Along
the way cinema scenes allow the story to unfold.
Not exact matches
The type of character I have long been waiting to see onscreen, he's both familiar and novel, and his presence gives
way to moments heretofore unthinkable in mainstream
cinema, like the museum
scene, which would make Martinican poet Aimé Césaire proud, as it seems like the direct illustration of a paragraph from «Discourse on Colonialism.»
(That wedding night, by the
way, is one of
cinema's odder sex
scenes, with the two of them hissing at each other like cats.)
Heat (Michael Mann, 1995) The diner
scene alone, where heavyweights Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro face off (for the first time in
cinema history) would be enough to put Heat on the list, but the whole heist and cat - and - mouse story holds up all the
way through.
the immensity of pondering close - ups on both women, the shots behind all types of blurry glass, the observational camera, the silences... and that last
scene, those last shots... i stayed on my seat until the very end of the credits and on my
way out two women were kissing long and hard in the
cinema and they couldn't care less if the usher had put the lights up and wanted to clean the place.
But while Haigh, thirty - seven when he made Weekend, worked his
way up the ranks of British
cinema — he was an assistant to Ismail Merchant and worked as an assistant editor with Ridley Scott — his sensibility has more in common with the realist tendencies of the contemporary American independent
scene, in particular the naturalistic intimacy and political intent of filmmakers like Kelly Reichardt and Ramin Bahrani.