Sentences with phrase «film cuts away»

But a good deal of the film cuts away to talk about applied minimalism and the global impact of consumer culture.

At intervals, the film cuts away to news footage of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, the Rodney King beating, Bill Clinton (signing the «three strikes» 1994 crime bill), and New York Governor George Pataki calling for reinstitution of the death penalty.

Both times, the film cuts away, and both times, my audience groaned.

Whenever there's a risk of getting too comfortable, the film cuts away to a one - on - one interview with a supporting character, similar to a device used on television's «The Office» and, long before those series, This is Spinal Tap.

Not exact matches

According to a behind the scenes featurette for the film, Bay used the spinning shot to attempt to show both sides of the shootout without cutting away.

Porn companies are able to get away with strikingly similar parodies of existing IP either by cutting secret deals with the original producers or by convincing courts that their films can't possibly be confused with said content.

If you're making a short film, and you want to illustrate a society that's falling into tyranny, you can just cut away to a scene of a pile of books burning, and everyone will know exactly what you meant.

The kirigami cuts give the film not only stretch, but also better grip: The cuts that open release tension that would otherwise cause the entire film to peel away from the skin.

The film aims for a dry authenticity that only fractionally reflects the big, wild volume on which it's based, cutting away nearly all of its poetry and most of its madness.

Noticeably cut from an R - rating as if one is watching an edited version on cable, the film shies away from some of the bloodier bursts of violence, and yet still comes off pretty vicious, but even more so, a few uses of the F - words are dubbed over with «frickin»,» allowing Gabrielle Union to finally use the PG - 13 rating's allowance of one F - word.

Far from being throwaway, this brief shot — one of many instances of Malick and his DoP, John Toll, cutting away to the fauna and flora of the Pacific Islands location — is the film's spirit distilled.

In the past few months, a spirited game of he - said / they - said has played out in the press, with a gag - ordered Schrader accusing his producers of taking the film away from him when he refused to make all of their desired changes to his director's cut, and said producers firing back that Schrader quit the picture without ever completing it, and that their version is, well, a lot better.

Precision cutting and flowing camera movement would come to define the action film, blowing away the tension - based American system with a surfeit of bullets, preferably fired by a man clinching a match in his teeth, firing two handguns at once it a vain attempt at exorcising his existential pain.

First of all, in order to get RKO on board, Welles gave away his right to the final cut, believing he could remain in control of bringing the film from the editing room to the silver screen.

He infuses the film with unearthly menace at every available opportunity, occasionally cutting away from the action to ratchet up the tension with a shot of ants devouring a dying butterfly, or houseflies dying in a table.

I'm not sure how previous drug addiction films treated actual scenes of drug abuse, but I value Schatzberg's unromanticized, no cutting away POV.

While the film does follow the Donovan / Abel arc, it cuts away from time to time to follow Powers (Austin Stowell) as he's recruited as a «driver» of an «article» for the CIA and is shot down on his first mission — failing to activate the plane's destruct mechanism through no fault of his own.

So when I was offered a chance to review the new Rogue Cut of the film, I decided to break away from my usual snooty high - brow / classic / cult posts to join the mainstream.

The film starts with Laura Guerrero (Stephanie Sigman) posing in front of a mirror adorned with cut - outs from magazines; she imagines a glossy, improbable future that will whisk her away from her hardscrabble life in poverty - stricken Baja, a Mexican border city.

But if we're cutting away the fat around the core Infinity Stones storyline to leave only the most important narrative meat, then none of the previous films matter.

Imagine it could have just cut away to different points and had these celebrities helping out instead of being in this film.

Over the course of its two - hour running time, the film somehow maintains the high - wire act, never visibly cutting away until the climactic final moments.

Sadly, these often strong scenes of the family's interactions with one another are undone by the film's constant need to cut away and remind us of the larger plot involving the hitmen and thus sacrificing where its strength lies in order to set up and build toward its damp squib of a finale.

I can always see the action in your films, as opposed to a lot of today's filmmakers who use quick cuts, tight close - ups and constantly move the camera in ways that take away the impact.

Directed by Mike Barker from a screenplay by Nigel Williams — the two previously collaborated on a 2008 adaptation of Jack London's «The Sea Wolf,» also for the Halmis — the film aims for a dry authenticity that only fractionally reflects the big, wild volume on which it's based, cutting away nearly all of its poetry and most of its madness.

The film builds to an inevitably devastating conclusion, Baker cutting rapidly through three different planes of action (on three different levels of the motel) as a family is torn apart and Dafoe walks helplessly away.

Granted, there's repeated shots of Cal's ancestor, Aguilar of the crazy cool hoodie, doing the «leap of faith,» and it's thrilling, even if the film never bothers to explain how he survives it, always cutting away like a dream where you fall off a cliff and wake up right before the moment of impact.

In a near - blasphemous move, the camera cuts away almost entirely from the biggest explosion in the film.

The MacFarlane Comedy Machine's penchant for cut - away gags and pop - culture - based humor is on full display throughout the film's draggy 115 minutes, but for every five reference - based jokes that miss, there's usually one that hits.

The film places an emphasis on blood over flesh when it comes to Jennifer (and Needy as well, in a childhood flashback of the girls featuring either a kissing - a-cut-to-make-it-better or forming - a-blood-bond-via-quick-blood-sucking you'll - have - to - decide move by Needy on Jennifer's cut palm which may or may not form a psychic connection between the girls, you'll have to decide on that, too), which in turn draws one away from demonic connections towards vampiric ones, which sets Cody against Whedon; a battle Cody can't really hope to win.

Fortunately we sent a small boat over to them to film what they were doing and they soon cut the line and ran away.

In these collages the artist cuts away areas of vintage film stills, purposefully removing the narrative focus of the image.

Also on view will be «Apple,» a lone fruit placed atop a pedestal, and the seminal 1964 film «Cut Piece,» in which Ono asks viewers to cut away her clothing as she sits still on staCut Piece,» in which Ono asks viewers to cut away her clothing as she sits still on stacut away her clothing as she sits still on stage.

These include activities (doing things you enjoy that help you take your mind off whatever is causing you stress), contributing (doing volunteer work or helping out a friend), comparisons (comparing what you do to cope with stressful situations to what other people do or how you cope today to how you coped in years» past), emotions (immerse yourself in books, poetry, music, films, or television shows that trigger strong emotions), pushing away (cutting yourself off from the situation at hand by mentally blocking it out), thoughts (finding mentally - stimulating activities to do, such as crossword puzzles, playing video games, writing poetry, or solving mathematical equations), and sensations (finding means to elicit strong physical reactions, such as holding an ice cube for a minute or taking a long, cold shower; this is similar to self - harm but without the harmful effects).

New pieces may be coated with a light oily film for packing and shipping purposes and this should be wiped away with warm water and a grease - cutting soap.