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Example sentences for: filmmaking
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Rush Hour, the first real Jackie Chan picture crafted for the American market, is a terrific piece of junk filmmaking.
Critics praise director Ken Loach's departure from agitprop filmmaking: "a pleasant surprise--there's no overt political content" just "a delightful, heartwarming, grown-up love story" (Jonathan Foreman, the New York Post ) about a recovering alcoholic in Glasgow, Scotland, putting his life back together.
But then I'd be swept up in the sinuous motion of his filmmaking, in the elation of watching point of view passed like a baton from hand to hand, in the liberating force of his language and soundtrack.
This is not because the notices have been uniformly glowing--it's been some time since a Scorsese picture won unanimous praise from reviewers--but because Scorsese remains, almost uniquely among American directors, an embodiment of the beleaguered idea that filmmaking, and therefore film criticism, can be a serious, important, life-and-death matter.
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.