Sentences with phrase «scale film such»

Still, for all the acclaim it has received, Zhao is well aware that a small - scale film such as «The Rider» — the cast of which consists entirely of non-professional actors, including Jandreau's father, Tim, his sister Lilly and several of his friends — is in a lopsided battle for attention against studio behemoths such as Dwayne Johnson's «Rampage» and the upcoming «Avengers: Infinity War.»

The Wall arrives on Blu - ray with a solid AVC - encoded transfer that does plenty of good for a smaller - scale film such as this.

Not exact matches

Tull, who will remain chairman and chief executive officer of Legendary, has been seeking to expand in Asia with Legendary East and in 2013 signed an agreement with China Film Co. to jointly produce large - scale films for global audiences, such as «The Great Wall,» which will star Matt Damon.

The state should consider scaling back the credits and monitoring the film industry closely to determine the impact on its activities of such a cutback,» the addendum concludes, suggesting a reduction of $ 50 million per year.

Those responsible for the marketing of this film fumbled the ball on such a colossal scale that it couldn't hope to recoup the reported budget of $ 250,000,000 despite the fact that it really isn't all that bad.

This week's offerings include some dwellings on a more modest scale, such as the 1,065 - square - foot investment house recently sold by film giant Robert Duvall.

Other horror films this season have ranged from arty to schlocky, but the scales tip to the latter — and that seems to be what the majority of horror fans like; they consider films such as Clive Barker's «Lord of Illusions» and even a work such as «Species» as essentially «party movies.»

Chadha, whose last film The Viceroy's House tackled the tragic causes and epic scale of the partition of India, said she hopes Blinded by the Light will, by contrast, mix a little of the quirky British humour of some of her earlier films, such as Bhaji on the Beach (1993) and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) with the lively energy of 1980s high - school movies written by John Hughes such as Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club.

But in Abduction these «leaps of faith» occur so often, and on such a noticeable scale that they severely detract from any engagement with the film, ultimately becoming its greatest letdown.

Chiefly, it is a big - scale (admittedly overscaled) action spectacle, typical of the era where such films ruled the box office.

I raise this issue because movies, especially Hollywood major motion picture films, have the power to affect, on a mass scale, the audience perception on reality — especially a movie that bases its entire plot on a real historical event such as we can see in Argo.

Though Robert Redford may be the very platonic ideal of a movie star — a matinee idol from films such as «Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,» «The Sting,» «The Way We Were,» «The Electric Horseman» and «Out of Africa» — he has of late been involved with smaller - scale, socially conscious dramas.

Bonus Features - The Making of London Has Fallen — An inside look at the massive undertaking of shooting such a large - scale film in London.

Lately, Colin Farrell has been a welcome presence in such small - scale, unHollywood films as In Bruges and Ondine.

Yet this as much a film about eco-terrorism as Meek's Cutoff was a film about the American gold rush, operating as a rich, sui generic parable for any and all acts of violence, whether micro scale such as the one chronicled here, or those sanctioned by governments with a view to being executed in foreign climes.

The film drags a bit in the middle, but Levine's script is bursting with such wry, dark humor that it just barely tips the scales in its favor.

The film has such a large scale yet you feel like you are spending time alone with Sky and her cubs.

Expect hefty price tags in some shops, though, as the area is awash with money, supermodels, film stars, and directors... such is its rating on the cool scale!

His engaging and atmospheric scores have enhanced numerous indie films such as ABCs of Death, Clemency, The Aggression Scale and Henri.

The environment design is stunning as it rivals the blockbuster film franchises Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in encapsulating how an enthusiast of their respective novels would anticipate Mordor to look and feel as well as successfully showcasing the vast scale of such grand fantasy environments, alongside the stylistically presented Wraith World.

Through different medias such as photography, film, and sculpture, Boltanski creates large - scale installations about communal memories and identities.

