As is true
with narrative features, those «based on» and «inspired by» included, documentaries are only as compelling as its protagonists, if you will.
More interesting results would probably be obtained, however, with the films of, say, Jack Smith or Gregory Markopoulos than
with a narrative feature, even one as fragmented in its storytelling and as broad in its sensual appeal as The New World.
The Labs are the centerpiece of the Institute's year - round work
with narrative feature filmmakers and are part of 24 residential labs the Institute hosts each year to discover and foster the talent of emerging independent artists in film, theatre, new media and episodic content.
Not exact matches
Another
feature of Matthew invites the attention of those who want to invest discipleship
with new meaning: The Gospel is structured of five large chunks of Jesus» teaching, each preceded by
narrative.
In later chansons de geste, however» such as Les Quatre Filz Aymon, Enfances Roland, and Entrée en Espagne» the details of Roland's earlier life were filled in,
with a variety of fanciful elements becoming ever more prominent
features of the
narrative, and it was not long before the real Roland (such as he was) had all but disappeared behind the more resplendent figure of the hero of legend.
After Gulli checked
with Wells scholars and they checked «several
narrative features and the distinctive handwriting,» they determined the manuscript is authentic.
In fact, the number of theologians and exegetes is increasing who consider that nothing more is expressed in this
feature of the biblical
narrative than the important truth that Eve is of the same equal nature
with Adam, «made of the same stuff», as we might say today, using a similar figure of speech to the dramatic one in Scripture.
Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated
features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and
narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares
with Europe.
The Abraham - Isaac - Jacob and David cycles are brought back in Chapter Four as evidence that Biblical
narrative together
with lyric is in fact rich in figures of speech and can afford insight into characters» internal and external
features.
STAY is a game that requires dedication, both to its digital protagonist and its puzzle solving, and
features the kind of
narrative that's best digested via discussion
with others who've played it.
A typical example of the mid -»80s «Rat Pack» film, Oxford Blues
featured a soundtrack
with several forgettable rock songs written expressly for the movie, interjected at intervals into the
narrative through music video - style sequences.
It's far from innovative as other games
feature superior
narratives and better multiplayer modes, but it's still an edge of your seat and bullet riddled extravaganza that begs to be experienced by anyone
with a PS3.
But you have to wonder about the wisdom of returning,
with no significant new contemporary perspective, to events covered multiple times in
narrative features including Victory at Entebbe, Raid on Entebbe and Operation Thunderbolt, not to mention several documentaries.
Fabien Constant's debut
narrative feature spends 24 hours
with jazz singer Vivienne Carala (Sarah Jessica Parker) as she copes
with the news of having a terminal illness.
Ondi Timoner, the director of the documentaries, We Live in Public 69 and Cool It 61 will make her
feature narrative debut
with the latter film.
At eighty years young, Woody Allen delivers his forty - sixth (yup, you read that right)
feature film
with Café Society; a bourbon basked
narrative feature showcasing the wonderfully vibrant jazz era of the 1930's, where the magic of the movies is very much alive; nightclubs are bustling
with
It's a fairly stupid premise that's employed to progressively unwatchable effect by filmmaker Eli Roth, as the director, along
with coscreenwriters Nicolás López and Guillermo Amoedo, proves utterly unable to elevate the
narrative above its persistently one - note sensibilities -
with the movie, by and large, coming off as a five minute short that's been clumsily, brutally expanded to
feature length.
Su Rynard's
feature,
with its episodic overview of various interconnected issues around the globe, lacks the unifying emotional and
narrative involvement of the best nature documentaries.
Winning big this year was the comedy Natural Selection
with seven different awards including Grand Jury Winner for
Narrative Feature.
An upgrade also makes a dramatic difference
with «Night Tide,» a slow - moving, richly atmospheric supernatural tale from 1961, closer in spirit to M. R. James than EC Comics, that was the first
feature - length
narrative directed by the avant - garde filmmaker Curtis Harrington.
This is perfectly in keeping
with the style of the Broadway production, which
features much more of this style than the film does,
with Condon beefing up the dramatic dialogue for purposes of an easier
narrative and deeper characterizations.
With six
narrative features, five documentaries, and several short films, Vincenzo Marra is one of Italy's leading writer / directors.
This docu - drama from director Jeff Unay plays like a
feature film
with a
narrative following the real - life story of a fighter named Joe Carman.
With Shirkers, Sandi Tan (also a first - time filmmaker) revisits the long - lost footage from her unfinished narrative feature shot in Tan's native Singapore in 1992, also called Shirkers, and in the process reckons with both why the film was never finished and how several relationships were forever changed in its w
With Shirkers, Sandi Tan (also a first - time filmmaker) revisits the long - lost footage from her unfinished
narrative feature shot in Tan's native Singapore in 1992, also called Shirkers, and in the process reckons
with both why the film was never finished and how several relationships were forever changed in its w
with both why the film was never finished and how several relationships were forever changed in its wake.
«This is probably the last
narrative feature for Ken,» said O'Brien, who has collaborated
with the 77 - year - old Loach since 1990.
The jury statement: «The Alliance of Women Film Journalists presents the EDA Award for Best Female - Directed
Narrative Feature to a film in which we are observers in a story told
with a fully naturalistic approach.
