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She lingers on the steps of the House of Life, admiring the city at dusk.
They speak to a very real part of being human that can often be hidden in fear and shame and pushed deep down where it lingers and rots.
It lingers for at least two consecutive weeks, and significantly interferes with one's ability to work, play, or love.
But that permeating fear and that perception, it still lingers.
But the question lingers of whether the invader will be able to relinquish his grip.
In “I Explain a Few Things” he lingers on haunting details of the destruction of the Spanish Civil War.
Imagine watching a slide show where the projector lingers on every slide long enough for you to completely memorize it three times over.
It's not quite a glorified killing, though Aldomovar's camera lingers on the blood in a bloodthirsty way, as though it makes an attractive painting, and then it's soaked up and out of sight without bloodying either daughter or mom, neither materially nor emotionally.
I haven't seen this film in years, but the awful "taste" of Quaid's performance still lingers on my tongue.
A man driving on the road at night comes across a woman that is in her slippers and bathrobe and picks her up, while in the background yet another woman lingers, wearing nothing.
The fish-men themselves look a little fake when the camera lingers on them too long but their cool looking and I've seen worse.
It's strange and at times lingers on stupidity, but it's just such a good looking, nice sounding and original movie, it never fails, except maybe during the over long climax.
I was in grade 5, and still a kid, and the drive closed down 4 years later, but the film still lingers in my memory.
This movie is powerfully affecting and lingers in the mind long after it is done.
That you are reading this reveals that the magic lingers fifteen years on . . .
How it lingers on him when he's thinking, it just takes me back to Brooke Forrester's days in the lab!
The musical numbers only contribute to the boredom that sets in and lingers for the entire movie.
The film begins with promise, but lingers too long in a sepia world of distance and alienation.
"The Odd Couple" is a one of a kind gem that lingers within.
However, after a few days, I realized that the movie stays with me and it evokes a melancholy mood which lingers in my mind.
It is no wonder this movie won 4 prices, it is a movie that lingers to any soul, it isn't a wonder why it took Paul Reiser 20 years to finally give in and talk to Peter Falk about his idea.
This is one powerful movie; maybe that is because I'm a softy when it comes to dramas of this ilk, dripping with weighty moments and chock full of devastating performances, but either way, a film works best when it truly touches me, when it lingers in the back of my head hours after leaving the theatre.
Columbo lingers in the harbor, in no hurry at all, works together with Mac (because his boss insists), makes him drive his car, gets entangled with Robert Vaughn in the car, with the telephone, tries TM on the deck of the boat.
The acting is horrible and it's like the editing department was staffed by the actors--every scene lingers on way too long, letting the viewer watch the actors stare uncomfortably (or cluelessly) at each other (or at nothing)--so they could squeeze out a little bit more screen time.
The attempted initiation of the young boy, the acute acne humiliations and the necrophilia are all hard to take but the film is dressed well enough and a smile lingers despite it all.
The chatty film is charmingly askew and lingers in the memory like warm nostalgia.
I have not seen this movie in 30 years, but I remember every scene as if it were yesterday, and the deep feelings that I had when I first saw it lingers on as well.
There are of course other nods like a shot that lingers on a doorway for ages instead of showing us what's happening inside which reminded me of a similar shot in Hitchcock's film 'Frenzy'.
This film lingers without languishing, it draws you in.
The question lingers, of course, at the end: was it a dream?
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