Sentences with phrase «of cinematic narrative»

Barba's work explores the material properties of film, such as the celluloid filmstrip, projection and sound apparatus, while at the same time probing the structure of cinematic narrative and its relationship to memory itself.

The Fall is a short meditation on the construction of cinematic narrative and homage to Andrei Tarkovsky.

We can expect the usual mix of cinematic narrative, puzzle solving and falling off narrow walkways.

A swansong to a breed of cinematic narrative which has finally reached its apex.

Recent projects by Da Corte have been immersive installations that play with the malleability of time, the fluidity of space, and the design of cinematic narratives as an invisible and plastic architecture.

Not exact matches

If you're not working the room like a Hollywood head - turner on the red carpet, you're probably writing a cinematic narrative in your head about all the ups and downs of your romantic life.

Director Andrew Kuehn has excerpted brief segments of terror and suspense in a wide variety of horror movies and strung them together with added commentary, as well as some enacted narrative, to create a compilation of cinematic, fright - inducing effects.

King Kong is a lightweight compared to the trio of mutant creatures who climb atop Chicago's famed Willis Tower in Rampage, a cinematic adaptation of the classic arcade game that emphasizes big - budget spectacle over narrative substance.

Imagine a cinematic equivalent of a Picasso cubist portrait, but instead of showing multiple perspectives of an object in an image, it presents experiences from different periods in a life in a single narrative.

by Walter Chaw The problem with disconnected narratives and the (empty) conceit of alternating film stocks of equally shoddy quality is that what is intended as evocation of the character's grimy chaotic shiftlessness can come off as cinematic smoke and mirrors.

These golden nuggets of cinematic genius are peppered throughout the films conservative eighty - four minute narrative, each presenting a different overall feel and visual tone to each scene, and it is this impressive variety along with the films pace and subtle humour that is key to its success.

And though I'm often reticent to watch movies more than once or twice, Tully is the kind of cinematic treat — a cult classic well in the making — that you'll want to rewatch again the second it's over, not just to help piece together various narrative clues but to revisit the rib - tickling jokes and hang out with these characters for a little longer.

And though that may limit the willingness of some to embark upon Park's vision, those willing to invest in the various threads of his ouroboros narrative and allow themselves to become an author in Park's craning whirligig of Shakespearean tragedy and sardonic sexual exasperation will find the The Handmaiden is filled with sick pleasures many and makes for a rather rewarding cinematic experience.

For now, with Atwell already heading up a new series Conviction and Peggy Carter's cinematic narrative laid to rest, it seems we may have seen the last of our intrepid agent, but with Sharon Carter poised to take a bigger role in the MCU, her legacy is sure to live on.

Unless you've been living in a cave for the better part of 2009, you've already heard the buzz surrounding Inglourious Basterds, an ultimate cinematic package filled with enigmatic performances, ultra-violent imagery, and a revisionist World War II narrative created over the course of a decade by director Quentin Tarantino.

The music - driven feature film combines a bold narrative and spectacular live - performance footage of one of the most popular and influential rock bands in history to produce a bracing, raw andvisceral cinematic experience.

Directed by Brad Peyton, who has wreaked cinematic havoc around Johnson in «San Andreas» and «Journey 2: The Mysterious Island,» «Rampage» expands the narrative of the retro game, which involved a giant gorilla, wolf and crocodile crunching skyscrapers into dust.

Final Verdict: Gibson and Glover shine as one of the greatest cop pairings in cinematic history, almost hiding a weak narrative with their sheer charisma.

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.

Under the sheen of narrative games and puns and references both literary and cinematic, at the center of it all, is a dog, Roxy Miéville, wandering the countryside, beside a lake, through a woods, a natural world utterly transformed by the phantasmagoric possibilities of digital cinema.

Note that I didn't call The Forbidden Room Maddin's «latest film,» for this isn't so much a film as an encyclopedic compendium of cinematic possibilities, a cauldron bubbling over with highly spiced visual and narrative tropes.

But when it comes to their narratives, they are both sorely lacking in the type of blow - you - away cinematic audaciousness exemplified by both «12 Years a Slave» and «Birdman.»

Filmmaker Sally Potter combines the experimental tools and feminist approach of her earlier films with art - house style and more conventional narrative storytelling to find the cinematic counterpart to Virginia Woolf's writing in this 1992 adaptation of Woolf's novel «Orlando: A Biography.»

Sang - soo is a filmmaker who has long been interested in rebuking cinematic traditions of time, viewpoint and narrative structure.

Recommendation: The trifecta of a steadily absorbing narrative, plush cinematic texture that contributes mightily to the mise en scène, and excellent performances from two seasoned pros makes this an easy recommendation.

But while Cronenberg's dry wit is on partial display here, the satirical tone feels off - key and the narrative is disappointingly disjointed but seemingly aware of it, as if it's playfully reveling in its lack of cinematic coherence.

Napoleon: Total War defines a new standard within the genre with exciting characters and a cinematic narrative, mind - blowing battle sequences and an unrivaled mix of turn - based and real - time strategy.

Great Directors on TCM: Akira Kurosawa Between his flawless translations of American genre films (especially crime films and westerns) to Japanese settings both contemporary and medieval, his groundbreaking experiments with cinematic point of view and narrative reliability, and his brilliant juxtapositions of Shakespeare with Japanese tradition, Akira Kurosawa can easily claim to be one of the greatest and most influential directors of all time.

