Thus the films seen as they came in ( coordinated for the regular sections ), were often out of context.

Remarkably, the growth of polycrystalline films is often used and preceded by an initial amorphous layer, the thickness of which may amount to only a few nm.

Her films of the early and mid 1950s were generally lightweight romantic dramas, some historical, in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often in varying states of undress.

He has often produced " De Palma " films one after the other before going on to direct a different genre, but would always return to his familiar territory.

Because of the subject matter and graphic violence of some of De Palma's films, such as Dressed to Kill, Scarface and Body Double, they are often at the center of controversy with the Motion Picture Association of America, film critics and the viewing public.

Slow sweeping, panning and tracking shots are often used throughout his films.

His artistry in directing and use of cinematography and suspense in several of his films has often been compared to the work of Alfred Hitchcock.

The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema ; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centres producing films in regional languages.

Lancaster also often asked his close friend Nick Cravat to appear in his films.

Chaplin's silent films usually follow the Tramp's struggles to survive in an often hostile world.

He also often employed inanimate objects in his films, often transforming them into other objects in an almost surreal way, such as in The Pawnshop ( 1916 ) and One A. M. ( 1916 ), where Chaplin is the only actor aside Chester Conklin's brief appearance in the very first scene.

Weissman has also argued that Chaplin's problematic relationship to his mentally ill mother was often reflected on the female characters in his films and the Tramp's desire to save them.

Slapstick films involve aggressive, physical and visual action, including harmless or painless cruelty and violence, horseplay, and often vulgar sight gags.

There is no consensus definition of this film style, and it is often loosely applied to slapstick or romantic comedy films.

These type of films are often buddy films, with mismatched partners such as in Midnight Run, Rush Hour, Bad Boys, and Hot Fuzz.

Brooks ' style was generally slapstick and zany in nature, often parodying film styles and genres, including Universal horror films ( Young Frankenstein ), westerns ( Blazing Saddles ) and Hitchcock films ( High Anxiety ).

Cult films often become the source of a thriving, obsessive, and elaborate subculture of fandom, hence the analogy to cults.

Cult films are often known to be eccentric, often do not follow traditional standards of mainstream cinema and usually explore topics not considered in any way mainstream — yet there are examples that are relatively normal.

Although they may only have a short cinema life, cult films often enjoy ongoing popularity through long runs on video, thus being issued in video " runs " with more copies than other movies.

Cutaways are also used often in older horror films in place of special effects.

The process is often used in the semiconductor industry to produce thin films.

Her films are also experimental in form ; most eschew synchronized sound, using voice over to allude to, rather than tell, a story ; spoken text is juxtaposed with images whose relation to what is said may be more-or-less indirect.

Pennebaker's films, usually shot with a hand-held camera, often eschew voice-over narration and interviews in favor of a " simple " portrayal of events typical of the direct cinema style Pennebaker helped popularize in the U. S. Of such an approach, Pennebaker told interviewer G. Roy Levin published in 1971 that " it's possible to go to a situation and simply film what you see there, what happens there, what goes on, and let everybody decide whether it tells them about any of these things.

However, traditional films have frequently had much of the same sort of the issues to deal with ; film shoots may last several months and as scenes are frequently shot out of story sequence, footage shot weeks apart may be edited together as part of the same day's action in the completed film.

French New Wave films and the non-narrative films of the 1960s used a carefree editing style and did not conform to the traditional editing etiquette of Hollywood films.

The trend thrived best in India, where the influence of the country's traditional song-and-dance drama made the musical the basic form of most sound films ( Cook, 1990 ); virtually unnoticed by the Western world for decades, this Indian popular cinema would nevertheless become the world's most prolific.

These films differed from traditional westerns by being filmed in Europe on limited budgets, but featured vivid cinematography.

Also considered Spaghetti Westerns is a film genre which combined traditional western ambiance with a Commedia all ' italiana-type comedy ; films including They Call Me Trinity and Trinity Is STILL My Name !, which featured Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, the stage names of Carlo Pedersoli and Mario Girotti.

Through consciousness of the means of production and opposition of sexist ideologies, films made by women have the potential to posit an alternative to traditional Hollywood films.

A lifelong fan of science fiction " B-movies ", Ackerman had cameos in over 210 films, including bit parts in many monster movies and science fiction films ( The Howling, Innocent Blood, Return of the Living Dead Part II ), more traditional " imagi-movies " The Time Travelers, Future War, spoofs and comedies ( Amazon Women on the Moon, Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold, The Wizard of Speed and Time ), and at least one major music video ( Michael Jackson's Thriller ).

