Sentences with phrase «bravura acting»

Provides some amazing encounters, bravura acting turns and gruesome carnage.

He displays a mastery of staging, of camera placement and of bravura acting from the incredible cast that has seldom been matched in the canon of noir.

My older brother and I had snuck in and, now seated beside a speaker pole, were introduced to Hitch's bravura act of misdirection and mayhem.

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Mosquitoes, a story of truth and communication, of belief and faith, of family ties and particle physics, is an act of conceptual bravura from a writer approaching the top of her game.

Peg it as this year's «Whiplash,» the indie movie that enters the conversation on the strength of its bravura filmmaking and acting.

The booming stinger chords of Alan Silvestri's score retain their shameless oomph on the disc's DTS and Dolby Digital soundtracks, and the pristine video transfer makes Zemeckis» bravura third - act camera moves just as dazzling as they were on the big screen.

That same year, Jim Carrey vanished into the role of Andy Kaufman for Milos Foreman's Man On The Moon, a bravura feat of method acting that Smith is now documenting in Jim & Andy.

Crossfire Edward Dmytryk, USA, 1947, 35 mm, 86m This adaptation of writer / director - to - be Richard Brooks's novel The Brick Foxhole, about a group of vets, led by Robert Mitchum's Sergeant Keeley, searching postwar Washington for their amnesiac friend (George Cooper) so they can clear him of a murder charge, embodies the essence of what has come to be known as «film noir» — moody, troubled characters; nocturnal action; chiaroscuro cinematography; low - key acting spiced with bits of bravura eccentricity; and a plot so crazy that it feels like a nightmare.

Similarly, Sheen gives a wonderful performance as David Frost, in spite of being somewhat of a support act to Langella's bravura turn.

Taut direction, a tight and intelligent (if ultimately derivative) script, excellent acting, bravura action sequences, wonderful locales, and intense photography and editing.

Thankfully, the bravura final third act helped redress the balance.

Like her colleagues Mr. Gordon, Steve Paxton and Yvonne Rainer, she made dances that eliminated bravura, academic technique, acting and musicality — the hallmarks of modern dance as it had been developed by Martha Graham and others, not to mention ballet.