Example sentences for: filmmaking

How can you use “filmmaking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • His hand-held camera zigs and zags among the actors and technicians, embracing the hubbub in the post-Altman manner of HBO's brilliant The Larry Sanders Show . He relishes the communal aspect of filmmaking: the near-familial bickering, the post-shoot potluck suppers.

  • But the medium-budget, artisanal, personal filmmaking of the early '70s soon gave way to grander visions.

  • More hype for Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan . The opening scene is "an overture of pure cinema" and the climax an "almost unbearably thrilling firefight and demonstration of peak-form filmmaking."

  • Tortured by headaches and nosebleeds, he lives a life of fractions and spinning tangents, and the metaphors are right there in the filmmaking, captured in the furious montage and in flurries of talismanic signs--the swirls of milk dissolving in a coffee cup, the smoke spiraling off a cigarette.

  • Despite great filmmaking, including a virtuosic single-shot opening scene, Brian De Palma's latest thriller is pronounced a failure.


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