However, PROTOTYPE's 63 minute running time does feel quite long, which only feels longer by the amount of
times the film fades to black.
And by
the time the film fades out, you find yourself eagerly awaiting not the next chapter so much as his next trilogy, the one he gets to construct from the Lucasfilm - approved ground up.
Not exact matches
In a
time when most movies are little more than
filmed deals that can spend millions of dollars on elaborate special effects sequences that
fade from the mind almost as soon as they play out, he has created some of the most bizarre, hilarious, haunting and memorable imagery that I have ever seen in a
film — who could forget the sight of beer baroness Isabella Rossellini standing upon artificial legs filled with her own product in «The Saddest Music in the World,» or the horses stuck in the middle of a frozen river in «My Winnipeg»?
For all of the Farrelly shtick, it's Carrey that provides the right tone and
timing for the
film, with every other character seeming to
fade into nothingness around him.
The
film spans an extensive 12 years of
time, and uses cuts and slow
fades to transition from years to year, with title cards ranging from «2 Years Later» to «4 Years Later».
Last Night
fades in on 6 p.m. of what we soon discover will be the last day before the complete obliteration of the planet (a specific reason is never given though the
film does draw attention to the fact that night has not existed for some
time).
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Such flourishes soon
fade in favor of a fairly straightforward, tense
film spending
time both inside and outside the diner.
But often
times, it's but a snapshot of the adolescent moments that will ultimately inform a character later on, and the
film often
fades out long before the transition from childhood to adulthood.
Visually stunning, well acted, but altogether too silly and far - fetched to really resonate, the
film lacks the emotional heft, enormous sense of personal loss or sense of
time from Reiner's
film, and for a
film so preoccupied with its central character's inability to forget or escape the past, it
fades into memory all too quickly.
Sort of interesting to see a consensus develop on these
films (though I think with more
time, the «magic» of Slumdog will
fade), especially The Lives of Others, which I feared would be unjustly known as «the movie that stole Pan's Labyrinth's Oscar.»
This leaves us feeling warm and thoughtful, even if the
film ultimately
fades from memory in about the
time it takes for the lights to come up in the cinema.
Every
time I've revisited A Perfect World since (and I've been compelled to revisit it at least once every few years), as Costner's star has
faded and Eastwood's elder statesmanhood behind the camera has somehow dwarfed his iconhood in front of it, I feel the melancholy nostalgia of the
film more and more.
A pastiche of action - movie pyrotechnics (
film the explosion from three angles and use all of them — in fact, show the explosion blossom and
fade from the front, then again in from the side, and then again from behind), this style creates a hyperbolic effect of maximum impact, all the
time.
With abrupt cuts in music, jumpy editing that includes needless insertions of old images and footage, and random
fading to black, the
film feels a bit all over the place at
times.
One of the strangest facts about In the
Fade, Germany's submission for Best Foreign Language
Film, is that it's the first
time German actress Diane Kruger starred in a
film made entirely in the German language.
Moonrise Kingdom is the kind of witty, original script that has often fared well in this category (e.g. Juno, Midnight in Paris) and Wes Anderson is over ten years due for an Oscar, but again the
timing is against this, as all the
film's buzz seems to have
faded by now.
Regardless over how many days, weeks, or months they take place, these are
films that move in historical
time; their grand subject is the
fading of epochs, the birth of nations, and the passage of entire generations from innocence to disillusionment.
It is another
film that will
fade into obscurity by the
time the summer blockbusters begin their battle for predominance at the box office.
Whether seeking remembrance of a city's
fading past or reflecting on nature's fugitive atmospheric effects, Hutton sculpts with
time; each
film unfolds in silent reverie, with a series of extended single shots taken from a fixed position, harking back to cinema's origins and to traditions of painting and still photography.
Jonas Mekas (selected by writer, artist, and publisher Phong Bui) with his
time -
faded, poignant diaristic
films.