Sentences with phrase «on cinematic history»

I came across the new Senses of Cinema too recently to have sampled much beyond their «Special Dossier» on the cinematic history of Tasmania, but even that's provided several articles of interest, including Jeannette Delamoir's history of the now mostly - lost silent Jewelled Nights (whose star and chief creative force, Louise Lovely, claimed she here innovated the shortcut of using shots of ship's funnels and locomotive wheels to stand in for long voyages); director John Honey on the making of the state's first self - produced feature, 1980's Manganinnie; and two looks at the island's most famous son: Robert de Young on how Tasmania's wildlife and raging seas formed Errol Flynn, and Adrian Danks on the star's superb collaboration with Raoul Walsh.

Nouvelle Vague (1990) is perhaps the greatest film of Godard's late career precisely because it is his last «film» proper — a final statement on cinematic history told entirely in its own language.

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If the 2 - 1 win over Manchester United to complete a rare unbeaten home record in Tottenham's final season at the iconic old ground wasn't an historic milestone in itself, once the pitch had been cleared by stewards and uniformed police after several pleading announcements, the afternoon was given unforgettable poignancy with the parade of 48 former Tottenham legends plus a cinematic trip down memory «Lane» narrated on giant screens by renowned Spurs fan, actor Kenneth Branagh, chronicling the illustrious history of the club and rendering many fans misty - eyed.

Bonus: • Audio Commentary with Director Tim Burton • «On the Set with Bob Kane» Featurette • «Legends of the Dark Knight: The History of Batman» Documentary • «Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight» Parts 1 - 3 • «Beyond Batman» Documentary Gallery • Prince Music Videos • Profile Galleries • Storyboard Sequence • Trailer • Digital Copy • Hardcover Book

Weaving together a wealth of archival footage from the most glamorous moments in fashion history with André's poignant reflections on his life and career, The Gospel According to André is a cinematic monument to one of the most unique figures of 20th Century American culture.

Go behind the wheel of this summer's biggest surprise box office hit with extensive bonus materials exploring its unique driving and music - infused production, including making - of featurettes on stunt driving with the cast, music, choreography, and orchestrating some of the best car chases in cinematic history.

With the eight films now a part of cinematic history, the young actor is taking on different roles to expand his base.

Thor: Ragnarok marks a huge tonal shift for the Thor franchise into full - on comedy territory, but we've just learned that the movie also features a potentially significant benchmark for the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole: the first LGBTQI character in Marvel Studios history.

Michael Myers, one of the most terrifying villains in cinematic history, is set to terrify an entire new community, when the all new Halloween: Michael Myers Comes Home maze premieres at Halloween Horror Nights on September 18.

Based on the Brian Selznick novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Scorsese's first family movie combines a young boy's adventure with a cinematic history lesson.

Gilbert returns to his dark, claustrophobically overdecorated Victorian house, hangs a kabuki sword on the wall of his study, and, in one of the most perfectly implausible and liberating subjective flash - forwards in cinematic history, has a five - minute vision of a fully staged scene from The Mikado, sung by soloists and chorus on a dazzlingly bright stage decorated in eye - popping pinks and greens.

Clare Stewart, director of the BFI London Film Festival, said: «Featuring extraordinary performances from the British talent in front of the camera and vividly directed by Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game does cinematic justice to Alan Turing's vision, determination and personal story as well as his enduring impact on British history and contemporary life.»

Again, these films were a throwback to film history, with O Brother riffing on the work of director Preston Sturges, Cruelty being inspired by the screwball comedies of the 1930s and Burn owing a heavy debt to the paranoia political dramas of the 1970s - a period which appears to have inspired a cast amount of Clooney's cinematic output.

Hollywood's blacklist is one of the darkest marks on the wonderful cinematic history of America.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe was once accused of dishing up the same rinse - and - repeat origin story over and over again — and while Feige will protest (and has) that each Marvel movie has had its own individual flavor (Thor was a stab at Shakespeare; The Winter Soldier riffs on 70s paranoia thrillers), the franchise has been finding more solid footing in its endeavor to remix all of popular film history through the lens of superheroes.

