Sentences with phrase «of slow cinema»

This avant - garde provocation from the French auteur Bruno Dumont is a savoury piece of slow cinema; a supernatural tale cooked so long and low that the meat falls away from the bone.

With a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplation of slow cinema over the past fifty years.

Not exact matches

Temperatures may be dipping but the crop top trend shows no signs of slowing down, as proved by Katie Aselton on the red carpet at ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood, California for the «Drinking Buddies» screening yesterday evening.

An emotive and pragmatic slice - of - life that's strictly for lovers of slow moving cinema.

From one of the most distinct and celebrated directors of contemporary Taiwanese cinema, Tsai Ming - liang, comes Walker, a formally rigorous and meditative short film that observes a monk as he ambles through the bustling streets of Hong Kong at his own VERY slow pace.

An unfazed tough guy walking away from an massive explosion in slow motion, it's a tipping point reached long ago — this sequence has become a well - worn cliché in the visual vocabulary of pop culture even beyond cinema.

Stylistically, First Reformed is shot and edited like an art movie, its look and tone aligned with the chilly minimalism of the «slow cinema» Schrader has theorized and canonized in his work as a critic.

Already widely cited and used in courses in film studies, film genre, and art and avant garde film, this updated edition situates «Transcendental Style», forty - five years later, as part of a larger movement in post-war cinema, the Slow Cinema movement.

His new introduction linking transcendental style to the time - images of Deleuze and Tarkovsky, as well as slow cinema, which followed, only adds to its importance.

Though it has a lot of fun playing with slasher tropes and cinema in general (showing the way Max and her friends are affected by elements like musical cues, monochromatic flashback sequences and slow motion within the fictional movie), the film isn't funny or scary enough, ultimately becoming a victim of its own satire due to its insistence on preserving the genre's traditionally bad acting and writing.

But we're also fans of slow burns, arthouse cinema and Terrence Malick.

After a slow first few days wheeled out a platter of surprisingly mediocre films given this is the most prestigious film festival on Earth and can cherry - pick from the cream of world cinema, Festival de Cannes clicked into gear.

As an offering of «slow cinema,» Vandendriessche is no Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and though this film's strength ironically resides in its digital photography, Vandendriessche lacks the natural intuitiveness for his images to leave any lasting impact beyond their aesthetic assuredness.

The visual splendor of Zack Snyder is on full display, and what a magnificent looking piece of cinema it is, as the director does well playing somber and slow during the first hour - plus of build - up, only to finally get a chance to let it all rip in grand fashion for a lengthy showdown between godlike beings battling it out on Earth for the fate of two separate races.

Continuing on from yesterday where great British comedy sat alongside Turkish slow cinema in our countdown of the best films from 13 - 6, here are our top five films of 2014.

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Slow cinema lodestone Journey to the West comes across as Tsai's brilliant and clever attempt at auto - critique, as he places the contemplative fundamentals of his cinema (as symbolised by Lee Kang - sheng and Denis Lavant) into the frantic, chatty, unwieldy maelstrom of modern urban life.

Fluk's compositions are at once chilly and sensual, with a European art cinema buff's attention to bodies, and there are lovely moments throughout: James and Jonah in a swimming hole, scanning the water's surface in search of fish; James and Sam's regret - soaked slow dance at a community center social; a tracking shot that trails Jessica through a grassy field as she looks back teasingly at the camera.

Between Moonlight and the upcoming Call Me By Your Name, some are calling this the golden age of gay coming - of - age cinema; Beach Rats» slow pacing and dreamy verité style doesn't feel made for quite that level of mainstream appeal.

GAME CHANGERS By Paul Schrader Slow, fast, and reverse motion: part five of a technological history of cinema

Years from now, director Ava DuVernay will continually be referenced for a dizzying amount of incredible firsts (many of which unfortunately serve as a reflection of the tiresome and slow progression allowing for varied perspectives in popular English language cinema).

Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016) Three loosely related vignettes prove, once again, that Reichardt is American cinema's leading author of slow - cooked, subtle character studies.

Speedsters on screen have been well - established through ultra slow motion since the breakout Quicksilver scene in X-Men: Days of Future Past, and Zack Snyder's introduction of The Flash into cinema follows the same template.

It's a slow burn of a buddy cop thriller that sticks to the most basic of action movie clichés, entirely ignoring the CGI and overzealous plotting of the last twenty years of big - budget cinema.

WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC Grand Jury Prize: Slow West, John Maclean Directing Award: The Summer of Sangaile, Alanté Kavaïté Special Jury Award — Cinematography: Partisan, Germain McMicking Special Jury Award — Acting: Glassland, Jack Reynor Special Jury Award — Acting: The Second Mother, Regina Casé, Camila Márdila

Before the film Martel stated that she is «quite a supporter of falling asleep at the cinema» which certainly fits with the slow, sleepy build of the first half.

In the case of cinema, slow motion has been widely used as a poetic device to accentuate and invigorate moments that need to be highlighted, whether for storytelling or purely aesthetic... Read more»

Legendary documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán (Nostalgia for the Light, The Battle of Chile) discusses memory, the poetic qualities of cinema, and why slow pacing returns us to the rhythm of life.

Among the topics addressed are alterations made (Michael Gambon was deleted from the film), the script contributions of the uncredited David Rabe, casting, the cast's chemistry, struggling to earn an R rating, the real Westies gang being dramatized, the difficulties such a «slow burn» film would face being made today (he repeatedly laments the current state of cinema), his influences, the crime genre, how U2 nearly scored the film, how Ennio Morricone actually did score the film, and Joanou's disheartening personal career trajectory.

The college experience has long been a favored stomping ground in cinema, and it shows no sign of slowing down.

It's slow moving and some audiences will struggle, but like Scent of Green Papaya it is a vital sign of life from Vietnamese cinema.

This is true of slow - burn cinema of any stripe, but Kusama slow - burns to perfection.

When a film's opening shot is of a snail oozing across the screen in its own sweet time, you know you're in for some seriously slow cinema.

THE BLU - RAY DISC by Walter Chaw Where zombies in American cinema seem to have risen with televangelism and its slow - moving white people promising salvation in the life of a sheep (in that sense, they're really just another iteration of the Body Snatcher archetype), in Italy they transmogrified, following the success of Romero's Dawn of the Dead there, into analogies for romance - gone - sour.

Despite being a slow process, cinema has a funny knack of holding a mirror to the world.

A slow to unravel crime saga laced with the trademark super-realism we've come to appreciate from the New Wave of Romanian cinema.

Peggy's relationships were a driving factor of the show, and while the second season's love triangle may have slowed down certain episodes, the character's ability to make allies out of enemies harkens back to classic hero tropes in action cinema.

Indeed, movies and the wonder they inspire, «like seeing dreams in the middle of the day,» are central to the story, and Selznick expresses an obvious passion for cinema in ways both visual (successive pictures, set against black frames as if projected on a darkened screen, mimic slow zooms and dramatic cuts) and thematic (the convoluted plot involves director Georges Méliès, particularly his fanciful 1902 masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon.)

Essential reading this weekend — boredom and dystopia in slow cinema, the return of London's Hayward Gallery and the dark drawings of Gus Bofa