Word: filmically
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...Rebirth raises a concern many film historians have had concerning the recutting and recombination of films in “director’s cuts” and “special editions.” Is there anything sacred about the filmic art form? Can we draw a line between sacrificing the artist’s vision and reimagining a work...
Alternately celebrated as a filmic masterpiece and reviled as racist propaganda, The Birth of a Nation has forged its place in America’s cinematic, social, and political history. Originally titled The Clansman, after Reverend Thomas Dixon Jr.’s 1905 play on which the film is based, the film’s adopted title does little to hide its true subject, a three-hour epic of the Civil War, post-war Southern Reconstruction, and development of the Ku Klux Klan...
...novice performers overplay their roles with “look-Ma-I’m-actin’ glee,” while the veterans are simply badly directed. Keitel identifies part of the filmic problem when he yells Travolta that he can’t just come into the music business and expect everyone to fall all over themselves for this former wiseguy, because everyone in this business is a wiseguy...
...camera that seems to glide across the traditional Japanese interiors with neither rhyme nor reason; he uses frequent long takes with symbolic tableaux in the foreground and complex interactions occurring in the background. Shimizu takes this potent philosophical notion and maximizes it’s potential for a startling filmic effect; at least, for the first 30 minutes...
Traditional moviemaking, a toy of the Industrial Revolution, was a cumbersome machine from the start and remained so for a century. To a generation that got its visual schooling in front of the small, teeming screens of PCs and PlayStation 2s, the old filmic quest to make movies seem like real life, only cooler, is as anachronistic as a telegram in the e-mail age. Now a generation of directors is moving from analog to digital. They want to make films that hit the delete button on reality--films whose highest aspiration is to be cartoons...