Egged on by reports of the movie's inflated budget and protracted shooting schedule that resulted in part from Cimino's extremely meticulous approach to design and direction, critics closed their eyes, minds, and hearts and instead reviewed the gossip.
Mr. Wong made the film during a break in the protracted shooting schedule of his martial-arts epic "Ashes of Time" (just re-released in his definitive cut), and, as with his woefully underrated "My Blueberry Nights" this year, "Chungking Express" benefits from the tight schedule imposed on the director.
Made during a long, difficult shoot — so protracted that Mr. Wong shot "Chungking Express" during a hiatus — the original "Ashes of Time" was a transitional work for the filmmaker, who came close to shaking off narrative entirely in favor of pure abstraction.
Wong's working style is frequently described as improvisational, leading to his notoriously long shoots and protracted editing process.
Essentially, Soto lent credibility to assertions that the turnpike shooting resulted from racial profiling, while the shooting attracted the headlines that the complex, protracted Soto case did not.
The protracted "time to build" means that if property prices shoot up, only the builders who started work years ago benefit.
Indeed, Campbell had wanted to film those objects held by the museum that Marker had shot in the 1950s, but negotiations became protracted and time ran out, forcing Campbell to use reproductions instead.
She is preparing to go off to Russia, to the Unesco world heritage site of Kizhi island, where it is minus 30 degrees, to shoot some scenes with Domhnall Gleeson's character of Levin, whose protracted yet passionate love story with Kitty provides a thoughtful contrast to Anna's torrid emotional whirl.
When I said, late in the call, "Hey, am I the only person on the line who's actually been shot in one of these things?," there was a protracted silence.
Luna and Bernal give nicely spontaneous, natural performances, the kind that Cuaron has apparently been able to elicit just by placing the camera in front of them and letting them riff, while cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, who shot Ali and Sleepy Hollow, provides him with fluent, loose, daringly protracted steadicam shots.
