Not exact matches
In a neat piece
of narrative
structuring on Tanovic's part, this David - and - Goliath story is told partially through the eyes
of a
film crew
making a documentary on Ayan's astonishing findings.
«The next step will be investigation
of the spin - phonon interaction in nanoscale thin
films and
structures made of this important antiferromagnetic material.»
First - principles calculations determined that the electron barrier, established at the interface
of the PEI / hexagonal boron - nitride
structure and the metal electrodes applied to the
structure to deliver, current is significantly higher than typical metal electrode - dielectric polymer contacts,
making it more difficult for charges from the electrode to be injected into the
film.
A Sketch
of the atomic
structure of Darrell Schlom's novel ferroelectric material as stored in a
film made of the same substance.
Sharp pairs amorphous silicon (fine layers
of randomly arranged silicon) with layers
of crystalline silicon (whose atoms are in a more
structured lattice) to
make its thin -
film cells.
«Further development in the setups is required to be able to write skyrmionic
structures on extended
films, where we can't
make any profit
of geometric confinements like in the nanodisks,» Schäffer said.
A one -
of - a-kind
film that really
makes other movies» depictions
of sex seem very shallow, this one doesn't have the best acting, or writing, but it's interestingly
structured and
makes it point very well.
The
film is by no means terribly long, at least when you compare it to its 1969 musical counterpart, so it's not like storytelling drags its feet for ages, but
make no mistake, the fact
of the matter is that plotting's
structure is something
of a mess that meanders along repetitiously and, well, is to be expected, because, really, where does this story have to go?
People complain about Marvel's servicing
of its connected universe, but the Justice League set - up in this
film makes Iron Man 2 look like a strongly
structured work
of a single vision.
Goodman's
film, while stressing Timothy McVeigh's virtually one - man show in accumulating the needed materials for a bomb which he detonated on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, spends almost half
of its ninety - eight minutes giving the backdrop — not way back to third - party
structures like the anti-Catholic Know Nothing movement
of 1855 but stretching to the mischief -
making of two
of McVeigh's forefathers.
Even today, there is something remarkable about a well -
structured western, something
of an escapist
film poised to
make us reimagine and relate.
The end result is a head - spinner to be sure — not only does it not
make any sense in the traditional definition
of the word, it doesn't even attempt to do so — and those who demand that their
films offer up some kind
of conventional narrative
structure will no doubt throw up their hands and leave early on in the proceedings.
To
make his argument, Bordwell must,
of course, ignore those aspects
of the
films he studies that do not fit the classical narrative
structure, like the non-classical nature
of a character such as Memento's Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce).
Drawing liberally from an onstage interview at the Austin
Film Society, clips from the two directors»
films, and visits to Linklater's editing room (where Boyhood is up on the console), Klinger creates a conversational
structure for the
film,
making Benning's visit with Linklater the throughline
of the
film.
In terms
of narrative
structure Argo is essentially a standard genre
film that also happens to be extremely well
made.
The nested story
structure and changing aspect ratios are a delightful touch, giving Grand Budapest Hotel a sense
of time passed, and
making the love and loss in the
film all the more resonant.
The title comes from drawings Andrew and Eden
make of random objects, which echoes the
film's
structure.
The
film's time
structure is splintered into shards
of past and present, which is probably just as well — a strictly narrative chronology would
make this wallow seem even sloggier.
Spun in the rolling yarn
of a book the nuance might
make for an entertaining read, but in a
film it lacks the narrative
structure and shape, not to mention the lack
of interesting characters, that
makes for a truly compelling viewing.
It may follow the same exact
structure as many
of the other
films, but it's a
structure that works, and Ridley Scott has
made sure to include this in his most recent visitation to the franchise he helped create.
The flashback
structure gives extra shape not only to his character, but also to the fim's
structure — it preserves a kind
of symmetry in the narrative that would be unbalanced if the stuff at Monaco were appended as a coda, though it also defuses what could have been a source
of tension in the body
of the
film, namely the question
of whether Sol would
make it out
of the camp alive.
These
films give an aura
of respectability and complexity to an otherwise disreputable genre, and Annihilation is basically Predator for people who think Predator is dumb, but without any
of the qualities that actually
make Predator good (
structure, pacing, action, coherence).
With a collage
of interviews with real - life survivors following the end
of the
film, it
makes a strange shift from narrative feature to an almost documentary - like
structure that just feels misplaced.
The sort
of problem Sontag has with Jameson is,
of course, the very argument Bordwell has with anyone from Slavoj Žižek to Jacques Lacan, evident in a comment he
makes on his blog (but not in the book) that echoes directly Sontag's: «Most
of FRT [Zizek's The Fright
of Real Tears] offers standard
film criticism, providing impressionistic readings
of various [Krzysztof] Kieslowski
films in regard to recurring themes, visual motifs, dramatic
structures, borrowed philosophical concepts, and the like.»
This, ironically,
makes the
structure even more jarring as we follow certain characters for over half an hour and have them mostly abandoned for a good portion
of the
film before they either come back or remain left behind.
Vallee's filmmaking style is quite reminiscent
of his previous
films — and the techniques
make sense within the
structure of this script.
And to be clear, that's okay; what
makes Phantom Thread so sticky is that what it's really about is not there on the surface; it's tucked away in the seams and lining
of this rigorously designed and
structured film — its phantom threads, so to speak.
