Sentences with phrase «much cinematographic»

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While Thomas W. Kiennast's black - and - white cinematography is quite beautiful to behold (Gröning's film certainly features some excellent cinematographic moments as well), Atef's film never manages to convey why we should care, today, about this brief moment in Schneider's well - documented life, including her never - ending struggle with the German press, her inability to escape the role of Sissi that made her instantly famous as a teenager, and the various tragedies that befell her, including the suicide of her ex - husband.7 The film is not a biopic per se (and Atef declared that she did not intend to make one): thus, audiences who are not already familiar with Schneider certainly will not come away from viewing the film with much of a sense of her life's story); yet, given it is not a biopic, one wonders what the film is, or what it tries to accomplish.

There's not much about the cruelty, the exploitativeness, and the destructive folie à deux of Reynolds Woodcock and Alma Elson's bad romance that Anderson doesn't lay right out there on the screen, with a psychological acuity worthy of Hitchcock and a cinematographic fluidity reminiscent of Max Ophüls.

Like most of the other majors, Warner doesn't much deal in arthouse fare these days, which is the most generous designation you could apply to an effort that looks to grab your attention early and often with cinematographic flair.

The resulting film, Empire, 1964, is a study as much in cinematographic looking as it is on the properties of film itself; though the image of the building at night is otherwise fixed, small dramas play out through exposure, the shifting of light over time, and the slight jumpiness of the image as the celluloid passes through the projector.