Alexi Pappas, co-director and
star of the narrative film «Tracktown,» flexes her muscles before the premiere of the film.
Wyatt Cenac and Camille Rutherford,
stars of the narrative film «Jacqueline (Argentine),» pose for photos in the Sundance Co-Op space on Main Street.
Not exact matches
Mojave Directed by and written by William Monahan (USA)-- World Premiere,
Narrative William Monahan's second feature,
starring Oscar Isaac and Garrett Hedlund, is a delirious trip from the fringes
of the desert to the center
of the
film industry.
As was the case with the first
film, Deadpool 2 doesn't try overly hard
narrative wise, this new jaunt sees Wilson in a state
of depression and in a situation where he finds himself trying to protect Hunt for the Wilderpeople
star Julian Dennisen's mutant teenager from time travelling super-soldier Cable but it's all an excuse to give audiences more
of what they came to love in the first outing.
Despite a clichéd and overexposed
narrative that weighs it down, the
film delivers precisely what fans
of the newfangled, action
star expect and ends up being a fun time at the movies.
In Chloé Zhao's resoundingly human
film The Rider, the
narrative is framed as both documentary and drama focused on 20 - year - old rising rodeo
star Brady Blackburn (played by Brady Jandreau) as he undergoes a crisis
of identity.
Refn's latest
film, Only God Forgives, reunites him with Drive's
star, Ryan Gosling, but it moves even further away from traditional
narrative and into a near abstract, near hallucinogenic, near nihilistic subversion
of traditional
narrative and with it, the usual visceral, emotional, and intellectual pleasures associated with that form.
Goodman also discussed the process
of starring in such an action - driven
film that only features three characters throughout the majority
of the
narrative, after
starring in movies that have featured notable ensemble casts.
Through AFI's
Narrative Labs project, with support from the Sundance Institute and New York's Cinereach organization (which has also helped produce small, memorable
films from Citizenfour to Beasts
Of The Southern Wild), Howe was able to complete Gabriel, which
stars Rory Culkin as a young man navigating a mental illness that distances him from his caring and frustrated family, and leads him on an increasingly desperate quest throughout the
film.
The story
of «Batkid» Miles Scott, the 5 - year - old leukemia patient who got to live his dream to be a superhero courtesy
of the Make - A-Wish Foundation and much
of San Francisco, is both the subject
of a documentary, Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Round the World, and an upcoming
narrative feature
film in which Julia Roberts is set to
star and produce.
Kings is a very basic
film, where the younger
stars take up most
of the
narrative and screen time, while Berry (Kidnap) and Craig (Logan Lucky) appear in just enough scenes to satisfy their marquee credit.
But though it could be viewed as a series
of short, fun,
film pitches - Channing Tatum's happy sailor tap - dancing routine was a favourite - wrapped up in the larger
narrative of a movie
star being kidnapped, its so beautifully put together, well - performed, tightly - scripted and deliberating making fun
of itself that it works.
Ego's relationship with
Star - Lord forms one
of the emotional cruxes
of the
film while his goal, assimilating the rest
of the universe into himself, makes up most
of the actual
narrative.
Ahead
of its world premiere in the
Narrative Spotlight section at the Tribeca
Film Festival on April 27, Deadline has an exclusive clip from the
film starring Evan Peters and Barkhad Abdi.
Helping in the endeavor will be the promotional
narrative of its
star: The
film offers a breakout performance
of Australian actress Danielle Macdonald in the lead role.
In the capable hands
of director Matt Reeves and motion - capture
star Andy Serkis as Caesar, I'd gladly watch more new APES
films by 20th Century Fox to see just where the
narrative will take us and how closely it will skew to the original franchise storyline.
Deadpool 2 is intentionally pretty flippant with its
narrative stakes, so knowing that the Merc is going to die at some point doesn't really take anything away from your enjoyment while watching the
film, but it is extremely Deadpool - core to have the
star «jokingly» spoil the actual events
of the
film.
The popular
narrative around this picture is the casting
of Matt Damon as some sort
of «white savior» in a
film about China's most notable architectural achievement — except that it's not really about the Wall and Damon doesn't really save anything, though he does put to rest any sort
of debate about whether or not he's a credible action
star... or even
star star.
