Moreover, Mallick also instills the sense of paranoia of the time, as the viewer sporadically hears the sound of whispers, primarily from Jack, who speaks out to
the various themes of the film: spirituality, compassion, regret, fear, anger, sadness, and wonder — all elements of everyday life.
Not exact matches
Yet when the time calls for it Anderson relaxes his preoccupations, allowing the form
of the
film to meld perfectly with the
various themes he explores.
Over and over, the negative reviews
of «August: Osage County» have pulled variations on a sad
theme, with
various New York - and LA - based critics wrestling with the
film without having seen, or read, the Tracy Letts play that came before it.
The sort
of problem Sontag has with Jameson is,
of course, the very argument Bordwell has with anyone from Slavoj Žižek to Jacques Lacan, evident in a comment he makes on his blog (but not in the book) that echoes directly Sontag's: «Most
of FRT [Zizek's The Fright
of Real Tears] offers standard
film criticism, providing impressionistic readings
of various [Krzysztof] Kieslowski
films in regard to recurring
themes, visual motifs, dramatic structures, borrowed philosophical concepts, and the like.»
We talk about the
film's
various strengths, the rich
themes woven into the story, the meteoric rise
of director Ryan Coogler, the incredible villain, how it compares to other Marvel movies (there are more than a few insults lobbed at Doctor Strange), how Marvel movies changed after the dissolution
of the story group, what Black Panther means for the future
of the MCU and for blockbusters in general, and more.
It's not Spielberg's best
film of the 2010s (that, to me, would be Lincoln), but it's one
of his best, and it weds its story and
themes to surprisingly propulsive filmmaking that uses visual language to nicely set up the
various social strata that Kay Graham ends up having to traverse in order to betray some
of her closest friends and publish stories based on the Pentagon Papers.
The influence one member
of the jury can have on the verdict is the central
theme of the
various remakes
of the
film 12 Angry Men.
That being said,
various interviews with those involved with the production have offered some hints regarding when the story picks up and the
themes of his upcoming
film, and they're quite interesting.
Splatting Image — Nicolas Roeg One
of the better online resources for Roeg, this German - language article (by Marcus Stiglegger) explores Roeg's major
films, his
themes and
various approaches, in a scholarly manner.
Blu - ray Highlight: «Behind the Scenes
of Kevin» isn't your typical making -
of featurette, but rather an intelligent discussion about the movie with interviews from the cast and crew on a number
of topics like adapting Lionel Shriver's controversial novel for the big screen, casting, production design and the
film's
various themes.
Based on the 1973
film by Michael Crichton
of the same name, HBO's Westworld has taken the original's hackneyed premise
of a couple tourists escaping from the Delos Corporation's
various time - focused
theme parks (Medieval World, West World, and Roman World), and shifted it into a refined look at what it means to be human, the nature
of memory, and the true extent
of humankind's appetite for depravity.
He is currently completing A Distant Echo, a feature length
film shot on 35 mm in
various Californian deserts that explores
themes of identity, culture and the construction
of history in collaboration with musician Tom Challenger.
In a spirit
of cinematic dialogue with her three London exhibitions this Spring, Tacita Dean has invited Los Angeles - based curator and archivist Mark Toscano to select and present three programmes
of 16 mm
films by
various artists, each one engaging with one
of the
themes of her exhibitions.
In her work,
themes of interdependence and survival are consistently explored through
various media, such as performance, installation, photography, and
film.
Inspired by the powerfully spontaneous drawings by Luciano Castelli on view this last November at the special exhibition «From White to White» at the Kaufhaus Jandorf, as well as in the gallery show «Revolving Paintings», we will further explore the
theme of black & white with a group show: works by
various artists represented by the gallery will introduce different approaches to monochromatic representation in contemporary art, and simultaneously draw a link to the very present medium
of film during the Berlinale
Film Festival.