Sentences with phrase «silent film the artist»

Arguably the biggest loser on the night was Michel Hazanavicius's wonderful silent film The Artist.

One of the many actors to come out of 2011 with a lot of buzz is Frenchman Jean Dujardin, who starred in Michel Hazanavicius» B&W silent film The Artist as George Valentin.

Not exact matches

The Artist, which is set in the 1920s and tells the story of a silent era film actor, was actually mostly silent itself and employed subtitles — a fact that made the movie quite unique for its era, but may have also hurt ticket sales.

From the Cabaret Voltaire to Andy Warhol's Factory, from the silent film comedians to the Beatles, from the first comic - strip artists to the present managers of the Underground, the apolitical have made much more radical progress in dealing with the media than any grouping of the Left.

The Artist plays around with the distinction between silent and sound cinema, resulting in the superficial entertainment value of a high concept film school joke.

Tinker, however, still has to take second place to The Artist, the French silent film that has taken the critical and awards establishment by storm.

It's a movie called «The Artist», a black and white silent film with subtitles and all.

The film is directed by Michael J. Bassett (Solomon Kane, Deathwatch), and features original cast members Sean Bean (HBO's Game Of Thrones, Lord Of The Rings) and Deborah Kara Unger (The Game, 88 minutes, The Samaritan) return in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, starring along with rising stars Adelaide Clemens (X-Men Origins, upcoming The Great Gatsby, No One Lives) and Kit Harington (HBO's Game Of Thrones) as well as Carrie - Anne Moss (The Matrix, Disturbia, NBC's Chuck) and Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, The Artist).

«The Artist,» the charming film about Hollywood's transition from silent movies to talkies, and the family drama «The Descendants» were catapulted to front - runner Oscar status Sunday night with an armful of Golden Globes to their names as the awards...

The Weinstein Company has debuted an official trailer for Michel Hazanavicius» The Artist, the B&W silent film that took Cannes by storm, on Apple today.

Kam's Annual Assessment of the Cream of the Cinematic Crop The standout flick of 2011 is The Artist, a silent love song that can nonetheless be heard by all who enjoy film.

The idea that a silent, black and white film could charm modern audiences seemed far - fetched until The Artist came along.

Needless to say, The Artist was a complete throwback to a time when dialogue wasn't a necessity in cinema and harkens back to the inaugural Best Picture winner, Wings, which was also a silent - film.

Both Hugo and The Artist showcase the extraordinary power of silent films and both illustrate the important influences from which films today came from.

The first great film artist to pursue the ineffable in cinema, Dreyer gave depth to what early silent filmmakers innately underst...

Like a silent film of the «20s, «The Artist» features heaping spoonfuls of melodrama, but it's all done with such wit and imagination that it feels like more than pure mimicry of a bygone era.

A mostly silent film about a silent film star whose career is derailed by the advent of talkies, The Artist recalls Singin» in the Rain in its story.

Most overrated film of the year: The Artist, a silent film for people who think silent filmmaking is just overacting, broad gestures, and title cards.

Director Michel Hazanavicius made a huge critical splash with his previous film The Artist, a wildly entertaining throwback to the silent black - and - white era, picking up 5 Oscars and 4 Independent Spirit Awards along the way.

Audiences can expect to see Michel Hazanavicius» winning, black - and - white silent film «The Artist;» Roman Polanski's adaptation of the stage play «Carnage;» David Cronenberg's sexually charged «A Dangerous Method,» with Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender; Sam Levinson's Sundance entry «Another Happy Day» (starring Barkin); and Drake Doremus» Sundance romance, «Like Crazy.»

Best known beforehand for his «OSS 17 «series of spy parodies, his latest film, the silent movie homage «The Artist,» has become beloved by critics and audiences alike since it premiered at Cannes, and is now on course to sweep the Oscars, with nods for the film, the director, and stars Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo all but guaranteed.

