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I, like most probably watched this film because the striking Anna Friel was in it and it was not even worth enduring this awful film to catch sight of her.
The picture was filmed largely in Death Valley and is striking in its great visual beauty.
Watched it late night only because of the excellent James C. The most striking thing is when ever there is a violent scene, the director choose to fade out and loose all natural sound and simply play a simple but striking piece of piano.
That it is possible to find so much signs of life in a cemetery is something striking in the carefully composed film of Heddy Honigmann.
I saw this film shortly after seeing the same director's The Isle and was much more affected by this production, although they are both striking works.
It makes absolutely no sense, but that is what is so striking about this scene as well as many in that, the girl, who is right in front of their eyes speaking with them, can't be found, thus sending these parents to act on their toes to try and find her.
The dialogue in the film is striking and highly original, and the visuals are unforgetable.
A literate script, handsome production values, striking B&W photography, some unflinching murder scenes and a few gross-out sequences really do put this picture over.
Jaclyn is a goddess and Kate is striking in her own right.
How Ms. Day goes undiscovered for so long with such a striking voice is not convincing.
What was striking in the film was the deliberate, structured screenplay that made me recall early works of Marcel Carne.
One striking example is the Heroines on horses show (another tribute to the "dying" Hazel Flagg- five minutes short, featuring Lady Godiva, Helen of Troy, Pocahontas and some others, and managing to be as irrelevant and funny as can be.
Richard Pryor's striking a match to the big guy in jail was funny too, although it didn't make much sense.
Striking Syria might not end the civil war there, but it could prevent the eruption of a new one in Ukraine.
The parallels to the old Soviet Union are striking.
A country whose very survival seemed in doubt at its founding offers striking lessons in constructing, against all odds, a working democracy.
One of the more striking regularities that Reinhart and I found is that after a wave of international banking crises, a wave of sovereign defaults and restructurings often follows within a few years.
The impact of lessons learned in India is even more striking.
Among the most striking was the disparity between participants’ interest in discussions of inequality and the ongoing lack of a formal action plan for governments to address it.
This is a poor way to cope with uncertainty, and it stands in striking contrast to the methods of science and free inquiry.
Fossil-fuel pricing is a striking exception to the general rule that if the government has only one policy instrument, it can achieve only one policy objective.
Haldane cites a striking statistic: in 1945, the average investor held the average US share for four years.
Striking this balance is made even more complicated by the influence of advanced-country policies on emerging economies.
Still, it is striking that just as China is rising economically and geopolitically, the US seems to be doing everything possible to waste its own economic, technological, and geopolitical advantages.
The figures are striking.
Here there are striking similarities to what happened in Poland as communism ended.
The portrait that emerges has been executed with bold strokes, vivid colors, and striking images.
Even more striking is that the “empowerment gap” – that is, the additional consumption required to bring these 680 million people to the empowerment line – is seven times larger than the cost of eliminating extreme poverty.
What is immediately striking is Clinton’s youthful appearance, bright laugh, and blue eyes that appear a little too round when she gazes at us with curiosity.
The terminology is striking, and underscores the difficulty of Europe’s search for a way out of its current malaise.
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