The four - minute visual work
of art is a fully - immersive, 360 °
narrative experience set in the world
of the upcoming feature
film The Divergent Series: Insurgent and features
stars from the
film including Academy Award winner Kate Winslet, Miles Teller and Mekhi Phifer.
This is the second
film I remember in recent years
starring Sarah Jessica Parker (Failure to Launch being the other) where the supporting characters prove more interesting than the main players, to the point that the audience, as well as the filmmakers, would rather follow them to the detriment
of the overall
narrative.
Director Ron Howard compares the
narrative of Solo: A
Star Wars Story to that
of another Harrison Ford
film, Raiders
of the Lost Ark..
More than half the
films of my list share stories that focus on women or girls: Mad Max: Fury Road, Brooklyn, Inside Out, Room,
Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Far From the Madding Crowd (Additionally, I would argue that Ava's
narrative in Ex Machina also drives that
film and that Domhnall Gleeson's character primarily functions as a stand - in for the audience).
Some viewers found the
star - wattage
of the
film distracting, and we'll acknowledge that Brad Pitt's late - in -
film appearance isn't the most successful, but it can be useful to see familiar faces to delineate a
narrative that's decidedly episodic.
How about a
narrative feature
film starring the three
of you?
Though much
of the
film's early press focused on von Trier's audacity in digitally superimposing porn actors» genitals onto the
stars» bodies to maximize the verisimilitude
of the sex scenes, Nymph -LRB--RRB- maniac is not an ironic essay on digital magic but rather a defiantly old - fashioned affair, grounded in well - trodden
narrative traditions.
Brad Pitt and Emma Thompson, will narrate the
film... Marcel Ophüls is planning a
film about Ernst Lubitsch to
star Dustin Hoffman, with Jeanne Moreau as Lubitsch's private secretary... Errol Morris is underway on Holland, Michigan, a
narrative feature
starring Naomi Watts, Bryan Cranston, and Edgar Ramirez... David Fincher is re-teaming with producer Scott Rudin and writer Aaron Sorkin on a Steve Jobs biopic based on Walter Isaacson's biography and structured around three pivotal moments in Jobs's life... Hot from HBO's True Detective, Cary Fukunaga is directing Idris Elba in Beasts
of No Nation, a drama about child soldiers in Ghana...
Instead, it is the most sumptuous, classical
star cross'd lovers romance — a «Juliet and Juliet» story — in which the central love affair is presented just as legitimately as those that dotted the Hollywood
films of the Golden Era (
films whose
narratives French
film theorist Raymond Bellour memorably likened to machines designed to produce heterosexual couples).
After some brief moments
of Bruce's act during his brief prime and more
of the
film's frequent Kane - like interview - driven
narrative, the
film starts in earnest — not with
star Dustin Hoffman recreating the comic's early nightclub days, but with Perrine recreating the early career
of Honey Bruce, a.k.a. stripper Honey Harlow.
The latest entrant in this now - Disney - owned franchise is largely content to further the themes and
narrative strategies
of its predecessor: Johnson, a filmmaker who proved capable
of crafting individualistic, tightly wound sci - fi with 2012's Looper, too often seems to think that the best he can bring to
Star Wars is an amped - up version
of Abrams's overly reverent tribute to George Lucas's original
films.
My colleagues at the website Hammer to Nail (where I am lead
film critic) have watched the
narratives Lemon (a meditation on race and gender
starring Michael Cera and Nia Long), Person to Person (a dreamy murder mystery, also with Michael Cera) and the aforementioned Sylvio (based on a popular series
of short videos from the «Simply Sylvio» Vine account), and praised them, so I am eager to check them out, myself.
But somehow, despite the
star power and the timeliness
of the
narrative (Spielberg set out to make the
film in response to Donald Trump's attacks on the press during the first weeks
of his administration) and the Best Picture citation, people really slept on The Post.
To say any
of the Aliens
films had a great and deep
narrative would be like saying the acting in
Star Wars is the best part
of the movie.
As gamers make matches, cards called CineBits appear along the bottom
of the screen, relating to individual movie
stars (based on real actors and actresses),
narrative pieces and even
film bonuses (like happy endings or pre-launch buzz).
