Sentences with phrase «great edit of the film»

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I enjoyed the movie when I first saw it many years ago, and there is great footage of the Rolling Stones sitting in an editing room after the fact and forlornly watching the stabbing which was caught on film.

Jarecki certainly thinks his subject deserves such an accolade, and he's made a great - looking film to make his case, one that is edited gracefully and briskly — and leaves the heady aftertaste of birthday cake.

If you do enough festivals you see a bunch of these films, and you even come to appreciate them for what they are; when they're well - made there's a hypnotic rhythm to the editing (especially the ambient background noise that almost always dominates the soundtrack), but they're never great films.

The script has a lot of great stuff in it, but desperately needed vigorous editing and I think Ridley Scott was lost with where to go with this film.

While the trailer has some great editing to reveal this as a spy thriller, the film itself unfortunately is nothing more than a messy saga of sex, lies, murder, and fake Russian accents all thrown together in a two - and - a-half hour drudge through the cold Eastern European winter.

The film's strength lies in its engaging visuals, namely the impressive opening sequence and the clever editing during certain fight scenes which lends them a greater feel of urgency and excitement.

«Having nine nominations is really fantastic for a film like «Carol,» and to see Todd's work and Todd recognized in this way, which hasn't fully happened until this point, is incredibly gratifying because he is one of the great contemporary American filmmakers, and his films and «Carol» will be here long after we are all gone,» she said, although she added that she would have liked to have seen the contribution of Carter Burwell and Affonso Goncalves recognized as well, for music and editing respectively.

Shot by Academy Award - winning cinematographer Robert Elswit, who has worked with Anderson ever since Hard Eight, scored by singer - songwriter Michael Penn, edited by the great Dylan Tichenor, who started as an apprentice on Robert Altman's movies and went on to do great films such as Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Brokeback Mountain and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Paul Thomas Anderson's epic drama went on to garner three Academy Award nominations, did reasonably well at the box office by tripling its initial investment and, more importantly, showcased the surprising talent and determination of one of the few brilliant filmmakers of American contemporary cinema.

Claire Denis has been one of the great directors from the start, an emotional constructivist whose gift for hyper - specific observation and elegiac, elliptical editing transforms even her bleakest films into sensual evocations of her characters» innermost urges.

Historian Peggy Parsons doesn't indicate whether Auric shaped his material as the film was being edited or whether the music went through great discussions with the director, but the act of composing a score could be seen as going against the very purpose of Clouzot's spontaneous approach.

I Used to Live Here, like all great neo-realist films, bears a very poignant, deliberate message that culminates in the closing moments, and is crucially told depicted via the more ardent elements of filmmaking, i.e. — script - structure, editing, framing and acting.

One can potentially enjoy Ready Player One and see it as meaningless entertainment, but despite having fantastic visuals and great editing, the film is weighed down by so much nostalgia and never - ending pop culture references while being devoid of everything else.

A great resource for more information on some of the great film editing sequences through the years: http://www.filmsite.org/bestfilmediting.html

Actually, the film has a couple of top moments, assisted by great cinematography, perfect editing and a great soundtrack — it's a slicker flick for sure.

The Grandmaster received great word of mouth and box office takings in Asia and caught just as much attention in the U.S. Wong Kar - wai edited the film anew so it would be easier for foreigners to comprehend.

Here we are, several years into the Great Recession and the slow death of film criticism, and I am able to access almost three dozen professionally authored and edited reviews of a movie that can barely inspire critics to shrug.

The fight is rightly dubbed as one of the greatest ever filmed, with its crisp editing and brilliantly shot presentation being a nice refresher from the modern quick cut handheld fights of current action films.

While I don't want to say that all of these montaging film editing lovelies are all great I do believe Joel is one of the highlights of them all.

With the combination of stellar acting, great editing and amazing cinematography, this film is a celebration of the return of sci - fi.

We have to admit that we're at least a little excited to check out Taraji P. Henson's upcoming action thriller Proud Mary; despite the not - especially - great sign of Sony skipping press screenings for the film, the idea of Henson gunning down a bunch of gangsters in a slickly edited action flick has an undeniable appeal.

I feel like the film was lost in the editing room, for there seems to be the raw material here for a truly great contemporary Western and a grand, dramatic meditation on the soul of an American hero.

We can speculate on the roots of its popularity: that it satisfies the genre and arthouse crowds; that it uses framing, sound, editing and camera movement to unreel a transfixing tale and flesh out excruciatingly authentic characters; that it dares to coax out the ghosts lurking in every watery passageway in Venice, Europe's most ornate and singular city; that it contains arguably the greatest sex scene on film.

At best the film could be described as the intellectual cousin of the Bourne trilogy with all too few moments of great scene transitions, framing and sound editing that is largely overcome by the many noticeable moments where it doesn't get these components quite right.