Sentence examples for cinematic essay from inspiring English sources

It is a rambling cinematic essay pretending to be a movie.

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile — the setting of Patricio Guzmán's transfixing cinematic essay "Nostalgia for the Light" — is a place where heaven and earth converge.

Rather, it is a deeply personal cinematic essay in which Mr. Andersen strives to reconcile the myriad identities of what he claims is the world's most filmed metropolis.

His last movie, Blue, made when he was blind, was preceded by Wittgenstein (1993), a witty cinematic essay on the homosexual philosopher.

While our focus will be on works of nonfiction, we will also take forays into fiction, poetry, visual art, and the cinematic essay.

Then again, whether it be filming Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer," or winning an Oscar for his searing documentary, "Interview with My Lai Veterans," or creating a remarkably poetic cinematic essay on postwar American material vacuity and spiritual emptiness in "The Savage Eye," Joe was someone whose work both challenged and spoke up to its audience.

Film Forum's publicity materials refer to this technique as Brechtian, but Godardian may be a better word, since the film has the fractured syntax and ruminant self-consciousness of Godard's late cinematic essays.

In this cinematic first-person essay about Israel, the Brussels-born and Paris-based director Chantal Akerman uses a lightweight video camera the way an artist uses a sketchpad to capture visual thoughts on the wing.

A year later in his essay, "A Cinematic Atopia," Smithson wrote: "Somewhere, at the bottom of my memory are the sunken remains of all the films I have seen, good and bad; they swarm together forming cinematic mirages, stagnant pools of images that cancel each other out".

The wait is over: film essayist Tony Zhou has launched Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement, his eight-minute film essay on the cinematic kinematics of the Japanese auteur.

A contrived drama about the ethics of international terrorism and the personal interplay between warring neighbourhood cultures, this ambitious work plays more like an academic essay than a satisfying cinematic experience.