Sentences with phrase «tells of a narrative film»

Here, she tells of a narrative film that she made with her friends, as a badass, film and music - loving teenager, living in Singapore in the «90s.

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.

As a member of the film's advisory board, I was able to see an early cut of the documentary and can tell you it's a very compelling narrative.

Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.

It's just that the film feels so unusually empty; even if he has subtly snuck his usual hallmarks into the mechanics of the narrative itself, he's populated the foreground with characters who never come alive as anything more than archetypes, who trade in so much exposition it's hard to see how any audience member could be overwhelmed with confusion at the story being told.

Compared to Steve McQueen's previous films, Hunger and Shame, the narrative style is conventional and straightforward, the director understanding that this history needs no embellishment, no interpretation, that just the raw telling of it will cut us to the quick.

The jury statement: «The Alliance of Women Film Journalists presents the EDA Award for Best Female - Directed Narrative Feature to a film in which we are observers in a story told with a fully naturalistic approach.

From giving an anti-Superhero movie Best Picture to trying to tell the public they're sick of the genre, Hollywood believes that by crafting a fake «Superhero Fatigue» narrative people will stop going to see movies they like and will instead see boring Oscar - bait films.

I love the narrative structure of the film, telling two different stories about the parents of a boy who is supposedly killed - in - action, and the story of the boy on assignment at a remote military outpost (where nothing happens all day).

The plot borrows many narrative elements from The Matrix, which itself, truth be told, borrowed many elements of its own from comic books and martial arts films, so it's hard to qualify this feature as a direct rip - off.

However, it is detrimental to the narrative, causing it to lack pace, and leads to the film feeling overburdened by the scale of the story it is trying to tell.

Throwing out conventional narrative, Mike Mills dug into his memories of growing up in a matriarchy in Santa Barbara in the 70s, «trying my hardest not to think of it as film,» he told me in December.

Told with great narrative economy, and featuring two sublime performances, the film charts the experiences of a teenage girl (talented newcomer Thomasin McKenzie), who grows tired of the peripatetic lifestyle she leads with her... Read

Sarah Polley's new film, Stories We Tell, is an exploration of the functions of narrative as they relate to the telling of our life stories.

Where so many docs are content to fit into simple categories, often attempting to mimic the narrative formulas of fiction films, Stories We Tell embraces the form and then reaches beyond its usual confines.

As an astounding Shakespearean director and actor, he is also proven to make bigger budget films work for him and tell interesting narratives for characters we didn't think we'd care about i.e. Thor and his live - action remake of Cinderella for Disney.

The film opens with then Attorney General John Ashcroft announcing Hanssen's arrest for espionage, and while that clearly undermines the surprise of the revelation within the narrative, it still has a significant impact when Burroughs finally tells Eric the real reason for investigating Hanssen.

The second narrative, told in words and set in 1977, chronicles Ben (played in the film by Oakes Fegley) as he travels to Manhattan in search of clues about his long - lost father.

Stanley Tucci's fifth narrative feature film as a director tells the story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

The film's narrative, set in multiple eras and told through different styles, might suggest a work aimed an audience of sophisticated film historians rather than kids, but Haynes, Lachman notes, had faith in the younger audience and he screened it for audiences of children.

Outside of the talking heads segments, which feature some of the most delightfully edited interweaving into the narrative, is a film that wants to do more than just tell us this story of expensive books and robbery.

Hasford also contributed to the screenplay, although the film version is told in two «chapters» instead of the book's three (The boot camp depiction is faithful to its source; the war reporter and Vietnam battle sequences are condensed and combined for narrative brevity.)

Since then, some of her other films, such as 2004's «Yes,» have feature abstracted narratives, but in «Ginger and Rosa» Potter tells a relatively straightforward story in a relatively straightforward way.

She tells her life story, she is the film's writer and director, but she also positions herself throughout as a theorist of autobiographical narrative.

Flawed yet undeniably chilling, each of those earlier films is told with a psychological and narrative precision that allows us to empathise (if not sympathise) with the callous bourgeois protagonists.

With «Stories We Tell,» which evades both the pitfalls of overly personal filmmaking and those of fiction - documentary hybrids — not to mention the philosophical trap of making a film «about narrative» instead of simply telling a story — Polley has delivered the first masterpiece of what promises to be an important career.

«The new film does indeed tell the same tale as J. R. R. Tolkien's lean «Rings» precursor, charting the exploits of Frodo Baggins» uncle Bilbo (Martin Freeman) some 60 years before the quest to destroy the One Ring, but the narrative soars because it also operates as something tangential to the almost - decade - old movie trilogy, setting the stage while also expanding this rich universe.

The narrative alternation between outlaw and pursuing Ranger mirrors that of Clint Eastwood's A Perfect World (though in contrast to that unbalanced film, here both halves are equally well - told).

The film is faithful to the main movements of Tolkien's novels but told in the kind of narrative shorthand that favours truncation over summary.

But I, Tonya too often feels glib and glancing, holding the public responsible for many of the easy assumptions and narrative shortcuts the film itself indulges in while telling Harding's story.

Unfortunately, the film is also overblown and scattered in its telling, sacrificing some of the story's thematic and narrative potency along the way.

Voiceover accounts — and strong lead performances — on behalf of the six main characters punctuate the film, and there is plenty of story to tell as the narrative spans continents, generations and points of view.

You can kind of see why Netflix ended up with the third film, the narrative matching their slow - burning roundabout way of telling stories.

As soon as the trailer opens with Max's narration I could instantly tell that Rockstar have not totally chucked out the Film Noir core that makes the Max Payne franchise unique.Which makes a lot of sense as one of Rockstars biggest releases this year has been LA Noir, which again follows a film noir narrative.

The main menu gives a great representation of the turtles sewer - home, Mikey will constantly express his love of pizza (including a long description of pizza toppings), group taunts and attacks mirror those from the live - action films of old, and the comic style cut scenes used to tell the game's narrative express the TMNT's comic origins brilliantly.

I believe that they have the power to tell compelling, engaging narratives that rival those of the best novels and films.

More recent works include puppet films telling open - ended narratives about the abuse of power.

Her films, drawings, photos and installations often seek to examine the concept of narrative, exploring the subjective nature of memory and «the means by which artefacts are borrowed, adapted and reconfigured to tell various stories».

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.

Shot at the Smithsonian Institute in New York, this film weaves sound, film and narrative as the artist attempts to tell the story of the universe's creation.

Here's what they will tell us: for abstract painting look elsewhere (narrative rules in this biennial); fashion — meets — art doesn't rate; LA, a city whose artistic vitality the curators see as ascendant, does; slipshod facture's out; the real world's not, just unwelcome in unmediated, text — based versions; performance figures in the planning; and film and video will «be selected from the point of view of two curators of contemporary art.»

Keen's watercolor drawing series from the 1970s accompanying the film features fragmented film - noir inspired narrative told through a combination of words and images; the works are significant expressions of the artist's complex and idiosyncratic creative philosophy.

They tell stories in the manner of surrealists like Remedios Varo or Leonora Carrington, to whom Heffernan has been compared.4 Furthermore, such ambiguous narratives more closely parallel the postmodern work of Cindy Sherman's untitled film stills or Kara Walker's silhouettes, than the clear and didactic narratives of history painting.