Word: filmically
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...faithful to the original throughout, with thankfully little narration (delivered when necessary in the melodious tones of Kevin Kline). Unfortunately, the movie's salvation is also its biggest problem. In preserving the integrity of the ballet, director Emile Ardolino, of "Dirty Dancing" fame, has done little that is terribly filmic. Although the camera's close range lets one see the dancers' facial expressions and the beautiful costumes, the set is surprisingly unimaginative, and fails to take advantage of the medium. The whole movie looks like a well-done stage version on film, and in fact, it is. It was filmed...
...soon began drawing scenes on sheets of paper and flipping the pages to create crudely animated "movies." During his senior year in high school, inspired by an English teacher with a passion for good writing, he decided on an alternate route to filmmaking: screenwriting. He enrolled in the Filmic Writing Program at the University of Southern California. "Any fool can figure where to point the camera," he says. "But you have to have a story to tell...
...Elvis, though a failure in the ratings, deconstructed the rock king's life into fresh, evocative snippets of biodrama. Fox's The Simpsons put an off-kilter, animated spin on TV's portrayal of the family, while Fox's The Outsiders, at least in its early episodes, brought filmic texture and subtlety to a potentially cliched drama of small-town adolescence...
Perhaps, you may be saying that I have taken the wrong viewpoint: the question to ask is, what is the best thing about this movie? Well, there are some features of this film that are less lame than the generally acrid level of badness that pervades the filmic vomit that is The Couch Trip. For example, Walter Matthau's hair is, at one point in the film, realistically disheveled: congrats to the hairdresser. Also, there is a brief scene in which the camera lingers on a TV screen featuring Chevy Chase in a hilarious cameo, selling condoms in a commercial...
...mastered it better than Industrial Light & Magic, the special-effects division of George Lucas' Lucasfilm Ltd. Some moviegoers may miss the old days, when subtleties of character and story seemed to matter more. Indeed, American movies can no longer claim undisputed pre-eminence in the world of filmic art, as they could during the 1930s and '40s. But for sheer technical dazzle, U.S. filmmakers are clearly setting the international standard, with Industrial Light & Magic at the forefront...