Sentence examples for combat picture from inspiring English sources

"Waltz With Bashir" is a memoir, a history lesson, a combat picture, a piece of investigative journalism and an altogether amazing film.

Which it surely is: among other things, a political thriller of unmatched realism and a combat picture remorseless in its clarity and arresting in its evenhandedness.

As a whole, the movie, whose title dimly evokes "They Were Expendable," a 1945 John Ford combat picture starring John Wayne and Robert Montgomery, might more aptly be described as Bad Kurosawa, Bad Peckinpah or Bad Leone.

If this is a love story, it is also a combat picture, in which the principal characters are at war with themselves, each other and the cruelty of the world.

First shown at the Venice Film Festival last year and slated for release sometime in 2009, "The Hurt Locker" is less a combat picture than a thriller about the risks and intoxications of professional passion.

(Dargis) ★ 'WALTZ WITH BASHIR' (R, 1 27) Ari Folman's animated documentary about Israeli soldiers haunted by memories of the 1982 Lebanon war is part memoir, part dream, part combat picture and altogether amazing.

He became known for his vivid combat pictures and also for the risks he took and the wounds he survived.

As did the combat pictures that emerged during World War II, in which directors learned to adapt moviemaking to new forms of mechanized warfare.

Yes, there is male camaraderie and wistful talk of girlfriends left behind, but the sentimental payoffs and narrative quiet spots that usually shape combat pictures are left out.

During World War II Hollywood churned out combat pictures and home-front melodramas with the speed and efficiency that characterized so much wartime production.

Both series were made between 1967 and 1972, and each combines images lifted from popular magazines: interiors from House Beautiful and Vietnam combat pictures from Life.