Sentences with phrase «musical sequences»

My favorite musical sequence in the film is one towards the end that employs dancers holding lit rings of pink neon — most impressive and striking.

Q: You do have a few musical sequences working with the crowd.

The challenge lies in assembling musical sequences played by other people, creating new combinations of sounds or genres in the process.

I Saw the Light shines in its recreations of musical sequences, gloriously photographed by Dante Spinotti.

An extended musical sequence featuring Burt Gurney (Channing Tatum) is impressive, but does nothing to progress the story.

Certainly the oft - parodied opening ballet / skirmish between the warring Puerto Rican - American Sharks and the Anglo Jets, filmed on real New York streets and schoolyards, is one of the most exciting opening musical sequences ever made.

The 18th annual Film Bitch Awards have finally reached their conclusion with the «best scene» page fully up and complete with nominations and medals for BEST KISS, BEST ACTION SCENE, and BEST MUSICAL SEQUENCE and the like.

Stars Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin and Gene Kelly (directing and choreographing his first film in partnership with 24 - year - old Stanley Donen) cavort near the real Rockefeller Plaza, Central Park and the Statue of Liberty with joyful brio in what remains one of the most famed musical sequences ever filmed.

This electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture mega-icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while brimming with... More

The film's final musical sequence set to «Jai Ho» was filmed at a functional train station in Mumbai.

By employing two paradigms that differed widely in musical complexity, we found that improvisation (compared to production of over-learned musical sequences) was consistently characterized by a dissociated pattern of activity in the prefrontal cortex: extensive deactivation of dorsolateral prefrontal and lateral orbital regions with focal activation of the medial prefrontal (frontal polar) cortex.

This is an entertaining biopic that's worth seeing for the terrific musical sequences and for the superb performances by Anthony and Lopez.

9:45 pm — TCM — Stormy Weather In the 1940s, African - American actors were sadly almost always either relegated to servant roles or incidental musical sequences, but MGM did a couple of movies to showcase the prodigious talents of their African - American stars, including this one starring Lena Horne in one of only two starring roles she ever had, as a popular singer being romanced by an up - and - coming dancer (Bill «Bojangles» Robinson).

The escapism of the film's lush musical sequences is a daydream writ large, the uncomplicated fantasy in our mind of desire achieved and passion fulfilled.

Even at seventy minutes, the film requires patience - it contains lengthy musical sequences and unfolds at its own meandering pace.

Its revival during the last couple of years with the songwriting of Pasek & Paul reminds us of how uplifting a well - executed screen musical sequence can be.

For fans of the earlier movies, not all is lost: Sie's background as a music video director and «Step Up» series helmer is readily apparent, and what «Pitch Perfect 3» lacks in catchy tunes, it more than makes up for in genuinely creative and rousing musical sequences.

Carney strings together a few fun musical sequences where we see the band starting to find their groove.

Once the monsters were created, all that was needed were a few bizarre monster «noises» and some choice musical sequences, which was a job for the sound designer, Akira Yamaoka.

The film does have a few clever moments, such as a funny musical sequence involving different characters» points of view as they see a previously frumpy woman (of course) transformed from ugly duckling to swan.

There will be some epic musical sequences — including a «singing into hairbrushes» scene, space dance number and one that looks inspired by Gene Kelly and Ginger Rogers.

In the 20 years and change that Wong has been directing, he's developed several signature flourishes that make his films instantly recognizable — from his striking use of deep, rich colors, to his affinity for repetitive musical sequences, to his judicious use of slow motion for emotional effect, and many more — but at the core of Wong's filmography is an acute awareness of passing time and a palpable yearning for things just out of reach.

Although some gameplay elements are added, such as rhythm - based musical sequences and a brand - new item creation system, the title is by - and - large what fans have come to expect from the series.

BAND AID is lifted by its well - done musical sequences, tuneful and surprisingly enjoyable, but the humor is more uneven.

The songs from the original film (by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman), too, remain as nimble and catchy as they were before, even with some new verses and plenty of vamping to accommodate the longer musical sequences.

A series of intersecting stories form the backbone of Anderson's magnum opus, which blends brilliant ensemble performances, heartbreaking musical sequences and a bewilderingly apocalyptic plague of frogs.

A fun musical that manages to capture smalltown drama, while, at the same time, showcasing some of the most fantastically colorful and beautiful musical sequences in musical history.

No working director uses needle drops as ingeniously as France's Bertrand Bonello, and his latest film, the tremendous and poetically disturbed Nocturama, contains so many balls - to - the - wall musical sequences that's it's hard to pick a favorite.

Satrapi deliberately stuck with the stark monochrome of her graphic novel to make her tale of rebellion and displacement a universal one, but ensures each frame is a surprising visual spectacle — be it a surreal musical sequence or the horror of a human hand in a building's bombed ruins.

This all bears more than a whiff of hypocrisy, what with multitude of companies getting a push through the barrage of logos that are prominently featured throughout the film, not to mention the many ready - for - MTV musical sequences clearly designed to push the film's soundtrack album.

The corny stuff and all - American hokum is in keeping with comic book tradition, but for an audience primed for action it may prove wearying — a patriotic musical sequence in the George M. Cohan tradition is the most egregious example and might remind some of Peter Parker's indulgent disco moves in Spider - Man 3.

But lest you jump to the inevitable comparisons, the Indian Hangover it is not — ZNMD (as it's now called) has a lot less raunch, a lot more soul, and plenty of beautifully shot musical sequences.

Phillip David Stearns uses only a few lines of code to scan the familiar backgrounds of the Windows Operating System from left to right, resulting in one - pixel - wide strips of color, and similarly expands the start - up musical sequence.

Who knew 10cc's «The Things We Could Do For Love» could be used as the soundtrack for an animated musical sequence on chapters 19 - 40 from the Book of Exodus?

Night On Bald Mountain This live action film is based on Fantasia's musical sequence featuring the work of Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.

Essentially variations on one joke, a spoof of»60s spy movies, the»60s themselves and, by extension, the»90s, the series began to run out of steam mid-way through this second installment but it certainly has its charms, notably the opening musical sequence.