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Living high on success while fancying himself a political entrepreneur, he's about to close a lucrative partnership deal with the Yanks when the Irish Republican Army, bent on revenge, begins eliminating operatives from his "organization", undermining his reputation.
It's too close to call.)
In scenes of violence, the film's use of long shots and long takes is more powerful than the more common use of editing to extreme close ups.
A general (Boris Karloff) is in charge, but people dying from the plague, the isolation and close quarters begin to eat away at him.
The only times when one feels the old Canadian maverick kicking in is when we see the video camera moving in on the man's face (Leslie Carlson as the actor, who has a great, unique face for long, lingering hand-held close ups).
The scene in Bill Forsyth's 1981 film Gergory's Girl that goes a long way in cementing just how special, just how close it is to the work of genius, is the one in which, on preparation for a date with a girl, the lead male character is reminded of a joke that is what we perceive as a really dirty and unnecessary one given the scenario.
He of course saves her from several close calls.
In the meantime a close relationship develops between the bodyguard and the singer.
There are so many close up shots of Welles's black eyes mesmerizing the audience against a spine tingling score whispering lines like, "you will submit" that it makes me wonder why this film hasn't been re-released and put in the "cult classic" section of video stores.
If you want to compare this to anything, it seems to be an attempt at creating a modern day "Reefer Madness" but it's not even close to enjoyable.
The situation speaks for itself, no words are necessary, the images and the music combine to get as close to representing the unrepresentable as possible.
He ends up in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere and begins to rebuild his life knowing full well that the Police will close in on him eventually.
At a close up of one of the troops pulling back on the bolt to load the rifle you do not see anything going into the breach.
Watching 88 Minutes I kept wondering why he was unable to close his mouth.
Well, he seems to have problems to use his jaw muscles to just "close his mouth".
With 2002's Sum of All Fears in close 2nd, this one remains the best of all 4: it has Harrison Ford as Ryan, solid sub-plots (the one involving Dafoe as John Clark [Liv Schreiber in SOAF]being the best!) and moral dimension, especially in the ambiguous sense toward the end.
I liked JTT's segment more since the story hit close to home ( I am not gay but considering he is a senior in high school going of to college).
Since the two women live in such close proximity to each other, Tina(Daniela Holtz) really has no choice but to invite the schoolteacher over for her birthday shindig.
Martin Short might be a good comedian and Danny Glover is a good actor, but as a team they are not even close to be as funny as the original team.
For a first (and I know it's not his absolute first but close to it) this movie was fantastic.
I know sometimes in comedy you can't create a really close connection between the actors.
It is as close to excellent a view of its topic as I have ever seen and a great tool for use in a substance abuse recovery program.
You'll actually be surprised that for all the riffing Squirm is not even as close to ridiculous as the premise would make it sound.
I see close ties to the film and the postmodernist philosophy of "truth being relative" and find myself often questioning why things are the way they are.
But when Moises is so arrogant as his brother Ramses,but one night, when he was walking alone at night after searching for a woman(Tzipporah) Miriam and Aaron met with him and are surprised to see their little brother so close.
I literally had to close my eyes, fast forward, and even turn off the movie at points.
They would purposely do close up shots so you wouldn't see that nobody was actually there.
Qi Shu was good in "So Close" but in this role where she's filling the shoes of a very strong actress.
Because of war going on they have to close the circus.
The rest of the film revolves on Annie Tarrant, who becomes dangerously close with the hook-handed bogeyman when she starts investigating her family history.
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