Sentences with phrase «verisimilitude as»

In perhaps the show's most inventive twist on medium, Sasha Pierce essentially disguises thinly extruded paint as thread, weaving it into a geometric tapestry so as to simulate textile with an eerie verisimilitude as uncanny as that achieved by Wayne.

Nichols and his cast were able to draw from that material (Nichols regular Michael Shannon cameos as the photographer) and other footage from the period, including Nancy Buirski's 2011 documentary «The Loving Story,» to lend the film as much verisimilitude as possible.

Not exact matches

Once again, there is a certain verisimilitude to the charge that as many as one thousand modern corporations were involved, a century and a half ago, in one or another aspect of bondage.

As they had grown older, they had become eager to add more verisimilitude to their costumes and either sought or had suggested to them a surgical transformation that would include breast implants, penile amputation, and pelvic reconstruction to resemble a woman.

The verisimilitude in the CG [computer generated] effects and the attention to little things — like the way the rotor from the vehicle moves the grass as it comes in for a landing — are constantly bombarding you with subliminal stimuli that are telling you that what you're seeing is real, even though you know you're sitting in a movie theater.

Although Marvel's decision to cast Chris Evans as Captain America initially caused a great deal of controversy, his portrayal of one of the most iconic comic book heroes eventually won the hearts of millions fans, and nowadays we can't imagine anybody else besides Evans playing the part with such verisimilitude.

It's a film so exactly costumed and so exactly designed — verging on working - class cosplay — that verisimilitude functions as diversion.

The real Mr. Stahl, who has a small role as a stern doctor, supervised the wardrobe verisimilitude and other small, scarily authentic details.

To sweat the sexual verisimilitude (as many have done) is like claiming Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt is no masterpiece because of unconvincing rear projection shots during the denouement.

As with his previous film, Funny People, Apatow again cast his real - life wife (Leslie Mann) and daughters (Iris and Maude Apatow) in a bid for something like verisimilitude, with a pot - bellied Paul Rudd standing in as the writer - director's surrogatAs with his previous film, Funny People, Apatow again cast his real - life wife (Leslie Mann) and daughters (Iris and Maude Apatow) in a bid for something like verisimilitude, with a pot - bellied Paul Rudd standing in as the writer - director's surrogatas the writer - director's surrogate.

With This Is 40, Apatow gets closer to making his quintessential dramedy — one which may not deftly express the universal experience of midlife (as if there even is one), but moves past its veneer of autobiographical verisimilitude and rings with something like real truth.

The point is that it doesn't need to: eXistenZ isn't about virtual - reality verisimilitude so much as it's about fictional identities coming to matter more than real ones.

And something else that Halloween does that too few films of its ilk have managed is to leave us all uncomfortably questioning the thin filament intervening fact and fiction, tangibility and nightmare, as well as the texture and verisimilitude of evil.

The most remarkable aspect of Sleepaway Camp, taken as a whole, is its verisimilitude.

It's when the film reaches Candie's plantation that it drops off considerably, largely due to less dramatic tension as well as an unconvincing performance by Samuel L. Jackson as Candie's trusted house slave (while the other actors at least make some attempt at period verisimilitude, Jackson sounds as contempo as he did in Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction).

The plan is to use horror elements to illuminate the dark corners of a world where one's looks are everything, but Refn's idea of how to criticize vapidity is to adopt that vapidity voraciously, as if making a vapid movie about vapid people is some form of vapidly vamped verisimilitude.

The production here is meticulous, right down to the tinkly feel - good score, as Strong takes her charity project out for new clothes, a pedi - cab ride, and some messy hot dogs in perfect public service commercial verisimilitude.

Some of the real - life people Baker found living in the motels were cast as background characters, which reflects the verisimilitude he has sought to employ.

The cast commits to the verisimilitude of the scenario (the script incorporated real life dialogue) with aplomb and ratchets the tension effectively as the situation grows more dire.

In contrast, the genres of fiction as well as autobiography are told through narrative where criteria for justification include verisimilitude — that is, the likelihood or probability of an event — and believability.

I have a list of cards that describe certain personality types drawn from my observation of the folks around me and I use these as background to my fictional characters in order to imbue them with a sense of verisimilitude.

As a author I identify myself as a Traditionally Self - Published Hybrid with Aspirations toward VerisimilitudAs a author I identify myself as a Traditionally Self - Published Hybrid with Aspirations toward Verisimilitudas a Traditionally Self - Published Hybrid with Aspirations toward Verisimilitude.

In the end, they no longer share a relationship to still life in the historical sense as a presentation of wealth or position, but strive to cast light on new verisimilitudes.

The issue should be obvious: Presenting Estes (or any photorealist) as a «consummate artisan,» in Adamson's words, emphasizes the gee - whiz, how - did - he - do - that aspect of his technique, as if photorealism were merely a quest for verisimilitude.

Focused on painting and sculpture, it explores «visible reality through the analytical lens of the 3D computer - modelling world», delving into the relationship between the art object that takes visible reality as its point of reference, and the boundaries of verisimilitude between observable reality, art and science.

In the NY Sun David Cohen writes that the real enigma of Murphy's treatment of the perceived world is that she is «neither hyperrealistic nor impressionistic, nor is she so remote from her own facture as to achieve — or seem to want to achieve — total verisimilitude.

It's certainly not realism as verisimilitude; it's realism in another, materialist sense.

Describing himself not as a photographer but as a conceptual artist for whom photography is an intrinsic part of his creative process, Demand's work challenges photography's claims to verisimilitude and disrupts notions of authenticity and artifice by questioning the medium as a faithful record of reality.

In her new work, Wayne reaches for, in her words, «that seductive dislocation» by exploring the range of possibilities for the representation of an illusion in as many different ways as possible, from trompe - l'oeil to verisimilitude, while still remaining undeniably within the confines of a painting.

These paintings include a single grayscale canvas that due to its chromatic verisimilitude with the photographic source material demonstrates in a visual form what the exhibition as a whole encapsulates conceptually.