Sentences with phrase «roving camera»

Though it has all the crackling energy and wit of many a»70s political thriller (with an unusually mobile, roving camera for a Spielberg drama), the movie boils down to a single stately moment, one in which a woman asserts her authority in a way that even her male subordinates, who technically report to her, are unprepared for.

Director of Photography Barry Sonnenfeld's roving camera features rapid - moving shots reminiscent of the original Evil Dead (1981), which is apt seeing as the director of that film, Sam Raimi, was an early Coen collaborator.

Louvart's roving camera compliments the tense atmosphere by gliding alongside Frankie's experiences.

Cassevetian in form, especially from his «70s period (though Perry also loves the close - ups of «Faces»), «Listen Up Philip» often features an aggressively roving camera not afraid of intruding into the face and never too concerned with focus.

Sean Price Williams» constantly roving camera finds the perfect balance between gritty vérité and trippy absurdity.

First time writer - director Peter Landesman keeps the energy level low, which may test the attention - spans of many in the audience, as his style, which emphasizes a lot of roving cameras and close - ups, is so subdued that it plays almost like a detached, mood piece instead of an explosive series of events that rocked the world.

The restlessly roving camera (a comment I wrote in the dark about 20 minutes in) is an apt metaphor for a movie that is just all over the place.

The endlessly roving camera only adds to the feeling of immersion, putting you smack in the middle of this orchestrated chaos.

Retired NASA astronaut David Wolf articulates the sensation of disembodiment affected by space travel, while Rose's roving camera floats through the room to follow astronauts into a zero - gravity simulation tank, with the film's audio intermittently filtered through a pool of water.

Directionality is emphasized throughout, with dialogue travelling across the front speakers as the roving camera moves through a scene.

These observations ignore, however, the assured confidence of Spielberg's direction: he shoots the dialogue in this film like a series of action set pieces, his camera restless and constantly in service of his actors, Michael Kahn's editing matching his roving camera beat for beat.

For all of the production problems, Fincher's vision is still eye - catching, with a roving camera, claustrophobic environs, gothic stylistics, and an overriding tone of bleakness and despair.

The roving cameras endlessly showcase the ladies letting loose on the dancefloor, engaging in same - sex kissing and rubbing and wriggling their behinds in unapologetically lascivious widescreen closeups.»

There's a truly awful narration that feels tacked on at inopportune moments, and Hardwicke's restless, roving camera could stand to take a breather every now and again.

His moodier, more emotionally credible take on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban nearly single - handedly saved the entire film franchise from the excruciating tedium of Chris Columbus (to those who hate on the film but gush over the subsequent installments: is it not obvious how the later films ditched the static camera and homely reds and golds from Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets in favor of aping Cuarón's more haunting color palette and roving camera?).

A few inspired cinematic choices — a roving camera, an unexpected book - ending of the fourth act — help to breathe life into a stodgy narrative.

Michael Mayer's take on the classic play features a stellar cast, a roving camera, and plenty of subtext.

And the relatively fleet melodrama The Merchant of Four Seasons would hardly serve as a key text for demonstrating Fassbinder's brilliant ability to mount lengthy, unbroken sequences featuring a roving camera.

The roving camera seamlessly switches from a handheld fly - on - the - wall style with which it traces the line of political argument and manipulation, to the intensive use of the extreme close - up — all the better to capture the general's wild - eyed battle fury, whether directed at the Volscians or at the Roman people.

Saturated in Altman's typical style including a roving camera and his predilection for overlapping dialogue, The Long Goodbye is a stalwart of the revisionist cinema of the 70's, completely entertaining and truly deserving of the term «classic.»

Much of the suspense in Dino Crisis is provided via a roving camera that often catches the gamer off guard with crazy angles.