It was a sad sequence showing in a realistic, unshowy fashion the long-term effects of a disaster like Katrina.
Ostergar had done an animated sequence showing the lantern-jawed pirate sitting behind a barrel — hiding.
The opening sequence, showing Mardi Gras revels in New Orleans through a frenzied chiaroscuro of streamers and wrought iron, evokes psyches already ratcheted to fever pitch.
After a credit sequence showing an oldish guy drinking in a gloomy bar, we peer through an interior set of doors into a room.
The opening sequence, showing him getting out of the joint, contains the movie's one good joke – in fact, its single good moment.
Describes Demme's practice of cutting off the ends of action scenes to build audience uncertainty and suspense, as in the sequence showing Hannibal Lecter's escape.
The spirits of Alfred Hitchcock and Saul Bass are present in the cleverly designed credit sequence, showing mouldy old wallpaper being ripped from the wall.
But this miracle, coming soon after a sequence showing the butchering of a live pig (in documentarylike detail), feels uneasily like a forced atonement.
Cat lovers will enjoy a pussy called Buffon who definitely thinks he's a goalie, and a great sequence showing cats teaching their owners to give them exactly what they want.
Tom Ford's A Single Man begins with urgent Hitchcockian strings and an underwater dream sequence showing a naked, toned body drifting and floating – appropriate for a movie about love and loss which all but drowns in its own gorgeousness.
The magnificent central interlude in the second act, originally intended to accompany a filmed sequence showing Lulu's imprisonment and subsequent escape, is a palindrome in every detail - after a midpoint peak, the music runs backwards, note for note.