It helps that he is using Jean Dujardin, who is working against type as the tough, unyielding magistrate, a performer whose title role in George Valentin's silent film «The Artist» is a gem of comedy in which a Jack Russell terrier stole the show right from under Dujardin.

Celebrating «The Artist» for its originality may seem a tad contradictory — after all, silent movies have been around longer than any other form of cinema — but when compared to today's crop of films, it certainly feels fitting.

«The Artist» — being a black - and - white silent film with no major stars — needed that early Cannes love and push, but this is a different animal, a film strictly in the crowdpleaser mode that seems far more suited to a Telluride or TIFF premiere where audience reaction and buzz will much more helpful for this film's inevitable Oscar campaign.

Stavitel chrámu (The Cathedral Builder, Karel Degl & Antonín Novotný, 1919) A fabulous, exceedingly rare silent Czech horror film steeped in Prague lore, from but one year on from Czechoslovakia's foundation, given live accompaniment on the Melbourne Town Hall's Grand Organ by brilliant Czech organist Pavel Kohout with live narration from Pete Reid and foley from enterprising young sound artists Tonja Mlinar Min, Corey Murdoch and Dave Temme.

Since then, they've made three more films together and along the way won plenty of awards for their 2011 silent black - and - white The Artist — including Oscars for Best Feature and Best Director for Michel.

Stitching together story elements from «A Star is Born,» «Sunset Boulevard,» and others, as well as characters inspired by real - life silent film stars John Gilbert and Charles Chaplin (and others), and recycling music wholesale from later films (most notably, Bernard Hermann's score for «Vertigo»), «The Artist» bears an unmistakable resemblance to Woody Allen's «Zelig,» another nostalgic movie that wove together real - life incidents with fictional recreations.

Searching for the origin of the mountain's name, the artists embarked on a journey traversing the landscape of early silent - era film production.

This anthology of silent films by the artist Mark Lewis meanders from the Louvre to the modernist buildings of Oscar Niemeyer and Mies van der Rohe.

Traditionally, art exhibitions have been about looking, but as more and more artists cross boundaries to engage with sound, touch and movement or to use film and video, work that is static and silent is becoming the exception rather than the rule...

With the decaying Grand theater as a central character, the artists connect three seminal movies of the southwest: Wim Wenders» Paris, Texas (1984), Bruce Beresford's Tender Mercies (1983), and King Baggot's classic silent film, Tumbleweeds (1925).

We present rare and rediscovered prints of movie classics, new and historic works by the world's great film directors, restored silent films with live musical accompaniment, thematic retrospectives, and innovative works made by today's film, video, and new media artists working in the areas of animation, documentary, experimental, and fiction film.

Searching for the origin of the mountain's name, the artists embarked on a journey traversing the landscape of early silent - era film production, uncovering a peculiar possible relationship between Movie Mountain and Gaston Méliès, the lesser known brother and business partner of the famous filmmaker George Méliès.

Portuguese artists have transformed a London gallery into a whirring maze of silent films and optical tricks to get lost in

Now installed at MUAC, the piece is centred around a silent, black - and - white film that narrates the story of a migrant family who is lynched by the community to which they've migrated — a timeless scenario which, according to the artist, metaphorically points to the breakdown of the state, and the rise of vigilante justice.

In 2007, film critic Jonathan Romney described Starr's new silent film Theda: «In a 40 - minute black - and - white film Theda British artist Georgina Starr, best known for her series of works inspired by the 1965 thriller Bunny Lake is Missing, pays tribute to this stormiest of divas and undertakes an archeology of gestural art of the silent - era actress (Theda Bara), drawing on the styles of several other now forgotten grande - dames, such as Barbara La Marr and Maud Allan... the film is divided into three parts «prelude», «act» and «epilogue»... but «prelude» is the real coup: in a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporate.

