The paintings of the early 90's, with the grain of old black - and - white film stock, recast his obsession with the overlooked mediums that deliver the messages by which so many Americans live — in this case
the scratchy film of his childhood.
The director, Christophe Gans, uses graphics and special effects and computers and grainy,
scratchy film stock and surrealistic images and makes «Silent Hill» look more like an experimental art film than a horror film — except for the horror, of course.
Not exact matches
The
scratchy black and white
film records the 1967 farewell speech of advertising legend Leo Burnett.
Structurally, the
film is
scratchy and erratic as these characters.
The
film recalls Michael Haneke's brilliant Funny Games, as well as the French import Them, but Bertino roots the terror for his excruciating cat and mouse thriller firmly in American soil, with
scratchy country blues on the turntable, freshly pressed Mormon youths on bicycles, and rusty Ford pick ups hauling folks in kids» Halloween masks.
The central motif, played gently at first on a harp and then far more disconcertingly on a
scratchy, Scandinavian hardanger fiddle, is the perfect accompaniment for the opening of the
film: the snow - white screen, on which we gradually make out a bird in flight, and then the approaching car, framed by vertical telephone poles (another inverse nod to The Third Man)?
They remain clean, clear, sharp, and detailed throughout, only briefly faltering in one
scratchy bedroom scene, an isolated fluke occurring in the middle of the
film, and more understandably in a climactic effects shot.
An index of Winner & co.'s sense of
film history: at the world premiere of the new Rudy Montague (Rudolph Valentino by way of Ron Leibman) picture, the image on the screen is blocked - up, ultracontrasty, and
scratchy («Gee, didn't old movies always look like that?»).
The menu presents a
scratchy graphic hybrid montage in the vein of the cover art that is set to the
film's opening / only music.
In certain moments, the audio quality can sound a bit
scratchy, which is distracting from enjoying the other aesthetics of the
film.
Newsom's childlike,
scratchy voice runs throughout the
film, giving audiences access to some of Pynchon's purplest prose, and the tactic does wonders.
A degraded,
scratchy print of this hard - to - see
film.
She has that perfect
scratchy adolescent voice from the
film either provided by a talented impersonator or the one and only Sarah Silverman.
Scratchy Marvel superhero Wolverine is the growl of the town this week; the
film launched on Wednesday and the game arrives tomorrow.
Its names is inspired by the banal titling of skate videos and it carries through the same
scratchy close - ups of metal hitting metal that these videos often show, the silhouette of the
film maker only sometimes being seen.