Sentences with phrase «silent film homage»

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And it pays off extraordinarily well in the second - half, which heads back to colonial Africa for an homage to F.W. Murnau «s film of the same name, silent beyond narration, and the occasional blast of Wall of Sound pop.

Louis Feuillade's silent French serial series Les Vampires (1915 - 1916) is primarily remembered today for inspiring filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Christopher Nolan, and Olivier Assayas (who paid homage to the series with his film Irma -LSB-...]

It's an homage to the silent film era, but divided audiences due to it being uncharted territory for him as a director.

There is some conceptual weight to drive the film along: an homage to silent cinema, an index of Todd Hayne's filmography, a flight of fancy along the road of childlike wonder and a favourable gesture of the impossible... but none of this adds up to a feature film, and instead Wonderstruck comes off about as insightfully as a cluttered brainstorm session from a writer's blocked first grader who can't quite figure out what his thoughts are all about.

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.

Black & white pencil illustrations evoke the flickering images of the silent films to which the book pays homage.