Sentences with phrase «on celluloid film»

His long takes, tracking shots, use of natural lighting, admiration for shooting on celluloid film and blend of comedy and drama have distinguished his films as pictorially attractive and thematically inimitable.

A trim, informative 99 - minute primer on celluloid film, which to many viewers has a warmth and feel as soothing as buttered popcorn, and the brave new world of digital cinema.

Not exact matches

Only in the past few years have a large percentage of films been shot digitally, and shooting on celluloid is still alive and well.

The best argument for shooting on celluloid in the digital age gets made in the Romanian film When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism.

When originally released, Wings included a sequence lensed in the wide - screen «Magnascope» process; even when seen «flat», however, the film contains some of the best flying sequences ever captured on celluloid.

According to the latest Celluloid Ceiling report, women comprised a scant 15 % of all directors, writers, producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 films of 2007 («The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind - the - Scenes Representation of Women on the Top 250 Films of 2007,» Martha M. Lauzen).

Anderson has long been a proponent of shooting on celluloid and releasing his films theatrically, which puts him on an anti-streaming team that also includes directors like Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino.

It's a mix of loving homage to rhythm and blues, scattershot comedy, on - the - spot musical, and the most outrageous car chase film ever put to celluloid.

THE DVD by Bill Chambers It's not clear from the press release whether Lovely and Amazing, which was shot in 24 fps HiDef, bypassed a celluloid intermediary in its transfer to DVD, but whatever the case, the film looks technically as lush on the format as the all - digital Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones.

This film version plonks Neil Simon's Broadway smash on screen without rethinking it for celluloid.

When translated into film, however, Barker's work (including that which the author has shepherded to celluloid himself) takes on a certain seediness that undermines the essential elegance of the writing.

We are so fortunate to still get great guests and films, and to have the facility at the beautiful movie palace, the Virginia Theater, to show movies on celluloid as well as in 70 mm.

Baker said he's really excited about the look of the film, especially the way Zabe captured the sun - filled images on celluloid.

: Heaven Knows What played extremely well with the IONCINEMA team — our Jordan M. Smith called the film an «open - hearted, rawly bellicose realization of addiction has only been graced on celluloid but a handful of times, making the Safdie's film a new exemplar of narcotic cinema for the ages,» the directing team plus regular contributor Bronstein are undoubtedly at the top of their game early into their filmography.

Now, 30 years later, the film holds up not only as an insightful look into teenage life in the»80s, but also as one of the most honest and perceptive depictions of the teenage experience to be captured on celluloid.

As with most biographies and true stories put on celluloid, only so much can be folded into a feature - length film.

As ever, it's odd that Nolan should be such a fervent champion for shooting on celluloid when so many of his images are monotonous and filmed in a color and lighting range that's more typical of digital.

But Spielberg's achievement on this occasion is to fold into his own celluloid know - how an astonishing script by playwright Tony Kushner that animates the political process to a degree rarely encountered on screen: small wonder both men figure among the film's 12 Oscar nominations, the most of any movie this year.

The Jurassic Park films are largely about children, and the Star Wars prequels provide not only a child lead for the first film, but a CGI abomination and some of the worst dialogue ever committed on celluloid.

Other than the announcement that the ending would change, the other changes from this stage to celluloid transition was casting; French Bob (played by Inglourious Basterds» Denis Menochet on the theatre stage) became Mexican Bob (Demian Bichir), James Remar «s part was re-cast with a bonafide movie star (who we won't discuss until after posting our spoiler warning), and Amber Tamblyn «s Daisy was recast with Jennifer Jason Leigh (whom, I will say I spotted in the audience of the live - read talking to Harvey Weinstein and I astutely wrote that she should be in a Tarantino film; hey readers, sometimes armchair casting actually happens!).

Here's that rare movie that equals its source material: While the mid-point plot twist is easier to spot in the film — and while the pitchfork scene in the novel is far more disturbing than on celluloid — the movie is more ambiguous than the book, and that in turn makes it far more haunting on multiple levels.

