{"id":8205,"date":"2020-01-10T09:17:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T14:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8205"},"modified":"2020-01-10T09:28:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T14:28:29","slug":"review-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8205","title":{"rendered":"Review: 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A powerful visual and narrative experience<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Through the magic of carefully planned shots and masterful editing, \u201c1917\u201d was one of 2019\u2019s best films. Following an awards\u2019 season limited release in December, it\u2019s now playing at a theater near you. This movie is one to watch on a big screen. Beyond the novelty of experiencing what appears to be one continuous feature-length shot, there\u2019s a rich, dramatic narrative underlying it all.

Directed by Sam Mendes (see \u201cSkyfall\u201d and \u201cAmerican Beauty\u201d), this World War I set picture has two young British soldiers assigned an impossible mission. The film\u2019s protagonists, Lance Corporal Schofield (George MacKay) and Lance Corporal Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman), must deliver a vital message behind enemy lines. And if they fail, 1600 men will die. For Blake, it\u2019s personal, because his brother, Lieutenant Joseph Blake (\u201cBodyguard\u2019s\u201d hunky Richard Madden), is in the direct line of fire.

Much of the focus of this one has been on Mendes\u2019 collaboration with Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins (\u201cBlade Runner 2049\u201d). The visual goal is to make the film appear to have been shot in one single take. Even though the result leads a viewer to believe that the camera was continuously running while the action progressed, there were cuts. Through skillful work, you can\u2019t exactly see the edits.

Read the rest of Jonathan’s review online and in print in the Times-Herald: https:\/\/newnan.com\/2020\/01\/07\/1917-a-powerful-visual-and-narrative-experience\/<\/a>

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Single-shot technique enhances an emotionally arresting and intimate look at the horrors of the Great War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1900,1901,1899,1898,1902,1216],"class_list":["post-8205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-roger-deakins","tag-sam-mendes","tag-single-shot","tag-the-great-war","tag-war","tag-wwi","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8209,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205\/revisions\/8209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}