But with the brilliant acting by James Cagney and the fast - paced and hard - edged direction of William Keighley,
the film clatters past like an express train.
Not exact matches
In the new
film, he gives one fond and musing speech — «I grew up lookin» at Oklahoma, from the south bank of the Red River» — that may be the most placid interlude in any Friedkin
film, and the cinematographer, Caleb Deschanel, backs it up with some tack - sharp images of busy pizza parlors and empty pool halls, where life
clatters on or comes to a lonely halt.
Intricately looped, layered sound design works to similar effect, swelling from ambient buzz to
clattering chaos, and working in close conjunction with the rattling score by Deshe and James Masson (also the
film's screenwriters).
Exactly as tedious as Steamboy, then, and covering exactly the same ground, Howl's Moving Castle shares with Ôtomo's
film, too, a giant steam - powered ball as its central image, encapsulating a vision of Victorian England in a Frankenstein's yin / yang
clattering along inexorably like the Industrial Revolution while gorgeous impressionistic watercolour towns are polluted by coal smoke from a fleet of trains burning through the forests at night.
The
film curiously includes a crude sexual story and some hard profanity, but softens them with the sounds of a locker slamming and plates
clattering.
There is only me here, and Dean's
clattering film projector, running the endless loop.
The hole and another rectangular floor - to - ceiling slice in a second wall can't help but conjure thoughts of Gordon Matta - Clark's intersected buildings; the gentle but purposeful movements of the dancers are reminiscent of the contemporary dance of Siobhan Davies; the glitchy,
clattering drum sounds that accompany the
filmed sawing of the walls recall the beats of alt - electronica duo Autechre.
The two
film installations are accompanied by
clattering mechanical projectors.
Her
film of a last supper slowly consumed by vultures, its soundtrack like some medieval banquet of beaks
clattering on salvers, was shot in a desert.