Sentences with phrase «crane shot»

Savannah looks beautiful, with its sweeping crane shots of the Georgia wilderness only slightly diluted by nonstop melodramatic music cues.

No clever one - liners, no triumphant crane shots pulling back — just shock and horror.

We've seen sweeping crane shots through swaying wheat fields before on screen in Terrence Malick films and his countless imitators, but not like this.

The elaborate CG crane shot from Bitter Sweets is analyzed (1:42), the production design is detailed upon (2:32), and Pace and Fuller comment on the appearance of Molly Shannon, Raúl Esparza, and Ned's revelation to Chuck (6:09).

Morton DaCosta, a former actor, had become a respected stage director in the fifties, and his direction of the film version expanded the play's visuals through elaborate crane shots, an excellent fox hunting sequence, and a marvelous stage show - captured from behind the curtain, with luminescent lighting and audience detail.

The Panavision (Color by DeLuxe) cinematography by Fred Koenekamp and Joseph Biroc is always solid, though it stumbles in its occasional efforts to be impressive: the opening helicopter shots leave no doubt that someone has been watching La dolce vita again; and an unnecessarily baroque crane shot records the insignificant arrival of a taxicab delivering Roberts to the Simmons home.

The film employs sinuous, unobtrusive camerawork, laconic zooms, and even the odd crane shot.

The New York location photography has nice detail and depth — you can see it in a bravura opening crane shot that starts with a view of downtown, then tracks sideways as Swank emerges from a Chinatown subway stop.

Apparently alone among mainstream American animators, Bird treats his films as films, and the camera moves as if it were actually filming actual space, gliding up down and around like the great crane shots of Orson Welles, Max Ophuls or Paul Thomas Anderson (to make some ambitious, not entirely absurd comparisons).

Its most complex emotional transactions are staged in extended, meticulously choreographed crane shots evoking Max Ophuls (La Ronde, Lola Montes), yet most American reviewers, if they bothered to write about it at all, dismissed it as a failed Kutcher sex comedy.

The camera work and cinematography are both well done, with very nice night photography scenes, great camera movement, and some memorable crane shots in the drive - in.

He actually weaves the camera around smoothly in places and holds a few still wide shots to great effect in other spots; there is even a pretty good crane shot thrown in.

Luckily, Cianfrance and DP Sean Bobbitt have put together a visually sumptuous film, providing glorious tracking crane shots of the woodlands of Schenectady, NY.

Everything is done in annoying quick - cuts, ceaseless crane shots, CGI - laden battle sequences, and glossy, artificial looking sets.

The film spends over an hour in the arena, while giving us a barely passable love story that consists of long gazes from the distance between Milo and Cassia (Emily Browning), the daughter of a wealthy merchant, and foreboding crane shots from Pompeii to Mount Vesuvius, reminding us that, yes, there is a volcano and it will blow the hell up.

There's also some dazzling camerawork, including a genuinely awe - inspiring crane shot of a pool party with what looks like thousands of extras, and a brilliantly choreographed tracking shot of the robbery seen through the window of the getaway car.

Janusz Kaminski, Spielberg's go - to director of photography, opens with stunningly beautiful overhead shots of richly green land and later crane shots on the battlefield that belong in a museum.

From random anachronistic intoxicated dancing to Wally's bizarre stroll past bearded Jews and street musicians to a closing crane shot that attempts to create significance for Manhattan's skyline, this film is a slow, puzzling journey whose greatest revelation is that even in the 2010s, no one is going to say no to Madonna.

Linklater uses a steadicam to keep the focus on the conversation and some impressive crane shots to open things up a bit.

Half a second later, it seamlessly emerges from the exhaust pipe of Cayden's motorcycle into a swooping backward crane shot finishing with the omniscient Wild Bill gazing, gargoyle - like, over the parking lot.

Whereas the Fox prologue used extremely wide crane shots, the MGM short intercuts various angles - several held in closer view on key soloists - and conveys the size of the orchestra through more dynamic angles (including a very cool overhead shot) and tracking shots.

The best Peanuts special since The Great Pumpkin, seamlessly integrating the classic strips and characters into modern animation techniques (POV shots, computer - rendered crane shots) while respecting and preserving the unique stylization of Charles Schulz's original drawings.

With normal cameras, crane shots require a heavy - duty support system due to the weight of the camera.

Spielberg then immediately cuts to a crane shot, arcing above Graham, as she hangs up with satisfied certitude.

intone the prisoners in the opening musical number of Les Misérables, a scene that begins underwater and moves to a crane shot of hundreds of inmates pulling ropes to haul an up - ended ship to dock.

In the film's profusion of crane shots, foregrounded cuts, and often affectless line readings, Dargis finds the same balance of good intentions and muddled execution.

Director Matthew Saville gets in some crane shots of the two wandering -LSB-...]

Yes, there is a look to their movies, but it isn't as easily defined as, say, Michael Bay's crane shots, or Mike Leigh's awkward improv moment.

The crane shot up and away from Cooper preceding the final battle is as elegant as anything in the genre.

Also, I like some of the steadicam and crane shots.

Summer Hours opens with children playing in the French countryside, observed by a calm camera in elegant tracking and crane shots; there's a warm guitar / string quartet score playing.

In Children's final sequence, Davies traps Robert inside another window frame, crying, as a crane shot pulls out from the house.

Miles and I were doing this long shot where we have to walk across this huge quad and they have a crane shot.

The middle of the film is where the characters begin to relax into themselves, and in the last third it becomes very grand and cinematic using a lot of crane shots.

There is a slight processing problem early in a crane shot of Prinze riding a lawnmower across a detailed green field and in chapter 27 during a zoom - in on a chainlink fence.

Marsh employs techniques favoured by Riefenstahl, including the crane shot, long circular traveling shot and low - angle shot.