LMD: The
structure of the
film is like a road movie in a way; with every stop the two
make, Hee - su finds out more and more about Byung - woon.
British
film director Steve McQueen's 2008 debut
film, Hunger, is notable for many reasons: It is a great
film, a great debut
film, uses an innovative narrative
structure, uses interesting cinematography in concert with its soundtrack,
makes the best use
of ambient sound to have the best non-musical soundtrack I've heard in a long time (if not ever), is the work
of a black artist that is not obsessed with black only topics, and shows a maturity and grace that goes beyond even the first
films of directors like David Gordon Green, in George Washington, and Terrence Malick, in Badlands.
When a Twitter user asked Landis why he thought the villagers in the original
film didn't stop the werewolf themselves, the screenwriter revealed that he's exploring this detail in his script, and it will account for one
of the biggest deviations from the original
film: «Answering this question and the nature
of the village's role in the plot in the second and third act as
of now are the biggest changes I've
made to the original
structure... Doing some fun stuff.»
He professes delighted surprise that the 150 - minute
film's unusual
structure and complex subject have connected so broadly: its $ 1.35 million U.S. gross
makes it by far the most publicly visible
film in the field since three
of the nominees have yet to be released Stateside.
The greatest problem with the
film isn't as obvious as its bad writing and weak
structure: it's that Queen
of the Damned tries to
make sense where none is to be
made.
Owen and Roberts get to dish out some witty dialogue; develop a strange [and maybe false] relationship over the course
of the
film which is
structured in both the past and the present — each arc developing chronologically until the very end, when there's a revelation that
makes sense even as it dumbfounds.
The mystery
of Shutter Island's
structure is exorcised in this way and it never recaptures the sense
of dread
of its opening reels,
making its last two hours something
of an ordeal as everything that's aesthetically wonderful about the
film is burned off in the crucible
of its maddening inconsequence.
I was able to see La tortue rouge, I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, 2016), Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016), Loving (Jeff Nichols, 2016), Nocturnal Animals, O.J:
Made in America, and Arrival, all
of which impressed me greatly and provided a
structure for my «best
films of 2016» list.
After finding a copy
of the original script that included the initial
structure online, Gelderblom loaded the
film onto his computer, reassembled it along those lines (as he had no access to any previously deleted material, there is no additional footage in this version save for one repeated shot that was needed to help
make a smoother transition between scenes at one point) and posted the results online.
The
film is
structured with a series
of flashbacks and flashforwards, keeping the audience in doubt as to the exact chain
of events until a chronology starts building up to a terrible end — this
structure, standout performances from everyone involved, and an enormously effective soundscape combine to
make this one
of the most terrifying pictures about parenthood ever
made.
Like life, the
structure isn't straight - forward and the solutions aren't always pat,
making White Oleander a surprisingly complex
film for those who like to pick out the deconstruction
of female archetypes.
At first this approach seems counter-intuitive for a movie filled with fantastic creatures,
structures and situations, but it ends up being effective for that very reason: it
makes you feel as though you're seeing a record
of things that are actually happening, and it
makes «Coco» feel gentle and unassuming even though it's a big, brash, loud
film.
In a similar vein, «Fly on the Set» (21 minutes) is
made up solely
of behind - the - scenes footage, and shows the
filming of certain scenes, but contains no interviews or overall
structure.
Williams claims to have written the
film over one weekend, and both the clamp - like tightness
of its
structure and the bracingly realistic progression
of its characters — if you get hurt, you stay hurt —
make that entirely believable.
The game does follow a fast - paced
structure and even
makes reference to the
films plot from time to time, but other than those enjoyable bits it fails in eliciting even basic levels
of excitement from players, which is a shame.
Citizen Kane's lasting influence on decades
of film -
making, from narrative
structure to optical techniques to editing to sound, is undeniable.
Multiplayer pairs nicely with the basic
structure of a slasher
film, and it helps that it also
makes a game less risky to produce and significantly easier to monetize.
The
films she
makes have a strong formal aesthetic and engage with the failures and power
structures of language.
For four years Ortega Ayala has been visiting this derelict territory to obtain footage for a
film that seeks to resurface (through first hand accounts
of witnesses) an unprecedented event in our history where man -
made technology went wrong and rendered uninhabitable a vast area that includes entire cities and monumental
structures.
Yass's
film interrogates this remarkable maritime
structure from a range
of different vantage points,
making for a dizzying, vertiginous experience.
At the Baltic, he will be showing Site three new commissions
made for the exhibition, and also the UK premiere
of his new
film, «Construction Site», an hour long video
of workers on a beach erecting and dismantling a scaffold
structure.
It is not translation per say that
structures the work
of Bethan Huws, rather it is the investigation
of procedures
of displacement and the search for origins in language that has led to her interest in translation as one
of clearest ways
of making them manifest (procedures
of displacement and the search for origins are also found in her installations, in Scraped Floor, and in her readymades, watercolours, and
films).
The newly completed
film Black Drop (produced in association with Modern Art, Oxford and the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford), unfolds in a 35 mm editing suite as an editor tries to bring
structure and understanding to a varied array
of material including: footage
made on location in Hawaii and Tahiti on the occasion
of the June 2012 transit
of Venus, archive material, and ultimately footage
of himself editing.