Sentences with phrase «of visual wit»

Review: «a very sophisticated sense of composition, and a great sense of visual wit» — The Wall Street Journal

This kind of visual wit allows Smith to indulge a quite original colour sense that feels linked directly to the real utilitarian world but also one heightened by colours and forms wrested from mass media imagery.

Not exact matches

The pace of Star Wars is rapid fire for most of its hour and 57 minutes, and the script is filled with a verbal and visual wit that has been rare in Hollywood movies since the screwball comedies of the «30s.

Not long ago I had the pleasure of working with Adrian, * a visual artist with a quick wit, easygoing spirit, and creative eye.

In a March 11, 2015 «Well» blog New York Times health reporter, Gretchen Reynolds, reported on a new study by NYU researchers, including Laura Balcer, a member of MomsTEAM Institute's Board of Advisors, about the use of a simple, rapid, and inexpensive visual test called King - Devick as a sideline screen to help identify athletes as young as five wit

Research done by researchers from the Wits School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, partly done at the Monte Casino Bird Gardens in Johannesburg, has shown that puff adders not only camouflage themselves with their highly evolved visual camouflage, but they are also difficult to find by smell.

All the wit in Brent Simons and Alan J. Schoolcraft's script is matched by the sort of painstaking visual ingenuity that makes most live - action production seem lazy with cynicism.

What this raucous 3D animated fun house lacks in originality (think bastard child of The Incredibles and Despicable Me) it makes up for in visual and vocal wit.

But obviously the real stars are the hundreds of artists and technicians who get this story told with so much visual accuracy and wit.

The Last Supper shows some darkly effective visual style, but it has none of the wit needed to save such a story from lumbering obviousness and sophomoric political debate.

It was the most assured film Coppola had made in a decade, full of casual wit and visual invention.

The visual style — the orange - and - blue color scheme, the elegant «Scope compositions, the graceful tracking shots, and the shrewd use of shallow focus — has been reproduced almost perfectly from John Carpenter's original, yet the wit and intelligence are gone.

Oddly enough, the wit is still there, but this time it's in the form of homages, both visual and aural, hearkening you back to the 70s schlock action cinema, full of revenge plots, martial arts gusto, and bad - ass mamas who aren't afraid to tussle with the big boys.

With an irreverent wit, a group of anti-hero characters who hated everyone as much as they loved themselves banding together to save the galaxy, and a bright, extravagant visual palette that popped in a way that directly opposed the bland, grey tones of the rest of the MCU, the first Guardians was lightning in a bottle that would be impossible to capture twice.

Lacking, too, is the visual wit that made Mary Harron's American Psycho adaptation so scabrously entertaining, leaving us instead with little more than the depressing sight of a hairy James Corden snorting copious amounts of coke before taking an unmourned early bath.

Like its predecessor, «Paddington 2» is a clever delight of visual invention and wit; this sequel draws particularly from the films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton for its ingenious slapstick action set pieces, while the screenplay by director Paul King and Simon Farnaby packs the dialogue with fun wordplay and tiny details that pay off in major comic ways.

Plenty of other fun comes from the verbal wit and visual comedy that the Muppets are famous for.

With Mr. Zombie's lovingly evocative influences of drive - in grindhouse B - movies, the heavy - metal undertaker shows real skill and wit, starting with his grungy, filthy visual style.

You can never mistake a Wes Anderson movie: his colourful visual style and quirky wit infuse every frame of his movies, whether they're set underwater (The Life Aquatic), on an Indian railway (The Darjeeling Limited),...

As outlined in GameSpot's review, Little King's Story is filled with gorgeous visuals, epic boss battles, and layers of subtle wit and cross-cultural references.

A well - received alum of last year's Sundance Film Festival, where it went by just Thoroughbred, Cory Finley's fiendishly clever debut has visual confidence, razor wit, and excellent performances (including one of the last turns by the late Anton Yelchin) to spare.

