Sentences with phrase «cinematic spectacle»

Lincoln mostly feels like one of Spielberg's straight - faced historical films with a couple of key moments reminding audiences just how good Spielberg is at coaxing an emotional response from the audience with cinematic spectacle.

They use the medium to their advantage, staging their numbers with and for the camera; through framing, camera movement, editing, choreography, or production design, they craft rousing, sometimes resonant cinematic spectacle out of their theatrical raw material.

But I still treasure those discoveries and revel in the lush, visually stunning cinematic spectacle of the giallo at its best, a waking nightmare with the poetic grace of a musical: Italy's dance of death.

While Alfonso Cuaron's space ballet opening scene in Gravity is arguably the pinnacle of cinematic spectacle for 2013, an early scene in Richard Linklater's Before Midnight — the Rohmer - ish, talky third film in his beloved Before series — creates spectacle in a stealthier fashion, via a boldly extended single shot and sublime verbiage.

Overflowing with surreal, dazzling surprises, this intoxicating cinematic spectacle is a delirious excursion into the dark heart of fairy tales from the visionary director of Gomorrah.

Zemeckis is not always the subtlest of filmmakers — his beats are often heavy — but he believes in cinematic spectacle, and this new film delivers the goods... on that end.

Subsequent games in the series lost that vibe, but compensated with increased cinematic spectacle.

John Akomfrah's cinematic spectacle captures the vast, interconnected nature of climate change

That Goold never does anything outrageous, like drastically alter facts in order to derive a denouement more befitting of cinematic spectacle is a strength.

This Is England (# 37) This Is England is an odd and lovely duck indeed, an art - house picture indifferent to the visual poetics of a Terrence Malick or a Lynne Ramsay, and a period picture that uses its time frame in service of narrative as opposed to cinematic spectacle.

In its uniquely closeted, cornered off, undemonstrative and aloof way, this brilliant albeit maddening film manages to jettison subtext in favour of cinematic spectacle.

The movie was set in a gorgeous 3D rendering of the Gare Montparnasse circa 1931, and its opulence reflected the film's subject, the director Georges Méliès, who was an original master of cinematic spectacle.

The real time combat in Final Fantasy XIII - 2 is quite the cinematic spectacle, thanks to that game's impressive production values.

When played solo, they provide a cinematic spectacle, studded with explosions, exotic settings and nerve - wracking cliffhangers.