Sentences with phrase «upon film stills»

On display is an installation of paintings that re-purpose materials used during the process of painting, a group of dark paintings that utilize paint sludge, and a series of paintings that are based upon film stills used in studio settings.

Extending these ideas, Kantor investigates the manner in which color is used and interpreted through another series of paintings included here, based upon film stills used in the studio setting.

Not exact matches

In 1996, Arquette had lead roles in a number of films, most notably David O. Russell's Flirting With Disaster, in which she played Ben Stiller's put - upon wife.

Needless to say, this film is hardly as driven by its musical aspects as its 1969 counterpart, and makes sure to remind you by underusing Richard Addinsell's score, which, upon actually being used, is typically not fleshed out to the fullest, and is all too often tainted by a degree of conventionalism that further disengages, but ultimately does only so much damage to Addinsell's efforts, which are still spirited enough and recurring enough to play something of a hefty part in breathing some liveliness into this generally dry project.

Running 131 minutes, this film of limited consequence still goes dragged out, with excess filler and material that, rather than livening things up, allows you to further meditate upon things like the natural shortcomings and sentimentality, through all of the genuinely strong aspects.

Despite compromises imposed upon German director Wim Wenders (in his American debut), it's still worth seeing this stylish film due to Forrest's performance in the lead.

Ben Stiller Jerry Stahl, upon whose life the film is based.

This film has it all; great but simplistic story, lovable and memorable characters, beautiful animation that still stuns me upon viewing.

But upon further reflection, I'm not sure how much of that reaction was due to the fact that I could still recite almost all of the film in my head (much of the dialogue is the same), that I will always love its songs (except for the new ones, which added nothing), and that Condon knows his way around a lavish musical.

His reputation as an innovative storyteller and commander of great visuals is significantly due to his final Hollywood film, Imitation of Life, which was a massive success upon its original release and is still now recognised as one of the defining examples of melodrama.

With five months to go still before the annual descent of throngs of music, technology and film fans upon Austin, the South By Southwest Film Festival has announced featured sessions and the first wave of panels for the 2016 event.

Still, even though West «s pensive, tragic romanticism recalls vintage Bertolucci, and its abundant use of visual and aural signifiers brings to mind Argento, the film's seductive interplay between image and sound — a relationship that would reach its apex with the director's final film Once Upon a Time in America — is trademark Leone.

By the time Oren Moverman was releasing «The Messenger,» he knew his next film out would be «Rampart» and was on message about that — but now that «Rampart» is upon us, things are a little less clear for the writer / director, who is still figuring out what's on his slate.

Still, it's frustrating that this couldn't just build upon the satisfactory original DVD and become the film's definitive release.

When not required by a film script to dress like a crazy person, Taika Waititi... still sometimes dresses like a crazy person, because God only gives you one life and it's incumbent upon you to live it to the utmost.

Reaching cult classic status, I only stumbled upon this film fairly recently; and though it was released back in 1995, it may still be the most relevant and resounding film to tackle the experience of middle school and family life for an unpopular suburban pre-teen girl.

Wounds in the film's post-Civil War milieu still linger; racial animus and split loyalties divide these men, while the one thing they can agree upon is viciousness toward the group's one woman.

I took it upon myself to explain the greatness of this film (and its epic, Brandi - filled sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer) to my younger sister who, unbelievably, had neither seen nor heard of this entry in the library of all things inexplicably fulfilling.

Upon the film's release at the end of last year in UK cinemas my fiancé still expressed a desire to watch it, to which I begrudgingly accepted to go and sit down and watch.

It's somewhat to Beatty's credit that his film manages to still distinguish itself from the movie that opened up the possibility of it being made, but at the same time, it still feels about as representative of the style of the Tim Burton flick as much as it is that of the Chester Gould creation upon which it is based.

Though once upon a time seeing Ben Stiller star in a serious - ish film about middle - class, middle - aged malaise was a refreshing rebuke to his broader work in studio comedy, the novelty has begun to wear off in recent years following his repeated — and arguably, repetitive — collaborations with bourgeois angst maestro Noah Baumbach (Greenberg, While We're Young, The Meyerowitz Stories).

The Outsiders was actually my favourite film once upon a time (although it, admittedly, doesn't quite hold up now) but Coppola still done a lot of great work and he was also my favourite director for a time.

While the new Marvel play set looks fun and chaotic Disney Infinity 3.0 is still all about bringing the Star Wars universe into the sandbox game and today fans were given their first look at the new figures based upon the upcoming Force Awakens film.

Six times his films have played International Film Festival Rotterdam, five times in the New York Film Festival, four times at the Pacific Film Archive, three times at the London Film Festival, twice in the Whitney Biennial and once upon a time for reasons still unclear to everyone involved at the Kiel International Festival of Archaeological Film.

Ostensibly a bucolic scene of fall foliage, the painting is in fact based upon a still from the film Apocalypse Now that shows an area of jungle being napalmed.

As a film composed of 35 mm slide stills, the work touches upon ancient and contemporary practices of bathing, including the myth of the lost city of Atlantis.