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Brief parts, like the soothsayer's and the cobbler's, are memorably played.
If Errol Morris, the wonderfully unconventional auteur responsible for such disarmingly offbeat documentaries as "Gates of Heaven," "Vernon, Florida," and "A Brief History of Time," decided to make a deceptively ordinary "average people who've been abducted by aliens and thoroughly examined by them relate their experiences on film" type of speculative UFO documentary it would probably be a lot like this engagingly quirky little winner.
THE DYING GAUL, written and directed by Craig Lucas (writing credits include 'Longtime Companion', 'Prelude to a Kiss', 'Reckless') is a brilliant little film that stirred comment and appreciation during its unfortunately very brief run in the theaters (as one of the film's characters comments "Most Americans hate gay people.
"Ride Clear of Diablo" director Jesse Hibbs and "Saskatchewan" scenarist Gil Doud has fashioned a solid, unpretentious combat movie that opens with a brief prologue about our protagonist and the rigors that he endured as a teenager.
Other then the fantastic villain of Armand Assante and the very brief reference to Aztec culture this film went where it shouldn't have.
Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne meets an old love of his, Andrea, and old wounds are opened over a brief and untimely ended engagement.
I rented this movie with no knowledge of the film or the comments here only the brief summary on the back of the DVD.
Diana Lee Inosanto shows brief glimpses of fighting talent; Brynn Lucas (as the hero's daughter) is hot; I wouldn't mind seeing either of them again, in something better - which essentially means, in anything else.
On the 99th anniversary of the Spanish American war and the most famous land battle of that brief said war, John Millius wrote and directed a stirring tribute to the First Volunteer Cavalry.
We see him in some sort of rehabilitation school for about a minute, then a brief meeting with a therapist, (assuming she will be a major character in the piece), who is never seen or heard from again.
Anna Biller,in addition to acting as the film's central female lead,Barbi,also wore several hats in the production of this campy period piece (she wrote,directed & edited the film,in addition to set design & even supervising a brief animation sequence,where Barbi is experiencing her first real orgasm, while on some kind of psychedelic drug).The plot concerns a young,suburban housewife who's loutish husband ignores,and eventually abandons her,only to leave her to experimenting with her new found sexual self,including swingers,hippies,etc.
Thankfully the Jerry Lewis cameo was brief.
And it has brief full-frontal male nudity by an unknown actor at the beginning, worth a look alone since it happens so rarely in American films.
Disaster comedy has a brief shelf life, and Tacy's moronic antics go sour in a hurry.
The movie also creates an entire subplot about another character that was left completely unresovled save for a brief glimpse of a picture of what may happen to her, and the end credits put over snapshots of the happy couple seemed entirely too smarmy for a movie that's supposed to be "Happily Ever After THE END".
When the really gory deaths occur there is a freeze frame and sometimes a brief drop to black.
The secondary story involving her father never meshes with the main story, and the brief scenes with the lead character's friends sharing conversation at a table don't reveal anything, other than an off-putting smugness in the dialogue.
De Oliveira belongs to a shrinking number of living filmmakers identifiable from a brief sequence, a few frames, of any film.
'Gregory's Girl' was clearly filmed between Spring and early Autumn and there's one enduringly beautiful scene where Dorothy plays keep-up with a soccer ball, shot against the maternally basking backdrop of urban Glasgow, whilst a haunting saxophone laments and chases the fading daylight, bemoaning the inevitable and eventual closure of our younger years, brief and fleeting as the scene itself.
We do not like to be bothered unless we are bored, or tired, in which case we want to communicate with the outside world for a brief period of time, then after one hour or so we want to go back inside ourselves again and be left alone.
The adaptation is quite true to the tone and spirit of the original work, even with the necessary truncation imposed by the brief length.
Though her opening scenes playing Billie as a teenager are silly and unconvincing, Ross delivers a riveting performance for the most part, guided by her Svengali Berry Gordy, who makes a brief cameo appearance as a drug dealer.
There was a brief flourishing during the Seventies of using the Negev desert in Israel as location for the filming of westerns.
There were glaring anomalies in the story line and the original theory of how the sub had reappeared after being missing for forty-odd years was completely ignored at the end (apart from a brief display of mysterious lightning).
There are a few brief, but nice boobie scenes, some of which are ruined by the special effects, but you can't catch this film just for those.
There's a reason some films go "straight to video" instead of even making a brief attempt at theatrical release.
(For an update on the story see Altman's The Player) Kirk Douglas (at the absolute top of his game here) plays the S.O.B. producer, Lana Turner (in that brief moment between the baby fat and middle age that seemed to overtake her so swiftly) as the cynical, hard-drinking, vulnerable, showbiz outcast, near ex-actress, Barry Sullivan as the neophyte director looking for a break, Walter Pidgeon as the bottomline fixated studio head, and Dick Powell as the Pulitzer prize winning author and font of high quality original material.
Perhaps I may not have understood many of the jokes that seemed to come from the anti-French sediment in the United States during the brief period this film was made, and I do mean brief.
This film was a real snooze-fest interrupted by brief flashes of action.
Next: In brief but numerous flashbacks they show the relationship between Pete and Melquiades as a deep one of mutual trust and affection.
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