Sentences with phrase «while celluloid»

While celluloid would prove a wonderful substitute for ivory, Hyatt apparently never collected the ten - thousand - dollar prize.

Similarly, phenolic resins are used in the artificial amber beads while celluloid, glass, and casein (which happen to be plastic made from milk) are also sold as amber.

Not exact matches

In the photos, the father is standing next to a tidy stack of three hundred and fifty celluloid combs, while ten thousand injection - molded combs surround the son.

A mix of H.P. Lovecraft madness, David Cronenberg biological mutation and David Lynch small - town weirdness, it teasingly dangles explanations never delivered and escapes never sought, while diving into one of the most gonzo horrors to twist onto celluloid in years.

While happiness seems eternally out of reach for the Phantom, this celluloid adaptation at least makes his story more accessible to those of us living off Broadway.

But while the plot provides plenty of twists and turns, it's really just a framework for some of the most perfect comic performances put on celluloid.

Mild, welcome grain helps maintain the persuasion of celluloid, though, while saturation is strong and hues seem much more accurate than the pink tones of the film's VHS and LaserDisc incarnations.

Dennison is note perfect as the overweight, shy teenage misfit who discovers that it's ok to want to be wanted while Sam Neill is immaculate as always — his entrance under the weight of 2016's hairiest wildest celluloid pig is a thing of beauty.

While Tokyo Godfathers is undoubtedly slight, it has a firm mooring in the traditions of cinema and an understanding, most importantly, of where it belongs in the flow of the celluloid narrative.

Kevin Hart brings his own yappy style of humour and perfectly matches the Rock; they are undoubtedly the odd couple of the noughties and it doesn't take a genius to figure out that while this this may only be the second celluloid pairing for the two of them, it sure won't be the last... #listentothesoundofthedollarsrollingin!

The image is crystalline and that's a blessing and a curse: Lacking the celluloid remove of Warner's recent release of The Polar Express, Valiant frequently has the texture of a hi - res download — which, as extended exposure to Flash animation will tell you, can be awfully disengaging after a while.

Previous transfers of The Squid and The Whale have looked more incontestably filmic, while the Criterion Collection has done away with a good deal of the celluloid artifacts.

Until then, he'll have to brood while rehashing the past and dreaming about celluloid futures.

While not in the upper echelons of celluloid le Carré — The Constant Gardener and The Spy Who Came In From the Cold are still the ne plus ultra of his adaptations, if you ask me — The Russia House is nevertheless a worthwhile endeavor, benefitting from the combined talents of director Fred Schepisi (a perfectly lovely man whom I had the opportunity to meet at the 2012 RiverRun International Film Festival, there to hold a Q&A following the screening of his film The Eye of the Storm; photos and coverage here), scripter Tom Stoddard, and an exceptional cast.

Here's that rare movie that equals its source material: While the mid-point plot twist is easier to spot in the film — and while the pitchfork scene in the novel is far more disturbing than on celluloid — the movie is more ambiguous than the book, and that in turn makes it far more haunting on multiple leWhile the mid-point plot twist is easier to spot in the film — and while the pitchfork scene in the novel is far more disturbing than on celluloid — the movie is more ambiguous than the book, and that in turn makes it far more haunting on multiple lewhile the pitchfork scene in the novel is far more disturbing than on celluloid — the movie is more ambiguous than the book, and that in turn makes it far more haunting on multiple levels.

While the film finally does turn Ellen Ripley into a «mech suited warrior» (via the most well realized body - fork - lifter ever committed to celluloid), that comes later.

Watching it feels like getting stoned on celluloid while reading Raymond Chandler and listening to the Fugs.

by Walter Chaw Director Gregory Hoblit's fourth consecutive celluloid guilty pleasure, Hart's War constantly dances the razor's edge of offensively pat (equating Nazi Germany with Macon, GA circa 1944) while providing enough canned tension and studied theatricality to put A Few Good Men to shame.

Since Backcountry is Canadian made movie director MacDonald takes us on a bitter - sweet road trip, that will leave Jenn wearing a diamond ring, during the shortest engagement ever to be filmed on celluloid, while using a bear whistle.

While the transfer itself may very well be unimpeachable, saturation, black level, and detail all suffer in some misguided attempt to approximate celluloid.

His work is also strongly influenced by the Hollywood film industry: the mountain in his Mountain Series is a play on the Paramount Pictures logo; Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights (1962) depicts the 20th Century Fox logo, while the dimensions of this work are reminiscent of a movie screen; in his painting The End (1991) these two words, which comprised the final shot in all black - and - white films, are surrounded by scratches and streaks reminiscent of damaged celluloid.

Barba's work explores the material properties of film, such as the celluloid filmstrip, projection and sound apparatus, while at the same time probing the structure of cinematic narrative and its relationship to memory itself.

An actor playing an actor while a film - maker films him for a celluloid portrait and an audience looks on — that's the intriguing, if slightly perplexing, basis of an experimental work by the British visual artist Tacita Dean, featuring the British actor Stephen Dillane, to be staged next week as part of the Sydney Biennale.

It seems probable that these uncanny objects, suffused in celluloid fiction while also hinting at its