Sentence examples for cinematic act from inspiring English sources

The play, a clever two-person distillation of Nicholas Ray's 1956 movie "Bigger Than Life," pays deserving tribute to a cinematic act of provocation.

As before, Lee elevates the love scenes beyond the art-house sexploitation gist of the show and movie's premise and into semi-spiritual cinematic acts.

That's pretty astonishing, as is the fact that movies about Gentiles saving Jews, including this one, seem finally more interested in acts of rescue than the profound if less overtly cinematic acts of survival.

But as the shots started to fall, the game became an incredibly paced cinematic third act — heart-stopping, eerily predictable, almost laughably dense with action.

BEFORE the Coens, the Hugheses, the Quays, the Wachowskis and the Farrellys, there were the Tavianis, Paolo (born in 1931) and Vittorio (born in 1929): the greatest cinematic brother act since Louis and Auguste Lumière, who pretty much invented the movies just over a century ago.

Menken, whose musical theater credits include "Little Shop of Horrors" and scores to several Disney movies that have earned him a hefty eight Academy Awards, was uninterested in replicating the music that had been in the cinematic "Sister Act".

Further complicating these questions is that "Missing" is Mr. Costa-Gavras's most beautifully achieved political melodrama to date, a suspense-thriller of real cinematic style, acted with immense authority by Jack Lemmon, as Charles Horman's father, Ed Horman, and Sissy Spacek as Charles's wife, Beth.

And that, surely, is what cinematic art should be: an act between consenting adults.

Textured, expressive photographs; lofty cinematic sensibility; insightful acts of montage.

There is no affectation here, no baggy pants and thrash music like the snowboarders have, no ice skater's sequins and storied history, no cinematic skiing glory, acted out by a rugged Robert Redford, as in the downhill.

From there we will move to canonical cinematic representations of acts of resistance like Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others (2006), Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows (1969), and Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) to discuss why these films have been canonized as some of the most suspenseful and powerful films of all time.