It's true that Ritchie has pinched a good number of cinematic styles from Tarantino, but unlike Tarantino's customary nonlinear narrative, Ritchie presents his clever tale with «Seinfeld» - esque coincidences that haphazardly bring all of his characters together in the end.

Berg, making her fiction debut, and her director of photography, Rob Hardy, push Every Secret Thing into the overcast dimness that has become a color - palette requirement for cinematic narratives in which loved ones get murdered or go missing.

Ford's cinematic influences are overtly placed — everything from the iconography and satire of DR. STRANGELOVE (as shown in the war room scene), to the narrative drive of STRAW DOGS (as shown in the grippingly tense scenes with fictional Tony's harassers, led by a perfectly - cast Aaron Taylor - Johnson), to the tangible feel of David Lynch's oeuvre, to the cunning bite of Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES.

SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD, adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Bryan Lee O'Malley, redefines the cinematic linear narrative by frog - marching it straight into the psyche of the post-adolescent zeitgeist.

The music - driven feature film combines a bold narrative and spectacular live - performance footage of one of the most popular and influential rock bands in history to produce a bracing, raw and visceral cinematic experience.

The director of the astonishing, gruelling necrophilia opus Aftermath, Cerda is something like a genius whose gift for cinematic narrative is, unfortunately, tied to subject matter far too gruesome for the average moviegoer.

Here, Jodorowsky's magical realist, fable - like cinematic language finally enters the real world; if cult films like «El Topo,» «The Holy Mountain,» and «Santa Sangre» interwove elaborately absurdist imagery with narratives borrowed from genre and myth, «The Dance of Reality» feels like Jodorowsky returning to the scene of the crime — to the the childhood visions and heartbreaks that started it all.

That is not to say that the director compromised his style in any way; many will still find his glacial pacing, aversion to traditional narrative and the film's almost total lack of action an agonising ordeal, but for those willing to open themselves up to Hou's cinematic majesty, the results are intoxicating and mesmerising in a way no other film could accomplish in 2015.

A few inspired cinematic choices — a roving camera, an unexpected book - ending of the fourth act — help to breathe life into a stodgy narrative.

The Russos, aided by a script from Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (the writes of both previous Captain America films), have the unenviable task of corralling a mammoth cast (that recap paragraph didn't even have room to mention Paul Bettany's Vision, Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye, Paul Rudd's Ant - Man or the debuting Tom Holland, bringing Spider - Man into the main Marvel Cinematic Universe) and steering them through a twisty narrative chock full of multiple belligerents coming from all angles.

With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on - and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a decaying bourgeois family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel.

A summer movie event that has literally been a decade in the making, Avengers: Infinity War is the new capstone of Marvel Studios» ambitious master plan to bring the majority of their comic book heroes to cinematic life — not in separate, stand - alone films, but rather in an intricate web of interlocking narratives, each of which features various plot points and isolated moments (some buried within or after the closing credits) that have laid the groundwork for the events depicted here.

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.

If his last film, the atmospheric, if claustrophobically nondescript saga of love and woe To the Wonder was the acclaimed filmmaker's attempt to pick away at cinematic convention, it is with this one that he abandons traditional narrative constructs entirely.

Verbinski had this to say: «I think the whole utopia - gone - wrong story that's cleverly unveiled to players is just brimming with cinematic potential... Of all the games I've played, this is one that I felt has a really strong narrative.»

In order to force the spectator to be aware of the cinematic apparatus, Haneke creates a new route, differing at the same time from the classical narrative cinema, which suspends the spectator's awareness, the first - generation modernism of benign reflexivity, characterised by Chantal Akerman's cinema, and the second - generation modernism of aggressive reflexivity, exemplified by Jean - Luc Godard's Le Vent d'Est (1970).

And while the cinematic phantasmagoria is more interesting than any psychological reading or narrative understanding, it's like mainlining decades of giallo highlights in a single screening.

That knowledge makes the already graceful cinematic language of Lynne Ramsay's film adaptation (the Scottish director's third feature, and her first in a regrettable period of nine years) all the more remarkable: altering not a jot of narrative detail, Ramsay and co-writer Rory Kinnear have ingeniously hollowed out Shriver's wordy text into a largely tacit, imagistic memory collage that substitutes sound and vision for dialogue as extensively as possible.

Although untitled Avengers 4 movie will not be the last Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, it will be the end of the narrative that began with Iron Man in 2008.

While we naturally cherish every narrative feature Scorsese turns his hand to, there'd be no complaints here if the rest of his post-Silence career were spent producing such personal epics of cinematic academia.

Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992) and Lumumba (Raoul Peck, 2000) are discussed from the important perspective of whether they represent racial - colonialist «appropriationist» or «assimilationist» narratives, and Bingham uses specific textual details (including cinematic techniques), extensive background production research, and his own logical argumentation to substantiate his opinions on these significant issues.

Despite not much press yet for the upcoming Marvel sequel - which makes sense given that Marvel Studios is still focused on next month's Black Panther, followed by May's Avengers: Infinity War - the Ant - Man sequel is expected to be very pivotal when it comes to the narrative direction of the Marvel Cinematic Universe moving forward.