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They manage to tell an original story in a distinctive cinematic style, and it's beautifully shot by Ann T. Rosetti, and wonderfully written -- truly poetic.
This movie really is, as some of the commentators have said, a tour de force of mise en scene - it is shot with a distinctive hand-held camera style, features some powerful performances (most notably by Ian Gamazon as Adam, a secular Muslim American born in the Phillipines), and makes exceptional use of its gritty noir setting of Philippino urban slums.
Drivers wanted defines itself with a distinctive comedy style, very character based, very easy to relate to.
It was Sonali's distinctive endeavor that made it possible.
It was the first time we heard the distinctive opening theme music...of a timpani fanfare.
A very weird film much in the style of Tod Browning, THE UNKNOWN, while not being a horror film, has nevertheless been considered one of Lon Chaney's more distinctive work.
Director Bob Fosse hasn't achieved an immense degree of recognition, but his movies have a distinctive flavour.
Each of the main characters was distinctive in their own way making it easy to relate to at least one.
Cassavetes's distinctive style allows for a raw emotional feel that couldn't have been captured by any other director, and, like A Woman Under the Influence, it puts the viewer directly into a very real world populated by very real characters.
The character of Freddy Krueger is kept with his three distinctive elements : the right hand four finger claws, the hat and the black and red striped pullover, plus of course his ugly mug.
Now whats that distinctive noise you hear?Yes your right.It's the bottom of the barrel being scraped relentlessly one more time.Only this time we have reached the end of the line.NO MORE PLEASE!
The rest of the players (including Ed Begley, Lloyd Bochner, and Talia Coppola/Shire) try very hard to make sense of this thing, which has a distinctive (if low-rent) look but never comes up with anything exciting except for a hidden monster in the manor.
(His distinctive voice would've been perfect speaking as either Gandalf or Saruman) And that herd of "studio" Vikings stampeding over each other with the horned helmets, Kirk Douglas and Ernest Borgnine's characters from the movie The Vikings,must be cringing in Valhalla.
Luc Besson was on a hot streak in the late 80s/early 90s, and La Femme Nikita (or just Nikita for short) is almost as good as he got at putting his own distinctive stamp on a genre that many auteurs have trouble molding.
Michael Chapman's gorgeous, moody black and white cinematography perfectly captures that distinctive smoky film noir style.
Set approximately two years after the original film, Captain Bogomil (Ronny Cox), Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), and John Taggart (John Ashton) are trying to figure out who is behind the "Alphabet Crimes", a series of mostly high end store robberies (and one shooting) distinctive by their monogrammed envelopes with an alphabetical sequence the assailants leave behind.
Firstly, the fact that every character speaks in some distinctive, but unrealistic, fashion.
What lights up the screen is an individual voice, a distinctive style that immediately sets McKee apart from his contemporaries.
Still, Pushover has its own distinctive cachet.
I find Dietrich quite captivating, with her lovingly designed clothes, beautiful face and distinctive voice, I thought she was a great actress.
Everybody recognized Blood from his distinctive blue and silver outfit.
She brings her distinctive charm to the role and has a tongue-in-cheek ball with the sexually loaded script, but her role has nothing extra-special or magical.
The director did an excellent job in casting this diverse group of actors and each brings distinctive touches to their performance.
It's a decent thriller with a mysterious Jack the Ripper wanna be who kills each victim with a distinctive blade, each from a different country.
Matthau and Williams have two very distinctive styles of comedy that work against each other and that aspect is clear throughout the movie.
The scene precisely captures the distinctive and wonderful chemistry between Powell and Loy, who went on to make ten more pictures together....Like his two most famous characters (Godfrey of MY MAN GODFREY and Nick Charles of THE THIN MAN), Powell's George Carey emerges as a humane individual with the common touch.
The human race has always been obsessed by the future, which is probably one distinctive trait that makes it human and takes it out of animality.
In one of the most wacky uses of the flashback on record - these two grew up in the same house from very early childhood, remember - he starts to tell her of his past and as she knows most of this by definition, he mentions a consistent nightmare involving a man's feet wearing distinctive spurs.
I saw this film with the title "The Very Thought of You" and think that "Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence" is far more apropos and distinctive, although a bit of a mouthful to casually mention the film to friends.
Lynch's segment is magnificently skillful and striking, with a potted narrative of police, a 50's style family, and a bunch of space aliens holding a captive woman - it's almost as effective as the whole of Lost Highway and utterly distinctive.
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