Sentence examples for riveting cinema from inspiring English sources
But like the pair's popular YouTube videos, this well-meaning film diffuses its energy in quotidian intimacies of family life — a lost tooth here, a bedtime story there — that hardly make for riveting cinema.
Watching wasted people stumble from one fix to the next is rarely riveting cinema, and "Cocaine Angel" does little to disprove that rule.
This is riveting cinema, as fine as anything Cronenberg has done, and I was reminded of John Cheever's New Yorker short story, The Swimmer (filmed in 1968 starring Burt Lancaster).
Even then, though, at the very end of Mr Greengrass's riveting film, many of us will experience a twinge of pity for its other captain, too".Captain Phillips" is now in cinemas in America and Britain.
There is a formula at work here but it's a brilliant one that takes the best of European and American cinema, adds a riveting male character who wants to make an impression and ramps up the tension by putting them in difficult life-threatening situations.
That becomes clear as you pore through the Cinema Treasures site, cinematreasures.org, a riveting compendium of theaters, open or closed, from around the world that can be searched by name, city or ZIP code.
The first date, with its tentative stabs at bland conversation and carefully inoffensive verbal parrying, may be riveting to the participants but rarely makes for captivating cinema.
And Hollis's coverage of television and cinema – two significant kinds of interior – are engrossing; his historical treatment of Gone With The Wind has the same riveting memorial quality as the eerie landscape of packing cases in the final scene of Citizen Kane.
