Sentences with phrase «poetic war film»

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The breathtaking, richly eloquent, and visually - poetic film - deliberately filmed at a slow pace - about space travel and the discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence (many years before Star Wars (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)-RRB-, was based on the published 1951 short story The Sentinel, written in 1948 by English science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.

Monitor film critic Peter Rainer called «Wind,» which was billed as Miyazaki's final film and the story of which is partly based on fighter plane designer Jiro Horikoshi's life, «visually as beautiful as anything he's ever done,» though he noted that «the collision between poetic fancifulness and grim reality, between peace and war, never falls into focus.»

THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT, based on the novel of the same name by Ron Rash, is a poetic, savage film about the presence of the past asserting itself in the present as events in 1970s North Carolina are tinged with the repercussions of the Civil War battles fought there a century before.

And the adventurous English critic Raymond Durgnat devotes most of the final chapter of his first book, the 1967 Films and Feelings, to the film, finding its story a reflection of American attitudes during the cold war and appreciating, with some critical reservations, its «moral suspense» as well as its poetic imagery.

Using the recurrent imagery of the sea, the film sweeps the viewer into a poetic meditation on the ebb and flow of self and stranger, love and hate, war and peace, xenophobe and xenophile.