Sentences with phrase «visual imagination of»

Like all the artists of the Pictures Generation, Cindy Sherman is also drawn to the visual imagination of the media culture, of which she is also openly critical.

«Directors Leonor Caraballo and Matteo Norzi capture the medicinally induced hallucinations with a visual imagination of rare specificity and fury.»

Bryan Fuller has been playing with the netherworld between life and death in such shows as Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls, but the alchemy comes together in this fantasy - laced world, thanks in large part to the visual imagination of co-producer and pilot director Barry Sonnenfeld.

Not exact matches

I have to say that I felt that George's group of six films had more innovative visual imagination and this film was more of a retrenchment to things you had seen before and characters you had seen before.

He has flashes of intense visual imagination, as in his Sixth Hymn, where the Last Judgment is dreamed as a carefully composed fresco.

Turns out, there are no official neighborhood boundaries, but hundreds of readers drew their neighborhoods on the map and compared their drawings with those of other residents, creating a visual of where our geographical imaginations overlap and where they disagree.

Alien sunsets, shimmering rings, brilliant blasts of light that thrill the senses and fuel the imagination — astronomy is a visual science.

Leaving school at 14, lumbered with what the British mathematician and man of letters Jacob Bronowski once told him were «muddled mathematical linkages», he soon discovered that he was blessed with a visual imagination more than powerful enough to compensate.

Confidently cinematic in classical and modern terms, layered with subtleties but also a straight - ahead, crowd - pleasing comedy, with more witty lines and bits of visual imagination than a dozen regular movies, O Brother is where thou shouldst be.

The treat of this playground of the imagination is how you get from point A to point B, with more visual cheesy puns (including a French mime / ninja frog) than you can count, and is capably assisted by pretty prestigious voice casting.

The movie is a triumph of visual imagination, too, finding all of its exotic locales in ingeniously repurposed parts of Kaufman's beloved San Francisco, and with marvelous visual effects that seamlessly insert the actors into real historical footage.

So so so full of visual imagination.

A re-visiting of the somewhat seminal work — which scored a visual effects Oscar nomination, rang up over $ 50 million in its initial theatrical run, and expanded upon the notions of what was an acceptable Hollywood studio animated release — reveals a spirited but flawed rendering of a deliciously wonky premise, a movie long on cultish personality but lacking in the sort of storytelling vim and vigor that sticks to the imagination outside of a captive viewing.

Really, it is, because Mr. Bay's lax notions of coherence and plausibility — I'm sorry, I mean his utterly nonexistent notions of coherence and plausibility — are accompanied by a visual imagination that is at once crazily audacious and ruthlessly skillful.

With some fairly interesting visual attempts and some half - decent jokes, Playing It Cool is not a failure by any stretch of the imagination, despite its poorly conceived characters.

Though Oblivion did boast more truly eye popping visuals, Edge of Tomorrow scores with sharp writing, crisp direction, vivid imagination and one damn good co-star.

«Cloud Atlas,» by the Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer, is a film of limitless imagination, breathtaking visuals and fearless scope.

I sure hope not — and Miyazake applies his visual imagination to a realistic drama, giving it the romanticized imagery of Jiro's hopeful perspective with the shadows of war and death around the edges.

The gap left in the broader cultural imagination by this missing footage has, since the time of her death, been one filmmakers have returned to on numerous occasions in an attempt to fill the space she left behind with new visual data, new stories, new ways of comprehending what happened and what its broader cultural meaning could be.

- it's the first time since that seminal picture that he has found a subject matter to match his visual imagination - and on a relatively slim budget of $ 40 million the director has created a thrilling, beautifully designed picture which genuinely tries to cast a fresh light on an often stale genre.

The film succeeds in the way director Tomm Moore mixes and matches visual motifs to isolate different locales and still find the unity between them through the imagination of a young boy assigned to complete the illumination of a famous tome.

Not sure if anyone else is suffering from Beat Generation fatigue, but this posits Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac at the very beginnings of what would be a solid, longstanding, somewhat complicated friendship of three and if John Krokidas captures their tale «visual flair, kinetic energy, and imagination» as Sundance suggests it, then we can hope that this is an atypical bio about three pivotal players in American literature that have been bogged down filmically in the recent past.

This short has visual imagination to complement its creative plot, as it adopts the look of old films from the periods that Mater visits.

But what ultimately elevates the film above the ordinary is its extravagant visual imagination — a quality perhaps to be expected given the participation, in addition to Joyce, of executive producer Guillermo del Toro and «visual consultant» Roger Deakins.

At the recent press day, Core, Ramirez, Bracey, wingsuit stunt pilot Jeb Corliss, professional free climber Chris Sharma, Alcon producers Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson, and 2nd unit director Philip Boston talked about how they went about creating the ultimate sports movie, how the actors viewed their characters and built the bro - mance, the challenges of coordinating a production that shot around the world in 11 countries and on 4 continents, why all the 2nd unit work was shot prior to the first unit work, why vision and authenticity were paramount, why the imagination, energy and focus required to shoot a film in camera is much greater than when visual effects are used everywhere, and why it took courage to make this film.