It's only been a few months since its release, but already it has vanished: eclipsed by its superior and left to blow away on the ash heap of cinematic history.

On this day in showbiz history... Here are a few cinematic things to think about today March 19th.

Also, she never even commented on the long, sweeping and emotional one - shot beach scene which is going to stand out in Cinematic History for it's intense and all - together difficulty in shooting and brilliance in realization.

No surprise for anyone who knows female - driven cinematic history that Thelma (No. 3) and Louise (No. 11), Mildred Pierce (No. 10), Norma Rae (No. 9), Clarice Starling (No. 7), Scarlett O'Hara (No. 5) and Ripley (No. 2) are perched so high on this list.

The Oscar - winning writer, who worked on the script for Skyfall after Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, revealed that he is combing through Bond's cinematic and literary history for the new Daniel Craig - led movie.

by Gabor Lukacs on Ferenc Török's 1945 Is a Dark Fable and a History Lesson Wrapped in Fine Cinematic Storytelling (Film Review)

On the heels of the largest ensemble film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's history, Avengers 4 will add a couple of characters to the mix, but the roster won't include Adam Warlock.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: All 80 Original «Our Gang» Shorts Remastered and Rereleased on DVD Between 1929 and 1938, Hal Roach produced one of the most successful series of shorts in cinematic history.

That scene alone, with a tiny animated starfish and sponge surfing on Hasselhoff's hairy legs, could easily be ranked as one of the strangest moments in cinematic history.

Ace new movie The Disaster Artist — in limited cinemas on December 1 and nationwide from December 6 — is the true story of how one man's dream to make his cinematic masterpiece led to one of the worst films in history, and one of the biggest cult hits.

No word yet on whether this version of Johnny Utah is still «young, dumb, and full of come,» but one suspects that the filmmakers won't mess with that little bit of cinematic history.

The whole tiresome affair is accompanied for the duration by quite possibly the most inane narration in cinematic history, with Freddy interrupting the tedium every few minutes or so with gems like «every note has a voice, every tune has a story», or some guff about setting rats» tails on fire.

Not inconsequential that the glimpses of self - shot porn are titillating and directorial: Television - procedural veteran Hoblit understands the seductive power of voyeurism — and in the middle of a cinematic period that questions history, it's telling that the trial hinges on a videotape procured from the room of a man mutilated by having his eyes torn out as he's reaching for his glasses.

There's a running Mike Ditka joke that won't register if you don't care for / know Ditka, one too many «kick me» - type signs slapped on dorks» backs, and Jennifer Tilly has to be the least subtle sex - obsessed teacher in cinematic history.

8:00 pm — TCM — On the Waterfront Marlon Brando's performance as a former boxer pulled into a labor dispute among dock workers goes down as one of the greatest in cinematic history.

Played by a number of huge names in film and on the small screen, such as Mark Hamill, Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger, and most recently Jared Leto, the character has become one of the most talked about in cinematic history.

It was the weirdest thing because I never went to film school, I never studied cinema, I didn't know cinematic history or anything, and suddenly, in a very short period of time, I'm on this aircraft carrier with these robots and Bruce Dern trying to figure it out and having all these guys around me to help.

As the years went on and Wright continued to create equally wonderful cinematic gems in Hot Fuzz, The World's End and the criminally underseen and underrated Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Wright would further cement himself as one of the most imaginative and hilarious directors working not only today, but throughout the history of cinema.

A cinematic toast to a true American heroine, a half century after she subtly helped shape the course of history and left an indelible mark on the country's conscience.

In addition to Matt's Brennan's piece on religion on TV, there are also essays on «Groundhog Day,» Ingmar Bergman, «Captain Fantastic,» «Defending Your Life,» Tarkovsky's «Nostalghia,» «Midnight Special,» «The Last Temptation of Christ,» «Last Days in the Desert,» «American Movie,» «Tommy,» «Top Chef / Cooked» and a look at the cinematic history of Joan of Arc.

