Sentences with phrase «tone poem»

These now - classic half - staged, half - spontaneous shots are a visual tone poem of WASP privilege and icy repression — a hot mess of sunburned boredom, simpering awkwardness, and vacant stares.

While it never reaches the psychedelic heights of Guerra's previous effort and relies on a more conventional pattern of events, Birds of Passage delivers another fascinating tone poem about Colombia's fractured identity.

An early sound film shot with a distinctive and evocative silent film aesthetic, Vampyr is a horror movie as tone poem.

An impressionistic portrait of a family in 1950s Texas, the film covers a vast thematic landscape in the form of an epic visual tone poem that is a deeply felt and immensely personal film from arguably the greatest living American filmmaker.

They are like tone poems.

However, in the hands of David Lowery («Ain't Them Bodies Saints,» «Pete's Dragon») it becomes something powerful and poetic, a cinematic tone poem on love, loss, and letting go told with a simplicity and poignancy bordering on genius.

Originally produced for Italian television, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem (La Strategia del Ragno) can be regarded as a cinematic tone poem.

And should you somehow think, well, this all sounds so conventional — there's also a futuristic, free - form frontier tone poem from Neil Young and Daryl Hannah.

This is science fiction spectacle and futuristic detective story as art movie tone poem, a conspiracy thriller with flying cars, blaster handguns, and big brawling fights that defies the breathless pace of the action genre.

This science fiction book, which is not really a science fiction book, tells a story, which is not really a story that is part tone poem, part pulp novel, part experimental romance, and parts of many other things.

It's something I first got a hint of after seeing Ali a second time, then Collateral, but it really hit home with Miami Vice where I realized, to put it in literary terms that you might relate to, that it was a kind of filmic tone poem: sketchy, elliptical, subdued, but nonetheless beautiful.

We can get anything from an abstract tone poem on the atomic birth of Bob to the latest comic escapes of our man Dougie Jones.

It's a striking combination of analysis and creative innovation that communes with the past and present, uniting them as a beautiful, absurdist tone poem about the struggles facing those dealt less fortunate hands in life.

The incendiary finale is shocking: You might not realize until then how much this depersonalized tone poem has gotten under your skin.

And the fault must rest squarely on director and co-screenwriter Kirsten Stewart («In America»), who can't seem to decide whether she's making a narrative film or some sort of musical tone poem, and the biggest victims are the characters, who are largely non-existent.

, which has Burton reciting in his honeyed Shakespearean tones a poem by Robinson Jeffers followed by a brief history of the artists colonies of Big Sur.

After several years of improvisational tone poems cobbled together in post-production, Terrence Malick makes his triumphant return to genuinely scripted, more conventionally structured drama with Radegund, about the life and death of Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, who was executed by the Nazis in 1943.

Writer - director Anna Rose Holmer's debut film is partly a coming - of - age tone poem and partly a deeply metaphorical art - horror exercise, but mostly it's its own strange and wonderful thing, as unclassifiable as it is beautiful.

Every year, Cannes manages to work one or two nifty genre exercises in between the Important humanist tone poems and this year Miike fit in nicely.

Paul Thomas Anderson reteams with his «There Will Be Blood» star Daniel Day - Lewis (in what is reportedly the actor's final role) for another strange tone poem, this focusing on the ego of the male creative genius, the inscrutability of relationships and the power dynamics that emerge between couples.

Were Werner Herzog fresh to making films in our modern digital epoch, spiritual tone poem The Revenant would be a natural selection for the New German Cinema director.

While the first trailer was more akin to a cryptic tone poem (and an excuse to parade Lawrence around in tight, form - fitting outfits), the second Red Sparrow trailer threatens to reveal the entire plot to the spy thriller film.

A dream - like atmosphere pervades David Lowery's Ain't Them Bodies Saints, a nostalgic tone poem that hints of Terrence Malick with its sweeping vistas and soft voice - overs.

One is a leisurely exploration of Vienna's high art, life, and history; the other is a hyper - charged tone poem exposing the nightmarish underside of a distinctly 21st - century American dream.

