Word: awe
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...masochistic form of animation known as stop motion, in which plasticine puppets on miniature film sets must be adjusted 24 times for every second of film. A live-action feature has perhaps 500 shots; this 82-min. movie has 118,080. "The detail is astonishing," says Lord, still in awe of his colleagues' industry 28 years after co-founding the studio. "There must be more man-hours per film frame here than in anything else known to man." The art of the Aardmen and -women is to make years of hard work look easy. Viewers don't see the pain...
Almost all those who know Grove intimately describe his intensity with a mixture of awe and admiration...
What else could be said about a show that regularly features the host and his sidekick engaged in silent staring contests as the audience looks on in awe...
...Jordan movie--a star chat interspersed with clips from his final NBA playoff drive--has an adoring tone and the familiar slo-mo, wide-angle baskebatics. For higher highs and cooler thrills, go Cirque. The Montreal-based art circus has finally made a film that captures the joy and awe of shows like Quidam, Mystere and O by placing Cirque du Soleil's most enthralling acts in natural settings: a bungee ballet in a forest; a living-statue duet in a Renaissance pool; the graceful intricacy of swimmers locking into Busby Berkeley designs underwater in the Bahamas. The performers' precision...
Warning to consummate - indeed competent - professional actresses: do not hope for recognition at Cannes. Instead, the nod will go to clueless amateurs who display their bodies or souls in so raw a manner that the jury will mistake pity for awe and give them the prize. Von Trier had earlier declared that Bjork was no actress, as if those who'd seen the film needed reminding. But Besson and the jury, which included oughta-know-better actors Jeremy Irons and Kristin Scott Thomas, didn't take the hint...