Ronet's attempts to climb out of the elevator, meticulously staged and photographed, suggest a conscious homage to "A Man Escaped," the Robert Bresson masterpiece on which Malle had served as an assistant director the year before.
Even once the movie plunges into battle and Mr. Kurosawa brings his protagonist, Hidetora (Tatsuya Nakadai), into focus, the meticulously staged fight scenes have a painterly quality; like those in the immediate predecessor of "Ran," "Kagemusha," they were clearly conceived in design rather than editing terms, a surprise development in the work of a filmmaker famous for his dynamic editing.
But the play, meticulously staged by Stuart Gordon in a gleamingly neat modern apartment, relies too much on the suspense and gore of its macabre action.
Both of these dances, like the excerpts from "Liturgies" (1983), were meticulously staged by Mr. Louis and Alberto del Saz, a former Nikolais dancer, and were performed with exemplary precision by the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company from Utah, the principal keeper of the Nikolais flame.
Part '90s homage, part fashion expo, part meticulously staged color orgy, Ginsberg's photos offer a revealing glimpse into the life of a queer girl who, like everyone, gets sad from time to time. .
KAHN AND SELESNICK With each new exhibition, this collaborative pair rewrite history to include an imaginary country, community, or cult that they document in meticulously staged, digitally composed color photographs populated mostly by their multiply cloned selves.
By John Cassidy April 6, 2010 Watching Tiger Woods effortlessly handling the polite queries from golf reporters at his meticulously staged press conference in Augusta yesterday, I was reminded of a story about the English soccer team at the 1986 soccer World Cup, which took place in Mexico.
The images themselves are meticulously staged.
The funeral, and the mourning, appeared to have been meticulously staged by the government to strengthen the cult of personality underpinning the Kim family's rule.
YASUMASA MORIMURA Morimura is best known for meticulously staged self-portraits, cross-dressing photographs that bring layers of empathy, comedy, and pop-culture savvy to female impersonation.
