The black and
white film looks so crisp and sharp.
Shot in black and
white this film looks great.
Not exact matches
When I first started
looking at the quality of car mats, the ones produced overseas were made of heavy rubber, who knows what metals were in them, what chemicals and toxins were in them... that
white film you see on the inside of your windshield?
Netflix triumphed in the documentary short - subject category for 40 - minute
film «The
White Helmets,» a
look at rescue workers in war - torn Syria.
It did not help that a packet of baby rice had exploded inside my suitcase, leaving it coated with a
film of suspicious -
looking white powder.
Clear plastic
films and their «no label
look» have become the standard for
white spirits today.
It would also not
look out of place in a black and
white film noir.
This sample of recent environmental
films includes
looks at the ecological effects of roads and top predators, the impact of climate change on a native village in the Arctic, a search for seeds of wild relatives of staple foods, and the fate of solar panels from Jimmy Carter's
White House.
The door, just uphill from the Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory, leads into a cave that
looks like the villain's lair in a James Bond
film: the uneven stone walls painted
white, an array of shiny instruments strewn about.
If you haven't tried one yourself, you've surely seen them all over Instagram: those
white or animal - printed masks that make the wearer
look like the villain in a horror
film.
Seeing it depicted in black - and -
white in French
film Angel - a by director Luc Besson just showed how magnificent it still
looked even when it wasn't in colour.
The couple
looks doubly dashing in their smart black - and -
white eveningwear while at Cannes to promote his animated
film, Puss in Boots.
The idea at Etude House is that makeup is a form of play, and so every store is designed to
look like a life - size doll house, filled with toylike cosmetics: hand cream in dispensers shaped like cute animals and face masks with tongue - in - cheek promises to make you
look like a black - and -
white film star.
Black and
white brogues have a real feel of the 20s —
look to
films such as The Great Gatsby for your inspiration when
looking to wear black and
white wingtips.
Jennifer
looked ethereal in a
white couture gown from Christian Dior at the Paris premiere of her latest
film.
What was disturbing is at the beginning of the movie the Chanel jacket, a
white jacket with a black trim, ends up
looking, at the end of the
film, over worn, dirty, and even unrecognizable as a label.
Penguins, nuns, crossword puzzles, Chanel boxes, old hitchcock
films — these black - and -
white bridesmaid
looks are in good company.
Steven Spielberg crafted his landmark Holocaust story Schindler's List to
look like a documentary, using black - and -
white film to give it a newsreel authenticity and employing Steven Zaillian's straight - forward screenplay as a template that consistently rejects melodrama and lets the barbarity speak for itself.
Early in the
film, when Laura is being readied for her mission, the backdrop is a blank
white, with no sense of where a floor ends and a wall begins; later, when men come back to her unassuming lair, they walk into a pool of inky black, dotted with grayish blobs that
look only vaguely familiar.
The
film looks and sounds amazing, and the black and
white photography really sparkles.
The subject matter may be a little too in his wheelhouse to break him out of his recent creative rut, but Burton also has a second
film due in 2012: Frankenweenie (October 5), an impressive -
looking, black - and -
white, stop - motion animated remake of his own 1984 short.
This week, get the first
look at trailers for «The Hunger Games,» Pixar's «Brave,» the Snow
White film «Mirror Mirror,» and more, and get a summary of all of the week's developments in the
film world.
Co-directed by Ben Cotner and Ryan
White, the
film is an almost overly thorough
look at every single step along the way in the battle to bring Prop 8 down.
With
looks that allow him to either play soft - skinned pretty boys or greasy - haired
white trash refuse, Sarsgaard has used his malleable features and brooding charisma to great effect in such
films as Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry.A graduate of St. Louis» Washington University, where he was a co-founder of the improvisational group Mama's Pot Roast, Sarsgaard studied at the Actors» Studio in New York.
This year's biggest downer — which is not to take away from the qualities of the
film — «Amour» represents a change for director Michael Haneke, whose «Funny Games» is a remarkable thriller about the takeover of a household by two psychopathic youths and whose «The
White Ribbon»
looks at mysterious goings - on in a feudal village in Germany prior to World War I.
The star - studded heist caper «Widows,» from director Steve McQueen and set to begin
filming in Chicago this month, is
looking to hire two sets of twin infants — one set biracial (unspecified), the other
white — who are between the ages of 3 months and 6 months, according to a flyer posted by 4 Star Casting, which specializes in background actors, aka extras.
For a closer
look at the
film, watch this interview with Costa - Gavras, and read Armond
White's liner notes for our release.
Funny, insightful, beautifully scored and photographed (Black &
white has never
looked so good since Woody Allen's «Manhattan») there is a dreamy feel to the whole
film.