When he switched to traditional stop motion, Caprino tried to maintain the impression that he was still using some kind of " magic " technology to make the puppets move, even though all his later films were made with traditional stop motion techniques.

Several bistable technologies, like the 360 ° BTN and the bistable cholesteric, depend mainly on the bulk properties of the liquid crystal ( LC ) and use standard strong anchoring, with alignment films and LC mixtures similar to the traditional monostable materials.

In the 1960s the success of the films West Side Story, The Music Man, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, and The Sound of Music suggested that the traditional musical was in good health.

Many animated films of the period-predominately from Disney-included traditional musical numbers.

Recent films such as Clash of the Titans, Immortals or Thor continue the trend of mining traditional mythology in order to directly create a plot for modern consumption.

While two of his films, The Castle of Cagliostro and Castle in the Sky, involve traditional villains, his other films like Nausicaä and Princess Mononoke present morally ambiguous antagonists with redeeming qualities.

It also gives a full-screen image on a traditional television set ; hence pan-and-scan versions of films on videotape or DVD are often known as fullscreen.

Music ensembles currently perform traditional and contemporary scores for silent films.

Since the general animation renaissance headlined by the likes of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Little Mermaid at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, there have been an increasing number of traditional stop motion feature films, despite advancements with computer animation.

Leone's films and other " core " Spaghetti Westerns are often described as having eschewed, critizised or even " demythologized " many of the conventions of traditional US Westerns.

Moreover, the most artistically successful of the nonfiction films have invariably borrowed the narrative form from the fiction feature.

these films and these sequences are also seeking out -- instinctively or by design -- the peculiarly cinematic elements of narrative.

Each of these films contains experiments in narrative and intertextuality, reflecting De Palma's stated intention to become the " American Godard " while integrating several of the themes which permeated Hitchcock's work.

Turning further towards surrealist filmmaking, three of his subsequent films operated on " dream logic ", non-linear narrative structures: Lost Highway ( 1997 ), Mulholland Drive ( 2001 ) and Inland Empire ( 2006 ).

From 1900, the Pathé company films also frequently copied and varied the ideas of the British film-makers, without making any major innovations in narrative film construction, but eventually the sheer volume of their production led to their film-makers giving a further precision and polish to the details of film continuity.

In these cases the information that was difficult to film and lacking in strong dramatic interest was put into narrative titles before each scene, and this was also mostly the custom in European films of the more seriously intended kind.

His pleograph film camera has been patented already before the Lumière brothers ' invention and he is credited as the author of the earliest surviving Polish documentary titled Ślizgawka w Łazienkach ( Skating-rink in the Royal Baths ), as well as the first short narrative films Powrót birbanta ( Rake's return home ) and Przygoda dorożkarza ( Cabman's Adventure ), both created in 1902.

Although the earliest British films were of everyday events, the early 20th century saw the appearance of narrative shorts, mainly comedies and melodramas.

In film theory, genre ( or ) refers to the method based on similarities in the narrative elements from which films are constructed.

Chapman played the lead roles in the Python's two narrative feature films Holy Grail and Life of Brian.

Category: Nonlinear narrative films

Controcampo Italiano section, presents a panorama on Italian cinema with 7 narrative feature-length films, 7 short films, and 7 documentaries, all world premiere screenings and all in competition in their respective categories.

the Controcampo Award ( for narrative feature-length films )

Bordwell explains that Antonioni's films were extremely influential on subsequent art films: " More than any other director, he encouraged filmmakers to explore elliptical and open-ended narrative ".

" Interviewers Richard Thompson and Tim Hunter note that Eastwood's films are " superbly paced: unhurried ; cool ; and a strong sense of real time, regardless of the speed of the narrative " while Ric Gentry considers Eastwood's pacing to be " unrushed and relaxed ".

Through this early work on industrial films and TV series, Altman experimented with narrative technique and developed his characteristic use of overlapping dialogue.

It began slowly in the 1900s, and 1910 saw 4 narrative films released, then 51 in 1911, 30 in 1912, and 17 in 1913, and back to 4 in 1914, when the beginning of World War I brought an end to film making.

In all, between 1906 and 1928, 150 narrative feature films were made, of which almost 90 were made between 1910 and 1912.

Most films conform to the Classical Hollywood narrative film style, which has a set of guidelines that the films tend to follow.

Film style is distinct from film genre, which categorizes films based on similar narrative structures.

Until 1903, Bitzer was employed by Biograph primarily as a documentary photographer, and from 1903 onward primarily as the photographer of narrative films, as these gained popularity.