Blending his obsession with the history
of conflict and pop culture influences from video games,
films and TV shows, the artist tells a wartime
narrative starring an imagined cast
of fascinating characters.
McQueen applied his tough, often personal style to
narrative film for the first time in 2008 with Hunger, a character study
starring Michael Fassbender as an Irish prisoner starving himself as part
of a hunger strike.
David Walsh, Elizabeth Pearce, Jane Clark 2013 ISBN 9780980805888 Lindsay Seers, George Barber, Frieze, January 2013 One
of Many, Adrian Dannatt, Artist Comes First, Jean - Marc Bustamante (ed), Toulouse International Art Festival (exhibition catalogue), June 2013 All the World's a Camera: Notes on non-human photography, Joanna Zylinska, Drone ISBN 978 -2-9808020-5-8 (pg 168 - 172) 2013 Lindsay Seers, Artangel at the Tin Tabernacle - Jo Applin, ArtForum, December 2012 Lindsay Seers, Martin Herbert, Art Monthly, October 2012 Exhibition, Ben Luke, Evening Standard, (pg 60 - 61) 20 September 2012 Lindsay Seers @ The Tin Tabernacle, Sophie Risner, Whitehot Magazine, September 2012 Artist Profile: Lindsay Seers, Beverly Knowles, this is tomorrow, 12 September 2012 Dream Voyage on a Ghost Ship, Richard Cork, Financial Times, (pg 15) 11 September 2012 Nowhere Less Now, Amy Dawson, Metro (pg 56) 7 September 2012 Voyage
of Discovery, Helen Sumpter, Time Out, (pg 42) 6 - 12 September 2012 Nowhere Less Now, Rachel Cooke, The Observer, (pg 33) 2 September 2012 Divine Interventions, Georgia Dehn, Telegraph Magazine, 25 August 2012 Eine Buhne fur das Ich, Annette Hoffmann, Der Sonntag, 25 March 2012 Das Identitätsvakuum - Dietrich Roeschmann, Badische Zeitung, 27 March 2012 Ich ist ein anderer - Kunstverein Freiburg - Badische Zeitung, 21 March 2012 Action Painting - Jacob Lundström, FLM NR.16, March 2012 Dröm - fabriken - Peter Cornell, Kultur, 21 February 2012 Vita duken lockar Konstnärer - Fredrik Söderling, Dagens Nyheter (pg 4 - 5) 15 February 2012 Personligen Präglad - Clemens Poellinger, SvD söndag, (pg 4 - 5) 12 February 2012 Uppshippna hyllningar till - Helena Lindblad, Dagens Nyheter (pg 8 - 9) 9 February 2012 Bonniers Konsthall - Sara Schedin, Scan Magazine, (pg 48 - 9) Febuary 2012 Ausstellungen - Monopol, (pg 120) February 2012 Modeprovokatörer plockas up par museerna - Susanna Strömquist, Dagens Nyheter (pg 8 - 9) January 2012 Promosing in Kabelvåg - Seers» «Cyclops [Monocular] at LIAF, Kjetil Røed, Aftenposten, 10 September 2011 Reconstructing the Past - Lindsay Seers» Photographic
Narrative, Lee Halpin, Novel ², May / June 2011 Lindsay Seers, Oliver Basciano, Art Review, May 2011 Lindsay Seers, Jen Hutton, ArtForum Picks (online), April 2011 Lindsay Seers: an impossibly oddball autobiography, Murray Whyte, The Toronto
Star, 13 April 2011 The Projectionist, David Balzer, Eye Weekly, 6 April 2011 dis - covery, exhibition catalogue, 2011 Lindsay Seers: It has to be this way ², Paul Usherwood, Art Monthly, April 2011 Lindsay Seers: Gateshead, Robert Clark, Guardian: The Guide, February 2011 It has to be this way ², 2011, novella published by Matt's Gallery, London Neo-Narration: stories
of art, Mike Brennan, modernedition.com, 2010 Steps into the Arcane, ISBN 978 -3-869841-105-2, published 2010 It has to be this way1.5, novella 2010, published by Matt's Gallery, London Jarman Award, Laura McLean - Ferris, The Guardian, September 2009 Top Ten, ArtForum, Summer 2009 Reel to Real - On the material pleasure
