Word: filmic
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...progenitor of all this filmic frenzy is a boyishly easygoing New England native who sets to work each morning to the accompaniment of blaring rock music...
...right to show films on mutilation of Nazi or South African prison inmates to a class of medical students, but such an act is considered so monstrous that it would cause outrage. Because a practice is "widespread" (as is sadistic assault in this country) does not justify a filmic academic presentation to a college classroom...
...spared in Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's seven-hour misty epic, Our Hitler, least of all the audience. Syberberg seeks to resurrect Hitler and pit him against the world he left behind--a filmic judgment day for Der Fuhrer--and the audience is forced to look into its own eyes. Confusion. No connections. No conclusions. "The results are exhilarating, confounding, and not at all closeended," critic David A. Rosse from the University of California at Berkeley, correctly pointed out. Ultimately, your judgment of Syberberg's Hitler hinges on how you judge your most intimate self...
...right to show films on mutilation of Nazi or South African prison inmates to a class of medical students, but such an act is considered so monstrous that it would cause outrage. Because a practice is "widespread" (as is sadistic assault in this country) does not justify a filmic academic presentation to a college classroom...
...American dope smuggler in the hellish prisons of a Middle Eastern country and his eventual escape make up the plot of Alan Parker's shattering new film, Midnight Express, but to so limit the description of the movie is something akin to samming up Citizen Kane as the filmic biography of a newspaper magnate. Like all extraordinary movies based on real people or actual events, Midnight Express has boldly transcended the limits of its true-life story to bring forth a larger-than-life refinement. The five-year incarceration of Billy Hayes becomes an inspiring epic of one very ordinary...