cinematically
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Written and directed by Scott Cooper from Warren Zanes’s 2023 book, the film sets out to capture two states of mind that are tricky to depict cinematically: depression and creativity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Beginning in the 1920s, oil burst cinematically out of the ground at wells across the coastal South Bay and even into the Long Beach harbor.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025
“Me and Hanna just did everything. It’d be great if we could film more cinematically, with better audio. But in the end, it really helped because no one pressured us.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2024
Drew’s fearless but illicit approach to filmmaking tracks the film itself: It’s aggressively self-indulgent, cinematically topsy-turvy and exhausting.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
He’s also a politically agnostic crowd pleaser drawing influence from the old school – those large-scale performances with multiple outfit changes, each more cinematically grand than the next.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2024
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