A famously self - taught artist, Basquiat sampled from an extraordinary breadth of source material — from anatomical drawings to bebop jazz to silent film — but many of these reference points have remained relatively opaque until now.

Influenced by Situationism, silent film, and by spiritual rituals practiced in South - East Africa, London based artist Samson Kambalu (b. 1975) embraces the subversive potential of non-productive time, the gift economy and the notion of playing.

Four of the highlights of Prospect.3 are the electrifying film, The Living Need Light, And the Dead Need Music by The Propeller Group (Phunam and Tuan Andrew Nguyen from Saigon, Matt Lucero from Los Angeles) with New Yorker Christopher Myers at the UNO St Claude Art Gallery; Silent Parade... or The Soul Rebel's Band vs Robert E Lee, a video by Peruvian - born William Cordova in which a local band serenades — or challenges — a statue of Robert E Lee from a rooftop shown at Dillard University; the exuberant, immersive two - channel video at the CACNO by David Zink Yi, another Peruvian artist, that explores Afro - Cuban music and culture, remixing the visual and the aural; and Kwaku Ananse (2013), a film by Akosua Adoma Owusu, an American of Ghanian descent, presented with the compelling simplicity of a fable in which a young woman returns home to attend her father's funeral, then goes into the wild in search of existential meaning.

Zaatari's two - part contribution to dOCUMENTA (13) similarly challenges the expectations audiences may bring by casting his latest works on archives not in the context of politics, history and memory but rather as a love story for two men played by three actors, in the black and white, 16 mm silent film The End of Time (2012), and as a mentor — apprentice drama in Time Capsule (2012), an extended performance for which the artist buried a concrete - encased collection of small monochromatic paintings — a tribute to an unnamed photographer said to be losing his sight — in a hole in the ground that was dug next to the Fulda River in the Karlsaue Park, with four spokes of rebar marking the spot.

Bottom: Steve McQueen, Running Thunder, 2007; 16 mm film (color, silent); 11.41 min.; © Steve McQueen; courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman, New York / Paris, and Thomas Dane Gallery, London

In 1971 the performance and installation artist Eleanor Antin anticipated Sherman's «Untitled Film Stills» by a decade when she made Representational Painting, a black - and - white silent film in which she uses makeup to «find» herself.

Among them is «Deadpan» (1997; see picture above), a black - and - white silent film in which the artist stands motionless and impassive as the facade of a building quite literally falls down around his ears — recalling a famous scene from the Buster Keaton classic «Steamboat Bill, Jr» (1928).

Describing themselves as performance artists and sculptors whose audience is the video camera, Wood and Harrison are heirs to silent film comics Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and to uniquely British comedy troupes like Monty Python.

Selected from the show's participating galleries by David Gryn, Director of Daata Editions and Artprojx, this year's program will include «Muxima», the first film by Chilean - born artist Alfredo Jaar, as well as a silent film about music by Christian Marclay and a new work by Liliana Porter.

But there's also Sleep, which is a very long silent film of [performance artist] John Giorno sleeping.

Shown on a small monitor in the next gallery, Yoko Ono's film Eye Blink (1966) is silent and almost half a century older, yet the artist's gaze, reflected back to us from what seems an impossibly distant black and white past, remains potent.

Alongside the talk there will be a rare chance to view Tulsa (64 min, silent), a film by Larry Clark which was recently found by the artist, which will be exhibited for the first time in the UK.

Addressing the «global, environmental and technological shifts» changing the United States, here you will find artists like Ei Arakawa and his headpiece structures shaped like Hawaiian and Manhattan islands, Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst's Relationship, a series of forty - six photographs, and Dashiell Manley's The Great Train Robbery, a multipart installation and video project inspired by the silent Western film of the same name made in 1903.

These were years when the artist tutored himself in painting, taking inspiration from sources including Surrealism, Mexican folk art, American comic strips, and silent - film comedy as he developed his distinctively guileless, heart - on - sleeve storytelling style.