak of his artistic powers.

It's obvious that they've spent their joint career striving to promote an egalitarianism in Hollywood — not just with their all - inclusive casting decisions, but also with their embrace of the test - screening process as a barometer of artistic success.

A docu - drama hybrid and examination of the artistic process that imagines 24 hours in the life of Nick Cave.

Still, this film's story, about a woman who rejects the role of artistic muse by reshaping its contours in her own wickedly creative fashion, does have a ghostly outside - the - theater afterlife in the time of #MeToo, or whatever we're calling the crisis of conscience our culture is undergoing with respect to gendered power and sexual violence.

Taking a leaf out of the history books plus lots of artistic liberty, Bladestorm Nightmare focuses on the war between England and France called the Hundred Years War which was between two powerful houses, that of Plantagenet and Valois.

Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, the 1989 Batman graphic novel that sold 120,000 copies in one day and paid Morrison a dollar for each of them, «is more significant for him in terms of commercial development than in terms of artistic development,» Meaney says.

As far as films go, the script and direction by Richard LaGravenese (Paris I Love You, Living Out Loud) aren't going to set the cinematic world on fire, as he imbues his tale with ample amounts of artistic license in order to get his overall message across.

Cash strapped and homeless, she begrudgingly returns to the Hamptons home of her father (Christopher Walken), an over-the-hill crooner desperately charting his musical comeback, in this spunky, soulful dramedy about the personal costs of artistic ambition and the bonds that carry us through.

FINAL PORTRAIT is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art - lover James Lord and Alberto Giacometti, as seen through Lord's eyes and revealing unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes the chaos of the artistic process.

And so it's difficult to remember that Weekend, the last remotely traditional narrative feature he'd produce until the release of Every Man for Himself, in 1980, isn't the film of a man at the end of his artistic rope, but rather of a man intent on taking a match to it.

On top of that it has great humour, great magnificent performances.Great blend of artistic vision with a fresh screen full of talent.

Her son Rio (Ryan Guzman), who wants the label to return to its roots of artistic integrity, becomes the band's manager.

Argentina, Zama It's an amazing vote of artistic confidence for Argentina to choose Lucrecia Martel's deeply demanding, deeply rewarding colonialist - bughouse period drama as their contender.

Between the personal reminiscences with which Anderson, Schwartzman, and Coppola infused the story, the shared trip to India around which it was built, the intermingling of the action with local contingencies, and the wealth of artistic and cinematic references from his own experience, Anderson turned The Darjeeling Limited into a virtual archive of the physical and intellectual process of its production.

Venice is probably still the safe bet, but given the recent change of artistic directorship there, Cannes seems like a possibility.

Cash - strapped and homeless, she begrudgingly returns to the Hamptons home of her father (Christopher Walken), an over-the-hill crooner desperately charting his musical comeback, in this spunky, soulful dramedy about the personal costs of artistic ambition and the bonds that carry us through.

He drops dope sh-t, blows our minds and goes away for a while until he drops his next mind - blowing piece of artistic genius.

Elizabeth Olsen makes the most of her artistic - minded, self - centered character, but seems a bit too much like an archetype: girls who can attract men, but not obtain them.

It's not just the title of Martin Scorsese's brilliant, excruciating tale of artistic delusion, The King of Comedy, that retrospectively takes on a sense of tragic irony when viewed in the context of its star's career.