Mr. Franco's goofball energy connects the viewer to the character almost instantly, and Mr. Boyle's speedy, jumpy style sends us out into the desert on a wave of caffeine and rock 'n' roll.
After almost a decade away from films, Chytilová picked up the same anarchic vein she had followed before, with striking images, many of babies, and a jokey, jazzy, jumpy style.
The movie's jumpy, agitated style perfectly reflects his desperate hyperactivity.
Casually violent and casually sexual, this startling film--with its seemingly spontaneous action, and jumpy shooting style, and its original hero and heroine--was intoxicating.
The music on "Gloryland" is particularly eclectic, from the spare, soulful parable of "Trying to Get to Memphis"; to the jumpy, ZZ Top-style "Bus to Shreveport"; to the apocalyptic religious imagery of "Gloryland," with echoes of Bob Dylan's "Gotta Serve Somebody," but with a very different message.
Built in 1811, Castle Clinton is a squat red sandstone fort that has been an aquarium, an immigration center, and an opera house, and its history is almost as jumpy as the performance style of Chan Marshall herself.
But the influence of jumpy, fast-cut MTV style can be seen in Mr. Villeneuve's segment of "Cosmos" (1996), a series of vignettes by six Canadian directors which was shown in New York at the 1998 New Directors/ New Films series and as part of the directors fortnight series in 1997 at the Cannes International Film Festival.
The past, those days in October and November of 1956, is brilliantly rendered in a jumpy, black-and-white newsreel style that is blended with more lyrical evocations of Dragoman either in bed with a girl or out with a machine gun slung over his shoulder.
The European bank panic that rattled markets around the world last spring may have subsided, but the experience has left investors and analysts jumpy about the prospects of more Greek-style bank bailouts.
The juxtaposition of a Hollywood actress in period costume with a very contemporary shooting style, being jostled about by a jumpy camera, is an incongruous and uncomfortable one".
But style is its greatest legacy: the jumpy spontaneity of the handheld camera is now a staple of music videos, television series and commercials.
