Sentences with phrase «whose films framed»

Christopher Challis was one of the leading cinematographers of British cinema's heyday, whose films framed tales of dance and derring - do, romance and comic invention.

Not exact matches

Aside from the occasional magical shot or affecting actor moment, it's a film whose poverty betrays most every frame.

Framing the film as a mystery whose answer lies scattered in time (and in character), filmmaker Derek Cianfrance constructs an elegant set of dualities: past and present, youth and adulthood, vitality and entropy.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

«Amman is a visionary, whose deep humanity informs every frame of this beautiful debut film.»

The film's framing device, in which Clooney's Frank (whose childhood was defined by time spent in Tomorrowland) and Casey jointly tell the story, is mildly humorous but also shows signs of trouble.

Eden was, to my mind, the finest film in the strongest collection of Seattle and Washington - born and - based filmmaking ever screened at SIFF, in a line - up that was framed by opening night film Your Sister's Sister (from hometown hero Lynn Shelton, whose recent work put independent Seattle filmmaking on the map) and closing night film Grassroots, shot in Seattle and based on the book by former Stranger political reporter Phil Campbell.

Expressionistic lighting and densely decorated frames give even more voice to the demented, thwarted attraction that pervades the film, not only the sort Louise feels for David but that Dean (Raymond Massey), whose wife dies under mysterious circumstances under Louise's care, feels for Louise.

Chilean - born Ruiz is a director whose love of storytelling and narrative play is often more engaging than the films themselves but with Mysteries of Lisbon, an epic based on a classic Portuguese novel (one yet untranslated into English), his engagement with the characters and their defining stories guides his direction, and his graceful camerawork and unerring eye for images both classical (like paintings in a cinematic frame) and fluid (his camera moves with purpose and grace) are in the service of the trajectories of the characters.

With Christian as our guide, we are introduced to mounds of gravel framed as an important work (later hoovered up by cleaners) and to a public installation whose meaning remains bewilderingly opaque throughout (and from which the film takes its name).

Director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) sets his film in a decaying mill town in Pennsylvania whose frame houses haven't been remodeled and painted since the»70s.

Joseph may not be a terribly substantial work for the stage, but as seen in this film version — whose school assembly framing device nicely evokes the show's origins as a 15 - minute school performance piece — it's awfully fun.

Galerie Lelong presents 14 striking new sculptures by Petah Coyne in Vermilion Fog, an exhibition divided into two parts — Dante's Inferno and Unforgiven, allusions to literature and film that loosely frame the works by themes of loss, chaos, and redemption.Vermilion Fog is a monumental exhibition for the artist known for her use of diverse materials in large works whose grace and fragility belie their immense weight and arduous process.

Taylor's blood and sweat fill the frame, and estrange the spectator whose voyeuristic position is further challenged by the aging of the film to allude to ethnographic documentaries of Aboriginal desert communities.

Also on display by Turner are a new series of framed works — aged polyvinyl chloride films whose subtle effect is achieved through layering and segmentation.