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Top 10 Manliest Movies of 2019 (10 movies items)" And now for something completely different... a World War I movie. Military cinema is something I personally gravitate towards, and 1917 is a superb addition to the genre - it's a technical masterpiece from top to bottom, thanks to the virtuoso cinematography courtesy of the Oscar-winning Roger Deakins, as well as Sam Mendes' focused direction, which ensures the frame is always filled with something interesting. The little dialogue exchanges, as well as the tense movements through enemy-occupie"
“It would be easy to write off 1917 as a technical display lacking in anything else, but that complaint is rooted in an inability to get past the centr”
“It would be easy to write off 1917 as a technical display lacking in anything else, but that complaint is rooted in an inability to get past the central gimmick. Sam Mendes’ directorial achievement is from the school of Rope and Birdman: everything is presented as one long shot. Unlike those films, there’s plenty of quiet poetry and emotional undercurrents to counterbalance the spectacle on display. We begin by meeting our central characters, Blake (Dean Charles Chapman) and Schofield (George MacKay) as they nap in a verdant field between battles. Someone comes to stir them, and we watch as they descend into the trenches like an inevitable stroll into hell. The unnerving quiet of the way the scene unfolds is a sign of things to come and a dread starts to build within you. Thi” read more
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