Sentences with phrase «older film material»

Significantly, at this time Conner re-edited older film material and worked with large - scale digital installations.

Not exact matches

The film hasn't stood the test of time, and the material on - screen is tired and old, and gets annoying after a few viewings.

Like two of the year's other standout American films, Kelly Reichardt's «Old Joy» and Ryan Fleck's «Half Nelson,» it's a movie of ideas in which the ideas flow effortlessly out of the material instead of being plastered on top with a heavy cement roller (as in «Crash,» «Babel» and «Little Children»).

After all, the 71 - year - old French auteur, whose film Beau Travail remains one of the great works of the last few decades, has taken an especially grim turn as of late, with movies like Bastards, White Material and The Intruder exploring some of the darker sides of contemporary humanity.

Hostiles Stars: Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Ben Foster, Q'orianka Kilcher, Scott Wilson, Peter Mullan, Adam Beach and Jesse Plemons Director: Scott Cooper Scriptwriter: Scott Cooper based on the manuscript by Donald E. Stewart Composer: Max Richter Cinematography: Masanobu Takayanagi Entertainment Studios Rating: R for violence and themed material Running Length: 133 minutes The Old American West still thrives in film country.

Essentially, then, this is a stop through (mostly) all of Linklater's feature films, with the usual testimonials from famous collaborators (Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Jack Black, Patricia Arquette) and fans (Jonathan Demme, Kevin Smith), accompanying some admittedly interesting archive material, although said material tends to be stuff anyone with old DVDs of the likes of Dazed and Confused will have seen already.

Starring as the film's definitive anti-hero, a 40 - year - old miscreant named Guy Trilby determined to become the nation's best speller, Bateman knew in order for the material to reach its highest comedic potential he would have to step in front of the camera as well.

It's possibly the source material, Old Man Logan, but the film builds on Mangold's previous foray, 2013's The Wolverine.

The film largely consists of old women reflecting on the good and bad parts of their anonymous singing careers, material complemented by looks at the striking, hopeful Hill, who rehearsed singing with Jackson for his unrealized final concert tour and then gained notice for a performance at his memorial service.

This year it seemed as if the esteemed Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan had managed to walk between the raindrops of this out - with - the - old edict, as his new film, The Wild Pear Tree, was dropped into the line - up as a late edition and, rumour has it, with material excised by request of the selection committee.

I'm proud to report that despite having a very skilled cast of both younger and older actors doing it justice, the material propping up The Mortal Instruments is every YA genre skeptic's nightmare, and the cinematic interpretation is such an overwrought, drab and cumbersome film that it's not even a suitable popcorn - muncher to help pass the time.

Kino Lorber released a nice Blu - ray edition, which looks great, even though the quality of its source material varies wildly; the old Lamar film clips are a bit fuzzy, while the new interviews are sharp.

It's very heartening, too, that the DVD features such a robust slate of bonus material, anchored by 50 minutes» worth of behind - the - scenes footage that includes interviews with all the cast and crew, and charts the movie from inception (producer Ian Birkett was a film school classmate of Andrews, and his older brother Paul worked up the script) through pre-production work, shooting up in Canada, and post-production.

If anything, the mix is too good, clarifying some minor deficiencies in the source material, but that's par for the course for a seventeen - year - old film.

21 Jump Street Rated R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language, drug material, teen drinking and some violence Available on DVD and Blu - ray If you would have told me in January that one of the best films of the year come June would be a rehash of the old Johnny Depp TV show about cops who undercover in high school, I would have called you an idiot.

The jokes reference beloved scenes from the first film, but it never feels like a re-hash of old material (they even manage to elicit laughs from a dated reference to «Gangnam Style»).

It was a very different take on this material than the old Charlton Heston films or even the Tim Burton remake.

Who we think will win: One of the main reasons that No Country for Old Men ranks among the best films of the year, is the Coen brothers» decision to stay true to Cormac McCarthy's source material.

Enthralled by the evocative power of obscure old film footage, Bill Morrison began haunting film archives in search of raw material for his avant - garde short films... read more

Wide ranging in approach, his work is unified by his regular use of American vernacular culture — including books, posters, newspapers and magazines, records, old films, and other vintage items — which he draws from his vast collections source material.

A generation of users revolted, and in March 2010, a group called The Impossible Project took over the old factory in The Netherlands to make and distribute instant film materials for vintage Polaroid cameras.

He is renowned for the way he interweaves the past with the present in his films, layering archival film footage with original material, questioning old narratives and constructing new ones.

Therefore, the encounter will survey works with either a complex exhibition history or with limited exposure; for instance, the assemblages and pieces the artist made at the end of his life, after officially retiring, in which he revisited, reformulated and refined old materials, such as his «90s punk collages or his «60s and «70s films, which he transferred to a digital format.

In his process - based film installations, Mauricio Ancalmo often incorporates found machines of various kinds — 16 mm film projectors, a sewing machine, a word processor, turntables, old medical equipment — and pushes these mechanical instruments to their material limit, so that chance, physical breakdown, and erosion become incorporated into his working method without being the end in and of itself.