Sentences with phrase «static tableaux»

While credit is due for the clarity of the battle scenes in and of themselves, Gods and Generals washes out as a stultifying tribute to the pathological meticulousness of (largely Southern) Civil War recreationists — glossing over the ideology and blood sacrifice in favour of a series of almost static tableaux.

But such relatively commercial ventures were interspersed with the more personal work which increasingly occupied Akerman's attention, as in D'Est (From The East, 1993), an impressionist documentary of life in the former Soviet Union after the collapse of the Communist regime, composed in a series of static tableaux in Akerman's signature, contemplative style.

Held in the camera for an uncomfortable length, one static tableaux is reminiscent of Bergman, although it lacks Bergman's sense of the mystical.

Presented as a series of nearly static tableaux's, with stunning cinematography from Jerzy Palacz, Shirley: Visions of Reality is an experimental tour - de-force.

Whereas the earlier films, mostly shot by Dietrich Lohmann, often framed the groups or members of the group in static tableaux in order to highlight their solidarity and opposition to a lone outsider, this film (Fassbinder's ultimate collaboration with Michael Ballhaus) uses an almost constantly moving camera and a remarkable succession of framing and fracturing devices within the camera frame to underscore the shifting alliances, individual isolation, and internal struggles of the characters.

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Given Zemeckis» love of integrating special effects directly into his stories — this is the director who brought us Back To The Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Forrest Gump, after all — we're going to guess that Hogancamp's 1/6 scale tableaux of heroic pin - ups and dastardly Nazis will be more than just static props.

The show's sumptuous and generous photographic tableaux, APEX GRID provides a contemplative and static replication of his warp - speed video masterpiece of the same title.