of film, Colin Perry, Art Monthly, July / August 2009 Remember Me, Tom Morton, Frieze, June / July / August 2009 It has to be this way, 2009, published by Matt's Gallery, London Lindsay Seers at Matt's Gallery, Gilda Williams, ArtForum, May 2009 Lindsay Seers: It has to be this way — Matt's Gallery, Chris Fite - Wassilak, Frieze, April 2009 Lindsay Seers: it has to be this way, Rebecca Geldard, Art Review, April 2009 Review
of Altermodern - Tate Triennial 2009, Jorg Heiser, Frieze, April 2009 Tate Triennial: «Altermodern» — Tate Britain Feb 3 — April 26, 2009, Colin Perry, Art Monthly, March 2009 Lindsay Seers: It has to be this way (Matt's Gallery, London), Jennifer Thatcher, Art Monthly, March 2009 No sharks here, but plenty to bite on, Tom Lubbock, The Independent, 6 February 2009 Lindsay Seers: Tate Triennial 2009: Altermodern, Nicolas Bourriaud, Tate Channel, 2009 «Altermodern» review: «The richest and most generous Tate Triennial yet», Adrian Searle, The Guardian, Feb 2009 Critics» Choice for exhibition at Matt's Gallery, Time Out London, January 29 — February 4 2009 In the studio, Time Out London, January 22 — 28 2009 Lindsay Seers Swallowing Black Maria at SMART Project Space Amsterdam, Michael Gibbs, Art Monthly, Oct 2007 Human Camera, June 2007, Monograph book Published by Article Press Lindsay Seers, Gasworks, London, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Art Papers (USA), February 2006 Review
of Wandering Rocks, Time Out London, February 1 — 8, 2006 Aften Posten, Norway, Front cover and pages 6 + 7 for show at UKS Artistic sleight
of hand — «Eyes
of Others» at the Gallery
of Photography, Cristin Leach, Irish Times, 25 Nov 2005 There is Always an Alternative, Catalogue (Dave Beech / Mark Hutchinson) 2005 Wunderkammer, Catalogue, The Collection, October 2005 Lindsay Seers» «We Saw You Coming»;» 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea»; «Apollo 13»; «2001», Lisa Panting, Sphere Catalogue (pg 46 - 50), Presentation House Gallery, 2004 Haunted Media (Site Gallery, Sheffield), Art Monthly, April 2004 Miser and Now, essays in issues 1, 2 + 3 Expressive Recal l - «You said that without moving you lips», Limerick City Gallery
of Art, Dougal McKenzie, Source 37, Winter 2003 Braziers International Artists Workshop Catalogue, 2002 Review
of Lost Collection
of an Invisible Man, Art Monthly, April 2003 Slade - Hannah Collins, Chris Muller, Lindsay Seers, Elisa Sighicelli, Catherine Yass, (A journal on photography, essay by John Hilliard), June 2002 Radical Philosophy, 113, Cover and pages 26/30, June 2002 Elle magazine, June 2002, page 92 - 93 Review, Dave Beech, Art Monthly, June 2002 Nausea: encounters with ugliness, Catalogue Lindsay Seers, Artists Eye, BBC Programme by Rory Logsdail The Fire Station, a
film by William Raban and a catalogue by Acme The Double, Catalogue from the Lowry, Lowry Press, July 2000 Contemporary Visual Arts, Roy Exley, June 1999 Hot Shoe, Chris Townsend.
In the latter part
of 90s, Dodge co-wrote, directed, edited and
starred in (with Silas Howard) a
narrative feature
film, By Hook or By Crook, which premiered at Sundance in 2002 and went on to garner five Best Feature awards.
FILM REVIEW: My Art Written, directed by and
starring Laurie Simmons Opens in LA January 19 Laemmle Ahyra Fine Arts Theatre, Beverly Hills By Shana Nys Dambrot Laurie Simmons basically plays herself in this wry, pensive
narrative about a woman artist in her 60s who is moved to confront metrics
of success, agencies
of authorship,...