After the affectingly low-key musings of Blue Valentine, director and co-writer Derek Cianfrance reunites with Ryan Gosling for a sprawling quasi-epic tale that combines the vérité observational feel of its predecessor with the sweeping pan-generational structure of a Greek tragedy.
The Motionflow algorithm identifies film content and removes "judder" resulting in a clearer picture with smoother motion during sweeping pans without a visible jerking or stuttering.
When it came to the show's atmospheric tone, the sweeping pans over and across Louisiana marshland transformed the series' southern locations into sinister characters of their own.
Riefenstahl's aesthetic formalism -- the use of low angle shots to elevate the stature of Hitler; the sweeping pans of the assembled Nazi troops saluting their fuehrer -- so awed viewers, and so formidably shaped public opinion, as to delude an entire nation into entrusting their lives and power to a psychopath.
The images of red-rock buttes and arid plains is drawn directly from the iconography of the American western, the sweeping camera pans channeled almost directly from John Ford.
It will no doubt have comforted some of his people: he is a popular monarch, and the ruling Al Saud have proved resilient over the decades to other sweeping movements, from pan-Arabism to the Iranian revolution to Islamic terrorists.
When the O.A.U. was created in 1963, three years after most African nations became independent, the ideas of pan-Africanism were sweeping across much of the continent.
But the wave of pan-Arab solidarity sweeping the region seems to have done little to dilute the appeal of Valentine's Day, a romantic holiday with Christian roots and a uniquely American commercial spin.
Born Ryson Webster Thom in the southern tea-growing district of Thyolo in 1934, the schoolmaster's son adopted the more African name of Bingu Mutharika during the 1960s when pan-Africanism was sweeping across the continent.
After sweeping the first birdlet into the pan with some discarded party flier, we went to collect his brother when suddenly he opened his tiny black eyes.
