Word: filmic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...nothing in his canon thus far could have predicted the astonishing visual dexterity he brings to “Goblet.” Newell’s vision avoids the cringe-worthy pandering of the first two Chris Columbus-helmed films and steers clear of the obvious filmic handprints that Alfonso Cuaron left all over his Gothic recasting of “Prisoner of Azkaban.” In fact, it’s difficult to speak of Newell’s vision at all, as the images and story he presents are such a faithful distillation of its source...
Tuesday, Oct. 11—Tuesday, Nov. 29. In The Trenches: Filming World War I. Filmic representations of World War I ranging from buddy stories to jingoistic and pacificist revisionism. The series includes Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” and Howard Hughes’ “Hell’s Angels.” Tickets $8; students and seniors $6. Tickets at the Harvard Film Archive...
...plastic nightmare in “The Polar Express.” With Sony’s recent announcement that their entire backlog of films will be digitized and stored on high-capacity hard drives, the signs that we’re entering a new era of the filmic imagination are all around...
Perhaps one day we’ll find genius in other places. Like, for example, in unique filmmaking. But until then, expect a lot of prouncements about money, obsession, and the glory of filmic testosterone...
...film continues in this vein for its first hour or so, jumping from scare to scare with a remarkable dexterity that never gets tired, due mainly to a refreshing filmic playfulness. It employs jump-cutting in bizarre places; a couple scenes are sped up for an enhanced psychological effect; and Nakata crafts images with foregrounded objects or bodies that seem disjointed in the frame—a subtle effect appropriate to the film’s tone...