Festival director Clare Stewart said: «Featuring extraordinary performances from the British talent in front of the camera and vividly directed by Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game does cinematic justice to Alan Turing's vision, determination and personal story as well as his enduring impact on British history and contemporary life.»

I parked somewhere in the vicinity of where I needed to be, ran through a shopping mall asking directions on the fly, found the theater, plunked my money down and sat in what has to have been the most uncomfortable chair in cinematic history to watch Young Adam.

However, almost every aspect of the making of this movie is so shoddy that it is inevitable that it crumbles in on itself, becoming one of the more known disaster stories in cinematic history.

Lucas also serves on the board of The Film Foundation, the USC School of Cinematic Arts Board of Councilors and will build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, emphasizing American illustrative, digital, cinematic and animation art as an avenue for the exploration of the great storytelling history, populist works and artistic innovation of the past 1Cinematic Arts Board of Councilors and will build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, emphasizing American illustrative, digital, cinematic and animation art as an avenue for the exploration of the great storytelling history, populist works and artistic innovation of the past 1cinematic and animation art as an avenue for the exploration of the great storytelling history, populist works and artistic innovation of the past 150 years.

For the first time in franchise history, console players can join in on the PC fun and create cool cinematic videos and screenshots.

Certain preoccupations with artworks are established early on in cinematic history: the preciousness of art objects anchors their roles as plot drivers, and anxieties intensify regarding the vitality of artworks and their perceived abilities to wield power over viewers or to capture spirits.

Often building on screen - used props, special effects castoffs and other materials integral to cinematic production, her protean objects function as organic semiconductors that mediate encounters between spectator and object, fictional histories and lived experiences.

, discussing directions in which photographic collections could or should develop, Discussing Provoke, a cross-analysis of the cult Japanese photo magazine, its historical context and its ties to the emergence of performance art in Japan in the 1960s, Photography Beyond the Image, on techniques used to produce photographic works that seek to go beyond the production of an image; Photography & Cinema in Practice, discussing vernacular photography in cinematic production and the role of still photography in the history of art; and The Artist As..., discussing the different roles that artists undertake.

David Lawrey & Jaki Middleton's collaborative practice draws on popular visual culture, art history and cinematic traditions to create works that engage the viewer via optical phenomena, juxtaposition and repetition.

Recommended reading In the Guardian, Jonathan Jones hails the Whitechapel Gallery's William Kentridge show as a «dazzling cinematic montage of modern times», claiming that it is «the most convincing attempt -LSB-...] by an artist of this century to meditate on the history of the last».

Rather than focusing on a cinematic narrative, Dean, Gusmão & Paiva, Barba, and Gibson & Recoder are producing a meta narrative, meditating on the medium and history of cinema itself.

Inspired by WG Sebald, especially «On The Natural History of Destruction», it starts with Durer, incorporates the WW2 bombing of Germany and unseen work by Tacita Dean and Anselm Kiefer among others, and pivots on a cinematic presentation of Guido Van der Werve's hypnotic 54 minute film Number Twelve, Home, which starts on the hour and demands to be seen in fulOn The Natural History of Destruction», it starts with Durer, incorporates the WW2 bombing of Germany and unseen work by Tacita Dean and Anselm Kiefer among others, and pivots on a cinematic presentation of Guido Van der Werve's hypnotic 54 minute film Number Twelve, Home, which starts on the hour and demands to be seen in fulon a cinematic presentation of Guido Van der Werve's hypnotic 54 minute film Number Twelve, Home, which starts on the hour and demands to be seen in fulon the hour and demands to be seen in full.

Unlike earlier shows, where Waters focused on narrative collaged film stills and a fascination with cinematic history, he began to move towards the sculptural realm and the themes of celebrity and contemporary life, with increasing success.

Drawing on the vast picture archive that is his studio, Blau's assemblage installations render cinematic and literary episodes from the grand narratives of Western art history.

Buchanan's background in the history and techniques of painting and drawing is a strong influence on her visual form, making her video pieces less cinematic and more spatially related to painting.