Sentences with phrase «tone poem of»

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.

I thought of two films while watching At World's End, and the first is Miami Vice, a beautiful, expositionless tone poem of a film in an action movie's clothing.

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This can best be understood in light of something he tells us later in the poem: «Only a dark tone, an inclination toward a peculiar Manichean / strain of Christianity, could have led one to the proper trail.»

The tone is so different in the last poem, that one can not help wondering if it may not have been the thought of one who lived later, interpolated into the total poem, very much as seems to have been true in the case of the Biblical story of Job and Ecclesiastes.

He then pleads with her to «get up» (which is a surprising contrast from the declarative tone of most of the poem) because «we love you.»

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

He served as the cinematographer and editor of Magic Mike XXL, the tone - poem sequel to his male - stripper movie that bathed its chiseled cast in moody color filters.

, 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.

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.

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.

When Truffaut calls The Birds an «apocalyptic tone poem,» he could easily be talking about this picture that paints a cold, tiny portrait of a settlement hewn together from wet logs and animal comforts wholly inadequate as insulation against the wild.

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

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Synthesizing Korine's pastiche - y influences, «Spring Breakers» melds the cacophony of dubstep, hallucinogenic binges, adolescent vitality and hip - hop white trash swagger with the tone - poem reflection of Terrence Malick.

We read Wislawa Szymborska's «The Terrorist, He Watches,» a poem chilling in both subject and tone, giving us pause about the dark ramifications of being a bystander when others suffer.

I've had students describe the tone of the poem as «urgent» and «ominous,» and these first noticings lead us into a more in - depth, focused examination of the poem.

How does the tone of each poem differ?

Is the tone the same at certain parts of the poem?

Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).

This collection of remarkable poems, in which fictional Harlem residents tell their stories, is read by 13 outstanding narrators, whose vivid portrayals amplify vintage sepia - toned photographs in the accompanying paperbound book.

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.

An introductory poem, «Bone Blades,» reminds readers that people have enjoyed ice - skating for hundreds of years, and sets the tone for how ingenious ideas can almost always make life better.

Or the reflective tone of an essay into a poem.

Illustrated in ruddy, earth - toned illustrations, this collection of poems catalogs the animal residents of the African savanna, from the diminutive dung beetle to the massive elephant and titular wildebeest.

Beginning Reader The smooth tones of narrators James «D - Train» Williams and Vaneese Thomas enhance this work of the history of Jazz told through a series of poems in this Coretta Scott King Honor Book written by Walter Dean Myers and illustrated by his son, Christopher Myers.

Saudi's own poem, «An Ocean of Dreams» (1992), is featured on a blank wall in the gallery, setting the tone for the seven sculptural pieces that dominate the room, and exemplifying her connection with the Earth.

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Amidst the chaos, a voice synthesizer (think Siri) recites a Richard Brautigan poem, whose robotic tone is offset by a dreamy computer rendition of a Beethoven Sonata.

«My imagery shifts between extremes of representation and abstraction: from landscaped fields composed of heightened contrasts to subtle and monochromatic light plays, translating the effects and varying tone of Rilke's existential poems while gesturing towards the natural landscape of Los Angeles.»

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).

I believe the following poem — written after Sept. 11 by Dr. Cheryl Sawyer at the University of Houston — sets the right tone and spirit of what the power of one really means.