Recent Examples on the WebThere are mock newsreels, re-enactments where actors portray real-life characters and at least one academic expert from a nonsense university.—Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2024 For the film’s black-and-white newsreel scenes, Prieto borrowed Martin Scorsese’s Bell and Howell 1917 camera.—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024 Prieto and Scorsese embraced a fiendishly inventive approach to telling the story — one that mixes in scenes of shocking violence with newsreels and radio shows that are straight out of its 1920s setting.—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024 His father, Morton, was a reporter for The New York Journal and a newsreel production manager.—Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024 Incorporating archival newsreel for additional context, Da 5 Bloods is a war film with action sequences, but many of the battles pit man against his memory.—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 17 Jan. 2024 Editor Ian Olds makes these connections look easy by juxtaposing informational and newsreel footage with damning talking-head commentary that brings everything together in essay-like fashion.—Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2024 In fact, play all the World War II newsreels backwards, and everyone’s happy.—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023 Every violent, brutal crash in the movie is based on historical newsreel footage, including an early one in which a driver hits a curb and his car gets launched against a wall.—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
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