mise-en-scène

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"Could any melodrama wish for a more appropriate _mise-en-scène_?" grinned Dick.

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  • In fact, the original politicization of religion by Islamic intellectuals such as Ali Shariati, which at the time was thought absolutely indispensable to the mobilization of the masses, has since faded into the intellectual mise-en-scène -- a relic of times past for which the Iranian public care little and have little time. —  MRZine.org
  • And strange to say, as obvious as the quality of the acting and the mise-en-scène were, the film didn't leap out at us as something that would be routinely proposed as the Greatest American Film Ever Made. —  MetaFilter
  • The Hazards Of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle The Thistles Undone) - yeah, Meloy's in full lexicographal stretch - uncoils its folk-rock approach as gradually as it sets out the mise-en-scène, only to shift into A Bower Scene's alternately chugging and stoner riffs with a garnish of Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd. —  Sweeping The Nation
  • "Uruguayan cinema was all but unknown in Britain when Whisky (2004) broke out of the festival circuit to achieve a modest commercial release," writes El baño del Papa (The Pope's Toilet) offers many of the same pleasures, but while the earlier film stuck rigorously to a Kaurismäkiesque minimalism in both dialogue and mise-en-scène, the newer film is more expansive and much closer in tone and content to Welcome, Mr Marshall! —  GreenCine Daily
  • I'm interested in your visual mise-en-scène: Most sequences are presented in very sparse terms, concentrating on the essentials, the interaction of the characters. —  The Comics Journal
 

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