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Lost in Pans Labyrinth

2007-01-13 20:41:00 by barbara in FilmArte
 
...Pans Labyrinth ( El Laberinto del Fauno ) is, probably, the most visually amazing Spanish-Mexican production of all time. It is certainly the most splendid one I have ever seen. Apparently, being a successful Hollywood director ( Hellboy , Blade II ) allows a person to become such a convincing fundraiser as to be able to pay for the most...
 
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Low Key Lighting in a Billy Wilder Noir

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2007-04-03 13:52:00 by johanna in the lone revue
...pans to the living room as Neff walks toward it and then cuts to an establishing shot in which only the entrance of the living room and the mirror can be seen in the foreground, while the staircase from which Phyllis must eventually descend comprises the ominous background. All of the shots thus far have been angled in such a way to keep...
 
Tags: low angle shot, angle shot, angle, medium shot, interior medium shot, shot, low angle, close, close-up phyllis mentions
 
 
 
 
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KBT Presents: PAN'S LABYRINTH

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2007-04-12 00:01:00 by Kurt Halfyard in Kurt's Film Blog
...Pans Labyrinth not only is he working with the latter hat on, he has done what I thought would be impossible. He has gone and made a feature even better than the sublime The Devils Backbone. It is possibly the most thematically complex, emotional, and stylish genre film you will see this year While many folks did manage to catch this Spanish...
 
Tags: film, narnia film, personal favorite film, labyrinth, stylish genre film, toronto film festival, spanish language film, pans labyrinth exposes, pans labyrinth
 
 
 
 
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The Fall A Movie Pulse Review

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2008-05-31 10:23:42 by Sam in Slice of SciFi
...Pans Labyrinth, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and more, The Fall borrows more ideas than it composes The Fall cunningly blends several familiar plot designs with brilliantly surrealistic imagery to create an epic movie that visually appears unlike any other, yet still feels oddly recycled. Following in the footsteps of Pans Labyrinth,...
 
Tags: brilliantly surrealistic imagery, surrealistic imagery, pans labyrinth, imagery, roy, movie, roy slowly deceives, familiar plot designs, story
 
 
 
 
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DVD Review Of Landscape In The Mist

2007-10-11 14:36:00 by cosmoetica in Unspoken Cinema
 
...pans away from the back of the truck. We hear nothing, and after a minute or two, the young boy pops out of the truck cab and goes in search of his sister, calling her name. He runs out of frame, and a minute or two later the trucker gets out of the back of the truck. Now, the camera zooms in, slowly, to the truck, so that nothing but its...
 
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Final Oscar Nomination Predictions

2007-01-09 10:32:00 by Your Guide to the Undead in The Film Journal Blog
 
...Pans Labyrinth The Queen Volver Best Adapted Screenplay Children of Men The Departed Dreamgirls Little Children Thank You For Smoking Best Cinematography Babel Children of Men The Departed Letters from Iwo Jima Pans Labyrinth Best Animated Feature Cars Flushed Away Monster House Happy Feet A Scanner Darkly Best Foreign Language Film Black...
 
Tags: miss sunshine, babel, pans labyrinth, dreamgirls, iwo jima, guillermo del toro, devil wears prada, alejandro gonzalez inarritu, volver
 
 
 
 
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Review: The Orphanage

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2007-12-28 19:17:36 by Andrew James in Row Three
...Pans Labyrinth, its no surprise that the studio releasing El Orfanato , aka The Orphanage , are really pushing Guillermo Del Toros name along with the picture. Though he had nothing to do with the direction, that was left up to rookie, Juan Antonio Bayona, the style and tone of The Orphanage is still eerily similar to last years Oscar...
 
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The Orphanage A Movie Pulse Review

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2007-12-29 20:15:22 by Sam in Slice of SciFi
...Pans Labyrinth, by showing the darker sides of humanity through frightening fantasies. In many ways Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona has applied Del Toros own winning formula to The Orphanage and has made the most flawless film of this lineage Moving back to the orphanage where she grew up, Laura and her husband Carlos plan to reopen the...
 
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Star Trek Movie Trailer Described

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2008-01-16 04:59:40 by Sam in Slice of SciFi
...pans back and the audience can see hes standing on a metal frame that looks somewhat familiar. Then popping up on the screen in big blue letters and nicely framed lens flare is FROM DIRECTOR J.J. ABRAMS An audio of President Kennedys speech about space flight: The eyes of the world now look to space. People walking around the saucer section....
 
Tags: space flight, space, space suit, saucer, saucer section, title card, title, cloverfield premieres, abrams
 
 
 
 
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1/16: L'opéra-mouffe; Oncle Yanco; News From Home

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2008-01-16 23:57:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...pans; as the film progresses, the camera becomes freer, moving more frequently, often in languid 360-degree pans or lengthy traveling shots filmed from a moving car or an elevated train. These shots are accompanied, for the most part, only by the natural noises of the city: cars, trains rumbling, people talking, and occasionally a calming...
 
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