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I've read comments that you shouldn't watch this film if you're looking for stirring Shakespearian dialogue.
This is true, unfortunately, because all the stirring dialogue, this wonderful play contains, has been cut, and replaced with songs.
I can be a sucker for a stirring spiritual piece (Romero comes to mind), but there was nothing spiritual whatsoever about this one.
From the second the show opened with a spectacular burst of energy to the truly grand finale, a joyous curtain call of all those chorus members who we grew to love during the course of the show, we were totally engaged - captivated by the intensely personal stories, some funny, some clever, some stirring, of this chorus line.
It may have worked much better with different leads: Holden and Lenz don't match up well (her stature is so slight he seems to tower over her), making their intimate scenes less stirring than simply uncomfortable.
Joan Barry does give a very stirring performance as the faithful wife of an unfaithful husband.
The music score was especially memorable and emotion stirring in the league of Gone With The Wind and I would love to hear it again.
The stirring Alfred Newman sound score, with the stirring twenty-third psalm is unforgettable even after these many years.
Antonio de Anda's slick, agile cinematography, the breathtaking sylvan scenery, Pedro Plascencia's robust, shuddery, stirring score, the well-developed characters, and the pleasingly tight'n'trim 76 minute running time further enhance the overall sound quality of this bang-up horror/action hybrid winner.
The opening scenery and music were very stirring.
However a gold god, Don del Oro is stirring up the Indians and stealing the gold for himself.
Richard Band's rousing full-bore orchestral score really hits the stirring spot.
This stirring western spins the tale of the famous rifle of the early west that was coveted by one and all.
A good watch but nothing stirring....
Sure, the gee-whiz (and entirely white, save for one unbilled Chinese-American recruit) bunch of newbies are nicer and more wholesome than in real life, and the speechifying about home and Mom and the wife and kid gets pretty thick, but it's efficient propaganda and undeniably stirring.
Writer/director George ("Miami Blues," "Gross Pointe Blank") Armitage whips up a delightfully amoral, cynical and wickedly subversive redneck drive-in exploitation contemporary Western winner: he expertly creates a gritty, no-nonsense tone, keeps the pace brisk and unflagging throughout, and stages the plentiful action scenes with considerable muscular aplomb (the rousing explosive climax is especially strong and stirring).
Alan Silvestri's spooky, stirring score and Dean Cundey's typically polished cinematography further enhance the macabre fun.
Taking old collection of stories poses a challenge for the production team, how can this classic character be brought up to date and make it interesting enough to capture a new audience while stirring memories from her former audience.
Moreover, Anderson handles moving moments of humanity well (Todd's struggle to get in touch with his previously repressed feelings is genuinely poignant) and stages the stirring action scenes with rip-roaring gusto.
The wickedly profane dialogue, Jost Vacano's glossy cinematography, Gary Chang's stirring score, the harshly amoral tone and the rousing conclusion are all likewise on the money as well.
Director Duccio Tessari relates the absorbing story at a constant snappy pace, maintains a properly serious and no-nonsense tone throughout, stages the stirring shoot-outs and exciting car chases with considerable rip-snorting brio, and punctuates the narrative with jolting outbursts of explosive bloody violence.
Most vividly was the stirring of the emotion anger.
Roy Budd's splendidly stirring'n'sweeping majestic orchestral score and Ted Moore's exquisitely rich, vivid and vibrant saturated color cinematography further add to the overall enjoyment of this engaging and satisfying fantasy adventure treat.
No personable characters for whom we can forgive any deed or word, no overarching stirring message, no overblown hope.
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.
To wrap it up, Streets of Laredo is a superb film with great acting, directing, cinematography, and a stirring musical score and more.
The past/present connections are stirring and intriguing, especially the single-flash cuts at pivotal moments.
The armour, weapons and castles all look very authentic, and indeed it is in the battle sequences that the film excels, especially due to the stirring music selected to accompany each pivotal scene.
In the first of the three mini-movies, Vanessa Redgrave gives a stirring performance as the survivor of a lesbian couple in 1961.
I think I kept waiting for that magic moment when all the tension, in the form at times of boredom, would break into a mad stirring of passion...or something other than boredom.
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