Sentences with phrase «many establishing shots»

It all works so well, from the establishing shots to the dramatic pan across to a guilty - looking Sergio Perez.

And the final sequence, in which Devoe and Kelly must defuse the nuclear warhead in a cathedral, is supposedly set in Manhattan but was actually shot in the breathtaking St. Martin's Cathedral, hard on the banks of the Danube in Bratislava (the exterior can be glimpsed briefly in an establishing shot, with the Manhattan skyline digitally added around it).

The movie's establishing shots make the real world look like a model - railroad diorama, but up close, the movie's performers — including Catastrophe's Sharon Horgan, who turns up as Magnussen's improbably smart and non-twentysomething date — are too ingratiating to work as satirical stand - ins.

Director and co-writer Jose Nestor Marquez eschews most establishing shots, exacerbating the sense of disorientation and mystery.

Some of the establishing shots, for instance, are filmed in a way that makes everything look miniaturized, giving the world an appropriately board game - like look.

Going in step with the film's game vs. reality plot, several establishing shots have a tilt - shift effect, as if beginning as miniature diorama models on a game board, and a continuous shot of the group of friends playing a game of keep - away with a black - market Fabrege egg — a McGuffin — through every room of a mansion is a tense, energetic, elaborately choreographed bit of showing off.

A clever running gag — establishing shots, street scenes and traffic scenes and cul de sacs are illustrated in detailed models which dissolve into the photo - real scenes the action takes place in.

Given what we know (or think we know) about Bobby Axelrod and his connection to 9/11, does this establishing shot establish more than just the setting?»

OK, and thanks for those really interesting and useful exterior establishing shots, phew!

Dark of the Moon actually pays attention to the traditional rules of editing — we have some wide establishing shots, close - ups of the important elements and fewer wacky camera angles — which means we comprehend exactly how the giant robots are beating the nuts and bolts off each other.

Hooper establishes this shooting style early and sticks to it, making it quite easy to adjust.

EW: Oh yeah, yeah — great zombie movie in its way, amazing stuff he does in that picture with atmosphere and establishing shots.

Rogue Nation was shot on film — with a few digital exteriors / establishing shots mixed in — and the image has an organic look that helps ground the outlandish action.

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The film is an exhausting collection of airplane CGI Firefox - style and heroic slow - motion establishing shots with shutter - staggered sprints through minefields, tripwires, and large - calibre gunfire that would be more at home in a chop - socky Van Damme opera.

In fact, «they» don't really come like this: a movie almost without establishing shots or hand - holding narrative cues, aggressive with its weird ambient sounds and literally eccentric frames.

A hint: One establishing shot features something that looks like a clothesline or a cable of some kind that may be... something else.

On the contrary, Stardust is extremely well - made despite an opening half - hour that boasts of a few too many long establishing shots, directed with real snap by Guy Ritchie's former producer Matthew Vaughn (who did the same with Layer Cake) and executed by a stellar cast that includes a literally incandescent Claire Danes as a fallen star named Yvaine and Michelle Pfeiffer as a hideous bitch goddess, which, given that Stardust follows on the heels of Hairspray, appears to be the vehicle of her late - career comeback.

Mahoney has signed onto J.J. Abrams» Star Wars: Episode IX as second unit director, putting her in charge of overseeing the direction of the movie's supplementary footage like establishing shots, stunts, and cutaways.

The film flatters us by leaving exposition and backstory to our knowledge of anthropology — in fact, Animal Kingdom is best indicated by its unwavering reserve — a reluctance, almost — to say too much when slow, fluid tracking motions and static, medium - distance establishing shots may suffice.

Throughout the movie, Emmanuel Benbihy, who also conceptualized the feature, and Frédéric Auburtin provide such establishing shots to show the location and time of day in which the next short occurs, and they are lovely images.

Apart from the opening scene, which incorporates special effects to help create a massive dry dock that serves as a prison (the prisoners hauling a ship into it with lines as thick as tree trunks), and a few brief establishing shots, which include dramatic rises and falls of the camera through space and time as each new stage of the story begins, Les Misérables keeps us in close — sometimes very close — proximity to the actors.

As a critic, he writes on his website The Establishing Shot and hosts the «Page 2 Screen» podcast on the Curious About Screenwriting Network for the International Screenwriters» Association.

