Sentences with phrase «of voiceover narration»

The film's structure, with its use of voiceover narration and flashbacks, resembles that of GoodFellas, and Russell's camerawork and jump cutting are also Scorsesian.

Additionally, White imbues his film with an added layer of surrealness with occasional cutaways to fantasy sequences; and while the use of voiceover narration is arguably on - the - nose, it does nudge the film closer into earnest territory and further away from conceited, navel - gazing white middle - class folly.

Very little is revealed about Rick and that which is comes courtesy of voiceover narration from one tertiary character or another as they reflect on their experiences with him.

The other extra is Heaven's original theatrical trailer (3:14), which uses a lot of voiceover narration and ends with a little bit of text.

The incredibly lazy device of voiceover narration assures girls in the audience Cassie is just like them, so the film's extended metaphor about surviving adolescence will resonate more quickly.

The film is pieced together from outtakes from the long - time documentary filmmaker / cinematographer's extensive body of work, but beyond occasionally hearing her voice behind the camera (and one shot towards the end in which we finally see her face as she points the camera toward herself), Johnson forgoes the safety net of voiceover narration to tie all this footage together.

10,000 BC embroiders the classic coming - of - age, boy - with - a-heroic-destiny legends and lore told around camp fires for millennia with straight - faced, pretentiously sober spirituality, made - up mysticism and reams of voiceover narration (from Omar Sharif).

Not exact matches

«You have that voiceover narration at the beginning of Casino where the narrator explains they were given paradise, and they blew it.

First Cousin Once Removed benefits from the clarity provided by Honig's published poetry, which surfaces in voiceover narration and words on the screen, rendering the undulations of his life in sweeping abstractions.

Writer / director Welles does not appear on camera, but his voiceover narration superbly sets the stage for the movie's action, which fades in valentine fashion on Amberson Mansion, the most ostentatious dwelling in all of turn - of - century Indianapolis.

Then it slogs through a handful of truncated scenes, a few more interviews, yet another time - lapse, more voiceover narration, and finally settles down at a seemingly random point.

If Sono's intention was to get his viewers to examine the subtleties of the film, perhaps he could have kept the voiceover out of it, one of the most overbearing narrations in any recent film.

The personal overwhelms any deeper consideration of the professional in Creation; gimmicky, surface - level grieving and hand - wringing gives way to pitched, plaintive and downright grating voiceover narration, and one just knows at some point that Connelly will look beautiful but get all emotional, screaming and crying about how she's had enough and can't take it anymore.

The most appealing aspect of Submarine is Oliver's self - deprecating voiceover - arguably the most amusing narration since Christina Ricci's similar contribution to The Opposite of Sex.

The voiceover narration and slew of «life lessons» toward the end of the movie threaten to wreck it, but Starter for 10 manages not to take itself too seriously, which is more than can be said for anything Zach Braff has done.

This is a rapturously beautiful and important restoration, complemented by a complex soundtrack that delicately and coherently balances the noises of the film's island setting with the on - screen dialogue with two voiceover narrations with John Barnes's score, which is, itself, an intricate tapestry of the musical heritages of many cultures.

Nichey as voiceovers are (and let's ignore the fact that most trailers forgo narration these days), the story seems to resonate with our vision of the sexist live - action film and television business, one that Bell has been a part of since a couple of 2002 «ER» episodes.

Between the heavy voiceover narration, the multiple literary lectures (Scott Speedman turns up as the teacher who provides the allusions), and the stilted scenes of Bolger and her friends hanging out, the film plays like TV - movie gothic, plodding along to the expected revelations and bloodlettings.

The movie is bookended with cheesy music and bland voiceover narration that feels like it's out of a TV movie.

The film opens pleasantly enough, with voiceover narration by Emma Thompson accompanying an image of the Voyager I spacecraft, the furthest man - made object from earth, hurtling toward the edge of the solar system.

Also removed: a prologue in which medical scans of Lake's brain were accompanied by voiceover narration explaining his condition, a tip of Schrader's hat to the stomach X-ray opening of Kurosawa's Ikiru (a film, and filmmaker, one doubts Schrader's backers have ever heard of).

Braff's voiceover narration tells a story (one we will hear twice more over the course of the film, as if repetition can substitute for actual connection) about Aidan and his brother pretending to be superheroes as children, and realizing that maybe they weren't heroes: maybe they were just regular guys.

Some of the most striking images allow you to draw your own conclusions, free from voiceover narration.

Riffing on the narration - plus - archival - footage technique in «The Price of Gold,» director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) weaves talking - head voiceovers into flashback scenes.

In the course of his research, Lipman finds unexpected visual and thematic rhymes between past and present, cutting together archival clips and present - day interviews with a musician's sense of rhythm, often letting his voiceover narration drop out of the mix as the images and sounds tell their own story.

His decision to hand her the crucial voiceover narration — the sacrosanct domain of so many a private dick, that reflexive phallic fount of wisdom, wisecracks, and exposition — may go a long way toward determining how people react to this film.

