In many ways, they transcended the possibilities laid out for them with the follow - up, from
the opening frames of the film to second scene in the end credits — which some are calling the best post-credits scene ever.
Not exact matches
In a highlight
film of his career that was shown at a testimonial dinner for him last year, Marino appears on camera, full
frame, with a few earnest
opening remarks about how he'd like to be remembered as a team man who worked as hard as he could, and as a team leader, etc..
After some
opening images — a shadowy blond figure, complete with trench coat and heels, dumping a corpse off a bridge — that immediately
frame its tale
of moneyed madness through the greasy lens
of B - movie schlock, the
film moves to an aging Durst (here renamed David Marks and played by Ryan Gosling) on the witness stand.
Yet Werwie also
opened up about the
framing device
of the
film, which he believes allows Kloepfer's perspective and beliefs to actually rule the story.
Without the emotional gut punch that seemed to come in every
frame of Mungiu's masterpiece 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days, this picture truly
opens up on multiple viewings, and with its eyes set to the heavens, the
film seems Hell bent on questioning their existence entirely.
In what turned out to be one
of the highlights at this year's CinemaCon was the stunning, 10 minute footage from Peter Jackson's new movie, the epic 3D
film adaptation
of Tolkien's The Hobbit (which
opens December 14) that was shot at a
frame rate
of 48 per second achieving an unprecedented combination
of uniformity and brightness.
Focused only slightly differently is «San Andreas: The Real Fault Line» (6 mins., HD), which spends its
opening moments very superficially discussing the real threat
of earthquakes in California before delving into the production tricks behind the
film's earth - shaking scenes, like a restaurant set designed so that everything visible in the
frame is shaking except the floor itself, since it was being prowled by a Steadicam operator.
Throughout the course
of the
film, there is
open space at the top and bottom
of the
frame.
Bolstered by the $ 132.4 million that the
film made domestically in its
opening three - day
frame, Deadpool made an additional $ 132.3 million in its debut in foreign territories, ending its weekend with a global cume
of $ 264.7 million.
Consider a frankly gorgeous tableau late in the
film as three people meet in Melbourne's National Gallery
of Victoria:
framed against an
open space, Michôd allows an extra beat, then another, before continuing with his family gothic.
This time he alludes to the art - cinema context much more directly by
opening with music from Francois Truffaut's Jules and Jim and evoking the form
of that
film with offscreen narration (delivered by Baumbach himself) recounting the story in past tense and with old - fashioned devices such as irises and wipes and French New Wave devices such as fantasy inserts, fleeting flashbacks, freeze -
frames, and jump cuts.
The very first aerial shot
of the
film suggests this is an
open - matte presentation, as fast - moving helicopter blades find their way into the top
of the
frame.
Extras include an alternate
opening that recaps the events
of The Exorcist through freeze -
frames and Burton voiceover — a 2 - minute prologue whipped up for the TV version
of the
film; teaser and theatrical trailers for Exorcist II: The Heretic; and filmographies for Blair, Burton, Boorman, and screenwriter William Goodhart.
The central motif, played gently at first on a harp and then far more disconcertingly on a scratchy, Scandinavian hardanger fiddle, is the perfect accompaniment for the
opening of the
film: the snow - white screen, on which we gradually make out a bird in flight, and then the approaching car,
framed by vertical telephone poles (another inverse nod to The Third Man)?
Tsui sets his avoidance dances in confined spaces (tiny apartments, backstage dressing rooms), but To's are set out in the
open: a fountain in a public park, a street corner, a sidewalk (a similarly choreographed scene plays out as well early in Romancing in Thin Air, itself a kind
of compendium
of all
of To's romantic comedies, where Sammi Cheng and Louis Koo wander outside the grounds
of the hotel, oblivious to each others» presence despite occupying the same
film frame).
From the
opening frames of the trailer, it's clear the
film features a fight to the death between man and machine.
From a screenplay by Josh Campbell, Michael Stuecken and Whiplash's Damien Chazelle, the
film revolves around the character
of Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a young woman who, from the
opening few
frames, seems to be going through a messy break - up with her boyfriend, Ben (voiced by none other than Bradley Cooper).
The
opening frames of Jackie lead one to believe they're about to see a horror
film.
Most movies from the big U.S. studios would doubtlessly provide responses in short order, but «The American» is content to leave many things — including a clearer explanation
of what unfolds in the
film's
opening frames — left unsaid and unanswered.
Nearly every shot in the
film could be
framed and hung on a wall as Lubezki makes maximum use
of the wide
frame and raw,
open country.
Though the 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer
of the
film (full -
frame version sold separately) starts out looking scuffed, the speckles clear up after the
opening credits — but then edge - enhancement intrudes, and there's a bizarre lapse in quality during chapter 6, when intermittent shots lose so much definition as to suggest second - generation VHS.
Framed by the conceit that Cinderella's vermin - pals want to write a storybook about their favourite human, Cinderella II
opens with a strange section aping Rebecca, continues with a strange section aping It's A Wonderful Life, and concludes with a misguided apologia
of the original
film's Disney - patented subtext
of «beauty makes right.»
Eden was, to my mind, the finest
film in the strongest collection
of Seattle and Washington - born and - based filmmaking ever screened at SIFF, in a line - up that was
framed by
opening night
film Your Sister's Sister (from hometown hero Lynn Shelton, whose recent work put independent Seattle filmmaking on the map) and closing night
film Grassroots, shot in Seattle and based on the book by former Stranger political reporter Phil Campbell.
Nonetheless,
framing issues were hard to spot, so it's either an
open matte transfer, or a mild cropping
of a not very wide
film.
Growing pains in the form
of broken hearts and drunken benders take on added import when the state
of the union is involved,
of course, but Whitaker wisely takes the edge off by
framing his
film like a fairytale, complete with «Once upon a time»
opening and wise - old - storyteller closing.
There are in fact four time
frames represented in the
film, but like a pink cake box that falls
open, perfectly flat, at the pull
of a ribbon, it dispenses with the present - day shell quickly and efficiently and in maybe the least original way possible: with the
opening and closing
of a book, entitled «The Grand Budapest Hotel.»
As a director (Franco has directed more than a dozen
films), Franco has a keen sense
of storytelling, and
frames «The Disaster Artist» with appreciation for «The Room,»
opening with a host
of famous faces talking about the
film and closing with recreations
of key scenes paired side - by - side with the originals.
It is a notably unsettled experience for the audience, as director Robert Greene chooses to anchor the
film on a sort
of framing device,
opening the
film on Kate in wardrobe on the day she will shoot her climactic scene, and then constantly revisiting it as she builds her character.
This isn't such a bad thing in itself but Black's hectic filmmaking style in the
opening twenty minutes - a chaotic blend
of flashbacks, freeze -
frames, visual trickery and self - conscious quirks - almost sinks the
film before it has begun.
Like the
opening of the
film, the trailer is
framed by narration which is punctuated by the swish pans to each character, followed by a few lines
of dialogue from them.
Lisa Hoke fills a gallery with colored
film stretched on
open frames, as if a kite had cloned itself until running out
of space.
«
Framed in an
Open Window» presents a selection
of five works — a sound piece and four 35 and 16 mm
films — displayed across the South London Gallery's two newest spaces.