Word: motioning
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...sultry rumba with him at the film’s aesthetic climax. It’s easy to relish their pairing, sharply choreographed and luxuriantly filmed in a suffusion of yellow light. It’s harder to understand what impelled Chelsom to edit the dance by periodically slowing motion to a crawl—a technique better suited for action sequences in films like The Matrix. Whenever it speeds up again Lopez’s neck whips across the screen, evoking back pain as much as passion...
...trial, originally set for last November, was pushed back because of a the defense’s pre-trial motion to change the trial venue to western Massachusetts to avoid a biased jury in Cambridge. The court denied that motion...
Likening the array of political films to a “motion picture media bouillabaisse being offered up to the American public,” McElwee observes that the problem of “real documentary” is increasingly irrelevant...
Lawyers for Pring-Wilson on Friday called for a mistrial in light of the jury’s confusion, but Quinlan immediately dismissed the motion. Yesterday she said her clarification, along with the transcript of her original instructions, should be sufficient to clear up any of the jurors’ remaining questions...
Jack Valenti, the firebrand longtime head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), was never one to mince words. As the movie industry's chief lobbyist, he knew how to portray his business's challenges in dramatic terms. Back in the 1980s, faced with new technology that supposedly threatened the studios' bottom line, Valenti once famously compared the VCR to the Boston Strangler...