Helmed by veteran TV director Mimi Leder in somehow small - screen - friendly Panavision (that she manages to make her panoramic establishing shots look like the stock transitions in any episode of «Hart to Hart» should be included in a textbook somewhere), the picture goes through the motions — from discovery of the peril by naïfs to the involvement of the Internet to the slow - in - coming participation of the powers that be — of a genre most recently (and faithfully) resurrected by The Day After Tomorrow.

There's also a surprising amount of obvious compression in the opening establishing shots as the sky flickers with interference.

In Kidnap, he's maybe going for the relentless rat - tat - tat of late - period Tony Scott; there are some swirly camera movements, death - by - a-thousand-cuts sequences of cars flipping over, and even some fake flash frames added to an establishing shot to make it a little more Man On Fire.

Civil War was also partly filmed with IMAX cameras and the movie in general tends to feel big, visually - speaking, in - between its action sequences and many establishing shots of locations around the globe (as well as the massive title font that's used to identify each individual change in location)- making IMAX the preferable viewing format for Civil War.

An early establishing shot of the sludgy Gowanus Canal looks positively Venetian, a tremendous achievement given that it is one of the most polluted bodies of water in the United States.

And how in the world did that bizarrely low - res helicopter footage pass as an establishing shot?

2 DAYS IN PARIS has one of the nicest establishing shots in cinema.

A single note over establishing shots.

Heir to the testosterone cinema of Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray, Berg's films also find a kind of poetry in opposition, with Friday Night Lights» establishing shots of Texas's huge, glowering big sky country and insensate oil derricks pumping in silhouette set against the mayfly quickening of young men frozen for an instant that is, for many of them, meant to last a lifetime.

The exterior settings feel both more real and more grand - just the establishing shots are more epic - and the camera pans, moves, and shoots from angles that purposely sets Rogue One apart from the rest.

Ruben can be a very fine B - action director, and his decision with The Forgotten to set the preponderance of his establishing shots as undefined points - of - view that peer voyeuristically at Telly and eventual compatriot Ash through warped windows, open doorways, and extreme God's - eye, pays off in a general feeling of paranoid unrest.

To Gerwig's credit, she doesn't use conventional establishing shots of Manhattan landmarks to sell NYC as a mecca.

From the film's opening passage, Lubitsch demonstrates his new facility with the norms of Hollywood editing: following a humorous inter-title stating that «Lady Windermere faced the grave problem — of seating her dinner guests,» Lubitsch opens with an establishing shot of a voluminous interior with the woman seated at a desk; the director dissolves to a medium - close - up of the woman arranging her placards; and then to point - of - view close - up as she places Lord Darlington's carefully beside her own, her fingers softly tapping the folded paper.

The show excels at sharing the same emotional perspective as its leads, something that's evident from director Mike (Broadchurch) Barker's gorgeous establishing shots flying over the countryside at the start — revelling in the freedom of the open air after the interiors of France and, in particular, Episode 7's trauma.

Immediately after cutting from the apartment, there's an establishing shot of Max's Steaks, and, if that isn't enough, Bianca lets Adonis (and everyone watching) know they're in North Philly.

This achievement is clear in Lady Windermere's Fan, where from the first Lubitsch demonstrates a markedly different style than his German comedies with their absence of establishing shots, long takes, and frontal framings.

Director Rupert Sanders» sci - fi actioner comes off like a pained imitation of genre jewels «RoboCop» and «Blade Runner,» unduly proud of its gamut of glitzy establishing shots, airtight in its disinclination to charisma.

Digital backdrops and establishing shots are used frequently, and none look convincing.

The effort was to look at my favorite movies of the year (inspired, to begin with, by the opening of «No Country for Old Men») solely through establishing shots, architecture, landscapes, inanimate objects... and a few glimpses of extras and motionless actors who don't speak.

You may have noticed that Pixar usually starts with big, wide establishing shots and then cuts into a smaller enclosed environment.

The dynamic duo also do a tremendous job utilizing every inch of the widescreen frame to tell the story, with sweeping vistas and establishing shots giving the actors room to play.

The director's capable of taking a simple moment or a standard establishing shot and making it into something of pure beauty.

The ship is a grand, imposing mass of haunting decrepitude, as we see in establishing shots that use decent computer effects.

Some of the establishing shots are quite breathtaking.

This Eastern version also lacks at least one establishing shot of a house.

The main menu shows a montage of establishing shots redone with a flickering sepia filter that gives it an antiquated look.

Basically they're establishing shots, extended, of my three possible dads, in addition to a genuinely horrific A Farewell to Arms bit that ends with a bunch of mostly - naked men leaping from the surf to menace our one - piece - clad heroine, supine.