Sentences with phrase «version of narrative film»

Not exact matches

So the question remains: Just how much of the narrative in «Zero Dark Thirty» is the result of the CIA's unprecedented degree of cooperation with Bigelow, and its attempts to get the film to promote the agency's preferred version of events?

Despite a real - life narrative stuffed with secrets and suspense, the film version quickly feels bloated as Stone treats us to scene after scene of Snowden struggling with his inner dilemma and, especially, with his devoted girlfriend, Lindsay, who is a major character in her own right.

Indeed, a sex - free, PG - 13 version of «Freed» could be cut without shedding a second of narrative coherence, such as it is; one could ask what the point of that would be, though similar queries might be leveled at the film as it stands.

The film still suffers from a muddy narrative and dour outlook, but this extended version corrects a number of problems with plotting and expands the DC Comics universe with better character development and world building.

Though it does have its own version of a three - act structure, this film is not a conventional narrative that will fit into a tidy box and it's not a story so much as an experience.

The Rider Brady Jandreau, a Lakota cowboy from South Dakota, enacts a version of his own harrowing story of loss and recovery in writer - director Chloé Zhao's stunningly lyrical western, a seamless and deeply moving blend of narrative and documentary film techniques.

In «Disobedience,» director Sebastian Lelio's coolly controlled film version of Naomi Alderman's novel, two roads diverge in a narrative, crisscrossing and intertwining years later...

At its best, the film is the dullest version of its pop culture conversations and at its worst, it's a narrative disaster.

Hasford also contributed to the screenplay, although the film version is told in two «chapters» instead of the book's three (The boot camp depiction is faithful to its source; the war reporter and Vietnam battle sequences are condensed and combined for narrative brevity.)

Not just some longer version with deleted scenes cut back in, the Extended Editions were painstakingly reedited for home video by Peter Jackson with new special effects, a reworked score by Howard Shore to match the new rhythms of the narrative and some lovely scenes that were cut for time in the theatrical version of the film but add depth to the characters and the scope of the epic.

Through the many versions (various director's cuts) that Scott has released since then, the aesthetics and narrative of the film have stood the test of time.

Characters from those films pop up during Thor «s main narrative and after the end credits, living up to Marvel's commitment to populating their films with the same bland versions of perfectly acceptable characters.

Brady Jandreau, a Lakota cowboy from South Dakota, enacts a version of his own harrowing story of loss and recovery in writer - director Chloé Zhao's stunningly lyrical western, a seamless and deeply moving blend of narrative and documentary film techniques.

The latest entrant in this now - Disney - owned franchise is largely content to further the themes and narrative strategies of its predecessor: Johnson, a filmmaker who proved capable of crafting individualistic, tightly wound sci - fi with 2012's Looper, too often seems to think that the best he can bring to Star Wars is an amped - up version of Abrams's overly reverent tribute to George Lucas's original films.

The Body Double version creates a secondary queer narrative of lust and narcissistic abandon, while also leaving the original power of De Palma's film intact.

«In total, the object of desire in MARILYN is mediated by so many factors — from Marilyn Monroe's death and the age of the original film to the lethargic pace and absence of narrative closure in Conner's version — that is transmogrified into something truly strange, at once erotic and deadened.»

Here's what they will tell us: for abstract painting look elsewhere (narrative rules in this biennial); fashion — meets — art doesn't rate; LA, a city whose artistic vitality the curators see as ascendant, does; slipshod facture's out; the real world's not, just unwelcome in unmediated, text — based versions; performance figures in the planning; and film and video will «be selected from the point of view of two curators of contemporary art.»

If Arthur was disappointed by Kubrick's decision to cut his dialogue and narrative to the bone, he was eventually reconciled by being able to put everything left out of the film into the novel, meaning that each man was able to produce his own preferred version.