Sentences with phrase «of cinematic forms»

The four features are the highlights, but the totality celebrates the diversity of cinematic forms in early cinema: 30 - second «actualities,» newsreels, cartoons, political tracts, documentary exposés, and more.

One of his era's most impassioned talents, Coppola was also one of its most erratic; in both his career and his personal life, he experienced euphoric triumph and shattering tragedy, pushing the limits of the cinematic form with a daring and fervor which became the hallmarks of not only his greatest successes but also his most notorious failures.The son of composer Carmine Coppola, he was born April 7, 1939, in Detroit, MI.

You've got your Volcano and Dante's Peak, you've got Deep Impact and Armageddon, and for those of you who don't see Disaster Movies as the be-all end - all of the cinematic form you've got Capote and Infamous... in which that southern writer was tossed at New York Society like a killer meteorite from outer space.

One of the great technical innovators and visual artists of his time, Gance was a master conductor of the cinematic form.

John Akomfrah, CBE (born 4 May 1957)[1] is a British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose «commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films».

Not exact matches

«We want to create scripted cinematic storytelling for the digital generation by combining great online talent with the storytelling expertise of Ron Howard,» Kathleen Grace, the former YouTube executive and current chief creative officer of New Form, told the outlet.

In order to best experience this «Star Wars» in its original, Shakespeare - penned form, I have decided to forgo seeing any of the cinematic adaptions until I read the play aloud, as intended by its author.

Other than exercising memory, which is displayed in the highly cinematic form of flashbacks, the novel's characters exhibit practically no interior dimensions.

The»80s may be dominating fashion trends right now, but pre-fall introduced a fresh 1940s current in the form of ladylike dresses that had a cinematic quality.

And who predicted, back then, that the series — which had a laborious birth under Chris Columbus» directorial midwifing of the first two episodes — would grow in cinematic stature under three other directors and become a cohesive long - form work that nearly rivals Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy in expertise, intensity and grandeur?

It would be very simple to assume that Yates simply has an episodic mindset, and is, through his training and sensibility, less capable of long - form, cinematic storytelling than Mike Newell or Alfonso Cuarón.

This is one of the best examples of actionful and suspenseful melodramatic story telling in cinematic form.

The thrilling conclusion to a phenomenal cinematic story 10 years in the telling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 is proof that authentic movie excitement is its own form of magic.

The point of «Inglourious Basterds» was not to engage in counterfactual speculation about a successful plot to kill Hitler, but rather to carry out a vicarious, belated and altogether impossible form of revenge, using the freedom of cinematic make - believe to even the score.

As a film, it's an unexceptional example of what the cinematic form can really do, but as a story, it's a riveting case that holds enough water to sustain interest.

There's something about the spectacle of movies like «King Kong» and «Godzilla» that's singularly cinematic — it's not something that other forms like theatre, TV, or fiction can do in quite the same way.

But then again, there probably isn't any ending to the film that really wouldn't be farfetched in some form or fashion, the cinematic equivalent of being painted into a corner, so it would have been a miracle not to disappoint.

Although the summer of 2015 has proven to be a largely disappointing season in terms of cinematic achievements for the most part, one definite bright spot has been the gradual reemergence of feature animation as a viable art form after a few years in which the genre has been largely dominated by increasingly formulaic and largely forgettable works that have done little more than fatten up the bottom lines of the studios behind them.

Robinson takes out - of - focus shots of an improvisatory dance troupe, footage from Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985), and a Gloria Estefan instrumental track and combines them all into an evocative and affecting work that embodies the filmmaker's distinct craft — an approach that be can described, in just one way, as a form of cinematic alchemy.

Using traditional research methods (reading old books) and non-traditional film processes (boiling old books) Gatten's films trace the contours of private lives and public histories, combining philosophy, biography, and poetry with experiments in cinematic forms and narrative structures.

Liman combines multiple cinematic techniques — most of which I'm usually not a big fan of: crazy camera angles, on - screen graphics, free - form editing and both text and voice - over narration — to get the documentary style look he was going after.

I find Malick's current form of filmmaking to be insufferable, yet I can not help but marvel at the cinematic beauty that he puts before my eyes.

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Zsigmond's cinematography has a terrestrial quality that suggests a cinematic form of impressionism, which pairs well with Altman's own wandering, free - associative instincts.

A smarter man could unravel the vast network of the sexual symbolic significance of del Toro pining for a sea creature procreating with a human woman but I'm happy to acknowledge del Toro's kinky side and embrace the fact that he's given his fetish cinematic form.

What Oppenheimer does next is cinematic subversion of the most eye - opening kind, allowing these admitted murderers to re-create this violence for the camera in the form of a congratulatory film that is at points brilliant, terrible, hypnotic and upsettingly revealing.