In addition to presenting year end awards during the annual movie awards season, AWFJ partners
with select film festivals throughout the year to present EDA Awards for best female directed films in the documentary,
narrative feature, and short categories.
Zombie mode will
feature its own new
narrative experience,
with custom modes, competitions, and seasons.
Director Fabien Constant, in his
narrative feature debut, finds a momentum in that knowledge that propels the film forward, as Vivienne explores her fate (while never disclosing it) in encounters
with friends, family and strangers.
Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016) 4 out of 4 stars Set in wintry Montana, Certain Women — the sixth full - length
feature from Kelly Reichardt (Meek's Cutoff)-- offers a
narrative scope as majestic as the mountains we glimpse in the distance,
with a focus as narrow... Continue reading →
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NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS: Any
narrative work of fiction of international origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary&raqu
narrative work of fiction of international origin
with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary» style.
Don't be fooled, D'Souza is playing
with narrative structure and blurring genre to make entertaining what amounts to a
feature length lecture.
U.S.
NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS: Any narrative work of fiction of U.S. origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary&raqu
NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS: Any
narrative work of fiction of U.S. origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary&raqu
narrative work of fiction of U.S. origin
with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary» style.
Winner, Best Soundtrack - Beloit International Film Festival Winner, Best
Narrative Feature - Hollywood Film & Script Film Festival Winner, Best Comedy
Feature Film - Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival Winner, Best Actress (Dee Wallace)- Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival Winner, Award of Merit - Indie Fest Winner, Diamond Award for
Narrative Feature - California Film Awards Winner, Best Music / Score - Los Angeles Downtown Independent Film Festival Winner, Best Actor (Todd Robert Anderson)- Phenom International Film Festival Winner, Best Editing - Phenom International Film Festival Winner, Best Cinematography - Phenom International Film Festival Winner, Founder's Choice Award - Phenom International Film Festival Official Selection - Dances
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As
with many of the previous films made by the prolific Belgian duo, their tenth
narrative feature reveals the devastating effects of social inequities, which brutally entangle those who too often remain fundamentally invisible and entirely unknown.
James Tynion IV has done remarkable work crafting compelling drama around the Bat - family
with his Detective Comics run, taking cues from the Chris Claremont school of superhero storytelling to build a dense
narrative featuring a big cast of characters, each
with their own subplots.
The slate includes a number of familiar names, most notably «Simon Killer» filmmaker Antonio Campos, who will return to the festival
with «Christine» (a
narrative feature about TV reporter Christine Chubbuck, who killed herself live on - air in 1974; interestingly enough, the Sundance slate also includes a Chubbuck - centric documentary, «Kate Plays Christine,» a new
feature from director Robert Greene that looks to blend fact and fiction in ways similar to his previous documentary, «Actress») and «This is Martin Bonner» director Chad Hartigan, who will debut his «Morris from America» at the festival.
A vérité style
narrative featuring professional and non-professional actors, and produced
with a crew made up largely of women, Newman offers a new take on the sports film which wisely avoids sentimentality and melodrama.
After producing multiple shorts, documentaries and experimental films, Meredith Danluck is the latest director to explore these ideas
with her
feature -
narrative debut State Like Sleep (which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival) starring Katherine Waterston as a photographer trying to find answers to her husband (Michiel Huisman)'s recent death; co-starring Michael Shannon and Luke Evans.
Told
with great
narrative economy, and
featuring two sublime performances, the film charts the experiences of a teenage girl (talented newcomer Thomasin McKenzie), who grows tired of the peripatetic lifestyle she leads
with her... Read
A section on the film's marketing illustrates the difficulties Fine Line
Features had extracting a unified sales campaign out of the expansive network
narrative with a wide variety of promotional art, trailers, and numerous TV spots.
I'm very interested to see how Morris does
with a non-documentary
narrative feature.
The newly - revamped No Borders program offers both
narrative feature filmmakers and series creators the opportunity to attend Film Week and meet
with various members of industry in an effort to help move their projects forward, broaden their networks, and find a level of career sustainability.
Libresco adds that two years ago there seemed to be a breakthrough at Sundance,
with 50 per cent of U.S.
narrative features in competition being directed by women.
French animator Sylvain Chomet, whose idiosyncratic, elegant, hand - drawn style and quirky approach to
narrative were introduced to American viewers in 2003's The Triplets of Belleville, is returning to screens
with another largely wordless
feature...
In both
features, Altman is familiarly painted as an adventurous man given to trusting his intuition, whether advising Keith Carradine to cut his hair, or sticking
with a handful of Leonard Cohen songs for the soundtrack, despite the anachronism of their presence in a
narrative set in 1900.
According to io9, «certain screenings of Marvel's Black Panther will
feature a brief Dirty Computer teaser along
with what Pitchfork described as «film
narrative» about the project.»
Co-sponsored by Brookfield Place and The Lincoln Motor Company, Spotlight is destination for today's most talked about themes and filmmakers and will
feature 40 films: 23
narratives and 17 documentaries
with 24 of those films being world premieres.
More of a thoughtful meditation than a
narrative feature, this meandering Turkish odyssey is packed
with profound issues rather than well - defined characters or plot.
With zero spoken dialogue, one would be pressed to consider Forest Movie a
narrative feature, but it does indeed hold a beginning, middle, and end for its protagonist's sojourn.