Sentences with phrase «own dreamlike quality»

Bioluminescence plays a role in both, and the two share a dreamlike quality that gets stronger the further along you go.

In 1961, when President Kennedy declared that the United States would send a man to the moon by the decade's end, those words, too, had a dreamlike quality.

This hypnotic urban poem on masculinity, violence and wisdom may be Jarmusch's most likeable picture — as funny and dark as anything Tarantino has ever filmed, but with a surreal, dreamlike quality and a soul full of integrity.

Remarkably, it pulls off the difficult task of being a revisionist Western with ease, taking its audience along with a dreamlike quality unique in the genre.

Slow West, however, abandons in large part the grittiness of the Western in favour of a more dreamlike quality embodied in the narrative and the camerawork.

The film's minimal dialogue and meditative images give it a mesmerizing, dreamlike quality, and yet images of the sinking ship and of Alec teaching the horse to eat out of his hand are also touchingly realistic.

The girls are in various states of undress; steam from the shower creates a dreamlike quality, shrouding the scene, fogging up the lens.

Volumes One and Two may have had viewers scratching their heads, and this portion of the film is by no means conventional, but there's a musicality and dreamlike quality to The Enchanted One which resonates long after a tremendous tracking shot of Chico Chapas draws this sprawling epic to a close.

Perhaps it's the attempt at the odd, dreamlike quality that makes Passion Play so weird and off - putting.

We wanted that fiction flavor, and a touch of dreamlike quality.

The beautiful, dreamlike quality of The Returned is down to two things: the stunning cinematography, including some majestic panoramic vistas, and Mogwai's tense and haunting soundtrack.

The tale of an orphan kidnapped by a large - eared giant (the skillfully motion - captured Mark Rylance) has a dreamlike quality that allows Spielberg to stage some of his trippiest, borderline psychedelic imagery, along with some really elaborate CGI - assisted fart jokes.

The story bears more than passing resemblance to Peter Weir's drama «Picnic at Hanging Rock,» a 1975 Australian drama with which «Strangerland» shares a dreamlike quality.

This heightens the dreamlike quality of the film.

The only time she really comes alive is when Tully is around, and those scenes have their own dreamlike quality to them.

Gladly, those 2.40:1 visuals look their best on Blu - ray, showing off the striking colors and irregular compositions that lend the film a dreamlike quality.

In fact, the first half of the film (chronicling Ellis and Neckbone's meeting and bonding with Mud) has an almost dreamlike quality to its gorgeous iconography and mise - en - scene composition.

Variety's Peter Debruge applauded «the striking Steadicam lensing by gifted female d.p. Autumn Durald [which] buffers everything from harsh realism, allowing a slightly dreamlike quality into the proceedings.»

- Manohla Dargis, New York Times New York Times «Palo Alto,» About Adolescents Stumbling Toward Adulthood» «and striking Steadicam lensing by gifted female d.p. Autumn Durald buffers everything from harsh realism, allowing a slightly dreamlike quality into the proceedings.»

As in his previous work, Morrison turned to decaying archival footage of the actual flood to convey the story of the flood, its deterioration lending a poignant, faraway, dreamlike quality to the project.

- Publishers Weekly «Barry's prose has a dreamlike quality... The raw elegance of his storytelling has its own beauty.»

Employing a nonlinear narrative that shimmers with a certain dreamlike quality, Wolves interweaves the lives of these characters in complex and unexpected ways.

There is a light, translucent quality to Thien's prose that casts a certain dreamlike quality on the tale, and yet the magnetic plot will keep the reader's interest through the end.

There is such a wonderful brightness to Linda's photos, and they too have that dreamlike quality that I just adore.

It was in the punchout ring and definitely had a dreamlike quality to it.

These brightly coloured facades tower over the visitors, but as the material of the prints is almost opaque, this lends a dreamlike quality to the space, rather than a domineering atmosphere.

In some works, the softness of his painting style and the candy - like colors add to the mystical, dreamlike quality of the feathery forests and twinkling skies.

There's an enigmatic, dreamlike quality to the whole installation, and it's tinged by an affecting sadness.

There's a dreamlike quality to these works that give them a kind of uncanny quality.

Although he predominantly portrays the urban settings of New York City and its people, he avoids including famous landmarks, and most of his works feature a particular kind of isolation or dreamlike quality, like Hopper's work.

The Crow exhibition catalog states that the pieces «have a dreamlike quality reminiscent of surrealist explorations of the unconscious that melds, unexpectedly, with visible brushstrokes and the traces of swift, decisive action.»

«The paintings have a dreamlike quality, as though time has been suspended; their subjects are on the cusp of sexual maturity, at once recognizable and anonymous, intimate and aloof.»

a similar hazy twinkle, matching nature's light with that of the fairground ride to provide a dreamlike quality.

Here, the felt's softness gives the stars and the the chairs of the swing carousel a similar hazy twinkle, matching nature's light with that of the fairground ride to provide a dreamlike quality.

The striking image is heavy with symbolism which along with the intense light give it a dreamlike quality.

Obsessed with capturing colour and light, Cuming's work expresses a dreamlike quality which transports the reader into his evocative world.

The uses of loose brush strokes, often in broken geometric shapes, add a dreamlike quality to the images she produces.

Frequently employing the materials of heavy industry to house living ecological elements such as plants and grass, she presents transgressive architectural forms with dreamlike qualities.

If Gyeongja Lee's subject is memory, her recollections have a dreamlike quality when rendered in oils or prints.

Maureen Minehan lets that practical mantra guide her photography — yet visitors to «Threesomes,» her new show at Multiple Exposures Gallery, are certain to notice a dreamlike quality to her work, with lone subjects set off in the distance or lines that guide Read More...

The dreamlike quality of his work shows an affinity with Surrealist artists such as Joan Miró, another native of Barcelona.»

Miriam Cosic says: «For most [only] children, however, no matter how the rest of their lives turned out, childhood had a dreamlike quality, full of peacefulness, the contented pursuit of solitary pastimes such as reading or mucking around in the garden, and the undivided attention of parents.

Gauzy netting can be draped over the bed to lend a dreamlike quality to this master bedroom, while vintage Key West memorabilia — old photos, prints, paintings, books, pottery, and bottles — pay homage to the island's history

For an abstract urban scene it has a calming, dreamlike quality that's quite mesmerising.

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I've heard lots of polarized opinions on the film, and I'm mightily curious to check out its apparently dreamlike and poetic qualities.

The film was shot by Larry Smith, cameraman on Stanley Kubrick's dreamlike «Eyes Wide Shut» and more recently the garish, hypnotic «Only God Forgives,» and so the images have a dynamic quality to match the forceful storytelling.

Aided by Yorick Le Saux's stark but dreamlike cinematography and an enjoyable supporting turn from Chloe Grace Moretz, Clouds of Sils Maria is the sort of film that sneaks up on you, its quality unfolding in a stately manner within the perceived mundanity of its early movements.

There's something distinctly sexual about the girls» twitching, and Abbott's dreamlike prose gives these events a haunting, disturbing quality.

There's no recent shortage of new titles for the Gear VR, with yet another high quality release out, this time in the form of a dreamlike action platformer from Mandrill...

Yet, Beres argues, it is his use of the traditional Chinese art form of ink that lends a quality of timelessness to his dreamlike films.