The song opened with the crackling of scratchy tape and an almost cinematic, sustained note before moving into its see-sawing riff and the enigmatic vocals of Christine Hoberg.
You could argue a truly great rock band shouldn't need a kind of cinematic York Notes to make sense, but if you've seen Oil City Confidential it's hard not to approach the music here with renewed enthusiasm.
Not that much bigger, though: the opera only plays for about 40 minutes, and avoids what Xan Brooks described in his review of the film as the "extrapolation and explanation; a cinematic York Notes" in the script, the narrative that Jonze and novelist David Eggers invent to make the story work on celluloid.
But there are cinematic grace notes throughout the film, and no one can dispute the performances Washington coaxed from his ensemble.
"We provide a purely cinematic experience," he noted with a clear sense of satisfaction.
Many of these games are designed to play on a variety of machines, including the handheld GameBoy Color, but only those game formats that deliver the most cinematic play are noted.
It's a cinematic Cliff's Notes, a tricked-up borrowing of Tolstoy's plot and characters, by way of which filmmakers adorn themselves with literary laurels despite showing, in their film, none of the inspiration, insight, originality, or depth of character of the novel they digest.
Sinnerbrink writes that the "concluding images float in an indeterminate zone between fantasy and reality, which is perhaps the genuinely metaphysical dimension of the cinematic image", also noting that it might be that the "last sequence comprises the fantasy images of Diane's dying consciousness, concluding with the real moment of her death: the final Silencio".
Decide on your frame rate, scan and resolution: Shooting in progressive scan (noted with a "P") will give you cinematic look while interlaced (noted with an "i") will give it a more "real" and "raw" feeling (crucial for news gathering).
