Sentences with phrase «take camerawork»

Featuring stunning single - take camerawork, a cryptically beautiful winter setting, and a grueling, intense performance from Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant often crosses over from «just a movie» to a fully engulfing experience that grabs you by the throat.

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The latter describes a single shot in the film as a «55 - minute tour de force of sustained mobile camerawork to rival such one - take wonders as Russian Ark — and in 3 - D, to boot.

The microscopic budget, lack of a soundtrack, simple camerawork, and long takes raise the stakes.

From its opening scene slowly falling down Violet's closet in a continuous panning shot that makes her hat boxes and skin - tight dresses seem more like a modern city than a wardrobe, Bound quickly proves itself as a tightly constructed (and unexpectedly funny) lesbian noir with incredible camerawork, solid acting by the entire cast and tight pacing that'll keep you feeling empathizing with Violet, Corky and Caesar as their high - stakes game take several reversals of fortune.

«The Black Stallion» inspired plenty of kiddie animal movies, but it's deeper impression is in films that try to recreate that feeling of being a child through intimate camerawork and editing that simulates how the mind takes in information.

It's an impressive piece of camerawork and seems to imply that the film will takes us into the lives of all the characters we see in passing, rich, poor, young, old alike.

Hoffman, who helmed the production, doesn't do much to revolutionise the art of filmmaking, but he undoubtedly succeeds in telling the story in a seamless fashion, allowing the characters and narrative to take precedence over fancy camerawork.

Dark and repetitive, the action sequences are routine and incomprehensible (Even a faux one - take siege on the terrorist headquarters doesn't make much sense on a logistical level, because director Babak Najafi just wants to show off the gimmicky camerawork).

Though the movie takes place in the homes of two seventeen - year - old women, intricate camerawork and editing using shot - reverse - shot techniques to close in on first one speaker and then the next help to open the play for the big screen.

Stylistically, Mungiu's preference for long takes and rugged handheld camerawork remains intact, it's just that the slender facts in this particular case (since it's yet another film «based on true events») can't even begin to withstand the mammoth weight of a 150 - minute running time.

Coogler is clearly a professional filmmaker, using pump - up training montages and enveloping camerawork to make the audience feel the hits Adonis takes in the ring (whether it be through quick - cut editing or long takes).

Adonis» two main bouts are against fighters of color — the first, played by real - life boxer Gabriel Rosado, is edited as an extended take with exhilarating camerawork that sails around and between the pugilists.

The reasonably - coherent and sensible action scenes interspersed throughout the film are replaced by a full - scale battle, a swirl of mud - brown and grey with the kind of shoddy camerawork and random editing we've come to take as normal from 21st century Hollywood.

Drawing from Franco's loosely connected short stories about his posh Northern California hometown, Palo Alto renders moneyed angst and ennui in vogueish hues: woozy camerawork, fractured dialogue, lo - fi indie - pop, perilous drug use, and long takes of kohl - eyed, clear - skinned faces brooding, sulking, and puking into bushes.

Director Andrzej Bartkowiak imbues Doom with the same sort of flashy camerawork that has become his trademark, though he takes things one step further by bathing the movie in almost ceaseless darkness.

Director Gerardo Naranjo admittedly does a superb job of initially drawing the viewer into the proceedings, as the filmmaker has infused Miss Bala with an engrossing and consistently inventive visual style that proves impossible to resist - with the movie's striking appearance heightened by Mátyás Erdély's often jaw - dropping camerawork (ie fans of widescreen cinematography and / or long takes will be especially captivated).

This won't replace the 1939 Laurence Olivier - Merle Oberon classic as the definitive screen take, but Arnold's atmospheric direction and the stunning camerawork by Robbie Ryan (who won several international awards for his lensing) help counteract a certain degree of lethargy in a respectable retelling that fails to scale any new heights.

It doesn't help that some of the clumsiest camerawork takes place right at the start, in which a conversation between Alexandra and her best friend and colleague, Sin - Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez), is chopped into an awkward, shot - reverse - shot sequence (the widescreen lens isn't helpful in the interior scenes).

Not only does it stand in complete juxtaposition to the horrors taking place and the crisp static camerawork, it's a metaphor for her psychosis, subtly suggesting to us Kate's gonna learn a thing or two about playing by the book.

Married to the swooning, hypnotic camerawork that has been the hallmark of Park's collaboration with DP Chung Chung since Oldboy, it has about it the perversity of a Victorian chamber drama squeezed through the filter of a very Korean take on class and sex — attitudes partly shaped by living in the shadow of one of the two or three most unstable regimes in the world.

The birthday - party sequence, which takes up roughly the first third of the movie, is a formal tour de force; Marston uses glancing, nervous camerawork to foreground Alice's restlessness and Tom's anxiety, all the while juggling half a dozen other guests with consummate ease.

Scott's choppy camerawork takes some getting used to, and his lackadaisical, slow - motion style does make the film feel as if it is going nowhere for a while.

Too Late — Filmed on 35 mm in five 20 + minute takes and presented theatrically exclusively on 35, Too Late is filled with the kind of camerawork and technical wizardry that film geeks / purists live for.

The uncomplicated yet ingeniously knotted plot takes a classic noir murder — a man killing his lover's husband so they can be together — strips away the genre clichés and infuses the film with the introspective moodiness, dynamic camerawork, unadorned location shots, and stylized but emotionally naked performances that would become a hallmark of the New Wave pictures that followed by Francois Truffaut, Jean - Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer and Malle himself.

I took away a good amount of amusement from the game's nutty, gloriously over-the-top interludes; the larger than life fight sequences and lively camerawork were very entertaining, engaging me and inspiring me to root for the good guys like the best overblown action films do.