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  • My favorite part of this movie (which I reviewed in more depth when it was in theaters) is the credit sequence, with the brothers fighting their way through every major war, not only because of the rapid storytelling, but because of the effects, the image dissolves across time and the freeze-frames.

    X-Men Origins: Wolverine DVD » DVDs Worth Watching 2009

  • Thelma Schoonmaker's editing, notable for its use of jump cuts and freeze-frames, gives this two-and-a-half-hour movie itsblistering speed.

    Goodfellas: No 10 Killian Fox 2010

  • But how many freeze-frames does it take to undermine the entire ethos of a sport?

    Trial by technology sows seeds of doubt and distrust 2010

  • Q: Speaking of style, you're known for a distinctive editing technique with freeze-frames, jumbled chronologies, slo-mo, etc.

    Brad Balfour: Q&A: Master Director Tony Scott Offers One Helluva Ride With The Taking of Pelham 123 2009

  • Fitzsimmons compared looking at political cartooning through the years to "looking at freeze-frames, windows into another time; they capture the sentiments of a period, the atmosphere of a time."

    Marlene H. Phillips: Political Cartoonist Calls Fox News "Cartoonist Food" 2009

  • Puccini for Beginners is insistently facetious - filled with stylistic digressions such as subtitles that comically comment on the characters, freeze-frames that allow for jokey voice-over asides and other too-cute formal devices.

    GreenCine Daily: Interview. Maria Maggenti. 2007

  • And you ` re going to be seeing this video on Anderson Cooper ` s show on CNN at 10: 00 o ` clock tonight, but you are seeing some freeze-frames from that video at this time.

    CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2008 2008

  • It pans the crowd and freeze-frames their images before moving on to another.

    CIA Hid Other Tapes From 9/11 Commission 2008

  • A third offers a new "Eyewitness Video," whose dramatized freeze-frames, paranoid zoom-ins, blurred faces circled in red, are supposed to shatter the Warren Commission's conclusions.

    In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part Three) Bernard-Henri L 2005

  • So fundamentally does the structure of giving underpin our categories of thought and of existence, Derrida concludes, that we cannot even properly say that one person or subject gives a gift to another subject: rather, 'subject and object are arrested effects of the gift, arrests of the gift' -- freeze-frames, as it were, taken from the gift's fundamental movement from 'the zero or infinite speed of the circle'.

    Archive 2007-02-01 enowning 2007

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