Sentences with phrase «stylistic tics»

The Polish Village series (1971 — 73) were huge collages of overlapping planes of painted wood, while his «tableaux» pieces, many inspired by Herman Melville's Moby Dick, burst sculpturally from the rigid confines of the frame in riots of colour and stylistic tics of past ages of modern art.

The stylistic tics are remarkably similar in all of those films: prolonged takes, carefully worked out mise - en - scène, a penchant for wide shots within a 2.35:1 frame.

Those two events are a vehicle for von Trier to explore both emotional and spiritual crisis while also proffering a pitch - black worldview with regard to God and life's meaning, concerns that feature little of the overt glibness that plagued Antichrist, whose provocations and stylistic tics regularly undercut its psycho - horror, but remain issues that the Danish director treats at a frustrating remove.

From the genre's preferred stylistic tics to the American Dream - turned - nightmare arc, we're in familiar territory.

With unrepentant bombast — and, one imagines, a smirk — Yorgos Lanthimos announces, in just the first shot, that this is his film, and he doubles down on the stylistic tics that define his polarizing work.

Through rollicking, real - life adventure, humor, pathos and a few stylistic tics, the consistently amazing work of Sean Penn, Cast, and Crew keeps an ultimately meditative and remarkably powerful movie entertaining and engrossing throughout.

But there's a reason for that; it's not just a stylistic tic.