«What makes this year different is the unbridled ambition of the five nominated films — in theme, in production, in visual imagination,» said DGA President Paris Barclay.

How does radio involve more of your visual imagination?

That small flourish of visual imagination captured the essence of what it was trying to express so perfectly, I was blown away.

A wormhole is impressively and beautifully conceived, while moments of unique visual imagination left me awe inspired and a few, boxy robots provide perhaps the most humour there has ever been in a Nolan flick.

Neither the lukewarm Celt - Cassia romance nor the movie's many early scenes depicting upper - class Roman life and slave - master relationships (which smack of Julian Fellowes, who was brought on to rewrite the script) seem to engage Anderson's visual imagination.

Presented in an extensive series of visual puzzles, requiring logic and imagination, each panel move changes the current narrative, leading to all kinds of comedic blunders, untimely deaths — and when solved correctly — stylish heists, fast getaways and nail - biting escapades.

Boasting a wealth of visual and scriptural imagination, Wreck - It Ralph easily emerges as one of Disney's most creative and original animated features of all time.

Their series boasts visuals and imagination that would blow you away on a big screen, but on the small screen, it's available to watch on any device anywhere in the world — a sizeable improvement over Panton Street's single screen, where anyone outside of the UK capital would struggle to find it, let alone hear about it.

For all of the movie's special effects (which wear out their welcome in the film's bloated finale — perhaps the film's only predictable disappointment), this film compels our attention through visual imagination... and the strength of its cast.

It's an easygoing, happily relaxed adventure filled with some wonderful sights and sounds, the world of the Forbidden Forest a continually pleasing visual delight overflowing in imagination.

With great visual imagination, Ramsay liberally applies splashes of symbolic red to the films canvas, intensifying the already heady brew of guilt, frustration and anger which bubbles under the surface of Eva's superficially perfect, middle - class life.

Parks goes all - in on the team vs. a collection of individuals theme — a positive, non-cynical, if unrealistic, life lesson — but it's hard to hold it against Parks and his animation team given the visual imagination and invention pack into every shot, scene, and sequence.

With Ozon's imagination, visual flair, and an appealing ensemble of actors, Sitcom is a film for those who love comedies on the wild side, so if you aren't willing to accept the fact of its outrageousness beforehand, you may find it too extreme to bear.

Add some visual wonders, a supporting cast including Rebecca Hall, Bill Hader, Jemaine Clement and some awesome corgis - as well as strong candidates for best fart gags of the year - and The BFG turns out a winner, blending Dahl's big imagination with a surprisingly simple tale at its core that'll defy you to not be won over.Hide

The rest of the cast never really get room to shine as it is a very one man show and some rather static direction from John Irvin lacks the kind of visual flair and imagination brought to the screen by the likes of Tarantino and Rodriguez.

Confronting the real world through imagination is at the heart of the new fantasy film A Monster Calls, the new visual feast from Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona (of the films The Orphanage, The Impossible previously).

The visuals are of course amazing and of pure imagination that could only come from the mind of a genius.

Whether through make - up, costume, lighting, post-production visual effects manipulation, and / or a radical workout and diet by all involved, the actors look like they actually belong in the dystopian world of Collins's imagination.

But we do get plenty of action, and some of it as gloriously, gleefully over-the-top as imaginations and visual effects will allow.

This next - level visual imagination was (rightly) the one undisputed triumph of the first Blade Runner, and it is of this one as well.

This, alas, creates something of a dissonance, as it now feels as if the visuals aren't simply lacking in imagination, but comparatively lacking in imagination.

The marvelous filmlet provides incontrovertible proof that Pixar is still capable of wonderful new feats of visual and narrative imagination.

The download pack includes: - Key activities scheme, week by week learning activities - All worksheets which are ready to print or use on a whiteboard / projector / interactive whiteboard (the colour theory presentation is interactive)- Visual examples of final outcomes This scheme looks at the work of the graffiti artist Jon Burgerman as inspiration to use the students own imagination when creating unique characters.

This resource pack includes: Scheme of work Exerts from children's books to print and use in class Example images of finished book illustrations PowerPoint on what is an illustration with visual examples This scheme is designed to use words and students imaginations in response to them so that they can produce an illustration based on a paragraph from books.

Benefits of arts education In addition to economic benefits of investment in arts education for students in the primary and secondary sectors there are a plethora of social and intellectual benefits: • encouraging self expression and self awareness • building confidence and self esteem • thinking creatively and conceptually • problem solving • increasing motivation and improving behaviour • developing organisational skills • being able to work collaboratively and independently • developing multiple learning styles • building maturity and appreciation • developing observational skills • raising global awareness and respect for other cultures • promoting literacy through analysis and interpretation • increasing enjoyment and fun in learning • developing spatial and visual skills • encouraging qualitative awareness • seeing different perspectives • openness to subtlety, nuance, flexibility and imagination