Apsara DiQuinzio, our Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Phyllis C. Wattis, MATRIX Curator, has a number of wonderful small - scale MATRIX shows in the works, and we are doing several borrowed solo exhibitions that are emblematic of the kind of art that we love, such as a survey of Ana Mendieta's films [Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, on view November 9, 2016, through February 12, 2017].

Wylie's bold, large - scale figurative paintings draw on ancient and folk art, such as Mexican street art and contemporary Egyptian Hajj painting, as well as art history and film.

The choice to work predominantly on large scale pieces came to be during the 1960s and Alex explained such a decision as a reaction to films, television and billboard advertising.

The display includes film, photographs, maquettes, drawings and large - scale sculptures such as Recumbent Figure, 1938, the first to enter Tate's collection in 1939.

The exhibition also includes a broad range of drawings and collages, and more recent, immersive installations featuring such materials as commercial advertising posters, large - scale photographs, films, and books.

Other drawings, such as two large - scale works executed on piano scroll, depict the characters in poses that mirror their movements and dancing in the films, while a series of new collages feature this imagery in more unexpected contexts.

Their collaboration is extended in large - scale projects such as the short films they've produced in the past couple of years.

Works in a variety of other media such as animation, film and site - specific sculpture are also included, plus a large - scale granite sculpture by the Brazilian artist Iran do Espirito Santo in the Formal Gardens.

The Rose's exhibition included large - scale canvases like Love and Violence (1965)-- in which a man grabs a woman by the throat, while frames from a horror film unfold below against a blood - red background — as well as photo and video documentation from the 1960s through the 1980s of Drexler's theater pieces, which premiered at such avant - garde New York venues as the Judson Poets» Theater and Theater for the New City.

Increasingly, contemporary artists work with cinema's scale and distribution formats: collaborating with Hollywood actors, as artist Candice Breitz has done, or making mainstream feature films themselves (such as Omer Fast's Remainder, 2016).

In this body of new work, which includes three groups of photographs and a large - scale film installation, Taylor - Wood continues to explore the themes of absence and mortality that gives her work such strength, pathos and resonance.

The mechanics of the music box, cylinder, metal elements and pins, enlarged and magnified to an industrial scale, remind us of the visual language of films such as Chaplin's Modern Times andFritz Lang's Metropolis, as well as the austere objectivity of German photographer Adolf Lazi's 1930's photographic series.

Interiors - spaces inhabited both physically and mentally - still form her main subject matter, but for this show she abstained from the walk - in film installations she's become known for and focused on sculptures: small - scale models of rooms, mostly with the same floor plan though otherwise unalike, and sculptures of furniture, such as beds and armoires.

Mark Bradford transforms maps, blueprints, and everyday materials — including merchant posters, flyers, and advertisements — into large - scale paintings, installations, and sculptures using a range of media such as collage, decoupage, film, and photography.

Installed in the middle of the Yokohama Museum of Art, Michael Landy's massive Art Bin (2014) was the exhibition centerpiece — matched in scale and exuberance by installations such as Miwa Yanagi's mobile stage truck, which provided a site for gravity - defying pole dancing performances, and Shinro Ohtake's wheeled shed assembled from scrap materials and photographs — but many of the other works were distinguished by intimate reserve, apparent, for example, in René Magritte's small, black - and - white photographs from the portfolio «The Fidelity of Images» (1935), and Melvin Moti's film No Show (2004), depicting an empty Hermitage Museum through a single image accompanied by a voice track.

The artist known for his large scale broken ceramic «plate paintings» and perhaps equally so for directing such highly acclaimed films as Before Night Falls, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and Basquiat (about painter Jean - Michel Basquiat).

Thin - film silicon technologies from turn - key vendors will be ramping up in large scale during the second half of 2008, while cadmium telluride (CdTe) module producers such as First Solar

The potential for breakthroughs in solar PV technology, such as next - generation thin film materials, reduced capital intensity of manufacturing capacity as well as continued improvements in the scale and capacity factor of wind technology means the levelized cost of energy could continue to fall.