All too often in Selma's quiet, intimate moments, strings and piano music start to swell on the soundtrack, dialogue gives way to extended, grandstanding monologue, and suddenly we're thinking, 'This'll make a great clip for the awards campaign.' Perhaps that's the price of handling big, important episodes of history: it's almost impossible to take risks or put a personal stamp on them.
It forms a kind of diptych with Coppola's much-loved "Lost in Translation": disaffected actor, younger female, hotel, bittersweet moments strung together with precise calibration.
Instead it is the visiting support gloating as their team hold possession for a few moments, stringing together a few quick passes in front of their own area.
The novel as a whole feels hurried, composed of a patchwork of brilliant moments strung together by an often lackluster story line.
Now they are releasing an album that contains odd, complex, challenging, head-squeezing moments strung between appearances from of-the-moment rave hitmaker Katy B and neo-soul superstar John Legend.
The idea that movies consist of moments strung together (quite literally, if we hold up a reel of film to the light) is now almost the received wisdom among the more reflective movie writers.
It's not about a single, beautifully filtered shot, it's a bunch of moments strung together that give your post context and make me care… and that requires the story to have multiple perspectives," he adds.
Why? It's easy to forget how many moments strung together have made up our day, our week and our lives.
I mean sure, these moments string together into a necklace that glitters so prettily in the sun that it's easy sometimes to forget the other side, but not for long.
A hint of carelessness crept into the Scherzo: at several crucial moments, the strings failed to enter as one.
In the best moments, the strings produced a silky, transparent sound, the wind choirs had an appealingly gamy texture, and the percussion gave the music both the gravity and lift it demands.