The NYFF Retrospective showcases 24 of his finest performances and spans 50 years, from his first major role in The Story of G.I. Joe, which earned him an Academy Award nomination, to his late - career appearances in films by Martin Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch, with all but two screening on celluloid.

Days later, the San Diego State University's Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film followed with the «Celluloid Ceiling» study, finding that women comprised just 18 percent of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 domestic grossing films.

Since Backcountry is Canadian made movie director MacDonald takes us on a bitter - sweet road trip, that will leave Jenn wearing a diamond ring, during the shortest engagement ever to be filmed on celluloid, while using a bear whistle.

The film was shot on three - perf 35 mm stock to allow for smaller magazines and therefore lighter cameras / increased mobility; according to Greg Carson's worthwhile supplemental featurette, «Obtaining Cover: Inside Code 46», director Michael Winterbottom purposely avoided digital video because he wanted the crispness of celluloid, and yet there is often a PAL - like quality to the image here that considerably softens definition and shadow detail.

Midsection on MGM, George Cukor, Jacqueline Bisset, Lawrence Kasdan's Body Heat, Cannes 1981, film scores, Scott Spencer's guilty pleasures, Fassbinder's Jail Bait, Martha, I Only Want You to Love Me, Satan's Brew, and Women in New York, Vito Russo's The Celluloid Closet

Ever since he first saw «The Room» described as «the worst thing ever committed to celluloid» on an art house poster, Harper has been fascinated with the film.

Adapted from Greg Sestero's best - selling tell - all of the same name, «The Disaster Artist» chronicles the real - life friendship between Sestero and Wiseau and the calamitous roller - coaster ride they went on to create their 2003 stinker - of - epic - proportions, «The Room,» widely considered one of the worst films ever committed to celluloid.

Her installation is a lament for the lost art of making films on film and a protest at the replacement of celluloid by digital memory.

Sabrina Gschwandtner's second solo exhibition at Shoshana Wayne Gallery continues her exploration into intricate quilting motifs, expanding on her already complex imagery with the addition of deaccessioned celluloid film strips of female hands hard at work — sewing, threading, knitting and crocheting their way into our human consciousness.

Sonic Acts: Vertical Cinema February 20 — 23, 2014 During four consecutive days, ten large - scale commissioned film works by internationally renowned experimental filmmakers and audiovisual artists will be presented on 35 mm celluloid and projected vertically with a custom - built projector in the monumental staircase of the Stedelijk.

The specific strategy of his celluloid, digital, and animated beauties involves layering, where one film exists within or on top of another.

His work is also strongly influenced by the Hollywood film industry: the mountain in his Mountain Series is a play on the Paramount Pictures logo; Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights (1962) depicts the 20th Century Fox logo, while the dimensions of this work are reminiscent of a movie screen; in his painting The End (1991) these two words, which comprised the final shot in all black - and - white films, are surrounded by scratches and streaks reminiscent of damaged celluloid.

: «Looking for B - plots and C - spots, scanning backgrounds of film scenes and surface of celluloid, dust of beats, flip sides of everything including dust (dust of vinyl records including;) looking for unclassified acts of emergence, obscure transmissions, extinct specimen and specimen with no species, operational codes of irreproducible zombies, impossibility of action, attraction; extracting the DNR of inextractable and unleashing it on new demand of irreproducible, full stop moon.»

This Bushwick artist's first solo show, Soap by Matt Town will focus on a 16 mm celluloid film and sculptural installation about the creation and test drive of a soapbox derby car.

An actor playing an actor while a film - maker films him for a celluloid portrait and an audience looks on — that's the intriguing, if slightly perplexing, basis of an experimental work by the British visual artist Tacita Dean, featuring the British actor Stephen Dillane, to be staged next week as part of the Sydney Biennale.

The resulting film, Empire, 1964, is a study as much in cinematographic looking as it is on the properties of film itself; though the image of the building at night is otherwise fixed, small dramas play out through exposure, the shifting of light over time, and the slight jumpiness of the image as the celluloid passes through the projector.

Before picking up a camera, Tambellini physically worked on the film strip, treating the emulsion with chemicals, paint, ink and stencils, slicing and scraping the celluloid, and dynamically intercutting material from industrial films, newsreels and broadcast television.