Sentences with phrase «shadow over the film»

The elephant in the room is Jennie Livingston's 1990 vogueing documentary, Paris Is Burning, which casts a long shadow over the film.

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Indeed human «existence,» so called, is nothing but a tenuous film of shadow - being stretched over the great abyss of nonbeing.

She and more than 50 groups across the United States will launch high - altitude balloons to film the moon's shadow racing across the Earth and broadcast it over the internet as it happens (eclipse.stream.live).

The «Batman» television show (1966 - 1968) cast a long, pop art - infused, camp shadow over the property and, after the big budget failures of a series of superhero films in the 1980s (some more campy than others) such as Howard the Duck (1986), WB apparently had cold feet.

Inventively structured, the documentary alternates between her early adulthood and her final months, her sad demise casting a shadow over the story and giving the film an air of classical tragedy.

Some are quick to deride this film as a shadow of Malick's previous work, but, if anything, it's the natural conclusion of the themes, narrative sensibilities and aesthetic he's built over the last four decades.

A film noir series is currently casting a long shadow over the Omaha movie theater Film Streams.

I am a list - maker, and a categoriser, and a lover of structure, and my best of the year list, this list, cast a long and absurd shadow, and the judgement of whether a film will be worthy of a last - minute inclusion ticks over every second, growing louder as December arrives, poking at me like Poe's telltale heart.

The emotional, and comic intergenerational tale of adult siblings contending with the long shadow their dad has cast over their lives, the film is the latest offering from writer and director Noah Baumbach.

The neighborhood lies in the shadow of the new baseball stadium in Queens which, over the course of the four seasons chronicled in the film, is gradually constructed and finally open to the public.

Weekend — Andrew Haigh's the 2011 film of two young gay men who meet, have sex and talk — got all the acclaim a few years back, casting a long shadow over Tom Shkolnik's underseen 2012 movie about a struggling stand - up comic (Edward Hogg) torn between his female roommate (Elisa Lasowski) and the boyfriend he met on the night bus (Nathan Stewart - Jarrett).

It's a moment of heavy emotional fallout, that resonates throughout the film like Buddhist singing bowls, casting a shadow over the remainder of A Quiet Place «s meditation on the challenges of parenting in troubling times.

The film is set in various time periods (1881, 1904, 1922, 1945, 1966 and Lillian's time) and we cut back and forth between these years to build a picture of how the brutal violence that was present in 1881 casts a shadow over everything that follows.

Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six - year - old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World.

The shadow of Harvey Weinstein, the film producer who has been accused of rape and sexual harassment by scores of women, still hovers over Hollywood and global film industry.

Hitchcock references are everywhere: in the names of Woodcock and Alma (the real - life name of Hitchcock's wife and collaborator), in the «Vertigo» - like references to the way the dead watch over the living, and the way Hitchcock's 1940 film «Rebecca» casts an elegant shadow over the entire film.

The film takes place over a summer at the Magic Castle, a motel - cum - extended - stay complex in the shadow of Disney World, focusing on Moonee (Brooklynn Prince, remarkable), a wild six - year - old, and Halley (Bria Vinaite), her equally uncontrolled mother.

MGM's new Special Edition DVD of the film (that comes with a transparent «shadow» sleeve over the amaray case) contains both anamorphic and full screen versions, with crisp transfers that show some minor artifacting in a few solid backgrounds.

Appearing only in the first of three vignettes, Ali is tasked with creating a complex and compelling father figure who casts a shadow over the rest of film, inspiring our young protagonist to gradually mould himself in his image.

For over two decades, Goodfellas has been casting its colossal shadow over lesser 20th Century - set mobster - on - the - rise films, making it easier to recognise the paler shades of the subgenre.

Directing with an even more restless energy than he showed in Kings and Queen, Desplechin sketches out a family tragedy, the untimely death of a first - born, that precedes the story by decades and then only overtly references it a few times, even as the shadow of that death hovers over the film: in the cancer that family matron Junon (Catherine Deneuve) has been diagnosed with, in the fragility of her teenage grandson Paul (Emile Berling), and in the odd sibling dynamics that have caused eldest daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) to, in effect, legally separate herself from her brother Ivan (Mathieu Amalric, in a mesmerizingly manic - depressive performance).

(Although only seen briefly in silhouette through the window of the Oval Office, Dick Nixon casts a long shadow over the whole film.)

But with the shadow of #MeToo hanging over its male - heavy In Competition line - up, a Netflix dispute still unresolved, and controversy - magnet Lars von Trier flying in with his latest film and, no doubt, a sold - out press conference, there's plenty of unanswered questions swirling around.

Still, when Elizabeth Peyton in short hair leans over her cigarette beneath striated film noir shadows, one has met an LA artist into stardom.

Over the years, the artist has used drawing, painting, colored - light projections, writing, shadow puppetry, and, most recently, film animation to narrate her tales of romance, sadism, oppression and liberation.

Malani's work is immersive and atmospheric, and includes 8 and 16 mm film; acrylic and ink paintings over transparent surfaces such as Mylar; sound, light and shadow play.