Sumptuously appointed even while being critical of class hierarchy, these films — all made with the same corps of collaborators, including the charmingly impetuous star Odette Joyeux — endure as a testament to the quick wit and exquisite visual sense of the director whose name they established.

Stone's quavery but full voice and her raw vulnerability are riveting and a reminder that for all of La La Land's visual flash, its greatest strengths are Stone and Ryan Gosling, who put their wit and woes into every second of their screen time.

Big Hero 6 (Disney, Blu - ray, DVD, VOD) is an adaptation of a Marvel Comics title but the filmmakers thoroughly transform it into a Disney feature, complete with issues of loss and family at the center of the creation of a student superhero team, with the spark of Pixar in its visual invention and knowing wit.

Like Michael Dubo de Wit's remarkable film that draws upon the pastel naturalism of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli for what might be their best film in a line of classics, Del Mar's music is the equivalent of those soft brushstrokes on a big screen canvas of visual poetry, a score that profoundly captures a life at first seemingly lost at sea, only to soar under, and above it though its graceful music that touches the silent tides of nature's life force.

This lovely tale is gifted more than its fair share of wit and visual flair by Paul King of The Mighty Boosh / Bunny and the Bull fame.

Armed with nothing like innovation or intelligence at the script level, Kim lards The Last Stand with several inspired visual gags that culminate in a chase through a cornfield and one frozen, bird's - eye shot that gifts the film with a kind of wit it doesn't deserve.

All that said, this is a satisfying film that takes its characters but not itself seriously, and mixes sequences of wonder, visual wit and pathos in with the world - building and dramatic housekeeping.

The martial arts sequences are genuinely impressive, with Key and Peele director Peter Atencio giving moments such as a terrible action remake of Huckleberry Finn real visual style and wit.

You can, believe it or not, see some of Leitch's affinity for the silent classics in Deadpool 2, a movie that often blends action and comedy with visual wit and efficiency, offering an unexpected new angle to a sequel that returns with the expected load of R - rated snark and in - jokes for movie buffs (Celine Dion sings over the opening sequence, which invokes everything from Bond movies to Flashdance.)

As critic David Sterritt notes in his liner essay for our edition of the film, the dazzling Brazil's «verbal and visual wit remain as incisive as ever, and the themes it explores — social alienation, terrorism, the hazards of high technology, and the bureaucratization of absolutely everything — are more urgent now than when the film premiered.»

I think this is a film for people that do nt like art cinema Its all very visual and cut skillfully with requisite tied up in a bow ending but it has little of the wit of the much superrior «Read my lips» Which this is very much a companion piece as for the acting Marion does needy again and Matthias doe lovable brute... no stetch then its a decent film and you almost want to visit waterworld ooops own goal for Greenpeace

The film, which combines hypnotic digressions into visual poetry with bellicose wit and the youthful energy of abandon and excess, won her a Special Jury award for her directing approach at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival earlier in the year.

< br / > Fans who bring home the Ultimate Cinematic Universe Edition (4K Ultra HD + Blu - ray + Digital) of «Thor: Ragnarok» will experience all the thunderous action and lightning - fast wit in stunning 4K Ultra HD with next - generation high dynamic range (HDR) visuals and Dolby Atmos immersive audio.

Fans who bring home the 4K Ultra HD + Blu - ray version of «Thor: Ragnarok» will experience all the thunderous action and lightning - fast wit in stunning 4K Ultra HD with next - generation high dynamic range (HDR) visuals and Dolby Atmos immersive audio.

Bursting with a rich blend of timely themes, superb voice work, wonderful visuals and laugh - out - loud wit, Walt Disney Animation Studios» «Zootopia» is quite simply a great time at the movies.

Cartoonist Joann Sfar brings visual wit to this biopic of the controversial French icon, but not much insight.

As perhaps the most famous Dutch auteur, he's gone from ribald little European films to the biggest of Hollywood bangs, incorporating his unique wit, visual sense and narrative acuity to all his projects.

3 hr., 3 cassettes or 4 CDs Author and illustrator Tomie dePaola narrates this story of his childhood in suburban Connecticut in the 1930's with the same wit, flair, and charm that characterize his visual art.