The Bakery Girl of Monceau — The first of Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales is a short film about a law student (future director Barbet Schroeder, with voiceover narration by future director Bertrand Tavernier) who sees a pretty woman walk by every day, over-thinks a plan to ask her out, and ends up buying cookies every day waiting to run into the girl again.

The tone of Frear's voiceover narration sounds at first like a fizzy champagne toast to fin de siecle decadence, but the story's tone gradually grows serious, even darker, as it follows the pathway where eroticism crosses into emotion.

For one thing, the voiceover narration isn't limited to Payton, slipping into Carrie's point - of - view as she decides to help him woo Samantha, mostly to divert the dork's attention from herself.

One of many bad choices is having Theron (who fares better the much more energetic «Atomic Blonde») provide leaden voiceover narration.

Still, at least this sloppy brass orgy has a pulse, as opposed to Horner's «mournful theme,» i.e., the one that accompanies the retarded voiceover narration of journalist Jack Burden (Jude Law), which sounds a lot like the piano exit music from the old «Incredible Hulk» TV show.

Davidson says, by way of charming voiceover narration, that she didn't want to be a whiny bitch like the rest of her generation, but she replaces that option with becoming an ungrateful, surly, mortally - broken (by her mother's suicide — fair enough) girl - woman intent on taking camels with her on a trek across some of the most unforgiving terrain on the planet.

In voiceover narration, Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel), our teenaged pipsqueak of a protagonist, introduces us to Berk, an island located on «the Meridian of Misery.»

There's something fundamentally powerful about the film's (and book's) understanding of humankind as the push - and - pull between enslavement and freedom, though the directors are better off expressing its themes in a flurry of gorgeous images than in the overly explicit voiceover narration.

I suppose the original intent of Playing God was to be a neo-noir with a gloss of postmodern hipness, something hinted at by Eugene's coolly detached and «ironic,» if pointless, voiceover narration.

Garland emulates the first - person narration of the novel with Kathy's voiceover in the film.

Tesla at war with Edison's gang of hired goons in a wintry Overlook wonderland is a wondrous fantasia; a story told through twin diaries and a voiceover narration by consummate artist Caine shouldn't work as well as it does (and yet doesn't quite work as well as it might).

It briefly starts in the middle, then returns to the beginning, always proceeding with voiceover narration (some of it wall - breaking) by Spade as Kuzco.

It is definitely lacking the human drama of other dog films that are more fondly remembered (like Old Yeller) and obviously comes without the narration of The Adventures of Milo & Otis and voiceovers of Disney's 1990s Homeward Bound

It doesn't alter much of the first cut (the runtime difference is only a minute), but as the back of the DVD reads, this edition «omits Deckard's voiceover narration, develops in slightly greater detail the romance between Deckard and Rachael (Sean Young) and removes the «uplifting» finale.»

It's too late: it transpires that Frances's voiceover narration (articulated with a breezy omniscience at odds with her neediness) is Legend's equivalent of Joe Gillis's narration in Sunset Boulevard.

A soundtrack of music from the 1960s onwards and voiceover narration by the artist himself provide an insight into P - Orridge's difficult early life and influences, but this is a genuinely moving love story first and foremost.

Though Eisenberg's excessive voiceover narration bogs down the first act, the film quickly evolves into a crackling zombie romp powered by a clever script, goofy physical comedy — the filmmakers get a lot of mileage out of Harrelson's amusingly over-the-top means of dispatching the undead — and the yin - yang comic chemistry of the eternally adorable Eisenberg and good - ol» - boy Harrelson.

Fans of the writer / director will probably eat it up, but any movie that seemingly relies so heavily on a lazy storytelling device like voiceover narration is setting itself up for failure.

The film sets out to do this as well, and generally maintains Nick's viewpoint, through the screen presence or voiceover narration of Sam Waterston.

The first, dread - and tension - inducing scene practically functions as a master - class in tone - setting and world - building on a modest budget, achieved through a relatively straightforward combination of visual composition, natural lighting, and production design and not exposition (e.g., dialogue, voiceover narration).

With a healthy sense of caffeinated advocacy and voiceover narration from Jason Bateman, A Lego Brickumentary delves into the $ 4 billion Lego brand, who manufacture an astonishing 100,000 pieces per minute.

I can't participate in any kind of lengthy discussion about Lovely Bones, there are just so many more things I would rather be doing... but on your point Kurt about voiceover narration hammering things home... how about its reference to the title of the movie... My God.

Reeves breaks that silence with on - the - nose narration that, at times, invites unfavorable comparisons to Harrison Ford «s stilted voiceover in the first cut of «Blade Runner.»

That said, while in no way begrudging John Huston's prologue narration and John Hurt's standout rendering of the Horned King, I respect an old school Disney movie that uses professional voiceover actors and not the boldface names of the moment to bring its characters to life, notably the great John Byner as Gurgi, a Gollum - like troublemaker.