Sentences with phrase «slow cinema»
Continuing on from yesterday where great British comedy sat alongside Turkish slow cinema in our countdown of the best films from 13 - 6, here are our top five films of 2014.
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With a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplation of slow cinema over the past fifty years.
Imagine Andrei Tarkovsky's «Stalker» with a strong no - nonsense heroine and pulse - racing creature attacks, and suddenly, such an excursion starts to sound enticing for those who otherwise can't abide slow cinema (or the kind of ontological concerns this movie raises).
His new introduction linking transcendental style to the time - images of Deleuze and Tarkovsky, as well as slow cinema, which followed, only adds to its importance.
But in his new introduction, his observations about slow cinema from Tarkovsky to Kiarostami to Tarr are every bit as compelling as his earlier insights into film noir.»
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Slow cinema lodestone Journey to the West comes across as Tsai's brilliant and clever attempt at auto - critique, as he places the contemplative fundamentals of his cinema (as symbolised by Lee Kang - sheng and Denis Lavant) into the frantic, chatty, unwieldy maelstrom of modern urban life.
So I'm going with Apichatpong Weerasethakul's folkloric slow cinema romance in the upset.
And I wanted it to be a movie that indulged in my own affection for slow cinema.
When a film's opening shot is of a snail oozing across the screen in its own sweet time, you know you're in for some seriously slow cinema.
This avant - garde provocation from the French auteur Bruno Dumont is a savoury piece of slow cinema; a supernatural tale cooked so long and low that the meat falls away from the bone.
First Reformed is his paean to slow cinema, a steadily simmering, unostentatious apogee collating the obsessions that have driven the filmmaker for 50 years.
Stylistically, First Reformed is shot and edited like an art movie, its look and tone aligned with the chilly minimalism of the «slow cinema» Schrader has theorized and canonized in his work as a critic.
As an offering of «slow cinema,» Vandendriessche is no Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and though this film's strength ironically resides in its digital photography, Vandendriessche lacks the natural intuitiveness for his images to leave any lasting impact beyond their aesthetic assuredness.
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Essential reading this weekend — boredom and dystopia in slow cinema, the return of London's Hayward Gallery and the dark drawings of Gus Bofa