Sentences with phrase «audience under its spell»

What's perhaps most amazing about E.T., what distinguishes it from many of the other fantasy films of its era, is its ability to put an audience under a spell of childlike wonderment without infantilizing it.

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The entire audience for my screening fell deep under this film's spell.

It's a look of rebellion, of defiance and of the wicked enjoyment of subverting the rules that has both the audience and characters under its spell.

Even the most harden cinemagoer will fall under the spell of Room at least once, and so far it seems every audience have fallen suit.

Almost an entire century after the world's first cinematic introduction to Dracula placed audiences under his haunting spell, the studio that pioneered the genre reawakens one of legend's most captivating figures in an action - adventure that heralds a pulse - pounding rebirth of the age of monsters.

It is this year, however, that Jonas is pushing firmly beyond regional recognition with her Venice Biennale solo debut at the United States Pavilion — an exhibition that will give a bigger (and, I imagine, more - than - willing) audience the opportunity to fall under her spell.