Still, he may never have made a film quite as banal as this life - after - near - death drama, which resembles one of Japanese auteur Naomi Kawase's spiritualist tone poems brutally hijacked in the editing suite by M. Night Shyamalan.

Part slasher flick, part dark comedy, part moody tone poem, «Kill Me Please» explores the world of adolescence and the sociology of high school with a myriad of ideas on its mind.

This just in from the This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things Department: Blade Runner 2049, the existential sci - fi tone poem sequel from Denis Villeneuve, was such a box office disappointment that it faces an $ 80 million loss for its producers.

Indiewire calls the film a «beguiling drama with dialogue that hovers on the edge of lyricism,» resulting in a «haunting, beautiful tone poem.»

JR: Most people who haven't read flash fiction presume it's like poetry — like an old - fashioned tone poem, impressionistic and without characters and plot.

Reflecting on the relationship between sound and image, he will introduce his 1973 film Pictures and Sound Rushes as a prelude to considering the use of Ottorino Respighi's symphonic tone poem Pines of Rome (1924) in Bruce Conner's classic experimental film A MOVIE and in Fisher's Another Movie, made some 60 years later.

As for the bottom of the range and just below it, i.e. at the border of infrasound, I suggest you get a fine recording of Strauss's tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra (the music used at the beginning of the movie 2001, A Space Odyssey) and listen to it with a very good pair of earphones (or better still, go listen to a good live performance).

«A Ghost Story» is David Lowery's tone poem about mortality, the passage of time and the marks we make on the universe.

In the end, Signs — this lightweight masculinized version of The Birds (substituting passages over water for, natch, passages through corn)-- doesn't even have the courage to be as bleak as what Truffaut called Hitchcock's «apocalyptic tone poem,» choosing instead to offer what is the director's most head - slapping, rabble - pleasing epilogue.

And that's what we have here: a visual tone poem that is Jarmusch's paean to the charm of the quotidian.

Do you have a tone poem for pink slippers?

This is a well - paced film that doesn't slow down, and flows smoothly like a kind of tone poem.

In the TV spots section the 5 Tone Poems have been included which are short segments focusing on a main character in the movie accompanied by a short poem.

The film works best as a tone poem with a dreamlike haziness; providing too much clarity would ruin it.

A tone poem as much as a narrative story, it ponders questions that may not have any right answer, needs that may not have any remedy, and the power of surrendering to both those propositions in order to move forward.

For me, «Jesse James» was a tone poem, similar to [the 1997 Tibet - set epic] «Kundun,» which I shot for Marty Scorsese — this melancholy poem.

«The Phantom Thread» is a tale out of Hery James, a tone poem in which an equally Darwinian struggle takes place, though the battle for supremacy goes on in two strong willed lovers» minds.

Though it's not a slam dunk like the filmmaker's 2010 effort, To the Wonder is a fascinating portrait of love, infidelity, and mistakes that plays more like a tone poem rather than a feature film.

The reliance on stunts and practical effects helps contribute to Fury Road's throwback - y appeal: At times the movie feels almost like a tone poem to early -»80s excess, a cross between a monster - truck rally and a Plasmatics concert.

A perfect distillation of character and mood expressed in silence and in shouts; of emotion visualized through quick cuts and slow motion into a tone poem of stark eloquence with nary a flaw in its running time.

A Ghost Story David Lowery's tone poem about grief and time is the most unusual haunted house movie ever.

Pellington expertly juggles all of this by keeping us engaged and invested in the travails of these characters, forging a tone poem that creates a very personal experience for the audience.

Malick's film, like many of his past, is created to be a tone poem, a feature to be experienced more through the senses than the intellect, one that begs for deeper reflection and requires its audience to bring into it a certain sense of their own consternation but all the banks in the world couldn't lend Knight of Cups an inherent sense of completion.This complaint is made more egregious by the fact that Knight of Cups feels like a self - congratulatory brag - a-thon.