Sentences with phrase «of celluloid»

No one in the right mind would call this a good film, or even a decent one, but thankfully, rookie feature director John Bruno's romp is not a complete waste of celluloid.

Working with intensely pigmented layers of oil on fine linen, he «traps» the image in between the layers of the paint, creating a sumptuous high - gloss finish just like a piece of celluloid film.

Two miniature sculptures in the show take the form of a shipwreck and a shack, their walls formed by strips of celluloid prints of Varda's first two feature films, La Pointe Courte and Le Bonheur.

Tacita Dean, in the book accompanying her recent Turbine Hall installation at London's Tate Modern [1], essentially campaigns for the preservation of celluloid film by rallying film makers, writers and artists to speak out against the immediate threat of obliteration of her (and their) medium.

As well, you can take a peek at composer Harold Arlen's home movies, outtakes and deleted scenes, special effects sequences, the 1938 MGM short From the Vault: Another Romance of Celluloid: Electrical Power, the 1939 newsreel Cavalcade of Academy Awards, the 1939 trailer Texas Contest Winners, audio vault, the radio promo Leo Is on the Air, the 1939 radio show Good News, the December 25 1950 Lux Radio Theater broadcast, and stills galleries.

Comedy writers have to be able to keep up on the news of the day, fluently critique every comedy movie since the invention of celluloid, and then write original material under deadline.

Another brilliant mind from the world of celluloid fantasies shares her views on politics, and it turns out to be worthless tripe.

Combs were among the first and most popular objects made of celluloid.

Lifeless frames of celluloid passed in front of a bright bulb 24 times a second yield moving images convincing enough to make us believe there are living people up there on a screen, moving about with purpose.

It's hard to become emotionally involved in a picture (and I think Funny Games demands some level of involvement) when you can feel the director forcing every minute of celluloid right down your throat.

Nolan also continued to champion the preservation of celluloid film during a three - day trip to Mumbai, India.

His installations make new use of celluloid 35 mm film, VHS tapes and analogue television screens.

Obviously, this is an allusion to Rick's profession, a notable somebody in the world's largest manufacturer of celluloid dreams, all more or less tied to a sprawling city known for its proliferation of psychics and mediums as both tourist attractions or acceptable lifestyle conditions.

The infinifilm Rush Hour 2's greatest strength is a 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer that approximates the natural, chemical quality of celluloid like few others I've seen.

Dean has been an outspoken advocate of film as a distinct and vital artistic medium, finding in the material properties of celluloid the only appropriate vehicle for her alchemical meditations on light and the beauty of obsolescence.

Jack Pelling is the editor and co-presenter of Celluloid Heroes Radio, which can be visited by clicking here.

Nowhere did those shorn locks fall harder than in Leominster, Massachusetts, which had been the country's comb capital since before the Revolutionary War and which was now the cradle of the celluloid industry, much of it devoted to combs.

Ample supplies of celluloid allowed manufacturers to keep up with rapidly rising demand while also keeping costs down.

One was cellulose acetate, a semisynthetic product (plant cellulose was one of its base ingredients) that had the easy adaptability of celluloid but wasn't flammable.

James Mitchell Crowe writes about the somewhat exciting decay of celluloid materials, mentioning the spontaneous ignition of early film tapes...

Even if an hour of film that is pure character development is added back in, that doesn't change the fact we're still starting with two - and - a-half hours of celluloid that has none to start with.

, shines as a frazzled producer with two exes and a pair of celluloid nightmares — a pretentious Sean Penn flick whose» edgy» ending features a dog getting shot, and a big - budget headache starring Bruce Willis, who refuses to shave his bushy, Talmudic beard.

Maybe it was a little too sharp - edged, since there is something to be said for the tactile softness of celluloid, but it was impressive, and an enormous improvement over what I've seen before, including Rodriguez's own «Spy Kids 2.»

It's one of the most meticulously crafted pieces of celluloid ever created.

The unfamiliarity wears off swiftly since the quality of the riffing is superlative here, exhaustively poking a particularly primitive film pulled from the overflowing 1970's vault of celluloid shame.

... could have used more movie - specific discussions of the aesthetic implications of celluloid versus digital.

It transcends merely bad, merely tedious, merely irksome and plummets into that very special category of film, the one that so tries and tortures its audience that, emerging again from the soul - sucking black hole of celluloid disaster, it no longer fears... Read More»

More so than Maddin's other films, this work revels in a ghosting of celluloid.

A burst of celluloid adrenaline, «M: I - Rogue Nation» is thrilling from beginning to end without sacrificing story.

In celebration of the centennial of Melville's birth, IU Cinema introduces a new regular film series titled 5X, aimed at offering a peek into the canon of the celluloid legends who may not be able to join us in person, but whose influence is felt every time our screen lights up.

To eyes that grew up on the rich texture of celluloid — or are accustomed to the relative sharpness of other digital formats — there's a certain cheapness to the result.

In a series of celluloid paintings almost baroque in their intensity, Tourneur and director of photography Nicholas Musuraca create a seamless and sinister world that captivates from the first shot to the last.

A universe existing right next to ours, where time and space collapse into a giant stew of celluloid and pixels.

In recent years, perhaps as a response to the onset of digital filmmaking and the near - total obsolescence of celluloid, a number of filmmakers have endeavored to keep the 70 mm flame alive.

That she's adorable is a given — the real issue is whether she's an actress or just a bundle of inexplicable charisma, a ganglion of celluloid starlight that evaporates under the slightest critical scrutiny.

While Tokyo Godfathers is undoubtedly slight, it has a firm mooring in the traditions of cinema and an understanding, most importantly, of where it belongs in the flow of the celluloid narrative.

The first half of the evening promised a Hugo sweep that in fact didn't happen, Martin Scorsese's tribute to the birth of celluloid scooping up five technical awards until the cinematic paean to itself that is The Artist took over in the second half to score five trophies of its own, three of them in the crucial categories of Best Picture, Actor, and Director.

The Special Edition DVD of the movie Malcolm X offers an in - depth look at the man and the makers of this celluloid biography.

I could have feasted on every luscious strip of celluloid twice as long.

Posters for Airport» 77, jokes about plot - heavy porn and a touch of celluloid fetishism add nostalgic charm, along with spangly flares and splattery comic violence.

The bad news is that Cameron Crowe, in an attempt to duplicate the magic of Garden State, has fashioned a movie filled with so much unnecessary whimsy and so little character development, that it implodes into a mess of celluloid.

The phoned - in method is mirrored by his stars, with Statham channelling his stereotype, Owen squandering his talents, and De Niro continuing his decade - long crescendo of celluloid disappointment.

So complete is Crowe's self - deception in regards to the validity of his celluloid mélange that the closing credits proclaim, «Written for the screen and adapted by Cameron Crowe.»

The picture is not especially high - contrast overall, but dynamic range is well preserved from the highlights down into the shadows, and the colours, pushed way to the cool side of the palette, have been lovingly managed to retain the look of celluloid.