It has its moments of visual beauty, but a little more poetic daring and a little less in the way of safe artiness might have made this one something more than an expertly conceived business proposition.â $ After a second
viewing of the film recently, I still find myself feeling that way.
Not exact matches
A group
of scientists from Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Johannes Gutenberg University
of Mainz in Germany
recently found that they were able to identify what kind
of films a group
of subjects
viewed — whether it was funny, sad or suspenseful — based on the different combinations
of chemicals, or peaks
of one in particular, such as carbon dioxide, that were found in the air in the theater.
It was that old story that came to mind
recently after I had spent two hours and 40 minutes
viewing the controversial
film The Last Temptation
of Christ.
Rife with potential, the
film adaptation
of Jo Nesbo's bestselling crime novel makes for frustrating
viewing, even more so now that director Tomas Alfredson («Let the Right One In,» «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy»)
recently revealed that 10 - 15 %
of the...
Despite the vast disparity between the quantity
of films I've
viewed and «Larry Sanders» episodes, when I
recently took part in The House Next Door's «If I Had a Sight & Sound Film Ballot» series, I found it far easier to prune those pictures down to my ten favorites than I did when I applied the same task to «Larry Sanders» episodes.
The posthumously released projects
of recently departed actors can make for discomfiting
viewing, not least when the tone
of the
film is at odds with the viewer's still - tender feelings regarding their absence.
Twilight Time has
recently released The Dogs
of War on Blu - ray, and apologies for burying the lead, but this new release is definitely worth
viewing whether you've seen the
film or not.
On first
viewing, I mostly loved the
film, but had some reservations, but a second
viewing recently saw them fall away, even when it came to the biggest
of them, Aaron Taylor - Johnson «s turn (first - time round, he felt out
of his depth, the second, that seemed to be the exact right approach to the part.
Rife with potential, the
film adaptation
of Jo Nesbø's bestselling crime novel makes for frustrating
viewing, even more so now that director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
recently revealed that 10 - 15 percent
of the script was never
filmed.
Recently the 2009 Cine Noir Festival
of Black
Film screened the students»
film, which can be
viewed in part on YouTube.
Ironically, George Hoffman's paintings,
recently on
view at Show Room on the Lower East Side, possess the quality Benjamin so admired in
film, a unique «distracting element... primarily tactile, being based on changes
of place and focus which periodically assail the spectator.»
LORNA SIMPSON, «Easy to Remember,» 2001 (16 mm
film, approximately 2:56 minutes), a video installation featuring 15 separately recorded voices all humming the same tune, was
recently on
view as part
of the Baltimore Museum
of Art's Black Box series.
These material experiments eventually led to her breakthrough series Samurai (1981 — 83), first shown at Phyllis Kind (1983) and
recently on
view at JTT Gallery, New York (November 13, 2016 — January 15, 2017), one
of three galleries that currently represent the artist.4 Haunted by the memory
of a scene from Akira Kurosawa's epic
film Kagemusha (1980), in particular the armor worn by samurai during a ceremonial gathering, Simpson abstracted the cascading arcs and linear folds
of the warriors» skirts into free - form structures.
The primary challenge
of any William Kentridge monograph might seem to be getting images on the page to represent the South African artist's oeuvre, which spans performance by puppets and opera singers, immersive
film installations, stereoscopic and anamorphic drawings, crank - activated kinetic sculptures that play music (
recently on
view at Marian Goodman in New York), and virtuosic charcoal - on - paper animations.
The
film has
recently been presented by the BBC as part
of its Imagine... strand and is available to
view on iplayer for a limited time.
CARAVAN
Recently on
view at MoMA, this exhibition involves the installation and utilization
of a specially modified trailer as well as
film installation and performance pieces by Japanese artists, Eiko and Koma.
Half the works on
view were installed within the set
of Hotel Occidental, a feature
film that Beloufa
recently shot there, and alluded to the artists» transience through it.