Hoffman rose to fame through his pinpoint-precise movie portrayals of oddballs, schemers and misfits, often physically transforming himself for the roles.
And we loved our waitress, whose every movement was performed with such a precise, silent-movie flourish, I correctly guessed she trained as a mime artist.
Well-timed marketing strategies now ensure that awareness and media buzz are at a maximum, and critical and public opinion at a minimum, at the precise moment a movie swamps cinema screens across the world, ensuring a big sugar-rush in the first week of release.
Likewise, Glass's decision to sync his operatic adaptation of the Jean Cocteau film "La Belle et la Bête" to the precise timing of the movie creates a humorously weird doubling effect that respects and responds to the director's ingenious optical illusions.
Likewise, Glass's decision to sync his operatic adaptation of the Jean Cocteau film "La Belle et la Bête_"_ to the precise timing of the movie creates a humorously weird doubling effect that respects and responds to the director's ingenious optical illusions.
For that matter, the title "Captain Fantastic" — which is comically but intentionally misleading — even suggests, with a self-aware bravado, Ross's precise calibration of the movie to his audience's counter-superheroic expectations.
Scene by scene, the movie is precise, vibrant, and, for all its turmoil, moving, and it culminates in Dern's strongest moment, when she tells Ruffalo, rage fighting against fear, her whole body quaking, that she would love him even if he were a bum.
That's why the mock funeral at the end of the movie, whatever its precise meaning, is the most eloquent of gestures.
Most of them are little masterpieces of the form, combining inventive and suspenseful comic storytelling with drawings that are clear, precise and as thrilling as movie stills.
In "Dawson City," Morrison offers a fiercely precise and discerning look at movies themselves as embodiments of history.
