mise-en-scene
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I often say what interested me with the mise-en-scene was to allow the viewer to live the experience.
From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2023
Given Horizon Forbidden West’s AAA production values, I was even more caught off guard by the poor quality of the mise-en-scene in several of the cutscenes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022
A showbusiness legend and an award-winning director, Streisand undoubtedly knows the effect her mise-en-scene will create.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2021
They take stuff willy-nilly – the hairstyle, the look, the gestures, the mise-en-scene, the choreography.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2018
Lassen and Baron Loen will continue to correspond with you concerning the mise-en-scene of Quentin Durward at Weimar.
From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End by Constance Bache
I went to film school, where I learned words like "auteur" and "mise en scene."
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2021
But the revival at Signature Theatre, despite a luxe period mise en scene and robust demonstrations of vocal authority, now strikes a spectator as pat and overly sentimental.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2019
His most recent two films feature muted palettes, claustrophobic mise en scene, and a straightforward storytelling approach.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2012
Courtney Weisman, 22 years old, said she gets annoyed when she catches herself staring at her neighbor's mise en scene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2010
Its beautiful orchestral execution, and the extremely careful and effective mise en scene, gave me a grand idea of the great possibilities of such perfect and definite artistic means.
From My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner
The mise en scène is sumptuously prepared with flourishes of rococo drollery.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
I was looking for something complex — a woman's story, a thriller, a genre movie — something powerful, with space to direct and work on the mise en scène.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2021
Dress up as a detective, create a crime scene on your stoop, tape it off with caution tape, and then toss candy out from within your mise en scène.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2020
Abbott and Vicary coached the development team to be “brand ambassadors,” who insure that each element of a production has a distinctive Hallmark feel, down to the decorative mise en scène.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019
It was a necessary part of the mise en scène, of the stage effect, you know.
From The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang
The songs are rapid mise-en-scènes, with Whack as mordant narrator, as if she’d been plucked from a rambunctious but meditative teen movie.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 1, 2018
From salt and pepper shakers to cookie jars to Freudian mise-en-scènes, Steinbach’s work pulls from so much that’s recognizable, but always shifted or shuffled a bit.
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2017
Although the productions featured impressive sets and lighting, the efforts did not pay off because of cumbersome mise-en-scènes and emotional flatness.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2010
