Sentences with phrase «verisimilitude in»

The accomplishment of verisimilitude in 30,000 - year - old animal paintings in Chauvet or Lascaux seems to evince the simple enjoyment of rendering accurately.

At a certain point, taking apart verisimilitude in our own art becomes about taking it apart in our society.

Dreyer prepared separate German, French and English versions of the film, and even though he shot them without sound and post-synched all the dialogue, he had his cast perform their dialogue in all three languages for greater verisimilitude in the dubbing.

More than that though, there's an incongruity between the apparent attempt at verisimilitude in the directing and the other major elements of the film.

I would say you can always improve, refine, variegate but if something is sufficiently resolved at one or another point... and in the case of verisimilitude in cinema, or say picture clarity with blu - ray... there is this threshold where everything after seems superfluous.

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.

But rendered in Cash's whisky - soaked baritone, it's difficult not feel the verisimilitude in each note.

Not exact matches

Maine's language in Fallen is even less bound to the illusion of historical verisimilitude than it was in The Preservationist: Eve likens the memory of the Garden to «the remembered scent of a lover,» a changed object is said to «morph,» and the narrator likens Cain's mark to a «Tower of Babel reflected mirrorwise» that everyone sees differently.

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.

In this respect, it has its own kind of verisimilitude; it corresponds to the Palestinian's picture of foreign kings and their courts and so would be meaningful to him.

His great achievement — which covers a multitude of literary weaknesses — has been to join the supernatural to the natural in a marriage of equals that leaves the verisimilitude of both intact.

Hanson has said that the shocking verisimilitude of his creations is in the service of allowing us to relate to them.

Maybe this dazzling technology, confident enough in its verisimilitude, could also be humble enough to slip into the background, so you'd have no qualms about missing out if you just closed your eyes, and tuned in to the real.

The latest production from Ealing Studios unavoidably challenges comparison with Hollywood in style and verisimilitude; it must be said that comparison on all major counts is unfavourable.

Suffused with fantastical elements, dreamlike sequences and hallucinatory images, A Fantastic Woman stars Daniela Vega, a trans actress, and her performance roots the film in a kind of intimate verisimilitude.

Director Craig Gillespie («Lars and the Real Girl») has assembled an impressive cast, headlined by Margot Robbie in the titular role, but the A-list names struggle mightlily to achieve verisimilitude.

The stellar design team and animators find room for both the sun - kissed verisimilitude of a homey pueblo, and the razzle - dazzle of elaborately designed folk - art animals called alebrijas that become flying, hot - colored spirit creatures in the Land of the Dead.

Incredible in its verisimilitude, Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay is smart, incisive, and passionately written.

Most of Lady Bird's teen characters are united by these and other populist totems (in one adorable departure from a world of cultural verisimilitude, Sacramento seems to be a haven for Stephen Sondheim nuts), but the film finds them increasingly aware of the highly visible class markers that separate them.

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 surrogate.

[Remember, this is both a network show we're watching, and a network show that's being made, so that there's a certain amount of frantic bleeping in the name of verisimilitude...]

«Their unique gift for immersing the audience in their dark and edgy worlds brings a brilliant verisimilitude unlike any other.

In terms of providing a realist document that was unrestricted by the limitations of filmic practices, Vogel built upon the verisimilitude of August Underground by attempting to circumvent the traditional release patterns of theatrical exhibition or of release via VHS and DVD.

Aligning itself with a CIA official (Jessica Chastain) whose decade - long pursuit of bin Laden calls on vast reserves of courage and resolve, Zero Dark Thirty goes deep into the shadow world of «enhanced interrogation» and black sites, details the many leads and red herrings that finally brought investigators to a compound in Abbottabad, and executes the raid itself with stomach - turning verisimilitude.

These inventive techniques provide a sense of candid verisimilitude rarely seen in the scrupulously - constructed western genre.

Part of this is of course owed to the stunning VFX, which in my opinion even surpasses Blade Runner 2049 this year, for its meticulous verisimilitude.

Sicario, which is Spanish for hitman, frequently places its sharply observed characters in peril, increasingly engulfed in ever - threatening surroundings frequently resulting in shocking and unnerving verisimilitude.

They bring a verisimilitude to a story that does not restrict itself to mere realism, instead diving into a third act confrontation that spirals into surreal sights and violence that manages to unsettle in a desensitized, glib genre.

PBS had a fabulous documentary series years ago called American High and not even last years» American Teen could capture the level of verisimilitude that's non-existent in the fluff that passes for teen drama on television today.

The verisimilitude she creates in putting small town Sacramento California life on screen, the specificity of the Catholic high school experience, it all makes Lay Bird feel so lively, and another wonderful performance from Saoirse Ronan and an excellent supporting cast (Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts, Timothee Chalamet, Lois Smith, Beanie Feldstein, etc etc) is the topping on the cake.

But it's been 20 years since his last winner (Missing), and in Capital, his anger over corporate chicanery, specifically in the world of global financial services, isn't supported by anything approaching verisimilitude.

Rated R in the US, the widely available DVD features a few shots cut from the original theatrical version, including a very realistic erect penis that Jane Campion insists isn't real but has a remarkable 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 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.

They jarringly destroy any verisimilitude director Jenkins and Gadot (in the case of the closing bookend) have been working towards.

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The professed actuality signalled in the title card is immediately evident in the careful detail of the period's visual signatures, a commitment to historical verisimilitude.

In a genre more and more dominated by in media res character pieces and verisimilitude, first time feature director Gillian Robespierre has found the best way to naturally draw the audience into her worlIn a genre more and more dominated by in media res character pieces and verisimilitude, first time feature director Gillian Robespierre has found the best way to naturally draw the audience into her worlin media res character pieces and verisimilitude, first time feature director Gillian Robespierre has found the best way to naturally draw the audience into her world.

In trying to keep with its verisimilitude, the film's pacing slows to a crawl.

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.

She would also throw in her own delighted observations on the film's verisimilitude:

Though much of the film's early press focused on von Trier's audacity in digitally superimposing porn actors» genitals onto the stars» bodies to maximize the verisimilitude of the sex scenes, Nymph -LRB--RRB- maniac is not an ironic essay on digital magic but rather a defiantly old - fashioned affair, grounded in well - trodden narrative traditions.

Disney starlet Jenna Ortega, «Actor & Ocean Life Enthusiast,» touts Pixar's dedication to verisimilitude on a tour of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in an untitled 3 - minute piece (indeed, we see that the interiors of the place were faithfully recreated along with the marine animals), while «Creature Features» (3 mins.)

This is a world that beckons you, invites you to get lost in it, and masterfully conceals its clockwork mechanisms under a thick layer of vibrant verisimilitude.

4:30 pm — TCM — Gandhi Ben Kingsley plays the titular figure with uncanny verisimilitude, tracing Mohandas Gandhiís life and career throughout his quest for unbiased treatment of native peoples in British - held lands, especially India, where his leadership of a non-violent rebellion helped to gain India its independence from the British Empire.

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.

This is where the Gorilla verisimilitude can help - stronger fingers will render a larger percentage of drain bolts «finger tight» at any given position in the removal sequence.

Close knows that of which she writes, and part of the pleasure of this book is the verisimilitude of the world she creates behind the scenes in the West Wing where idealistic staffers vie for the spot closest to POTUS.

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.

One is set in the past and expends great energy on re-creating a historical moment in vivid detail and with sweeping verisimilitude.