It's a «Get together with your friends and have a good time»
film through and through, so if you're
looking for something in that mode already, it's like the
White Castle restaurant itself, ready to serve whenever you get that craving.
Director Canuel, who shot this in Canada where he, Plummer, and the play all originated, injects some cinematic flourishes unachievable on stage, having the
film assume the
look of an old black &
white movie and editing together self - conversations.
Still, the cast — which also includes Tom Wilkinson, Ruth Wilson, William Fichtner, Barry Pepper, Helena Bonham - Carter and James Badge Dale — is strong, it
looks gorgeous, it'll carry a score by Jack
White, and we remain fond enough of the original «Pirates»
film that we'll always be hopeful that Verbinski & co. can do the same thing for the big budget Western.
«And so what better way than to show the silent - movie period in black - and -
white [35 mm] negative,» he said, «and for the»70s we
looked to the urban reality grit of New York
films like Mean Streets, The French Connection and Midnight Cowboy — a much rawer
look.»
Its director, Tom McGrath, talked to Flickering Myth's Freda Cooper about why he wanted to make the
film — and why the «micro manager» doesn't intentionally
look like the current occupant of The
White House.
Sharing honors from the Society Dramatic Authors and Composers, given annually to a French
film in Fortnight, were two very different tales of romantic possibility in Paris: Philippe Garrel's black - and -
white «Lover for a Day» («L'Amant d'un Jour»), about a 23 - year - old woman who learns that her father is dating a girl her age, and Claire Denis» «Let the Sunshine In» («Un Beau Soleil Intérieur»), starring Juliette Binoche as a divorced artist
looking for love in many of the wrong places.
• The Man Who Wasn't There was the Coens» first (and to date only) foray into black and
white, and it's a stunner, among the very best -
looking of all their
films.
I mean I think I had forgotten what great cinematography
looked like in black and
white films, this gave me such a refresher.
Infidelity is something we are shown as very black and
white, the
film segues a bit too simply into the affair and might have felt richer had it explored in more detail the emotional circumstances of that segue - it just
looks too easy.
Presented in black and
white 1080p high definition on Blu - ray with a widescreen aspect ratio of 1.78:1 (original aspect ratio was 1.85:1) and a remastered DTS - HD MA (Master Audio) 2.0 Mono lossless sound mix, the
film looks better than previous releases but isn't as sharp as expected.
Although there's the usual selection of premieres, at least half of the screenings this year are retrospectives: a
look at 1928, the last great year of silent
film; personal selections from the festival's guest programmers over the years, and a salute to black - and -
white cinematography.
Given its presumably very small budget, the
film's key strength lies in its eye - catching production design, particularly on the
white - and - blue VR suits and the office building's blank -
looking interior.
But queerness has never
looked so bland, and for a
film about a sexual revolution, pleasurable sex is conspicuously absent: Indeed, most of the shockingly few sex scenes result in the protagonist, the
white, all - American, conspicuously attractive Danny (Jeremy Irvine), so ashamed by his apparent debasement — he briefly resorts to tricking for cash — that he's literally brought to tears while having his dick sucked.
The computerized black and
white look and all the fake
film grain stuff that was meant to evoke nostalgia got pretty grating at times, but I understand that they were good cheats to make the concept more effective.
This
film may
look like one of those annoyingly mannered independent
films, with its wacky young cast and arty - farty black and
white photography, but it's actually a fresh, smart and very funny comedy.
Heard plays the intolerably named Nicola Six — exactly the kind of name that
looks cool on a page but grates intolerably when repeatedly said aloud in a
film — a blonde bombshell who struts around in a parade of lingerie and
white dresses, basically being a fembot fantasy who f*ck s every guy she meets once and then moves on, leaving a trail of devastation in her wake.
The pair made the choice to shoot A Field in England in black and
white, the monotone palette giving it a timeless
look, conveying the surface of a classic war
film.
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white films can
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What's left is this appreciation of a
film that is delighted with cinema and experimental without being a jerk about it (very much like Lars Von Trier's Zentropa, specifically in a black - and -
white rear - process cab ride with none of that feeling that Tarantino's trying to make a point as opposed to recognizing something that
looks cool and feels right)-- a
film that is Tarantino in all his gawky, hyperactive, movie - geeking, idioglossic splendour, fully - formed and trying only a bit too hard.
Snow
White and the Huntsman 2: I get moneymaking plays a big part in deciding whether or not to make a sequel, but just because Snow
White and the Huntsman enjoyed an impressive $ 56.2 million opening doesn't mean moviegoers will
look past the fact that the
film wasn't all that good and return for more.
The making of To Kill A Mockingbird is
looked at in great detail in the black and
white film, Fearful Symmetry.
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