To wit, the goal of the game is to achieve a state of visual disparity and not visual symmetry.

Cohen notes «At first [Westfall's] compositions strike the viewer as well - behaved structures of pattern with decorative correlates in the applied arts... But his visual wit goes beyond mere reference to recent abstract art history.

The exhibition's title, I KILLED KENNY, invokes the vernacular of «South Park,» framing Pensato's visual vocabulary within the cartoon's sardonic wit and cultural critique.

But behind the rich layers of vibrant colors and sharp imagery, visual wit and dark humor reveals her cheeky commentary on issues like gender, capitalism and violence.

An approach to artmaking that combines visual wit and material sensibility is central to the whimsical spirit of the exhibition.

The results are arresting conceptual works of visual power and wit.

The scenes portrayed with wit and cleverly concise absurdity are less the result of a voyeuristic perspective than an attention to self - representations, roles, fantasies, and desires in everyday life, and which naturally includes the (visual) relationship between man and woman.

Selected group exhibitions include After The Thrill has Gone (Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Virginia, 2016), Re (as) ssisting Narratives (Framer Framed, Amsterdam, 2016), International Short Film Festival (Oberhausen, 2016), When Tomorrow Comes (Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg; Michaelis Galleries, Cape Town, 2015), DIS / PLACE (MoCADA, Brooklyn, 2015), AFIRIperFOMA (Lagos, 2015); What Remains is Tomorrow (South African Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2015), La Fabrique (De L'Homme Moderne, in association with the Lyon Biennale, La Fabric, 2015), Solomon Foundation for Contemporary Art (2015), Foreign Bodies (WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, 2015), Broken English (Tyburn Gallery, London, 2015), Brave New World... 20 Years of Democracy (Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 2014),!

Like zest in the art world mix, her work will bring wit and savour to the Biennale,» remarked the British Council's director of visual arts Andrea Rose.

Sharrer drew from popular culture and mass media to invent a complex visual language equal parts wit, seduction, and bite, which she used to expose the exclusionary culture and politics of Cold War America.

Raymond Pettibon Surfers 1985 - 2013» Venus over Manhattan, New York, NY, April 3 — May 17, 2014; catalogue 2013 «To Wit,» David Zwirner, New York, NY, September 12 — October 26, 2013; catalogue «Raymond Pettibon: No Title (Safe he called...),» High Line Billboard, New York, NY, June 3 — July 1, 2013 2012 «Raymond Pettibon,» Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK, October 3 — November 17, 2012 «Some early works,» Georg Kargl Box, Vienna, June 28 — September 8, 2012 «Whuytuyp,» Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland, March 24 — July 22, 2012; catalogue 2011 «Desire in Pursuyt of the Whole,» Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, November 4 — December 22, 2011 «Looker - Upper,» Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany, April 30 — June 11, 2011; catalogue 2010 «Raymond Pettibon: The Punk Years (1978 - 86),» Florida Atlantic University Schmidt Center Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, November 13, 2010 — January 22, 2011; traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Tucson, Arizona, October 22 — December 18, 2011; University Gallery, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, January 27 — February 27, 2012; Visual Arts Center, Boise State University, Boise, ID, March 7 — 28, 2012; McIntosh Gallery, Ontario, Canada, September 13 — October 27, 2012; One Grand Gallery, Portland, OR, December 7, 2012 — January 25, 2013 «Hard in the Paint,» David Zwirner, New York, NY, November 6 — December 21, 2010 «Thoughts for a Book: Raymond Pettibon & Brian Kennon,» Station, Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, September 13 — 29, 2010 [two - person exhibition] «Raymond Pettibon,» Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, May 21 — July 10, 2010 2009 «Raymond Pettibon,» Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK, November 25, 2009 — January 9, 2010 «Raymond Pettibon: Repeater Pencil,» World Class Boxing, Miami, November 14, 2009 — January 30, 2010 «Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon: Hipnostasis,» Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, May 24 — August 23, 2009 [two - person exhibition] «Crop,» URA!