Example sentences for: filmmaking

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

  • 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.


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