As he put it, there was "something slightly off about the combinations that, rather than setting your teeth on edge, just set you thinking.
In stressing Rivette's allegiance to prior arts - along with the fact that he is culturally educated and well read - I may set you thinking that he is not "visual", or that nothing happens in his films.
Watching her subject Vicky - whose heroin habit has the power of a love affair - run rings around reality and the camera simultaneously should set you thinking about the role of truth in documentary filming.
The writing doesn't explain everything, and you may be put off by its portentous tone, but it sets you thinking fruitfully along certain interpretive lines.
To say much more would be to spoil the sucker punch line, but as she does in the best of the material in "The Shipment," Ms. Lee sets you thinking about how we unconsciously process experience — at the theater, or in life — through the filter of racial perspective, and how hard it can be to see the world truly in something other than black and white.
To say that all this sets you thinking is an understatement.
"When you do a problem set, you're thinking forward," Richman says.
"It's hard to get through a week without having some kind of a discussion that doesn't really set you off thinking or reading".
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet So when Kael charges that the movie "doesn't set you to thinking" and adds, "When you come out, you're likely to feel dazed, and confirmed in all your worst fears," it's clear that she simply doesn't know what to think about it — and so, falls back on her own prejudices.
So when Kael charges that the movie "doesn't set you to thinking" and adds, "When you come out, you're likely to feel dazed, and confirmed in all your worst fears," it's clear that she simply doesn't know what to think about it — and so, falls back on her own prejudices.
So when Kael charges that the movie "doesn't set you to thinking" and adds, "When you come out, you're likely to feel dazed, and confirmed in all your worst fears," it's clear that she simply doesn't know what to think about it and so, falls back on her own prejudices.
