Sentences with phrase «work of action cinema»

This is, from first frame to last, a fully realized work of action cinema, a movie as visually arresting as it is emotionally stirring, one that could only be appreciated, in terms of its visual accomplishment, on a big screen.

Not exact matches

The most striking aspect of The Matrix is obviously its visuals; highly influenced by the wire work of Asian cinema, the Wachowski brothers cranked it up another level by creatively using computer software to pretty much perfect the action sequence.

I could discuss similar films that played at this year's Berlinale — but these two examples must suffice to demonstrate the dilemma German cinema faces: these genre films suffer on the level of craft, while also facing the problem that the socio - cultural context might simply not lend itself to the kind of genre filmmaking (at least with regard to the thriller and action film genres) that seems to come so organically to filmmakers working in different national contexts.

Acclaimed TV director Yann Demange delivers a notable debut feature, an exhilarating action movie that has more in common with the work of Walter Hill or John Carpenter than it does with other depictions of The Troubles in recent British cinema.

When director Roland Emmerich flexes the irrational muscle of White House Down it works extremely well and it's dripping with nods to action cinema of yesteryear.

Effortlessly moving between depictions of daily life, sprinkled with humor and warmth, to extraordinarily heartbreaking events (without straying into melodrama) and taut action sequences, Jang provides actor Song Kang - ho (Snowpiercer, The Host) another opportunity to prove that he's one of the finest character actors working in Asian cinema today.

In the years hence he would helm six others in a concentrated string of work that has come to define Hong Kong action cinema — a term with which Woo's name is essentially synonymous.

Frustration mounts as neither is able to pick up any acting work until, just as Greg seems ready to give up altogether, Tommy decides on a course of action that will forever change the history of cinema: why don't they make their own movie?

Blackfish: This heartbreaking, essential documentary is difficult to watch at times, yes, but it's also an important film that works as both a piece of cinema and a call to action.

A revolution in action cinema that works despite its utter silliness (or because of it), Russia - born filmmaker Ilya Naishuller's supercharged, wholly first - person coup achieves a near - experimental bliss — you won't know how it was executed, nor will you care.

People may have liked, to varying degrees, Zemeckis» mocap films, but they weren't as crazy about the technology as he was and many longed for him to return to good old - fashioned live - action cinema, where the director had dazzled with some of the century's most iconic works.

So let's see what I won't be seeing at the theatres this weekend: Hop Directed by: Tim Hill Written by: Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio Starring: Russell Brand, James Marsden & Elizabeth Perkins Synopsis: Blending state - of - the - art animation with live action, Hop tells the comic tale of Fred, an out - of - work slacker who accidentally... Continue reading «THIS WEEK IN CINEMA: APR 20TH»

Director Scott Derrickson, best known for the derivative yet chilling Sinister, works in a robust old - school style that owes more to American swashbuckler films, Asian action cinema, and the Indiana Jones series than to the frenetic, cut - and - paste aesthetic of contemporary blockbusters such as Captain America: Civil War.

MACBA presents a comprehensive survey of the work of this pioneering artist, Joan Brossa, through his books, his visual investigations, and including his work in the theatre, cinema, music and artistic actions.

Occupying a space between sculpture, cinema and drawing, his work's historical importance has been internationally recognized in such exhibitions as Into the Light: the Projected Image in American Art 1964 - 77 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2001 - 2); The Expanded Screen: Actions and Installations of the Sixties and Seventies at the Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria (2003 - 4); The Expanded Eye at the Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland (2006); Beyond Cinema: the Art of Projection at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (2006 - 7); The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Projected Image at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC (2008); The Geometry of Motion 1920s / 1970s at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008); and On Line at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010 - 11).

The path forward in art - historical terms was split between those artistic movements more aligned with deeper investigations into the increasingly essential properties of a particular medium or reductive practices (e.g., Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Minimalism) and those movements that actively sought an expansion of the arts into a plurality of new forms, hybrid media, and interactive experience (e.g., expanded cinema, intermedia, installation art, performance).13 Of these choices, hippie modernism would follow the latter course through experiments that drew upon the theatrical qualities and the participatory actions of the Happening, embraced Fluxus's democratic spirit in its everyone - is - an - artist philosophy, explored the work of experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic arof a particular medium or reductive practices (e.g., Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Minimalism) and those movements that actively sought an expansion of the arts into a plurality of new forms, hybrid media, and interactive experience (e.g., expanded cinema, intermedia, installation art, performance).13 Of these choices, hippie modernism would follow the latter course through experiments that drew upon the theatrical qualities and the participatory actions of the Happening, embraced Fluxus's democratic spirit in its everyone - is - an - artist philosophy, explored the work of experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic arof the arts into a plurality of new forms, hybrid media, and interactive experience (e.g., expanded cinema, intermedia, installation art, performance).13 Of these choices, hippie modernism would follow the latter course through experiments that drew upon the theatrical qualities and the participatory actions of the Happening, embraced Fluxus's democratic spirit in its everyone - is - an - artist philosophy, explored the work of experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic arof new forms, hybrid media, and interactive experience (e.g., expanded cinema, intermedia, installation art, performance).13 Of these choices, hippie modernism would follow the latter course through experiments that drew upon the theatrical qualities and the participatory actions of the Happening, embraced Fluxus's democratic spirit in its everyone - is - an - artist philosophy, explored the work of experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic arOf these choices, hippie modernism would follow the latter course through experiments that drew upon the theatrical qualities and the participatory actions of the Happening, embraced Fluxus's democratic spirit in its everyone - is - an - artist philosophy, explored the work of experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic arof the Happening, embraced Fluxus's democratic spirit in its everyone - is - an - artist philosophy, explored the work of experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic arof experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic arof light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic arof kinetic art.

In what might prove to be a vain rearguard action, the work of rising star Rosa Barba celebrates the material elements of analogue cinema — its projectors and celluloid filmstrips, its control of tone, and the Heath Robinsonesque noises of its Continue Reading»

Exclusively using analogue technologies, live - action footage, early computer graphics, stop - motion animation and in - camera effects on 16 mm films, Beckman's work is a carefully designed collage reminiscent of the 70s Structuralist filmmaking and the 80s No Wave cinema.