If hasty reshoots were ordered, however, that would explain the noticeable drop in
visual quality of the film too.
Tavernier's own adolescent obsession with the films of Jacques Becker gets the movie off to a choppy start, but the variety of inspirations (not to mention
the visual quality of the film clips) is astonishing.
Not exact matches
That same kind
of raw energy can also be felt in the
film's
visual look, as cinematographer Salvatore Totino brings an uneasy
quality to the wide open spaces
of the old west.
Presented in widescreen and fullscreen on the same side
of a dual - layer DVD, the
film's image lacks depth here — there's a muted, Seventies
quality to Barry Stone's cinematography that no doubt looked smashing on the big screen and probably would've been marginally improved at home by dispensing with the fullscreen version (thus lessening the compromise
of compression), which lops a significant amount
of visual information from the right side
of the frame (while restoring a negligible amount to the bottom — in one shot literally a pinkie toe).
The otherworldly
quality to the mind - boggling
visuals aside, Legend looks like a recent
film — sounds it, too, in Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 configurations that immerse you in bucolic exteriors and fire - and - brimstone interiors
of constant ambience.
In spite
of the
visual splendor Storaro provides, his images are, like Winslet's performance, inevitably hollow when taking into account the lack
of quality every other facet
of this
film provides.
However, the
quality of the
visuals does not remain consistent throughout the
film.
Enrico is clearly a personal filmmaker — he returns obsessively to themes
of time and memory, images
of families and homes shattered in the most terrible, irreparable ways — but all his
films after Au coeur de la vie... and Zita fail
of deftness and suggestibility as
visual experiences, being all but indistinguishable from the hackwork
of other commercial French filmmakers typified at their best by the «Tradition
of Quality» boys.
If I ask a movie buff what he or she expects from The Criterion Collection, I'll probably hear talk about an excellently crafted, artfully made
film released with a high standard
of audio /
visual quality and a handful
of in - depth special features.
This special effects dominated sequel spent most
of its budget on the
visuals, with not much left for basic things like a
quality script or even the ability to retain the mostly no - name actors from the first
film, with only Robin Shou (Beverly Hills Ninja) and Talisa Soto (License to Kill) reprising their roles.
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.
These
visual properties combine with other elements like the evocative sound design and carefully detailed locations to generate what is perhaps the
film's most exceptional
quality: a true sense
of being somewhere — with actual people in actual places, whether they be as loudly wide - open as a rock band's studio loft show or as comfortably intimate as a suburban basement - turned - practice - space.
What attracted critical minds like Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and others to Nicholas Ray and his oeuvre — bored stiff as they were by the risk - averse, respectable, and ultimately neutered «cinema
of quality» — was the stamp
of the personal and the element
of danger they discerned in his
films, whether that meant the improvisatory handling
of actors with a touch deft enough to coax remarkable performances out
of even non-professionals; the «superior clumsiness,» cited by Rivette in «Notes on a Revolution,» resulting in «a discontinuous, abrupt technique that refuses the conventions
of classical editing and continuity»; or the purely
visual flourishes Ray relished — ranging from the sweeping, vertiginous helicopter - mounted shots in They Live By Night to disorienting, subjective POV compositions like the «rolling camera» during a car crash halfway through On Dangerous Ground, its very title indicating the source
of Ray's critical appeal.
No matter how close a video transfer gets to the
visual qualities of a projected
film — and a good transfer to Blu - ray can get very close indeed — a video image is not a
film image.
, director Ryan Coogler's first
film (itself also starring Michael B. Jordan), but this is a huge step up for him, but in terms
of storytelling
quality and
visual splendor.
Video: Once you get past a grainier introduction and the fictional part
of the
film begins, the
visual quality is nothing short
of superb.
He had been a gamer for many years when he noticed the games industry was hiring talents from the
film industry and recognized they had caught up with
films in terms
of visual quality and storytelling.
20 Challenge runs 450 + items, including 160 new unlockables Uber secrets 10 Playable Characters 100 + enemies with new designs Over 50 bosses, including tons
of new and rare bosses Mystic Runes Upgradeable shops Integrated controller support for popular control pads Analog directional movement and speed Tons
of feature
film quality animated endings Over 100 specialized seeds 2 - Player local co-op Over 100 co-op characters Dynamic lighting,
visual effects, and art direction All - new game engine @ 60 FPS 24/7 All - new soundtrack and sound design Multiple Save slots A bunch
of achievements
Cementing Square Enix's trademark eye for
visual presentation, Dream Drop Distance also features a stellar soundtrack with rearranged and remastered tracks from other Disney
films as well as the high
quality of composition that we have come to expect from the franchise.
The earlier PS3 entries
of the series were likened to Pixar
films with their
visual quality, which was no small praise, but Ratchet & Clank: All 4 one, whilst often an appealing looking game, doesn't manage to equal this.
Projects include workshops, seminars, discussions, exhibitions, and presentations that contribute to the formation
of artists and the general public through high
quality proposals coming from
visual arts, photography,
film, dance, and performance.
The jagged edges
of the looping forms position digital
visuals between
film and still image, capturing essential
qualities of their abstraction and beauty.
Shot on grainy black and white
film, the
visual qualities of The Girl Chewing Gum relate nicely to the graphic, high - contrast, typographically - oriented photographs
of Shannon Ebner, despite being exhibited at venues in different neighborhoods in Berlin.
The
films coincide, at the mid-point in terms
of time, with the tragic murder scene, and the
visual doubling this produces lends an extremely monumental
quality; the extreme deceleration
of events and the lack
of an acoustic give the individual image a directness that has a dramatic effect on our perceptions.
Doig's paintings, through their
visual play
of impasto and glazes, conjure the cinematic
quality of a vintage
film reel and the nostalgic glow
of memory.
Licensing deals with multiple studios and cable channels like Starz gave Netflix a wide selection
of films and TV shows that made it seem like an unparalleled bargain for consumers, particularly as broadband speeds increased across the United States, and the
quality of streaming caught up to the
visual potential
of high - definition TVs.