Through our open call for submissions, we hope to engage with filmmakers on the forefront of cinematic innovation and experimentation in both content and form, presenting access - driven stories with journalistic integrity that demand an engagement with our political and cultural environments.

«Meaningful», committed content smothers form and style, resulting in the cinematic equivalent of stadium rock.

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but in an increasingly crowded world movies market, replicating Korea's cinematic achievements in another language is not necessarily the best showcase for their homegrown products.

With an exhaustive season at the BFI Southbank in full swing, two major Hollywood movies on cinematic release in the form of IT and The Dark Tower, a TV version of «The Mist» and detective novel «Mr Mercedes» still both airing and at least two new films on the way, it is safe to say that Stephen King fever is in the air.

These stones — remnants of six singularities that existed before the Big Bang molded into stone form — are everywhere, and theorizing about their whereabouts has become a favorite pastime of Marvel Cinematic Universe fans.

Magic is an inherently cinematic art form, especially now when no illusion seems beyond the reach of a capable visual effects team.

Patricia Highsmith's monstrous literary creation Tom Ripley got his first cinematic outing in the form of an excellent Alain Delon in 1960's Plein Soleil (from August 30th) by René Clemént.

Even now, however, there is evidence of a return to nostalgia — just as Marvel's ever - expanding cinematic universe begins to court the more colourful aspects of its comic - book ancestry, Matthew Vaughn was all - too - happy to provide a similar tonic to a spy genre replete with Bournes and Bonds in the form of last month's Kingsmen: The Secret Service.

Scott Pilgrim plays well beyond the hype, an enormous burst of energy and imagination that both plays with every cinematic convention we know of and re-invents the form entirely

Sumptuously photographed and exceedingly intelligent, The Portrait of a Lady is a cinematic fever dream fascinated by the pictorial and sensuous forms of dominance within James's text, and the inextricable bond between romantic love and violence.

I'm not saying it's outright appropriation or overtly disrespectful, but Anderson's decision establishes a hurdle in the form of avoidable cinematic jet - setting.

Given the amount of the public information available about Jobs, the film feels like a lazy exploration into his life: a Wikipedia page in cinematic form.

It seems somehow appropriate that our greatest cinematic chronicler of oddballs, misfits and malcontents should hold court here in a functional - going - on - drab space where the only distraction is the sound of the human traffic that passes beneath his window, many of whom, even at this early hour of the morning, seem to have wandered, fully formed, out of Leighland.

The films of Matías Piñeiro represent something of an ouroboros for a writer enthused by the task of categorization and analysis, for the simple fact that they take the perennial «inability to be pinned down» as the very basis for their cinematic forms.

His cinematic language is steeped in his deep understanding and history of his art form, and that comes through in every passionate frame.

Director Noah Baumbach pieces each snapshot together with utmost skill, forming a unique cinematic experience that plays out more like a relic of the 1940s or 50s.

Asghar Farhadi is an extraordinarily perceptive filmmaker with a profound ability to distill the «ordinariness» of the human experience into cinematic form.

While the literary fans will most likely be split as far as how Yates and Goldenberg have chosen to adapt the Rowling opus, fans of the movies can finally have something to smile about, and one can only hope that future film versions will continue this new trend on sticking to the basics to tell a story in an appropriately cinematic fashion, leaving the side stories and whimsical superfluous characters better left to the realm of the richly - developed book forms.

Even some of 2016's darkest cinematic clouds had silver linings in the form of fine acting in films that didn't otherwise deserve it

The first: Her MacGuffin was one of the Infinity Gems — or, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Infinity Stones — objects of immense power that, when brought together, form the all - powerful Infinity Gauntlet.

These superficial descriptors of perceived quality evince an all - too - common perspective from younger filmmakers on a form of hard - edged cinema that values narrative jolts above the meaningful creation of a cinematic world.

The form and function of cinematic zombies have shifted throughout the years, but the presence of the zombie movie within the horror genre has remained a steady force since the early»30s.

I came across the new Senses of Cinema too recently to have sampled much beyond their «Special Dossier» on the cinematic history of Tasmania, but even that's provided several articles of interest, including Jeannette Delamoir's history of the now mostly - lost silent Jewelled Nights (whose star and chief creative force, Louise Lovely, claimed she here innovated the shortcut of using shots of ship's funnels and locomotive wheels to stand in for long voyages); director John Honey on the making of the state's first self - produced feature, 1980's Manganinnie; and two looks at the island's most famous son: Robert de Young on how Tasmania's wildlife and raging seas formed Errol Flynn, and Adrian Danks on the star's superb collaboration with Raoul Walsh.

Cinematic bad boy Brian De Palma is in fine form with this sleek remake of Alain Corneau's Love Crime.